{"id":348465,"date":"2026-03-26T07:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/348465\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:35:17","slug":"nz-and-tuvalu-reaffirm-strong-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/348465\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ and Tuvalu reaffirm strong partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/w=1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71344\"  \/>Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo marks his first official visit to New Zealand. Photo: Marama T-Pole<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Christopher Luxon met with Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo in Auckland today, during his first official visit to New Zealand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Zealand and Tuvalu share a close friendship and a joint commitment to regional security, resilience, and prosperity,\u201d Mr Luxon says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are longstanding supporters of Tuvalu\u2019s development priorities, and I am pleased we have renewed our countries\u2019 Statement of Partnership, which underpins our ongoing work together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTuvalu is leading the way in the region and globally in responding to sea-level rise. As part of the renewed statement, we will provide additional support to coastal resilience through the Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Discussions covered climate and economic priorities, social and governance issues, and Pacific regionalism including Tuvalu\u2019s hosting of a pre-COP31 Leaders\u2019 event in October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand also pledged an extra $20 million for Tuvalu\u2019s coastal adaptation project to help with flood resilience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Zealand welcomes Tuvalu\u2019s hosting of this important event and stands ready to provide practical support to ensure it is a success,\u201d Mr Luxon says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo marks his first official visit to New Zealand. Photo: Marama T-Pole Prime Minister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33240,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-348465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-main-slider","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348465","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=348465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}