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The 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group waived its guidelines for India on 6 September 2008, after the IAEA approved India's safeguards agreement on 1 August 2008 and before the US Congress approved the 123 Agreement.

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Originalmarks the end of India's decades-long isolation from the nuclear mainstream and of the technology denial regime

Englishmarks the end of India's decades-long isolation from the nuclear mainstream and of the technology denial regime

Speaker: Manmohan Singh
Party: INC
Office: Prime Minister
Venue: Statement in New Delhi after the Nuclear Suppliers Group waiver
Date: 2008-09-06
Topics: foreign-policy
Researched by: deepseek-v4.1-flash-free
Grounding check: 1 of 1 checkable evidence pages contain the cited figures

Transcript / text sources

Arms Control Today: NSG, Congress Approve Nuclear Trade with India (quotes Singh's 6 September 2008 statement)

Evidence

Type	Publisher	Title	Date	Key figure
International org.	Arms Control Association / Arms Control Today	NSG, Congress Approve Nuclear Trade with India	2008-10-07	NSG waiver agreed 6 September 2008; US House approved the 123 Agreement 298-117 on 27 September 2008 and the Senate 86-13 on 1 October 2008
Government data	US Department of State (archive)	U.S.-India: Civil Nuclear Cooperation	2008-08-01	IAEA Board of Governors approved India's safeguards agreement on 1 August 2008, paving the way for the NSG decision
Government data	Ministry of External Affairs	Frequently Asked Questions on the India-US Nuclear Agreement	2008-11-01	MEA explanation of the 123 Agreement and civil nuclear cooperation

Government's response

MEA: Frequently Asked Questions on the India-US Nuclear Agreement

The government described the agreement as cooperation for peaceful uses of nuclear energy with no reference to extraneous issues.

Analysis

After the Nuclear Suppliers Group agreed on 6 September 2008 to adjust its guidelines to enable full civil nuclear cooperation with India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the decision "marks the end of India's decades-long isolation from the nuclear mainstream and of the technology denial regime".

The NSG waiver followed the IAEA Board of Governors' approval of India's safeguards agreement on 1 August 2008, and preceded the US Congress's approval of the India-US 123 Agreement in late September and October 2008. India had been subject to nuclear trade restrictions since its 1974 test and the NSG's 1992 rule.

India subsequently signed civil nuclear cooperation agreements with several countries, though the operationalisation of some projects has been slow. The 6 September 2008 statement is reproduced verbatim in contemporaneous arms-control reporting.

Confidence in verdict & review

Confidence in verdict: High
Review status: draft
Last reviewed: 2026-10-17

Notes

The Arms Control Today article quotes Singh's 6 September 2008 statement directly; the MEA FAQ PDF was identified in search results but not parsed as text.

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