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| Talks on India-specific additional protocol to begin today | | | Mumbai | July 27
India will begin consultations with the IAEA tomorrow in Vienna to draft a template of an India- specific 'Additional Protocol' for inspection of its civilian nuclear power plants, days ahead of the Agency's Board of Governors (BOG) meeting on August one to discuss the India-specific safeguard agreement.
The India-specific safeguards agreement is an umbrella accord and the Additional Protocol, which New Delhi will be negotiating in detail from tomorrow with IAEA will also be specific to India.
There is a possibility that BOG might insist that the India-specific "An Additional Protocol" is also signed along with the safeguards agreement to enable inspection of those nuclear units declared by New Delhi as civil, according to the experts on safeguards.
As per separation plan unveiled by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in March 2006, 14 out of 22 of the country's nuclear power plants will be under IAEA safeguards and eligible for inspection.
India will begin its mandatory consultation process on "An Additional Protocol" with IAEA as per the Indo-US joint statement on civil nuclear cooperation of July 18, 2005.
Additional protocol will be instrumental in enabling the Agency to carry out its mandate as per the agreement, experts said.
Indian negotiators who are reaching Vienna tomorrow morning will work out details on a template of the additional protocol, which will be in addition to the India-specific safeguards agreement, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar told reporters. |
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