Diplomacy in practice
NZPA-AAP Suva National differences were conspicuously absent when New Zealand’s High Commissioner to Fiji attended an official United States reception for crew from a visiting United States destroyer at Suva on Wednesday. “I thought it was very decent of the embassy to include me on the guest list when perhaps their naval people might have
thought it not a good idea,” said the High Commissioner, Mr Rod Gates.
“It is business as usual here despite the problems of port access. I did not see why I should not go to the reception in my professional capacity.” New Zealand’s refusal to allow access to United States naval ships which may be nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed led this month to its being ex-
eluded from the A.N.Z.U.S. treaty. Both Mr Gates and his deputy, Mr Alex Mathe-, son, accepted the invitation to meet officers of the destroyer U.S.S.-. Chandler, which left for Pago Pago after a two-day good-will visit to Suva. The reception was at the home of the deputy chief of the United States mission in Suva, Mr Ric Sherman.
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