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| US vows for completion of Indo-US |
| US vows for completion of Indo-US N-deal
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 11-July-2008
8:12:23 AM |
| As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sought a vote of confidence in his government over the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, Washington reaffirmed its commitment to uphold its end of the historic agreement even as the White House praised the Indian Prime Minister's own commitment to it.
''The United States is fully committed to doing everything it can to move this agreement forward to its completion,'' US State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack said on Thursday welcoming New Delhi's move to go ahead with the deal despite the threat to its coalition government.
Hailing India's approach to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) overriding domestic political impasses that had stalled the deal for over a year due to Left parties' opposition, he said, ''This is really a signal that India intends to move forward with this significant strategic step.''
While acknowledging that time was short for getting final approval in the US Congress before President George W Bush, who looks at the deal as a major foreign policy achievement, leaves office in January, McCormack said the administration was making all efforts to do so.
Apart from completing a safeguards agreement for its civil nuclear facilities with the IAEA, India also needs to secure approval from the 45-nation NSG, which governs global nuclear trade before the 123 agreement comes up for final approval in the US Congress.
''We very much welcome India's step and look forward to talking about the issues not directly under our control, i.e., what we're going to do with the Congress, but in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) as well as the IAEA,'' the spokesman said.
The administration had been in regular contact over the past several months with the Congress on the issue, but he did have a timeline for its submission to the legislature. But ''a lot of that is under the control of the Congress, the House and the Senate,'' he said.
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