NEW DELHI, Feb. 3 (APP): After four rounds of talks, India and IAEA are yet to find a common ground for safeguards agreement to opreationalise Indo-US nuclear deal.
Under an understanding with the Left Parties, the draft agreement has to be presented before Congress-led Government-Left Parties panel for finalising the safeguards agreement.
The fourth round of talks was held between January 16 and January 20 in Vienna, media reports said and added in a meeting of the India Atomic Energy Commission recently held under Chairman Anil Kakodkar, the details of the negotiations were reviewed.
It is understood that India and the IAEA have failed to reach an “agreed text” in the last round with the issue of India’s right to hold its strategic reserve to cater to lifetime supply for its civilian nuclear plants being a sore point.
The US will only go ahead with its talks with the 45-member Nuclear Supplier’s Group for doing nuclear commerce business with India when IAEA prepares a final agreed text which has to be cleared by its Board of Governors.