{"id":10089,"date":"2024-06-04T16:25:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T04:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10089"},"modified":"2024-06-04T16:25:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T04:25:40","slug":"christopher-luxon-speaks-to-media-from-niue-on-his-first-pacific-trip-as-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10089","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Luxon speaks to media from Niue on his first Pacific trip as prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is speaking to the media from Matavai Resort in Niue on his first trip to the Pacific since taking office.<\/p>\n

While in Niue,\u00a0Luxon is meeting with Premier Dalton Tagelagi<\/a>\u00a0and will celebrate 50 years of Niue’s self-government in free association.<\/p>\n

Niue has a similar arrangement to the Cook Islands and Tokelau – as a country with free association within the realm of New Zealand, its citizens are also New Zealand citizens.<\/p>\n

New Zealand also provides aid to Niue, and assists it with its affairs.<\/p>\n

Earlier this afternoon Luxon arrived in Niue on a New Zealand Defence Force Boeing 757 which landed on the recently upgraded runway at Hanan International Airport, which New Zealand contributed to.<\/p>\n

He will attend a King’s Birthday Reception at Niue’s official residence later this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, Luxon will be taking a tour on a SAR vessel along Niue’s western coast, as well as getting a brief introduction to the Niue Assembly Chamber and attend the official opening of the airport runway resurfacing.<\/p>\n

After less than 24 hours in Niue, Luxon will tomorrow head to Fiji.<\/p>\n

VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is speaking to the media from Matavai Resort in Niue on his first trip to the Pacific since taking office. While in Niue,\u00a0Luxon is meeting with Premier Dalton Tagelagi\u00a0and will celebrate 50 years of Niue’s self-government in free association. Niue has a similar arrangement to the Cook Islands and Tokelau – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,222,208,174,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiji-news","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-nz-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10090,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions\/10090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}