NZ-US-Aust talks tomorrow
For the first time in decades a trilateral meeting between the United States, Australia and New Zealand will be held on the sidelines of the Pacific Islands Forum in Vanuatu tomorrow.United States Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Af
For the first time in decades a trilateral meeting between the United States, Australia and New Zealand will be held on the sidelines of the Pacific Islands Forum in Vanuatu tomorrow.
United States Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell said the aim was: "to talk about some of the challenges that we together face in the Asia Pacific region.
"That dialogue is a profound recognition not of our differences, of which there are one or two, but about the areas we need closer consultation and dialogue."
The talks are a further mending of the relationship battered by the nuclear issue which tore the ANZUS military alliance in 1984.
Dr Campbell also confirmed that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would visit New Zealand later this year.
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