French talks difficult
NZPA staff correspondent London South Pacific officials are in Paris for difficult talks with France over a proposed nuclear free zone. A delegation including the New Zealand Foreign Ministry deputy secretary, Mr Chris Beeby, is calling on nuclear-weapon States. It is reported to have received a sympathetic hearing in Peking and Moscow for the South Pacific zone plan. However, they face the likelihood of a negative response from the French, according to official sources.
The delegation seeks reaction from the nuclear Powers on the three protocols to a South Pacific nuclear-free zone treaty which the region’s heads of Government put forward last year.
One protocol invites all nuclear-weapon States not to test anywhere in the region, including the oceans and atmosphere. The others ask the five States to apply the treaty prohibitions against acquisition, testing and deployment of nuclear weapons in their South Pacific territories, and to give a commitment not to use or threaten to use nuclear
weapons against any party to the treaty.
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Press, 7 February 1986, Page 3
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