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

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

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

"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,

"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

"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.

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

"A grant of $117,000 for the New Zealand Film Archive's Rosier Fund will help ensure the safekeeping of this country's film heritage", the Minister of Cultural Affairs, Hon Simon Upton, said today.

The Minister of Cultural Affairs, Hon Simon Upton, today announced three appointments to the New Zealand Film Commission.

Cultural Affairs Minister, Simon Upton, restated the arts funding situation after a wildly misleading headline in the Dominion muddied the waters.

New Zealanders will continue to have access to top quality ballet, Cultural Affairs Minister, Hon Simon Upton, said today.

New Zealand's Environment Minister Simon Upton today welcomed a proposal by the International Petroleum Exchange to establish a traded market for CO2 emissions, in response to a challenge to London

CHRISTCHURCH CONVENTION CENTRE

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

"Owen McShane's 'Think Piece', released today, will initiate three months' serious debate on the thorny issue of land use controls and the scope of the RMA", the Minister for the Environment, Hon S

The Minister for the Environment, Hon Simon Upton, will chair a meeting of Environment Ministers from OECD countries in Paris on 1 -3 April.

I. New Zealand and European Globalisation

The Minister for the Environment, Simon Upton, is preparing to initiate a debate on the range of activities currently controlled by the Resource Management Act.

"The Environmental Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty, which comes into effect on 14 January 1998, will usher in a strict new regime of environmental management for Antarctica", the Associate Ministe