New Zealand and Cook Islands Sign a Defense Pact, Easing Tensions Over a China Deal WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand and Cook Islands signed a defense and security pact Thursday, easing more ...

BEIJING: China warned "third parties" against interfering in its relations with the Cook Islands, after New Zealand signed a new defence agreement with the tiny Pacific nation on Thursday. The deal, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China and the Cook Islands have wrapped up their first joint scientific expedition in the South Pacific, a region emerging as a ...

WELLINGTON — New Zealand and the Cook Islands signed a new defense and security declaration on Thursday, ending a breakdown between the Pacific nations sparked by a partnership that the Cooks signed ...

Deepening economic ties between China and Cook Islands continue to raise concerns in the South Pacific region. Last week, the Chinese research vessel Da Yang Hao docked at the port of Avatiu, marking ...

On April 2, New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced the signing of a new Defence and Security Declaration with the government of the Cook Islands, which he said would establish “a shared ...

As Bougainville gauges the choices made by the Cook Islands and the consequences that followed, its own challenge is coming into sharper focus: ensuring that political independence does not produce a ...

WELLINGTON, Sept 1 (Reuters) - New Zealand and the U.S. will ⁠jointly ⁠fund a major upgrade of a World ⁠War Two port on a Cook Islands atoll, the three governments said on Tuesday, in a fresh sign of ...

New Zealand and Cook Islands have signed a defense and security pact, easing over a year of tension between them.

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, Aug. 26 ...