By NNN-PTI,
New Delhi : Kazakhstan, which has one of the world’s largest Uranium reserves, is willing to supply nuclear material to India and interested in a comprehensive energy agreement, a scholar from that country has said.
Marat Shaikhutdinov from Kazakhstan, who was here to participate in a conference on ‘India-Kazakhstan Engagement: issues and prospects’, said his country has no problem in supplying Uranium to India.
Kazakhstan is also interested in a comprehensive energy agreement with India, including supply of oil and gas, he added.
The conference was organised on the eve of Kazak President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s visit to India.
Kazakhstan, which will chair the Orgnisation of Islamic Conference in 2011, also wants to actively cooperate with India in fighting terror.
Shaikhutdinov lamented that though the two countries had signed an agreement to fight terror in 2002 and formed a joint working group, nothing much has happened.
“There were only exchanges of delegations. Nothing worked beyond that. There was no practical interaction with actual experts,” he added.
Former Foreign Secretary M K Rasgotra, who also heads the Observer Research Foundation’s Centre for International Relations, said while there is a great potential for cooperation, it was much below potential.
The conference was organised by ORF.