Salisbury Claims Sanctions Flouted

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31321, 17 March 1967, Page 11

Salisbury Claims Sanctions Flouted

(N.Z.P A.-Reuter—Copyright) SALISBURY, March 16. Rhodesia has challenged Britain’s claim that less than £3 million worth of British exports had found their way through the sanctions barrier to Rhodesia last year—and produced figures to back its case.

The Rhodesian Government claimed recently that in 1966 Britain exported £ll million worth of goods to Rhodesia.

in spite of the sanctions imposed by the United Nations

The British authorities countered by saying that the figure was only £2.7 million. “If the Brtish figure is correct, then British exporters have obviously made a big effort to bring their goods into Rhodesia by devious means,” said the Finance Minister, Mr James Wrathall. The biggest single item had been motor vehicles and parts totalling £1,722,000, he said, and the smallest £340 worth of dog biscuits. Whisky worth £64,000 had also been imported, Mr Wrathall estimated that the sanctions against Rhodesia had so far cost Britain at least £l5O million, and by the end of this year the total cost might be more than £2lo' million.