SOUTH KOREA: South African and South Korean ministers sign agreement on designing and building a nuclear energy plant in South Africa

Record ID: 452459

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: South African and South Korean ministers sign agreement on designing and building a nuclear energy plant in South Africa
  • Date: 8th October 2010
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (OCTOBER 8) (REUTERS) ( ** BEWARE FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **) SOUTH AFRICAN ENERGY MINISTER DIPUO PETERS (LEFT) AND SOUTH KOREAN ACTING FOREIGN MINISTER SHIN KAK-SOO (RIGHT) ENTERING PETERS AND SHIN AT SIGNING CEREMONY MINISTER SHIN SIGNING PETERS AND SHIN SIGNING MINISTER DIPUO PETERS SIGNING EXCHANGING DOCUMENTS AND SHAKING HANDS GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS CLAPPING PETERS AND SHIN LEAVING
  • Embargoed: 23rd October 2010 13:00
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  • Topics: International Relations,Energy
  • Reuters ID: LVACXW0828HE48H43L96NAAMA0HS
  • Story Text: South Africa and South Korea signed an agreement in Seoul on Friday (October 8) on designing and building a nuclear energy plant in South Africa.
    Visiting South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak agreed to boost trade and cooperation especially in nuclear power sector.
    In the meantime at Seoul's Foreign Ministry, South African Energy Minister Dipuo Peters and South Korea's acting Foreign Minister Shin Kak-soo held a ceremony of signing a nuclear power cooperation treaty. This pact will pave the way for South Korean companies to participate in atomic power plant construction projects in South Africa.
    Seoul's Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday South Korean firms had won a 18.6 billion U.S. dollars project to build four atomic power plants in the United Arab Emirates in 2009, one of the biggest contracts that the country has ever won from overseas.
    South Africa and South Korea established diplomatic ties in 1992.
    Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and his delegates plan to look around some atomic power plants in South Korea before finishing their three-day visit.
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