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News that negotiations on a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) would begin in Geneva shortly was welcomed today as a major breakthrough by Acting Disarmament and Arms Control Minister Simon Upt

  • Simon Upton
  • Disarmament and Arms Control

"Water quality in popular coastal playgrounds will be safeguarded by new Marine Pollution Regulations that prohibit dumping of garbage and controls sewage discharges from boats," the Minister for t

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

"New Zealand's environment will be in safer hands from tomorrow when the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act, 1996, comes into effect for New Organisms", the Minister for the Environment, Ho

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

"Wellington City Council's promise to pay up if it can't meet deadlines for handling resource consent applications is exactly the kind of response the Government had been hoping for," Simon Upton,

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

New Zealand has closed its ports to all Japanese boats fishing for Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT), Acting Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Upton and Minister of Fisheries John Luxton said today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton and Fisheries Minister John Luxton today condemned Japanese plans to begin experimental fishing of the depleted Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT) stocks from this Frid

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

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  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

"Time and money wasted through poor practice in Resource Management is time and money not available for improved environmental management".

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

New Zealand has responded to the humanitarian crisis in Sudan with a series of grants announced today by Associate Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Upton.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

I am pleased to welcome you to what I'm sure will be a practical and informative three days.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

New Zealand is participating in a major new international initiative to give fresh impetus to the nuclear disarmament process, Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton said today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

New Zealand is to make a special one-off contribution of $500,000 to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton announced today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton said today that New Zealand had made a strong call for the United Nations Security Council to continue to act decisively and effectively to defuse the developing

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

New Zealand will provide $50,000 to assist international relief efforts in earthquake-hit north-eastern Afghanistan, Acting Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Upton said today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton said today he was delighted that the initiative by New Zealand and Australia in calling for an emergency meeting of the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva has s

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton said today that special meetings being held in Geneva and Vienna will provide another opportunity for the international community to express its condemnation of

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton said he was appalled at Pakistan's further nuclear testing. "Pakistan may have been seriously provoked by India.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton said that he is dismayed and disappointed that Pakistan has exploded a nuclear device.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton said today that since news broke of Pakistan's nuclear tests, New Zealand missions have been active in United Nations organisations in seeking to increase intern

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton welcomed political and economic measures announced earlier this week by the Indonesian Government as an encouraging step towards peaceful and constitutional refo

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

"New Zealand's Permanent Representative in New York signed the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on behalf of the Government last night", Hon Simon Upton,

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

"New Zealand's delegation to the inaugural meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP) will be pushing for work to begin on a State of the Environment Report for Antarctica," the As

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

"New Zealand welcomes the American initiative to track trade in illegal and unreported catches of toothfish," the Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hon Simon Upton said today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

"New Zealand has pledged additional funding of US$45,000 for UNEP", Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Simon Upton announced today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade