VISIT TO ROME

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33037, 3 October 1972, Page 15

VISIT TO ROME

Heath seeks

Italy’s aid

(N.Z.P.A. -Reuter- Copyright) ROME, October 2.

The British Prime Minister (Mr Heath), who is due to arrive in Rome today on an official visit, is counting on Italian support for obtaining European Common Market aid for the poorer regions of both Britain and Italy. The Conservative leader says as much in an interview published today in Italy’s best-selling and most influential newspaper, “Corriere Della Sera.”

“It is clearly essential that the enlarged Community should show that it is able to promote the well-being of all,” Mr Heath is quoted as saying. “In Italy, there are situations of under-employment in agricu’tural areas. In Britain . . . there is, apart from certain agricultural problems, the great problem of the decline of industrial zones, and a very high level of structural unemployment. “In short, Italy and Britain have identical interests in promoting a European regional policy which employs the resources of the Community to resolve these problems, and I am counting greatly on British-Italian cooperation.”