Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade Bede Corry will visit the Cook Islands this week. Photo credit: New Zealand Public Service Commission.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration (MFAI) will welcome the first official visit to the Cook Islands for 2025 by Aotearoa New Zealand’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade Bede Corry.
This week’s visit follows on from the Joint Ministerial Forum Working Group meeting between Cook Islands and New Zealand senior officials, held in November last year.
Secretary Corry will meet with MFAI Secretary Tepaeru Herrmann and other Cook Islands government senior officials.
The New Zealand Secretary’s visit is greatly appreciated, Secretary Herrmann says.
“We welcome his visit early in this year of our nation’s 60th anniversary of self-governance in free association with New Zealand and look forward to discussing with him a number of issues, including how we might together celebrate this milestone year and strengthen our ties and expand our collaboration moving forward in a manner that better supports our shared and separate interests and priorities,” she says.
The MFAI is coordinating the programme for the visit in partnership with the New Zealand High Commission in Rarotonga.
