new delhi using the bonhomie of an indous strategic partnership india will lay out two crucial demands to us undersecretary for commerce kenneth juster who arrives on monday to resume work on usindia hightech cooperation inelegantly named next steps in strategic partnershipalthough the september agreement in washington between india and the us took a significant step forward by opening the way for commercial space cooperation by lifting sanctions from the indian space research organisation isro headquarters seven other subsidiaries of isro remain on the entities list they have merely been upgraded from a denial status to a casebycase approval status senior government sources said that though a bulk of isros work was conducted by the headquarters the arms were equally important and space cooperation would become inordinately slow if these sanctions were not liftedwe are looking for a more symmetrical relationship with the us said foreign secretary shyam saran he added that an implementation working group would get into action to operationalise phase 2 of the nssp dealmeanwhile to address us concerns on proliferation india will allow the us to appoint an exportcontrol attach at the embassy here to monitor enduse verification of the sensitive technology that the us exports to india us big concern is the possibility of transfer of technology to third parties these measures have in turn enabled us to modify us export licensing policies to foster increased cooperation in commercial space programmes said juster on fridaythis also influences indias second demand a deep resentment over the us placing sanctions on two of indias scientists for alleged nuclear cooperation with iranit will be on top of the list when indian officials engage with juster india is furious because neither of the scientists had anything to do with iran or even proliferation this incident has bitten the government and a robust effort is underway to revoke the sanctions saran said through the partnership we are underlining the point that india is part of the solution not the problem iran is currently in washingtons crosshairs and in the past has expressed grave discomfort with indias socalled strategic partnership with that countryindias anger is more than a case of mistaken identity it is a measure of us inconsistency senior officials complain of but even more than that it seriously affects indias own efforts to break away from the past and into a new world where it is part of the ruling order this is the ruling philosophy behind a host of other partnerships that india has with other countries india clocked its first success earlier this year when the nuclear suppliers group set up in 1974 as a result of indias nuclear tests opened an outreach programme with india on civilian nuclear cooperationthe bottomline of course is that india does not want to be tarred with the same brush as pakistan which hosted an international nuclear supermarket with its inaction the us let pakistan off the hook and this has deepened the feeling of injustice in new delhi nevertheless