Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has arrived in New Delhi for a state visit to India that includes talks about selling uranium to energy-hungry India.
Australia has agreed to consider the sale even though India has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Gillard and Prime Manmohan Manmohan Singh are slated to announce preliminary negotiations over a civil nuclear deal.
However, Gillard has reportedly said before embarking on her tour that the sale would not start quickly. Gillard held meetings with business leaders and visited an education project on Tuesday before holding talks with Singh on Wednesday. Australia’s ruling centre-left Labor party voted to overturn its ban on uranium sales to India last year after a long debate about nuclear weapons and reactor safety following Japan’s atomic crisis.
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