Washington, Nov 8: US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns today said that the Indo-US civil nuclear energy cooperation "will be completed very soon".

Speaking during the celebration of Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, at the White House, Burns said, "I believe in the civil nuclear deal and I hope we will see it completed very soon."

Thanking the Indian community in the US for their support to the bilateral deal, Burns said, "We are working on the civil-nuclear cooperation."

Burns statement comes as the Left Front in India stepped down its ante against the deal. However, the opposition BJP with which the US diplomats recently held parleys and tried to convince them about the deal, has said that it want the deal to be renegotiated. (ANI)