New Zealand PM to Visit Hong Kong

Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark will arrive in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on April 16 for a three-day visit.

According to a government press release reaching here Thursday, the prime minister, accompanied by her husband, is traveling with an official delegation and a group of New Zealand businessmen.

"The Chief Executive will meet the prime minister at Government House and host a dinner in her honor in the evening of April 17," a government spokesman said Thursday.

The spokesman added: "Hong Kong welcomes the visit of the prime minister. The visit will certainly strengthen the bilateral relationship between the two places."



Helen Clark

Helen Clark was born in 1950, in Hamilton

Helen Clark joined the Labour Party in 1971 and in 1975 stood for election to Parliament for the first time, in the safe National seat of Piako.

Helen Clark was elected Leader of the Labour Party in December 1993 and served as Leader of the Opposition until the general election in November 1999, when Labour was again elected to government.

Helen Clark was elected Prime Minister of New Zealand on 27 November 1999. Her rise to the top of New Zealand politics is the culmination of almost thirty years of involvement with the Labour Party, and the latest chapter in a remarkable story which began in New Zealand's provincial, conservative heartland.





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