Norway-New Zealand relations are foreign relations between

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

and

New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...

. The two countries established diplomatic relations in 1905, after Norway gained independence. New Zealand's embassy in

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Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

represents New Zealand diplomatically in Norway. Norway is represented in New Zealand by the Norwegian Embassy in

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. Around 1,400

Norwegians Norwegians () are an ethnic group and nation native to Norway, where they form the vast majority of the population. They share a common culture and speak the Norwegian language. Norwegians are descended from the Norsemen, Norse of the Early ...

live in New Zealand and 929 New Zealanders live in Norway. Of all the Scandinavian countries, only Norway shares a land border with New Zealand - at the

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where Norway's claim to

Queen Maud Land Queen Maud Land () is a roughly region of Antarctica Territorial claims in Antarctica, claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20th meridian west, 20° west, specifically the Caird Coast, ...

and New Zealand's claim to the

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meet.

International issues

New Zealand joined 11 other countries in 2006 in delivering a formal diplomatic protest to the Norwegian Foreign Ministry in Oslo over Norway's plans to increase its whaling activities.

Trade

In the year ending in December 2008, New Zealand exported goods and services to Norway to the value of NZ$ 69.2 million. The main exports included fishing vessels,

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s and

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, and navigational instruments. New Zealand imports from Norway had a value of NZ$ 73 million. The main imports included

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s and vans,

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, fishing vessels, and

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. Reidar Sveaas, a director of P&O and honorary consul to Auckland said in 2000 that excellent opportunities existed for New Zealand to trade with the world's second largest oil-producing country, Norway.

Investment

Norske Skog of Norway operates the

Tasman Mill The Tasman Mill site is a pulp and paper mill located on Fletcher Avenue just outside the town of Kawerau in New Zealand. The Tasman Mill site is the largest single employer in the Bay of Plenty, Eastern Bay of Plenty region. Three pulp or pap ...

in New Zealand. It represents one of the most prominent Nordic investments in New Zealand industry.

Migration

Norsewood in New Zealand's Seventy Mile Bush started as a Norwegian settlement in 1872. In 1881 New Zealand had 1,271 Norway-born residents, in 1901 there were 1,278.

Official visits

In over 100 years of relations, there have only been two state visits between these countries. In 2004,

Helen Clark Helen Elizabeth Clark (born 26 February 1950) is a New Zealand politician who served as the 37th prime minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008 and was the administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 2009 to 2017. She was ...

, became the first New Zealand Prime Minister to ever visit Norway. She said that both countries see eye-to-eye on almost everything, except the commercial harvesting of whales. Other official visits have included:

New Zealand official visits to Norway

* Anne Tolley, Minister of Education, June 2009 * Margaret Wilson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, leading a Parliamentary Delegation, October 2007 * Phil Goff, Minister of Trade, Defence, Disarmament and Arms Control, January 2007 * Silvia Cartwright Governor General-designate March 2001 * Trevor Mallard Minister of Sport November 2000 * Max Bradford Minister of Energy 1997 * Don McKinnon Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade March 1996 * Rob Storey Minister of Transport November 1992

Norwegian official visits to New Zealand

Kjell Magne Bondevik Kjell Magne Bondevik (; born 3 September 1947) is a Norway, Norwegian Lutheranism, Lutheran Religious minister, minister and Politics of Norway, politician. As leader of the Christian Democratic Party (Norway), Christian Democratic Party, he ser ...

Prime Minister March 2005 * Kristin Clemet Minister of Education and Research October 2004 * Minister of Transport and Communications January 1995 and March 1993Norway - Country Information Paper - NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:New Zealand-Norway relations Bilateral relations of Norway