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India optimistic about getting uranium from Australia

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Press Trust Of India Melbourne

"We do ask the Australian Government to take a practical and realistic view of this. Australia is not the only source of uranium for India but (it should be considered) in larger context of global warming and of the broader relationship between

India and Australia," Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath was quoted as saying by the media here.

 

The previous John Howard administration was in favour of supplying uranium to India but the new government has said it would not allow the sale of the yellow cake as New Delhi is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Nath, who recently visited here, however, expressed optimism Australia will "eventually sell its yellow cake".

He said India was not formally asking Australia to sell it uranium because the Indo-US nuclear cooperation deal has not yet been finalised but hoped it will go through.

"In India, things go through best on the basis of consensus. We are in the process of building a political consensus. Then we'll proceed with it," he was quoted as saying by

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First Published: May 25 2008 | 12:00 AM IST

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