Should India Sign the Convention on Supplementary Compensation?

G. Balachandran
Archive data: Person was a Consultant at IDSA Dr G. Balachandran was a Consultant at IDSA. He has a PhD in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin.… Continue reading Should India Sign the Convention on Supplementary Compensation? read more

A lot of attention has been paid recently to the Convention on Supplementary Compensation (CSC), free standing international convention on civil nuclear liability. US had urged India to sign the CSC and India had committed itself to doing so. However, this paper argues that the CSC does not confer any benefit to India and that it may in fact prove to be detrimental to Indian interests and why it should, therefore, not be signed.

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