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On the recordNovember 16, 2006
Finally, would the managers agree that section 105 of S. 3709 requires that the President determine, prior to exercising the waivers in section 104, that ``an agreement between India and the IAEA requiring the application of safeguards in perpetuity in accordance with IAEA standards, principles, and practices to civil nuclear facilities, programs, and materials . . . has entered into force,'' and that the most logical approach, as U.S. officials have stated for the record, would be to use the IAEA INFCIRC/66, Rev. 2 agreement as the model for India's safeguards agreement?
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the requirements of the U.S.-India nuclear agreement during Senate debate.

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