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ANZUS Pact |
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ANZUS Pactofficially Pacific Security TreatySecurity pact for the South Pacific, signed in 1951 by Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. (hence its acronym). The U.S. first suggested a pact to Australia in the wake of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty and fears of Japanese rearmament. The signatories agreed to maintain a consultative relationship for their collective security. In the 1980s New Zealand refused to let ships carrying nuclear weapons dock at its ports; the U.S., refusing to identify its nuclear-armed ships, suspended its treaty obligations to New Zealand in 1986, and the treaty has since been nonoperative with reference to New Zealand. |
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At the same time, the ANZUS pact was a source of controversy within New Zealand politics, almost from its inception. India did not show any hostility to the 1951 ANZUS pact when it was signed. |
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