Ministry Statements & Speeches:
Proactively released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The Scope of the Ministry’s proactive release is:
- Key Advice: Substantive guidance or recommendations provided by the Ministry to the Minister of Foreign Affairs that directly inform the final advice provided to the Minister/Cabinet. This includes formal briefing, submissions, informal notes, talking points and any Cabinet material sent between MFAT and our Ministers’ offices. Routine updates, administrative information or duplicated information would not be included.
- Key Correspondence: Substantive communications between the Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry that directly inform or reflect decision-making, regarding policy development. This includes emails generated regarding the development of advice for the recognition of Palestine between the Ministry and Minister’s offices. This does not include administrative emails (i.e. emails that are organising meeting times).