India and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have signed an agreement that will give UN inspectors access to more of the country's nuclearfacilities. The so-called safeguards agreement is meant to allow monitors oversight of 14 Indian civilian nuclear reactors by 2014. Six of these reactors already fall under existing agreements.rnThe signing of the deal by IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei and Indian Ambassador Saurabh Kumar was expected. It came half a year after the IAEA's 35-member board of governors approved it by consensus on Aug 1, despite criticism from some countries and experts that ambiguous wording could limit international oversight of India's reactors and undermine the international non-proliferation treaty.
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