Pakistan, Sri Lanka sign nuclear agreement

[Ray]

Pakistan, Sri Lanka sign nuclear agreement

Sri Lanka and Pakistan signed six agreements, including one on atomic energy, on Monday, the two countries' leaders said, as the strategically important island looks to build its first nuclear plant.

Details of the agreement were not immediately available but it comes after Sri Lanka signed a pact with India in February to build its atomic energy infrastructure, including training of personnel.

Sri Lanka's new president Maithripala Sirisena swept to power in January, ending a decade of rule by Mahinda Rajapakse, and has moved to reduce China's influence in his country, which had irked India.

The Sri Lankan president elaborated the agreements pertained to enhance economic and trade cooperation between the two countries.

"The agreements pertain to advancing cooperation in disaster management, sports, shipping, socio-economic development, education and narcotics control," he said.

The six MoUs signed are as follows:

1) Cooperation between Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission and Atomic Energy Authority of Sri Lanka

2) Agreement on cooperation against illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances

3) Academic cooperation agreement on exchange and collaboration between National Defence University of Pakistan and Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies of Sri Lanka

4) Collaboration in the field of Sports

5) Mutual cooperation in shipping business between Pakistan National Shipping Corporation(PNSC) and the Ceylon Shipping Corporation Ltd (CSCL)

6) Cooperation on disaster management

Speaking at a press conference with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Sirisena said, "At critical moments in our post-independent histories we have stood in solidarity with each other," adding he was "profoundly grateful for the strong support in the fight against terrorism" by Pakistan.

Pakistan and Sri Lanka have traditionally enjoyed strong ties, particularly over defence, with Islamabad providing military assistance during the war against Tamil Tiger guerrillas that ended in 2009.

Pakistan currently has three operational nuclear plants generating a total of around 740 MW of power and has begun work on two more, including a 2,200-megawatt station to be built with Chinese technical assistance on the Arabian Sea coast at Paradise Beach, 40 kilometres west of Karachi.

Earlier PM Nawaz had spoken of his desire to improve trade and economic relations.

Sirisena will also meet Pakistan's President Mamnoon Hussain during his visit and is due to leave Tuesday.

The Sri Lankan president arrived in Islamabad on Sunday on a three-day state visit and was given a red carpet welcome at the PM House.

A guard of honour was presented to him and the national anthems of both the countries were also played on the occasion.

Read: Sri Lankan president to arrive in Pakistan on April 5 for first state visit

The two heads of states discussed ways to enhance bilateral cooperation in various fields while focusing mainly on trade. Regional and international issues of mutual interest were also part of the discussions.

Read: Sri Lankan president arrives in Pakistan on three-day state visit

This is Sirisena's first visit to Pakistan since becoming the newly elected president of Sri Lanka.

Pakistan, Sri Lanka sign nuclear agreement - The Express Tribune

Now that China is not the most favoured nation in Sri Lanka, it is using its proxy and vassal to get an edge-way into Sri Lanka.

And as any other country, Sri Lanka requires power.

 

[Samar Rathi]

Middle east and south asia going out of my comprehension skill to understand ,i would say diplomacy and politics is very active.

 

[Rowdy]

Now that China is not the most favoured nation in Sri Lanka, it is using its proxy and vassal to get an edge-way into Sri Lanka.

And as any other country, Sri Lanka requires power.

Relax.
Pak has neither the tech nor expertise to fulfill these "agreements"
lets take them out 1 by 1
1)Nuke Energy: Pakistan does not have its own reactor(last time they claimed one: 1966 @ 90 MW) so the best knowledge they have is how to operate one and waste management.

2)Drugs: Hopefully the same cartel supplies to India and is taken down. Most probably one of the Pak military's own asset.

3)Academic Co-op b/w defense Unis: Pak which stumbled from one war to the other before going into WoT and now getting into ME conflict will teach others

4)Sports : meh .... all SA countries suck in sports.

5)Shipping: everyone wants to do business .... just some container shipping $hit.

6)Disaster management : like lol any time disaster hits , SL is dependent on India. India's tsunami and hurricane warning systems give warnings to even Pak.

 

[Ray]

Pakistan, if you don't mind, has the expertise in nuclear technology and nuclear armament.

