Expulsion of consul attacked
NZPA-AAP Canberra The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bill Hayden, yesterday described the decision by France to declare the Australian ConsulGeneral in New Caledonia, John Dauth, persona non grata as unjustified. “While France is entitled to declare any consular representative persona non grata without explanation, I find the French decision totally unjustified,” Mr Hayden said. The Australian Government rejected any suggestion that Mr Dauth and his staff had acted other than professionally and. within the definition of consular functions as set out in the Vienna Convention, he said. The French authorities have given Mr Dauth one month to leave New Caledonia. Last Monday, the Australian Government announced that France had suspended Ministerial contacts between the two countries as relations slipped to their lowest point so far. The French move was in retaliation for Australia’s role in having New Caledonia declared non self-governing and added to the United Nations decolonisation list
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Press, 12 January 1987, Page 8
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