New Zealand Maintains Prohibition on Port Calls by Nuclear-Powered Foreign Warships

The New Zealand parliament yesterday voted to maintain the country’s ban on stopovers by nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships from other nations, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, June 22).

A representative of a small right-wing party proposed a referendum on lifting the ban, arguing that it had cost Wellington a free trade agreement with the United States. All the other parties represented in parliament, however, yesterday voted down the bill, AFP reported (Agence France-Presse, July 28).

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