Hats off to Australia's new Foreign Minister Stephen Smith who had the guts to tell India's nuclear envoy Shyam Saran on Tuesday that Oz would not sell uranium to New Delhi unless it signs the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
This reverses a decision by the previous government.
India's Saran had brokered a deal with the I-don't-give-a-damn United States to provide nuclear power aid to India while allowing it to continue nuclear weapons production
He'd then got the old OZ government to agree to supply the yellow stuff, overturning a policy of selling the fuel only to NPT signatories.
Fortunately Australia's now seen sense and the world is, in theory at least, a safer place.
Amazing what a change of office can achieve. Restores my faith a little in the institution called 'democracy'.
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