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09:52, July 21, 2007 |
The United States and India extended their nuclear talks to fourth day Friday in a bid to overcome differences on a controversial nuclear-cooperation agreement, the State Department said.
"These talks have gone into extra innings," State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey told reporters.
"They got to the end of yesterday and decided the ball game needed to be played out a little bit more, so they''re meeting again this morning," he said.
But the spokesman indicated that no agreement will be reached after the talks were unexpectedly extended again and again.
While the two sides have "made progress on narrowing some of the issues that are out there, ... none of that should lead you to conclude that you''ll see an announcement of any kind made at the end of this," Casey said.
Officials of the two countries were scheduled to end their two- day meeting in Washington on Wednesday but extended it by another day after a breakthrough in issues that had blocked an accord, said a U.S. official who asked not to be identified.
Washington and New Delhi have been stalemated for months over a historic agreement on civil nuclear cooperation reached in March 2006, under which India will get access to U.S. civil nuclear technology, and open its nuclear facilities to inspection.
U.S. President George W. Bush in December 2006 signed into law a bill approved by Congress allowing the deal to go through, a major step towards letting India buy U.S. nuclear reactors and fuel for the first time in 30 years.
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