India, Kazakhstan to ink N-pact

  • 16/04/2011

  • Tribune (New Delhi)

PM in Astana, will meet President Nursultan Nazarbayev today The Central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan is keen to buy small nuclear reactors from India and the two countries propose to carry out a feasibility study in this regard soon. With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arriving here this evening on a two-day visit to Kazakhstan, the stage is set for inking of an inter-governmental framework agreement on civil nuclear cooperation and some other key accords between the two countries tomorrow. In interviews to the Kazakh media, the PM said nuclear energy was an important component of India