SYDNEY: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese in Melbourne on Thursday, with the two leaders expected to discuss critical minerals, trade, defense and security cooperation.
Modi, who previously visited Australia in 2023, touched down Wednesday night to a red-carpet welcome in Melbourne, where he will also meet some of the country’s top business executives.
A report in the Australian Financial Review on Wednesday said an agreement on uranium exports to India could be finalized. Though both nations agreed a nuclear cooperation pact in 2014, the export of uranium has been limited over concerns about ensuring nuclear fuel is solely used for peaceful purposes, such as energy generation.
When asked about a possible uranium exports deal, Albanese told reporters on Wednesday that he would have “more to say about that with Prime Minister Modi.”
“But we’ve engaged constructively, and so I look forward to — there’ll be a range of announcements that we make together.”
