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WikiLeaks: NZ's position on OECD Sec Gen selection
Monday, 20 December 2010, 2:05 pm | Wikileaks
November 9, 2005. New Zealand agrees with the United States and believes Jose Angel Gurria to be the best candidate for Secretary General of the OECD. While New Zealand also sees both candidates -- Gurria and Marek Belka -- as qualified, it considers ... More >>
WikiLeaks: NZ on UN third committee resolutions, US voting
Monday, 20 December 2010, 2:03 pm | Wikileaks
November 9, 2005. Pol-Econ Counselor discussed reftel points with Val Meyer, Deputy Director of the UN, Human Rights, and Commonwealth Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. P-E Couns said that she hoped New Zealand would support all the ... More >>
WikiLeaks: NZ wants to move ahead on HSPD-6 initiative
Monday, 20 December 2010, 2:01 pm | Wikileaks
November 10, 2005. The New Zealand government remains eager to move quickly toward bilateral sharing of terrorist lookout information. To move forward, however, the government needs to know more about how the information it supplies to the United ... More >>
WikiLeaks: NZ's response to message on NATO support
Monday, 20 December 2010, 1:59 pm | Wikileaks
November 14, 2005. Post's defense attache on October 28 delivered the ref C demarche -- encouraging New Zealand's contribution to the NATO relief effort in Pakistan -- to Air Vice-Marshal David Bamfield, vice chief of the New Zealand Defense Force (ref ... More >>
WikiLeaks: NZ response on DPRK flag of convenience issue
Monday, 20 December 2010, 1:57 pm | Wikileaks
November 21, 2005. The New Zealand government does not consider Maritime Mutual Insurance Association NZ (MMIA) to be an insurance company. Although MMIA is incorporated in New Zealand, the government says that it has advised the Japanese government that ... More >>
WikiLeaks: What honeymoon? PM Clark's new coalition
Monday, 20 December 2010, 1:55 pm | Wikileaks
November 22, 2005. Less than two months into her new Government, the local press has quoted PM Clark's coalition officials as contradicting each other over foreign policy, notably whether or not New Zealand needs to repair its relations with the ... More >>
WikiLeaks: Green Party Co-leaders Death
Monday, 20 December 2010, 1:53 pm | Wikileaks
November 25, 2005. New Zealand's Green Party is likely to move further left following the unexpected death of its relatively pragmatic co-leader Rod Donald. The Greens, who garnered about 5% of the party vote in September's general election, are in a ... More >>
WikiLeaks:NZ's avian and pandemic influenza planning update
Monday, 20 December 2010, 1:47 pm | Wikileaks
November 25, 2005. Since launching a government-wide effort in June, the GNZ has vigorously planned for the possibility of avian and pandemic influenza entering New Zealand. Under the coordination of the Ministry of Health (MOH), the Inter-sectoral ... More >>
WikiLeaks: NZ's position on Trips-CBD issue
Monday, 20 December 2010, 1:45 pm | Wikileaks
December 8, 2005. New Zealand will support the U.S. government's position in Hong Kong to block any attempt to include a negotiating mandate on the relationship between the TRIPS Agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in the ministerial ... More >>
WikiLeaks: NZ supports most US goals for UN reform
Monday, 20 December 2010, 12:46 pm | Wikileaks
January 26, 2006.(SBU) New Zealand concurs with most U.S. objectives for UN reform. Charge delivered refs A and B on January 25 to Caroline Forsyth, deputy secretary of the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Forsyth said that reforming ... More >>
WikiLeaks: NZ PM sorts out Ministers' portfolios
Monday, 20 December 2010, 12:44 pm | Wikileaks
February 2, 2006. New Zealand Prime Minister Clark has decided that Jim Sutton, who on December 31 wrapped up his tenure as trade negotiations minister, will remain a minister of state inside Cabinet. Former Foreign Minister Phil Goff has taken over ... More >>
WikiLeaks: NZ's priorities for APEC 2006
Monday, 20 December 2010, 12:43 pm | Wikileaks
February 8, 2006. Rupert Holborow, New Zealand's senior official for APEC, said his government has identified key issues it would like APEC 2006 to address, but "without specificity" since it is waiting to learn about other APEC economies' priorities. ... More >>
WikiLeaks: CDR CENTCOM visit to New Zealand
Monday, 20 December 2010, 12:41 pm | Wikileaks
February 28, 2006. General Abizaid's February 23-25 visit to New Zealand came one month after Admiral Fallon's visit amid high media interest in the bilateral relationship. The General met with Prime Minister Clark, Defense Minister Goff and Foreign Minister ... More >>
WikiLeak: EAP/ANP director Krawitz's February meetings in NZ
Monday, 20 December 2010, 12:39 pm | Wikileaks
February 28, 2006. Discussions during ANP Director Krawitz's February 8-11 visit to New Zealand addressed PRC activities in the Pacific, Pacific Island issues, regional stability, counter-terrorism, Antarctica, U.S.-New Zealand relations, bilateral military ... More >>
WikiLeaks: NZ reports on DPRK flag of convenience issue
Monday, 20 December 2010, 12:36 pm | Wikileaks
March 5, 2006. A representative of Maritime Mutual Insurance Association NZ (MMIA) has told a New Zealand official that the company no longer insures North Korean vessels. The representative believes that the North Korean ships that had been insured by ... More >>
WikiLeaks: NZ will support Guatemala for UNSC seat
Monday, 20 December 2010, 12:34 pm | Wikileaks
March 7, 2006. Post discussed reftel points with the UN and Human Rights division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Charles Kingston, an officer in the division, has confirmed that New Zealand will support Guatemala's candidacy for the 2007-8 ... More >>
WikiLeak: Cook Islands High Commissioner sacked for plotting
Monday, 20 December 2010, 12:27 pm | Wikileaks
March 22, 2006. Cook Islands High Commissioner sacked for plotting. On March 3, citing involvement in a plot to topple him from Government, Cook Islands Prime Minister Jim Marurai sacked Dr. Robert Woonton as High Commissioner to New Zealand. Marurai ... More >>
WikiLeaks: GNZ aims to cool expectations for U.S. FTA
Monday, 20 December 2010, 12:22 pm | Wikileaks
March 24, 2006. Summary: The New Zealand government is preparing the public for the likelihood it will not attain free trade negotiations with the United States any time soon. After six years of pressing its case for such a deal, the Labour-led government ... More >>
WikiLeaks: Approach to NZ on Israel/JUSCANZ
Monday, 20 December 2010, 12:20 pm | Wikileaks
27/03/06. Summary: As requested reftel, Ambassador McCormick and the Australian and Canadian High Commissioners called on Foreign Minister Peters to urge that New Zealand support Israeli membership in the Geneva JUSCANZ group. Peters promised to discuss ... More >>
WikiLeaks: Samoa elections: 03/04/06
Monday, 20 December 2010, 12:18 pm | Wikileaks
Summary: Officials of New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) and the Australian High Commission (Australian HC) in Wellington have been closely watching Samoa's elections. Both anticipate that a high number of election petitions ... More >>
