New Delhi: Despite Left’s best efforts to derail the Indo-US nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh remains hopeful of a final satisfactory outcome on the issue. In fact, he sounded positive about a possible deal with Russia.
Speaking to journalists on his flight to Singapore for the ASEAN summit, Singh responded to criticism on his failure to get four more nuclear reactors from Russia.
He said Russia was waiting for India to finalise the safeguards agreement with the IAEA and win clearance from the Nuclear Suppliers Group.
He said he was hopeful of bringing the safeguards agreement before the Left-UPA coordination panel as soon as possible.
Singh said that since there were "some hitches" in finalising the India-specific agreement with IAEA and India was yet to go to NSG.
"It has always been made known to us that the agreement could be operationalised only if we have India-specific safeguards agreement with IAEA and also the NSG gives India exemption from their restrictive guidelines," he was quoted as saying by news agencies.
India and Russia had entered into a MoU for setting up four additional reactors at Kudankulam, he said.
(With agency inputs)
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