India will speed up negotiations with IAEA: Anil Kakidkar

India will speed up negotiations with IAEA on country-specific safeguards but will ensure that it is done satisfactorily, Chairman Atomic Energy Commission, Anil Kakodkar said on Wednesday on the concluding day of the second round of talks by Indian negotiators with the global atomic watchdog at Vienna.

"We are doing our best and try to complete the process as soon as possible but everything has to be done satisfactorily as the negotiations are comprehensive and complex," Kakodkar told PTI here.

"We will carry forward the discussions with IAEA," he said adding "if consultations are required, the negotiating team will come back and then continue the process".

However, Kakodkar refused to elaborate on the nature of the talks saying, "the negotiating team is doing its job, let us see how it takes shape".

Notwithstanding the Left parties' threat to the Government not to carry forward the safeguards talks with IAEA beyond December, India opened the second round of discussions with the nuclear watchdog this week.

It is expected that the draft of the agreed text on the country-specific safeguards would seek to address the interest of IAEA as well as India.

India is keen to have conditions such as assured fuel supply, strategic reserve and recognition of separation plan, according sources in the External Affairs Ministry.

If the negotiators have to meet the deadline of the Left parties, then the talks have to be wrapped up before Christmas and New Year holidays when all establishments in Vienna will be closed

Courtesy:thehindu.com
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