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Viewing cable 06WELLINGTON478, THERE GOES THE NEIGBORHOOD": NZ MEDIA SURVEY REGIONAL

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06WELLINGTON478 2006-06-22 05:17 2011-08-30 01:44 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Wellington
VZCZCXRO6853
RR RUEHNZ
DE RUEHWL #0478/01 1730517
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 220517Z JUN 06
FM AMEMBASSY WELLINGTON
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 2925
INFO RUEHNZ/AMCONSUL AUCKLAND 0793
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 06 WELLINGTON 000478 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EAP/PD-AGRIMES, EAP/P-K BAILES, EAP/ANP-DRICCI, INR/R/MR 
 
E.O. 12985: N/A 
TAGS: OTRA KIRC OIIP KPAO KMDR OPRC NZ
SUBJECT: "THERE GOES THE NEIGBORHOOD": NZ MEDIA SURVEY REGIONAL 
SECURITY. 
 
1. SUMMARY:  The following is a digest of recent regional security 
reports in the New Zealand media. This cable gives a synopsis of 
media reporting on sixteen countries in the region, their outline of 
New Zealand contributions to each of those countries, and/or their 
assessment of each country's future prospects.  The articles cited 
are: 
A. "Island Propping: NZ bilateral aid in the Pacific and East Timor 
2005/6" by Geoff Cumming in the 06/10/06 New Zealand Herald and 
B. "There goes the neighborhood" by Michael Field in the 06/10/06 
Dominion Post:  END SUMMARY. 
 
2. COOK ISLANDS: 
From New Zealand Herald: 
 
NZ BILATERAL AID TO: COOK ISLANDS: $6.2M 
Focus on economic and social development, particularly outer 
islands. $2.47m for education including implementing new curriculum, 
graded readers to improve literacy, school refurbishment and 
training. 
Governance advice to NGOs, public sector 
Small business development 
Health specialist visits 
$10 million over next 3 years for cyclone recovery. 
$6 million, three-year program in outer islands for infrastructure, 
including water and power, harbors, runways, markets, cyclone 
shelters. 
$5 million over five years for sustainable fisheries management. 
 
3. EAST TIMOR: 
From Dominion Post: 
 
POPULATION: 1 million. 
 
SUMMARY: In the wake of the 1975 "Carnation revolution," Portugal 
fled Timor, leaving it to the mercy of Indonesia's army. After the 
Timorese voted for independence, a bloodbath followed, led by 
army-organized, anti-independence militias. They destroyed the 
infrastructure, leading to the Australian-led peacekeeping troops of 
the International Force for East Timor. On May 20, 2002, East Timor 
became independent, but having a flag and a national anthem is not 
all there is to building a nation. 
 
GOVERNMENT: Disintegrating. 
 
MILITARY AND POLICE: Local army and police at war with one another; 
Anzac, Malaysian and Portuguese forces patrolling. Can the 
Indonesian army be far behind? 
 
SAFETY: Armed gangs and militia are a constant worry. Foreigners 
leaving; soldiers going in. 
 
INVESTMENT POTENTIAL: Known to have vast reserves of oil in the 
Timor Gap-but Australia has taken most of it. 
 
NZ CRISIS INVOLEMENT: Military, Police and aid. New Zealand blood 
spilt. 
 
RISK: High. 
 
From New Zealand Herald: 
NZ BILATERAL AID TO: EAST TIMOR: $4.1 MILLION 
Focus on education, community development, governance and 
capacity-building in public service. 
Education, including study awards, English language training. 
Governance, including training, human rights action plan, law and 
order, technical advice, funding for UN volunteers. 
Rural development funding 
$500,000 for essential services. 
 
4. FIJI: 
From Dominion Post: 
 
POPULATION: 906,000 
 
SUMMARY: Fiji's stability depends on the Iraq War. Hundreds of 
ex-soldiers work as mercenaries and their remittances, about $275 
million a year, come a narrow second to tourism as Fiji's top 
earner. If peace breaks out, Fiji faces an army of unemployed 
mercenaries coming home. Prime Minister Laisnia Qarase has a White 
Paper coming soon that will slash the military forces-- another East 
Timor situation? Military commander Voreqe Bainimarama has 
threatened to bring down the government. 
 
GOVERNMENT: An indigenous-Indian coalition cabinet offers hope. 
 
MILITARY AND POLICE: Since Sitiveni Rabuka's 1987 coups the 
10,000-strong military has been a potential threat. Poorly paid 
police are under-equipped. 
 
