N.Z., Aust, rate well at U.N.

Press, 4 January 1978, Page 16

N.Z., Aust, rate well at U.N.

NZPA-Reuter New York Australia and New Zealand have received the only perfect scores in an informal evaluation of United Nation members’ votes on 20 critical resolutions adopted by the General Assembly. Mr Donald Keys, the United Nations representative for the World Federalist group, makes the assessment every year, judging the performance of members on the basis of

the aims of the federalists, who favour world government. On a scale of 100, he awarded Finland, Sweden, and Venezuela 98, Austria and Norway 95, Denmark, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands. Portugal, Rwanda, Senegal, and Singapore 92, and Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Greece, Maldives, Nepal, Niger, Panama, and Spain 90. Britain was marked at 80, France 75, the United States and

Russia both 72, and China 50. Among the resolutions on which Mr Keys based his judgment were those on disarmament, hijacking, human rights, decolonisation, Southern Africa, and the Middle East. From the federalists’ standpoint, he estimated the desirable vote — for, against, or abstention — on each of the resolutions, and awarded marks to members accordingly.