Talks with India on civil nuclear cooperation priority process: Australia

A delegation of top officials had recently visited Uzbekistan to discuss the issue of importing uranium from the Central Asian country.

Australia—a key member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group—had been earlier opposed to the idea of selling uranium to India as it has not signed the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT), but had reversed its policy in 2011.  

Both the countries have had three rounds of negotiations over the issue.

Bishop parried a question on whether the issue of NPT is a road-block.

“Australia will continue to negotiate in good faith with India. It won't be appropriate to go into the details of the negotiations at this point of time,” he said.