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Press Trust of IndiaSunday, December 16, 2007 (Kolkata)
India is currently involved in the process of laying down its safeguard clauses for the Indo-US nuclear agreement and will decide the next course of action after placing it before the UPA-Left Joint Committee, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Sunday.
''We have to finalise the India-specific safeguards of the agreement. It will then be placed before the UPA-Left Committee and the next course of action will be decided after that,'' Mukherjee said in Kolkata.
Mukherjee did not, however, specify the date for the next meeting of the UPA-Left Joint Committee on the nuclear deal ...
Yesterday in Raipur, the External Affairs minister brushed aside reports that the Left parties had threatened to withdraw support to the UPA government if it went ahead in operationalising the Indo-US nuclear deal and said the entire issue was a ''media creation'' ...
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