Australia’s uranium fuel deal with United Arab Emirates (UAE)

ABU DHABI // UAE-Australian relations have been moving from strength to strength helped by the recent nuclear-fuel deal, according to the Australian parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs, The Nation, Richard Marles. 16 Jan 13

Mr Marles, who was in the capital yesterday for the World Future Energy Summit, told an audience from the Australian Business Council that the UAE is Australia’s base in the Middle East for business, defence and foreign policy.

Mr Marles said that the UAE nuclear cooperation agreement signed in July last year had given a “considerable boost to the Uranium industry in Australia……The Australian secretary added that the UAE was Australia’s base of operations for all its Middle East military operations. “The UAE is our most important partner in the region. Our defence operations in the Middle East are all coordinated out of Dubai, including operations in Iraq, Afghanistan as well as our counter piracy work,” he said.: http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/uae-australia-nuclear-fuel-deal-boosts-ties#ixzz2ICw1zAOe

January 17, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics international

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