India deal is main focus of United States policy

As India and the US work overtime to get a clean NSG waiver, the Bush administration said the Indo-US atomic deal was currently the “principal focus” of its nuclear policy and given a priority over a similar pact with Russia.

Asked whether developments in Georgia will affect the US-Russia civilian nuclear deal, US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice said that the present focus of America’s nuclear commerce policy was the India deal and not the one with Russia.

“Our principal focus right now has been on the India civil nuclear deal, having worked through the IAEA, now working through the NSG, and still trying to get into a position to make the appropriate presidential determinations in early September. So that’s our focus right now on the civil nuclear side,” Ms Rice told reporters on her way to Tel Aviv.

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