PM Manmohan Singh will undertake a four-day visit to Berlin from Wednesday to attend the G8 Summit that will discuss issues like climate change and trade and investment.
NEW DELHI: Discussions on civil nuclear deal are expected to be high on agenda of the talks that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will have with US President George W Bush in Germany this week on the sidelines of the G-8 Summit.
Singh will undertake a four-day visit to Berlin from Wednesday to attend the Summit that will discuss issues like climate change and trade and investment.
Focus has shifted to the meeting between Singh and Bush in the context of civil nuclear deal after negotiators of the two countries were unable to resolve all differences on the proposed "123 agreement" in the latest round of talks that concluded on Saturday.
Singh and Bush are expected to give a political push at the highest level to enable the negotiations on the complex agreement to move forward.
The three-day talks between Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and US Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns could not result in any breakthrough due to persisting differences, particularly on whether or not India should have the right to reprocess spent nuclear fuel.
The issue of climate change is also expected to figure prominently in the meeting between Singh and Bush, in the backdrop of the latter's remarks that India, along with China, produces most greenhouse gas emissions.
New Delhi has serious objections to being solely blamed for affecting the environment and Singh is expected to convey to Bush that greenhouse gas emissions in India were linked to its energy security, a senior official said here.
Maintaining that India very well cares for the environment, the official said,“ New Delhi's effort to acquire civil nuclear energy was aimed at reducing consumption of fossil fuels which affect the ecology.”
During his Berlin visit, Singh will also meet some other world leaders, including Chinese President Hu Jintao. Singh and Hu, meeting again after seven months, are expected to review progress of talks on the vexed boundary issue.
The G-8 (Group of Eight most industrialised nations) will deliberate on the way forward on fighting climate change and global warming, post expiry of the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse emissions in 2012.
The G8 is also expected to send a "positive signal" on WTO negotiations while discussing the social impact of globalisation.
Discussions on international financial transfers is also on the agenda of the Summit of the US, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia.
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