Bush administration is ready to convene a special session of the Nuclear Suppliers Group this fall to discuss and approve the U.S-India nuclear deal
Media Release
Aug. 4, 2007

The Bush administration is ready to convene a special session of the Nuclear Suppliers Group this fall to specifically discuss and approve the U.S-India nuclear deal so that the agreement can get final Congressional approval before the end of 2007, a key U.S official said on Friday.

Briefing a small group of correspondents on issues surrounding the landmark deal, US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, the principal negotiator on the US side, offered the following broad timeline which would allow the agreement to kick in, in 2008: New Delhi has to sign a safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency; the US will immediately convene a special NSG meeting and will play "sherpa" in getting approval for the deal from its 44 other members; the administration will then formally notify Congress and seek a quick vote possibly in the November-December timeframe.

"We hope to see a repeat of the strong bipartisan support the agreement had in Congress when it last voted for it," Burns said. But ahead of that, Burns said the US will be very active in supporting India in its efforts to convince the 45-nation NSG that it should get the same kind of international treatment in terms of civil nuclear trade as Washington would have just given bilaterally.

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