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India also signed four other pacts, including an Extradition Treaty, in the presence of President Pratibha Patil and her Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Patil oversaw the proceedings of inking of the four pacts as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was indisposed.
Kazakhstan will provide uranium and related products under the Memorandum of Understanding between Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) and KazAtomProm. The MoU was signed by NPCIL CMD S K Jain and KazAtomProm President Moukhtar Dzhakishev.
The MoU also opens up possibilities of joint exploration of uranium in Kazakhstan, which has the world's second largest uranium reserves, and India building atomic power plants in the Central Asian country.
"These agreements are very important for the stature of our bilateral relations," Nazarbayev said.
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who led the delegation level talks in absence of Singh, inked the Extradition Treaty with his Kazakh counterpart Marat Tazhin.
Minister of State of Commerce Jairam Ramesh and Kazakh Minister of Trade and Industry Vladimir Shkolnik signed the protocol on the accession of Kazakhstan to the World Trade Organisation.
An MoU was signed between ISRO and Kazakh Space Agency for space cooperation. ONGC Mittal Energy Limited also signed and agreement with state-run KazMunaiGas.
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I LOVE INDIA
After sixty one years of independence, we have a president, named Pratibha Patil, who believes in ghosts, accused of godman controversy, bank scam, sugar scam, murder cover up, jalgaon case, polytechnic scam, ...and lot more. Why do we celebrate republic day? Are we better off in post british India? Whom are we fooling around?
Extremely good development – a victory for the Indo-US nuclear agreement. Now Indian N power plants will not be starved of uranium, which The Leftists desperately wanted. Now they may be speed dialing Beijing to stop Kazakhstan from selling uranium to India.
A very smart move. Mr. Tejasvi's point is unrelated to this deal but important. But that would entail an entirely different set of options.
It is so unfortunate our Govt has lost its foresightedness.It's busy with almost evey country in the globe you can think of , to sign a pacts and ignord it's own backyard and failed to prevent this rogue nation from developing a nuclear weapon.What kind of leaders are these?
I agree we have problem with our neighbors, but that does not mean we stop working towards our future. The news here is about India sign nuclear pact with Kazakhstan which is rich in Uranium which we need by India to fuel its nuclear reactors. What makes you feel its a bad decision.