Melbourne: Nearly a year after it reversed its policy of not supplying uranium to India, Australian government has, however, said the sale will not start quickly and even a safeguard agreement is likely to take one or two years. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who is on a three-day visit to India, hosed down any suggestions that uranium sale to India will start quickly. Negotiating a safeguard agreement is likely to take one or two years, rather than months, she was quoted as saying by the Sydney Morning Herald.
In New Delhi, Gillard, while attending a function on Tuesday, said she would be meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday, adding that her Labor party has changed its previous position of not selling uranium to India, while noting that it will happen under a comprehensive civil nuclear cooperation agreement.
Earlier Gillard, undertaking her maiden India visit as Prime Minister, deflected criticism of future uranium exports and said Australia knew how to negotiate a proper agreement to ensure uranium was used for peaceful purposes. India is the world's biggest liberal democracy and it is in its interests to have the most robust safety standards. She also said the ruling Labor's previous stance against the sale was becoming an obstacle in bilateral ties. "I think India is a wonderful example of everything we have been talking about as the possibilities of the Asian century," another newspaper 'The Australian' quoted her as saying.
She said she was sure the uranium
04:50 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: India on Sunday welcomed the decision of Australia's ruling Labor Party to allow supply of uranium, reversing its long held position. "It is learnt that the Australian Labour Party agreed today, to allow sale of Uranium to India for power generation. ...We welcome this initiative," External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said in statement. He said bilateral cooperation in energy sector is one of the important aspects of India's...
08:48 PM, Dec 04, 2011
Melbourne: Australia's ruling Labor on Sunday voted to overturn a decades-old ban on uranium sale to India, paving the way for Canberra to supply yellowcake to a nation outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Delegates at the 46th national conference of the Labor in Sydney endorsed Prime Minister Julia Gillard's plan to export uranium to India, with 206 of them voting in favour and 185 against. Gillard, while moving a motion...
09:46 AM, Dec 04, 2011
Bali: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Saturday made it clear that she would take forward her proposal to lift ban on uranium sale to India as she met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Bali. Singh and Julia, who are in Bali to attend the ASEAN and East Asia Summits, had a 'pull-aside' meeting during which the issue figured. "I am taking the change of policy to my party conference...
12:09 PM, Nov 19, 2011
