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India, US set for tough talks on nuclear deal

REUTERS, AFP, New Delhi
A top US official arrived in India yesterday to push a landmark nuclear deal between the two nations, but the talks face likely hurdles over New Delhi's need for fresh reassurances from Washington.
India is concerned Washington could be moving the goalposts on the deal agreed in July and would take this up at Friday's talks with US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, Indian officials said.
Washington's moves to cooperate with India in developing nuclear energy is a one-off situation based on India's "responsible" track record which sets it apart from other aspiring nuclear powers, a senior US official said Wednesday.
"This cooperation that we're extending to India is unique to India. It is not going to be replicated to other countries," Nicholas Burns, the US under secretary of state for political affairs, said in Paris on the eve of a trip to India.
He said that India differed markedly from Iran or Pakistan in that it has not been a source of nuclear proliferation and had been "transparent" about its programme.
He denied that Washington was employing double standards by opposing Iran's nuclear activities while offering to help India with its own.
"The devil is beginning to show in
the details," a senior official told Reuters. "We expected this process to be difficult and we seem to be getting to the difficult part now."
Under the deal, agreed by President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the United States would help energy-hungry India's stuttering civilian nuclear programme to boost growth in Asia's third-largest economy.
Washington also promised to help New Delhi -- a nuclear power which has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty -- be treated as a permanent exception at the 44-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), which bars nuclear cooperation with non-NPT members.
In return, India promised to separate its civilian and military nuclear facilities and place the civilian ones under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards to ensure US nuclear supplies are not diverted for military use.
The Bush administration has been confident about pushing the deal through US Congress despite many members, both Republican and Democrat, voicing concern that it could undermine global nonproliferation efforts.
However, comments by Burns ahead of his departure for New Delhi have raised questions about the timing of steps to be taken by both countries, whose ties have warmed significantly in the last five years..