Ahead of the second meeting  of the 45-nation grouping that comprises the Nuclear Suppliers Group, due to be held on 3 September, India has said it will will not accept the waiver if the "red lines" set by it are crossed.

National security adviser M K Narayanan told a new programme that the inclusion of any clause on testing, periodic review or denial of enrichment and reprocessing technology in the text of the NSG waiver would be unacceptable and hoped a way around these issues would be found through diplomatic efforts.

Narayanan said the outcome of the NSG meeting on August 21-22, which could not arrive at a decision to grant a waiver to India, was neither a debacle nor debacle nor a setback, as thenegotiators were prepared for it as they had been warned in advance that it it may be necessary to have two rounds of meetings with the NSG before finalising something which would be mutually satisfactory.

He denied that India was arm-twisting countries like Ireland, Austria, New Zealand, Switzerland who had created hurdles at the NSG as support for the waiver was not a touchstone for friendly relations with any country, saying, "I believe if anybody is friendly to us, they will benefit."

The national security adviser categoriclly stated that there was no question of cosmetic or other changes, saying what India was really saying is that India that on certain issues "there are certain red lines drawn by us" obn the basis of the commitments made by the prime mjinister inn Parliament and the government could not go back on them, saying, "These are sacrosanct and if these are not met we cannot endorse the agreement."

On the position of some NSG countries that the civillian nuclear cooperation should be terminated if India conducted any nuclear tests, Narayanan said the usage of word "testing" would not be acceptable to India, saying that testing was a word that it finds difficult to adjust to, because that is what Parliament had mandated the government.

"We are clear that whatever we finally agree to in NSG should be something that we can sell to Parliament," Narayanan said on the programme, adding that a way out would be found on this through "creative diplomacy".

The national security advisor also stated that demands from some NSG countries for the exclusion of enrichment and reprocessing technology in the NSG waiver, singling out India would not be acceptable as none ogf the NSG countries, barring the US had banned the enrichment and reprocessing technology transfer per se.

He said if a country did not want to provide enrichment and reprocessing technology but still wanted  nuclear commerce, India would will draw guidelines for it.

He also ruled out any possibility of accepting periodic reviews of the waiver as India had put all its cards on the table in a transparent manner and therefore could not accept  a review mechanism as those investing in the civil nuclear facilities, would not accept it as they would need to tie-up their resources for several years.

"Our concerns are well known. I think most of the countries recognised the validity of our concerns. There are some countries who I think are ideologically committed to their concepts of non-proliferation and hence tend to take a sort of hardline position on this," he said.

He said it was a question of convincing those countires that India with its impeccable record of non proliferation, support for for universal nuclear disarmament was a "right candidate for nuclear commerce."

Narayanan said India would have no objection if the views of some of countries were reflecteded in the statement of the NSG Chair as long as it did not inhibit India from "what we believe is clean and unconditional waiver."

Narayanan said since India is not a member of the NSG, it has to depend on other countries to push its case and appreciated the efforts of the US, Russia, France, the UK and other countries in pushing India's case, saying, "I think we are nearing the goal."