Officials to discuss Ambassador’s claim
PA Wellington Foreign Affairs officials will talk to the United States Ambassador after his claim that a Cabinet Minister had said New Zealanders did not want to be part of the West’s alliance system, said the Prime Minister, Mr Lange, yesterday.
The American Ambassador, Mr Paul Cleveland, said last week that the Minister, whom he did not name, had said the cost/benefit system of such alliances was not good enough. 4However, the Minister
had insisted his Government was not isolationist or anti-American.
Mr Lange, speaking at his post-Cabinet press conference yesterday, said he would be very surprised if the Cabinet Minister had made such comments as expressed by the Ambassador.
He said Mr Cleveland had been careful not to name him.
Foreign Affairs officials, “in the normal course of events" would speak to the Ambassador about the speech in an attempt to find out what he had meant, he said? 5
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