Audio: Downer on Fiji, Iran ,Iraq and David Hicks
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters face the media in
Wellington
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New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters and his Australian counterpart Alexander Downer held a joint media
conference this morning at the completion of their regular six-monthly talks. Issues discussed at the media conference
were the ongoing situation in Fiji following Commodore Frank Bainarama's coup, the situatiuon in Iraq, whether media
reports regarding a possible United States attack on Iran are credible and the fate of Australian Guantanamo Bay
detainee David Hicks. Near the end of the press conference Mr Peters also had time to espouse on – in his opinion – the
foolishness of Maori Party leader Tariana Turia's latest foray into immigration policy.
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