8 May 2001 Media Advisory
Mallard to lead NZ delegation to ADB conference
Associate Finance Minister Trevor Mallard will lead the New Zealand delegation at the Asian Development Bank conference
in Hawaii this week.
The delegation includes the Secretary for the Treasury Dr Alan Bollard.
Trevor Mallard will present the New Zealand intervention at the conference on Friday 11 May at approximately 5.00pm (New
Zealand time). Speech notes will be available.
"As the only multilateral source of concessional assistance exclusively for Asia and the Pacific, the ADB is important
to New Zealand," Trevor Mallard said.
"By attending this conference, I hope to develop a more structured, productive and cooperative relationship between New
Zealand and the ADB, so as to improve the effectiveness of both the bilateral and multilateral development programmes in
Asia and the Pacific."
ENDS