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New Delhi
31 August 2007
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is pushing for international cooperation to enhance India's nuclear energy capability1. His remarks come amid a political furor2 over a controversial civilian3 nuclear energy deal concluded by his government with the United States. Anjana Pasricha reports from VOA's New Delhi bureau.
Manmohan Singh greets members of the audience at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Training School in Mumbai, 31 Aug 2007 |
He spoke4 Friday at the commissioning of two new nuclear reactors5 at the Tarapur facility near Mumbai.
"We cannot afford to miss the bus or lag behind those global developments," he said. "We need to pave the way for India to benefit from nuclear commerce without restriction6."
He said India can double the amount of nuclear power it can generate by opening up to international cooperation.
Mr. Singh's strong pitch for nuclear energy comes amid domestic controversy7 over a nuclear cooperation deal with the United States.
Thursday, the Congress Party-led government ordered a review of the deal to address objections from its communist allies.
The deal would give energy-starved India access to U.S. civilian nuclear technology in exchange for opening up its civilian nuclear facilities to inspection8.
Left-wing politicians object to the conditions saying they compromise India's sovereignty and will bring India into a strategic alliance with the United States.
Mr. Singh downplayed those concerns. He says India will seek nuclear cooperation with many countries including the United States, Russia and France.
"This will signal the end of our international isolation9 of the past few decades," he said. "India is now too important a country to remain outside the international mainstream10 in this critical area."
But analysts11 doubt Mr. Singh's communist allies or opposition12 parties will be satisfied with such assurances.
During the past two weeks, parliament has been repeatedly disrupted by lawmakers who want a rethink on the pact13.
The two-year-old deal - which still needs to be ratified14 by the U.S. Congress and approved by international nuclear agencies - surprised many. India had long been denied U.S. nuclear cooperation because it had not signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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n.能力;才能;(pl)可发展的能力或特性等 | |
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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起反应的人( reactor的名词复数 ); 反应装置; 原子炉; 核反应堆 | |
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8 inspection | |
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9 isolation | |
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