NZ: Bilateral talks with PNG discuss Solomons and Fiji

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Updated December 10, 2007 17:22:23

Foreign Ministers from New Zealand and Papua New Guinea have been meeting in Port Moresby to discuss aid programs and concerns in Solomon Islands and Fiji. While New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters made a commitment to his PNG counterpart Sam Abal to increase development aid to 21-million US dollars by 2010, domestic and international problems of people and goods smuggling were also high on the agenda.

Presenter: Geraldine Coutts
Speakers: Winston Peters, New Zealand Foreign Minister

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