- Strengthen key relationships
- Intensify efforts to secure the long-term security and economic growth of the South Pacific and key partner countries in the region
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- Pursue a rich agenda of trade negotiations that will deliver growth opportunities for the future
- Strengthen the promotion of New Zealand goods and services, and opportunities in trade and investment, through more determined and efficient NZ Inc approaches
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- Work within the multilateral system to achieve New Zealand goals particularly in the areas of security, resource diplomacy and climate change
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- Enhance the operational effectiveness of official development assistance within the approved levels of aid expenditure
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- Deliver high quality consular services for New Zealanders travelling abroad
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- New Zealand’s security and economic interests safeguarded through its security and economic relationships
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- Economic growth and international competitiveness advanced through New Zealand’s international connections
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- Transboundary solutions and effective international rules promoted
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- Sustainable development in partner countries
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- The rights of New Zealanders abroad are protected
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- Australian foreign policy accommodates critical New Zealand interests
- Effective whole-of-government responses by New Zealand help address common challenges and counter risks of instability within the Pacific region
- Pacific governments are able to improve the international competitiveness of their business sectors
- Political and security relations with key Asian partners are strengthened in ways that underpin our trade and economic interests and enable New Zealand to be an active participant in Asian regional processes
- The United States recognises New Zealand as a valuable partner and takes account of our perspectives on issues of importance to us
- The European Union agrees to a more formal comprehensive arrangement with New Zealand
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- Maximum net benefit secured for New Zealand from a completed WTO Doha Round, in particular, elimination of agricultural export subsidies
- Completion of trade negotiations with the United States (as part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement), Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Gulf Cooperation Council and India
- Completion of further initiatives to deepen economic integration with Australia as part of a Single Economic Market
- Increased engagement by New Zealand exporters in key markets
- New Zealand’s specific interests reflected in internationally agreed responses to the global economic crisis
- Ministry-led review identifies ways in which NZ Inc can operate more efficiently and effectively offshore and provide greater value for money from the Government’s investment in key overseas locations and markets
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- New Zealand’s participation in international security operations is recognised as being of value and of high quality by security partners, particularly with regard to the integration of military and civilian elements
- An international agreement on climate change that will result in meaningful reductions of global CO2 emissions and accommodate New Zealand’s agricultural emissions profile
- New Zealand’s interests reflected in the outcomes of key environmental forums on biodiversity, forestry, oceans and fisheries issues
- Renewed progress in the United Nations on its reform agenda
- Renewed forward movement on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation
- Neighbouring countries’ capacity to deal with trans-boundary threats is enhanced by New Zealand’s initiatives and support
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- New Zealand’s expenditure on ODA remains effective while maintaining and implementing a $600 million ODA programme by 2012/13, increasing the aid focus on the Pacific and on sustainable economic development, pursuing concrete measurable results, and reducing administrative overheads as a percentage of the ODA budget
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- The Ministry responds effectively to consular emergencies as they arise
- The Ministry provides a high quality consular service
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