Antinuclear

Martin Ferguson says No Uranium Sales to India

Australian minister rules out uranium export to India DAWN.COM By Afshan Subohi , 11 Feb, 2010 CANBERRA: The Australian government does not intend to export uranium to India, according to Minister for Resources, Energy and Tourism Martin Ferguson.

Explaining his government’s policy on what he described as a sensitive issue, Ferguson told a group of Pakistani journalists on Wednesday that nuclear material could be supplied only to countries which met a set of pre-determined criteria.

“The Australian government’s policy is to supply uranium to those countries that are parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and have an additional protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency, and with which Australia has a bilateral nuclear safeguards agreement,” he said.

Ferguson, who visited New Delhi last week, said he had signed an agre

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February 11, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics international, uranium | antinuclear, Australia, nuclear, uranium