BEIJING: The departure of Left parties from the central government is expected to exert significant influence in the evolving India-China relationship. There is already a sign that New Delhi is reviewing its ways of persuading Chinese rulers to support India's case in the Nuclear Suppliers' Group.
New Delhi is sending a team of officials to discuss how China can help India obtain NSG's approval, which is crucial to fully realise the benefits of the India-US nuclear deal.
or official in New Delhi said.

New Delhi, July 24 - Two days after the government won the trust vote, India has scaled up its NSG diplomacy with senior envoys and ministers fanning out to key Nuclear Suppliers Group countries to win their support for Indias re-entry into the restricted world of global nuclear trade.
Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma, currently in Singapore to attend the ASEAN Regional Forum meeting, Thursday met US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the sidelines of the meet.
producer of uranium and a key member of the NSG, is considering its position and hinted that it may back the deal, said the source.

Opposing the proposed India-IAEA safeguards agreement and terming it as ''discriminatory and dangerous'', Pakistan in a letter to IAEA Board of Governors (BoG) and Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) members has sought amendments to the draft document.
In identical letters to IAEA Board of Governors and NSG members, written by the Permanent Representatives of Pakistan to the United Nations in New York and to IAEA in Vienna, Pakistan has argued that the proposed agreement accepts India as nuclear weapon state and provides India an incentive to conduct further nuclear weapons testing and threatens chances of nuclear arms race in South Asia.
't be considered before August 25, some 45 days after the draft was circulated among its members on July 9.

PTI / New Delhi July 24, 2008, 17:12 IST Government today expressed hope that India will get the support of all countries during its negotiations on the

Pakistan has warned the international community that India’s historic nuclear deal with the United States could accelerate a nuclear arms race between Delhi and Islamabad.
The warning was made in a letter addressed to more than 60 nations as the Indian government, having survived a no confidence vote on Tuesday, dispatched diplomats to clear the deal with international regulators.
ve issue –- the disputed region of Kashmir — and the two sides remain deeply distrustful of each other..

NEW DELHI (AFP) - India said Thursday it was sending out envoys to lobby for the final international clearances needed to finalise a controversial nuclear energy deal with the United States.
The diplomatic offensive comes after the ruling coalition survived a hard-fought confidence vote in parliament sparked by left-wing and communist opposition to the pact.
Berlin, a member of the influential NSG that regulates nuclear commerce, to back the pact.

New Delhi: India is hopeful that despite Pakistan's objection the safeguards agreement it plans to sign with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) next week will be done without more countries joining in to resist it.
"The overwhelming mood in the IAEA board of governors is to support the Indian safeguards agreement," a senior official in the external affairs ministry told the IANS Thursday.
d visa in getting the nuclear deal to the operationalisation stage - have to be cleared to get the India-US civil nuclear deal approved by the US Congress by September.

(RTTNews) - The US Ambassador to India, David Mulford, said he was hopeful that the American Congress would clear the 123-bilateral civil nuclear

VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Pakistan has warned a deal leading to increased Indian access to nuclear fuel could accelerate the atomic arms race between the rivals, according to a letter obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
The letter was given to the AP a day after India's government won a confidence vote that paved the way for a landmark deal on nuclear energy cooperation with the United States. To finalize the U.S. deal, India must strike separate agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency as well as the Nuclear Suppliers Group of countries that export nuclear material. Then Congress will need to approve the accord.
s letter dated July 18 addressed more

NEW DELHI: The US on Wednesday said it has spoken to China about support for its nuclear deal with India and expressed hope that Beijing will take a positive view of global nuclear cooperation with New Delhi.
"Yes, we have had conversations with China. China has agreed to review carefully the necessary documentation before taking a decision," US Ambassador David Mulford told reporters here in a conference call from Cleveland.
ng on August 1.

New Delhi (PTI): Delighted at the UPA government's victory in the confidence motion, the US on wednesday said it is geared up to push the civil nuclear initiative and hoped the NSG meeting can be convened in the second week of August so that the American Congress can have a final vote in September.
The US has begun lobbying for the initiative and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, who is on a tour, will be talking to leaders of Australia, New Zealand and other countries to muster support among the IAEA and Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) members.
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New Delhi - A day after it won parliament's endorsement for a controversial nuclear agreement with the United States, India's United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government on Wednesday readied to woo international opinion in favour of the pact.
The deal would allow the US to export nuclear materials and technology to India ending a three-decade ban while India would open its civilian reactors to international inspection.
he International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and get the Nuclear Suppliers Group to change its rules allowing trade with a non-signatory to the NPT. The 45-member NSG controls global trade in fissile materials.

By David Gollust The Bush administration says it will do all it can to try to remove remaining obstacles to the US-India nuclear cooperation accord now that

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House warmly praised embattled Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday for "soldiering on" with a controversial US-India nuclear pact despite stiff opposition at home.
And Singh was "very confident" about the agreement's prospects when he met with US President George W. Bush July 8th on the sidelines of a rich nation summit in Japan, spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters.
what we think is a really good opportunity for India" in the face of energy-hungry economic growth, said Perino.

By Boris Groendahl VIENNA, July 22 (Reuters) - India will start talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency next week about a broader nuclear inspection regime as it tries to garner support from IAEA governors for a U.S.-Indian nuclear deal, diplomats said.
India has already negotiated a safeguards scheme with IAEA experts which will be considered by the U.N. watchdog's 35-nation governing board next week. Approval is a precondition for launching the U.S.-Indian nuclear trade accord.
ates about the safeguards draft, told them India would try to finalise the Additional Protocol in the fall, diplomats who attended the meeting said.

By MR SRINIVASAN Of the world's 25000 nuclear warheads, over 90% are in the United States and the former Soviet Union. The nuclear and missile activities of