India hopes for desired results in nuke deal
India on Friday expressed hope that the final lap of negotiations expected later this month on the agreement to operationalise the civilian nuclear deal with the United States would yield desired results.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: India on Friday expressed hope that the final lap of negotiations expected later this month on the agreement to operationalise the civilian nuclear deal with the United States would yield desired results.
"I am hopeful. We are in for serious negotiations. Talks are going on," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on the sidelines of a function in the Rashtrapati Bhavan here.
He was asked about reports suggesting road blocks in the proposed talks between the two sides.
The Prime Minister is also likely to meet US President George W Bush at the G-8 Summit in Germany commencing early June.
Bush had telephoned Singh earlier this month to give a political push at the highest level to the deal which had got bogged down by hard positions.
The External Affairs Ministry had yesterday clarified that "no particular date has yet been finalised" for the visit of US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns, the key negotiator from the American side, to New Delhi for talks with Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon to iron out "some" remaining issues.
During the Menon-Burns meeting in Washington early this month, it was agreed that they will meet again here later in May.
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