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U.S. pushes Japan for NSG waiver

Tokyo: The U.S. on Friday pushed a reluctant Japan and other members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group to agree to a waiver for India “expeditiously” for enabling the nuclear deal with India. It said the accord would be a “practical way” of engaging New Delhi on non-proliferation.

“The question we are dealing with now is what is the best way to get more convergence between what we do within the non-proliferation treaty and what India does outside,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher told journalists here. He said India made it “very clear” that signing the NPT “is not on the cards.”

Asked about the possibility of the deal taking effect before President George W. Bush’s term ends in January, he said: “It is a tight timetable.”

“We are asking... the NSG to move expeditiously,” Mr. Boucher was quoted as saying by the Kyodo news agency. — PTI

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