Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta had announced fundamental changes to New Zealand's relationship with Myanmar since the military coup there. There were staff on the ground to "keep an eye" on the aid projects, Finance Minister Grant Robertson, who joined Ardern at today's press conference, said. The Government was continuing "in earnest" with its work on a travel bubble with the Cook Islands. Ardern did not give a direct answer when asked whether the aspiration to have the Trans-Tasman travel bubble within the first quarter was still realistic. Ardern was speaking at the post-Cabinet press conference in the Beehive.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 09, 2021 02:49 UTC