'No automatic route to uranium sale'

Uranium sale to India "would not start automatically" after the Labor government s reversal of a ban against its export to the country Australian foreign minister Kevin Rudd said on Monday.

Uranium sale to India "would not start automatically" after the Labor government s reversal of a ban against its export to the country Australian foreign minister Kevin Rudd said on Monday.

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Stating that the policy change was aimed at cultivating good ties with the rising Asian power Rudd added that it "won t automatically translate into a beginning of sales" according to Australian news agency AAP reported on Monday.

"India will first have to make strong commitments under a bilateral nuclear safeguards agreement " he said.

"I take my non-proliferation responsibilities deadly seriously," he said.