I will not be delusional.

 

[Rowdy]

Pakistan, if you don't mind, has the expertise in nuclear technology and nuclear armament.

I will not be delusional.

In the field of energy?? I am yet to see their reactor capacity or design claims.
Weapons .. sure agreed.

 

[Khagesh]

Auron ke pass banglow hai, daulat hai, maa bhi hai to kya?

Pakistan ke pass photochor hai.

What will Pakistan provide for Sri lankan needs. A floating KLT-40 reactor?

But seriously there was some Sri Lankan angle to the whole nuke smuggling business managed by A Q Khan.

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=yGgrNAsKZjEC&pg=PA484&lpg=PA484&dq=A+Q+Khan+and+sri+lankan+national&source=bl&ots=AotY8kNSMG&sig=j80XK7sj_OIpr11HmeLM8FVRCBA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vXEiVY2lNIqSuASkAw&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=A%20Q%20Khan%20and%20sri%20lankan%20national&f=false

http://www.npolicy.org/books/Pakistans_Nuclear_Worries/Ch2_Tertrais.pdf

A total of about 50 people were actively involved
in the network.3
But Khan operated with a dozen key
close associates, who were sometimes in competition

with each other. It was a real "family business." Those included:
1. Buhary Syed Abu Tahir, a Sri Lankan national. He was, so to say, the "chief operating officer" of the exports network. His involvement started in the second part of the 1980s.4 His "headquarters" was the Dubaibased firm, SMB Computers.
2. S. M. Farouq, an India-born businessman based in Dubai (and Tahir's uncle), who made the initial contacts with Iran and was also involved in the Libya deal.5
3. Heinz Mebus, a German businessman and college classmate of Khan, who was also involved in the early deals with Iran.6
4. Peter Griffin, a British national who designed the Libyan "Machine Shop 1001." He imported machines from Spain and other European countries for that project.7
5. Paul Griffin, Peter's son, who operated Gulf Technical Industries, one of the main Dubai-based front companies.8
6. Urs Tinner, a Swiss national and long-time associate of Khan, who oversaw the production of centrifuge parts in Malaysia as a "consultant" until
2003.
7. Friedrich Tinner (Urs's father, president of the Swiss firm CETEC).
8. Marco Tinner (Urs's brother, president of the Swiss firm Traco). Both Friedrich and Marco were
involved in the Iran and Libya enterprises. Their role was essentially to buy components from Europe.
9. Gotthard Lerch, another long-time associate, a German national who has been described as Tahir's main contractor. Involved in both the Iran and Libya cases, he was, in particular, in charge of the South African "node."9
10. Gerhard Wisser, a German mechanical engineer and an old acquaintance of Lerch, who involved him in the Libya operation. Wisser in turned involved Daniel Geiges (a Swiss mechanical engineer who worked in his company, Krisch Engineering) and Johan Meyer (a South African engineer).10
11. Mohammed Farooq, a KRL official in charge of procurement and sales abroad.11

The main companies reportedly involved in centrifuge exports were Khan Research Laboratories (Pakistan), which provided ring magnets, aluminium and maraging steel, flow-forming and balancing equipment, vacuum pumps, noncorrosive pipes and valves, end-caps and baffles, and power supply; Scomi Precision Engineering (Malaysia), which provided aluminium and maraging steel, end-caps and baffles; SMB Computers (UAE) which provided noncorrosive pipes and valves, end-caps and baffles, and power supply; ETI Elektroteknik (Turkey), which provided aluminium and maraging steel, power supply; and Trade Fin (South Africa) which provided flow-forming and balancing equipment, vacuum pumps, noncorrosive pipes and valves.12 Other companies involved included Bikar Mettale Asia (Singapore), Hanbando Balance Inc. (South Korea), Krisch Engineering (South Africa), CETEC (Switzerland), Traco (Switzerland), and EKA (Turkey).13 Equipment for Libya was imported by the Tinner family from Spain (vacuum pumps, flowforming machines), Italy (special furnaces), France, the United Kingdom and Taiwan (machine-tools), as well as Japan (a 3-D measuring tool).14

Need to have this double checked from proliferation POV. Americans must have given a go ahead .

 

[Srinivas_K]

India already has a nuclear agreement with Srilanka.