New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over the “breadth and content” of agreements the smaller Pacific nation made with China, officials from the New ...

"As Māori, our whakapapa binds us to the peoples of Te Moana-Nui-A-Kiwa. Our relationship with the Cook Islands is not one of dominance, it's one of shared ancestry, migration, and struggle.

New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in budget funding to the Cook Islands, as the relationship between the two constitutionally-linked countries continues to deteriorate amid the island ...

The Cook Islands is a self-governing country in free association with New Zealand, and Cook Islanders are New Zealand citizens.

New Zealand’s government halted aid to close partner the Cook Islands on Thursday because of a row over agreements the Pacific island nation struck with China. New Zealand “paused” the payments and ...

The money is part of NZ $200 million directed to the Cook Islands by New Zealand over the past three years as part of an almost 60-year-old free association compact.

New Zealand’s government halted aid to close partner the Cook Islands on Thursday because of a row over agreements the Pacific island nation struck with China.

New Zealand “paused” the payments and would not resume them until the Cook Islands took “concrete steps” to restore trust, a spokesman for Foreign Minister Winston Peters said in a ...