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New Zealand's next Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be career diplomat Laurie Markes, Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton announced today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

Cabinet Minister Simon Upton today dispensed with the industrial age reliance on  broadsheets and the wireless with the launch of his daily Internet column, upton-on-line.

  • Simon Upton
  • Crown Research Institutes

ADDRESS TO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT LAW ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE, MINISTER'S CHOICE WORKSHOP

National direction or national interference?

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

PLENARY SESSION

TOWN HALL, CHRISTCHURCH

"Corporatisation and Sustainable Management"

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

It is a pleasure for me to be here today to acknowledge the efforts of public servants, in what have been difficult times.

  • Simon Upton
  • State Services

New Zealand's next Ambassador to Japan will be Phillip Gibson, currently Executive Director at Asia 2000, Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton announced today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

"The years ahead pose fresh challenges for food and fibre producers, exporters and marketers.

  • Simon Upton
  • Crown Research Institutes

Environment Minister Simon Upton said today that the call by the Independent Biotechnology Advisory Council (IBAC) to hold off on the unrestricted release of genetically modified plants was a sensi

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

The New Zealand Government has responded to the humanitarian disaster following Taiwan's worst earthquake on record by giving a grant of $150,000 to the New Zealand Red Cross Appeal.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

Abbey Lodge

  • Simon Upton
  • State Services

Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton today welcomed news that New Zealand hostage Geraldo Cruz had been rescued from kidnappers in Chechnya.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

The Government today released submissions on its Climate Change Domestic Policy Options Statement.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Annual Conference
Airport Hotel, Kilbirnie

Thank you for inviting me here today.

  • Simon Upton
  • State Services

"The key to our landmark joint New Zealand and Australian tuna fishing case currently underway this week at the International Law of the Sea Tribunal in Hamburg, Germany, is that it challenges the

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Recent conflicts in Kosovo and Africa continue to challenge the international community to comply with both the letter and spirit of the four Geneva Conventions, 50 years after they were adopted, A

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

MANAGING ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS  A VIEW FROM THE OTHER END OF THE WORLD

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

New Zealand will make a contribution of $250,000 to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to support relief work following the disastrous earthquake in Turkey on 17 A

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

The Government will help grow ideas and match them with investors, Minister for Research, Science and Technology Maurice Williamson, and Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradford announced toda

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

I note that the flyer for this session of the Conference states that "The RMA has vehement critics and supporters.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Thank you for inviting me here today. I thought I would take the opportunity to outline the Government's thinking on the management of waste in New Zealand.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

"This is very disappointing news" was Simon Upton's reaction to reports that a shipment of mixed-oxide fuel (MOX) from Europe to Japan is likely to travel through the Tasman Sea.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton said today that he was distressed to hear of the murder of Western Samoa's Minister of Public Works, Luagalau Levaula Kamu.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

The Government yesterday informed Japan of the legal steps it has decided to pursue in the dispute over Japan's unilateral experimental fishing programme for southern bluefin tuna.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

The Resource Management Amendment Bill, tabled in the House this evening, is the culmination of almost two years intensive policy analysis and public consultation, said Environment Minister, Simon

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment