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FULL COVERAGE: New Zealand PM's State Visit To
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Tech News: Helen Clark Visited Microsoft Headquarters in Seattle - New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark last week visited Microsoft HQ in Seattle, where she met with its CEO Steve Ballmer. The visit focused on technology solutions designed to create opportunities for New Zealand’s continued economic development and growth plans. See... NZ PM Helen Clark Visits Microsoft Headquarters
ALSO:
Bush And Clark Meet Then
Face The Press
Video: US President Bush and
NZ PM Helen Clark talk to media post their official
meeting.
Scoop Audio & Images: PM In Washington D.C. (Day 2 - Part 2) Helen Clark answers media questions after her meeting with US president Bush.
Scoop Audio: PM In Washington D.C. (Day 2 - Part 1)
ALSO:
Scoop Report: DC. Impressions From Inside The Power House - Scoop's Rosalea Barker writes: The buildings are all much smaller than they seem to be on the telly. The scale of the West Wing, at least, is really no bigger than that of a family home. The annex that links the White House to the West Wing contains the indoor swimming pool where JFK allegedly had his trysts with Marilyn Monroe. The pool has been covered over since those days, and the annex is now used as a break room for the media encampment that is permanently lined up along the driveway to the west wing. See... Stateside: Rosalea’s Big Day Out In D.C.
ALSO:
Foreign Affairs: PM Meets Condoleezza
Rice In Washington – Delivers Speech On Pacific -
New Zealand Prime Minster Helen Clark's visit to Washington
D.C. began today with a meeting with Condoleezza Rice at
Blair House the official residence for foreign visitors to
the White House. This was followed by a luncheon speech to
the Asia Society. This afternoon the Prime Minister will be
meeting the Democrat Party leader of the House of
Representatives Nancy Pelosi. Tomorrow she will be meeting
the President at 11am Washington Time (6am NZT) followed by
a working lunch. See…
Audio/Images: PM In Washington DC (Day 1 Part 1) &
(Day 1 Part 2)
MORE:
Scoop
Streaming Audio (click here to listen): PM's Post US/NZ
Council Media Standup – Washington D.C., 20/03/07 (10
mins)
Scoop
Streaming Audio (click here to listen):PM's Asia Society
Speech& Q&A – Washington D.C., 20/03/07 (42
mins)
Scoop
Streaming Audio (click here to listen):PM's Standup Q&A With
Media, 20/03/07 (6 mins)
Tech News: Helen Clark Visited Microsoft Headquarters in Seattle - New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark last week visited Microsoft HQ in Seattle, where she met with its CEO Steve Ballmer. The visit focused on technology solutions designed to create opportunities for New Zealand’s continued economic development and growth plans. See... NZ PM Helen Clark Visits Microsoft Headquarters
BACKGROUND:
Foreign Affairs: Is NZ Poised For A Major
Foreign Policy Shift? - A Free Trade Agreement
between New Zealand and the United States may well be a
longstanding goal of New Zealand governments going back to
1990. But in 2007, is an FTA with the United States a clever
disguise, a red herring masking a more significant shift in
New Zealand foreign policy? Scoop's Selwyn Manning analyses
an emerging union of common foreign interests. See... State
Visit Signals Shift In NZ/US Foreign Policy
Foreign Affairs: Footage Details
Emerging US Engagement In Pacific - Scoop Video:
Significant attention is now focusing on what
Australia, New Zealand and the United States are planning in
an attempt to take the uncertainty and instability out of
the Pacific region. Scoop today releases footage (from
November 06)) of NZ prime minister Helen Clark, US assistant
secretary of state Christopher Hill and others discussing
Pacific security; NZ/US free trade; how the US can make
diplomatic use of NZ's anti-nuclear laws; and a renewed
commitment by the US to increase its presence in the
Pacific.
Scoop Video: An A NZ US Plan For
Pacific Stability?
Scoop Audio: Scoop's Selwyn
Manning & Radio Adelaide's Peter Godfrey discuss: How New
Zealand is moving to warmer relations with the United States
highlighted by a NZ state visit to the White House.