Uranium Issue: Aussie PM still says 8216;no8217;

Welcoming the nuclear agreement between India and the US, he said, 8220;We at the official level in Australia are getting to together to know how this agreement will operate. We are watching it very closely.8221;

The Australian PM said the recent agreement was still subject to certain processes between the two countries.

8220;This is a very positive agreement. We welcome it. For the first time, Indian civil nuclear reactors would be opened to international inspection,8221; he said.

Stating that Australia understood fully India8217;s energy needs, the visiting leader said he had held discussions with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on the issue.

8220;But there is no change in our policy for the present,8221; he said.