In the context of the letter to the editor below by a retired Major General,
which has enclosed quotations from the Hyde Act the campaign against US funded
NGOs is hypocrisy .Though every NGO must declare the nature of its
contributions and funding and the objectives and purposes with which it was
established to enable the citizen to receive the right to information and
form a reasoned judgment on the campaign and activities conducted by the NGO
and the interests it represents whether Corporate or otherwise .
Niloufer Bhagwat
From: sudhir vombatkere [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 9:47 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Importance: High
Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere (Retd)
475, 7th Main Road
Vijayanagar 1st Stage
Tel:0821-2515187
Mysore-570017
E-mail:<[email protected]>
March 3, 2012
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Sir,
W.r.t "No U.S special forces are present in India", The Hindu, March 3, 2012,
page 1.
U.S PACOM Commander Admiral Willard has told the U.S Congress that Special
Forces teams are "laid down in Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, as well
as India", according to a PTI report from Washington, to counter threat from
Lashkar-e-Taiba.
This is obviously in USA's interest and part of the India-USA strategic
agreement, of which the civil nuclear cooperation component has deliberately
been made the focus to divert attention from its other components.
Clearly wary of public reaction that could go against UPA in the electoral
calculus, MoD has categorically denied the report. But the presence of foreign
troops on Indian soil is a sign of compromised sovereignty.
Has India become a pawn of a declining global power giant, submitting to its
militaristic foreign policies?
Yours faithfully,
Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere (Retd)
NOTE FOR THE KIND ATTENTION OF THE EDITOR:
The Hyde Act (titled "Henry J. Hyde United States-India Peaceful Atomic
Energy Cooperation Act of 2006") obviously applies only to USA, not to India.
But it is an India-specific legislation that, for USA, overrides its 123
Agreement with India.
The following are quotes from the Hyde Act:
"It is the sense of Congress that ... (6) it is in the interest of the United
States to enter into an agreement for nuclear cooperation arranged pursuant to
section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 of U.S.C 2153) with a country
that has never been a State Party to the NPT if ... (B) the country has a
functioning and uninterrupted democratic system of government, has a foreign
policy that is congruent to that of the United States, and is working with the
United States on key foreign policy initiatives related to non-proliferation."
The Hyde Act also states in Section 103, Statements of Policy, "The following
shall be the policies with respect to South Asia: ... (4) Secure India's full
and active participation in United States efforts to dissuade, isolate, and, if
necessary, sanction and contain Iran for its efforts to acquire weapons of mass
destruction, including a nuclear weapons capability and the capability to
enrich uranium or reprocess nuclear fuel, and the means to deliver weapons of
mass destruction." [Emphases added].
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