Hyde Act will determine path of deal: CPI(M)

The Hindu
Aug 3, 2008

NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Saturday said the safeguards agreement approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) showed that the Hyde Act of the U.S. would determine the path of the India-US nuclear deal through the various stages. “The provisions of the Hyde Act and not the assurances made by the Indian Prime Minister in Parliament are shaping the course of the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal through the various stages,” the Polit Bureau of the party said in a statement here. It said the IAEA-endorsed agreement made it clear that 14 Indian civilian nuclear facilities would come under perpetual IAEA safeguards from 2009.