United States – Aotearoa New Zealand Joint Statement & More News Here

A 21^st-Century Partnership for the Pacific, the Indo-Pacific, and the World

President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. is honored to welcome Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of Aotearoa New Zealand to the White House. The leaders reaffirmed the strategic partnership between the United States and New Zealand, as expressed within the 2010 Wellington Declaration and the 2012 Washington Declaration.

Our peoples have served side-by-side to uphold worldwide peace and safety for over a century; 80 years in the past, through the Second World War, U.S. Marines arrived in New Zealand earlier than embarking for the Pacific theatre. Together we honor that historical past of shared resolve within the face of aggression, within the pursuit of peace, and in our widespread respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the peaceable decision of disputes. We word that, since then, our ties have broadened and deepened, based on shared values of democracy, basic freedoms, and the rule of legislation. Today, President Biden and Prime Minister Ardern dedicated to advance our longstanding partnership to satisfy 21^st-century challenges: bolstering safety and constructing resilience, together with to local weather change, within the Pacific; selling prosperity within the Indo-Pacific; and combatting the local weather disaster and making certain the accountable use of know-how all over the world.

We meet at a time of nice problem. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak a human and financial toll, even because the local weather disaster turns into ever extra pressing. Technology brings each alternative and menace, together with the scourge of on-line radicalization to violence. The rules-based worldwide order that has lengthy been the inspiration of peace and prosperity is beneath strain.In the Indo-Pacific, we face a difficult panorama, the place the values, norms, and guidelines which have fostered stability, development, and prosperity in latest many years are beneath menace. In Europe, in the meantime, Russia continues to wage its unjustified and unprovoked warfare in Ukraine. Taken collectively, these challenges name for widespread goal and motion, throughout the Atlantic and the Pacific.

I. Regional Architecture and Security

Our partnership is world, however it’s centered within the Indo-Pacific. The United States and New Zealand are dedicated to realizing a area of sovereign, resilient, and affluent states, primarily based on the worldwide rules-based order, the place states, together with and particularly small states, can pursue their pursuits free from coercion. This imaginative and prescient is mirrored within the Indo-Pacific Strategy of the United States, which New Zealand welcomes; and in New Zealand’s Indo-Pacific coverage as outlined by Prime Minister Ardern in 2021.

The United States and New Zealand share a powerful dedication to the regional structure. We collectively acknowledge the significance of a powerful and unified Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to an open, inclusive, steady, and affluent Indo-Pacific. We reaffirm our sturdy help for ASEAN centrality and the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific. We worth the Pacific Islands Forum, of which New Zealand is a member and the United States is a Forum Dialogue Partner, because the preeminent political regional physique and a essential driver of Pacific regional cooperation, safety, and stability. We admire that the Quad—the grouping of Australia, Japan, India, and the United States—performs an vital position in delivering sensible help to the area, together with offering COVID-19 vaccines and enhancing maritime area consciousness. We word the shared dedication amongst New Zealand and AUKUS companions to the peace and stability of the Indo-Pacific area, and to upholding the worldwide rules-based order.

We reaffirm our steadfast dedication to the Pacific Islands area, with a powerful and united Pacific Islands Forum on the middle. Prime Minister Ardern welcomed the United States’ determination to intensify its engagement with this important area, mirrored in its latest appointment of a Special Presidential Envoy for Compact Negotiations and its commitments to increase its bodily diplomatic presence throughout the Pacific. President Biden resolved to boost U.S. ambition in partnering with the Pacific Islands nonetheless greater and to match that ambition with resourcing.

Throughout our engagement, the United States and New Zealand will proceed to help the Pacific area’s personal priorities, which shall be mirrored within the Forum’s upcoming 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent. At the highest of this agenda is addressing the local weather disaster, which, because the Pacific Islands Forum’s Boe Declaration states, is the one biggest menace to the Pacific and the well being and well-being of its residents. New Zealand and the United States additionally affirmed their dedication to an method to Pacific fisheries that’s led by Pacific international locations, defending the marine setting, livelihoods, traditions, meals safety, and financial advantages.