SAFETY: Growing violent crime, especially in tourist areas. 
 
WELLINGTON 00000478  002 OF 006 
 
 
 
INVESTMENT POTENTIAL: Rich in natural resources, but customary land 
issues and politics are a downside. 
 
NZ CRISIS INVOLVMENT: Too risky to send the military; political 
jaw-jaw is only option. 
 
RISK: Moderate. 
 
From New Zealand Herald: 
NZ BILATERAL AID TO: FIJI: $6M 
Five-year program focuses on governance, squatters, poverty. 
Education, including teacher training, books, mobile pre-school. 
Governance/civil society including funding for legislative reviews, 
Fiji Human Rights Commission, Women's Crisis Centers. 
Housing in squatter settlements. 
Rural initiatives including bee- keeping, fishing, small-scale 
horticulture and goat-farming. 
NZ hospital treatment funding 
 
5. FRENCH PACIFIC TERRORITORIES: 
From New Zealand Herald: 
 
NZ BILATERAL AID TO: FRENCH PACIFIC TERRITORIES: $625,000. 
Mainly for training, in New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna and French 
Polynesia 
 
6. KIRIBATI: 
From Dominion Post: 
 
POPULATION: 105,000. 
 
SUMMARY: Kiribati is the scene of a strange power struggle between 
China and Taiwan. A similar tiff was behind the burning of Honiara's 
Chinatown. 
 
GOVERNMENT: Brothers Anote and Harry Tong are respectively the 
pro-Taiwan president and pro-China leader of the opposition. 
 
MILITARY AND POLICE: Britain offered Kiribati an army; founding 
President Iremia Tabai said no thanks. 
 
SAFETY: Boredom and isolation. 
 
INVESTMENT POTENTIAL: None. 
 
NZ CRISIS INVOLEMENT: Beyond our range. 
 
RISK: Low. 
 
From New Zealand Herald: 
NZ BILATERAL AID TO KIRIBATI: $3.1M 
Education including $1.4 million for university scholarships. 
Public sector and legal assistance. 
$100,000 for NZ hospital treatment. 
 
7. MICRONESIA: 
From New Zealand Herald: 
NZ BILATERAL AID TO MICRONESIA: $500,000. 
Mainly for training, in Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall 
Islands and Palau. 
An additional $31.7 million was spent on regional projects in the 
Pacific in 2004/05. 
 
8. NAURU: 
From Dominion Post: 
 
POPULATION: 13,000 
. 
SUMMARY: For a 21-square kilometer wasteland in the middle of the 
central Pacific, Nauru causes a surprising degree of international 
worry. It once sold passports to anyone and played a role as the 
Russian mafia's banker-- 450 off-shore banks registered to a single 
government postbox. Now bankrupt, the island's risk factor is in 
keeping it clear of wild schemes. 
 
GOVERNMENT: Unstable-in 2003 it had six changes of president-but a 
new reform band is slowing getting the upper hand. 
 
MILITARY AND POLICE: None. 
 
SAFETY: Among the world's sickest people with diabetes, heart 
failure and alcoholism rampant. 
 
INVESTMENT POTENTIAL: Australia and New Zealand have already taken 
all its phosphate. 
 
NZ CRISIS INVOLEMENT: Unlikely. 
 
RISK: Low, but keep a watch. 
 
WELLINGTON 00000478  003 OF 006 
 
 
 
 
9. NIUE: 
From Dominion Post: 
 
POPULATION: Something of a mystery, but around 1000, depending on 
how many fly in and out on the weekly plane paid for with New 
Zealand aid. 
 
SUMMARY: Premier Young Vivian, who till recently was talking about 
turning the island into an organic farming paradise, signed a deal 
in May for a fleet of Malaysian logging bulldozers to clear-fell 
most of the timber on the island, which is slightly smaller than 
Great Barrier. 
 
GOVERNMENT: With a 20-seat assembly, Niue has more MPs per capita 
than any other country. 
 
MILITARY AND POLICE: Little more than an occasional RNZAF base. 
 
SAFETY: Two murders in about 50 years-- one of them was the New 
Zealand high commissioner in 1953. 
 
INVESTMENT POTENTIAL: Very little. 
 
NZ CRISIS INVOLEMENT: A colony in all but name. 
 
RISK: Low. 
 
