INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of New Zealand Winston Peters will go to Sri Lanka, Nepal, India and Australia later this week,
the New Zealand federal government has announced.Foreign Minister Peters is travelling first to Adelaide, Australia to undertake six-monthly
Australia-New Zealand Foreign Ministers Consultations with his Australian counterpart, Penny Wong.He will then travel to South Asia, with
programmes in Sri Lanka, Nepal and India.We are dedicated to bringing greater focus and energy to New Zealands relationships with South Asia
New Zealand should work along with partners to add to a stable, safe and flourishing Indo-Pacific, Peters said.In Colombo, the New Zealand
Foreign Minister will carry out the first visit by a New Zealand Foreign Minister to Sri Lanka considering that 2013, meeting President
Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Prime Minister Dr
Harini Amarasuriya and Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath.New Zealand and Sri Lanka have invested substantially in boosting our bilateral
relationship over the past 5 years, consisting of by opening High Commissions in Colombo and Wellington
This check out will provide political momentum and management to that process, Peters noted.In Kathmandu, he will undertake the very first
check out to Nepal by a New Zealand Foreign Minister, conference Nepals President Ramchandra Paudel, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and
Foreign Minister Rana Deuba.Peters will then take a trip to New Delhi to fulfill Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam
Jaishankar.Foreign Minister Peters will depart New Zealand on May 23 and return on May 31, according to the government of New Zealand.
