New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said that his country signed a memorandum of understanding with the German Alfred Wegener Institute on Saturday to enhance cooperation in Antarctica.
Peters met his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock in Auckland – New Zealand’s largest city – where the two witnessed the signing ceremony of the agreement between the New Zealand Antarctic Institute and the Alfred Wegener Institute. “Antarctica is of growing geostrategic and scientific importance, and this agreement will expand links between our marine and polar science institutes,” Peters said.
Baerbock also met with New Zealand Ministers Simon Watts and Judith Collins to discuss cooperation in space, science and climate change. Baerbock arrived in New Zealand yesterday, Friday, from Australia, where she met with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, and visited a cybersecurity center and an Australian Navy site in Adelaide.
Tomorrow, Baerbok is scheduled to visit the island nation of Fiji in the South Pacific.
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