Christopher Luxon promised to bring a renewed energy to New Zealand’s relationships in South East Asia as he launched his first major overseas trade trip as Prime Minister this week.
But even before he’d landed in Singapore — the vital gateway to 650 million consumers, as he put it — Luxon was being asked to comment on Iran’s missile and drone attack on Israel.
And the New Zealand Government’s position on Iran’s attack is clear — it strongly condemns it.
“What we’ve seen is an Iranian strike, which is unprecedented from Iranian soil onto Israeli soil,” Luxon told reporters in…
