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The two-day Nuclear Security Summit ended on Tuesday, with leaders from 47 nations signing off on a non-binding communique and an action plan that presses for collective global action to secure all vulnerable fissile materials such as highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium within four years.

US President Barack Obama will urge nations to agree to steps to ensure nuclear-related material is safe and inaccessible to terrorists when he hosts an unprecedented international summit next week in Washington, advisers said Friday.

PM Manmohan Singh today left for a week-long visit to the US and Brazil to meet President Barack Obama on Sunday and Chinese President Hu Jintao and to attend a summit on nuclear security.