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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Eva Corlett in Wellington

Jacinda Ardern and Sanna Marin dismiss suggestion their age and gender was reason for meeting

The prime ministers of Finland and New Zealand have taken a swipe at suggestions their first face-to-face meeting in New Zealand happened because they are both young female leaders.

“We’re meeting because we are prime ministers,” Finland’s Sanna Marin said at a joint press conference at Auckland’s Government House on Wednesday morning, after a journalist suggested some people may have thought they were meeting because they share a similar demographic.

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