India to remove "misgivings" about India-specific safeguards accord: Menon
Some countries have expressed "doubts and misgivings" over India-specific safeguards agreement with IAEA at the recent briefing given by India in Vienna, which New Delhi will address.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: Some countries have expressed "doubts and misgivings" over India-specific safeguards agreement with IAEA at the recent briefing given by India in Vienna, which New Delhi will address.
Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told reporters here that this was for the first time that an exception would be made for India which is not a signatory to the Non Proliferation Treaty. "Some countries which have doubts and misgivings ... we will talk to them and convince them."
Menon, who was in Vienna for the July 18 meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors, said "we answered questions and spoke about the importance of the civil nuclear cooperation in meeting our energy needs. There were some questions about the safeguards agreement. We answered their queries".
He said the Indian delegation in Vienna answered questions of representatives of several nations on the safeguards agreement as well as Indo-US nuclear deal.
"We expect a clean and unconditional exemption (from the IAEA) ... it is for the first time ever that such an exemption will be granted," Menon said in reply to questions.
The IAEA Secretariat has convened a meeting on July 25 to brief all member-states on the technical aspects of the safeguards agreement, he said.
Asked about the movement of the deal at the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), he said "the US will approach the NSG and do this. We are not a member of the Group. We are in touch with NSG members and are explaining to them how resumption of civil nuclear cooperation will be in our interests and their's too."
Asked about the movement of the deal at the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), he said "the US will approach the NSG and do this. We are not a member of the Group. We are in touch with NSG members and are explaining to them how resumption of civil nuclear cooperation will be in our interests and their's too."
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