Prime Minister John Key will arrive back from his Europe and South East Asia visit tomorrow before launching into talks with United States Vice President Joe Biden. President WIdodo shared New Zealand's desire for peace and stability in the region, he said. Key has been discussing the South China Sea dispute with Indonesian President Joko Widodo In Jakarta. "I don't think it rules out Obama potentially coming, but I've always been in the camp ... that it's been less likely that President Obama would actually get here in his final year of being president." Biden is in Australia and will stop off in New Zealand for 24 hours - the first official visit by a Vice President in 40 years.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 19, 2016 04:18 UTC