The country has lately witnessed gross mismanagement of India's vote in the meetings of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic energy Agency on Iran's nuclear programmes. This has yet again demonstrated the UPA governments ineptitude in handling this important issue.
India can clearly neither ignore, nor minimize the strategic implications and adverse consequences of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. It was therefore, patently in India's interest to have been in the forefront of that vast majority of the international community questioning the many clandestine devices through which nuclear technology and material have been transferred to Iran from Pakistan, and several other countries. These acquisitions are in clear violation of the obligations, and commitments under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) plus all related safeguard provisions of it.
It is a nationally humiliating experience thereafter for the country to witness the manner in which the UPA government, and the communists have permitted themselves to be hustled and pressurised into voting in a particular manner. This has rightly but sadly generated an impression that India has surrendered its sovereign rights to take decisions on issues on national importance. The Government of India and its allies the Communists are responsible for this shoddy state of affairs. Statements coming out of the US Congress, other decision makers in the US, and US ambassador to Delhi threatening India, have heightened suspicion that the US wishes to establish a hegemonistic relationship with India, not that of two sovereign equals.
The BJP Parliamentary Party Executive reiterates its firm viewpoint on this occasion that the IAEA votes in September and December and recent statements emanating from responsible quarters in US raise apprehensions about yet another demonstration of unacceptable unilateralism being initiated in our region. The BJP rejects this theory of unilateral actions outside the UN aegis. It demands of the UPA government to clearly enunciate its stand, and cautions the country about the extremely damaging consequences to national interests by this continuing mis-governance of the UPA and its communist partners.
The Government of India has also failed to hold broad-based consultations on the subject with the opposition. It has belied national trust. The country demands a full explanation from the government.
We welcome the visit of President Bush to India early next month and expect of the Government of India to avail of this opportunity to put India-US relations back on a balanced, and an equal and even keel.
India can clearly neither ignore, nor minimize the strategic implications and adverse consequences of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. It was therefore, patently in India's interest to have been in the forefront of that vast majority of the international community questioning the many clandestine devices through which nuclear technology and material have been transferred to Iran from Pakistan, and several other countries. These acquisitions are in clear violation of the obligations, and commitments under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) plus all related safeguard provisions of it.
It is a nationally humiliating experience thereafter for the country to witness the manner in which the UPA government, and the communists have permitted themselves to be hustled and pressurised into voting in a particular manner. This has rightly but sadly generated an impression that India has surrendered its sovereign rights to take decisions on issues on national importance. The Government of India and its allies the Communists are responsible for this shoddy state of affairs. Statements coming out of the US Congress, other decision makers in the US, and US ambassador to Delhi threatening India, have heightened suspicion that the US wishes to establish a hegemonistic relationship with India, not that of two sovereign equals.
The BJP Parliamentary Party Executive reiterates its firm viewpoint on this occasion that the IAEA votes in September and December and recent statements emanating from responsible quarters in US raise apprehensions about yet another demonstration of unacceptable unilateralism being initiated in our region. The BJP rejects this theory of unilateral actions outside the UN aegis. It demands of the UPA government to clearly enunciate its stand, and cautions the country about the extremely damaging consequences to national interests by this continuing mis-governance of the UPA and its communist partners.
The Government of India has also failed to hold broad-based consultations on the subject with the opposition. It has belied national trust. The country demands a full explanation from the government.
We welcome the visit of President Bush to India early next month and expect of the Government of India to avail of this opportunity to put India-US relations back on a balanced, and an equal and even keel.
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