The Obama Administration asserted that it is committed to implement the civilian nuclear deal with India,so does New Delhi,and there should be no apprehension in this regard.
8220;I do not think there should be any apprehensions about the future of the civil nuclear agreement,8221; Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia,Robert Blake told reporters.
8220;The US Secretary and the President are fully committed to that agreement. I think the Indians are also fully committed,8221; Blake said in response to a question which referred him to the recent G-8 declaration related to restriction on transfer of nuclear technology to non-NPT States.
8220;They India are going to be,I am sure,moving forward to file a declaration of safeguarded facilities with the IAEA,which is sort of the next step in that process,and then we8217;re going to start reprocessing talks,probably either later this month or in August,8221; Blake said.
8220;So all of that is very much on track. As I say,we8217;ll also be starting some bilateral cooperation with hopefully with the announcement of these two nuclear sites. So I would discourage any talk that somehow the agreement is off track,8221; he asserted.