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[SECURITY CLASSIFICATION] Foreword from the High Commissioner In This Edition It is with great pleasure that I introduce President Pranab Mukherjee the inaugural issue of our High visits New Zealand Commission Quarterly Newsletter. It is -- Prime Minister John Key visits another step forward in enhancing our Sri Lanka public outreach, having started our -- Facebook page in March 2014 and our Former New Zealand Twitter accounts in January 2015. We Prime Minister Helen Clark runs continue to grow online daily, bringing for Secretary General of the UN -- New Zealand closer to those we engage with in South Asia and in New New Zealand and India sign an Zealand. Air Services Agreement -- Launching a newsletter complements Ship Building in Bangladesh these efforts by taking us to people who -- Education New Zealand may not be active on social media. It announces scholarships for will also allow us to go into some Indian students greater detail on the growing bilateral -- relationships New Zealand has with High Commission hosts two India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. new Asha interns This issue, for instance, includes a piece highlighting the key outcomes of the Upcoming Events historic visit by Shri Pranab Mukherjee to New Zealand, the first by an Indian Eminent and award-wining Māori writer President to our country. It also Witi Ihimaera will visit India features an update on the Air Services and Bhutan in August. He will Agreement that was signed during the be travelling to Thimphu to President’s visit, explaining how it will attend the Mountain Echoes make flying easier between India and Literature Festival -- New Zealand. I hope you keep reading High Commissioner Grahame Education New Zealand will Morton attended this year’s our newsletter and that you take time host fairs in New Delhi (August out to send us some of your valuable ANZAC Day service in 27) and Chennai (August 28) feedback. This is our first newsletter, Kathmandu, which also marked -- one I hope you enjoy. We will also be the first anniversary of the April Tourism New Zealand will open to special interest pieces or guest 25 earthquake organise ‘Kiwi Link India’ in Mumbai from July 11-15 to articles written by those actively support the promotion of New advancing New Zealand’s relations in the countries of South Asia. Your Zealand as tourism destination contributions will render these pages much more meaningful. in the Indian market -- Grahame Morton The Black Caps will tour India New Zealand High Commissioner to India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka from September 23 – October 30 for a series of test and one- day international matches Follow Grahame Morton on Twitter on @GMortonNZ New Zealand High Commission, New Delhi newzealandhighcommissionindia Sir Edmund Hillary Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi 110 021, India @NZinIndia A snapshot of the India-NZ New Zealand and India sign a revised Air Services relationship Agreement A key agreement signed during President Pranab “Today’s signing will Mukherjee’s visit to New Zealand in April was a revised boost tourism, trade Air Services Agreement between our two countries. and personal ties New Zealand Transport Minister Simon Bridges signed between our two the deal with Sanjeev Balyan, India's Minister of State New Zealand’s relationship with countries,” Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. The agreement will India is a priority and we share Bridges said boost tourism and trade by enhancing air connectivity. a warm friendship. The New Zealand airlines now have the opportunity to sell seats through code relationship is underpinned by shares on international flights to seven Indian cities - Bangalore, Chennai, our historical ties, which Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai and New Delhi. Indian airlines, on the other continue even today through hand, can do so to any airport in New Zealand and Fiji. It also keeps open the the Commonwealth, and our door for direct flights between the two countries when airlines consider shared love for cricket! commercial conditions are ripe. Here are some fast facts about the India - New Zealand relationship: Latest figures from Statistics New Zealand show that bilateral trade in goods and services between our two countries crossed NZ$2 billion for the first time last year. Top exports to India include logs, kiwifruits, apples and wool. Imports from India, on the other hand, comprise Prime Minister John Key visits Sri Lanka retail medicines, motor vehicles and precious metal jewellery. Highlighting growing commercial and India is New Zealand’s political ties between Sri Lanka and second largest market for New Zealand, Prime Minister John Key international students. For the landed in Colombo on February 24 on year ending December 2015, a a three-day visit. After bilateral total of 21,093 student visas discussions with President Maithripala were issued to Indian students Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil