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Russia to stand by nuclear fuel commitment

Russia to stand by nuclear fuel commitment

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Publication: The Times of India
Date: February 26, 2001

Russia has assured India that it will fulfil its commitment to supply nuclear fuel for Tarapur atomic reactors despite the US demand for its cancellation.

"Moscow would fulfil its commitments despite US State Department's demand to cancel the deal since it allegedly violated the Kremlin's global non-proliferation commitments," the Vremya Novostyei reported quoting official sources.

Moscow gave the assurances to New Delhi during last week's Indo-Russian National Security Councils' expert- level dialogue on global security, the daily said.

"We did our best to remove the apprehensions of our Indian colleagues by explaining that we don't see any reason for refusing to supply nuclear fuel, since from the point of view of our international obligations, it is an absolutely 'clean' contract," chief of the international security department of the Security Council of the Russian Federation (SCRF), Nikolai Uspensky, was quoted as saying.

Uspensky and Arvind Gupta from India had co-chaired the sub-group of the National Security Councils on global and regional security and stability, non-proliferation and disarmament.

Experts quoted by Vremya Novostyei insisted that Tarapur nuclear deal 'in no way' violated Russia's international non-proliferation obligations, since the plant was under International Atomic Energy Authority safeguards.

Russian experts view the US objections as an attempt to keep Russia out of the international market of high technologies, the daily commented.(PTI)
 


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