NEW DELHI (PTI): India Aug.5 denied as “totally untrue” Western media reports suggesting an Australia based company was, working on its behalf of the purchase of materials required for “nuclear reprocessing technology _ from a private party in the U.S.

An external affairs ministry Spokesman said that India had developed its reprocessing technology as early as in 1964 and “that it did not need any help in this field.

 The reports published in the Wall Street Journal from Brussels quoted the Idaho-based private Party 45 saying that “undisclosed Client” of the Australian company. Which has offered 8.3 million dollars for the purchase of components and x-rays required for the technology?

Article extracted from this publication >> August 5, 1994