N.Z. as mediator
;', '- Sir^—Top marks to the Prime Minister, Geoffrey Palmer, for adopting, at the" Commonwealth Heads of Government discussions on the environment, the role that is so much heeded, and New Zealand is so well placed to offer: that of mediator (highlighted in Brendon Burns’ reports, October 19 and 21). How pointedly, also, Pakistan’s Ms Bhutto described the chain linking international tension and poverty. Her country being, so poor, she is distressed at tan spending a fortune oh arms because of spending by its neighbour, India, which was matching China, which was wary of the Soviet Union, which kept up with the United States” (October 21). Despite this, no nation offers (non-partisan) mediation services in the whole Asia-Pacific region. New Zealand, a small but developed nation that is a threat to nobody, could develop these. An all-party political consensus is needed on the matter. New Zealand must not just rest on “nuclear-free” laurels. — Yours, etc.; J. GALLAGHER. October 21, 1989.
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