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Thursday, September 7, 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Nations condemn France after nuclear test
The Associated Press
PARIS — France faced heavy diplomatic fallout around the world Tuesday for its underground nuclear test in the South Pacific, and opponents renewed efforts to head off more blasts.
Official criticism ranged from regret to the cutoff of diplomatic relations. A general strike was called in the Tahitian capital of Papeete, and protesters in other countries burned French flags, marched, and chained themselves to fences.
"If it is safe, why don't they set it off in their own backyard?" said Chris Gately, among about 150 protesters outside the French Consulate in Sydney, Australia.
Tuesday's blast on Mururuca Atoll ended a three-year French moratorium on nuclear tests that had been joined by all of the world's nuclear powers except China.
In Paris, Greenpeace and leftist political parties called for an evening rally, while the front page of leftist newspaper *Liberation* showed a melting likeness of President Jacques Chirac.
The French president argues the tests are needed to update France's nuclear arsenal and develop simulation technology that would render test blasts obsolete. He promises to sign a test ban treaty next year.
But reaction to the first of as many as eight tests was swift. The United States, Russia, Japan, Australia, Greece, New Zealand, Spain, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Ecuador and the 15-nation South Pacific Forum were among those registering their opposition.
"This is not the action of a good international citizen. It is not the action of a good neighbor," Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans said.
Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating called it "an act of stupidity"
and said that "with every test they conduct, the good name of France will be diminished in this part of the world."
New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger said he was recalling his ambassador from Paris for consultations "a mark of New Zealand's outrage."
The United States said it regretted the French test.
"We continue to urge all of the nuclear powers, including France, to refrain from further nuclear tests and to join in a global moratorium as we work to complete and sign a comprehensive test ban treaty in 1996," a White House statement said.
Russia, which along with the United States and Britain no longer conducts tests, said the Mururoa blast "is counterproductive, since it undermines the integrity of nuclear powers observing the moratorium for nuclear tests."
Germany reacted cautiously to the tests by its top partner in Europe.
SOURCE: Greenpeace, news reports
But about a dozen German protesters chained themselves across a highway near Saarbrücken, halting traffic for several hours.
The British government, which maintains a nuclear arsenal but
plans no further testing, remained low-key. The Foreign Office called French testing "a matter for them, and for them to justify. We understand the concern the decision has caused in a number of countries."
In China, participants in an international women's forum staged small protests. China called on France to "continue to join other countries in striving for the conclusion of the comprehensive test ban."
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