India hopes to finalise at the earliest the agreed text on India-specific safeguards with the International Atomic Energy Agency as a follow-up of the nuclear deal with the US and the date for the next meeting is being worked out, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar said in Mumbai on Friday.
"The negotiations are continuing and we hope to complete it at the earliest," Kakodkar said on the sidelines of a function.
"The final agreed text has to be satisfactory and in the interest of the country and also for stable international cooperation," he said.
"It is a matter of details and all the requirements have to be met with," he added.
Kakodkar said India is clear on the fact that the negotiations are consistent with the understanding made on July 18, 2005, and March, 2006.
"Whatever understanding has been reached, has to be honoured and there is no doubt on that account," he said.
So far, four rounds of negotiations have taken place since November 2007 in readying the text, which was stuck on certain wordings regarding the uninterrupted supply of fuel for civilian nuclear plants and on corrective measures in the event of stoppage of fuel, the sources added.
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