N.Z. to I.U.S.?

NZSPA Reporter

Wellington. — The International Union of Students has extended, at the request of the New Zealand University Students' Association, an invitation for a New Zealand observer to attend the IUS Congress at Ulan Bator, Mongolia, from March 27 to April 5.

NZUSA is a member of the rival international organisation, the International Student Conference.

Prominent on the agenda, contained in a letter from IUS President Zbynek Vokrouhlicky, are reports on Vietnam and "the intensification of students' struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neocolonialism headed by United States imperialism, for national liberation and independence, democracy and social progress."

Other major topics include the unity of the world student movement and material cooperation programmes.

Meanwhile NZUSA President Ross Mountain has approached the Security Service to ascertain its interest in relations between the two rival world student movements. It was a quest for this information which led security agent David Godfrey to make investigations at Auckland University last year.

Despite the invitation representation is unlikely because of travel costs involved.