N-deal's technical aspects will be settled: US

The United States is confident that a 'whole lot' of the technical aspects of the implementation of Indo-US civilian nuclear deal can be 'settled' during the next round of talks on the issue.

There is a 'pretty good understanding' between Washington and New Delhi on the things that have to be dealt with at the talks, a senior state department official told reporters.

India and the United States will hold discussions on a bilateral agreement for the implementation of the nuclear deal on Monday.

"We have a team going out there for talks in Delhi. We've had a lot of back and forth. We had a couple rounds with the Indians before. We've, I think, gone pretty thoroughly through all the concepts involved," he said.

"So there is pretty good understanding of things that we have to deal with, and even some understandings on how we might move forward. I think now the attempt is going to be to really focus on getting as much of the text done as possible, and seeing how far we can get. But we've built a solid basis of understanding to move forward, so I think we're hopeful that with effort from both sides, we can get a lot of this settled in the next round," the official added.