OREANDA-NEWS. January 21, 2011. “We’ve expressed the interest and said we’re ready to cooperate. But it’s not the question of tomorrow”, Prikhodko said to journalists on the eve of RF President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Jordan.

According to the Kremlin representative, many problems require solution; the Jordanian party will have to decide the issue of foreign companies’ interest in such projects. “They have to clench the matter with the site, we have to reach a decision concerning the loan”, Prikhodko said.

It was not the question of “the year or two”, he said.

“Apart from the Russian Federation, the Koreans, French, Canadians are going to take part in the tender”, Aide to the President reported. “We have to evaluate the site they have. According to their plan, the first power unit is to be put into operation by 2018”, he said.

Prikhodko recalled that in May of 2009 Russia and Jordan had signed the agreement on cooperation in the peaceful uses of atomic energy providing for the necessary legal framework for the cooperation.