Keen to have civil nuclear cooperation with India, France has said it was waiting for New Delhi to ink the safeguards agreement with IAEA.
French Ambassador Jerome Bonnafont said France favors civil nuclear cooperation with India and is waiting for New Delhi to sign the safeguards Agreement with IAEA and exemption from NSG.
A bilateral civil nuclear agreement between France and India on the lines of the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, is almost ready for signature by the two sides.
When referred to the political difficulties faced by the Manmohan Singh dispensation on the nuclear issue because of the Left opposition, Bonnafont refused to comment, saying it was for the government here to take a decision.
France which meets 80 per cent of its energy needs through nuclear power has always maintained that India should be brought into the international nuclear mainstream.
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