Politics

General Politics

Category : News
Author: Lisette Reymer

Ukrainian fighters have started taking turns to leave the battlefield and the country to spend time with the New Zealand Defence Force.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/06/ukraine-invasion-new-zealand-soldiers-help-ukrainian-fighters-practice-using-weapons-for-war.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Category : News
Author: Jamie Ensor

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has expressly called out a "more assertive" China during her speech at a summit hosted by NATO, the North Atlantic military alliance regularly criticised by Beijing.

As the leaders' summit in Madrid was underway on Wednesday, China's Ambassador to the United Nations made his country's thoughts on the group very clear, saying it had "sowed the seeds of conflict" in Europe and that "must not be allowed to happen in the Asia-Pacific".

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/06/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-calls-out-more-assertive-china-at-nato-as-beijing-warns-against-military-alliance-expanding-to-pacific.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Category : News
Author: Seni Iasona

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has spoken to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky over the phone just days after turning down a meeting with him. 

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/06/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-shares-solidarity-with-ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelensky-over-the-phone.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Category : News
Author: RNZ

New Zealand has designated US groups the Proud Boys and The Base as terrorist entities.

Set down in the government's official journal of record - the gazette - last Monday, 20 June, it was published publicly a week later but with no wider dissemination.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/06/new-zealand-designates-american-proud-boys-and-the-base-terrorist-organisations.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Category : News
Author: Glenn McConnell

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern highlighted China’s human rights abuses and called for nuclear disarmament during her speech at the Nato Leaders’ Summit overnight.

Ardern said her speech displayed the country’s “fiercely held independent foreign policy” and commitment to standing for peace and human rights.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300625460/ardern-calls-for-nuclear-disarmament-criticises-china-over-human-rights-during-nato-speech
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Category : Analysis
Author: RNZ

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has used her speech to NATO leaders to push this country's "fiercely held" independent foreign policy while also condemning Russia's actions in Ukraine as an affront to the world.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/470046/ardern-tells-nato-leaders-ukraine-war-must-not-fuel-arms-race
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Category : News
Author: Robert G Patman

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's acceptance of an invitation to speak at this week's Nato leaders' summit in Madrid has fuelled a narrative that New Zealand's independent foreign policy is falling victim to a new Cold War.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/469913/nz-invite-to-nato-summit-not-reward-for-shift-in-foreign-policy
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ: