New Delhi, Mar 17: The UPA-Left co-ordination committee meeting on the nuclear deal ended inconclusively on Monday with the government presenting the outcome of negotiations on India-specific safeguards agreement with the IAEA before the Left. The government however did not handover the actual agreement to the Left leaders.

The Left leaders have asked for further discussion on the deal, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said. The next meeting of the committee is likely to take place in April.

"The members of the committee felt that further discussion was needed. It was decided to hold the next meeting in April, 2008," Mukherjee, with CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury by his side, told reporters after the 90-minute meeting.

RSP leader T J Chandrachoodan, a member of the UPA-Left committee, said the government gave a "gist" of the safeguards agreement.

The Left has been opposing the 123 agreement with the US and have warned the Govt of dire consequences if they operationalise the deal.

The Left parties have said they will come to a conclusion only after looking at the sageguards agreement.

The government has also assured the left-UPA committee that they will abide by the findings of the committee.

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who heads the committee, exuded confidence that the government would be able to convince the Left parties.

"I am hopeful of sorting out the issue (with the Left)," Mukherjee had said.

CPM general secretary Prakash Karat has said that the Left parties had given the go-ahead to the government to hold talks with the IAEA as it had agreed to bring the draft safeguards agreement to the UPA-Left panel on the nuclear deal.

The CPI has indicated that in the event of the Left withdrawing support to the UPA government over the Indo-US nuclear deal, the outside supporters would not bring it down.