Pranab meets Karat ahead of UPA-Left huddle
Ahead of the Left-UPA committee meeting on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee is holding parleys with CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat over the issue.
By TIMESOFINDIA.COM |
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the Left-UPA committee meeting on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee is holding parleys with CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat over the issue.
Defence Minister A K Antony is also present at the meeting, Times Now reported. No further details of the meeting are available so far.
The meeting assumes significance as it comes ahead of the UPA-Left committee meeting to discuss whether or not the government should go ahead to sign the India-specific safeguards agreement with IAEA as part of implementation of nuclear deal with US.
Earlier, on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon met the foreign minister on the Indo-US nuclear.Menon met Mukherjee soon after the latter's return from Australia where he was on a two-day visit.
At the meeting, the two were understood to have deliberated upon the options available before the government with regard to the nuclear deal whose implementation is being strongly opposed by Left parties
Defence Minister A K Antony is also present at the meeting, Times Now reported. No further details of the meeting are available so far.
The meeting assumes significance as it comes ahead of the UPA-Left committee meeting to discuss whether or not the government should go ahead to sign the India-specific safeguards agreement with IAEA as part of implementation of nuclear deal with US.
Earlier, on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon met the foreign minister on the Indo-US nuclear.Menon met Mukherjee soon after the latter's return from Australia where he was on a two-day visit.
At the meeting, the two were understood to have deliberated upon the options available before the government with regard to the nuclear deal whose implementation is being strongly opposed by Left parties
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