New Delhi: The Indo-US nuclear deal may have taken the bilateral relations between India and the United States to a new high, but all is not hunky dory on the other trade fronts.
The US has included India in the list of countries producing and smuggling narcotics. New Delhi is said to have taken up the matter with Washington and External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has written a letter to the US authorities in reply to the list.
US government has indicated that India's inclusion in the 'Majors List' was primarily due to "large scale diversion of licit opium production into the illicit market."
"US has requested information over a period of time that diversion from licit production has been reduced to a modest problem", Mukherjee was quoted by news agency PTI as saying.
Mukherjee also said while India has been included in the 'Majors List', there was no year in which it was listed as a country that "failed demonstrably" to adhere to international counter-narcotics agreements or take counter-narcotic measures.
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