‘Breathing Space’ For N.Z. Exports

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30041, 28 January 1963, Page 9

‘Breathing Space’ For N.Z. Exports

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WASHINGTON. Jan. 1 28.

A breakdown tofc*Hrt nagattatiens fee mimtoa to the Eerepean Ci—■ Market might give lto-» Seaiand a "braatkto* suaee ■* tar wNto gnSma *8 Ha agricultural experts to Britain was sswesraed the New Zealand l Au *— to Wkahtagtu (Mr George lat toe) said

today. In remarks preperedfordelivery to the w “ hl ??“ D Junior Chamber of Commerce, Mr Ukmg toat the full significance of President de Gaulle’* apparent rejects of the British bid tor membership was not yet dear.

But be said: “U the negotiation* break down or are suspended—and Ido Mt believe we era J? be inevitable-one might say that New Zealand ha* at least gained ■ breathing space Mr Laking observed that the Common Market , ha l aireed that New Zealand should receive special terms for it* agricultural exports,

but said that these assurances had not yet been translated into effective guarantees for the future.

“Up to the time of President de Gaulle’s apparent rejection of the British bid for membership we were perhaps entitled to assume that progress was being made ....", he said.

“At least it is better understood that the far-reacting change* under way in Europe have far-reaching implications and that developments of such historic importance do not take place in a vacuum ’’ He said there was a danger in allowing the pursuit of “noble end* like the unity of Europe" to obscure the tact that gains, whether political or economic, which were securea at the expense of the less developed countries might in the end prove to be largely ephemeral. There was increasing recognition of this fact, be «•><!■ and the United State* was alive to the need to counter.

the "inward-looking tendencies within the (European) community.”