NEW DELHI: Despite a seeming nonchalance, India told the US it had serious objections to the proposed China-Pakistan nuclear deal, during the strategic dialogue in Washington earlier this month. With UN Security Council sanctions resolution on Iran finally out of the way, the US has now decided to formally object to the Chinese proposal to build two new nuclear reactors in Pakistan. China, reports said, is likely to raise the proposal at the NSG plenary session in New Zealand scheduled for later this month.
US state department spokesperson Gordon Duguid was quoted as saying that the US “has reiterated to China that the US expects Beijing to cooperate with Pakistan in ways consistent with Chinese nonproliferation obligations”.
