At the end of the second annual Indo-U.S. Strategic Dialogue held in New Delhi, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made it clear that there were "issues" that had to be resolved by India and the United States in the civil nuclear field. She did not go into specifics.

She maintained that the U.S. remains "fully" committed to the pact with India, but Indian concerns have not been fully allayed.

A few weeks back, at its 2011 plenary meeting in the Netherlands, the 46-nation nuclear cartel, the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), came up with new more restrictive guidelines regarding the export of enrichment and reprocessing (ENR) technologies.