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What advice reports, briefings, aides-memoire, or any other documents, if any, has the Minister or any member of their Office received or sent that informed the decision to abstain on the recent vote at the U.N General Assembly on the resolution to condemn the trafficking of enslaved Africans and the transatlantic slave trade, listed by agency, title and date received? and 1 other question

Answered 12269, 12276 (2026)
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Teanau Tuiono

List MP · Green Party

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  • 12269

    What advice reports, briefings, aides-memoire, or any other documents, if any, has the Minister or any member of their Office received or sent that informed the decision to abstain on the recent vote at the U.N General Assembly on the resolution to condemn the trafficking of enslaved Africans and the transatlantic slave trade, listed by agency, title and date received?

  • 12276

    What correspondence, if any, including letters, emails, text messages, WhatsApp, signal, or any other form of electronic communication, has the Minister sent or received about the U.N. General Assembly Resolution on the trafficking of enslaved Africans and the transatlantic slave trade, by date and title?

Answered by

Rt Hon Winston Peters

List MP · NZ First · Minister of Foreign Affairs

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My office received an email from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade on 25 March 2026, the day of the vote in New York, advising of the proposed approach. My office sent a reply. The following day, the Ministry advised my office by email of the result of the vote.