Can any one define the Indo US Nuclear Deal????

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Can any one define the Indo US Nuclear Deal????

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Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement is the name commonly attributed to a bilateral agreement on nuclear cooperation between the United States of America and the Republic of India.[citation needed] The framework for this agreement was a Joint Statement by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and U.S. President George Bush, under which India agreed to separate its civil and military nuclear facilities and place its civil facilities under IAEA safeguards and, in exchange, the United States agreed to work toward full civil nuclear cooperation with India.[1]

The Henry J. Hyde United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act of 2006, also known as the Hyde Act, is the law that modifies the requirements of Section 123 of the U.S. Atomic Energy Act to permit nuclear cooperation with India.[2] This enabled the U.S. to draft an 123 Agreement to operationalise what was agreed upon in the 2005 Joint Statement[citation needed] and permit nuclear cooperation with India. There is ambiguity as to whether the Hyde Act binds India although it can be construed as prescriptive for future U.S. decisions. According to Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, the 123 Agreement is a treaty whereas the Hyde Act is an internal law of the United States. He also asserts that as per customary international conventions a treaty can't be subjected to internal law, and that as per the Vienna convention, India is bound only by the 123 Agreement.[3] [4] [5]

The 123 agreement defines the terms and conditions for bilateral civilian nuclear cooperation, and requires separate approvals by the U.S. Congress and by Indian cabinet ministers . According to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India, the agreement will help India meet its goal of adding 25,000 MW of nuclear power capacity through imports of nuclear reactors and fuel by 2020.[6]

After the terms of the 123 agreement were concluded on July 27, 2007,[7] it ran into trouble because of stiff opposition in India from the Communist allies of the ruling United Progressive Alliance.[8] They alleged that the deal would undermine the sovereignty of India's foreign policy and also claimed that the Indian government was hiding certain clauses of the deal, which would harm India's indigenous nuclear program, from the media.[9] On July 9, 2008, the Left Front withdrew support to the government reducing its strength to 276 in the Lok Sabha[10] (the lower house of the parliament).[11] The government survived a confidence vote in the parliament on July 22, 2008 by 275-256 votes in the backdrop of defections from both camps to the opposite camps