Check on remarks
Wellington reporter New Zealand has cabled Paris to check recent remarks attributed to the French Prime Minister, Mr Jacques Chirac, on the two French agents transferred to Hao. Mr Chirac has been reported from Tahiti as saying the two officers, Major Alain Marfart and Captain Dominique Prieur, are free on French territory and serving a regular three-year military posting at Hao.
“They are under no constraints. All they have been asked to do is not meet journalists for a while to spare New
Zealanders’ feelings before their election campaign, said Mr Chirac. The Prime Minister, Mr Lange, said he had sent a cablegram to France checking that Mr Chirac had not been misreported and pointing out that if he had made the comments and if they were true, France was in breach of the Rainbow Warrior settlement. Should this be so, Mr Lange said, the matter would be referred to the arbiter, the United Nations Secretary-Gen-eral, Mr Javier Perez de Cuellar.
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