Russia warns Australia against scrapping uranium deal: report

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2008

SYDNEY (AFP) — Any decision by Australia to scrap a deal to sell uranium to Russia to protest its action in Georgia would be "politically biased" and economically harmful, Moscow's envoy to Canberra has reportedly warned.

Fairfax newspapers on Tuesday quoted Ambassador Alexander Blokhin, as issuing the caution a day after Australia's foreign minister said Canberra was reconsidering whether to ratify a 2007 pact to sell yellowcake to Moscow following its military foray into Georgia.

"We do not see any connection between the events in the Caucasus region and the uranium deal," Blokhin told Fairfax through an interpreter.

"These are completely separate things. The agreement on uranium is actually an agreement about the use of atomic energy only for peaceful...