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Rudd’s Russia Nuclear Meltdown

“The clear wishes of the Australian public are poorly served by an Australian government opening the door to uranium sales to nuclear weapons states.”

19 March 2010: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons (ICAN) is dismayed at moves by the Rudd government to open the door to uranium sales to Russia.

The Government response to Report 94 of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties could see Australia supplying uranium to a nuclear weapons state whose nuclear security is poor, whose facilities are off-limits to international inspectors, and whose record on disarmament is woeful.

“If these recommendations are adopted, Australia would effectively be relinquishing responsibility for supplying the raw ingredient for bomb fuel to a nuclear weapons state with an acknowledged lack of transparency in its civil/military arrangements,” said ICAN spokesperson Dr Bill Williams.

Williams noted the government’s position is out of step with 75 per cent of Australians who agree that nuclear disarmament should be a top priority for the Australian government according to a Lowy Institute Poll from 2009.

“The clear wishes of the Australian public are poorly served by an Australian government opening the door to uranium sales to nuclear weapons states.”

March 19, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News | antinuclear, Australia, nuclear, nuclear weapons