From New Zealand Herald: 
NZ BILATERAL AID TO: NIUE: $18.5M (Niue's status as self-governing 
in free association with NZ means we are constitutionally obliged to 
provide economic and administrative assistance). 
$20m over five years for economic development and infrastructure. 
$7.5 million to Niue Government trust fund in 2004/05. 
$270,000 for air service maintenance and tourism. 
$340,000 for vanilla farming 
Education support including teacher development, teaching resources, 
tertiary scholarships. 
Cyclone Heta recovery. 
 
10. PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 
From Dominion Post: 
 
POPULATION: 5.7 million. 
 
SUMMARY: By all objective measures, PNG is a failed state. 
Everything is collapsing, form the government to education and 
health. Australia has unsuccessfully tried, with its "Enhanced 
Cooperation Programme", to restore order. Intervention on a vast 
scale is a possibility. 
 
GOVERNMENT: With a general election next year, aging Prime Minister 
Sir Michael Somare is in survival mode; good governance is off the 
agenda. 
 
MILITARY AND POLICE: Both the defense force and police are poorly 
paid and resourced and suffer low morale. In the Sandline mutiny of 
1998, the army brought down the government. 
 
SAFETY: Spectacularly dangerous crime, driven by unrelenting 
poverty, Aids, malaria, tuberculosis and natural disasters, make PNG 
highly risky on a normal day. 
 
INVESTMENT POTENTIAL: High returns for high risk. 
 
NZ CRISIS INVOLEMENT: Its troubles threaten to overwhelm New 
Zealand's military resources. 
 
RISK: High to extreme. 
 
From New Zealand Herald: 
NZ BILATERAL AID TO: PAPUA NEW GUINEA (INCLUDES BOUGAINVILLE): 
$13.5M 
Country strategy focuses on maternal and child health, education, 
rural economic development, governance and civil society. NZ also 
has coordinating role in health. 
HIV/Aids programs 
Education including indigenous school journal project, training, 
teacher development. 
Fresh Produce Development Agency. 
Rural economic development project in Huon Gulf. 
BOUGAINVILLE 
Teacher development funding. 
Law and justice programs. 
Community policing project. 
NGO support. 
Governance and Implementation Fund. 
Leprosy Mission funding 
 
 
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11. SAMOA: 
From New Zealand Herald: 
NZ BILATERAL AID TO: SAMOA: $8.2M 
Development strategy focuses on strengthened private sector, 
agriculture, tourism, community development, student learning and 
health. 
$2.8 million for tertiary scholarships. 
Teacher training. 
Small business development. 
$5m over five years on public sector programs. 
Visiting health specialists. 
 
12. SOLOMON ISLANDS: 
From Dominion Post: 
 
POPULATION: 552,000 
 
SUMMARY: Its people have been at war with each other, manipulated by 
dreadful political leadership. Earlier this year, the locals-led by 
politicians-burnt down Chinatown, the one prosperous part of the 
dusty capital of Honiara, prompting a new military intervention. 
There is brewing discontent in Honiara over continued hard-edged 
Australian occupation. 
 
GOVERNMENT: Unstable and corrupt, dominated by Australian 
bureaucrats. 
 
MILITARY AND POLICE: Armed Australian and New Zealand soldiers with 
local police supported by Pacific officers. 
 
SAFETY: Malaria and crocodiles. Endemic crime, riots and looting 
common. Chinese leaving, but hardened expatriates staying. 
 
INVESTMENT POTENTIAL: Had lots of timber, but Malaysian loggers 
nicked most of it. Rich in gold and fish, but in the unrest mines 
and canneries were targeted. Vast palm oil plantations all ruined by 
strife. 
 
NZ CRISIS INVOLEMENT: Military, police and aid. 
 
RISK: High, and more trouble looming. 
 
From New Zealand Herald: 
NZ BILATERAL AID TO: SOLOMON ISLANDS: $18M 
$30m over three years for education programs. 
Voter enrolment project pre- election. 
Economic advice. 
Justice/court assistance. 
NGO relief funding. 
Small business support. 
 
13. TOKELAU: 
From New Zealand Herald: 
 
NZ BILATERAL AID TO: TOKELAU: $25.6M (non-self-governing territory 
of NZ). 
NZAID provides about 80 per cent of Tokelau revenue. 
Review of shipping services. 
Power project planning and implementation. 
Student scholarships. 
Cyclone relief. 
 
14. TONGA: 
From Dominion Post: 
 
POPULATION: 115,000. 
 
SUMMARY: Tonga claims to have the world's highest number of PhDs per 
capita; most of them don't live there. Its major problem is the 
royal family who have purloined most of the kingdom's assets. Crown 
Prince Tupuoto'a is demanding $47 million for the public power 
company he took. His appointed prime minister, Fred Sevele, talks of 
getting a mortgage from China to pay. 
 
