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| N-deal: India's stand clear, eyes |
| With the Indo-US nuclear deal getting a fresh lease of life, there is a renewed sense of hope among those in the United States who support the deal
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 9-July-2008
8:17:47 AM |
| With the Indo-US nuclear deal getting a fresh lease of life, there is a renewed sense of hope among those in the United States who support the deal.
But it's not going to be cakewalk for the nuclear deal to become a reality.
According to experts, as long as IAEA and NSG approvals come through, the Bush Administration technically has until the last day in office in January 2009 to ratify the deal.
''The lame duck period does not start until after the US elections in early November. So technically, the deal could be approved by Congress in that short period of time,'' said Gary Samore, Vice President, Council on Foreign Relations.
''If the Prime Minister would sign the deal and initiate the process with the IAEA it would be a very big shift. It would mean that the ball is now in the American court. India has taken the steps it needed to and it would be a move forward,'' said Fareed Zakaria, Editor, Newsweek International.
However, Nuclear non-proliferation experts are more cautious and point to the risk of leaving the deal to be presented in Congress for a simple up and down vote post the November 4 election.
At that point, there will be a new President-elect and although both John McCain and Barack Obama may have previously backed the deal, they are under no obligation to stick to the agreements signed by the Bush administration.
Prof Jonathan Schell, the Peace and Disarmament Correspondent of the The Nation magazine said, ''Presidential politics may be very important here. The Democratic leadership which will have to be the ones to put this on the agenda will have to consult with Obama whether he would like a done deal when he comes in as President or whether he will want to take a fresh crack at that and perhaps introduce some tougher conditions as he wanted to before. So we are in the land of electoral politics where every thing is up in the air.''
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