Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit New Zealand next week for a bilateral meeting and official dinner, Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has announced.
Peters said the Government looks forward to "re-engaging" with the minister and "discussing the full breadth" of "one of New Zealand’s most important and complex” bilateral relationships.
"Trade between New Zealand and China, as well as strong people-to-people, cultural and business links, has delivered significant benefits to both our countries," Peters said in a statement this afternoon.
The New Zealand China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership was agreed on 10 years ago, and Peters said it was therefore "timely" to discuss New Zealand and China’s relationship over the next decade, "while building a strong understanding of our respective perspectives".
Topics of discussion would include regional and global issues such as the importance of "peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region".
Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also Director of the Foreign Affairs Commission Office of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, previously visited New Zealand in 2014 and 2017.
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