Our international locations will increase our work within the Pacific on infrastructure, together with transportation and information-communications know-how; cyber safety; maritime safety, together with combatting unlawful, unreported, and unregulated fishing; training and abilities coaching; COVID-19 pandemic help and world well being safety; and financial restoration. At the identical time, we are going to promote democratic governance, free and truthful elections, media freedom, and transparency; we are going to improve respect for human rights and the rule of legislation, and increase entry to justice in Pacific international locations, together with via a brand new joint program to bolster the position of ladies within the justice sector. To finest ship these and different commitments within the Pacific, President Biden and Prime Minister Ardern dedicated to deepen coordination between the United States and New Zealand, and with different likeminded allies and companions, as we work collectively in help of Pacific priorities.

We are involved with rising strategic competitors within the Pacific area, which threatens to undermine present establishments and preparations that underpin the area’s safety. The United States acknowledged that Pacific Islands Forum Members have a powerful dedication to help each other to satisfy the broader ambitions for the area’s safety, as set out within the Biketawa Declaration and Boe Declaration. We acknowledge that Pacific Islands Forum Members have labored laborious collectively to satisfy each other’s safety wants, and at the moment have the capability and dedication to proceed doing so. In this regard, we word with concern the safety settlement between the People’s Republic of China and the Solomon Islands. In specific, the United States and New Zealand share a priority that the institution of a persistent navy presence within the Pacific by a state that doesn’t share our values or safety pursuits would basically alter the strategic steadiness of the area and pose national-security issues to each our international locations.

A freer and extra open Indo-Pacific is determined by preserving the worldwide rules-based order within the maritime area. To that finish, we reaffirm our help for freedom of navigation and overflight, within the South China Sea and past, in accordance with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). We oppose illegal maritime claims and actions within the South China Sea that run counter to the rules-based worldwide order, significantly UNCLOS. We reiterate our grave issues concerning the human-rights violations in Xinjiang, and the erosion of rights and freedoms in Hong Kong, which undermines the excessive diploma of autonomy enshrined within the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law. We underscore the significance of peace and stability throughout the Taiwan Strait and encourage the peaceable decision of cross-Strait points.

We affirm our dedication to the whole denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and urge the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to abide by its obligations beneath United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions and return to negotiations. The leaders collectively condemn the DPRK’s destabilizing ballistic missile exams this 12 months, together with a number of launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles, as clear violations of UNSC resolutions; they reaffirmed their dedication to work with the worldwide neighborhood to deal with DPRK sanctions violations, together with its illicit ship-to-ship transfers. We condemn the coup in Myanmar and the navy’s brutal assaults on civilians. We proceed to name for the speedy cessation of violence, the discharge of all who’re unjustly detained, unfettered countrywide humanitarian entry, and a swift return to democracy.  

Beyond the Indo-Pacific, the leaders strongly condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, which is in flagrant violation of worldwide legislation. President Biden and Prime Minister Ardern mentioned the monetary and navy help that each international locations have offered to Ukraine, reviewed the continuing software of sanctions our two international locations have designed to disclaim the Kremlin the means to proceed to prosecute its warfare in Ukraine, and regarded what additional measures might be taken to bolster the diplomatic effort. Alongside the European Union and worldwide companions, our international locations have condemned the marketing campaign of disruptive and damaging cyber exercise by Russia in opposition to Ukraine. And as food-exporting nations, we acknowledge the significance of making certain that world provide chains for meals and agricultural merchandise stay free and open, and we’re involved by the extreme affect of Russia’s assaults on civilian infrastructure and its blockading of Ukraine’s sea ports on world meals safety.

We spotlight the significance of full implementation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and stay up for working collectively to attain a significant consequence on the forthcoming Review Conference.

