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| 'Premature to pass judgement on US legislation on N-deal' | | |
New Delhi, Aug 3 Government today said it would be premature to give a judgement on the legislation passed by the American Congress over the Indo-U.S. Nuclear deal as final legislation has not been passed.
"The U.S. Congress is yet to pass the final legislation that would facilitate civil nuclear energy cooperation between the two countries. The U.S. House of Representatives voted on a Bill on 26 July, 2006 and Senate Foreign relations Committee on a draft Senate Bill on 29 June, 2006.
"It would be premature to pass judgement on the legislation until its final text is known", Minister of state for External Affairs Anand Sharma said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha to a question raised by CPI-M member Sitaram Yechury.
Yechury wanted to know whether the legislation passed by the U.S. Congress on the Indo-U.S. Nuclear agreement is in contravention to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assurance given in the Rajya Sabha.
He said expansion of nuclear power capacity would be an important aspect of energy security and the country's 3-stage Nuclear Power Programme provides that the larger fraction of nuclear energy in the long run would be derived from fuel sources available within the country through Fast Reactors and through use of Thorium.
Nuclear power capacity set-up through international civil nuclear cooperation is to be viewed as an additionality to India's domestic programme, Sharma said. |
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