U.S. Energy Secretary Says Nuclear Power Not Discussed During Meeting in Pakistan

U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said he did not discuss nuclear energy during talks yesterday with Pakistani officials, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, March 6).

“We have developed a very wide-ranging and effective sort of dialogue with Pakistan but it does not include nuclear energy and I did not discuss that during this visit,” Bodman said.

“There were expressions made by various members of the government about their desire to talk about nuclear energy, but it was not the subject that I was ... or am prepared to deal with,” he added.

However, Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said civilian nuclear cooperation did come up in the meeting.

“This (civilian nuclear technology) is something that we have been discussing about and yes it was discussed and we will continue to take this issue up,” she said (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, March 13).

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