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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-578/
- Published: 2022-05-24T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-24T08:32:33.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, World Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 23:04

Foreign Affairs Minister **Nanaia Mahuta** has not directly communicated with New Zealand’s Ambassador to Russia or our Embassy in Moscow since the Ukraine invasion began.

> Brownlee, National’s foreign affairs spokesperson and a former Foreign Affairs Minister, said the lack of communication between Mahuta and the embassy “makes no sense”.  
>  
> \[…\] Former Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters is also shocked. He told Newshub the minister should be making contact with the embassy given the magnitude of the events taking place there.   
>  
> “It is utterly extraordinary… for there to be no contact in such a critical time with the invasion, especially when those at the embassy and those of other nation’s embassies are suffering for ‘not being on the right side’ in the Kremlin’s eyes.”  
>  
> Newshub

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