Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum received the New Zealand Minister for Foreign Affairs, Nanaia Mahuta, for a bilateral meeting yesterday (29/03/22). Minister Mahuta remarked that this was their first face to face meeting, stating “the only other time we’ve spoken has been on a virtual platform!”
The A-G sincerely thanked Minister Mahuta and the New Zealand Government for their assistance in providing life-saving vaccines, direct budget support, and technical and medical assistance to Fiji in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the bilateral meeting, the A-G and Minister Mahuta also discussed the recent re-opening of Fiji and New Zealand’s borders and tourism sectors, national strategies for climate change adaptation and mitigation, global inflation and supply chain issues, Fiji’s growing BPO sector, policy reforms for the health and labour sectors, and other opportunities for co-operation for strategic advantage in the region.