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India will not accept conditions: Kakodkar

Mumbai: Amid apprehensions that the amended NSG draft waiver for New Delhi’s nuclear commerce could include language that would bind the country, India said it wanted civil nuclear cooperation but not “at any cost” and asserted that it would not accept any “conditions.”

Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar made it clear that India would not allow itself to be “pushed” over the nuclear deal. It would accept the waiver only if it was within the parameters of the July 18, 2005 India-U.S. joint statement.

“India is looking for acceptable NSG exemption, clean exemption with no additional conditions and the parameters have to be within the July 18, 2005 understanding with the U.S.,” he said.

Dr. Kakodkar was speaking to reporters here on the sidelines of a function at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. — PTI

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