Rashneel Kumar: Cook Islands journalist on New Zealand pausing funding to the Cook Islands
Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive · Newstalk ZB
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There's claims the Cook Islands were left in the dark over New Zealand pausing funding.
Foreign Minister Winston Peters says a $20-million-dollar pot of development aid won't resume until trust is restored between our countries, who operate under a special relationship.
Its Prime Minister signed a comprehensive strategic partnership with China, without giving New Zealand any insight on the deal.
Cook Islands journalist Rashneel Kumar says the Government was caught off guard - and he explained that it has tried to ease fears the agreement with China may have caused.
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