Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the governments of Australia and New Zealand have decided to form a new partnership to work on the challenges of climate change.
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark has met Mr Rudd and senior members of Federal Cabinet in Canberra today.
Mr Rudd says while the two countries have always worked well together in the past, he hopes the relationship can be strengthed in the future.
"We have an unprecedented opportunity to work closely and seamlessly, globally, in the international negotiations which will now take place between now and the end of the Bali roadmap which concludes at the Copenhagen conference at the end of 2009," he said.
Ms Clark says she is delighted by Australia's decision to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
"It puts us on the same page and the work we must now do and the intense international diplomacy around reaching the post 2012 agreement," she said.
"It makes a huge difference to New Zealand to have Australia in and for us to be able to combine diplomatic effort and muscle in the international negotiations."
The two leaders also resolved to work more closely on promoting stability in the South Pacific.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/27/2174215.htm?section=australia
ps I love the some of the comments under this story.
Joshua...
"We have an unprecedented opportunity to work closely and seamlessly, globally, in the international negotiations which will now take place between now and the end of the Bali roadmap which concludes at the Copenhagen conference at the end of 2009," he said.
TRANSLATION -
We'll have a meeting, there'll be photos and maybe even biscuits afterwards.
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Ford...
The blind leading the blind :P
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