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 WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - New Zealand's new foreign minister said Wednesday he wants to improve relations with the United States strained for 20 years by New Zealand's anti-nuclear policies.
"It is what I think most New Zealanders would want and our allies would want and the United States would want," Winston Peters told The Associated Press in an interview.
New Zealand's 1985 laws banning nuclear weapons and nuclear powered ships from its harbors has been a 20-year irritant between the two countries and has been blamed for Washington's reluctance to negotiate a free-trade deal with Wellington.
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