41.   If France resumes testing, Keating said it would undermine the permanent extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty reached last month at the United Nations.

42.   Keating has said that the declaration of a republic will help Australia form stronger ties with neighboring countries in economically-booming Southeast Asia.

43.   Keating said France should pay for any environmental damage.

44.   Keating said he also raised the questions of human rights in East Timor and the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya.

45.   Keating said he regretted it had become public.

46.   Keating said he was told by the FBI that authorities were initially looking for three people of Middle Eastern descent in a brown pickup truck.

47.   Keating said it was quite a comprehensive apology and should satisfy most of the wartime opponents of Japan.

48.   Keating said the French play a constructive role in the South Pacific.

49.   Keating said the resumption of French tests threatened the viability of a proposed comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty, which France has promised to sign next year.

50.   Keating said the test could jeopardize ongoing negotiations for a proposed international Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.