The makers of Blackberry Smartphones, Research in Motion (RIM) are due to meet with Indian officials today in an effort to come to an agreement over the nation’s security concerns.

Security agencies in India have been pressing RIM to allow them to intercept e-mail that travels across its secure network. Under Indian law, the government has the right to intercept electronic communications for security purposes.

The government and its security forces believe that terrorists will use the internet and e-mails to communicate with each other and hope to be able to put a stop to them.

India’s telecoms director, Andimuthu Raja said last week that RIM had assured the government that it is working on a solution. But late last week, the company said it could not “accommodate” any such request and has told customers that it would be impossible to spy on user’s e-mail messages as the company does not keep a copy of the customer’s encryption key. The company also reportedly said there is no “back door” to customer’s communications.

The blackberry service is being offered by four providers in India: Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Vodafone-controlled Vodafone Essar, and BPL Mobile. At this moment there are 114,000 Blackberry subscribers in the country.

In a statement, RIM said, “Governments have a wide range of resources and methodologies to satisfy national security and law enforcement needs without compromising commercial security requirements.”

India is an important market for RIM and other handset makers. As the North American and European markets mature and reach saturation, developing markets such as India will provide substantial growth in the coming years.