NEW DELHI, JULY 29: Picking up on the momentum gathered after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh won the trust vote last week, India and US have exchanged drafts of the "clean' exemption that Washington plans to circulate in the Nuclear Suppliers Group as soon as possible after the August 1 meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors. The draft makes no mention of either CTBT or testing. It's learnt that the draft is in the final stages of discussion with Washington today submitting the latest version to New Delhi. While the details of the draft were still being examined, sources said, India's aim would be to ensure there are no explicit curbs on nuclear testing linked to terminating fuel supply. With all key officials involved in the nuclear deal negotiations out of the country either lobbying with NSG members or at the SAARC Summit, sources said, India will take time arriving at its final decision. Given that the nuclear deal lost precious time to the political crisis over the entire issue, both countries have their job cut out at the NSG. Though most countries favour India joining the mainstream of nuclear trade and submitting over 60 per cent of its nuclear reactors to permanent safeguards, the issue is the nature of exemption that these countries would agree to. To ensure that this turns out a "victory' for non-proliferation, many countries would want to attach stringent conditions on India for allowing nuclear trade despite it not being a member of the NPT. However, India has little room to accommodate any further commitments beyond the Indo-US joint statement in July 2005. It is achieving this fine balance in the NSG exemption document where the real diplomatic challenge lies for both India and US. Already, few NSG countries, which are also members of the IAEA Board have started asking uncomfortable technical questions after Pakistan wrote a letter raising a range of issues on the India-specific safeguards agreement. Countries like New Zealand, Ireland, Norway, Austria and other Scandinavian countries have serious non-proliferation concerns. The issue is internally very sensitive in these countries. In fact, sources pointed out countries like New Zealand