Simon J Draper

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[NZ in Belgium @NZinBelgium]

Join us as we mark 109 years since the Battle of Messines (1917).

📍 Nieuw-Zealanderstraat, 8957 Mesen/Messines
🗓️ Sunday 7 June
🕚 11:00

Learn more about the Battle of Messines here: https://t.co/rTc94lRKP7

Lest We Forget 🌹 Kei Wareware Tātou

#NZinBelgium

[New Zealand Mission to the EU @NZinEU]

We are closed on Monday 25 May.

New Zealanders 🇳🇿 requiring consular assistance during this time are requested to check https://t.co/5WsfiyTqgu in the first instance, or call the 24/7 emergency duty officer on ☎️ [phone] in case of urgent assistance requests.

[Simon J Draper @SimonJTDraper]

@RugeBoris @HeidiHulan @ACWLapsley @NATOpress @MattWhitaker46 @EUinNZ @NZinEU

[Paul Ballantyne @NZinWarsaw]

🇳🇿🇵🇱🇺🇦🇳🇴 NZ remains steadfast in backing Ukraine - and we've adapted our support to deliver high-impact training closer to where it’s needed most.

Great to see NZ Defence Force personnel joining the Norwegian-led Operation Legio training mission here in Poland.

Dziękuję bardzo to our friends at the Polish Armed Forces for their outstanding support.

👇 photos from the recent flag raising ceremony.

👉 further details: https://t.co/JAS0fUL2w3

@wieslawkukula
@Poland_MOD
@ChrisPenknz
@VasylBodnar
@AmbVasyl
@NorwayAmbPL
@MFATNZ
@DavidTaylorNZ

[New Zealand Mission to the EU @NZinEU]

Two years on, the NZ–EU FTA is showing real results. Kiwi exports to the EU hit $8.8b in the year to Dec 2025, supporting jobs, businesses and growth on both sides. A strong example of what trusted partners can achieve through fair, stable, mutually beneficial trade 🇳🇿🤝��🇺

[New Zealand Mission to the EU @NZinEU]

Always good to discuss common EU/New Zealand climate challenges and opportunities with Kurt Vandenberghe – DG Clima 🇳🇿🤝🇪🇺

[New Zealand Mission to the EU @NZinEU]

At a busy time for NATO, it was a real pleasure to host Ambassadorial colleagues from Canada 🇨🇦, the UK 🇬🇧, the US 🇺🇸 and Australia 🇦🇺 at the New Zealand 🇳🇿 residence today.

[New Zealand Mission to the EU @NZinEU]

Ambassador Simon Draper 🇳🇿 welcomed Deputy Secretary General of the @eu_eeas, Olof Skoog 🇪🇺 to the Official Residence today alongside the EEAS Asia & Pacific team to discuss how New Zealand and the EU can further advance our already deep and reliable partnership 🤝

#NZCloseToEU

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Good call with @chrisluxonmp

Our relations are going from strength to strength.

Trade is thriving. We are building on the recent Business Summit and our dialogue with CPTPP.

Already 22 Horizon Europe partnerships are bringing our best minds together.

And we are full steam ahead with the dialogue towards a Security and Defence Partnership!

🇪🇺🇳🇿

[Winston Peters @NewZealandMFA]

The Minister spoke today with the High Representative/Vice-President of the European Commission, Kaja Kallas.

They discussed developments of mutual interest, including those relating to the Pacific, Gaza, Ukraine, the Arctic, and the international, rules-based system.

The Minister, reflecting on his conversations during his visit to the Nordic region late last year, reiterated New Zealand’s view that the status of Greenland is a matter for the people of Greenland.

@kajakallas

[Simon J Draper @SimonJTDraper]

@SeanKellyMEP @Europarl_EN Thanks for the debrief - most helpful .

[NZ in Belgium @NZinBelgium]

Ambassador Jen Troup 🇳🇿 attended a commemoration for the 1914 destruction, and 1944 liberation, of the city of Leuven 🇧🇪 last week, and was honoured to lay wreaths at both the local and @CWGC cemeteries. Lest we forget 🌹 #NZinBelgium #NZinEU

[NZ in Belgium @NZinBelgium]

Kiwis 🇳🇿 travelling or living overseas?

Register on https://t.co/el2CEZIqqE so we're able to relay important information and account for your safety and wellbeing, as part of New Zealand's consular response to an overseas emergency.

[European Union in New Zealand @EUinNZ]

✈️ Heading to Europe soon? Important changes are coming to the way New Zealand travellers enter the Schengen area. The EES will be introduced 12 October 2025. With ETIAS coming late 2026.

More details and FAQs here: https://t.co/yfe4YTwC4v

[New Zealand Mission to the EU @NZinEU]

Following 1⃣ year of entry into force of the EU-NZ gold standard #FTA (1 May), Ambassador Draper & a strong NZInc contingent met with @Trade_EU Director Dora Correia, Head of Unit Jörg Wojahn & EU colleagues for the inaugural Trade and Sustainable Development committee.

🇳🇿🤝🇪🇺

[Christopher Luxon @chrisluxonmp]

New Zealand and the European Union are both supporters of sustainable trade and the rules that enable it.

This evening, I spoke with President @vonderleyen to discuss what the EU and New Zealand can do together to support the trade rules that underpin Kiwi jobs and growth.

[NZ High Commission in London @NZinUK]

#StandWithUkraine

[Simon J Draper @SimonJTDraper]

@AustraliaEU Travel well Caroline & Claude. Thanks again for all your support. Brussels snow too for a spectacular send off !

[Simon J Draper @SimonJTDraper]

Delighted to see this well deserved name on the New Year’s Honours List.

“Adele Marie Mason, Te Aro, Wellington, for services to New Zealand-Asia relations”

@asianewzealand

[Simon J Draper @SimonJTDraper]

@jaustinNZ Many congratulations Jonathan

[NZ in Belgium @NZinBelgium]

Minister of Foreign Affairs Rt Hon Winston Peters has announced Jennifer Troup as the next New Zealand 🇳🇿 Ambassador to Belgium and our accreditations.

We look forward to welcoming Jennifer to Brussels 🇧🇪 soon!

https://t.co/llZPRIltMf