May 1, 2007, 20:31 GMT
Washington - Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon met with top US officials in Washington on Tuesday as both countries seek to overcome differences on how to implement a nuclear agreement.
US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack cautioned that the meetings so far had not produced any breakthroughs that will allow progress as quickly as the United States wanted even though Menom presented some 'constructive ideas.'
'That doesn't mean that they're going to be able to move this as quickly as we had hoped ... as a result of these meetings,' McCormack said. 'But we are confident in the long run that we will get this deal done.'
Menom met with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Undersecretary Nicholas Burns, who negotiated the historic agreement with India last year that allows the United States to cooperate in the development of nuclear energy in India.
US President George W Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signed the deal, which was later approved by Congress, last year, but negotiations to implement the agreement have been bogged down over legal issues.
McCormack has not provides details about what was holding up the deal, saying in April only that India has demanded things that would requires changes to US laws - something he said the United States will not do.
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