External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee warned that India may face global isolation if it did not go ahead with the Indo-US nuclear deal. He added that India and the IAEA were still to find a common ground on the safeguards agreement1.

The US Ambassador to India David Mulford on his part stated that the deal had reached a point of “now or never.” He however asserted that the failure of the nuclear deal would not affect Indo-US ties2.

• 1. “India FM alert over nuclear deal,” BBC, February 4, 2008, at http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/south_asia/7225575.stm
• 2. “Failure of N-deal will not hit Indo-US ties,” Times of India, February 6, 2008, at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssarticleshow/msid-2760055,prtpage-1...