New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over agreements the smaller Pacific nation made ...

New Zealand has paused millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over wide-ranging deals that its smaller Pacific ...

New Zealand has abruptly halted nearly $NZ20 million ($US11 million) in funding to the Cook Islands in retaliation for a ...

The Cook Islands prime minister has suggested a double standard, after the New Zealand government cut its development ...

Cook Islands PM said the relationship between his country and New Zealand is defined by partnership, not paternalism. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

New Zealand says funding won’t resume until Pacific nation takes ‘concrete steps to repair relationship and restore trust’ ...

Pausing nearly $20 million in development assistance is “patronising” and “inconsistent with modern partnership”, Prime Minister Mark Brown has told the Cook Islands Parliament. New Zealand Foreign ...

New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands. The government is taking that action because of ...

FILE - Cook Islands Prime Minister, and outgoing Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum, Mark Brown, speaks at the opening of the annual Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, on ...

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown told lawmakers in Parliament on Thursday that the funding was “not halted, it’s paused,” and downplayed the significance of the amount frozen.

The Government is pausing $18 million in funding for the Cook Islands following their deals with China earlier this year.

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