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| Australia might sell Uranium to India | | |
Melbourne, Sep 25 Australia today indicated that it might sell Uranium to India, but said New Delhi would have to adhere to certain safeguards for that.
"Certainly our policy to date has been to prohibit sale to countries which are not signatories to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty," Australian Prime Minister John Howard said adding "and that's why at the moment we couldn't, without changing policy, sell to India, but we can to China.
"But as time goes by, if India were to meet safeguard obligations, some Australians would see it as anomalous that we would sell uranium to China, but not India," he was quoted by the media as saying today.
Howard said India had first requested in March that it be permitted to import Australian uranium, and the request was still being considered by the Government.
"I don't think there's anything that's happened to justify the re-emphasis on the issue, except that India has repeated her interest in buying Australian uranium," he said.
"That was communicated to me in March this year but there's nothing that's happened since that has altered the issues that were on the table then," he said.
The Indian Government has restated its desire to purchase Australian uranium, but Howard said today a policy change was still under consideration. |
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