Canada says nuclear deal with India soon

October 5th, 2009 TORONTO - Responding to an invitation from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will visit India next month. Though no official announcement of the prime minister's visit has yet been made, Canwest news agency quoted official sources in Ottawa as saying that Harper will be India Nov 15-18.

August 24th, 2009 TORONTO - A year after Canada changed its long-standing non-proliferation policy in order to help India join the international trade in nuclear supplies, Canada's plans to participate in India's booming nuclear industry are bogging down due to meagre economic ties between the two countries. Talks with New Delhi on a deal to allow Canadian companies to supply India's booming nuclear industry have not yet begun, the Globe and Mail reports.

June 9th, 2009 TORONTO - Canada and India have said they are on track to ink a nuclear deal soon, but have not committed themselves to any date.. Though the two countries have exchanged the drafts, no date for signing the deal could be specified, Canadian International Trade Minister Stockwell Day said here at the weekend gala of the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce (ICCC).

June 9th, 2009 TORONTO - Without specifying any date for its signing, both Canada and India have said that they are on track to ink a nuclear deal soon. Though the two countries have exchanged the drafts, no date for signing the deal could be specified, Canadian International Trade Minister Stockwell Day said here at the weekend gala of the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce (ICCC).

June 7th, 2009 TORONTO - India and Canada are close to inking a civil nuclear deal, India's High Commissioner to Canada Shashishekhar M Gavai, said Gavai said officials of both sides had already exchanged the draft agreement regarding the deal, which would pave the way for Canada to sell its nuclear technology and uranium for civilian use for the first time in more than 30 years. He said the deal would be signed soon.

May 28th, 2009 OTTAWA - Canada is poised to sign a nuclear technology deal with India, the country's International Trade Minister Stockwell Day said Wednesday. The pact will open up the lucrative Indian market to Canadian nuclear exports for the first time in more than three decades.

May 26th, 2009 ABU DHABI - French President Nicolas Sarkozy could visit Pakistan later this year to ink a nuclear cooperation deal between the two countries. According to sources, France and Pakistan are negotiating a nuclear partnership and talks in this regard, are at an advanced stage.

May 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan recently claimed that France has offered it a civilian nuclear technology deal similar to the US-India deal formalized last year, but it seems that Islamabad is counting its chickens before they've hatched, as there has not been any 'official' confirmation from Nicolas Sarkozy's office. French Officials said President Nicolas Sarkozy had confirmed his willingness to 'cooperate with Pakistan in the area of nuclear safety', but they declined to comment on whether Paris had offered any civil nuclear deal to Islamabad, as was claimed by Pakistan Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi recently.

May 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Communist Party of India (CPI) Sunday ruled out post-poll alliance with the Congress saying the party had 'betrayed' the nation by signing the civil nuclear deal with the US. 'We do feel that the India-US civil nuclear deal is a betrayal of the Congress,' said Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, deputy general secretary of the CPI.

April 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a candid admission, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday that the 'toughest decision' of his tenure was the inking of the India-US civil nuclear deal and that he was ready to resign if it did not go through. 'I was quite clear that if the nuclear deal had not gone through, I would have resigned.

April 4th, 2009 TORONTO - China and Brazil have left India way behind in promoting trade ties with Canada as the world's ninth largest economy tries to reduce its economic dependence on the US. Though Canada and the US are the two biggest trading partners in the world with their annual bilateral trade of nearly $700 billion, Canada has started diversifying into other markets as figures released Friday by Statistics Canada revealed.

March 6th, 2009 TORONTO - Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon will visit India from March 13 to open his country's new trade office in Kolkata. Prime Minister Stephen Harper had announced the opening of two new trade offices in India - Hyderabad and Kolkata - last year at the first annual gala of the Canada-India Foundation.

February 13th, 2009 TORONTO - Canada's Industry Minister Tony Clement will become the fourth cabinet minister to visit India within a month when he arrives in New Delhi Saturday on a five-day visit. Though no major agreements are likely to be signed by Clement who will meet his Indian counterparts and business leaders, the visit is being seen here as part of the Canadian effort to deepen its business ties with India.

January 23rd, 2009 TORONTO - The Canadian nuclear industry has welcomed the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with India to resume nuclear trade between the two countries after three decades, saying it could result in deals worth billions of dollars. The MoU was signed by the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) and India's Larson & Toubro earlier this week during the visit of Canadian international trade minister Stockwell Day to India.

January 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - It seems everybody wants a piece of India's nuclear pie. Less than a week after a US nuclear industry team visited India, officials from the British and Canadian nuclear power industry will be in the country from Monday to interact with their counterparts in the public and private sectors here.