United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she will reschedule her cancelled trip to the Pacific as soon as she can find a mutually agreeable time.
Yesterday, she cancelled her trip to New Zealand, Australia and Papua New Guinea because of the severity of the Haiti earthquake.
Haiti was where she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, went on a delayed honeymoon in the 1970s.
Earlier yesterday, she told reporters with her in Hawaii that she would shorten her visit, but she later cancelled it.
"Thankfully these are very good friends and they know that we wouldn't be cancelling were it not for something of this magnitude."
Mrs Clinton had been scheduled to visit Papua New Guinea yesterday and New Zealand today and tomorrow, en route to Australia for the annual US-Australia talks between Foreign and Defence Ministers.
The talks will be rescheduled and she said at the same time she would visit PNG and New Zealand where, she said, "we have forged close working ties with the new Government over the past year and we're going to continue to deepen those as we move forward".
She contacted Foreign Minister Murray McCully mid-morning yesterday to convey her decision.
US to rebook Clinton's visit
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