The Second round of talks between India and Japan for civilian atomic cooperation pact concluded in New Delhi yesterday. The pact, when signed will pave the way for sale of advanced technology by Japanese multinational companies Hitachi and Mitsubishi. The two-day talks, led by Joint Secretary (East Asia) Gautam Bambawale of India and Special Representative Mitsuru Kitano of Japan, focused on the contents of the agreement which is aimed at forging cooperation between the two countries in peaceful use of nuclear energy.The latest round of talks comes over three months after the launch of parleys for civil nuclear cooperation and barely days before Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's visit to Tokyo later this month. The negotiations for the pact were launched on June 28 when officials of both the countries had met for the first round in Tokyo. The agreement will enable Japanese companies like Mitsubishi, Hitachi and Toshiba, all having the advance civil nuclear energy technologies, to set up projects in India which, according to some estimates, has a market of nearly 150 billion US Dollars. Our correspondent reports that major atomic power companies of the United States and France, both of which already have a bilateral nuclear cooperation treaty with India, have urged Tokyo to sign the nuclear pact with New Delhi so that they can use Japanese technology for building reactors in the country. The other countries with which India has already signed the civil nuclear deal included the US, France, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Argentina and Namibia.