AUCKLAND: The United States ended a three-decade stand-off with New Zealand on Thursday when Vice President Joe Biden announced an American warship will visit Auckland later this year.

No US naval ship has docked in New Zealand since a row over nuclear weapons erupted in the 1980s and Biden said the symbolic visit was “a major step to further friendship” between the two nations.

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