New Zealand's Defence Minister Chris Penk reaffirms the country's independent foreign policy and confirms ongoing commitment to military drones, stating the nation is on the right path without significant deviation from current defence strategy.
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And I remember being in Manila after this um with George Schultz, the um American Secretary of State, and uh my colleague Richard Griffin was garrotted by a secret serviceman who said you needn't think you're talking to our Secretary of State when he comes out of the room. Well, I got in with my microphone over the top of them, and we got uh comment from um him saying that um we part, but we part as friends. And then a few years later, um Colin Powell, he said we're very, very, very good friends. That was another question I put to him when he was seeing Helen Clark, and then lo and behold, in 2008 in July before that election, Condoleezza Rice came and batted her eyelids at Winston Peters, the foreign minister, and um she said that we're allies who were seen as a major breakthrough, and indeed it uh in fact was.
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pragmatic partnership with mutual respect and strategic alignment
The beat up about so called NZ freeloadingchallenged by false choice narratives
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