Beijing/New Delhi: India’s hopes of making progress towards NSG membership at the plenary meeting of the 48-nation grouping which began in Seoul yesterday received a setback with China saying that this was not even on the agenda of the meeting.

China’s Foreign Ministry said this less than 24 hours after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had exuded hope that “we would be able to convince China to support our entry to the NSG.”