Progress report on the London Memorial
Over the past few months the Ministry has been working with designers to finalise the plans for a New Zealand memorial at London's Hyde Park Corner.
The memorial will be a focus of remembrance of the contribution and sacrifice made by New Zealanders during armed conflicts and will commemorate the relationship between this country and the United Kingdom.
We also continue to consult extensively with the authorities in London as we work through the processes required to gain the appropriate building consents.
The successful design will be announced in August or September this year, with the unveiling of the finished memorial expected to be towards the end of 2006.
New War Memorial in Korea
Work has begun on planning a New Zealand memorial in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Korea, to recognise the New Zealanders who fought and died in the Korean War.
More than 6,000 New Zealand service men and women were involved in the Korean War between 1950 and 1953. The United Nations cemetery in Pusan is where most of our war dead are buried and is the site of regular commemoration ceremonies.
The memorial should be completed by November 2005.