SOVIET LEGATION SECRETARY

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28618, 21 June 1958, Page 8

SOVIET LEGATION SECRETARY

Return To Moscow Next Week (New Zeuiana Press Association! WELLINGTON, June 20. "I have found a great desire among New Zealanders to know much more about my country,” said Mr V. A. Roslavstev, first secretary of the Soviet Legation After three years and a half in New Zealand, Mr Roslavstev, accompanied by his wife and two children, will leave by the Ruahine next week on his way home to Moscow. Mr Roslavstev said that the extension of cultural relations between the Jwo countries and the exchange of scientific knowledge would do much to cement the goodwill already existing. At the Congress of Australian and New Zealand scientists in Dunedin 18 months ago he was impressed by the knowledge of the Dominion’s delegates, said Mr Roslavstev. “Soviet scientists also have some achievements and there are great possibilities for mutual exchange in this field.” There was now an exhibition of Soviet art in New Zealand, and al the end of the year Russians would be admiring an exhibition of this country’s paintings in Moscow and other centres, he said. “I recall the words of Mr Walter Nash that even a small country could take its part in the solution of difficult international questions,” he said. “New Zealand could do much towards world peace.” .