GOVERNMENT: Run by corrupt royal family. 
 
MILITARY AND POLICE: The New Zealand- and US-trained, 450 strong 
Tonga Defense Services is largely a palace guard. Lightly armed, but 
hundreds of original condition .303 rifles are in storage. 
 
SAFETY: Growing crime. 
 
INVESTMENT POTENTIAL: Any carpetbagger with a scheme-turning sea 
water into natural gas or investing in Nevada insurance-is welcome. 
 
NZ CRISIS INVOLEMENT: 42,000 Tongans live in NZ. In the event of 
strife, New Zealand would have to lead any intervention. 
 
RISK: High, after King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV (87) dies. 
 
 
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From New Zealand Herald: 
NZ BILATERAL AID TO: TONGA: $9.8M.  Priorities include education, 
health, economic development, governance, strengthening civil 
society. 
Tertiary scholarships, school leaver training. 
NZ hospital treatment. 
Water reticulation schemes in villages. 
Public sector programs. 
Small business and community development 
 
15. TUVALU: 
From Dominion Post: 
 
POPULATION: 12,000. 
 
SUMMARY: Every year, the island of Funafuti sinks 6.6 millimeters 
into the Pacific. As Tuvalu sits no more than 5 meters above mean 
sea-level, this suggests the country has little future. The 
political leadership is looking to move to Fiji or New Zealand. 
 
GOVERNMENT: No political parties, but regular changes in leadership. 
Current Prime Minister Maatia Toafa in office since 2004. 
 
MILITARY AND POLICE: No military and small police force. 
 
SAFETY: Very safe. 
 
INVESTMENT POTENTIAL: Almost nothing. 
 
NZ CRISIS INVOLEMENT: If decisions are left too long, the New 
Zealand 
 
Navy might have to rescue the whole population in the wake of a 
hurricane. 
 
RISK: low, but watch the weather and the sea. 
 
From New Zealand Herald: 
NZ BILATERAL AID TO: TUVALU: $2.1M 
Focus on economic management, education and outer island 
development. Funding to rise to $16.5 million by 2007/08 under five- 
year development program. 
$912,000 to tertiary scholarships and vocational training. 
$85,000 for NZ hospital treatment. 
$350,000 for outer island development funding 
 
16. VANUATU: 
From Dominion Post: 
 
POPULATION: 209,000. 
 
SUMMARY: On top of tribal and island divisions, Vanuatu remains 
politically and socially divided between French and English 
speakers. A bewildering array of political wannabes-the deeply 
suspicious Barak Sope, francophone Sege Vohor and Maxime Carlot 
Kormon-swap among themselves as president and prime minister. With 
high unemployment, a growing squatter population around Port Vila is 
seen as a long-term security threat. Occasional riots and 
disturbances break out in Vila. 
 
GOVERNMENT: Completely unstable and corrupt. 
 
MILITARY AND POLICE: Paramilitary Vanuatu Police Force and its 
mobile wing are known to have caused more trouble for the government 
than criminals. 
 
SAFETY: Volcanoes regularly go off and shark attacks are common. 
Rising crime. 
 
INVESTMENT POTENTIAL: Not good, other than in enclave tourism. Some 
fishing and agriculture. 
 
NZ CRISIS INVOLEMENT: Watch for a replay of the Solomon Islands. 
 
RISK: Moderate. 
 
From New Zealand Herald: 
NZ BILATERAL AID TO: VANUATU: $7.3M. 
Education funding includes curriculum, resources and training. 
Law and order, including NZ judge. 
Public service capacity building. 
Domestic violence program. 
Economic development planning. 
 
17. WEST PAPUA: 
From Dominion Post: 
 
POPULATION: 2.6 million 
 
SUMMARY: It has all the makings of the next East Timor, except this 
 
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time Jakarta will not let go. The huge Freeport gold and copper mine 
is the largest taxpayer in Indonesia. 
 
GOVERNMENT: Indonesia, with regular allegations of human rights 
abuses and mistreatment of indigenous people. 
 
MILITARY AND POLICE: Power rests with Indonesia's army and Kopassus 
Special Forces. 
 
SAFETY: A war zone in many places. 
 
INVESTMENT POTENTIAL: Fabulous untapped wealth-who gets it is what 
the struggle is over. 
 
NZ CRISIS INVOLEMENT: None and politicians are keen to stay clear. 
 
RISK: Moderate to high. 
 
MCCORMICK