The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Briefing to the Incoming Minister was released publicly at 2pm today.

It is available at: http://beehive.govt.nz/sites/all/files/MFAT_BIM_1.pdf

Certain passages of this document have been withheld under sections 6(a), 6(b)(ii), 6(d) and 6(e)(vi) of the Official Information Act.