Influential US lawmakers of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who met Vajpayee's special emissary Jaswant Singh, told IANS that Singh had indicated to them that something to this effect was brewing and would be articulated by Vajpayee in his speech.

Republican senator Rod Grams said, "There will be a public announcement by the prime minister and he will do that from the United Nations." Grams said that according to Singh, Vajpayee would announce that, "India has no more plans to test and the tests that needed to be done for their security have been completed." Democratic senator Paul Sarbanes, a strong supporter of India who also met Singh, told IANS that he too had been led to believe that Vajpayee would make an important announcement on India's decision to agree to most of the provisions of the CTBT in his UN speech.