Wellington: Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Minister met with John Key, New Zealand’s Prime Minister on Thursday.
During the meeting, Shaikh Abdullah highlighted the UAE’s keenness and its desire to promote cooperation and friendship between the two countries, in addition to providing more opportunities of growth and progress and to support these relations in all fields, serving the common interests of the two countries and peoples.
The New Zealand prime minister welcomed the visit of UAE Foreign Minister and his accompanying delegation, expressing hope that the visit will have positive results in promoting what has been achieved during the last years of development in the two countries’ relations, as well as help explore further prospects and opportunities of investment and partnership in economic, trade, tourism, agriculture relations and renewable energy projects.
The meeting also touched on ways to achieve further growth and prosperity in the strategic partnership between the two countries and the possibility of opening up new investment areas. It reviewed taking advantage of opportunities in both countries besides providing more opportunities for the private sector, investors and businessmen’s participation in joint projects especially in the fields of renewable energy, tourism, agriculture, education and other fields.
Later, Shaikh Abdullah and Murray McCully, Foreign Minister of New Zealand, signed a number of memorandums of understanding on the establishment of a joint committee between the two countries, the exercise of members of the diplomatic mission to their work, in addition to cooperation in the field of higher education and scientific research.
The meeting, which took place in the New Zealand parliament headquarters, reviewed relations of cooperation and friendship between the two countries and ways of boosting them in various fields.
They also discussed the latest regional and international developments and exchanged views on a number of issues of mutual interest within the framework of cooperation and coordination between the two countries.
The meeting reviewed the final signing of the free trade agreement between the Gulf Cooperation Council and New Zealand, where Shaikh Abdullah stressed that this agreement would contribute to strengthening economic relations and trade exchange between all the GCC countries and New Zealand.
