Chileans to put case
PA Auckland Chilean refugees living in New Zealand will put their case against contact by New Zealand with the regime in Chile to the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Defence committee this week. The Chileans have been granted a hearing as a result of a petition calling on the Government to reinstate the trade ban on Chile.
The ban was established after General Augusto Pinochet seized power in 1973 and set up a military junta, and many Chilean New Zealanders are refugees from then. The group is particularly worried about a plan by Carter Holt Harvey, Ltd, to buy a 50 per-cent stake in a big Chilean investment company at a cost of $307 million.
A spokesman for the Chileans, Mr Estaban Espinoza, said in Auckland that the new contact was coming at a delicate time with the Pinochet regime likely to fall soon. He said the group would ask the Government to send a political delegation to examine the Chilean situation before allowing any more contact with the regime.
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