Sanctions To Be Considered Again

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30914, 22 November 1965, Page 1

Sanctions To Be Considered Again

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, November 21.

New Zealand would take what action it considered appropriate in imposing sanctions on Rhodesia after the Security Council recommendation was considered at tomorrow’s Cabinet meeting, the Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) said last night.

Mr Holyoake said he had not yet received an official report on the Security' Council’s resolution. He expected the report would arrive later tonight.

Mr Holyoake recalled that when he made his statement last week on preliminary action, he said the Government would give further consideration to the imposition of sanctions.

“We will be influenced by the Security Council recommendations,” Mr Holyoake said.

He said that the New Zealand Government would, as always, work in co-operation with other Commonwealth countries.

Rhodesian imports from New Zealand last year amounted to £108,639.

But New Zealand imports from Rhodesia were worth £625,612.

African Meeting

African delegates would meet before the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference opens on November 30 to discuss the Rhodesian question, Senator T. M. Chokwe, of Kenya, said today.

“Our line of action will be dictated by events which will have taken place up to the time of our meeting on the eve of the conference opening,” he said. Senator Chokwe was in Auckland leading a touring party of 22 conference delegates. He said that after the

African delegates had met, they would invite “the sympathy” of other delegates, particularly those from Asian countries. Asked if he thought any delegates would take any action in protest against the New Zealand Government’s hesitation to apply full economic sanctions against

Rhodesia, Senator Chokwe said he did not think anyone would boycott the conference in protest because this was an ineffective step which would leave such a delegate “without a voice.”

Communications

Communications between Rhodesia and the rest of the world could form a part of the boycott many nations would place on the rebel regime, the secretary of the Postal Telegraph and Telephone International, Mr S. F. Nedzynski, said tonight.