NEW DELHI, July 10 (RIA Novosti) - India made public Thursday a draft agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency on guarantees of nuclear nonproliferation, where it presses the agency to create a strategic reserve of nuclear fuel.The declassified Agreement with the Government of India for the Application of Safeguards to
Civilian Nuclear Facilities was sent to the IAEA on Wednesday; a day later the Indian Foreign Ministry made it public. The document is likely to be signed soon.
This agreement is envisioned by another document - a nuclear cooperation pact between New Delhi and Washington - and is a step on the path to allowing India to buy nuclear fuel, which is now banned by international regulations because India has not signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). More >>>
