ASEAN-New Zealand

Since the Fifth ASEAN - New Zealand dialogue held in Manila on 26-27 March 1981, no meeting between the two has yet been held. The projects on animal husbandry, reforestation and pine forest development and end-uses of timber however are already being implemented. The ASEAN - New Zealand Fellowship Programme at the Institute of South East Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore was also extended for another five years until 1986. On the Livestock Development Programme, New Zealand has agreed to sponsor an additional four workshops before the end of 1983.

Newly approved projects on Geothermal Energy, the Regional Dairy Training Centre, the Research and Development of Ferrocement and the ASEAN Regional Seed Technology Centre have also got off the ground.

The Sixth ASEAN - New Zealand Dialogue is scheduled to be held in December 1983 in New Zealand. The main issues for discussion will include the improvement of access to the New Zealand market, ASEAN's request for deeper tariff cuts, tariff liberalization, removal of import licensing on the specified products of interest to ASEAN and the relaxation of New Zealand's stringent health regulations on ASEAN's exports of processed marine products of canned fish and cooked, peeled and frozen prawns.

For more information, please refer to project details