NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday reiterated its view that India should not agree to any dilution of the civil nuclear cooperation agreement arrived at between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and U.S. President George Bush on July 18, 2005.

"We have heard disturbing reports that India was going to soften its stand on the 123 agreement," BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said here referring to news reports on the Manmohan-Bush meeting on the sidelines of the G-8 meeting in Berlin on Friday.

He said the BJP wanted Dr. Singh to stand by the assurances he gave to Parliament that India would stick to the July 2005 agreement "which should in no way be diluted" and there would be no shifting of goalposts.

The party expressed concern at China's apparently hardening stance on the border dispute with India in Arunachal Pradesh. Mr. Prasad said he hoped Dr. Singh could have conveyed India's concerns to Chinese President Hu Jintao when he met him in Berlin on Thursday.

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