The Indian government’s security concern over Blackberry phones, manufactured by the Canada’s Research In Motion (RIM), has been "resolved as far as possible," visiting Canadian Minister of Industry Tony Clement has said.

Clement, the fourth Canadian minister to be in India in a month, met Communications Minister A. Raja during his five-day visit last week.

"There was an issue with respect to the company RIM and Blackberry. I thanked him (Raja) for his government’s assistance in resolving that to the best of our abilities," Clement told IANS.

"My understanding is that a lot of information has been transmitted by RIM to the government of India which has helped to highlight the technical issues. And the wording that I have seen is that it is resolved as far as possible," he said.

BlackBerry devices had earlier come under scrutiny after Indian security agencies expressed concern that the data being transmitted through the device could not be intercepted due to the high encryption codes being used by the company.

Following last December’s Mumbai terror attacks, the wireless planning and coordination wing of the Department of Telecom (DoT), which gives approvals for all imported radio equipment and devices, raised objections to emails not being intercepted.

Clement said RIM and DoT will continue to hold talks, but that those "will be similar to other issues that other companies face."