MOSCOW, May 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and Jordan signed on Friday a nuclear cooperation agreement, under which power plants, desalination stations, research facilities and personnel training centers will be built in the Mideast country.
The 10-year agreement, which also stipulates cooperation in the production and use of nuclear materials, was signed in Moscow by Sergei Kiriyenko, the head of Russia's Rosatom nuclear corporation, and Jordanian Atomic Energy Commission chief Khaled Toukan.
"The signed agreement is the beginning of major strategic cooperation between the two countries. We intend to cooperate in the construction of nuclear power plants... and plan to build four plants in Jordan in the coming decades," Kiriyenko said.
Toukan told reporters: "We have started negotiations on various areas of cooperation, but the most important of them is the construction of a nuclear power plant for production of electric power, and of a desalination station."
He said Russia's participation in processing of uranium in Jordan is also an important part of the deal.
Russian nuclear power plant constructer Atomstroyexport, established in 1998, has completed or is working on reactors in Iran, Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, China and India.
