India Wins Landmark Pact To Buy Nuclear Technology, Lifting 34-Year Ban

New Delhi, India (AHN) - India won an approval from the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group to lift a 34-year ban on nuclear trade as proposed by the United States.

The group of delegates made the decision to allow India buy nuclear fuel and technology on the third straight day of talks in Vienna on Saturday.

Some of the members of the group did not approve of lifting the ban as India that have not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

In the past, India has developed atomic bombs in secret and have conducted some nuclear tests with its first in 1974.

On August 23, the meeting between the representatives of 45 nations meeting ended inconclusively on the talks related to end the 34-year-old embargo on civil nuclear cooperation with India.

Nuclear Suppliers Group , which manages and controls the export and sale of civil nuclear technology worldwide, had left the future of a deal between the United States and India uncertain.

Saturday's decision was important for Washington as it can now move forward on a nuclear trade deal with India that was proposed in 2005.

Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in a statement, "This constitutes a major landmark in our quest for energy security."

The controversial nuclear deal now needs to be ratified by the U.S. Congress before it can be implemented and become a law.

"Our efforts have been to try to assure people that this agreement is a very important agreement in terms of promoting the international community's agenda with regard to nonproliferation," U.S. Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security, John Rood, told reporters before NSG lift the ban.