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Meeting in Brussels on Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Meeting in Brussels on Monday 6 February 2023
The meeting of the delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand on Monday 6 February 2023 from 17.00-18.00 in ASP 1E1.
Ambassador Reaich from the Mission of New Zealand to the EU briefed the delegation ahead of the 27th EU-New Zealand IPM that took place in Wellington and Christchurch from 20-22 February.
Colleagues from the EEAS briefed the Members " in camera".
Meeting in Brussels on Monday 14 November 2022
Meeting in Strasbourg Wednesday 8 June 2022
Meeting with the Speaker & members of the New Zealand Parliament Monday 30 May 2022
Meeting 10th May 2022 via Internet-Russia's war on Ukraine
Ulrike Müller, (DANZ Chair) summed up the main pillars of the EU actions on Ukraine: unanimous political support; sanctions packages; military support provided by several EUMS; first ever implementation of EU Protection Mechanism for the millions of Ukrainian refugees; The New Zealand side expressed its concern over security in Europe & possible direct impact on Indo-Pacific and insisted that NZ is very vocal in calling for full respect of International law & International Humanitarian law. Minister Twyford insisted on the need to fully activate the prerogatives of the International Criminal Court and to further strength sanctions against Russian interests and oligarchs.
MEPs and NZ members also shared their experiences on Russian propaganda.
High-level inter-parliamentary meeting on 30 March 2022 in Brussels
The meeting was co-chaired by Ulrike Müller (DE, Renew), Chair of DANZ, by the Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, Andrew Wallace and by Heidi Hautala, Vice-President of the European Parliament.
It is of crucial importance that like-minded countries stand together with a coordinated approach in terms both of support to Ukraine and sanctions on Putin's Russia and of moral stand against violation of international law and respect of basic principles of freedom and sovereignty of independent nations.
On 14 March 2022 DANZ jointly with the Delegations for the relations with India and with Japan, organized a meeting on QUAD, the security dimension of the EU Indo-Pacific strategy and the impact of the war against Ukraine.