By IANS
New Delhi : The India-US civil nuclear deal is a gateway of opportunity for both countries, Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal said here Monday.
Addressing the first Meeting of the ‘Indo-US Task Force on Shaping the Global Innovation Economy – Enhancing Cooperation in India-US Relations’, Sibal said collaboration was at the heart of the nuclear deal.
“The nuclear deal is a gateway of opportunity for both sides. The US realises the advantage of collaborating with India in high technology and sees this country as a big market for its technology and products.”
He said that the Indo-US cooperation dialogue would have to shift from a regime of denial to a regulatory regime to shape the global innovation economy.
“The global innovation economy is about people getting together. This necessarily implies cooperation and collaboration, not denial of technology,” Sibal pointed out.
The Left parties, which are providing outside support to the Manmohan Singh government, have been opposing the nuclear deal and have also threatened to pull down the government if it goes ahead in operationalising it.