‘Great friends’ Australia, NZ vow closer defence ties
China forces the troops of Australia and New Zealand from ever before, and the Kiwi leader declares that the defense forces of the country should be olur working together as much as possible ”.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albania and New Zealand counterpart Christopher Luxon ended a hot weekend in a cold glacier near South Island Ski Center town Queenstown on Sunday.
The couple did not commit a friendly joke about which country could claim the invention of Pavlova at the end of the annual leaders’ meeting.
However, in a peace gesture, Mr. Luxon met with the trans-tasman partner and offered a dessert decorated with one side, and the other is generously on top of Tim-Tams.
New Zealand Prime Minister, “We have solved a century of discussion,” he said in a video published on social media containing Sweet Treat.
Although the left right -wing political division was sitting on the opposite side, the interaction showed the close personal relationship between Mr. Luxon and Mr. Albania.
While the couple developed a friendship while working as the General Manager of Air New Zealand, the Australian Prime Minister has now served as Minister of Transportation.
Early on Sunday, the leaders visited an Anzac monument in the nearby town of Arrowtown, and fell side by side in a joint war to commemorate soldiers from both countries.
“When the Australians think about New Zealand, we are thinking of the anzacs and we are thinking about our sacrifice to defend our freedom,” he said.
“Australia and New Zealand are great friends. We think and act on the international stage.”
Albania and Mr. Luxon have promised to further integrate the two nation economies as regional partners faced the strategic environment of “the most unpredictable and dangerous” strategic environment for decades.
In the last decades, New Zealand withdrawn from the Anzus Alliance in the 1980s after banning the US nuclear -energy submarines ports and tried to maintain a more independent foreign policy to Australia.
However, since the election of the conservative Mr. Luxon in 2023, and the ton has changed by increasing the Chinese military supply in the Pacific.
Mr. Luxon spoke positively about Australia’s purchase of nuclear submarines through the AUKUS Pact, and on Sunday, he further increased the workability between the two countries’ militant and swimed the likelihood of Australia to have 10 frigate acquisition agreements from Japan.
New Zealand’s approach to replace the marine helicopter fleet was another example that he could coordinate his military equipment with Australia.
Luxon, “We want to make sure they can work together with Australians as much as possible on the way to the market,” he said.
“In fact, we want to offer common supply offers for things that we can benefit from New Zealand requirements, and as a result, for each country, lowering the collective cost for each of these individual elements.”
The movement of New Zealand defense forces closely connecting to allies such as Australia and the United States was criticized for threatening independent foreign policy, including the former long -term work prime minister Helen Clark.
However, Nicholas Khoo at the University of Otoo Nicholas Khoo said that it is appropriate to strengthen military cooperation, given the increasing uncertainty in international politics.
Aap is an area where we can expect a very real progress in a legitimate way, ”AAP said.
Prof Khoo said that the meeting showed the “steady accumulation olmayan of two neighbors that did not exist until two years ago.
New Zealand had only an alliance level in Australia, and the summit showed its investment in this relationship.
Cooperation has also been seen as a way of helping both countries to achieve their goals to increase economic efficiency, including renewing common standard regulations to facilitate regulations in various sectors.
Couple, Saturday evening, business leaders, to facilitate operating in the two countries, the removal of regulatory compression points, he said.
“We want Barnacles to go as quickly as possible for both countries trying to increase productivity,” he said.
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