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Article: Indian prime minister says U.S. and India have same goal: no nuclear weapons in Iran
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- September 16, 2005
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FOSTER KLUG, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
09-16-2005
Dateline: UNITED NATIONS
India shares the U.S. desire to keep Iran from producing nuclear weapons, India's prime minister said Friday.
The United States is pushing world powers, including India, China and Russia, to help pressure Iran into freezing its nuclear weapons program, and to refer Iran to the Security Council, the United Nations' top decision-making body. That referral would carry an implicit threat of sanctions.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the U.N. summit, said he assured U.S. President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this week that India wants ...