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NEW ZEALAND’S STRANGE DIPLOMATIC

STOUSH WITH KIRIBATI

By Jon Fraenkel Cook Islands have been denounced by some as neo-colonial
grandstanding but welcomed by others as signalling a timely
The squabbles between New Zealand’s Foreign Minister, tightening of Pacific aid policy.
Winston Peters and heads of government in Kiribati and the In January, Peters called off a trip to Kiribati and

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