Washington: Ahead of his meeting with

President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said

India has no worries about US honouring the Indo-US nuclear

deal, but would like to get a "positive reaffirmation" of the

present administration to carry forward the process.

Singh, who will arrive in Washington on a three-day

State Visit late tonight, said India would like to

operationalise the "watershed" agreement and ensure that the

objectives for the nuclear deal are realised in full merit.

"We have no worries, but we would like a positive

reaffirmation of this administration to carry forward the

process," Singh said in an interview to NewsWeek magazine,

full transcript of which was released by the Ministry of

External Affairs on its website.

He was asked whether he was concerned about the US

honouring the consent agreement.

Singh said the partnership with US was for sustained

and sustainable development of India and the new global world

order which is in search of a new equilibrium.

"India and the United States could be partners in

refocusing our attention on an equitable, balanced, global

order," Singh, who will meet Obama on Tuesday, said.

Asked whether India is worried about the Test Ban

Treaty which President Obama seems very intent on pushing

through the senate, Singh said "Why should we be worried?. We

are not worried at all."

The Prime Minister said India has a unilateral

moratorium on testing imposed voluntarily and that it stands

by that.

"We would like to work with President Obama to promote

the cause of global nuclear disarmament, a world free of

nuclear weapons," Singh said.

"I think that is a world which has been the dream of

our leaders from Jawaharlal Nehru to Rajiv Gandhi. We would

like to work with all like-minded countries to achieve that

goal," he said.

Singh also hoped that the US will be "more liberal" in

transferring technologies to India and clear the way for

implementing the landmark agreement on nuclear cooperation.

"We had a watershed and a landmark agreement with the

US on nuclear cooperation. We would like to operationalise it

and ensure that the objectives for the nuclear deal are

realised in full merit," he said.

Singh said the restrictions on technology transfers

to India "make no sense" since the country has an impeccable

record of non-proliferation.

Top Indian and US officials are holding hectic parleys

to conclude a deal on reprocessing of spent fuel before the

Singh-Obama meeting.

PTI