Timaru

Chair: Ms Rosie Carruthers
Email: carruthers_law@farmside.co.nz

Secretary: Mrs Margaret Hunter
Ph: (03) 689 6446
Email: Timaru NZIIA Contact

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Upcoming Meetings:

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Venue: Red Cross Rooms, 18 Bank Street,Timaru

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TIMARU BRANCH newsletter

Members on our email list will be emailed when firm dates for speakers are available.  Other members will be contacted by phone as in the past.  The committee is keen to raise the profile of our branch.  If you know of anyone who would like to be added to our newsletter list contact Derek Hughes, phone 03-688-2363 or email
hughes-d@xtra.co.nz

Previous Meetings

2 March 2011: 'Efforts to stop the Iranian Nuclear Program' by Dr Peter Viggo Jakobsen, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science,University of Copenhagen

4 February 2011: 'Can a leopard change its spots? The future for agricultural policy in Europe' by Dr Alan Renwick, Head of the Land Economy and Environment Research Group,Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh

1 December 2010: 'The challenge of New Zealand's future relationship with Asia' by Hon Philip Burdon, Chairman of Asia:NZ, former Minister of Commerce, Minister for State-Owned Enterprises and Minister for Trade Negotiations

12 April 2010: 'Aggression Last Century and This' by Dr Kennedy Graham MP, Green Party List Member of Parliament

17 March 2010: 'Guerilla Diplomacy Rethinking International Relations' by Daryl Copeland, CPD Fellow, former Canadian Diplomat

9 March 2010: 'NZ Aid – Particularly in the Pacific' by John Hayes MP, Chair of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs, Defence and
Trade Select Committee

25 November 2009: HE Mr Paul O'Sullivan, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand

30 April 2009: 'French Territories in the Pacific & French – NZ Relations' by HE Mr Michel Legras, French Ambassador to New Zealand

26 March 2009: An Address by Jill Henriod & Ernesto Henriod, Consul for Peru for Canterbury, Westland, Otago, Southland

8 October 2008: 'Then and Now - Reflections on Foreign Affairs. The World as I have seen it over 40 years' by The Hon Russell Marshall, President, New Zealand Institute of International Affairs.

19 June 2008: 'Switzerland – Direct Democracy in the European Union' by Mr Andreas Gross, Member of the Swiss National Council, Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for the State of Democracy in Europe.

9 May 2008: 'German Foreign Policy towards NZ and the Pacific in a European Context' by HE Mr Jörg Zimmermann, Ambassador, Federal Republic of Germany

12 March 2008: 'Red Cross and NGO relief agencies response to 2004 Tsunami in Aceh Indonesia “Successes and Failures”' by Ralph Douglass

7 February 2008: 'The UN and New Zealand in the 21st Century' by Dr Kennedy Graham, Senior Adjunct Fellow at the School of Law, University of Canterbury

16 August 2007: Dinner Meeting with the NZ China Friendship Society & Trevor Linyard and Brian Foley spoke on their experiences in China

11 June 2007: 'Experiences as a Diplomat' by John Hayes ONZM, MP for Wairarapa