Joint Declaration by United States Secretary of State the Honorable Antony J. Blinken and New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs the Right Honourable Winston Peters.
We met today in Washington, D.C. to recommit to the historic partnership between our two countries and the principles that underpin it—rule of law, democracy, human rights, trade and investment, and strong people-to-people connections. At a moment when our nations face shared challenges—including the climate crisis, strategic competition, and Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine—we are working more closely than ever to tackle them together and champion our shared values and interests.
Our countries are united by our enduring stake in an open, stable, and prosperous Indo-Pacific. We are resolved to uphold the conditions that have seen the region thrive, including freedom of navigation, the peaceful settlement of disputes, and respect for sovereignty and internationally agreed-upon rules and norms. These are the principles that will continue to guide our partnership into the future, supported by diplomacy, development, defence, economy, and intelligence, the latter enhanced by our long-standing Five Eyes partnership.
To advance this shared vision, we commit today to working even more closely together not only with each other, but also with our like-minded regional partners, especially our mutual ally Australia. We see great potential for collaboration in frameworks and architectures that reflect our shared vision. We share the view that arrangements such as the Quad, AUKUS, and the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity contribute to peace, security, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and see powerful reasons for New Zealand engaging practically with them, as and when all parties deem it appropriate.
Our nations share deep ties with—and commitment to—the Pacific Islands. New Zealand warmly welcomes the United States’ comprehensive program of engagement with the Pacific, which provides a strong platform for working together for a more prosperous and resilient region. The United States applauds New Zealand’s commitment to the Pacific Islands, including the announcement of a substantial investment to provide critical internet connectivity. Our continued work in the Pacific will be guided by the centrality of the Pacific Islands Forum and the region’s priorities, consistent with the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent. We will continue to prioritize working with others to amplify Pacific priorities globally, including through the Partners in the Blue Pacific.
The principles we support in the Indo-Pacific are universal. They drive what we seek to achieve elsewhere in the world, whether through NATO and its partnership with the four Indo-Pacific democracies of New Zealand, Australia, Japan and the Republic of Korea, or through other regional and global mechanisms.
For the past decade and more, the vital U.S.-New Zealand relationship has been guided by the Wellington and Washington Declarations. Today we re-commit ourselves to these documents—but we also recognize that the most challenging strategic environment in decades requires us to do more together. We resolved today to seek to meet annually at the Secretary of State and Foreign Minister level. We reaffirmed the vital role played by the foreign policy, defence, intelligence, economic, space and tech partnerships between our two countries. These mechanisms actuate our relationship and our unwavering commitment to the values that we prize.
F***ing deplorable. The US is a global war monger, spreading interference, instability, suffering and death, across the globe.Their latest efforts in supporting Israel’s genocide, a clear indicator of why not moral govt would touch them with a barge pole.
Failing healthcare, failing education, failing social social services and they want to squander our money and reputation on this bunch.
This govt, like the last one needs to go. Anyone voting mainstream globalist party’s, is a wasting their vote.
I know I know, I said this to hubby this morning. But what do we do? The only answer is for Americans to wake up take their country back and we all move on from there.
Like it or not we need to be friends with America. The globalist zionists who run the American govt need to be put in prison where they belong. Only then van the world know peace.
If you haven’t seen “all wars are bankers wars’’ I highly recommend.
No we don’t need to be friends with warmongers. They are nowhere near our shores and there are plenty of decent nations, with good govts, we can be friends with. This lot are the last people we should be talking to. They have interfered in our nation in a negative way far too often. Getting rid of them, like other nations who have been exploited by them should be a priority and would be, if we had decent govt.
Not sure who’d make the winner or loser in honourability, but here is my unilateral declaration:
USA get out of other peoples’ business!
And Winnie, do your job, last one you might ever hold!
Bravo. +1.
Blinkin a blinking globalist war pig. We should be building a better relationship with Russia.
Exactly and China. The US a lame duck and its on the way out.
Perfect, with viable thinking!
Russia has helped the U.S. on several occasions since the mid 1800’s, and each time Russia never asked for anything in return except friendship and good diplomacy.
The ‘Cold War’ the MIC, and the exploitive Zionists (the Khazarian and AshkeNAZI J3w$…) who were run out of western Russia and the Ukraine around the mid- 900AD, re-established themselves in Russia via the Bolshevik Revolution.
Result; 65 million Russians murdered via the Red Terror, GULAGs, the Cheka, SMERSH and the GRU / KGB.
Those organisations were heavily populated by the coke-snorting, leather-jacketed Bolshevik J3w$, as noted by Aleksander Solzhenytsyn in his books ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ and the horrible humanitarian, anti-Russian disaster that it brought!
Solzhenytsyn has gone further to expose this caustic and murderous facet of Russian history in his last book ‘200 Years Together’.
And of course, Solzhenytsyn (a Nobel Prize winner) has since been labeled as ‘anti-semitic’..
Noteworthy is that Russian President Putin has made ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ mandatory reading for all Russian High School students, so that they can recognise the onset and gradualism of Zionist-inspired tyranny that is brought on via gradualism and the Communist (Talmudic Zionist) dictates, so that it will never happen again.
Now, the Zionist Talmudic J3w$ are trying it on again, via the Donbass War starting in 2014 due to election interference in the Ukraine that resulted in the partial genocide of the ethnic Russians in the Eastern Donbass region, which has gone on for 10 years, no thanks to Obama and Nuland.
While the Russians extended the hand of peace asking for dialogue in what they thought was a legitimate act on the part of the West via the Minsk Agreement, that agreement was only diversionary and false, allowing the J3wi$h-led Ukraine to buildup weapons to invade Russia.
Fortunately, Presidents Putin & Medvedev put a stop to the deception, and instituted Russia’s right to security.
& Lavrov is by far a much better Statesman than Blinken, who goes about ignoring the genocide, and doing side shows while the bodies pile-up in Gaza and the West Bank.
Winston Peters what do you think you are doing talking up crap like this?
You are certainly not talking for the people of New Zealand.
My prayer is for the demise of the political class, particularly in the west.
They won’t go without a fight.
Imagine what is going to happen with Seymour sliding into the role of DPM, and Chloe leading the Greens (Reds).
But by then World War Three will have probably gone hot…!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDpGJ1vo_14
Here’s another angle to the edicts, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBDU_MWsD98