Today, we acknowledge that safety and protection will change into an ever-more-important focus of our strategic partnership. We look to extend the interoperability of our forces, together with via personnel exchanges, co-deployments, and protection commerce. Achieving this imaginative and prescient would require sturdy and sustained dedication to protection within the Pacific. As New Zealand takes supply of recent capabilities, we are going to search for alternatives for mixed operations and to increase our cooperation in different methods. As the safety setting within the Indo-Pacific evolves, so should our protection cooperation.

II. Indo-Pacific Prosperity

The United States and New Zealand will deepen our financial ties, with one another and the area. Bilaterally, we intend to work collectively to advertise development in each our economies for the good thing about all our residents, and to discover how we are able to increase bilateral commerce and funding in an effort to strengthen the safety of our provide chains and financial resilience. To that finish, the United States and New Zealand will resume annual Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) discussions.

Regionally, the United States and New Zealand stay up for working collectively to progress the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF), alongside 12 different founding companions: Australia, Brunei, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. President Biden and Prime Minister Ardern warmly welcomed Fiji’s latest determination to hitch IPEF as a founding member—the primary Pacific Island nation to take action.

We reiterate the worth of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)—which

New Zealand hosted in 2021 and the United States will host in 2023—as a discussion board for supporting commerce and financial development within the area in fulfilment of APEC Leaders’ imaginative and prescient for an open, dynamic, resilient, and peaceable Asia-Pacific Community. We reaffirm our joint dedication to rationalize and part out inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption, recalling the Glasgow Climate Pact and APEC Leaders’ dedication to this aim.  In doing so, we acknowledge that inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies distort markets, drawback renewable and clear power, and undermine efforts to cope with the specter of local weather change. 

We intend to make sure that a free and open rules-based world commerce system constructed on excessive requirements and long-standing rules serves the curiosity of the residents of each of our international locations; to that finish, we affirm our dedication to reform and strengthen the World Trade Organization (WTO), and to work collectively to safe outcomes that present for significant disciplines on the upcoming 12^th WTO Ministerial Conference.

III. 21^st-Century Challenges

Our deepening ties are important to our potential to satisfy transnational challenges. Climate change poses an existential menace, in our international locations and all over the world, with the potential for devastating impacts within the Pacific area. We are urgently pursuing efforts towards net-zero emissions in our economies and limiting world common temperature rise to not more than 1.5 levels, and decide to enhanced collaborative engagement on climate-change points. We will work collectively to speed up the uptake of the applied sciences, innovation, and funding wanted for our transition to productive, sustainable, and inclusive low-emissions economies. We decide to producing plans to scale back methane emissions to help nationwide and world efforts beneath the Global Methane Pledge. We will improve our efforts to help an empowered low-emissions transition and to deal with local weather impacts within the Pacific, together with by supporting actions that construct the resilience and adaptive capability of small island growing states. We will even improve our efforts to make sure the environmental integrity of carbon markets, and to make sure the mutual supportiveness of commerce and local weather coverage.

As maritime democracies, we are going to cooperate on ocean governance. We will work collectively on safety and sustainable use of the ocean; decarbonizing the transport sector, together with by supporting the institution of green-shipping corridors; and selling maritime safety, together with by combatting challenges comparable to unlawful, unreported, and unregulated fishing. We additionally intend to work collectively on complementary approaches to attain the target of defending maritime zones from problem within the face of sea-level rise, via continued dialogue between law-of-the-sea specialists. Noting our longstanding and shared curiosity in defending Antarctica as a spot for peace and science, and our many years of analysis collaboration, we reaffirm our dedication to the rules and the letter of the Antarctic Treaty system.

