BRITAIN AND E.E.C.
Mr Wilson On N.Z. Position (N.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) LONDON, October 23. The British Prime Minister, (Mr Wilson) today restated publicly that the United Kingdom would support New Zealand’s case for special treatment if Britain entered the Common Market. Asked in the House of Commons about his meeting last week with the New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Marshall) Mr Wilson said the New Zealand Government was aware that the British Government would be seeking the “maximum accommodation” for New Zealand interests.
The position had been set out in the statement to the Western European Union by the former Foreign Secretary (Mr George Brown) in July, 1967, he said. Mr Wilson stated: “I repeated these assurances to Mr Marshall in the course of our conversation on October 17. It has always been recognised that New Zealand’s case, in the event of British entry into the European communities, is of an altogether special kind.”
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32127, 24 October 1969, Page 20
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