Australia sees N.Z. as important
NZPA-AAP Canberra Australia would not encourage a formal bilateral defence treaty with the United States which excluded New Zealand, said the Minister of Defence, Mr Kim Beazley. With the trilateral A.N.Z.U.S. treaty now under serious threat because of New Zealand’s strong anti-nuclear stance, Mr Beazley has strong reservations about allowing the alliance to deteriorate further. It was important to “hold out the hope” that the treaty could be salvaged, he said. “I think that the New
Zealanders are too important to our international diplomatic effort, in the south-west Pacific in particular, for us to be able to afford to have them in a situation where they’re permanently at variance. “That’s a very important point that we make to the United States. I think it’s a point that is well understood by them,” he said. Australia had never encouraged the notion of developing a direct, formal bilateral treaty between itself and the United States, Mr Beazley said.
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