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Environment Minister Simon Upton has challenged Labour's Energy spokesperson Pete Hodgson to spell out just which bit of the European Union's greenhouse gas policy he supports.

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Mr Sutton's claims about the RCD response plan are cheap politics of the sort for which he is renowned.

New Zealand will fund a major English language skills project for schoolchildren in one of the poorest areas of South Africa the Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Hon Simon Upton

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"Following expressions of grave concern from the New Zealand Government, the Chinese Government has investigated the incident in which apple budstock samples were retrieved from a Chinese delegatio

New Zealand is to provide a package of emergency relief assistance to the Great Lakes region of Africa worth over one million dollars, Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Upton an

Christchurch Town Hall

Ladies and gentlemen

I am delighted to welcome you all here to Christchurch at the outset of the 21st Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting.

``New Zealand is concerned by reports that a New Zealand vessel licensed by Australia to fish for toothfish around Australia's Heard Island, has been threatened by a vessel fishing illegally,'' the

``Far from being remotely sensitive about the discovery of fire blight, Australian authorities should be grateful that a keen eyed New Zealand scientist was about and able to bring the disease to t

Associate Foreign Minister Simon Upton today announced a further grant of $150,000 to the New Zealand Red Cross to support the cost of sending New Zealanders to work in relief operations overseas.

The government is to provide a further $250,000 in emergency aid to North Korea, the Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Simon Upton, announced today.

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``New Zealand can be well pleased with the results of this year's election for membership of the Commission on Sustainable Development,'' Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Si

``Reports this morning that an independent review panel has found that the campaign to rid Auckland eastern suburbs of the white spotted tussock moth was `doomed to failure' from the start, are qui

The Biosecurity Council has held its first meeting this afternoon. One of its immediate tasks will be to consider the recommendations of the Report of the White Spotted Tussock Moth Review Panel.

The new Biosecurity Council, meeting for the first time today, will provide a much clearer focus for guarding New Zealand's biosecurity, according to Simon Upton, the new Minister for Biosecurity.

``New Zealand is very concerned about unregulated and illegal fishing in Antarctic waters'', said the Hon Simon Upton, Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

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$300,000 grant from New Zealand Overseas Aid will be used to help repair and rebuild schools in the Yasawa islands of Fiji following damage caused by Cyclone Gavin, Associate Minister of Foreign Af