India and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will hold talks on the safeguards agreement in Vienna on Wednesday amid New Delhi’s hopes of wrapping up the negotiations in this fourth round.

The Indian delegation, led by Ravi B Grover, Director, Strategic Relations in the Department of Atomic Energy, will look forward to finalise an “agreed text” on the key pact with the global nuclear watchdog.

At the last round of talks earlier this month, the two sides had failed to arrive at an agreed text of the India-specific safeguards agreement, crucial for allowing the international community to have nuclear trade with New Delhi. But ahead of the fresh round, the Indian side is hopeful of resolving the differences and concluding the negotiations.

Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar, however, refused to predict the outcome of the upcoming talks. “It is a detailed technical exercise. I would not like to predict on it (when the agreed text could be readied),” Kakodkar told reporters here.