Soviet N-ships ban confirmed
PA Wellington The Government refuse port entry to any nuclearpowered Soviet icebreaker, the Prime Minister, Mr Lange, has said. He was replying to a question by the Senior Government Whip, Dr Cullen. Mr Lange had earlier been asked by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr McLay, what steps the Government would take to exclude Soviet Lenin and Arktikaclass icebreakers and the Russiya-class icebreakers, to be commissioned this year, from the Ross Dependency. Mr McLay said that all the icebreakers were nuclear-powered.
The Prime Minister said there were two things wrong with the question — those Soviet icebreakers did not operate in the Ross Dependency and that if they did there were no ports for them to visit. He also said it was a question of concern to people involved in the Antarctic Treaty exactly where the Ross Dependency began. One argument was that to enter it one had to go aground. There were no ports. The right of international passage was a part of maritime tradition and there would be no jurisdiction on the part of New Zealand to stop ships.
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