Monday, 26 February 2007, 1:47 pm Article: Kevin List
Audio: Downer on Fiji, Iran ,Iraq and
David Hicks
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and New Zealand
Foreign Minister Winston Peters face the media in
Wellington
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New
Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters and his Australian
counterpart Alexander Downer held a joint media conference
this morning at the completion of their regular six-monthly
talks. Issues discussed at the media conference were the
ongoing situation in Fiji following Commodore Frank
Bainarama's coup, the situatiuon in Iraq, whether media
reports regarding a possible United States attack on Iran
are credible and the fate of Australian Guantanamo Bay
detainee David Hicks. Near the end of the press conference
Mr Peters also had time to espouse on – in his opinion –
the foolishness of Maori Party leader Tariana Turia's latest
foray into immigration policy.
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