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Left`s protest against Indo-US naval exercise, N-deal
Posted Date: 04 Sep 2007 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: General
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Posted By: Niyaz Member Level: Gold
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The Left parties, including the Forward Bloc would stage a state-wide protest in Karnataka on Tuesday to oppose the Indo-US nuclear deal and the naval exercise being conducted with the participation of the US.
Addressing reporters on Monday, G N Nagaraj, CPI(M) state secretary said that the parties would also organise a series of conventions, seminars and meetings from 7th to 9th September to discuss threadbare the issue relating to various aspects of the deal and the `vested interest` of the US (in the deal).
"The nuclear agreement is not entirely restricted to the energy issue, but involves the entire gamut and interest of India, he said.
The strategic cooperation sought by the US through the deal includes logsitics support in the form of use of airports and ports, Maritime Trade Security and the issue of interoperability," Nagaraj said.
The strategic cooperation aimed at `binding India to yoke` by ensuring that the US government had some control in various sectors like retailing, education, agriculture and also in the country`s defence policy, he alleged.
Opposing the joint naval exercise with countries like US, Japan, Australia and Singapore to be held from 4th to 9th September, he said two of the warships, Nimitz and Kit-Hawk, which had bombarded Iraq in 2003 were to take part in the naval exercise.
In the pamphlet titled "No Strategic Partnership with America", the CPI(M) said even with the nuclear deal yet to be clinched, "the US has already managed to use the promised deal to secure several valuable defence contracts and to position itself well on the future Indian orders. And for the first time since independence, a process of Americanisation of the Indian military has begun," it said.
Referring to a series of defence acquisitions, both clinched or being planned, "the US is of course playing its cards carefully, holding back cutting-edge technologies and weapons systems until it has India firmly in its strategic bag," it said.
"Thus, the US has not yet cleared the Patriot sales, or sale of the more advanced Arrow missile defence systems and is offering only the P3-C Orions, which it has also sold to Pakistan rather than the more advanced E2 Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft".
The CPI(M) also noted that it was "not mere coincidence" that India`s ties with US ally Israel was growing and that its Defence Minister Ehud Barak would visit Delhi soon "seeking to close a deal for co-development with India of unmanned helicopter gunships", a technology jointly developed by Israel and the US and cleared by Washington.
"Once it is tied into the US and Israeli arms, India will be continuously under pressure to behave or risk losing its military capabilities," the CPI(M) pamphlet said.
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