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

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

"New Zealand is not satisfied with the response of CCAMLR to the problem of illegal and unregulated fishing for toothfish in the Southern Ocean", Associate Foreign Minister Simon Upton said today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Danish Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen arrives in New Zealand today for a four-day visit, Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton said today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

Environment Minister Simon Upton today released the Government's proposed amendments to the Resource Management Act, describing them as "realistic and sensible improvements".

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Environment Minister Simon Upton said today that the Action for Community and Environment (ACE) were being misleading in their claim that the submission time on the RMA review has been shortened.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

"The Government is determined to maintain the integrity of the public sector," Prime Minister Jenny Shipley and State Services Minister Simon Upton said today.

  • Simon Upton
  • State Services

"New Zealand will contribute $150,000 through the United Nation's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for relief work associated with the devastation caused by Hurricane Mitch", the

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of the Environment

To look at what the future holds for public management we need to take stock of where we are now.

  • Simon Upton
  • State Services

"As anyone who has set up their own computer system knows, IT projects can be fraught with difficulties which can result in time delays and additional costs", State Services Minister Simon Upton sa

  • Simon Upton
  • State Services

"The Government has funded a five year programme to tell us more about the health, environmental and agricultural risks related to water quality," the Honourable Simon Upton, Minister for the Envir

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Research findings on organochlorine contaminant levels in New Zealand soil, rivers, estuaries, air, food and in the dietary intake of New Zealanders were released today by the Minister for the Env

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

The Minister for the Environment, Simon Upton, today released the Report of his Reference Group on the Resource Management Act.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

"For at least the last eight months I have been discussing the review of the Resource Management Act around the country and through my website ( www.arcadia.co.nz and select EnviroNet)," the Minist

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

New Zealand is to sign an international convention aimed at controlling international trade in hazardous chemicals and pesticides, Associate Foreign Minister Simon Upton said today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

New Zealand will host a meeting of Antarctic Ministers on the ice continent from 24-28 January 1999, the Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hon Simon Upton, announced today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

New Zealand will host a meeting of Antarctic Ministers on the ice continent from 24-28 January 1999, the Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hon Simon Upton, announced today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

"Unregulated toothfish fishing in the Ross Sea this summer is a possibility that New Zealand is taking seriously," the Associate Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Upton said today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

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

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

"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.

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

"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

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

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

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

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.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

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

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

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

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade