Tag: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto
While Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinian children in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the occupied...
NZ flotilla members arrive in Jordan, state news agency says
RNZ News
More than 100 people who were part of the intercepted flotilla to Gaza -- including those from New Zealand -- have entered Jordan.
The...
Solomon Islanders safe but unable to leave Israel amid war on...
RNZ Pacific
The Solomon Islands Foreign Ministry says five people who completed agriculture training in Israel are safe but unable to come home amid the...
New Zealand’s foreign policy stance on Palestine lacks transparency
COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs
It is difficult to understand what sits behind the New Zealand government’s unwillingness to sanction, or threaten to sanction, the Israeli...
‘Food not bombs’ Gaza protesters picket MFAT offices in Auckland
Asia Pacific Report
About 20 pro-Palestinian protesters picketed New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) office in Auckland today, demanding a stronger stance...
Out of the shadows: why making NZ’s security threat assessment public...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
The release of the threat assessment by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) this week is the...
John Minto: The hypocrisy of NZ’s silence in calling out Israeli,...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto in Christchurch
On December 30, New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade published a tweet condemning the forced closure of...
