Kolkata, September 22
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said he was hopeful of resolving the stand-off over the contentious Indo-US nuclear deal at the crucial meeting scheduled to be held between the UPA and the Left on October 5.

Mukherjee told reporters here that two meetings had already taken place between the UPA and the Left, adding that exchange of notes had also taken place.

“I am hopeful that the issue would get resolved then,” he said of the UPA-Left meet on the nuclear deal on October 5.

Mukherjee, who is the convenor of the committee said, “We have received three notes from the Left on the nuclear deal.

We have already replied to two of them, a third note has come which will be discussed at the meeting.” — PTI