A proposed provision in the Nuclear Suppliers' Group draft seeking to halt all nuclear commerce between the Group and India if it conducted further tests seemed to have become the sticking point as the 45-member NSG went into the second round of its meeting in Vienna on Friday.Most members are in favour of lifting the current ban that prevents nuclear commerce between the NSG and a non-signatory of the nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT), like India. But some NSG members insist that it should not be lifted unless New Delhi formally says no to further nuclear tests.India has made it clear it will not accept any "new" provisions in the draft that the United States had prepared for NSG before its two-day meeting began in Vienna on Thursday."There is no question of India accepting any conditions or any new provision in the draft," sources said.India has announced a voluntary moratorium on further tests
Sweat abercrombie & fitch, but it has not signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) that prevents countries from conducting further tests.Some NSG members like Austria, Ireland and Switzerland have serious reservations of giving India a "clean waiver" without a formal assurance from it that there will be no further tests.Sources said these members have suggested that the provision to stop all commerce with India on civil nuclear energy be brought in if New Delhi conducts any tests in future.Asked whether India will walkout from the talks if it does not get a "clean waiver," sources said: " We are not even a member of the NSG. If at all, it is the Americans who should stage a walk out."But the US has been engaged in hectic lobbying with the Indian delegation that include foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon and the prime minister's 'special envoy' Shyam Saran to agree to "the subtle" changes in the draft.A lot may depend on the final wording and whether the Indian delegation is comfortable with it. But if it feels the new language to be "objectionable", it may reject it altogether.Attempts are also on by members of the US delegation to convince the NSG members, particularly those who are keen on the provision in the draft
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