New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over agreements the smaller Pacific nation made ...

New Zealand has what is known as a "free association" relationship with the Cook Islands, and helps the latter with defence ...

New Zealand has halted funding to the Cook Islands over what it considers the small Pacific nation's deepening ties with ...

China has been wooing Pacific Island countries with strategic partnership agreements. New Zealand has said it will pause ...

New Zealand has halted more than $18 million in development assistance to its realm country. But the island's prime minister ...

Cook Islands PM said the relationship between his country and New Zealand is defined by partnership, not paternalism. Read ...

New Zealand has paused nearly $20m of core sector support funding for the Cook Islands, after its government signed ...

New Zealand says funding won’t resume until Pacific nation takes ‘concrete steps to repair relationship and restore trust’ ...

The Cook Islands is one of New Zealand’s closest allies in the Pacific. Wellington controlled the territory, which has a population of about 27,000, until 1965. The countries now have a “free ...

New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands, the government said Thursday, as relations ...

New Zealand’s government halted aid to close partner the Cook Islands on Thursday because of a row over agreements the ...