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them a further signal of our basic conformity with their
(Convention for the Protection of the Natural Resound.com) objectives by signing the South Pacifie/Environmental
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9.
At the same time, the conditions for a review of our
position reflect our real interests and will in practice
be difficult to fulfill for a number of years:
(a) the legal questions raised by the Treaty itself, and
by the Soviet statement on signature which apparently
denies the specific right of regional States in the
Treaty to decide policy on ships' visits etc will not
easily be resolved to our satisfaction;
(b) Our stated policy on NFWZS requires that all States
in the region should be in favour. Two regional States
have said they will not sign the Treaty because it does
not go far enough, another that it goes too far;
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(c) The outcome of UNSSD III to be held in 1988 or
1989 will enable us to consider the strength of support
NWFZS in areas where we would not welcome them, and
whether an eventual UK signature will increase pressures
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in that direction.
considerable time.
Such a review will clearly take
10. Option (e) therefore seems to reflect the spectrum of UK interests most closely in practice the Australians
as least of the South Pacific States should appreciate
(in private) our underlying security concerns. [A
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