Hurdles in NSG draft down to just 3

The Times of India
Aug 20, 2008

NEW DELHI: After hectic negotiations between India, US and the nuclear naysayers, the huge clamour for "conditions" or "amendments" to the NSG draft waiver for India has been whittled down to three demands. None of these are acceptable to India but these have the greatest resonance among the greatest number of NSG members. First, many countries are pushing for a "testing" clause, that all nuclear cooperation with India should cease automatically if India tests another nuclear weapon. Second, they are pushing for a periodic review of the India case to be tested against unspecified benchmarks. Third, they are clearly unwilling to relax the bar against transfer of enrichment and reprocessing (ENR) technology to India.