{"id":13472,"date":"2023-04-17T17:04:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T17:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/new-zealand-pm-hipkins\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T17:06:51","slug":"new-zealand-pm-hipkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/new-zealand-pm-hipkins\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand PM Hipkins to attend NATO summit, Australia considering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Alasdair Pal<\/p>\n<p>SYDNEY (Reuters) &#8211;     New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said on Tuesday he would attend the upcoming NATO summit in July, while Australia&#8217;s leader said he was still considering whether to travel.  <\/p>\n<p>Both countries have a decades-long relationship with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that has taken on greater importance following Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Finland this month joined the now 31-member alliance in a historic policy shift, while neighbour Sweden has applied to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Hipkins said he would seek to advance a trade agreement with the European Union while at the NATO summit, due to be held in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius in July. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When overseas I will look to put trade front and centre in order to support our economic recovery,&#8221; he said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Australia and New Zealand both attended last year&#8217;s summit in Madrid as non-member participants.  <\/p>\n<p>Local media previously reported Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese would not travel to the summit, but he said in a radio interview on Monday that no decision had been made. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t had a chance yet to talk to the NATO Secretary General,&#8221; Albanese told state broadcaster ABC.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will give it consideration,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I attended last year in Madrid and subject to logistical arrangements, then I would be very pleased to accept the invitation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Alasdair Pal in Sydney; Edited by Jamie Freed)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/new-zealand-pm-hipkins\/file-photo-chris-hipkins-speaks-outside-new-zealands-parliament-in\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3G0MK-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3G0MK-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY (Reuters) &#8211; New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said on Tuesday he would attend the upcoming NATO summit in July, while Australia&#8217;s leader said he was still considering whether to travel. Both countries have a decades-long relationship with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that has taken on greater importance following Russia&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3G0MK-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13474,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13472\/revisions\/13474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}