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Topic: India (02/12/09)
India

Our conformity with India is unique because India is unique. India is a democracy, where people of many ethnicities and faith cooperate in stillness and self-determination. India's civilian regime functions obviously and accountably. It is fighting terrorism and extremism, and it has a 30-year record of responsible deeds on nonproliferation matters.
Aspiring proliferators such as North Korea or Iran may seek to draw connections between themselves and India, but their oratory rings hollow. Iran is a state support of terrorism that has sullied its own commitments and is defying the international community's efforts to contain its nuclear ambitions. North Korea, the least transparent country in the world, threatens its neighbors and proliferate arms. There is simply no comparison between the Iranian or North Korean regimes and India.
The world has documented for some time that India has nuclear weapons, but our agreement will not augment its capacity to make more. Under the agreement, India will split its civilian and military nuclear programs for the first time. It will place two-thirds of its obtainable reactors, and about 65 percent of its generating power, under permanent safeguards, with international verification -- again, for the first time ever. This same transparent oversight will also apply to all of India's future civilian reactors, both thermal and breeder. Our sale of nuclear material or technology would profit only India's civilian reactors, which would also be eligible for international cooperation from the Nuclear Suppliers Group.
Second, our agreement is good for energy security. India, a nation of a billion people, has a huge hunger for energy to meet its growing development needs. Civilian nuclear energy will make it less dependent on unbalanced sources of oil and gas. Our agreement will allow India to add to and share in the advanced technology that is needed for the future development of nuclear energy. And because nuclear energy is cleaner than fossil fuels, our agreement will also benefit the environment. A threefold increase in Indian nuclear capacity by 2015 would decrease India's projected annual CO2emissions by more than 170 million tons, about the current total emissions of the Netherlands.
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Seema Bagai 
02/21/09
A well-researched, well-written piece.

Adding a space between paragraphs will make it easier to read.