Condoleezza Rice the US secretary of state & her Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee discussed the current suitation in Myanmar & the civil nuclear deal. Sean McCormack the spokesman at Foggy Bottom said, “On Burma, she had spoke with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang. I mentioned Secretary General Ban Ki-moon & she also spoke with Indian Foreign Minister Mukherjee. Of course, part of their discussion also was about the Indian civil nuclear deal, but they focused quite a bit on the issue of Burma”.

The US-India civilian nuclear deal is in “such desperate” straits that the State Department has imposed unusually strict conditions on the answers it has provided to lawmakers, that it be kept secret even if the materials are not classified.