A landmark pact with the United States aimed at bringing India into the global nuclear marketplace has won a reprieve, but the deal is not out of the woods yet, analysts say.
In a major turnaround, the government's communists allies said late last week they would allow India to pursue crucial talks with a UN nuclear watchdog body as part of steps to implement the accord. Until then, they had loudly opposed the deal.
"The logjam has been broken but the agreement is still not completely in the clear," said New Delhi-based political analyst Uday Bhaskhar.
The deal would allow nuclear-armed India to buy civilian nuclear technology to help fuel its fast-growing economy, despite not having signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The agreement "is an effort to open closed doors so we can obtain nuclear fuel and technology from other countries such as the USA, Russia and France and remove the shortage of electricity in the country," Premier Manmohan Singh said on Saturday, reaffirming the Congress government's commitment to the deal.
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