New Zealand in the Pacific: a complex strategic environment

New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rt Hon Winston Peters, will address his governments's plans to work with its Pacific partners to meet the many strategic and development challenges facing the region.

New Zealand’s place is in the Pacific. Culturally, geographically, and politically, New Zealand is a Pacific Islands country. But the Pacific is an increasingly complex strategic environment, with a broad range of external factors affecting its present and future.