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New Zealand mission to the EEC, 1961

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New Zealand mission to the EEC, 1961

Thomas Macdonald (left), head of New Zealand's mission to the European Economic Community (EEC), presents his credentials to Walter Hallstein, president of the EEC Commission, at Brussels, Belgium, in July 1961. Macdonald was also New Zealand's high commissioner to the UK. In both diplomatic posts his main concern was to safeguard New Zealand's export markets if Britain joined the EEC.

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Michael Green, Foreign policy and diplomatic representation – Foreign policy in Europe and beyond, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/34286/new-zealand-mission-to-the-eec-1961 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Michael Green, i tāngia i te 28 May 2012, updated 1 May 2016.