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●ニュージーランドのヘレン・クラーク首相（労働党政権）が昨日
（２月11日）、年次教書発表の中で、「我が国はイラクに対する
一方的な行動を支持しない」と、米国の好戦政策への断固たる反対を
表明しました。国連査察の延長を支持する方針だということです。
●ニュージーランドは反核政策を打ち出して米国への“一方的従属”
関係から独立する外交政策を歩み出しました。ANZUS同盟は
それ以来、名目上は機能不全に陥っていますが、むしろこれによって
国家的な独立と、周辺諸国との友好関係の強化と、隣国オーストラリア
との連帯関係の強化に向かっています。
●「核爆弾被爆」の歴史を“対米被害者意識の宣伝”としてしか
利用してこなかった欺瞞的で卑屈な日本政府も、ニュージーランドから
学びうることはいろいろとあると思うのですが……。
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PM delivers anti-war message to the US
12 February 2003
By NICK VENTER
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2257045a11,00.html
Prime Minister Helen Clark sent her clearest message yet to President George W Bush yesterday that New Zealand opposes United States war plans.
Delivering her annual statement to Parliament, she said: "We do not support unilateral action against Iraq."
Her comments came as international differences over Iraq widened, with Nato allies arguing over military preparations and France, Russia and Germany proposing an alternative to US plans.
They also came the same day Australian Prime Minister John Howard met Mr Bush in Washington.
ACT NZ leader Richard Prebble said Miss Clark was lining New Zealand up with continental Europe against its traditional allies.
But Miss Clark said New Zealand was seeking to uphold the principles of multilateralism, the international rule of law and the authority of the United Nations Security Council.
She has previously stressed the importance of multilateral decision-making to small countries like New Zealand and said diplomatic initiatives should be allowed to run their course before war is contemplated.
She said the Government supported the weapons inspectors continuing their work if they believed they could make progress.
"That has to be preferable to the consequences of war on the people of Iraq and to the implications war could have for the wider Middle East, for international terrorism, and for the United Nations itself."
However, she acknowledged that armed intervention was likely with or without the backing of the UN Security Council unless there were dramatic developments within Iraq.
If that action was sanctioned by the Security Council, New Zealand would consider offering humanitarian, medical or logistical support, probably after the conflict had ended.
Army engineers and mine clearers were the most likely New Zealand contribution, she indicated.
Miss Clark used the bulk of her statement to list the initiatives taken by the Government to give life to the innovation framework announced last year.
She said the Government was "very positive" about economic prospects in a difficult international environment but would retain a tight grip on spending.
National leader Bill English said New Zealand was faced with a choice between "bad and worse" options.
He urged the Government to take account of "our relationships with our traditional allies because they are so precious".
Mr Prebble said the Government had, over January, "casually for the first time in our history turned down a request made to us by the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia".
NZ First leader Winston Peters demanded to know whether New Zealand would be "in it or out of it" if war began next week but did not say what NZ First's position was.
The Dominion Post
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