Dajiworld Media Network

New Delhi, Jun 30: US Ambassador Timothy J Roemer, while bidding farewell on his last day in office, reiterated that the US will provide enrichment and reprocessing (ENR) technologies to India.

He was speaking at an interative session with students at the India Gate on Thursday June 30.

Roemer is stepping down after his two-year term as US ambassador to India. He expressed hope that the India-US partnership will only grow and strengthen in the future.

He also said that the US strongly supports a clean waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group for India.

"Having come from the White House and Washington DC recently, I would like to say the White House and Obama administration strongly and vehemently support the clean waiver for India," he said.

Last week, the 46-nation nuclear trade cartel in its Netherlands meeting had decided to tighten regulations for the export of sensitive enrichment and reprocessing technologies.

Roemer had resigned from his diplomatic responsibilities in April this year.

"With India's commitment as they move forward to ratify the CSC and they work more closely with the US companies, I think you will see this civil nuclear agreement hopefully continue to move in a very positive direction in the future," he said.

The new guidelines by NSG are seen by some as a move to question the "clean waiver" granted to India in September 2008.

India and the US in 2006 had signed the civil nuclear cooperation agreememt which led to the NSG providing a clean waiver to India in 2008 to conduct nuclear trade with its members, even though New Delhi has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.