{"id":56877,"date":"2001-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-03-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/96e66dfb-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2001-03-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-03-27T00:00:00","slug":"96e66e0c-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/96e66e0c-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress in Niue-New Zealand talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALOFI, Niue (PINA Nius) &#8212; New Zealand has been encouraging Niue to keep within its fiscal budget, aim for improved performance in the public service, and encourage new local businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Senior foreign affairs officials seem pleased with the progress being made in these areas, following a joint consultative group meeting in Wellington last week.<\/p>\n<p>Niue officials met with New Zealand Foreign Affairs officers after attending the opening of the island&#8217;s high commission office.<\/p>\n<p>The joint consultative group was set up in 1999 in a bid to resolve New Zealand\u2019s and Niue&#8217;s future constitutional relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The group also supports the island&#8217;s effort to become less aid reliant on New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Niue&#8217;s future constitutional status was discussed and Niueans have made an overwhelming decision that the status quo of self government in free association should remain,&#8221; said a department spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that New Zealand wants to restrict its annual aid budget to a fixed amount and control more closely funding for special projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand has been encouraging Niue to keep within its fiscal budget, aim for improved performance in the public service, and encourage new local businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}