Govt remarks ‘offensive’
The Prime Minister, Mr Lange, and his caucus colleagues are jeopardising New Zealand’s relationship with the United States with remarks deliberately calculated to cause offence, says the National Party member of ' Parliament for Fendalton, Mr Philip Burdon. Mr Lange’s latest remarks had questioned the reliability and trustworthiness of senior United States officials, Mr Burdon said yesterday. . The remarks had been “glib, offensive, provocative, and unnecessary.” Mr Burdon, who is the party’s trade and industry
spokesman, said that such remarks could damage New Zealand’s trading relationship with the United States. The United States Navy, whose Antarctic work was based in Christchurch, could not feel comfortable here. He asked what would happen if their Navy decided to use nuclearpowered ice-breakers in Antarctica. The Labour Government, not the United States, had abrogated the A.N.Z.U.S. treaty, by asking the United States to accept a non-nuclear treaty, Mr Burdon said.
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Press, 1 July 1986, Page 4
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