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Lesueur
Well, is this treaty any good, actually, if India and the other—some other Southeast Asian nations stay out of it?
Spender
Well, certainly we wouldn't have participated in it if we hadn't though it was good. We must make a start somewhere, we know that other countries have different views to our own, we understand the reasons why they differ. But it was Australia's view that we should go ahead and we did go ahead.