Australia: “We won’t sell uranium to India”
Australia government has on Monday said that they won’t sell uranium to India. Australia will keep its ban on selling uranium to India because of New Delhi’s refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said, “We’ve had as a party a long standing policy position of only exporting uranium to countries who are party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty”.
He said, “India for its own reasons is not a party to that”. The former Australian government followed the United States’ lead by investigating the possibility of exporting the nuclear fuel to India despite its refusal to ratify the treaty. But Prime Minister Kevin Rudd reaffirmed the ban after winning elections in November.
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