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'NPT nations nuke safeguards not acceptable to India'

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New Delhi, Mar 11: Assuring Parliament that the proposed ''unique India-specific'' IAEA safeguards for civilian nuclear facilities would virtually recognise New Delhi as a nuclear weapons state, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the Indo-US deal was aimed at addressing the energy needs of the country, without compromising on its nuclear doctrine and minimum credible deterrence.

''Our safeguards will not be a carbon copy of model one or model two. It will be a unique safeguards agreement,'' Dr Singh said while replying to a day-long debate on the Indo-US nuclear deal in the two Houses of Parliament.

Asserting that ''India will not accept the safeguards meant for non-nuclear weapon states'' which were signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), he said the India-specific safeguards would be on the lines of those signed by the first five nuclear weapon states as there was already an ''implicit recognition'' across the world of New Delhi's nuclear weapon capabilities.

UNI

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