Welcome to the German Embassy Wellington
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From budding new writers to Nobel Prize winners: some 1,500 international authors will be guests at this year’s Leipzig Book Fair over the coming days (March 18 to 21). One of the highlights at the fair, where the book trade presents its new springtime publications, will be readings by two German Nobel Laureates in literature. Herta Müller and Günter Grass will be reading at the accompanying “Leipzig liest” festival.
Leipzig Book Fair 2010
Martin Kobler is to be new deputy head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). The German diplomat will be responsible in Kabul for political affairs.
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A new synagogue was opened Sunday 14 March in the north- western German town of Herford, more than 70 years after the old synagogue was destroyed under Nazi rule.
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A message in a bottle, written by an 11-year old East German boy in 1987, has been fished out of the river 23 years later by a lad in western Germany, media reported Friday 12 March.
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Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu will join Mr Stanislaw Tillich, Minister-President of the Free State of Saxony, and Martin Roth, Director-General of the Dresden State Art Collections, to open the Exhibition “Türckische Cammer”.
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A new round of UN climate talks is to be held in Bonn from April 9-11, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) announced Tuesday 23 February.
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As a globally engaged country, as an important actor in the United Nations and as the organization’s third-largest contributor, Germany belongs on the United Nations Security Council. Because the Security Council is the centrepiece of the international peace order. Our candidature for a non-permanent seat on the Security Council for the period 2011/2012 is the logical consequence of our global engagement.
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Crisis Prevention List
We offer all German citizens staying permanently or temporarily in New Zealand the opportunity to register online to be included in a Crisis Prevention List.
To register go to the link below:
service.diplo.de/registrierungav
If you have registered with us before, you will be required to re-register online.
Latest update: influenza A (H1N1) ("swine flu")
Please take note of the current travel and safety advice for your country of destination, the Federal Foreign Office's recommendations on an influenza pandemic, as well as further information on the website of the Robert Koch Institute:
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