France told ‘test at home’
PA Wellington If France must conduct nuclear experiments, the French people should take the risks, according to the Prime Minister of Western Samoa, Tofilau Eti Alesana. Tofilau described France’s most recent nuclear explosion on Mururoa Atoll as blatant disre-
gard by France of the fears and conerns of Pacific peoples. “France must desist from the arrogant pursuit of its own selfish nuclear objectives in the South Pacific,” he said.
“If it must experiment, it should conduct such experiments within metropolitan France where the French
people can take the risks.”
Tofilau said that it was very well for Paris, thousands of miles away, to speak of its right to pursue a programme of nuclear armament and to describe its Mururoa tests as safe, but those in the South Pacific could not be assured of their own safety.
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