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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

TL;DR

- The India-IAEA Safeguards Agreement is the 2009 facility-specific accord placing India's designated civilian nuclear installations under International Atomic Energy Agency inspection.
- How does the India-IAEA agreement differ from a Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement?
- Why was an NSG waiver necessary alongside the safeguards agreement?
- Does the agreement constrain India's nuclear weapons programme?
- What is the significance of the preambular fuel-supply assurances?

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1. 1 August 2008

   The India-IAEA Safeguards Agreement, formally the "Agreement between the Government of India and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the Application o…

2. 11 May 2009

   The India-IAEA Safeguards Agreement, formally the "Agreement between the Government of India and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the Application o…

3. 15 May 2009

   The agreement was supplemented by the Additional Protocol (INFCIRC/754/Add.6), signed on and brought into force on 25 July 2014, which extends the Agency's…

4. 25 July 2014

   The agreement was supplemented by the Additional Protocol (INFCIRC/754/Add.6), signed on 15 May 2009 and brought into force on , which extends the Agency's a…

5. 6 September 2008

   The Nuclear Suppliers Group waiver granted on was the parallel multilateral step that made the safeguards regime commercially meaningful by permitting membe…

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In 2014 India brought its Additional Protocol into force and continued adding NPCIL-operated reactors such as the Russian-built Kudankulam units to the IAEA safeguards list under INFCIRC/754.

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