Washington: The US has said that few steps are still needed to be put in place to implement the landmark civil nuclear deal with India and there will be a meeting soon on the proposed insurance pool.
“A few steps still need to be put in place; for example, there will be a conference in the relative near term on how to build the insurance pool elements that will go into actually making this a reality,” Phil Reiner, senior director South Asia Affairs at the National Security Council of the White House, told reporters.
Describing the agreement between India and the US on creation of an insurance pool to cater to the concerns of the American nuclear power industry on nuclear liability as a “breakthrough”, the White House official said that with this there are no further roadblocks at the policy level. “What you’re seeing with the breakthrough on civ-nuke is that at a policy level, there are no further impediments. (PTI)
