Russia To Supply South Africa With Fuel For Nuclear Reactor
Matthew Borghese - All Headline News Staff Writer Cape Town, South Africa (AHN) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is on his first trip to South Africa, where he has struck a deal to provide the nation with fuel for its nuclear reactor until 2010. President Putin and South African President Thabo Mbeki, add that a Russian firm will invest $1 billion in production of manganese, in another business deal that will bring the two countries closer. Putin will meet with political and business leaders to find further avenues of economic cooperation, while hoping to sell "possible supplies" of liquefied natural gas to South Africa. According to South Africa's News24, Putin, who is accompanied by a large business delegation and with cabinet leaders from his country, said Russia was interested in the long-term projects connected with the extraction of metals and metal ores. Mbeki meanwhile said that an agreement signed connected to co-operation with space technology would see the countries launching "micro satellites" in December.
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