Sanctions call supported

Press, 17 December 1976, Page 3

Sanctions call supported

[NZPA staff corres. Washington I New Zealand has voted for i a United Nations resolution urging stricter enforcement of economic sanctions against Rhodesia, although it objected to one paragraph. The section of the resolution which New Zealand did not like asked all governments to invalidate passports and documents for travel to Rhodesia. The New Zealand representative, Mr P. W. T. Adams told the fourth committee which was considering the resolution, that New Zealand had reservations about the paragraph because, in accordance with the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, New Zealand did not restrict the freedom to travel of any of its citizens.

The resolution on sanctions also urged the United States to halt its imports of chrome from Rhodesia. Mr Adams said that New Zealand had stringently enforced economic sanctions

against southern Rhodesia (since they were established (and would continue to do so ias Jong as they remained in force. He also noted New Zealand’s support for another resolution, adopted by consensus, hoping that the Geneva conference on Rhodesia would succeed in establishing conditions for early independence on the basis of majority rule. The resolution, said Mr Adams, served warning to the illegal Smith regime in Rhodesia that the international community would not allow Zimbabwe’s inalienable right to selfdetermination to be subverted by a minority acting in its own interests.

“The Smith regime must and will be brought to realise this,” said Mr Adams. “It must negotiate realistically towards the only acceptable outcome—majority rule in Zimbabwe.

“New Zealand supports this resolution and all peaceful methods or driving this point home,” he said.