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Trade Minister travels to Geneva and Dubai

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Trade Minister Todd McClay to visit the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Following his appointment as a WTO Vice Chair, Mr McClay is traveling to prepare for the 13th Ministerial Conference of the WTO, being held in Abu Dhabi in February.

While in Geneva, Mr McClay will meet key leaders within the World Trade Organization including the Director General, Deputy Director General, and the heads of key Regional Groups in the WTO, as well as Pacific Representatives.

“The WTO remains at the core of New Zealand’s trade and economic interests. A functioning rules-based system delivers benefits for our businesses and exporters, as well as the broader economy,” Mr McClay says.

“My visit provides the opportunity to influence and drive positive outcomes at the upcoming WTO Ministerial Meeting, especially around domestic agricultural production that supports the interests of both developing and developed countries.”

Mr McClay will then travel to Dubai to meet with Minister of State for Foreign Trade, Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, to discuss New Zealand’s support for the UAE chairing of the 13th WTO Ministerial Committee, and our bilateral trading interests, including exploratory talks towards a bilateral Closer Economic Partnership Agreement.

“The UAE is New Zealand’s largest export market in the Middle East, and a key interlocutor on regional issues.

“I look forward to meeting with my counterparts to discuss and advance our relationship on a number of issues, including trade, food security, and climate change.”

Mr McClay will depart New Zealand on Tuesday 23 January.

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  1. Trade minister discussing trade sounds logical to me.

    Not sure why “food security” is a topic, our food is secure (unless Davos has some plans for 2024 I’m not aware of).

    “…and climate change”. Lord, give me strength 😒🤦🏼

    • Hosea 2:16 “And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.”
      Lord, is Baal or Belial another Name for Satan
      That Judeo-Christians Worship fervently in their fake Christian Church’s
      Matthew 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
      Judaism is communism
      Political
      Economic
      Religious

      • Um okay… thanks? 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️

        Hey good luck with the rest of your sessions, but maybe ask them to up the dosage.

        You’re gonna get through this ✊🏾

      • You are absolutely correct in the confirmed historical fact that Communism was envisioned, actively planned and implemented by violent means by both AshkeNAZI and Khazarian Mafia J***, ie Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin.
        Aleksander Solzhenytsyn confirms this in ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ and ‘200 Years Together’.
        Without J***, there would NEVER have been a Bolshevik uprising that murdered 65 million Russians, Ukrainians and Eastern Europeans for more than 75 years- the same time frame as the formation of the terrorist ‘State of Israel’ that has terrorised the Palestinians for that same amount of time.
        ALL of Biden’s Cabinet are J3w$…how’s that for the explanation of the problems that the U.S. is entangled in…
        The so-called ‘Churches’ are Zionist controlled under IRS Code 501C3…(read the book ‘STASI in the Pews’, and the fact that the majority of the STASI were J***…).
        & while Christ grew up and preached during the times of the evil satanic Sanhedron, He himself never acknowledged anywhere in the Bible that he was a J3w. Rather-
        He was a Nazarene, a sect that was outside Judaism and the Israelites.
        The Nazarenes held the secret and occultic knowledge that the J*** wanted and demanded, but Christ condemned them all! (Matt 23:27, as you mention above) knowing that the Sanhedron would abuse the knowledge and the sciences that the Nazarenes had and knew.
        This runs parallel to the Mahabarata, and the Sanskrit accounts which confirms and verifies the sciences that were employed in those days.

        • YOU need to be advisor to many politicians, because they had no time to study that stuff because they were too busy building their egotistical/psychopathic web of parasitism.
          Same goes for lame-stream media presstitutes: too full of themselves to even realize, how irrelevant they are in today’s free web.

  2. A trade delegation was in India recently too
    Did anything eventuate from this?
    It has been postulated we find new markets in Europe for our forestry exports
    Where does the Suez Canal and Horn of Africa fit into this pipe dream ideology?
    Ludicrous diversions
    China has got us over a barrel
    Our biggest threat is invasion

    • I noted that in the Parliamentary Petitions section online, there was one petition listed that called for ‘New Zealand to become a Neutral Nation’. Last time I saw it online it had only 8 signatures.
      That shows how diverted the population is w/ cricket, rugby, and ‘non-news’ news broadcasting.
      Due to Jabby taking away the right to own and use MSSA firearms that would be needed and used to repel and resist an invasion, such legislation now needs to be reversed so that we can defend ourselves under Chap. 7 Article 51 of the UN Treaty for Self Defence.
      Jabby violated that area of the UN Right to Self Defence.
      NO ONE SHOULD HAVE COMPLIED WITH TURNING IN THEIR SEMI-AUTO MSSA FIREARMS, AND MANY ARE WAITING FOR THE FIREARMS REGISTRY TO BE ABOLISHED LEST THE INVADING FORCE(S) GET HOLD OF THE REGISTRY AND ROUND-UP THE FIREARMS REGISTRANTS FOR EXECUTIONS!
      David Seymour and the ACT Party have yet to introduce legislation to do any of this.
      In fact, when this went to a vote on the House floor to ban the MSSA’s, Seymour diverted himself with a meaningless interview with a staged reporter during the time the votes on the House floor were being taken!
      The basis and formulation for Armed Neutrailty can be found on Wikipedia, and also via Massey University in an essay addressing the same.
      It would take an average of 5 years (according to the U.S. White House) to accomplish New Zealand’s Armed Neutrality under UN Chapter 7 Article 51 in full, but this can be expedited via use of the Cadet Forces for ‘Under 18 Training’, limited recall of the Veterans (one week-end every 4 months) and a blended flow of Defence Assets that are more easily understood and deployed.
      Aircraft Pilots, Boatmasters, Tactical Search & Rescue, NZ Army, Navy and Special SAS Ops would all be valuable assets organised on the Territorial Levels.
      We’re waiting….

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