Nuclear Suppliers Group

The India specific safeguard agreement has been approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 1 August 2008, and India and the USA have now approached the NSG to ask for a waiver for India from the NSG guidelines. In the forefront of the meeting of the NSG on 21 August 2008 in Vienna, hbf has conducted an interview with Siddharth Varadajan.

Siddharth is an Indian journalist who works for national daily The Hindu as their Strategic Affairs editor. He has reported on the wars in Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan and the crisis in Kashmir. Siddharth has taught journalism at the University of New York and the University of California at Berkely. In November 2005, the United Nations Correspondents Association awarded him the Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize Silver Medal for Print Journalism for a series of articles, Persian Puzzle on Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency. In March 2006, he was awarded the Bernardo O'Higgins Order by the President of Chile - that country's highest civilian honor for a foreign citizen - for his contributions to journalism and to the promotion of India's relations with Latin America and Chile.

Please read the full Interview.