America decides to accommodate India on nuke 123 agreement - Indian hard-line pays off
Kian Chaube
Apr. 17, 2007

America decides to accommodate India on nuke 123 agreement - Indian hard-line pays off.

According to media reports, Seeking to play down reports that the US is unhappy with the slow pace of movement in the 123 nuclear agreement talks with India, a State Department official has said "great progress" has been made up to this point and that subsequent negotiations would have to sort through serious issues.

The Bush administration is also making the point that negotiation is all about give and take and that Washington has been both flexible and a good negotiating partner in the process.

"...We have made great progress in, to this point, fundamentally changing the relationship between the United States and India on the issue of nuclear power. Those were tough negotiations. I think on both sides they would agree, however, that we came up with a good solution, an equitable solution," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters here.

"Now, subsequent to those negotiations you had to have some other implementing steps that need to take place; for example, the negotiation of the so-called 123 Agreement which refers to the section of the Atomic Energy Act. Those negotiations are ongoing right now and our negotiators have, we think, put out some serious ways to come to a successful conclusion of the negotiations,” he added.

America decides to accommodate India on nuke 123 agreement - Indian hard-line pays off
Kian Chaube
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