GATT SUCCESS WILL TAKE PRESSURE, N.Z. MINISTER Long term pressure by trade ministers is necessary if the current Uruguay round of talks on the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) is to succeed, New Zealand's Overseas Trade minister Mike Moore said. Moore told the opening meeting of trade ministers from 22 nations gathered for informal talks on the GATT that ministers "need opportunities to keep in touch and to consider how the political problems inherent in an exercise like this one can be faced and resolved." Moore said the Taupo meeting is one of a series of such international gatherings, which includes the OECD ministerial meeting in May and the G-7 meeting in Venice in June, enabling ministers to maintain contact. World trade conditions are getting better not worse, he said. He said New Zealand is "moving rapidly and of our own initiative in the direction of liberalisation, and I warn you we shall be looking for partners."