U.S. Delegate Backs CPI(M) Stand on the Civilian Nuclear Agreement

The Hindu
Mar 31, 2008

COIMBATORE: Representing what she says is the voice of “another America,” a leader of the Communist Party of the United States feels that Washington’s overall strategic plan for Asia was to pit one country against another to isolate China. Terming the Bush Administration a “destabilising factor” in the world polity, Terrie Albano, who is also editor of the People’s Weekly World, said there should not be any illusion about the destabilising factor of the Bush Administration in Asia. Ms. Albano heads the two-member delegation of the Communist Party of USA and is attending the ongoing 19th Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) as a fraternal delegate. Talking to The Hindu here on Sunday, she declared full support to the CPI(M) stand of India pursuing an independent foreign policy and protecting its sovereignty. “There should be cooperation, including in key areas of nuclear energy, with the U.S. but what is worrying is that such a civilian nuclear agreement with America threatens to impinge on India’s sovereignty. India cannot do this,” she said.