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Schroeder`s nuke concession to China sparks Green anger in Berlin

IRNA

Berlin, Dec 4, IRNA -- Leading members of Germany`s influential Greens
party, the junior coalition partner of the ruling Social Democrats, 
have expressed outrage over the possible sale of a nuclear facility to
China, reports said Thursday. 
"It is contradictory to decide for Germany to quit nuclear power, 
and on the other hand, to export a (nuclear) plant -- which, by the 
way, is able to produce weapons-grade plutonium," said Greens party 
leader Angelika Beer cited by the Frankfurter Allgemeine paper. 
Reinhard Loske, the environmental spokesman of the Greens, also 
warned that such a "high-risk" move would "breach the command of 
political coherence between foreign and interior policy." 
The remarks come after Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Tuesday, 
during his trip to China, hinted at the possible sale of a shut-down 
German nuclear facility to China. 
Deputy government spokesman Hans-Hermann Langguth on Wednesday 
confirmed that Germany`s Siemens company had filed a "formal request" 
for the controversial sale of the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant near
Frankfurt. 
The move also comes after Germany last month shut down the first 
of its 19 nuclear power stations. 
One of the Greens party`s conditions for forming a coalition with 
Schroeder`s Social Democrats was the withdrawal from atomic energy. 
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