Phil Goff
Phil Goff
Philip Bruce Goffis the Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Mount Roskill. During the Fifth Labour Government, in office from 1999 to 2008, he served in a number of ministerial portfolios, including Minister of Defence of New Zealand, Minister of Corrections, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control and Associate Minister of Finance. He served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party between 11 November 2008 and 13 December 2011...
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Obviously the world has a fascination to know who the new administration is and what that will mean for international politics. We hope the problem will be sorted out as soon as possible,
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We obviously hope that truce is not simply for the time of our visit, but that the truce could be entrenched as the first step towards getting people back to the negotiating table,
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Any offence that has been taken we obviously regret and we hope at this stage that will have no significant impact in terms of consequences on trade. But we can't rule out that potential at this point.
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That obviously is a total collapse of the rule of law. Again that can't be allowed to continue,
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Those people clearly felt that they were under threat,
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We welcome the fact that each side has given at least verbal approval to a truce,
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If they were to succeed, ... that clearly would lead in the direction to the release of Mr. Speight and an end to the inquiry of those people who were behind the illegal and violent overthrow of the constitutional government of Fiji.
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because they know what sort of chaos would ensue if that happened.
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It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,
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That's the sad message that will be taken,
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It is likely that the relationship ... would become a distinctly cool and distant relationship,
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It is important in the current situation for steps to be taken to resolve the long-running public sector strike, which has contributed to this tension,
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Like many of the other industries in Northwest Arkansas, we are in constant need of workers. These people are in need of jobs, and we thought it was a good match.
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What would have to be demonstrated, and hasn't been demonstrated, is that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and there is a direct, likely and immediate threat that such weapons would be employed,