American Quakers’ call to N.Z.
New Zealanders have been urged by American Quakers to ask the Government to draft a treaty for the establishment of a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the South Pacific. The call comes from the Friends Peace Committee of the Religious Society of Friends’ Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. The society said that in December of last year the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution favouring the establishment of such a zone by an unopposed vote. Initiative for the zone came largely from New Zea-
t land, but the United Nations s resolution was only a first jjstep. the committee said. - “To make the zone a real- • 'ity, the resolution’s sub- :■ stance must be converted into a nuclear-weapons-free » zone treaty signed and ratified bv the nations conf kerned.”. The New Zealand Government should draft such a i treaty and undertake efforts !! for its acceptance. The society would feel an i ■ equal obligation to create 11 support for such a treaty in -(its own country, whose adherence, as one of the princi- ? pal nuclear Powers directly ■' concerned, was essential.
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