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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Pact with France to develop nuclear energy By ARAB NEWS

Pact with France to develop nuclear energy

By ARAB NEWS

RIYADH: France and Saudi Arabia will sign on Tuesday an agreement for bilateral cooperation in developing the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
The agreement will be signed by Hisham Yamani, chairman of the King Abdullah City for Nuclear and Renewable Energy, and the French minister in charge of industry and energy, Eric Besson, a French Embassy statement said.
French Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Bertrand Besancenot pointed out that France, where 80 percent of electricity comes from nuclear power plants, had the world's best technology in the field. He called the agreement an example of the two countries’ “strategic partnership”.
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