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Madam President, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen.

I would like to acknowledge and thank our gracious hosts South Africa and assure the Parties present that New Zealand is, as always, committed to playing a constructive role in these negotiations.

Having accepted a responsibility target under the Kyoto Protocol CP1 we are on track to meet our commitments and no matter what the outcome here in Durban New Zealand's mitigation efforts will continue post-2012.

Ambassador Xu, Minister Carter, Distinguished Guests

I am delighted to open this new dairy factory today – the largest infant formula facility of its type in the Southern Hemisphere. I congratulate the senior executives of the NZ company, Synlait Milk, and our Chinese partners, Bright Food Group, one of the largest food and beverage companies in China.

Let me first acknowledge and thank my colleague and friend, the Attorney-General Chris Finlayson, for inviting me to deliver the annual Ralph Hanan memorial lecture.

As you know, this annual lecture is a celebration of the Liberal tradition of the National Party. It honours one of the Party’s greatest liberal minds and practitioners, the Rt Hon Ralph Hanan. I am not the first to observe in this series of lectures that Chris is perhaps the most obvious inheritor of that proud Liberal tradition.

The intersection between trade and climate change is a large and open policy space. I want to concentrate today on a helicopter view of the two sets of formal negotiations, one in the WTO and the other in the UN setting of the UNFCCC.

I am, one could say, going back to school here: "compare and contrast the two multilateral economic negotiations in trade and climate change". However, before doing so, let me start with a few comments on some specific examples of work New Zealand is doing in this joined-up policy space with Latin American countries.

Director Li,
Deputy Director Han,
Distinguished guests

I would like to thank the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, and the China Academy of Social Sciences, for the opportunity to discuss the opportunities and challenges presented by economic integration in the Asia-Pacific.

Imperatives for regional integration

When we address the question of how we should move forward trade and investment integration in the Asia-Pacific, it is obvious that we are discussing a long term strategy.

Good morning

Excellency Yutaka Banno, Co Chairs Phillip Burdon and Yoshihiko Miyauchi, Hon Lianne Dalziel representing the NZ Opposition, Sir Graeme Harrison, and Gempachiro Aihara, distinguished guests.

The safety briefing given earlier was a stark reminder of how we listened to a similar briefing at the start of the US NZ Council meeting earlier this year in Christchurch. We listened to that safety briefing never imagining it would become real.

Hon David Carter, Mayor Julie Hardaker, distinguished guests

Good afternoon and thank you for this opportunity to do a stock take of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP. I am not going to do a technical appraisal. For one thing, I deeply believe it is not in New Zealand’s interests ever to negotiate any trade agreement through the media and this is a public speech.

Rather, I will give you a political evaluation of the strategy. And the first question I wish to address is: how does this fit into a New Zealand agenda of economic reform?

NZ Dairy - The Next 10 Years

Sir Henry, ladies and gentlemen - and a particular welcome to our overseas guests.

We have in this room a few hundred people who will be critical to shaping the future of the industry over the next ten years. Appropriately, the theme of your Conference is “2020: Focussed on the Future”. I will put before you, in due course, five propositions – one could call them ‘mega-trends’ - that I think will drive the process forward; they are all closely linked with each other.

Trans-pacific Partnership Agreement – A 21^st Century Trade Agreement

Distinguished Guests.

Let me extend a particularly warm welcome to our American friends. We very much appreciate your travelling here to NZ and the commitment to the relationship that obviously represents for busy people with significant responsibilities.

Secretary Ferrari

Members of the New Zealand business delegation

Distinguished Mexican guests

Muy buenas tardes amigas y amigos. (Good afternoon friends)

Thank you Mr President.

We appreciate the effort that the Japan Economic Foundation puts into these events.

Co-Chairmen Mr Brian Martin and Mr Ryu Yano, ladies and gentlemen,

There will be many people in this audience who, like me, are visiting Christchurch - our second most important city - for the first time since the Canterbury Earthquake.

Strategy flows from the top level down.  Although what finally matters to us are our families and our livelihoods, what affects all of us is how we are aligned to strategic trends.  This

Vice President Xi Jinping, Ministers, Ambassador Zhang, Business Leaders, Distinguished Guests.

Address by Hon Tim Groser to the New Economic School

Moscow, 31 May

On the 9th of May each year, a small group of now elderly men gather before a memorial plaque on the waterfront of Wellington, New Zealand's capital. They are joined there by staff from Russia's Embassy and senior representatives from New Zealand's Defence Force.

First, I am deeply grateful for the invitation to address the China Centre for International Economic Exchanges.

As Salam Alaikum. On behalf of the New Zealand delegation gathered here today in Riyadh I would like to thank the Chamber of Commerce for hosting us here today. 

I am delighted to join KEA China and your guests here in Beijing this morning.  It is skilled professionals like you, not just the intrinsic strengths of the NZ economy, who count amongst our

Over the next two weeks at Copenhagen, starting at official level, and culminating with the arrival of some one hundred Heads of Government, including both the British and New Zealand Prime Ministers, we hope to see the shape of an agreement emerge to counter the threat of anthropogenic induced climate change for what is called the ‘second commitment period', which is set to begin on 1 January 2013.

I want to talk to you about the future of NZ agriculture in ways that I suspect may at times be politically reassuring but may also challenge you in other ways. In fact I hope some of these ideas will indeed challenge you: we need some new thinking around agriculture but it cannot just be thinking at an intellectual plane. To bring it into reality, we will need buy in from our farmers to that new thinking.

The Role of Agriculture in NZ's Economy

This symposium has been called to discuss how the public conservation lands and waters should be developed and managed.