“The 123 agreement is anchored in Hyde Act and we don’t want the government to proceed on it with such provisions,” CPM Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury told reporters here.

Ahead of the eighth meeting of the UPA-Left joint committee on the N-deal, the ruling coalition briefed the Left leadership on “some major issues” relating to the safeguards agreement, which were discussed at the IAEA. “At this stage, we don’t formally know whether any text of a safeguards agreement has been finalised, Yechury said.
He said the Left leadership understood that unless finalised, any text of an agreement between a government and an international body cannot be made public.