8 November 2022
Scott
[FYI request #20808 email]
Tēnā koe Scott,
Thank you for your email of 10 October 2022 in which you request the following under the Official
Information Act 1982 (OIA):
1) 23/05/2022 -“Submission: Foreign Policy Strategic Assessment 2022”
2) 23/05/2022 -“Submission: Australian Federal Election 2022 – strategic priorities for
engagement with the Albanese Government”
3) 24/05/2022 - “Brief for Meeting: Jeremiah Manele, Solomon Islands Minister of Foreign
Affairs and External Trade, Wednesday 25 May”
4) 31/05/2022 - “Informal Note: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s Visit to the Pacific:
Update as at 31 May”
5) 2/06/2022 - “Aide Memoire: ERS Aide Memoire: Operation WHIO”
6) 13/06/2022 - “Briefing for call with Wang Yi, State Council or and Minister of Foreign
Affairs”
7) 22/06/2022 - “Submission: Solomon Islands Policing Support Programme: two-year
extension”
8) 4/07/2022 - “Submission: Myanmar: 17 Months after the Coup”
9) 15/07/2022 - “Submission: Prioritisation and De-prioritisation of MFAT work, 2022-23”
10) 22/07/2022 - “Non-paper: Collective Human Rights”
11) 1/08/2022 - “Informal Note: Solomon Islands’ parliamentary sitting”
12) 18/08/2022 - “Submission: Climate Migration Action Plan – August 2022 Progress
Update”
13) 18/08/2022 - “Submission: New Zealand’s response to the release of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights’ report on Xinjiang”
14) 26/08/2022 - “Submission: United Nations Human Rights Council: 51st Session”
15) 9/09/2022 - “Submission: Nuclear Shipment Through the Tasman Sea”
16) 16/09/2022 - “Informal Note: International reactions to the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights’ report on Xinjiang and next steps”
This letter is to advise that we will need to extend the time limit for responding to you by 20
working days, to 6 December 2022. This is because consultations necessary to make a decision
on your request are such that a proper response cannot reasonably be made within the original
time frame (section 15A(1)(b) of the OIA refers).
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However, if this process is completed before 6 December 2022, the response will be sent to you
as soon as possible.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision by
contacting www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
Nāku noa
Hon Nanaia Mahuta
Minita Take Aorere / Minister of Foreign Affairs