Russia asks India to follow nuke norms
MOSCOW: Russia on Tuesday promised continued cooperation in the area of civil nuclear energy, but stressed that the process would move in tandem with the steps members of the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group have asked India to take.
The position, crucial for India’s attempt to source fuel for the Tarapur atomic energy plant and to build new reactors, was laid down by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the press conference he addressed with PM Manmohan Singh at the Kremlin.
Asked if Russia would take the lead to ensure that the rules laid down by the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group were relaxed to ensure uninterrupted assistance to India in the field of civil nuclear energy, Putin referred to the ongoing negotiations between India and the US on the separation of civil nuclear facilities from the military ones.
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Though Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made an appreciative reference to Russia's offer of fuel to Tarapur, his Russian counterpart, Mikhail Fradkov, confined himself to saying the nuclear fuel offer did not violate international guidelines.
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