ANTARCTICA’S FUTURE
“Problem On All Our Plates” (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 21. The future control of the Antarctic was “a problem on the plates of us all,’’ Mr R. G. Casey, Australian Minister of External Affairs, said today. He said the Antarctic was of much more inportance to Australia and New Zealand than other countries. *
“Why, it is almost a metropolitan problem to us, and 1 expect it is to you, too.” Mr Casey said the aim of a proposed 12-country conference was a simple treaty designed to create “free trade” in science in the Antarctic, to ensure nonmilitarisation of the area and to “freeze out’’ all political claims, including those of Australia and New Zealand, in the Antarctic. From the date of the treaty, this latter aim would prevent countries from advancing, or increasing, their political claims on sectors of the Antarctic, he said.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28671, 22 August 1958, Page 10
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