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PERTH, Australia (AP) - Australia's new government told an Indian envoy Tuesday that it will not sell uranium to his country while it is not a member of the global nonproliferation treaty.
The comments uphold a policy that would scuttle the previous government's plans to start negotiating a uranium trade with India to fuel the country's skyrocketing demand for electricity.
Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, appointed after the Labor Party ousted former Prime Minister John Howard's government last November, held talks Tuesday with Shyam Saran, a representative of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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