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Associate Foreign Minister, Rt Hon Simon Upton, today applauded the pioneering research completed this week by the New Zealand led Cape Roberts Project in Antarctica.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

New Zealand's next Ambassador to Spain will be career diplomat Christine Bogle, Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton announced today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

New Zealand will contribute $150,000 to Red Cross flood relief work in central Vietnam, Acting Foreign Minister, Hon Simon Upton, announced today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

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

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 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

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

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

"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

New Zealand's response to Japan's recommencement of experimental fishing for southern bluefin tuna is to pursue legaloptions.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

"New Zealand is contemplating international legal action over Japan's decision to conduct a second unilateral experimental fishing programme for southern bluefin tuna", Acting Foreign Minister Simo

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

New Zealand will contribute a further $950,000 from the overseas aid programme to assist refugees who have fled Kosovo, Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton said today.

  • Simon Upton
  • 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

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

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

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.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

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

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

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

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

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.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

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.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

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

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

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.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade