Fletcher Tabuteau
Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs
13 February 2018
New Zealand hosts conventional weapons conference
New Zealand is hosting 14 Pacific countries at the Pacific Conference on Conventional Weapons Treaties in Auckland from
12 to 14 February.
New Zealand’s Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Fletcher Tabuteau, formally welcomed delegates to the
Conference with a reception in Auckland.
“The Conference provides an opportunity to reinforce the importance our region places on enhancing human security and
protecting our peoples from harm,” said Mr Tabuteau.
“It further reaffirms the role that the Pacific can play in protecting and strengthening global norms and in advancing
the scope and span of humanitarian law,” he said.
The Conference is sponsored by the Governments of Australia and New Zealand and is being attended by Pacific countries
including: Australia, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Papua New
Guinea, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
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