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Belgium
Joined May 2011
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Replying to @RugeBoris
🇳🇿🇵🇱🇺🇦🇳🇴 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: tinyurl.com/36648ddh @wieslawkukula @Poland_MOD @ChrisPenknz @VasylBodnar @AmbVasyl @NorwayAmbPL @MFATNZ @DavidTaylorNZ
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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
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Always a good read. Useful to get hard data rather than the usual ‘reckons’
NEW REPORT: New Zealanders’ Perceptions of Asia and Asian Peoples 📚 Now in its 27th year, the latest survey released today shows New Zealanders continue to see the Asia region as being very important to NZ’s future. 🔗 Read the full report here: asianz.org.nz/our-resources/…
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Such compelling content coming out of #sld2024 - strong sense of FOMO as first one missed for a few years @asianewzealand @SuzJessep @Ng_Eng_Hen @JudithCollinsMP
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Good to see Australia well represented by @Rory_Medcalf at the #SchumanForum2024 and reminding participants of the IndoPacific experience. @asianewzealand @SuzJessep
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Replying to @nkvarnstrom
The Minister has highlighted the strong ties that bind 🇳🇿 and the Nordic countries of Northern Europe during a trip to 🇸🇪 today.    “There are few countries in the world more likeminded with New Zealand than our friends in Northern Europe,” - WP 1/🧵 beehive.govt.nz/release/nz-a…
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Good friend of New Zealand @GregHands swapping trade stories about @toddmcclaymp and @DamienOConnorMP @NZinEU @VangelisVNZ @MFATNZ – at Brussels, Belgium
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Historic day as Swedish flag raised @ NATO HQ. – at Evere, België
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Relevant content
ambassadors rolling into next post despite inability to lead or string sentence together in local language teapaw.org/twesq/status/163140667…
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Aussie Aussie Aussie - you never disappoint ! ‘Oh my God’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery | Health | The Guardian theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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Hey @flyPAL and @Qantas if one of you would be just answer the contact center hotline number I was given so I find out if my business class paid for bag is actually going to make it to Manila as promised. That would be, well, minimal service. – at Pasay City, National Capital Region
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Asia to contribute around 70% of global growth this year. #cbs23
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So off we go. Sad to say farewell to the best job I've ever had....
After nearly eight years with the Asia New Zealand Foundation, our Board Chair Dame Fran Wilde has announced that @SimonJTDraper is departing as our Executive Director and returning to MFAT to take up a senior role. Read the media release here: asianz.org.nz/news/executive…
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And now ⁦@Ng_Eng_Hen⁩ sums up the last few days with his typical pragmatism, facts and calm. Avoiding physical conflict is #1 goal. #SLD23 ⁦@asianewzealand⁩
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Though pauses to check weather it was just some Singaporean thunder he heard, and nothing more kenetic. – at Central Region, Singapore
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It’s raining ⁦⁦@asianewzealand⁩ foundation advisors at #SLD23. So grateful for ⁦⁦@Ng_Eng_Hen⁩ support for the Foundation and our presence here.
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