Sarkozy may visit Pakistan to sign nuclear deal

[Naveed Yaseen]

ABU DHABI: France and Pakistan are negotiating a partnership including nuclear cooperation and French President Nicolas Sarkozy could travel to Pakistan in the autumn to sign a deal, a source close to Sarkozy said late on Monday. The source said talks were ongoing on a wide variety of issues including nuclear security. “We’re in the process of negotiating. We’ve given ourselves two or three more months,” said the source close to Sarkozy during a short visit by the French president to Abu Dhabi, where he was to open a French military base on Tuesday. Sarkozy met Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in Paris on May 15 and was reported by the Pakistani foreign minister as saying that France wanted Islamabad to obtain a wide-ranging deal to buy nuclear equipment like the one granted to India. reuters

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