Obama names Hillary Clinton authority for India n-deal
March 11th, 2010 - 8:03 pm ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, March 11 (IANS) President Barack Obama has delegated his authority to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to send mandatory certifications regarding the landmark India-US civil nuclear deal to the US Congress after every six months.
“By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby delegate to you the functions conferred upon the President by section 204(c) of the United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Nonproliferation Enhancement Act (Public Law 110-369),” he said in a Presidential Memorandum.
Obama also asked Clinton to publish the memorandum regarding “Delegation of Certain Functions under Section 204(c) of the United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Nonproliferation Enhancement Act (Public Law 110-369)” in the Federal Register.
Under the act, the US president needs to certify to the appropriate congressional committees that it is the policy of the US to work with members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), individually and collectively, to agree to further restrict the transfers of equipment and technology related to the enrichment of uranium and reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel.
The president is also asked to report to the Congress and achieve, by the earliest possible date, either within the NSG or with relevant NSG participating governments, the adoption of principles, reporting, and exchanges of information as may be appropriate to assure peaceful use and accounting of by-product material in a manner that is substantially equivalent to the relevant provisions of the agreement.
- Obama names Clinton as certification authority of Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear deal - Mar 11, 2010
- Obama submits India n-deal report to Congress - Oct 09, 2009
- Bush says n-deal would not help India make bombs - Oct 22, 2008
- Hillary to report on reprocessing deal to US Congress - May 05, 2010
- US says committed to n-deal, pushes India on liability law (Lead) - Jul 19, 2011
- Hillary gets authority to report on n-deal to Congress - Apr 29, 2010
- Rao to visit US, NSG membership on agenda - Jan 28, 2011
- Clinton begins India visit: Terror, AfPak, n-deal top agenda (Night Lead) - Jul 19, 2011
- US pushes India on n-liability law, talks tough on Pakistan (Evening Lead) - Jul 19, 2011
- Australian ruling party votes for uranium sale to India - Dec 04, 2011
- Clinton visit: US firms to showcase counter-terror innovations - Jul 17, 2011
- Ahead of Clinton visit, US says committed to NSG waiver - Jul 14, 2011
- US pushes India on n-liability law, Pakistan on 26/11 trial (Roundup) - Jul 19, 2011
- India may press US for help in Mumbai terror probe - Jul 15, 2011
- Obama sends report on India n-deal to Congress - Jul 21, 2009
Tags: arun kumar, barack obama, congressional committees, delegation, enrichment of uranium, exchanges of information, federal register, hillary clinton, laws of the united states of america, march 11, nuclear cooperation, nuclear deal, nuclear fuel, nuclear suppliers group, presidential memorandum, product material, relevant provisions, section 301, united states code, us congress
