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[OS] RUSSIA/AUSTRALIA: Australia close to Russia uranium deal: Downer

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Email-ID 352935 Date 2007-09-04 05:37:18 From os@stratfor.com To intelligence@stratfor.com

[OS] RUSSIA/AUSTRALIA: Australia close to Russia uranium deal: Downer





According to radio reports, this deal is expected to be signed on Friday.



Australia close to Russia uranium deal: Downer

4 September 2007

http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/04/2023621.htm



Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer says a deal to sell Australian

uranium to Russia is likely to be signed at this week's APEC summit.



The agreement would allow Russia to use Australian uranium in its civilian

nuclear reactors, and is expected to be signed by the Russian President

Vladimir Putin during his visit to Sydney.



Mr Downer has told Sky News that Russia would not risk jeopardising the

deal by breaking the conditons.



"My view is you can put in place a good safeguards arrangement with

Russia," he said.



"Russia would have absolutely no interest in breaching a safeguards

agreement and creating a massive diplomatic confrontation, not just with

Australia but with most of the western world over something like that," he

said.



Australia has already agreed to sell uranium to India.



But while Australia is selling uranium abroad, Mr Downer says Australia

would never accept nuclear waste from other countries.



"Nobody in the Government has ever suggested it. To the best of my

knowledge, I don't think any Government has ever suggested it to us, but

if they ever do, we'll certainly rule it out and certainly reject it," he

said.



"We've never said that we would consider taking nuclear waste back to

Australia, what we've said it that we will export uranium."



Prime Minister John Howard backed Mr Downer and was not willing to comment

on further uranium rumours.



"I'm not going to speculate on all the stuff in the papers on deals with

different countries," Howard told Sky News.



"If there are any arrangements announced, then I'm going to explain them

in detail when those arrangements are announced."









