India's position on the Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty is well known and continues to be valid.

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which in 1996 set out to ban nuclear tests, is an important step, but we need to do more - and we can.

This is simply not true.

Afghan authorities are investigating the matter. If these reports are true, we condemn the incident and urge that all of them be released.

In the preliminary discussions on these elements so far, India has already conveyed to the U.S. that such a provision has no place in the proposed bilateral agreement.

In this context the imposition of sanctions on our firms, which in our view have not acted in violation of our laws or regulation, is not justified.