Antinuclear

New Australian government keen to sell uranium to India

Australia says no change on Uranium issue, keen to seal N pact   Business Standard, 16 Sept 13, Australia  today said the next round of talks with India on civil nuclear cooperation were expected to be held by year-end even as it assured that previous government’s decision to supply uranium will not be reversed by its new dispensation. 

Noting that the last two rounds of talks to firm up a safeguard agreement for sale of uranium held earlier this year had gone “very well and it was positive and constructive from both sides”, Australian High Commissioner Patrick Suckling said the intension was towards early conclusion of the pact.
“We feel we have made good progress (on the civil nuclear pact). But we have not put a time-frame for the negotiations to conclude because sometimes even the straight-looking issues become complex,” he told reporters here.
“The intension of both the sides is to try and finish the safeguard agreement as fast as possible,” he said….http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/australia-says-no-change-on-uranium-issue-keen-to-seal-n-pact-113091600875_1.html

September 17, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News