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India, US close to implementation of civil nuclear deal
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SME Times News Bureau | 21 Mar, 2015
India and the US are on way to
implementation of their long-pending civilian nuclear deal with senior
nuclear department officials of both sides exchanging the signed text of
the "administrative arrangements" that would guide the deal.
External
affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin, in response to a
question, said that during US President Barack Obama's India visit in
January, both sides finalized the "administrative arrangements" which
was announced on January 25.
"I can confirm to you that after
the necessary internal procedures, the signed texts are currently being
exchanged, between the department of atomic energy (DAE) of India and
the US department of energy."
He also said that the Indo-US
nuclear contact group, which had sorted out the niggling issues holding
back the civil nuclear deal, had met on Thursday and "acknowledged that
all policy hurdles no longer exist".
Both sides are "now focused
on bettering commercial prospects of the deal," he said, denying
reports that there was delay in firming up the administrative
arrangements.
Akbaruddin said that around 100 officials from
different countries with whom India is doing nuclear commerce are
attending a workshop on India Nuclear Insurance Policy.
The officials are from Japan, including from Toshiba, and from Westinghouse, which is to set up the US built reactors in India.
The
spokesperson said that "all the biggest names in the nuclear field",
including from Russia's Rosatom are attending the workshop. "All those
doing business in India are here, trying to work out and understand
issues," he said.
The spokesperson said that "there is no truth
in the assertion" that Japan was opposing the implementation of the
Indo-US nuclear deal over the issue of fuel tracking or that India has
delayed the administrative arrangements of the India-US civil nuclear
deal.
He said that Japanese companies are present at the workshop
here for discussions with Indian officials "in accordance with the
directive" that the leaders gave during the India-Japan summit talks in
Tokyo in September 2014.
"Any purported link between India's
administrative arrangement with the US and India's negotiation with
Japan is pure speculation."
The spokesperson also said that while
India is keen on an early civil nuclear agreement with Japan, "the
absence of an agreement with Japan is currently not an obstacle to
ongoing cooperation with our other partners".
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