‘They couldn’t come into our internal waters': Ardern responds to Aukus submarine deal – video
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New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern says her country was not approached' to be part of a new security pact between Australia, the UK and US. Nor would I expect us to be,' she adds. The anchor of this arrangement are nuclear-powered submarines and it will be very clear to all New Zealanders and to Australia why New Zealand would not wish to be a part of that project.' Since the mid-1980s, New Zealand has had a strict policy keeping its territorial sea, land and airspace as nuclear-free zones
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