'US focused on bringing India n-deal to fruition'

The Economic Times
Aug 29, 2008

WASHINGTON: The United States has reiterated its priority right now is to bring into fruition the India-US nuclear deal and that's where its policy was focused presently. "...With regard to civil nuclear cooperation, as I said a few days ago, the priority for the administration right now is to try to bring into fruition the 123 Agreement with India," US state department deputy spokesman, Robert Wood, told reporters Thursday. "And that civil nuclear cooperation agreement, that's where our focus is right now," he added. Wood's reiteration came in response to a question about the status of the administration's consideration of the scrapping of a civilian nuclear agreement with Russia in response to Russian action in Georgia. US, he said, was looking at various options in terms of its response to Russian "aggression in Georgia... But I don't have anything to say here about what steps we may or may not take at this point", he said.