New Delhi, Aug 12 - US ambassador Timothy J. Roemer Wednesday allayed apprehensions in India over the defence equipment end-use monitoring pact, saying there is nothing in it that provides the US unilateral access to Indian bases.

'There is nothing here that says the US can get unilteral access,' the envoy said.

'This is an agreement that we enter with all our allies,' he added.

The end-use pact has been attacked by the opposition parties in India for allegedly compromising the country's sovereignty by giving the US the right of access to Indian defence bases.

Defending the pact, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told parliament last month: 'Nothing in the text that has been agreed to compromises India's sovereignty.