New Delhi, Feb 20: Urging speedy progress over the India-US civil nuclear deal, US Democrat Senator John Kerry on Wednesday said that New Delhi can take time till May to negotiate the bilateral agreement.
"In order to be able to have time to debate this and pass it in the senate, it will really probably have to be received somewhere in May, the latest,” said Kerry who is on a two-day visit to the country.
Senator Joseph Biden, who was accompanying Kerry, stressed on the immediacy for completing the deal before the presidential elections in the US.
London, Feb. 20 : President Pervez Musharraf has reportedly resigned himself to serving a "ceremonial" role as Pakistan’s head of state, The Independent reports.
Senator Joe Biden, the chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the president appeared to have accepted the reality of the election result, which saw his parliamentary allies soundly defeated.
"I don't think he is going to resign... my impression is that he was prepared to retire to being president, which he pointed out to us is ceremonial," said Biden.