President Biden and Prime Minister Ardern dedicated to serving to finish the acute part of the COVID-19 pandemic whereas additionally working to forestall, detect, put together for, and reply to future world well being emergencies and pandemic threats. With key companions, the United States and New Zealand have delivered greater than 200 million life-saving doses of vaccine to the Indo-Pacific area, and we proceed our efforts to deal with new phases of the pandemic. We will speed up progress on immunization and improve entry to testing, therapeutics, oxygen, and different lifesaving measures to forestall hospitalizations and deaths. Both leaders counseled the commitments made on the latest Global COVID-19 Summit. In addition to supporting the continuing work of the World Health Organization and the ACT-Accelerator, Prime Minister Ardern dedicated to help in-principle the institution of a world well being safety fund for pandemic preparedness and response. Both leaders additionally reaffirmed their sturdy help for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, together with as an ACT-Accelerator associate, and its Seventh Replenishment later this 12 months. We affirm the significance of strengthening the resilience and responsiveness of the worldwide well being structure, and are dedicated to negotiations underway on a brand new instrument to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response, with a strengthened World Health Organization capable of fulfill its central and coordinating position in worldwide well being work. They are additionally dedicated to working collectively to enhance components of the present system, such because the International Health Regulations.

We should additionally handle the virus of hate, on-line and offline. The leaders emphasised the necessity to take motion to maintain our folks protected from gun violence. The Prime Minister expressed her private condolences to President Biden and to the American folks for the tragedies in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York.

In the face of on-line radicalization to violence, we share a dedication to work collectively to make sure that know-how is utilized in ways in which promote and advance human rights. As supporters of the Christchurch Call, we pledge to proceed our work alongside civil society and the know-how sector to counter terrorist and violent extremist content material on-line, together with racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism, whereas selling human rights on-line and a free, open, world, interoperable, dependable, and safe web. We stay up for our international locations taking part in the Christchurch Call Leaders’ Summit in September this 12 months, throughout which we intend to announce new measures to raised perceive and handle on-line radicalization by selling algorithmic transparency and knowledge entry, designing and implementing evidence-based interventions, optimizing and shutting loopholes in disaster response, and advancing innovation by drawing on multi-stakeholder companions.

Even as we handle the hazards of misuse of know-how, we’re dedicated to working collectively to guard and amplify its advantages. As supporters of the Declaration for the Future of the Internet, and members of the Freedom Online Coalition, the Open Government Partnership, and the Global Partnership on AI, we decide to pursuing multi-stakeholder approaches to help an open, free, world, interoperable, dependable, and safe web and the accountable and moral use of rising know-how. We will proceed to work collectively to construct methods and share finest practices to counter disinformation and misinformation, the unfold of which threatens our democratic values and establishments. We additionally acknowledge the necessity for a various cohort of younger folks to assist us navigate a digitally enabled future consistent with our shared values. We plan to search for coaching and placement alternatives in each New Zealand and the United States to help younger practitioners in science and know-how broadly, and to deepen our digital know-how partnership.

Online and offline, we are going to advance the rights of all folks in our societies, together with girls, minorities, and Indigenous peoples. We share a fervent dedication to gender fairness and equality. We acknowledge that on-line harassment and abuse, significantly when focused at girls activists, journalists, and political figures, undermines the energy of democracies; Prime Minister Ardern dedicated New Zealand to hitch the Global Partnership for Action on Online Gender-Based Harassment and Abuse. We reaffirm our dedication to selling human rights and democracy and countering corruption and authoritarianism globally, together with via the Summit for Democracy Year of Action.

The two leaders dedicated to strengthening the U.S.-New Zealand strategic partnership throughout all areas of house cooperation. They welcomed the finalization of our bilateral Space Framework Agreement, which can facilitate future collaboration between the United States and New Zealand on the makes use of of outer house for peaceable functions. They additionally seemed ahead to the initiation of joint feasibility research beneath the Framework Agreement in help of house exploration. 

For 80 years, our diplomatic relationship has benefited our international locations, the area, and the world. But at the moment’s world calls for new resolve and nearer cooperation between us. The United States and Aotearoa New Zealand will strengthen our strategic partnership to satisfy the challenges of the 21^st century, seize the alternatives of an interconnected economic system, and work collectively to protect the worldwide rules-based system on which our safety, prosperity, and sustainability relies upon. As they reaffirmed our international locations’ distinctive partnership, President Biden and Prime Minister Ardern recalled the phrases inscribed on the Marine Corps Memorial plaque in Wellington, New Zealand: “To the people of New Zealand: If you ever need a friend, you have one.”

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