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Nuke deal approval a victory: U.S. VP candidate Joseph Biden
Washington, Oct 2 (PTI) Terming the Congressional nod to the Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear deal as a "victory" for the two countries, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Senator Joseph Biden Thursday said that it also marked a "dramatic and positive departure" in bilateral ties.
Pointing to the "broad, solid, bipartisan support", Biden
said the agreement, which is "much more than just a nuclear
deal", would increase the prospect for stability and progress
in South Asia.
"That level of broad, solid, bipartisan buy-in was
absolutely essential when crafting legislation with such
long-term impact on vital American interests," Senator Biden,
who is also the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, said in a statement.
"This legislation allows civil nuclear cooperation with
India and starts to bring India into the global nuclear
non-proliferation system," he said.
"We have taken great care, moreover, to protect the role
of Congress and of the international institutions that enforce
nuclear non-proliferation," he added.
Biden said, "I believe that historians would see this as
part of the dramatic and positive departure in the US-India
relationship. The approval of this agreement would help both
countries to keep moving on the path of cooperation for a
better world."
Stressing that the U.S. should work to help India
increase its energy production, combat terrorism as well as
epidemics, the Delaware Democrat, who is Chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said, "We should help both
India and Pakistan to ease tensions between their countries
and, someday, to walk back from the nuclear precipice."
Stressing that a stable and secure India is very much in
America's national interest, Biden said, that New Delhi should
continue progress in combating the proliferation of nuclear,
chemical and biological weapons.
"It has become cliche to speak of the U.S.-India
relationship as a bond between the world's oldest democracy
and the world's largest democracy but it's also a fact," he
said.
Biden along with his colleagues and Presidential top
contenders Senators Barack Obama and John McCain were in the
Senate floor to vote for the qualifying India legislation as
well as for the emergency financial bailout bill that was
cleared by the Senate by a vote of 74 to 25.
Meanwhile, California Republican Congressman Ed Royce,
who has been a strong supporter of the agreement in the House,
also hailed the passage in the Senate.
"Today's vote caps a long, history-making process. U.S.
relations with India, which will be a major 21st century
power, are cemented. We will be true partners as we enter into
an ever challenging world; which includes the decades-long
struggle against Islamist terrorism," Royce said in a
Statement. PTI SK
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Pointing to the "broad, solid, bipartisan support", Biden
said the agreement, which is "much more than just a nuclear
deal", would increase the prospect for stability and progress
in South Asia.
"That level of broad, solid, bipartisan buy-in was
absolutely essential when crafting legislation with such
long-term impact on vital American interests," Senator Biden,
who is also the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, said in a statement.
"This legislation allows civil nuclear cooperation with
India and starts to bring India into the global nuclear
non-proliferation system," he said.
"We have taken great care, moreover, to protect the role
of Congress and of the international institutions that enforce
nuclear non-proliferation," he added.
Biden said, "I believe that historians would see this as
part of the dramatic and positive departure in the US-India
relationship. The approval of this agreement would help both
countries to keep moving on the path of cooperation for a
better world."
Stressing that the U.S. should work to help India
increase its energy production, combat terrorism as well as
epidemics, the Delaware Democrat, who is Chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said, "We should help both
India and Pakistan to ease tensions between their countries
and, someday, to walk back from the nuclear precipice."
Stressing that a stable and secure India is very much in
America's national interest, Biden said, that New Delhi should
continue progress in combating the proliferation of nuclear,
chemical and biological weapons.
"It has become cliche to speak of the U.S.-India
relationship as a bond between the world's oldest democracy
and the world's largest democracy but it's also a fact," he
said.
Biden along with his colleagues and Presidential top
contenders Senators Barack Obama and John McCain were in the
Senate floor to vote for the qualifying India legislation as
well as for the emergency financial bailout bill that was
cleared by the Senate by a vote of 74 to 25.
Meanwhile, California Republican Congressman Ed Royce,
who has been a strong supporter of the agreement in the House,
also hailed the passage in the Senate.
"Today's vote caps a long, history-making process. U.S.
relations with India, which will be a major 21st century
power, are cemented. We will be true partners as we enter into
an ever challenging world; which includes the decades-long
struggle against Islamist terrorism," Royce said in a
Statement. PTI SK
BDS
