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The US, for example, has worked hard in recent years toco-opt India in a “soft alliance” shorn of treatyobligations.

All of this suggests that the US is pandering to India’sdesire for a more equal defense relationship. It is willing toco-produce with India some smaller defensive systems, such as Javelin anti-tank missiles, in order to pave the way for moremulti-billion-dollar deals for US-made systems.

On 14 April 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Special Rapporteur on torture, the Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions concerning the arrest on 7 and 8 April 2000 of the following individuals: Gabriel Herbas, a member of the Environmental Forum (“Foro del Medio Ambiente”); Walter Antezana, head of the Departmental Labour Centre (“Central Obrera Departamental”); Emilio Sejas, manager of Heavy Transport of Cochabamba (“Transporte Pesado de Cochabamba”); Ascencio Picha, leader of “Tropico de Cochabamba”; Felipe Quispe Huanca, head of the Bolivian Farmers Trade Union Federation (“Federacion Sindical Unica de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia”); Fred Nunez, head of the Rural Teachers Trade Union (“Sindicato de Profesores Rurales”); Angel Claur; Sacarías Pereira; Víctor Cossio; Francisco Partis; Santiago Gareca; Víctor Nina; Enriqueta Imaca; Emilio Rodríguez; Filomeno Rivera; Felipe Flores; Osvaldo Toco; Juan Yapura; and Pedro Soto.