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Article: New Zealand and Mexico: partners in the new Pacific: Brian Lynch looks to a closer relationship between New Zealand and Mexico.
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- New Zealand International Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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Both New Zealand and Mexico have been transformed in the past few decades, politically, economically and in the international connections they have formed beyond their borders.
Some facts of geography are unalterable. Mexico is a large country, with a substantial and rapidly growing population. Its size gives it a well-deserved, influential voice on the world stage. It is taken notice of. It is listened to. It is accepted without question when it seeks a leadership role on particular global issues.
For New Zealand such a role comes rarely; never easily and never automatically. It is a remote, isolated landmass. Mexico's long border with the United States ...