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Suhasini Haider, CNBC-TV18

India will hold a scaled-down briefing for the The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the safeguards agreement, and other aspects of the deal. It will be held at a place in Vienna.

The Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, has left for Vienna along with a small team ahead of those negotiations at the IAEA on Friday. It is known that the negotiations and the briefing will take place outside of the IAEA headquarters in Vienna. This is because India has now chosen to scale down its earlier request. It had asked to meet all 140 members of the IAEA, but it is now focusing its briefings on the board of governors, the 35 members there and the members of the nuclear suppliers group - ambassadors of countries that supply nuclear energy to the world.

During those briefings, the Indian diplomats as well as the technicians, the scientists from the Department of Atomic Energy are looking to allay any concerns, those countries might have over the Indo-US nuclear deal and the IAEA safeguards agreement text that has now been released worldwide.