Key points from the Joint statement on the New Zealand 🇳🇿- Cook Islands 🇨🇰 Joint Ministerial Forum - 2024:
- Formalised architecture via Leaders meeting, Joint Ministerial Forum and Joint Ministerial Forum Working group.
- Establishment of an officials’ level annual defence and security dialogue under the Joint Ministerial Forum Working Group.
- Elevation of relationship in 2025 to mark 60 yrs since Cook Islands became self-governing in free association with New Zealand.
- CI sought NZ inter-agency collaboration with the Cook Islands Seabed Minerals Authority in scientific research, technical and environmental support, policy and legislative support, institutional strengthening and capacity building.
- "frank discussion on strategic issues including the increasingly complex and insecure global context, and the challenges facing the Pacific. The Ministers reiterated their commitment to Pacific-led solutions to challenges in our region and the critical role of the Pacific Islands Forum as the pre-eminent regional organisation."
- "shared concerns with the political unrest in New Caledonia .. called for peace and order to prevail to enable respectful dialogue between the parties and affirmed their support for the Pacific Islands Forum playing a constructive role."
- MoU on health.
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Indonesia has been closely following the security partnership of AUKUS, particularly the announcement on the pathway to achieve AUKUS critical capability.
Today in history: The ambassadors of #China and #Australia in France signed a joint communique to announce the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. A day to cherish our friendship and commemorate our predecessors’ political wisdom.
Cracking part one essay from @Sydney_Uni @j_b_curran and @UTSEngage @acri_uts @elenacollinson on @AlboMP and his foreign policy evolution. Can’t wait for the China focused part two tomorrow. https://t.co/mFbuxcxRgi
Glad to share on today’s Courier Mail with Queenslanders my views about our reciprocal cooperation and shared vision to cope with climate change. With certainties from the 20th National Congress of CPC, the China-Queensland friendship will bring more sunshine to 🇨🇳🇦🇺 relations.
ICYMI: video/audio/transcripts of last Friday's public event @UTSEngage with 🇨🇳 Amb. to 🇦🇺, H.E. Xiao Qian is now available. The event's premise was clearly validated by the huge public interest it attracted.
@acri_uts was delighted to host the dialogue. https://t.co/xOUMLaeFEN
“Paradoxically, with all the talk about ‘Australia’s Pacific family,’ very few people from Australia’s nearest neighbors are represented in Australia’s migrant community (0.88 percent in 2016).”
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1. Hello everyone. I'm Lu Kang, Chinese Ambassador to Indonesia. It is my great pleasure to meet you on Twitter today, on the 72nd anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Indonesia.
More than 100 world leaders have confirmed attendance at the most important UN climate summit since the 2015 Paris Agreement. Australian PM Morrison says he may not attend. https://t.co/jvoEuaILK2
At #UNGA76, @FijiPM explains that if we can "spend trillion of dollars on nuclear-powered submarines, then surely we can fund climate action." @FijiMissionUN
On August 30th, I repeat August 30th, in a common statement, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense of France and Australia reaffirmed their commitment to the Submarines deal….
The world is a jungle. France has just been reminded this bitter truth by the way the US and the UK have stabbed her in the back in Australia. C’est la vie.
New article by Ning Tuanhui (@Ning0706), PhD candidate from @PKU1898 & Research Fellow at #CSCAP China on the 'Two Sessions' and the #diplomatic signals sent from Wang Yi's press conference: https://t.co/tGR42YZ7nW