ALLIANCE RUMOURS
Denial By Australia (N.Z.P.A.-Benter—Copi/rioht) NEW YORK, July 2. Australia has told the United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid that she had not been approached by South Africa about the possible creation of a military alliance of the Southern Hemisphere countries.
In a letter to the committee, Australia’s Ambassador to the United Nations (Mr Patrick Shaw) said that his attention had been drawn to a statement made by the committee’s special reporter, mentioning “persistent press re- i ports about the possibility of I the formation of a military i alliance which will group i South Africa, along with cer- < tain Latin American coun- 1 tries, Madagascar, New Zea- ; land and Australia, in some 1 curious form of Indian Ocean i and South Atlantic treaty 1 organisation.” Mr Shaw’s letter added: “I am authorised to state that ; no approaches have been ' made to the Australian Gov- ; ernment by the South African Government for the purpose of creating a military 1 alliance amongst certain ; Southern Hemisphere coun-
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32030, 3 July 1969, Page 12
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