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US not ready to call ‘critically important’ N-deal dead

	May 05, 2008

The United States considers its civil nuclear deal with India “critically important” and is never going to pronounce it “dead” even as it remains stalled due to opposition from the Indian coalition government’s leftist supporters. “Well, I just want to remind - you often want me to say whether or not we think that this deal is dead,” White House press secre¬tary Dana Perino on April 28 told a reporter who suggested that the deal may be dead now with time running out for its ratifica¬tion by t ...