NEW DELHI - Crisis talks between India's ruling Congress party and its left-wing allies ended Wednesday without them resolving a dispute over a nuclear energy deal with the United States, officials said. The parties, however, agreed to meet "in due course" for more negotiations over the pact with Washington, a divisive accord that has threatened to bring down the government and send India into early elections.Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters the government coalition partners discussed "all aspects" of the deal, which would open India to long-denied Western nuclear energy technology. Mukherjee, who led the 90-minute meeting between his Congress party and its anti-American communist partners, who are fiercely opposed to the deal, said the two sides will hold further talks.
"The next meeting of the committee to be convened in due course will finalise its findings," he told reporters, declining to reply to questions.