to study in New Zealand, which Wickremesinghe, Key launched two is an increase of 20% from dairy development projects to support 2014! the Sri Lankan dairy sector and boost farmer incomes. He also opened Fonterra's new demonstration farm in Pannala which is training local farmers to Outbound tourism from improve the volumes and quality of local milk supply. The Prime Minister later India to New Zealand is at met some northern Sri Lankan farmers whose lives have been improved record levels! For the year through the Wanni Dairy Regeneration Activity, a programme that has been ending March 2016, 46,512 running with support from the New Zealand Aid Programme. He also announced Indians visited New Zealand. an extension to this project to help communities in the country’s Northern, Eastern and North Central provinces. On this last day in Sri Lanka, Key spoke to With more than 160,000 Sri Lankan and Kiwi business leaders, urging them to take advantage of the New Zealanders of Indian growing commercial opportunities between the two countries. He also visited origin, Indians account for Kandy’s Temple Of The Sacred Tooth Relic and the city’s Royal Botanic Gardens, around four percent of where he planted a mango sapling and in doing so followed the footsteps of New Zealand’s population. former Prime Minister Walter Nash, who planted a now large tree in 1957. Page 2 Education NZ Historic first visit by President announces India Mukherjee to NZ scholarships A clear Auckland morning greeted Shri Pranab Mukherjee at the start his three-day visit on April 30, the first by an Indian President. He held bilateral talks with Governor General Sir Jerry Mateparae and was later hosted at a state dinner at his Residence. He had further talks with Prime Minister John Key and Opposition Leader Andrew Little. One of the key agreements signed on Indian students seeking this visit was a revised Air Services Agreement. Shri financial support to study Mukherjee also visited Auckland Museum, laying a in New Zealand can now wreath and visiting its famous Māori and Pacific apply for the New Zealand collection. He also addressed students of AUT’s Excellence Awards. Tertiary Business School, highlighting the role education has Education, Skills and played in developing our ties. A MoU supporting an Employment Minister President Pranab Mukherjee Indian Council for Cultural Relations Chair of Indian Steven Joyce announced was welcomed with a special Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington was this new university Māori ceremony at Governor also signed. The President’s other engagements scholarship initiative in May General Sir Jerry Mateparae’s included a Business Leaders function in Auckland in the presence of Indian Residence in Auckland and a large interaction with the Indian community. President Shri Pranab We thank the President for visiting us and look Mukherjee. The forward to the next high-level visit from India. programme will offer thirty-five top Indian scholars the opportunity to New Zealand nominates former PM Helen Clark for the study graduate and position of Secretary-General of the UN postgraduate programmes “A strong at all eight of New New Zealand has nominated Helen Clark as its candidate for candidate for Zealand’s world class the post of the United Nations Secretary-General. Having the job” universities, including in served as the Prime Minister of New Zealand for nine years science, technology, and as the Administrator for the United Nations Development engineering and maths Programme (UNDP), Clark is a strong candidate. As the head of UNDP, Clark last (STEM), fashion and visited India in March this year and has actively followed growth and development in business-related courses. the country. She was also the keynote speaker at an event hosted by the Permanent The successful New Mission of India to the UN in New York on April 13 to commemorate the 125th birth Zealand Excellence Awards anniversary of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Father of the Indian Constitution. You can recipients will each receive learn more about her campaign on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s website NZ$ 5,000 towards their at http://www.mfat.govt.nz/helen or by following @Helen4SG on Twitter. tuition fees and will begin their studies in 2016 and Bangladesh builds ship for NZ 2017. Education is a key pillar in New Zealand’s Western Marine, a Chittagong-based shipbuilder, has built a bilateral relationship with vessel commissioned by the New Zealand Ministry for India. In 2014, more than Foreign Affairs & Trade. The ship, named MV Mataliki, is part 20,000 Indian students chose to study in New of New Zealand’s Aid Programme for Tokelau, a group of When the MV Mataliki islands in the Pacific. Built with an investment of $12.5 Zealand, making India the begins service, second largest source of million, the ship was handed over by Foreign Minister Murray voyages from Apia will international students to McCully in Apia on February 25.
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