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`OPTION OPEN': Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim in New Delhi on Friday.
NEW DELHI: The attitude of other countries to India's quest for crossing the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) hurdle to permit civilian nuclear cooperation is changing, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim told a press conference here on Friday. Pointing out that Brazil, as NSG Chairman, had had discussions with India, Mr. Amorim, who met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, said New Delhi was committed to non-proliferation. Keeping open the option of cooperation in peaceful uses of nuclear energy, he, however, pointed out that this would have to take place in the framework of Brazil's full-scope safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency . During their meeting in Brasilia last year, the leaders of India, Brazil and South Africa agreed that international civilian nuclear cooperation, under appropriate IAEA safeguards, among countries committed to nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation objectives, could be enhanced through "acceptable forward-looking approaches," consistent with their national and international obligations. Pointing out that the India-United States civilian nuclear cooperation agreement was still to be concluded, Mr. Amorim said Brazil would proceed according to its international obligations. At the same time, India had to take its discussions with the IAEA forward. "We don't feel threatened in any way," he said about India's still-in-the-works nuclear deal with the U.S. Brazil was comfortable with its own geostrategic situation.
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Mr. Amorim was also optimistic about India, Brazil, Germany and Japan, which had formed a G-4 grouping, pushing ahead with their efforts to enter the United Nations Security Council as permanent members. "I am very confident it will happen." He admitted that growth in India-Brazil trade was not robust because of inadequate contact between the two countries but hoped that a business forum would be set up during President Lula Inacio Lula da Silva's visit to New Delhi in June. A joint statement issued on Friday set a two-way trade target of $10 billion by 2010.
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