Keeping this in view, the outside supporters of the UPA would pressure the government not to attend the upcoming meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at Geneva early next month.
This was the unanimous view of the four Left parties, which met here on Friday. It would be conveyed to the government at the May 28 meeting of the UPA-Left Committee on the Indo-US nuclear deal, top Left sources said.
They said the government's replies on the clarifications sought by them at the Committee's last meeting were not satisfactory and the Left parties would be asking more questions to the Congress-led coalition on the nuclear issue.
After the four parties met on Friday, CPI(M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury had a meeting with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to discuss the issue.
The Left parties feel that the government should wait for some more time before finalising the India-specific safeguards agreement with the IAEA as by then the 123 Agreement with the US would lapse.
The Left opposition to the 123 Agreement is because they feel it was bound by the Hyde Act which was detrimental to India's sovereignty and its pursuance of an independent foreign policy.
