Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Urgent Request for Transparency: Full Disclosure on New Zealand-Israel Communications Regarding Gaza Conflict

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Lance D. Lavery on August 23, 2024.

Refused.

[UNCLASSIFIED] Tēnā koe Lance, On behalf of the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade, please see attached the response to your OIA request....

China Capable Public Sector program

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Richard Wang on October 12, 2022.

Refused.

[UNCLASSIFIED] Kia ora Richard Please find attached MFAT’s response to your OIA request. Ngâ mihi Executive Services Division New...

Diplomatic relations

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to John Smith on August 06, 2024.

Information not held.

[UNCLASSIFIED] Kia ora Please see attached our response to your OIA request of 24 June 2024. Ngā mihi Whatupūaho | Executive Services D...

Minister of Foreign Affairs meeting with Israeli ambassador

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Michael Brenndorfer on March 18, 2024.

Refused.

Dear Michael Brenndorfer Please find attached a response from the Minister of Foreign Affairs to your email of 13 February 2024. Kind rega...

Engagement with Israeli Embassy

Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Andrew Riddell. Annotated by Andrew Riddell on August 20, 2024.

Refused.

The difficulty in getting any information from Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade over what their advice is to the government over the genocide and...

Request for Information Regarding Documents Containing Specific Keywords

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to N. S. Hudson on August 16, 2024.

Refused.

[UNCLASSIFIED] Tēnā koe N. S. Hudson Please see the attached letter concerning your OIA request. Ngā mihi Executive Services Divisi...

Assessment of Humanitarian Aid in Gaza (Period: Oct 7, 2023 – Feb 1, 2024)

Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Lance D. Lavery. Annotated by Lance D. Lavery on August 14, 2024.

Refused.

The Ombudsman has been notified. The case reference number is 008282.

Phillip Mehrtens

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Jacob on May 02, 2024.

Refused.

[UNCLASSIFIED] Kia ora, Please see the attached correspondence regarding your recent OIA request. Ngā mihi Executive Services Divis...

Diplomatic relations

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to John Smith on June 24, 2024.

Refused.

[UNCLASSIFIED] Tēnā koe John Smith, Please see the attached information concerning your OIA request received on 8 June 2024. Ngā mihi Executive Ser...

Mercosur Membership

Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Nick M. Annotated by Andrew on June 17, 2024.

Information not held.

The following Beehive release dated 8 March 2018 states: "New Zealand is one of only two observer countries of Mercosur, a South American trade bloc...

Francesca Albanese visit

Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Andrew Riddell. Annotated by Andrew Riddell on June 06, 2024.

Refused.

Essentially the request was refused because so much of it was redacted. There were a number of emails potentially within the ambit of the request but M...

New Zealand's Diplomatic Engagement on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Lee Jared on March 26, 2024.

Information not held.

[UNCLASSIFIED] Tēnā koe Please see the attached letter concerning your OIA request. Ngā mihi Executive Services Division New Zealand Ministry of Fo...

Freedom of Information Request Regarding Joint-Chiefs-UAP-Directive-May-2023

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to N. S. Hudson on April 18, 2024.

Information not held.

[UNCLASSIFIED] Tēnā koe N. S. Hudson, Please see the attached letter concerning your OIA request. Ngā mihi Executive Services Division New Zealand...

Any advice and communications regarding the decision to suspend funding to UNRWA

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Regan Gibbons on March 01, 2024.

Refused.

[UNCLASSIFIED] Tēnā koe Reagan Gibbons, On behalf of the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade, please find attached the response to your off...

Cook Islands and Niue

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to John Smith on October 25, 2023.

Refused.

[UNCLASSIFIED] Kia ora John Smith Please see attached our response to your OIA request of 27 September 2023. Ngā mihi Whatupūaho | Exec...

Apple Wallet Electronic Passport

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Patrick George O’Rourke on October 05, 2021.

Information not held.

Kia ora Patrick Please find attached the response to your Official Information Act request. Ngā mihi Alysha Stevenson | Advisor...

Five Eyes Foreign Material Recovery Program (FMP) regarding UAP

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Jason Gooch on July 05, 2023.

Information not held.

[UNCLASSIFIED] Tēnā koe Jason Gooch Please see the attached letter concerning your OIA request. Ngā mihi Executive Services Division New Zealand Mi...

MFAT blaming victims of terrorism

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Ali Anwar on February 28, 2023.

Refused.

[UNCLASSIFIED] Tēnā koe Ali Anwar Please see the attached letter concerning your OIA request. Ngā mihi Executive Services Division...

Advice on the status of the two-state solution

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Regan Gibbons on May 29, 2023.

Refused.

[UNCLASSIFIED] Tēnā koe Regan Gibbons, Regarding your Official Information Act (OIA) request of 27 April 2023 (ref: 28611) the Ministry of Foreign Af...

Communications with Air NZ on Saudi Arabia engineering

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to George Morrison on December 22, 2021.

Information not held.

[UNCLASSIFIED] Tēnā koe George Morrison Please see the attached letter concerning your OIA request. Ngā mihi Executive Services Div...

Fijian Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) Funding

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Zack Firas on February 23, 2023.

Information not held.

[UNCLASSIFIED] Tēnā koe Zack Firas Please see attached our response to your OIA request of 30 January 2023. Ngā mihi Executive Serv...

History of Estonian and New Zealand Diplomatic Relations

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Isla Stewart on February 17, 2023.

Information not held.

[UNCLASSIFIED] Kia ora Isla Stewart, Further to our email of 15 February 2023, we have established contact between you and the Ministry’s hist...

Were MFAT involved in visit of sex traffickers to New Zealand?

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Mohammed Khan on October 25, 2022.

Refused.

[UNCLASSIFIED] Tēnā koe Mohammed Khan Please see the attached letter concerning your OIA request. Ngā mihi Executive Services Division New Zealand...

Export Controls Review submissions

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Scott on September 21, 2022.

Refused.

[UNCLASSIFIED] Tēnā koe Please see the attached response to your OIA request. Ngā mihi Executive Services Division New Zealand Min...

Legal opinion on complicity in torture

Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Scott on September 01, 2022.

Refused.

Tçnâ koe Scott, Please find attached a letter from the Director-General in response to the OIA request. Ngâ mihi, GCSB From: ESD <...

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