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In a major success for India's nuclear ambitions, the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) on Saturday granted it a crucial waiver that will enable it to carry out nuclear commerce, ending 34 years of isolation enforced in the wake of the 1974 Pokharan nuclear tests. The unprecedented decision of the 45-nation nuclear cartel giving exemption to a country which has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a landmark step in the implementation of the Indo-US nuclear deal that will now go to the US Congress for approval.

"After protracted negotiations, the NSG today adopted an exemption for nuclear exports to India," the Austrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

"There is a sense of relief. I am particularly happy that the waiver for India meets with international nuclear non-proliferation architecture," Peter Launsky, Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman said after an unscheduled meeting of the NSG in Vienna.

Austria, along with Ireland, New Zealand and Switzerland had expressed strong reservations over the waiver being given to India that forced the grouping to have an unscheduled meeting on Saturday after two days of deliberations failed to produce a consensus.

China, which had on Friday night joined these countries, on Saturday did not oppose the waiver but raised some questions regarding specific issues. After the consensus was adopted, Beijing expressed its stated position.

Some changes have been made to the revised draft of the waiver to assuage concerns of the skeptic countries but details of the exact changes were still not available.

Hectic behind the scene negotiations marked the diplomatic triumph for India in which the US played a major part by talking to the naysayers in extended late night discussions.