State Visit to Samoa

  • <span class="title">Meeting the Prime Minister</span><br/>The Governor-General, the Hon Anand Satyanand, and Mrs Susan Satyanand, made their first Official State Visit to Samoa from 6 to 9 August 2007. On his first day in Samoa, the Governor-General met the Prime Minister, the Hon Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi.
  • <span class="title">Historic diplomatic bag</span><br/>The Governor-General, the Hon Anand Satyanand, and Mrs Susan Satyanand, made their first Official State Visit to Samoa from 6 to 9 August. At a luncheon hosted by the Governor-General on 7 August, he gifted to His Highness Tuiatua Tupua Tamasese Efi, Samoa's Head of State, a diplomatic bag used by the German Governor of Samoa. The diplomatic bag was given the Governor-General to return to Samoa by Auckland barrister Brian Stephenson, who inherited it from his uncle who served as a police officer on Samoa. Pictured from left are: Her Highness Filifilia Efi, the Govenor-General, the Head of State, Mrs Satyanand, the Hon Misa Telefoni Retzlas, Deputy Prime Minister of Samoa, and the Hon Luamanuvao Winnie Laban, New Zealand's Associate Minister of Pacific Island Affairs.

In early August 2007, the Governor-General, Hon Anand Satyanand, and Mrs Susan Satyanand, made a State Visit to Samoa.