No mention of the "U" word
Trade Minister Simon Crean is stoically making another overseas trip on behalf of his country. By my count his visit to Belgium and Russia beginning yesterday is his twelfth in less than a year. What a price to pay for losing the Labor leadership all those years ago.
Perhaps the one remarkable thing about his press statement giving details of the talks on the Russian leg is that there is no mention of uranium. Last month the parliamentary Treaties Committee questioned whether Australia should be exporting to Russia in light of the invasion of Georgia. The Committee's chairman, Labor backbencher Kelvin Thomson, said at the time he was oncerned that Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would not abide by the conditions Australia planned to impose on uranium it sold to his country.
Perhaps the one remarkable thing about his press statement giving details of the talks on the Russian leg is that there is no mention of uranium. Last month the parliamentary Treaties Committee questioned whether Australia should be exporting to Russia in light of the invasion of Georgia. The Committee's chairman, Labor backbencher Kelvin Thomson, said at the time he was oncerned that Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would not abide by the conditions Australia planned to impose on uranium it sold to his country.
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