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Indo-US N-deal ends India's isolation: US envoy

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

New Delhi, March 6, IRNA
India-US-Nuclear deal
US envoy to India David Mulford termed the Indo-US nuclear deal "very constructive and credible," saying the agreement was aimed at ending India's nuclear isolation.

He believed it deserved the "positive attention" of the US Congress.

"The deal has been negotiated. It's a very constructive deal, a credible deal. I believe it would get the sort of positive attention it deserves," Mulford said last night in an interview with a private Indian news channel, New Delhi Television (NDTV), here.

Mulford said the civil nuclear energy deal with India will end its isolation and contribute to the nuclear non-proliferation system.

"This visit is certainly the most important visit any president of the United States has made to India," Mulford said referring to George W Bush's just-concluded visit to India.

He said the "historic" deal will end India's isolation in the civilian nuclear energy field.

"I think that would mean it would be a focused deal on civil nuclear energy and it is of historic importance to both countries.

India has had a long period of isolation and this would end." Mulford said the deal would also mean the "ability" to address a major economic area, that is, energy, and offered India the opportunity to "join the full world system."
The American ambassador further said: "From that point of view it is an opportunity to regularize and globalize the civil nuclear relations with India."
He denied that agreements in various areas, including space, would give US firms an edge in winning contracts in India, and said American companies would also compete with others.

Mulford said the US and India have a relationship which is extremely broad-based and comprehensive in nature and includes all areas of activities.

The focus is on India emerging as a major power in the 21st century and since last summer, when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited the US, discussions have been ongoing in his country on enlarging the number of initiatives with India, he said.

Mulford said Bush came to the country as a "friend of India" and his speeches highlighted the magnitude of the two countries' new relationship.

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