[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11602]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    VISIT TO THE SENATE BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF NEW ZEALAND, RIGHT 
                           HONORABLE JOHN KEY

  Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, I apologize to my colleagues. I know this 
has been previously scheduled, and I know the importance of what the 
Senator from New York is talking about, and the majority leader, and I 
completely agree with their comments and would like to share some 
thoughts on that at another moment. But at this particular moment, we 
are privileged to welcome here a great friend of the United States, the 
Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key.
  New Zealand is a country that is in enormous partnership with us at 
this time, assisting in Afghanistan, engaged in transpacific trade 
deliberations with us, and in many other ways contributing to one of 
the strongest and best global partnerships we have

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