Federica Mogherini and Jacinda Ardern – Picture by European Union.7 August 2018, Wellington, Dominion of New Zealand: European Union’s High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, welcomed New Zealand’s so-called “Pacific Reset” during a visit to Wellington, and thereby expressed her desire to increase cooperation between the EU and New Zealand in the Pacific region.
She held a working lunch with Kiwi Foreign Minister Winston Peters and called on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during her visit, indeed a first visit to New Zealand by the EU chief of diplomacy.
The Pacific Reset was announced by Winston Peters in February this year, and he secured a $714 million funding boost for overseas aid over four years, in a move applauded as a more meaningful challenge to China’s deep pockets.
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Mogherini said New Zealand and the EU already had worked closely on energy projects in the Pacific but could cooperate more on climate change, oceans policy.
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