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Take American promises on the Nuclear Suppliers Group with heaps of salt

The Daily Fix: Take American promises on the Nuclear Suppliers Group with heaps of salt, Scoll In, 2 Sept 16  “……..Speaking to the Times of India, Kerry claimed that the US will work harder to get India into the Nuclear Suppliers Group – an international network that controls the flow of nuclear fuel around the world. The NSG for a brief period seemed like the linchpin of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign policy efforts. But that bid failed last year after India was unable to push through its application at a plenary meeting in Seoul.

“We want to make it happen before the year end,” Kerry said, and the joint statement between the two countries reflected that. But there are serious doubts over whether America has the capability, or even the willingness, to pull its weight in getting India into the nuclear suppliers club.

That was the technique used by former US President George W Bush in 2008, when he made a personal call and managed to get India an NSG waiver, but we are dealing with a different president, a vastly different America and an upcoming US election that will not make things easy for any side.

There was hope that there would be a special NSG session later this year, possibly in November, when India’s application would be taken up separately, but that might come up right around the time of the US elections. What are the chances that Kerry’s administration, at that point either transitioning to a Hillary Clinton’s team or enduring the lame-duck period before Donald Trump takes over, will muster the willpower to take on the Chinese on behalf of India?…….http://scroll.in/article/815498/the-daily-fix-take-american-promises-on-the-nuclear-suppliers-group-with-heaps-of-salt

September 3, 2016 - Posted by | general

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