Mark Fitzpatrick, senior fellow for non-proliferation of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Great Britain

— Many countries of the world are looking for nuclear energy

Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation and the Ministry of Federal Planning, State Investments and Services of Argentina have signed a statement on cooperation in the field of peaceful use of nuclear energy.

The statement was signed by Deputy Director General of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation Nikolay Spassky and Minister of Federal Planning, State Investments and Services of Argentina Julio de Vido in the presence of President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. We woud like to remind that earlier Russia signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with Venezuela.

We woud like to remind that earlier Russia signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with Venezuela.

Many countries of the world are looking for nuclear energy because of couple of reasons. They would like to diversify their sources of energy and when oil prices were high nuclear energy is looked like a more profitable alternative. Nuclear energy is also seen as a more clean and «green» technology. So I think these are among the reasons why many countries of the world are looking to embark on nuclear energy. For most of these countries Russia is like any other supplier. They would go to whichever supplier offers the best deal. Probably Russia offered profitable source of nuclear energy cooperation, profitable both in terms of price and quality.