No Aust. boycott
NZPA Sydney Australia is definitely expected to attend the Commonwealth Finance Minister’s meeting in Auckland in September in spite of differences over the Springbok lour. Government' officials last evening . denied Australian press reports vJhich said that the Australian Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was under pressure from his advisers to have Australia boycott the meeting. A report in “The Australian” had asserted that a decision to attend the meeting at Auckland a week before the Commonwealth Heads of Government meet-
ing in Melbourne would cause an outcry by the African and CAribbean nations and .set the scene for a confrontation at that meeting. But last evening, a spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs said there was no truth in the. story, and Australia was expected to accept the invitation for the meeting “quite soon.” A spokesman for Mr Fraser also denied the story and said Australia would take part no matter what African and Caribbean countries decided. The Australian Treasurer (Mr John Howard) is expected to attend the conference.
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Press, 3 June 1981, Page 11
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