2007年VOA标准英语-Indian Cabinet Approves US Nuclear Pact
时间：2019-01-12 作者：英语课 分类：2007年VOA标准英语（七月）
New Delhi
25 July 2007
India's cabinet has approved an agreement expected to pave the way for an unprecedented 1 civilian 2 nuclear cooperation accord with the United States. As Anjana Pasricha reports, the government will now seek the approval of its political allies and opposition 3 parties.
The Indian cabinet Wednesday approved a technical agreement that is to clear the path for the United States to sell nuclear fuel and reactors 4 for Delhi's civilian nuclear program.
The approval comes days after Indian and U.S. officials met in Washington to negotiate outstanding issues that have held up a final agreement on the civilian nuclear accord.
Details of the pact 5 have not been made public, but a joint 6 statement last week said that the countries had made "substantial progress."
Pranab Mukherjee (file photo)
Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters "all concerns of India have been adequately addressed." He says the government will now consult lawmakers on the deal.
"Naturally it is expected that there will be a debate and we would like to take the earliest opportunity of informing the members of parliament," he saud.
The civilian nuclear accord was agreed to in principle two years ago, but bogged 7 down over details. Two of India's primary objections were U.S. demands that it refrain from further nuclear weapons testing and from the reprocessing of U.S.-supplied atomic fuel.
Strategic affairs analyst 8 at the independent Center for Policy Research in New Delhi, Bharat Karnad, says the government has to satisfy critics at home who are concerned that the pact could hamper 9 the country's strategic weapons program.
"This is the just the beginning of a very elongated 10 process of political interaction between government and the opposition parties, its own coalition 11 partners like the left parties, between the government and the nuclear establishment, between the government and strategic community trying to explain just what has been negotiated," he said. "There are all kinds of apprehension 12 in the nuclear establishment as to the kind of compromises that have led to this document."
The deal is expected to help India meet soaring energy needs by reversing three decades of U.S. sanctions imposed due to nuclear tests conducted by India in 1974 and 1998.
The nuclear deal also needs approval from the U.S. Congress as well as by the International Atomic Energy Agency. It has been touted 13 in both India and the U.S. as the cornerstone of an emerging partnership 14 between the two countries.
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- A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。
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- He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
- The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
- The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
- The TMI nuclear facility has two reactors. 三哩岛核设施有两个反应堆。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
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- The two opposition parties made an electoral pact.那两个反对党订了一个有关选举的协定。
- The trade pact between those two countries came to an end.那两国的通商协定宣告结束。
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- We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
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- The tractor is bogged down in the mud. 拖拉机陷入了泥沼。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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- A piece of rubber can be elongated by streching. 一块橡皮可以拉长。 来自《用法词典》
- The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
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