Wellington - New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said Thursday that she would not immediately sack Foreign Minister Winston Peters, who is the subject of a parliamentary inquiry into claims of secret donations to his party.

After Peters defended himself Wednesday night at a hearing of Parliament's powerful privileges committee, Clark issued a statement saying the proceedings provided no basis for her to remove him.

Wellington - New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark rejected demands on Wednesday to sack Foreign Minister Winston Peters over a cash donation from a billionaire businessman.

Clark faced persistent questioning in parliament after the release of a letter from billionaire Owen Glenn saying that Peters had asked him for money towards a legal bill in 
2005 and later thanked him personally for his 100,000 New Zealand dollars (about 70,000 US dollars) donation.

Wellington - New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said Wednesday the situation in Fiji, whose military ruler has boycotted a regional summit meeting, was like Zimbabwe in the lead-up to its suspension from the British Commonwealth.

Clark was talking to reporters at the opening of the annual meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum in Niue, which Fiji strongman Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama refused to attend after backing down on a promise he gave his colleagues last year to hold fresh elections by next March.

Wellington  - New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark was forced to defend her Foreign Minister Winston Peters in parliament on Tuesday following a storm of attacks about cash donations to him and his party.

Peters leads the nationalist New Zealand First party, which supports Clark's minority Labour-led government in exchange for his getting the foreign affairs portfolio while it stays out of a formal coalition.

Wellington  - New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark was relaxed Tuesday about reports that the United States was preparing to make visitors from her country register online three days before trave

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