Australian government to end ban on uranium sales to India

By Peter Symonds 1 December 2011One day before US President Barack Obama arrived in Canberra on November 16, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that she would move at the Labor Party national conference, due to start tomorrow, to amend the party’s platform to allow uranium sales to India. While Gillard claimed the timing was coincidental, her announcement dovetailed with the Obama’s concerted drive to bolster US security ties throughout Asia in order to undercut China’s

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