The current Sarkozy-Fillon Government, acting presidency of the European Union's Council of Ministers, has chosen to massively promote nuclear power even to newcomer countries like Algeria, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates. As President Sarkozy put it in a speech in Marrakech: "We have it in France, why shouldn't they have it in Morocco?" The French president travels the world as salesman for the glittering nuclear industry, from the Middle East to China, from Brazil to India. On 29 September 2008, even before the U.S. Congress had given the green light for the U.S.-India nuclear deal, France signed a similar cooperation agreement with India.