Indo-US Nuclear deal scheduled to be signed tomorrow

New Delhi, Oct 3 (UNI) The 123 agreement between India and the United States is scheduled to be signed tomorrow, marking the culmination of a two-year-long process which was fraught with difficulties throughout.

US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice will arrive here tomorrow to sign the final agreement.

Sources in Washington, however, said that the agreement which had to be sent for President Pratibha Devisingh Patil's signature had not been sent due to ''procedural difficulties''.

But here the stage is set for the final signatures, for which the Secretary of State will be arriving, sources added.

Officials, however, were guarded in their response and could not confirn the details.

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