Institute Notes: national office and branch activities.

With the Institute of Policy Studies, the NZIIA held a seminar on `Prospects for Indonesia' on 17 October. Presentations were made by Michael Green of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Susanto Sutoyo, the Indonesian Ambassador in New Zealand.

On 26 October, a function was held at the Australian High Commission to launch the NZIIA's latest publication, the collected papers of the seminar at Victoria University of Wellington in July: New Zealand and Australia -- Where are we Going? The Director, Bryce Harland, paid tribute to the work of the chairman of the Research Committee, Bruce Brown, who edited the papers.

Wellington

The following meetings were held:

11 Oct Mike Field (New Zealand/Pacific correspondent, Agence France-Press), `Roaming around Sharks and other Reporter's Tales of covering the vexing South Seas'.

24 Oct Hon Graham Kelly MP (Chairman, Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence Select Committee), `The Role of the Select Committee and its Influence on Parliament and Foreign Policy'.

30 Oct Wang Fuqing (Vice-Minister, Taiwan Affairs Office of both the State Council and the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, Beijing), `The One-China Principle and Relations across the Taiwan Strait'.

7 Nov HE Archbishop Patrick Coveney (Apostolic Nuncio and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps), `The Role of the Holy See in International Relations'.

12 NovTan Sri Musa Hitam (former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia), `Development towards National Unity -- the Malaysian Experience'.

15 NovJan de Kok (Counsellor of the Delegation of the European Commission) and Simon Lambourne (New Zealand Adviser), `The European Union and New Zealand -- Progress and Prognosis'.

27 NovHE Gennady Shabannikov (Ambassador of the Russian Federation in New Zealand), `Russia's Role in the Struggle against International Terrorism'.

4 Dec Dr Bates Gill (Director Centre for North-east Asian Policy Studies and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution, Washington), `US-China Relations under the Bush Administration'. (This meeting was held in conjunction with the Office of Public Affairs at the US Embassy, Wellington, and the Centre for Strategic Studies.)

On 18 September 2001 the NZIIA President, Sir Kenneth Keith, sent the following letter to Mr Phillip Wall, the Charge d'Affaires at the...