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"Today I extend the very warmest of Kiwi welcomes to 7 visitors who join us to celebrate the Festival of Asia this week" Foreign Minister Don McKinnon said today.

"I was very concerned to learn today that treason charges have been laid against Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and eleven Nigerian pro-democracy figures," Foreign Minister Don McKinnon said today.

New Zealand is to give 50 thousand dollars to help victims of the recent devastating earthquake in Iran, Foreign Minister Don McKinnon announced today.

New Zealands new High Commissioner to London is Dr Richard Grant. He will replace Mr John Collinge at the conclusion of his term in April, Foreign Minister Don McKinnon announced today.

New Zealand's relations with the United States are the best they've been in more than a decade, Foreign Minister Don McKinnon said today.

New Zealand and Austria have broken new ground this week with the meeting between their Foreign Ministers in Vienna.

The Commonwealth Ministers Action Group on Nigeria will seek information on Nigeria from non-governmental organisations and international and regional groups before a final report is submitted to C

The design and plans submitted during the competition for the new Parliamentary Building project will be displayed in a public exhibition.

"Nigeria. Nuclear Safety Standards. Disarmament. The UN. The new Clinton Administration.

Foreign Minister Don McKinnon said today that an Intersessional Meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) would be held in Wellington on 19-20 February.

Foreign Minister Don McKinnon today announced the appointment of Datuk Mohamad Amin Bin Haji Satem as New Zealand's first Honorary Consul in the Malaysian State of Sarawak.

"We had a discussion about New Zealand's approach to East Timor in Cabinet yesterday," Foreign Minister Don McKinnon said today.

New Zealand's new High Commissioner to Niue will be career diplomat, Michael Pointer, Foreign Minister Don McKinnon announced today.

In an informal meeting Foreign Minister Don McKinnon today spoke to Jose Ramos Horta, a prominent spokesperson for East Timorese independence and 1996 co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, for nearly

A range of Waitangi Day activities around the country have Government input this year.

The Ministers of Defence, Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Youth Affairs announced today that the minimum age for recruitment into the armed forces had been raised from 16-and-a-half to 17 years.

Foreign Minister Don McKinnon will meet the Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, in Adelaide on Thursday.

Foreign Minister Don McKinnon announced today that New Zealand would contribute $20,000 to the relief programmes of the Solomon Islands Red Cross.

Foreign Minister Don McKinnon has welcomed the accord on Hebron negotiated this week between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

"Following the statement that the nuclear waste shipment will be travelling through the South Pacific I asked the Acting Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade to talk again to the Japanese Ambassa

"Extremely disappointed" was Foreign Minister Don McKinnon's reaction today to the news that the shipment of vitrified high level nuclear waste will pass through the South West Pacific on its way t