Australia evolving its position on uranium sales to India?

Jyoti Malhotra / New Delhi
November 14, 2009, 0:34 IST

India and Australia seem to have overcome several thorny issues that have bedevilled their relationship, including the recent attacks on Indian students in that country, by forging a security and strategic partnership that ranges from maintaining the safety and security of sea-lanes in the Indian Ocean to starting a CEOs forum to consolidate the relationship.

It is not clear, however, if Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who ended his visit to India yesterday, bit the bullet and told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that he would work on his Labour Party back home and convince them to slowly withdraw its ban on the sale of uranium to India.

Rudd had waxed eloquent about growing cooperation in energy and mineral resources between both countries, and at a public speech at the Indian Council for World Affairs (ICWA) yesterday, admitted that Australia’s long-standing ban on uranium sales was not directed at India.

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