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Audio & Images: Clark Pre-Pacific Forum Q&A
Scoop Foreign
Correspondent
NZ PM Helen Clark Answers Pre-Pacific
Islands Forum Questions
Report from Scoop Co-Editor Alastair Thompson on Assignment in Papua New Guinea and the Solomons – Images By Jason Dorday
This morning Helen Clark began the day with a breakfast with The Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce and Industry business leaders during which she delivered an address on the Pacific Plan, the centerpiece issue at this year's Pacific Island forum.
After the address she answered questions from the audience.
Among the issues
covered were:
- Oil & Gas
- Indigenous
entrepreneurship
- NGO criticism of the Pacific Plan
consultation process
- Labour mobility for seasonal work
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Ms Clark then held a meeting with Host Country Prime Minister Michael Somare.
The Prime Minister presented Prime Minister Somare with a gift from New Zealand and after her meeting held a brief standup press conference with the NZ media contingent.
Among the issues covered
were:
- NZ's relationship with PNG
- NGO criticism of
the Pacific Plan consultation process
- Labour mobility
for seasonal work
- New Foreign Minister Winston
Peters
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Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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