Paving the way for nuclear commerce, India said today it has already harmonised its export control requirements with that of Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and all it wants is a "clean" and "unconditional" waiver.
"We have already harmonised our export control requirements with that of NSG," Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar said.
"All we want is a clean and unconditional exemption from the NSG," he said.
The NSG's special meeting is scheduled for August 21.
"NSG guidelines require comprehensive safeguards (applicable only to NPT countries) and since India has both civil and military programmes, we have a unique position. Therefore, such comprehensive safeguards are not relevant to India. Hence, clean exemption from that is what we are seeking," Kakodkar said.
"They should exempt India from the requirement of comprehensive safeguards and add no other conditions," he added.
"Conditions will only take away from one hand what has been given from the other (consensus at the IAEA on India- specific safeguards agreement on August 1)," he said.
