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Mary Thurston

@MPTNZ

Kiwi. Travel. Photos. Books. NZ Ambassador 🇵🇱🇪🇪🇬🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇺🇦 2017-2021. Now NZ Consul-General Nouméa. Personal account - views my own. RT/QT≠endorsement.

Joined September 2016
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You can take the girl out of Wellington… #YCBWOAGD #NewZealand
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Kia kaha 🇺🇦 #IndependenceDay #SlavaUkraïni
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Triumph of the human spirit 🇪🇪 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇺🇦 #BalticWay
Lithuania MFA 🇱🇹 | #StandWithUkraine (@LithuaniaMFA) profile pictureLithuania MFA 🇱🇹 | #StandWithUkraine
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On 23 August 1939, a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union paved the way for the WWII. In protest against the Soviet occupation, OTD in 1989, 2 million people in 🇱🇹 🇱🇻 🇪🇪 stood in the Baltic Way, expressing the will to break free from the evil empire.
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Enjoying delicious fresh oysters at the Fête du Cerf et de la Crevette in Boulouparis, New Caledonia. Community fairs like this one celebrate local products and rural traditions in a fun family atmosphere.
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Blackrock diving board, Salthill, Galway 🇮🇪
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Thanks for the warm welcome! Great to be back in Poland at last, catching up with friends and colleagues 🇳🇿❤️🇵🇱
New Zealand Embassy Warsaw (@NZinWarsaw) profile pictureNew Zealand Embassy Warsaw
@NZinWarsaw29 Aug 2025
We had a special visitor at the Embassy this morning – 🇳🇿’s former Ambassador to Poland, now Consul-General in Nouméa, Mary Thurston.   Always great to reconnect and hear stories from her time here from 2017-2021. 🇳🇿🇵🇱
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Aujourd’hui nous avons commémoré l’Anzac Day à Nouméa avec le Dawn Service à la caserne Gally-Passebosc. Le 25 avril, les Néo-Zélandais du monde entier se souviennent des sacrifices consentis par tous ceux qui ont combattu pendant les guerres. #WeWillRememberThem
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#AnzacDay2025 dawn service in Nouméa. Thanks to New Caledonia’s leaders, members of the public and @FANC_Officiel for supporting the 🇳🇿🇦🇺 commemoration of our service personnel. Ka maumahara tonu tātou ki a rātou 🕯️ We will remember them
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When worlds collide!
Nottingham Forest (@NFFC) profile pictureNottingham Forest
@NFFC24 Mar 2025
World Cup qualification secured for New Zealand! 🇳🇿🎉
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Great to welcome many friends of New Zealand in New Caledonia to the Residence this week. Awesome manaakitanga from our NZCG team in Nouméa!
GouvernementNC (@GouvNC) profile pictureGouvernementNC@GouvNC7 Mar 2025
Les membres du gouvernement Christopher Gygès, Jérémie Katidjo Monnier, Petelo Sao, Samuel Hnepeune et Claude Gambey, ont participé à la réception organisée par Mary Thurston, la nouvelle consule générale de Nouvelle-Zélande en Nouvelle-Calédonie
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#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
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Partnership with France in the Pacific - thanks to our excellent hosts! @MFATNZ @CBilkeyNZ @rogerlacanv @AmbafranceNZ @FANC_Officiel
RIMAP Nouvelle Calédonie (@RIMaP_NC) profile pictureRIMAP Nouvelle Calédonie@RIMaP_NC27 Feb 2025
#PARTENAIRES : Le RIMAP_NC a été très honoré de recevoir les consuls des pays partenaires pour échanger sur nos capacités au profit des populations et nos actions de partenariats opérationnels en Indo-Pacifique. @FANC_Officiel @rogerlacanv @HC98800 @3Division_Terre @EtatMajorFR
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#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
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Nie bądź obojętny. Be not indifferent. The words of Marian Turski, survivor of Auschwitz and the Holocaust, challenge us to stay engaged. A man who knew how to speak truth to power, and who made sure to love life and make many friends. RIP Marian (1926-2025) 🕯️ Moe mai rā.
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#NeverAgain 🕯️ #NigdyWięcej #AuschwitzBirkenau80
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Looking forward to my next role for New Zealand, working out of Nouméa!
Winston Peters (@NewZealandMFA) profile pictureWinston Peters
@NewZealandMFA16 Dec 2024
The Minister farewelled Jonathan Curr, Mary Thurston & Joanna Anderson. They’ll take up their roles in early 2025 as NZ’s High Commissioner to Solomon Islands, Consul-General to New Caledonia & French Polynesia (based in Nouméa) & Ambassador to ASEAN (based in Jakarta). @MFATNZ
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March 2019 - little did we know that three weeks later… November 2024 - one week short of reopening #NotreDameDeParis
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À Paris :-)
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Some news…
Winston Peters (@NewZealandMFA) profile pictureWinston Peters
@NewZealandMFA20 Nov 2024
The Minister has made the following diplomatic appointments: - Jennifer Troup as Ambassador to Belgium 🇧🇪 - Charles Kingston as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 - Mary Thurston as Consul-General in Noumea 🇳🇨🇫🇷 - James Munro as Consul-General in Sydney 🇦🇺
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