UNITED STATES POSITIVE ON TRADE WITH NZ: SUTTON
23 June 2000

Mr Sutton said he also had a useful meeting with John Sweeney, the president of the American Federation of Labour-Congress of Industrial Organisations. "He's the United States' Ken Douglas - the statesman of the union movement." Mr Sweeney had been an important supporter for Mike Moore's bid to become World Trade Organisation director-general. Mr Sutton said he and Mr Sweeney talked about trade and labour issues and he felt that the thinking on those issues in the United States was not too dissimilar to the thinking in New Zealand.

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