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No link between Bhopal gas leak and Planning Commission loan request: Froman | US Deputy National Security Advisor Mike Froman has said
he has never established a link between the Bhopal gas leak issue and India's request for loan help from the World Bank through an e-mail communication with
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia. "With regard to recent
reports about my private correspondence with Ahluwalia, I want to make clear that
I was not making any link between what are two separate and distinct issues nor
issuing a 'threat' of any sort - any assertion to the contrary is absolutely wrong,
both in intent and in fact," he said in a statement released by the US Embassy
here last night. According to a US Embassy releas, Froman's statement comes in
the backdrop of a controversy kicked off by his email to Ahluwalia in which he
had written that "voices" regarding American company Dow Chemicals could have
a "chilling" impact on the investment relations. "I am dismayed to think that
anything I wrote could be interpreted as minimising the toll of the Bhopal disaster.
The human suffering as a result of Bhopal is a terrible tragedy. Resolving the
Bhopal issue is for the Indian people to decide. The US does not seek to interfere
in this process," Froman said. "I value the opportunity I have to work with Ahluwalia
and others in India to strengthen and deepen the ties between our two countries,
both bilaterally and through the G20. Such efforts are key to building our strategic
partnership and facing our common challenges together for the benefit of both
our peoples," the embassy statement quoted Froman, as saying. |
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