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Speaker 1: And joining us now from Lasos. Sophie Trigger, senior political

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Speaker 1: reporter from News trokxeed by, Good afternoon, Sophie.

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Speaker 2: Gelder Francisca, how are you good?

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Speaker 1: Thanks? What have been the highlights of this very busy

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Speaker 1: trip that the Prime Minister has had.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's been. It's been an absolute whirlwind thirty six

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Speaker 2: hours or so we've had here in Laos with the

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister meeting a number of world leaders, including that

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Speaker 2: all important meeting with Indian Prime Minister Orandra Mody, which

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Speaker 2: I spoke about yesterday, and that took place in the

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Speaker 2: early hours of this morning New Zealand time. It was

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Speaker 2: a warm extrift between the pair. I was in the

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Speaker 2: room for the opening remarks and Mody spoke to Luxon

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Speaker 2: through a translator, saying it was a pleasure to finally

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Speaker 2: meet him and talk through some important issues, and he

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Speaker 2: later invited Luxon to visit him in India, a visit that,

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Speaker 2: as we discuss, would be critical to Luckson's goal of

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Speaker 2: a free trade agreement this term. Luxon said he and

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Speaker 2: Mody did actually discuss a free trade agreement in this meeting,

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Speaker 2: and he said Mody was keen to progress trade connections. Further,

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Speaker 2: the pair appeared quite close at last night's gala dinner,

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Speaker 2: and Luxen made a bit of a beeline for Mody

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Speaker 2: at the East Asia Summit, which began about an hour ago.

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Speaker 2: So Luxon says that there actually is quite a warm

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Speaker 2: and genuine connection between the pair. Now. There was also

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Speaker 2: another really interesting first time meeting ahead of this sit

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Speaker 2: down with Mody. This one slightly more impromptu, was a

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Speaker 2: handshake between Chris luxein and new Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Shiba,

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Speaker 2: and Luxan shook Ashiba's hand and congratulated him on recently

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Speaker 2: becoming prime minister.

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Speaker 1: What's on the agenda for the summit meeting tonight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's happening as we speak, Francesca. Obviously, the

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Speaker 2: East Asia Summit is the reason we are all here

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Speaker 2: in Laos this week, and it's a really significant international

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Speaker 2: forum because aside from the Asian partners who convened the

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Speaker 2: there are quite a lot of major world powers here

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Speaker 2: as well, the US, China, Russia, India, And speaking to

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Speaker 2: Luxon earlier today, he says regional security will be really

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Speaker 2: high on the agenda, and he spoke about how connected

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Speaker 2: this is as well to New Zealand's trade relationships. There

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Speaker 2: are tensions in the disputed era of the South China Sea,

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Speaker 2: for example, not to mention worries around North Korea's nuclear

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Speaker 2: and ballistic missile program, and conflict in this region would

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Speaker 2: have the potential to seriously disrupt disrupt trade routes that

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Speaker 2: are really important to New Zealand. So this makes peace

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Speaker 2: in the region not only critical for reasons of security,

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Speaker 2: but also for economic reasons. So, as I mentioned, this

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Speaker 2: meeting is taking place as we speak, and will be

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Speaker 2: interested to perhaps hear a bit from lux and afterwards

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Speaker 2: about what might have been raised.

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Speaker 1: And Sophie Wind does a summit wrap up?

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Speaker 2: It should it should be wrapping up within within a

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Speaker 2: few hours. Right, will be off home home to New

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Speaker 2: Zealand shortly.

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Speaker 1: Oi Kidoki and look, talking about hitting back home. Immigration

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Speaker 1: numbers out today, they're pretty grim. What's the government's response been.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. The numbers that have come out today

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Speaker 2: show that more people are moving out of New Zealand

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Speaker 2: than ever before. I think it was an annual net

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Speaker 2: migration gain of nearly fifty four thousand people in the

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Speaker 2: year to August. So definitely not what the government will

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Speaker 2: be wanting. And when we spoke to Chris Luxen about this,

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Speaker 2: he says he is trying to build the kind of

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Speaker 2: New Zealand where people see a future for themselves and

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Speaker 2: their kids, growing the economy and providing better public services.

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Speaker 2: And he also says a big part of growing the

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Speaker 2: economy and making New Zealand a better place to be

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Speaker 2: long term is harnessing those international ties, establishing strong trade links,

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Speaker 2: which is part of what he's doing here in Southeast

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Speaker 2: Asia this week, and he also talked a bit about

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Speaker 2: this when addressing the Business and Investment Summit last night,

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Speaker 2: where he made a keynote address. Luxon spoke about promoting

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Speaker 2: New Zealand is a great place to work and travel,

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Speaker 2: as well as putting out a bit of a call

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Speaker 2: for investors to perhaps consider New Zealand for their next ventures.

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Speaker 1: Might take a bit more than that, though, Sophie.

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Speaker 2: That's true, that's true, but yeah. Luxon says that he's

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Speaker 2: very focused on he believes we'll keep people in New

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Speaker 2: Zealand and building the economy and sort of bolstering those

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Speaker 2: public services. He says other things that the government's doing

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Speaker 2: to keep more people in New Zealand so we'll have

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Speaker 2: to wait and see as to you know, if these

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Speaker 2: numbers start to turn around in the coming years.

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Speaker 1: Sophie, thank you very much for your time today. That

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Speaker 1: was Sophie Trigger seeing a political reporter from New Stork

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