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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:02 pm Post Subject: Australia's Latham calls NZ Safest Country in the World
Australian former leader of the opposition Mark Latham supported New Zealand's stance on its foreign policy with the US in his recently released book:
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"We should have a look at how New Zealand has made itself the safest country in the world," he told ABC radio.
"There is no terrorist threat to New Zealand that has been identified but (there is) one here. If you go supporting bad American policy you make yourself a bigger target and you stir dissent in your own country," he said.
Inevitably, I am reading comments about the desperate efforts of the guy who stole the plane and flew around the skytower on the weekend. Bring back the skyhawks etc etc...
I firmly believe, as Latham suggests, the safest way to protect New Zealand is through measured foreign policy and diplomacy and through carefully negotiating our way through the minefield of global issues affecting our country. Aggressive foreign policy, posturing and support for preemptive attacks on others, in my opinion, would obviously put us at risk.
