40673 (2025). Hon Rachel Brooking to the Minister of Foreign Affairs

Written Question
Published date: 05 Sep 2025
40673 (2025). Hon Rachel Brooking to the Minister of Foreign Affairs: What meetings, if any, did New Zealand’s delegation have with other countries’ delegations during the international treaty on plastic pollution negotiations in Geneva?
Rt Hon Winston Peters: During the plastic pollution negotiations in Geneva, the New Zealand delegation engaged with a wide range of other delegations in both formal and informal negotiating settings. The New Zealand and Australian delegations had a joint meeting with the Pacific Small Island Developing States group and also met on a regular basis with the non-EU grouping od developed countries and subsets of this group (Japan, Korea, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland, United States and Iceland).