PM likely to visit US in April for Nuclear Security Summit

New Delhi, Jan 26 (PTI) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh is expected to visit the US in April to attend a global
Summit on nuclear security, a topic that is of immense
interest to India considering apprehensions over safety of
atomic arsenal in Pakistan and proliferation originating from
there.

Along with the US visit, Singh is also likely to travel
to Brazil for the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Summit.
The Nuclear Security Summit, called by President Barack
Obama, is slated to be held on April 12-13 and Singh is
expected to attend it, sources said here today.
During Singh's visit to Washington in November last, the
issue related to the upcoming Summit had come up during the
discussions.
Singh later had said that India would "work with the
United States and other countries for the success of the
nuclear security summit."
A joint statement issued after the talks had said that
Singh and Obama looked forward to the April 2010 Nuclear
Security Summit and working together with all participating
states for the success of the meet.
Nuclear security is of immense interest to India
considering apprehensions about safety of Pakistan's arsenal
falling into the hands of terrorists. Also there have been
considerable concerns over the proliferation of nuclear
technology and material originating from Pakistan. (MORE) PTI
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