Wednesday, September 13 2006 15:24 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: The US today (Sept 13, 2006) said it will honour the agreement that has been reached between New Delhi and Washington on civilian nuclear cooperation and stressed that the goalposts with regard to the deal were not being moved.

"The goalposts are not being moved. The civilian nuclear agreement when finally implemented will mark a new level of trust and cooperation in our partnership," US Ambassador David Mulford said in his address to the third Indo-US Economic Summit here.

"We will honour the agreement that has been reached," Mulford said.

Procedural moments and debates in American politics were often baffling to our friends around the world, he said referring to controversies sought to be generated during the ratification of the nuclear agreement by the US Congress.