NSG membership for India unlikely this year

November 19, 2016 10:40

India's hopes of a membership at the Nuclear Suppliers Group this year were virtually dashed after the NSG meeting in Vienna ended inconclusively, even as experts said the process would continue in 2017. India and the US had been keen to make progress on the application before the end of US President Barack Obama's tenure, and senior State Department officials had expressed optimism that it would be done by "year-end.'

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