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New Zealand and the United States have a well-developed and mature relationship. Both countries work towards building a stable, peaceful, prosperous and democratic world. The two countries cooperate on regional and multilateral matters (United Nations, ASEAN Regional Forum), and the key foreign policy issues of the day.
There is extensive co-operation on Antarctic and Pacific fisheries issues, the conservation of whales, and in other areas such as science and technology and climate change. The United States and New Zealand have a bilateral climate change partnership to enhance cooperation in science-based climate change collaboration.
New Zealand and Canada enjoy close and friendly relations. Our shared Commonwealth heritage, parliamentary, legal and defence traditions, as well as people to people contacts engender a similar world view and we tend to identify with each other’s interests and concerns.
New Zealand and Canada work together in a number of international forums particularly in the United Nations where New Zealand, Canada and Australia work together as the CANZ subgroup to deal with issues of relevance to all three countries. New Zealand and Canada also work together in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum, APEC, OECD, WTO, and the Cairns Group of agricultural exporters. Canada is also a Pacific Islands Forum Dialogue Partner.
