Guideline to Australia

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33235, 26 May 1973, Page 15

Guideline to Australia

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) CANBERRA, May 25. Australia plans to develop a “substantial relationship” (with China, says the Prime (Minister and Foreign Minister (Mr Whitlam). It will be (based on “friendship, co!operation and mutual trust, (comparable with that which (we have, or seek, with other (major Powers.” ( Mr Whitlam was making [his first foreign policy stateIment to Parliament. Other major points were:— ( To ensure that the present opportunity for “settlement ! and sanity” in Indo-China was not lost, as it had been in 1954; A scientific adviser being appointed to the Department of Foreign Affairs to help prepare a resources policy which would become a very important part of foreign policy; Reservations about the North-West Cape communication station and a renegotiation with the United States (of the terms on which it was (established; ( A regional community free (of Great Power rivalry and (ideological interference, but (an Australia flexible on its (timing, structure and membership. He said that S.E.A.T.O. — (conceived as an instrument for the containment of China in the Cold War era — had to be modified if it was not to become completely moribund. The. A.N.Z.U.S. pact remained most important however, "since by its very nature it has created and guarantees in the Pacific a( zone of peace.” The Prime Minister said that Australia would be adopting an even-handed policy towards all States in the region. .Adhesive solution When the City of Milan announced fines for anyone caught pasting posters on walls without permission, Left-wing extremists used adhesive tape instead.—Milan. (May 25.