Govt, pressed to impose total sanctions
PA Wellington A delegation of Church leaders, unionists and cultural representatives yesterday pressed the Government to impose immediately total economic sanctions against South Africa. But while New Zealand would support imposing sanctions, a move to do so now would be "premature,” said the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr O’Flynn. The delegates said sanctions would place the South African Government under sufficient pressure to require it to negotiate a settlement
with representatives of its African majority. The cost to New Zealand would not be high, they said, pointing to imports in the year ending June 1984 at $16.6 million, with exports totalling $26.5 million. The delegation leader, Ms Rosslyn Noonan, said Mr O’Fiynn made it clear that the Government would support imposing sanctions. But Government and delegation differed on whether New Zealand should impose them immediately or wait for a summit of Commonwealth leaders in London in August.
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