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What correspondence, if any, including letters, emails, text messages, WhatsApp, signal, or any other form of electronic communication, has the Minister or any member of their office sent or received with the US embassy or other US officials about lifting NZ Defence spending to 3.5 percent of a country's GDP by date and title?

Answered Question 28096 (2026)
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Teanau Tuiono

List MP · Green Party

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  • What correspondence, if any, including letters, emails, text messages, WhatsApp, signal, or any other form of electronic communication, has the Minister or any member of their office sent or received with the US embassy or other US officials about lifting NZ Defence spending to 3.5 percent of a country's GDP by date and title?

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Rt Hon Christopher Luxon

Member for Botany · National Party · Minister for National Security and Intelligence

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I refer the member to my response to Written Parliamentary Question 28104 (2026) provided in my capacity as Prime Minister. I refer the member to the response to Written Parliamentary Question 28085 (2026) provided by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rt Hon Winston Peters.