India has concluded negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency for safeguards agreement and the UPA-Left committee meeting will be held soon to decide the future course of action, external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Saturday.

“That stage is over now because that negotiation has been completed,” he said when about the state of talks with global nuclear watchdog IAEA.

The safeguards agree-ment, along with the NSG waiver, is a pre-requisite to operationalise the Indo-US civil nuclear deal. Mukherjee said the Left parties supporting the government from outside were told that it would come back to the committee once the negotiations are over to apprise it of the progress. The UPA-Left meeting will be held “shortly”, he said.

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