India and the US said on 20 July they had agreed on an “end-use monitoring pact”, enabled by an “end-user verification agreement” that will create enormous trade opportunities for both countries. The agreement will facilitate the sale of sophisticated US arms to India, and provide US companies with exclusive access to sites on which to build two nuclear power plants.
Indian external affairs minister SM Krishna and US secretary of state Hillary Clinton announced both outcomes at a joint press conference which concluded Clinton’s first trip to India as Washington’s top diplomat.
Clinton said she and Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh had discussed the question of sites where US power companies would build nuclear power plants to help India overcome an energy deficit. She encouraged India to proceed with legislation governing nuclear power that would free billions of dollars of investment and transform the lives of India’s people.
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