NSG membership push ill-advised: Srinivasan

HYDERABAD: Noted scientist and Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) member MR Srinivasan on Saturday said the centre’s push to gain NSG membership was “unnecessary, unwarranted

HYDERABAD: Noted scientist and Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) member MR Srinivasan on Saturday said the centre’s push to gain NSG membership was “unnecessary, unwarranted and ill-advised”. The AEC, a body under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), would have advised the government to desist from such a move had it been consulted, he said. “Unnecessarily, India made a big hype about this admission into the NSG. It was completely unnecessary because the 2008 waiver was already enabling us to have nuclear commerce with nuclear advanced countries and we already have agreements with Russia, France and the US for reactor projects,” he said.

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