Disclosure by Cairns

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33230, 21 May 1973, Page 13

Disclosure by Cairns

The Australian Minister of Trade (Dr James Cairns) has disclosed that he met the Ambassadors of North Korea and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam while in Peking. The North Korean envoy, who

i told him that his country would like diplomatic recognition from Australia as soon as possible, invited Dr Cairns to visit North Korea as soon as possible. The P.R.G. Ambassador called on him to [thank him for his help in ; making the cause of the P.R.G. known in Australia, and for helping to organise the recent visit of the North Vietnamese and P.R.G. delegation to Australia. Dr Cairns had disclosed earlier that he had met the Prime Minister (Mr Nouth) of Prince Sihajnouk’s Government-in-exile during his Peking visit. — Shenyang, May 20.

Tanzanian trial

A Zanzibar People’s Court has sentenced to death nine persons who had pleaded guilty to charges of treason in connection with the assassination last year of the island’s ruler, Sheikh Abid Karume. A further 72 persons who have pleaded not guilty will go on trial in Zanzibar on June 5. The man said to have been behind the plot is a former Tanzanian Cabinet Minister, Mr Abdulraham Babu, who, with 17 other accused men, is being held on mainland Tanganyika, where the authorities have refused to return them, and are planning separate trials.—Zanzibar, May 20.

Historic delivery

The first diplomatic mail- ; bag sent by the United States ■ State Department to Peking for 24 years was carried to i the Chinese capital yesterday by a Pakistani airliner. —Karachi, May 20.