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| Government buys more time ....... |
| Government buys more time on Indo-US nuke deal
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| INDIA
, 17-March-2008
10:7:26 AM |
| Apparently trying to buy more time, Government and the Left parties on Monday decided to hold discussions next month on the draft India-specific safeguards agreement with the IAEA after the allies were briefed on the outcome of the negotiations in Vienna.
Meeting after a gap of three months, during which India held negotiations with the international nuclear watchdog, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee ''presented'' the ''outcome'' of the talks on the draft agreement to top Left leaders.
''The members of the Committee felt that further discussion was needed. It was decided to hold the next meeting in April, 2008,'' Mukherjee, with CPI(M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury by his side, told reporters after the 90-minute meeting.
RSP leader T J Chandrachoodan, a member of the UPA-Left committee, said the Government gave a ''gist'' of the safeguards agreement.
At the last meeting on November 17, the Left parties had allowed the Government to hold negotiations with the IAEA on the safeguards agreement, but in between had been issuing threats of dire consequences if the Government went ahead with the deal.
Last week, CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh threatening withdrawal of support if the deal with the US was implemented.
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