Wellington urged its neighbour to ‘take concrete steps to repair the relationship and restore trust’
A spokesperson for New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said in a statement that the country’s core sector support funding relies on a high-trust bilateral relationship and New Zealand decided in early June to pause the funding.
We “will also not consider significant new funding until the Cook Islands government takes concrete steps to repair the relationship and restore trust,” the spokesperson said.
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