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This paper discusses the negotiations leading up to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) agreement on enrichment and reprocessing (ENR) in June 2011 and the consequences of the decision on nuclear non-proliferation. The paper focuses on the NSG and its nonproliferation role, as well as the context of the nuclear ENR issue. Further, it analyses the main factors involved in pushing the ENR issue into the NSG forum and the course of negotiations leading up to the changes in the NSG guidelines.