N-deal has no bar, India can carry out N-test: PM

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday declared in Parliament that the Indo-US nuclear deal does not bar India from carrying out nuclear tests in future. "If a necessity for carrying out a nuclear test arises in future, there is nothing in the agreement that prevents us from carrying out tests," he said in a brief intervention in Lok Sabha.

The prime minister interjected to make this point during a short-duration discussion on the controversial Indo-US nuclear deal when Leader of the Opposition L K Advani was making his speech.

Advani felt that the terms of the 123 agreement with the US will tie the hands of the government from conducting a nuclear test in future.

Dr Singh said all that the government has done was only to reiterate what the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government had done by committing itself to a unilateral moratorium on conducting nuclear tests.

Advani, in his speech, said the 123 agreement with the US was 'unacceptable to the nation' and was 'deeply detrimental' to its long-term interst.

Courtesy:expressindia.com
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