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In January, Foreign Minister Don McKinnon pledged continued close links with the nations of the South Pacific.
McKinnon promised pacific island countries would know clearly where New Zealand was headed internationally and the type of policies devised for the South Pacific.............

In March, the Auckland area health board scoured its Wiri storage complex and came up with several container-loads of medical supplies and equipment which had become too old to use locally but was still in a reasonable enough condition to be sent to hospitals in cyclone devasted Western Samoa.
Medical officer for disasters, Dr Fepulea'i Mika spent a week in Auckland checking the equipment before it was sent.
Fepulea'i said on the island of Savaii alone, more than 80 per cent of medical facilitities had been destoryed.........

In May, Commonwealth Secretary- General Chief Emeka Anyaoku visited New Zealand for tallks with the goverment which touched on the March cross-broder raid by Papua New Guinea into the Solomon Islands.The delegation leader Danny Phillip, confirmed the unease Solomon Islanders had been feeling since the March cross-border raids by PNG security forces, and suggested friendly countries like New Zealand might consider increasing their level of military assistance to the Solomons..........

In October, Governor General Dame Catherine Tizard and Deputy Prime Minister Don McKinnon flew to Niue to attend the last Constitution Day presided over by retiring Premier Sir Robert Rex.