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"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

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

"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

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

"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

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

Associate Foreign Minister Simon Upton welcomed the determination of Antarctic Treaty members not to let the pirate
fishing of toothfish fall off the international agenda.

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

New Zealand has agreed to strengthen an important agreement on ozone layer protection, Environment Minister Simon Upton said today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

"A $2.3 million programme will develop the tools necessary for New Zealand to protect its unique biodiversity", Environment Minister Simon Upton said today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

State Services Minister, Simon Upton, condemned Labour leader Helen Clark's willingness to threaten public servants as "thoroughly inappropriate".

  • Simon Upton
  • State Services

"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

Ten New Zealand Police officers will take part in a 280-strong United Nations civilian police deployment for East Timor's
autonomy ballot on 8 August.

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of 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

Twelve months ago New Zealand washed up in the chair of the United Nation's environmental 'watch-dog', the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD).

  • Simon Upton
  • Tourism

A consortium of New Zealand companies has secured exclusive rights to examine the feasibility of a waste management development in the province of Batangas Bay, south of Manila in the Philippines.

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

New Zealand will provide technical expertise to assist Indonesia's preparations for the forthcoming national elections Foreign Minister Don McKinnon and Associate Minister Simon Upton announced tod

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade