MidnightCall Magazine
In this issue:
- Before the Last Flood — By Norbert Lieth
- Gaza Flotilla: Aggression or Self-Defense? — By Arno Froese
- Far East AsiaTrendsToday – Part III:Geo-prophecy or Geopolitics? — By Wilfred Hahn
News From Israel MagazineIn this issue:
- The Myth of the Al-Aqsa Mosque: Part 1 — By Herbert Novitsky
- ON THE HORIZON:
- Obama Honors Jewish Heritage Month
- Building an Electronic Human Brain
- ‘Iran Critics Must Get Rid of Nukes,’ Says Turkish PM
- Israel Joins Prestigious OECD Club
- Israel Accepted after Unanimous Vote
- Spy Satellite Successfully Launched
India and EU Agree to a Nuclear Cooperation Deal
The European Union and India are to cooperate more closely on civil nuclear research and development as a way of strengthening a partnership that has often been seen as falling short of its potential.
Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s president, and Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister, announced the agreement at an EU-India summit that also produced promises of closer coordination of climate change and energy security policies.
India, officially a nuclear weapons power since 1998, has been denied access to civilian nuclear technology for more than 30 years because of its test of a nuclear device in 1974 and its refusal to sign the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Like the US administration, the EU takes the view that India, as a friendly democracy sharing many common values, should not be ostracized but encouraged to develop civilian nuclear energy and to assume its responsibilities as one of the world’s nuclear powers.
The EU and India said they planned to boost their joint work in the international thermonuclear experimental reactor project, a French-based scheme to test environment-friendly, electricity-producing fusion power plants.
They also said they would sign a separate agreement between New Delhi and Euratom, the EU’s atomic energy agency, on fusion energy research.
Mr. Singh, noting that the EU-India summit had produced agreement on cooperation in clean coal technologies and solar energy, said: “I am extremely satisfied.”
He said the EU and India had set themselves the goal of signing the trade deal by the end of 2009 and increasing total trade turnover to €100bn ($144bn) five years from now.
-Financial Times, 30 September 2008, pg. 11
This is another solidifying link to establishing an irreversible global union. India’s potential is mind boggling when one considers the tremendous achievements made in the last decade. With this agreement in place, India will have access to virtually any technology the world has to offer. With the world’s second biggest population of 1.2 billion, and an almost double-digit economic growth per annum, India is becoming a power to be reckoned with.