{"id":103922,"date":"2025-10-27T19:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/103922\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T19:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:20:10","slug":"christopher-luxon-expected-to-meet-malaysian-prime-minister-not-concerned-about-differences-over-palestine-state-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/103922\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Luxon expected to meet Malaysian Prime Minister, not concerned about differences over Palestine state recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"

In September, Malaysia said the recognition of the State of Palestine <\/a>\u201cshould not be subject to any preconditions\u201d and believed there was a \u201ccollective commitment\u201d amongst countries that would help \u201cend Israel\u2019s colonisation and atrocities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory\u201d. <\/p>\n

Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters said at the time \u201ctoo many questions remain about the future of the State of Palestine for it<\/a> to be prudent\u201d for New Zealand to recognise it. He said it was still a \u201cmatter of when, not if\u201d and New Zealand did support a two-state solution. <\/p>\n

But recognition is an issue that New Zealand is in the minority on among other nations at the EAS. Of the 19 member countries, just six don\u2019t recognise a Palestinian state. That includes Singapore, Myanmar, Japan, South Korea, and the United States. <\/p>\n

\"PrimePrime Minister Christopher Luxon attends the East Asia Summit. Photo \/ Jamie Ensor<\/p>\n

Luxon is expected to meet with the Malaysian Prime Minister later on Tuesday, but told the Herald he doesn\u2019t foresee the Palestinian recognition question being a concern while in Kuala Lumpur. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to be a concern or an issue at all,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

The Prime Minister made the point that the United States, which doesn\u2019t recognise a Palestinian state, has been critical in coordinating with regional actions to get a ceasefire and hostages released. <\/p>\n

\u201cIrrespective of where you are on recognition, there is massive unity and alignment on the main event, which is, how do we stop the killing? How do we get a ceasefire? How do we get a lasting peace in the Middle East?\u201d <\/p>\n

He said \u201cdialogue [and] diplomacy\u201d were important to reaching a two-state solution. <\/p>\n

\u201cClearly, Indonesia and Malaysia have very long-established positions around Palestine and have been very influential in even getting to this point with the ceasefire. They\u2019ve been important players with the regional actors of Qatar and Egypt, and Turkey, working together with the Americans. They\u2019ve actually been reinforcing the dialogue for ceasefire. <\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, you\u2019ve got partners like Singapore, Japan, Korea, other countries in our region, have had a very similar position to ourselves.\u201d <\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters after Monday\u2019s EAS, Luxon said it presented a \u201creally good way to discuss a number of issues across the region\u201d. <\/p>\n

He mentioned the ceasefire deal reached between Cambodia and Thailand, and how the leaders of the respective nations had been \u201cmagnanimous\u201d and \u201cconciliatory\u201d in their remarks during the forum. <\/p>\n

\u201cReally constructive meeting, everyone gets a chance to voice their concerns and all the concerns about where do we go next and what do we need to do.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"PrimePrime Minister Christopher Luxon met with Thailand’s leader Anutin Charnvirakul. Photo \/ Jamie Ensor<\/p>\n

While Luxon wouldn\u2019t say what he raised during the meeting, he noted he had \u201cconsistently and pretty stridently\u201d made the case for a rules-based international system. <\/p>\n

\u201cProsperity is very much threatened when we don\u2019t have security,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

One area where Luxon earlier told the Herald there was \u201cmassive opportunity\u201d for New Zealand to deepen its trade relationship with Malaysia is in regard to halal meat products. <\/p>\n

An announcement on progress towards smoother access for New Zealand exporters into the market could be made during Luxon\u2019s visit. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnwar and I\u2019ve been trying to work towards getting halal meat certification and a common standard,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s really important because red meat all around the world, there\u2019s not enough of it. There\u2019s been huge global demand for it.\u201d <\/p>\n

Food Safety Minister Andrew Hoggard said in July that Malaysia wanted to increase New Zealand\u2019s access to the market, which would help Kiwi farmers, processors and exporters. Exports are already worth more than $60 million. <\/p>\n

The Meat Industry Association said that red meat exports reached $717 million in August<\/a> \u2013 up 22% annually due to strong global demand. <\/p>\n

Jamie Ensor is a senior political reporter forNZ Heraldtravelling with the Prime Minister in Asia this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In September, Malaysia said the recognition of the State of Palestine \u201cshould not be subject to any preconditions\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1443,16426,15245,45136,5346,29052,42,8454,20099,5511,75446,26477,16427,48040,9862,6722,9097,43,5006,1523,14786,18154,415,31340,14738,13672,684,61,6859,40,38,41,39,377,2963],"class_list":["post-103922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-about","tag-christopher","tag-concerned","tag-differences","tag-expected","tag-fellow","tag-headlines","tag-including","tag-inclusive","tag-just","tag-lasting","tag-leaders","tag-luxon","tag-malaysian","tag-meet","tag-minister","tag-must","tag-news","tag-not","tag-over","tag-palestine","tag-political","tag-prime","tag-recognition","tag-solution","tag-state","tag-there","tag-to","tag-told","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}