Solomons to sign nuclear-free treaty
NZPA-AFP Vila, Vanuatu The Solomon Islands would sign the South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone Treaty, in spite of reservations about its effectiveness, a Government spokesman said. The spokesman told Agence France-Presse, from the Solomons’ capi-
tai of Honiara, that the Prime Minister, Mr Ezekiel Alebau, would sign the Treaty of Rarotonga on June 4 in Suva. The Solomons is one of three South Pacific Forum members who have not signed the treaty protocols. The others are Vanuatu and Tonga. The spokesman said the
three States had considered the treaty — which binds signatories not to develop, test or store nuclear weapons in the South Pacific — as too weak. “We had reservations about the treaty, but we are fully committed to a nuclear-free Pacific,” he said.
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