The ice between the oldest democracy and the largest democracy has been broken. India and the US have reached an understanding on the implementation of the civil nuclear cooperation agreed upon last year. This was announced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday after talks with visiting US President George W Bush. Addressing a joint press conference with the US President after their talks, Singh said the finalisation of identification of civilian facilities will begin. "Discussions will be held with the IAEA on the guidelines for bringing the civilian nuclear reactors under its safeguards," he said.
Now it's up to the United States to achieve three things:
1] Get the US congress to change laws which will permit America to extend civilian nuclear help to India,
2] Get the Nuclear Suppliers Group to accept the deal and be open to nuclear cooperation with India and
3] Have IAEA to prepare India-specific safeguards, which indicates that the nuclear rules and regulations which apply to NPT countries will not be the same for India.
Now it's up to the United States to achieve three things:
1] Get the US congress to change laws which will permit America to extend civilian nuclear help to India,
2] Get the Nuclear Suppliers Group to accept the deal and be open to nuclear cooperation with India and
3] Have IAEA to prepare India-specific safeguards, which indicates that the nuclear rules and regulations which apply to NPT countries will not be the same for India.
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