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The ozone layer will benefit from a decision by the New Zealand government to export ozone depleting halons for destruction offshore.

"New Zealand is deeply concerned at North Korea's testing of a ballistic missile on 31 August", the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hon Simon Upton, said today.

"The Bay of Plenty's environment report, Postcards from the Bay, provides tangible proof of what local government and the RMA can achieve in terms of administrative and environmental performance wh

The Minister for the Environment has released a technical paper on the design of a domestic emissions trading regime to promote further discussion on the development of New Zealand's greenhouse gas

New Zealand is formally setting in process a procedure to resolve the dispute over Japan's experimental fishing of the depleted Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT) stock.

Fifteen training and business grants to support private sector development in the Pacific Islands were announced today by Associate Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Upton.

New Zealand has welcomed the announcement by Britain and the United States that they will agree to the Lockerbie bombing trial being held in the Netherlands, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and

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

"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

"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

"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,

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.

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

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

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

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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