DATE=11/10/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-241441
TITLE=INDIA/U-S (L)
BYLINE=DOUGLAS BAKSHIAN
DATELINE=NEW DELHI
CONTENT=
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INTRO:  INDIAN AND U-S EXPERTS HAVE CONCLUDED ONE-AND-A-HALF DAYS
OF TALKS IN NEW DELHI ON EXPORT CONTROL PROGRAMS TO LIMIT NUCLEAR
PROLIFERATION.  CORRESPONDENT DOUGLAS BAKSHIAN REPORTS FROM THE 
INDIAN CAPITAL.

TEXT:  A U-S EMBASSY STATEMENT ON THE TALKS PRAISED INDIA FOR ITS
COMMITMENT TO NON-PROLIFERATION, AS SHOWN THROUGH ITS SYSTEM OF 
EFFECTIVE EXPORT CONTROLS.  THE STATEMENT SAID CONTROLS ARE A 
CRITICAL ELEMENT OF NON-PROLIFERATION POLICY. 

THE STATEMENT DID  NOT  GIVE DETAILS, BUT THE UNITED STATES HAS 
BEEN CONCERNED WITH THE SPREAD OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY IN THE WAKE 
OF THE NUCLEAR TESTS BY INDIA AND PAKISTAN IN MAY.

A STRATEGIC EXPERT WITH THE CENTER FOR POLICY RESEARCH IN NEW 
DELHI, BRAHMA CHELLANEY, SAYS U-S PRIORITIES ARE CLEAR.

                      //  CHELLANEY ACT // 

 THE U-S CONCERNS ARE THAT INDIA SHOULD HAVE A FORMAL EXPORT 
CONTROL REGIME IN PLACE.  IN OTHER WORDS THAT INDIA SHOULD BE 
ADHERING TO WESTERN EXPORT CONTROLS -- SHOULD  NOT  BE SELLING OR
TRANSFERRING OR ALLOWING ANY SENSITIVE TECHNOLOGY TO LEAK FROM 
WITHIN ITS BORDERS.

                         //  END ACT //

MR. CHELLANEY SAYS INDIA HAS A DIFFERENT CONCERN.  IT HAS LONG 
BEEN BLOCKED FROM RECEIVING SENSITIVE U-S TECHNOLOGY THAT HAS 
CIVILIAN, AS WELL AS MILITARY USES.  SUCH TECHNOLOGY IS NEEDED IN
THE CIVILIAN SPACE INDUSTRY AND CIVILIAN NUCLEAR ENERGY.  MR. 
CHELLANEY SAYS INDIA WOULD LIKE BARRIERS IN THESE AREAS EASED.

                      //  CHELLANEY ACT // 

 THE ISSUE REALLY IS THIS.  INDIA HAS BEEN THE TARGET U-S 
INSPIRED EXPORT CONTROLS AROUND THE LAST QUARTER-CENTURY AND 
THOSE EXPORT BARRIERS AGAINST INDIA HAVE GROWN STEADILY OVER THE 
LAST COUPLE DECADES AT LEAST, AND MORE SO RECENTLY.  NOW THE 
INDIANS WOULD LIKE THE U-S TO EASE SOME OF THESE TECHNOLOGY 
CONTROLS AND THEY ARE INSISTING ON A LOWERING OF THE TECHNOLOGY 
BARRIERS.

                         //  END ACT //

THE TALKS CAME JUST AFTER PRESIDENT CLINTON DECIDED TO WAIVE SOME
SANCTIONS IMPOSED ON INDIA AND PAKISTAN BECAUSE OF THEIR NUCLEAR 
TESTS.  WASHINGTON IS PRESSURING BOTH NATIONS TO SIGN THE 
COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY.  THE U-S TECHNICAL TEAM NEXT HOLDS
TALKS IN PAKISTAN.   (SIGNED) 

NEB/RAE

10-Nov-98 7:35 AM EST (1235 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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