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New Zealand hosts multilateral talks

June 29th, 2009
"With your basket and with my basket, together we will feed everyone."

This traditional New Zealand saying, translated into English from the Maori language, was referenced by New Zealand Air Commodore Gavin Howse during the opening seminar of the Pacific Rim Airpower Symposium and Senior Enlisted Leadership Conference here June 24.

Air Commodore Howse, the Joint Forces New Zealand air component commander, used it to illustrate how each of the representatives from 19 nations attending the events June 23 through 27 would share knowledge with one another. The conference also served as an example of why New Zealand is an appropriate venue for the events.
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