Jacinda Ardern and Sanna Marin dismiss suggestion their age and gender was reason for meeting

Finland's PM says she met Ardern in New Zealand because they are both prime ministers' after journalist asks whether it was due to similar age and gender

The prime ministers of Finland and New Zealand have taken a swipe at suggestions their first face-to-face meeting in New Zealand happened because they are both young female leaders.

We're meeting because we are prime ministers," Finland's Sanna Marin said at a joint press conference at Auckland's Government House on Wednesday morning, after a journalist suggested some people may have thought they were meeting because they share a similar demographic.