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India Tells US not to Interfere in Iran Pipeline Deal
Daijiworld.com ^ | Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Posted on 05/08/2007 9:29:19 PM PDT by Gengis Khan

New Delhi, May 9: India has told the United States to keep its hands off the issue of Iran gas pipeline and declared that it will take a decision in the matter in accordance with its energy needs and national interest.

This assurance was given in Parliament on Tuesday by Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Murli Deora.

He said India would not be cowed down by the threat of the US or any other country in pursuing its energy policy.

Deora said the US Energy Secretary was recently in India and the Government told him that it was none of America's business to advise what India should do on the pipeline issue.

The Minister's response came while replying to a supplementary by Brinda Karat of the CPI(M) who referred to a letter by a US Senator in which he was reported to have cautioned India against going ahead with the plan to construct a gas pipeline up to Iran.

She said the matter was very disturbing and the US attitude amounted to interference in the sovereign affairs of the country.

She demanded that the House wanted an assurance from the House that it would not bow to foreign pressure.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaspipeline; india; iran; pakistan
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To: Gengis Khan; mylife

Let’s see... $3 billion over 5 years... to India’s $600 million a year... Well, you do the math.


41 posted on 05/08/2007 10:37:14 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Springman

I think its Tom Lantos.

http://www.hindu.com/2007/05/06/stories/2007050604280800.htm


42 posted on 05/08/2007 10:40:38 PM PDT by Gengis Khan
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To: abigailsmybaby
To date, India has received the equivalent of $14 billion in U.S. economic assistance ($57 billion in today's dollars). - LINK

Between fiscal years 1965 and 1974 the U.S. and IFIs provided India with $7.6 billion in foreign aid while India spent $16.4 billion on military build-up. Thus the foreign aid provided enough capital inflow to allow India to spend such a large per centage of her budget on defense. - LINK


43 posted on 05/08/2007 10:54:30 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Thank you.

Maybe it’s time to stop it.


44 posted on 05/08/2007 10:56:34 PM PDT by abigailsmybaby (I was born with nothing. So far I have most of it left.)
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To: Gengis Khan; Constitutionalist Conservative; Gator113; Zhang Fei; DanielLongo; Tamar1973; ...
Asia pinglist.

"India has told the United States to keep its hands off the issue of Iran gas pipeline and declared that it will take a decision in the matter in accordance with its energy needs and national interest."

Which is India's right. It would be helpful if India wasn't an ally of Tehran, but it isn't obligated to be.

45 posted on 05/08/2007 11:41:26 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
<"...to allow India to spend such a large per centage of her budget on defense. ">

How large a percentage of the budget is that? Please provide the percentage figure.

46 posted on 05/08/2007 11:43:46 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Even in nuclear energy, India doesn’t have it as easy as other countries. It has relatively little uranium ore, and is trying to make thorium nuclear reactors (it is supposed to have around a quarter of the [above sea level] world’s thorium reserves). And oil is largely used for transport, even in India. It also doesn’t have much coal.


47 posted on 05/08/2007 11:50:06 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: Screamname
Racism isn't based on culture.

Just pointing out.

48 posted on 05/08/2007 11:51:52 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Why are some of the 1s (ones) skinny?


49 posted on 05/08/2007 11:55:15 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem

So if we decide not to agree with India what are they going to do?


50 posted on 05/09/2007 12:16:17 AM PDT by Americanexpat (A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“Between fiscal years 1965 and 1974 the U.S. and IFIs provided India with $7.6 billion in foreign aid while India spent $16.4 billion on military build-up”
Whats wrong with that? They do need to defend themselves dont they? In 1965 and again in 1971 India fought
wars with pakistan.


51 posted on 05/09/2007 2:29:00 AM PDT by Arjun (Skepticism is good. It keeps you alive.)
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To: Gengis Khan

Holy cow! You don’t get it?


52 posted on 05/09/2007 6:00:13 AM PDT by printhead
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Well, we all know you can’t buy friends.

But what the US Govt has yet to figure-out is that you can’t buy-off enemies, either.


53 posted on 05/09/2007 7:35:32 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it!)
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To: Arjun

The point is that you were able to fight those wars because of the USA’s generosity. You’re welcome.


54 posted on 05/09/2007 9:28:35 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Gengis Khan
Thanks for the link and info.

BTW, Lantos is a Congressman, D-CA, not a Senator. However he does think he is Sec. of State!!

55 posted on 05/09/2007 10:32:38 AM PDT by Springman (Why is ? coming up, when I use ')
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To: Tailgunner Joe

No. In fact the 71 war was fought despite US sanctions.


56 posted on 05/09/2007 11:03:31 AM PDT by Arjun (Skepticism is good. It keeps you alive.)
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To: Arjun
So should we expect India's ingrates to pay us back all the billions we gave them before then, not to mention the emergency arms assistance we gave them during the Sino-Indian war in 1962?
India has received more foreign aid than any other developing nation since the end of World War II--estimated at almost $55 billion since the beginning of its First Five-Year Plan in 1951. ...The bulk of American aid to India was disbursed from 1955 to 1971. - LINK

While India has received more foreign aid from the United States than has any country in the world, New Delhi consistently has criticized the U.S. for insufficient assistance and demanded, as a matter of alleged right massive transfers of wealth from the developed nations of the North to the developing countries of the South in constructing a New International Economic Order. While borrowing substantial amounts of money from capitalist countries and institutions including a recent record 5.7 billion from the International Monetary Fund, India consistently has denounced the capitalist system and squandered money on its own form of state socialism. While criticizing the arms race among the superpowers and excoriating excessive defense spending compared to foreign aid in the West, India has built the fourth largest army in the world and has engaged in a major buildup of weaponry, mostly purchased from the Soviet Union. - LINK


57 posted on 05/09/2007 1:05:06 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: printhead

I got it and didnt find it so funny.


58 posted on 05/09/2007 4:33:33 PM PDT by Gengis Khan
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To: Tailgunner Joe
That article is a very one-sided vitriolic anti-India blather. Paul Olkhovsky is a Paki and the article is from the cold war era when it was fashionable for the US media to spew against India. I would disregard the whole article as paki-BS.

The emergency arms assistance in 1962 was only a token gift that was too little too late. The Chinese actually withdrew under pressure from the Soviet Union.

59 posted on 05/09/2007 5:02:30 PM PDT by Gengis Khan
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To: Gengis Khan

Time to pull back all the aid we’ve been giving them. Spoiled child!


60 posted on 05/09/2007 5:05:13 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (ID RATHER BE HUNTING WITH DICK THAN DRIVING WITH TED)
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