Admiral to watch China Sea exercise
NZPA Singapore. ■The New Zealand Chief of Naval Staff, Rear-Admiral K. M. Sauli, arrived at Singapore yesterday to begin a two-week official visit to South-East Asia. Admiral Sauli will also watch an exercise in the South China Sea this weekend from aboard the frigate Canterbury now under British command. H.MiN.Z.S. Canterbury, flagship of the admiral, is on loan to the ;Royal Navy to help relieve a warship from the British Indian Ocean task force for duty in the Falklands war .zone. During his three-day. stay. Admiral 'Sauli will meet Singapore’s Defence Minister (Mr. Goh Chok Tongh) and the Acting Chief of General Staff, Brigadier-General Tan Shin Tiong. Re will: also visit the New Zealand Ist Infantry Battalion stationed at Singapore under the ;Five-Power Defence Arrangement before going to Malaysia for two days. ... .?•
•'"Admiral Sauli .will leave on Saturday for' the exercise, codenamed Starfish 82. in which the navies of Australia, Britain. New Zealand.
Malaysia, and Singapore will take' part. — A New Zealand military ■spokesman said that this was Admiral Sauli’s first visit to the region since he became the New Zealand naval chief two years ago. • “It shows the importance the admiral attaches to the strengthening of relations between the New Zealand and other Asian navies in the area. “It is also a clear demonstration of New Zealand's continued interest in the F.P.D.A.,” he said. Admiral Sauli will leave on Monday for Bangkok where he will meet the Thai Prime Minister and Minister of Defence (General Prem Tinsulanonda) and the Supreme Commander of the Thai Armed Forces, General Saiyud Kerdphol. The spokesman said that Admiral Sauli’s itinerary did not include visits to the troubled Thai-Kampuchean border areas. He would return home after brief visits to Indonesia and Australia.
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