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`U.S. committed to nuclear deal'

WASHINGTON: Amid concerns that North Korea's nuclear test could impact the implementation of the India-U.S. civilian nuclear deal, the U.S. administration has said it is ``determined'' to fulfil commitments it has made to New Delhi on nuclear commerce.

Asserting that there was a ``world of difference'' between the nuclear programmes of India and North Korea, U.S. Under-Secretary of State Nicholas Burns said: ``We are determined to fulfil the commitments we made to the Indian Government in this deal."

"I have been in touch with Ambassador Shyam Saran and new Foreign Secretary [Shiv Shankar] Menon over the last week to assure that the U.S. wants to go forward on all of the definite initiatives that President [George] Bush and Prime Minister [Manmohan] Singh talked in March in New Delhi," Burns told reporters here.

"India is a peaceful, democratic, law-abiding leader of the international community. North Korea is the reverse of all that, and so there is great trust in commitments that the Indian government made to us will be fulfilled and we are very confident that the India deal will be approved by a substantial margin." — PTI

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