Russia offers treaties
Soviet embassies in the South Pacific have made an offer of treaties, promising never to use Soviet nuclear weapons against non-nuclear countries. An unnamed Australian disarmament organisation apparently wrote to the Soviet President, Mr Leonid Brezhnev, seeking the Soviet assurances.
The Brezhnev reply, issued in a press release from the Soviet Embassy in Wellington, also said the Soviet Union saw no obstacle to opening talks with the United States on scaling down the two countries’ navies in the Pacific. It said the Americans had been responsible for breaking off similar talks on the Indian Ocean three years ago.
The Soviet offer of a specific treaty with New Zealand not to use nuclear weapons against the country would require in return a New Zealand promise not to make or acquire nuclear weapons or have them oh New Zealand territory.
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