NZUS
Council executive director Jordan Small welcomes the news
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will meet with US
President Donald Trump in New York next week.
"It is an
important first bilateral meeting and an opportunity to
reinforce with President Trump our shared interests, values
and history in an increasingly complex and challenging
geopolitical environment."
Mr Small says it is also an
opportunity to reinforce New Zealand's long-standing
interest in a free trade agreement with the US to support
growing exports in a relationship in trade balance.
"This
is a bilateral relationship increasingly characterised by
exciting and innovative export goods and services,
technology and creative businesses, and leading-edge science
and research.
"Often these New Zealand businesses are
working in partnership with US firms employing New
Zealanders and Americans and they are attracting
transformative US investment which helps them connect to
global markets," Mr Small
says.
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