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India welcomes Australian Labor Party move on uranium sale
Sunday December 04, 2011 10:29:28 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: India Sunday
welcomed the move of Australia's ruling Labor Party to remove a
ban on uranium exports to this country, saying that bilateral
cooperation in the energy sector is one of the important facets of
multifaceted bilateral ties.
External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna said that the government
welcomes the initiative of Australia's Labor Party.
"It is learnt that the Australian Labour Party agreed today, to
allow sale of uranium to India for power generation. Bilateral
cooperation in the energy sector is one of the important facets of
our multifaceted ties with Australia. We welcome this initiative,"
Krishna said on his way to Bonn to attend the conference on
Afghanistan, according to the ministry of external affairs.
Australia's ruling party passed a motion to remove a ban on
uranium exports to India after a passionate debate on the issue
that saw sharp divisions in the cabinet.
The party had imposed the ban on export to non-signatories of
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) like India four decades
back.
Labor delegates voted to overturn the uranium export sale ban
after a passionate debate in the national conference being held in
Sydney. While 216 delegates voted in favour of uranium export to
India, 185 Labor representatives expressed opposition to any such
move.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard had urged that Australia should sell
uranium to India to boost trade and also to enhance bilateral
ties. "We are at the right time in the history of the world to
seize a new era of opportunity in this, the Asian century," she
said while addressing the Labor National Conference Sunday.
Gillard had told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during their
meeting on the sidelines of ASEAN and East Asia Summit that she
would take forward her proposal to lift ban on uranium sales to
India.
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