Nuclear states mull U.S.-India deal again as clock ticks

Reuters
Sep 3, 2008

VIENNA: Forty-five nations meet on Thursday to try to bridge differences over a move to lift a ban on nuclear trade with India, needed to seal a U.S.-Indian atomic deal but seen by some as a threat to non-proliferation. Washington has lobbied others in the Nuclear Suppliers Group for an exemption to its rules to allow exports to India, which has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), has tested nuclear bombs and refused to rule out doing so again. But a revised U.S. waiver draft circulated ahead of the meeting glossed over demands for conditions on such an unprecedented concession raised at a two-day session last month, diplomats from concerned countries said.