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cover the agreement to build the first two reactors of Kudankulam because it was reached before the ban.However, President George Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reached an agreement in March 2006 to allow the sale of U.S. nuclear power technology to India, a deal that was approved by Congress in December.
The bilateral agreement to build the four additional reactors for Kudankulam also contained New Delhi's obligation to keep Russia's nuclear reactors and nuclear fuel under the guarantees of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog, during their entire operational life. India has still to conclude an agreement on the guarantees with the agency.
Putin and Singh also adopted a joint statement saying that the two countries would develop a program for civilian nuclear cooperation in 2007.
"The Federal Agency for Nuclear Power and India's Department of Atomic Energy will draft a comprehensive program for
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