Monday, November 7 2005 16:18 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: The Left Front today (Nov 7, 2005) welcomed the appointment of a Judicial Commission and a special envoy to inquire into the findings of the Volcker report naming External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh and Congress party as beneficiaries in Iraqi oil deals.

"It is a good move," CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan told reporters here on sidelines of a meeting of Left Front leaders to chalk out an anti-WTO campaign.

"He (External Affairs Minister) has a case. Let him put his case before them," Bardhan said when asked to comment on the appointments of former Chief Justice of India R S Pathak and Virendra Dayal as the head of the judicial commission and special envoy respectively.

He refused to comment on the External Affairs Minister's remarks that India would reverse its vote on a resolution on Iran's nuclear programme at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) if it was on a harsher note than the one moved at the meeting of the IAEA Governors in Vienna in September.

"The issues (Volcker and Iran) did not figure in today's meeting and the Left Front will deliberate on it later," Communist Party of India (CPI) Marxist (M) leader S Ramachandra Pillai said.