The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is all set to meet in Vienna on Thursday to consider waiver for India amid a cloud of uncertainty over the initiative.
A few countries, particularly New Zealand and Austria, continue to have reservations over the initiative even after the original draft waiver was amended to address concerns of the sceptic nations.
Feeling that the amendments in the draft are only cosmetic in nature, they are expected to voice their concerns with regard to non-proliferation at the two-day meeting of the 45-nation grouping.
The NSG works by consensus and even if one country opposes the waiver, the move will be scuttled.
The US, which has the responsibility of garnering consensus in favour of the waiver for India, is pushing the sceptic countries to support the initiative as it believes it is good for the world.
Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, who is in the US, will travel directly to Vienna tomorrow. R B Grover, director (strategic affairs) in the Department of Atomic Energy, will join Menon.
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Though India is not a member of the NSG, the delegation led by Menon will be camping in Vienna to meet envoys of the NSG countries, if necessary, to make further efforts to persuade them.
Officials here said that while all efforts will be made to allay the apprehensions of the sceptic countries, India will not accept the waiver if it is laden with conditions.
India says the revised draft should be able to address the apprehensions that some of the countries have.
New Delhi maintains that if any country has any non-proliferation issues, those can be sorted out with them when bilateral agreements are signed.