Click to play videoVienna: The mood was good within the Indian camp in Vienna on Day 1 at the Nuclear Suppliers Group on Thursday.
Government sources in fact are optimistic that the nuclear nod could come through as early as Saturday.
India has referred to its past track record as proof of its commitment to non-proliferation and some NSG countries later described India's pitch as constructive and useful.
However, the Government is not ready to sign the dotted lines but they are ready to give verbal assurances. The NSG members were asked to go by India’s past records; and the members have been listening quiet intently but no commitments about the outcome at this stage.
Meanwhile, back home in New Delhi, the mood in the Indian foreign ministry was positive.
But privately a senior Indian Government official said they were confident that a second round of talks in early September would not be required and that the NSG could approve a waiver for India as early as Saturday.
The confidence is due to the consensus in India’s favour among the powerful permanent five countries -- the US, Britain, Russia, France and China.
The expectation then is that smaller countries like Austria, Ireland and New Zealand, after voicing their concerns, will eventually fall in line.
The second round of deliberations of the 45 member nuclear cartel will take place on Friday.
However, if the NSG fails to reach agreement by Friday, it is feared that the US Senate may not have the stipulated 30 days without break to consider the India-US deal.
The deliberations in Vienna are on at the moment and the sticking point continues to be the insistence of some of the countries such as Austria, New Zealand and Ireland that the final draft agreement text must contain text to discourage any testing by India, so that if India were to test any weapons, the agreement would be cancelled.
India has taken the position that it cannot sign such an agreement and the position has been backed by the US.
The US says that India has a moratorium in place and India should be trusted on this. When you are dealing with India you are talking to a gentleman.
Talks are now intended to search for some convergence between these two positions.
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