CANADA AND INDIA SECURE NUCLEAR COOPERATION DEAL

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA and KEITH NUTHALL JUST two weeks after Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited India, he and Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh have announced that they have struck a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement. Strangely this revelation came outside both countries, in Trinidad & Tobago, where both men were participating in the 2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Mr Harper, who had received some criticism in the Canadian press for failing to close a deal on his Indian visit, said: "This agreement is a testimony to ...


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