Washington, Wednesday 08 Oct 2008:According to latest report US President George bush has signed the Indo-US nuclear deal. The deal has now become a law

The White House has invited lawmakers, prominent members of the Indian American community, leading businessmen of the two countries besides officials and diplomats, who all played a major role in pushing the deal, for the signing ceremony in the East Room at 2.50 p.m. Wednesday.

Although officials are unwilling to say so, Bush is also expected to take care of a couple of Indian concerns over the legislation that apparently came in the way of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee signing the 123 Agreement during her visit to New Delhi over the weekend.

Bush would likely seek to allay India’s concerns regarding nuclear fuel assurances, technology transfers for uranium enrichment and reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel with a signing statement as he did over certain “extraneous and prescriptive” provisions in the Hyde Act in December 2006.