ed Parliament): elections
last held 6 November 1993 (next must be called by November 1996);
results - NP 35.2%, NZLP 34.7%, Alliance 18.3%, New Zealand First
8.3%; seats - (99 total) NP 50, NZLP 45, Alliance 2, New Zealand
First Party 2

Judicial branch: High Court; Court of Appeal

Political parties and leaders: National Party (NP, government),
James BOLGER; New Zealand Labor Party (NZLP, opposition), Helen
CLARK; Alliance, Jim ANDERTON; Democratic Party, Dick RYAN; New
Zealand Liberal Party, Hanmish MACINTYRE and Gilbert MYLES; Green
Party, no official leader; Mana Motuhake, Sandra LEE; Socialist
Unity Party (SUP, pro-Soviet), leader NA; New Zealand First, Winston
PETERS; United New Zealand (UNZ), Clive MATTHEWSON; Conservative
Party (formerly Right of Centre Party), Trevor ROGERS; Association
of Consumers and Taxpayers, New Zealand (ACT), Richard PREBBLE;
Christian Democrats, Graeme LEE; Christian Heritage Party (CH), Rev.
Graham CAPILL
note: the New Zealand Liberal, New Labor, Democratic, and Mana
Motuhake parties formed a coalition called the Alliance Party in
September 1991; the Green Party joined the coalition in May 1992;
the National Party government formed a coalition with the United New
Zealand Party in February 1996; the coalition will be valid through
the 1996 elections

International organization participation: ANZUS (US suspended
security obligations to NZ on 11 August 1986), APEC, AsDB, Australia
Group, C, CCC, CP, EBRD, ESCAP, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICFTU, ICRM,
IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsat,
Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), ISO, ITU, MTCR, NAM (guest), OECD,
PCA, Sparteca, SPC, SPF, UN, UNAVEM III, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO,
UNPREDEP, UNPROFOR, UNTSO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTrO

Diplomatic representation in US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Lionel John WOOD
chancery: 37 Observatory Circle NW, Washington, DC 20008
telephone: [1] (202) 328-4800
consulate(s) general: Apia (Western Samoa), Los Angeles

US diplomatic representation:
chief of mission: Ambassador Josiah Horton BEEMAN
embassy: 29 Fitzherbert Terrace, Thorndon, Wellington
mailing address: P. O. Box 1190, Wellington; PSC 467, Box 1, FPO AP
96531-1001
telephone: [64] (4) 472-2068
FAX: [64] (4) 472-3537
consulate(s) general: Auckland

Flag: blue with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side
quadrant with four red five-pointed st