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On September 1 1951 New Zealand, Australia and the US signed the mutual defence pact known as the ANZUS Treaty.
ACT New Zealand - 2008
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On September 1 1951 New Zealand, Australia and the US signed the mutual defence pact known as the ANZUS Treaty.
ACT New Zealand - 2008
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On September 1 1951 New Zealand, Australia and the US signed the mutual defence pact known as the ANZUS Treaty.
ACT New Zealand - 2008
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The plucky little country (New Zealand, not Switzerland or Liechenstein) also gave the finger to the United States, disallowing nuclear-powered USA ships from docking at New Zealand ports, causing the USA to suspend ANZUS Treaty obligations to that country around 1987, I think.
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The plucky little country (New Zealand, not Switzerland or Liechenstein) also gave the finger to the United States, disallowing nuclear-powered USA ships from docking at New Zealand ports, causing the USA to suspend ANZUS Treaty obligations to that country around 1987, I think.
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Nowhere was that more evident than on Wednesday in Canberra, Australia, where the President Obama and Prime Minister Julia Gillard marked the 60th anniversary of the ANZUS defense alliance and announced a major boost to military cooperation between the two long-time allies.
Obama in Oz Mary Kissel 2011
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JONES: No, but I mean is the decision to put more troops in on the request of the Americans or not going to be based on some understanding of the ANZUS alliance?
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JONES: So you're saying it's not an ANZUS issue, briefly?
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But then, I see a pan-federation of UK, US, ANZUS, Canada all teaming up to repopulate the US with a shared political future so what do I know?
Cheeseburger Gothic » Man, I should really check my own canon before setting these exam questions. 2009
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Progress could be enhanced if the Joint Chiefs of Staff were affirmatively tasked to work with security alliance counterparts -- NATO, ANZUS, and JASA -- and develop a technical plan to achieve a nuclear weapons free world, the Department of State was unambiguously instructed to advance diplomatic efforts to achieve a nuclear weapons free world, and the President promptly announced that the US will never use a nuclear weapon first.
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