Submarine not ours, say Russians
PA Wellington The Soviet Ambassador, Mr Vladimir Bykov, said suggestions that a submarine sighted off the Cook Islands last month was Soviet, were nonsense.
Soviet submarines were not in this part of the world, he said.
Mr Bykov was holding his first news conference since becoming Ambassador to New Zealand in June, 1984.
The United States Embassy in Wellington had said the submarine was not American. The Prime Minister, Mr Lange, has said he will
not make public information he had on the R.N.Z.A.F.’s assessment of the nationality of the submarine after carefully considering national security interests. Mr Bykov said information from Moscow showed that Soviet submarines were not and are not in this part of the world.
"It means that all talk of Soviet submarines in the waters of Cook Islands is a pure nonsense, pure fabrication.” Asked if he knew the nationality of the submarine, Mr Bykov said, “Perhaps some people know better than I do.”
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