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Aid organisations like World Vision appreciate the offer of Hercules planes to assist with aid in Afghanistan, Minister in charge of aid, Matt Robson says.

Aid organisations like World Vision appreciate the offer of Hercules planes to assist with aid in Afghanistan, Minister in charge of aid, Matt Robson says.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has engaged an international executive search agency to find a head for New Zealand’s reformed overseas aid agency to be established on 1 July 2002, Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Responsible fo

“New Zealand will continue to encourage United Nations members to take a serious look at the failings of the sanctions regime in Iraq, says Associate Foreign Affairs Minister Matt Robson.

“New Zealand will continue to encourage United Nations members to take a serious look at the failings of the sanctions regime in Iraq, says Associate Foreign Affairs Minister Matt Robson.

New Zealand is standing by to send aid teams to Afghanistan, and prepared to add its weight behind a UN led programme to establish stable government , Aid Minister Matt Robson repeated today at the African Focus Conference in Auckland.

New Zealand is standing by to send aid teams to Afghanistan, and prepared to add its weight behind a UN led programme to establish stable government , Aid Minister Matt Robson repeated today at the African Focus Conference in Auckland.

Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of overseas aid Matt Robson today announced an aid and development package for Afghanistan.

He launched the package at the Alliance Annual Conference in Auckland.

Alliance Conference, Nga Tapuwae Centre, Auckland

Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister in charge of aid and Minister for Disarmament, Hon. Matt Robson

“Population and environment pressures may seem far away from New Zealand. But the Pacific, although it makes up only 0.4% of the world’s total land area, shows signs of both,” says Minister in charge of aid, Matt Robson.

The government is exploring with United Nations agencies measures to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.

The government is exploring with United Nations agencies measures to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.

A New Zealand funded eco-tourism project in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (formerly Laos) won a United Nations Development Award for “significant achievement in the area of sustainable development and poverty alleviation”.

A new approach to the New Zealand Government’s aid programme in Indonesia will see a shift towards direct poverty intervention in the country’s poorest areas, Associate Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Matt Robson announced today.

New Zealand and its partners in the New Agenda initiative reaffirmed their determination to pursue global nuclear disarmament in New York yesterday.

5 October 2001

Main Common Room, Student Union, University of Otago

I want to talk about the Alliance position on the fight against terrorism, and I want to talk about the role that New Zealand can play in that fight.

Prime Minister Helen Clark and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs Matt Robson announced today that New Zealand will contribute $1 million to the United Nations Consolidated Appeal for Afghanistan.

INTRO

Tena kotou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa

I would like to welcome you all here today, and thank the New Zealand Red Cross for organising this international seminar.

"We expect to have a chief executive to head the new aid agency early next year," says Minister in charge of aid, Matt Robson.

Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Phil Goff and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of aid, Matt Robson announced new directions and new institutional arrangements for the way New Zealand’s international aid funds are spent.

Matt Robson launched his own web site today. The address is www.robsononline.co.nz .

Remarks by the Hon. Matt Robson during a debate on the Government's decision to acquire 105 light armoured vehicles for the Army, 28 August 2001.

I am pleased to be, for a second time, invited to address the annual meeting of the representative body of development non-government organisations in New Zealand.

Introduction

I am pleased to be, for a second time, invited to address the annual meeting of the representative body of development non-government organisations in New Zealand.

Introduction