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France to help India at NSG

Paris: France is keen on a civilian nuclear cooperation with India and has promised garnering support for New Delhi at the Nuclear Suppliers Group, according to senior French government officials.

India was a responsible country and grant of waiver to it by the 45-nation NSG would strengthen the global non-proliferation regime, instead of weakening the system as feared in some quarters, they said.

The officials said an India-France nuclear agreement would be on a “different scale” than the India-United States one.

It would involve transfer of crucial reprocessing technology.

“We feel that there is a necessity to introduce a change in the international system [on nuclear issue] to allow India to play its due role in it,” a senior official of the French Atomic Energy Commission told a group of visiting Indian journalists here.

Noting that France was supportive of India’s integration with the international community in the civilian nuclear field since 1998, the official said Paris would push the case at the NSG for “opening up the path” for New Delhi in this regard. — PTI

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