The ruling Labour party's policy on uranium sales will not affect Australia's relationship with India as well as on-going efforts to further enhance it, Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith, said.

"India is aware of the government's policy to supply uranium only to countries which are members of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)," Smith was quoted as saying by The Age.

"Australia's relationship with India and further progress in that relationship does not depend on uranium sales," he said.

The Kevin Rudd government had signalled that stronger ties with the economic powerhouse were one of its top foreign policy priorities.

Despite this ambition, the ruling labour government last week stated that it had no intention of changing its policy of only selling uranium to countries which are party to the NPT.