Jacinda Ardern offers Aung San Suu Kyi NZ help to solve plight of Rohingyas

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has offered Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi any help.

The pair met in Singapore today and it was announced in Vietnam, and at the Asia Summit in the Philippines.

Suu Kyi, an international icon of the human rights movement in Myanmar, is fast becoming a pariah because of its apparent indifference to the persecution of the Rohingyas under the leadership.

The United Nations has said it has hallmarks of genocide.

Ardern said before the bilateral meeting that she would "absolutely" raise the issue of Rohingyas in the meeting.

When Ardern and her party of officials come to a place where she is supposed to be in charge, she would be happy to be there.

After having been in the room, she was handed over to the New Zealand diplomatic protection squad officer, who passed it on the summit of security, to quips of "teapot-tape two".

The teapot is a furious pie after the emergence of a conversation Epsom MP John Banks and John Key Prime Minister in November 2011. The recording sparked a police investigation and long-running legal battle.

After the bilateral, a spokesman for Ardern said the discussions had focused on the situation with the Rohingyas.

"There was a discussion about the current situation on the ground in Rakhine [state], and the need for security and development.

"New Zealand indicated our willingness to assist in any way we could to achieve an enduring resolution to the situation."

It has been a wild day on the world of the first day in Singapore with the light and the light on the asean summit, which will be followed by the East Asia Summit.

Ardern began her day in Singapore with a lengthy interview on Channel News Asia's breakfast show.

She was quizzed by three hosts on a range of issues from climate change, to women in leadership, to the first lengthy absence from her five-month-old baby Neve. She said her partner, Clarke Gayford, had been sending several times.

On climate change she said the Pacific Islands are using their voice as independent nations.

"But we also see ourselves as having a duty of care, responsibility, we are members of the Pacific and we see the impact of climate change."

The islands contributed the least to increasing emissions, and yet were facing the brunt.

She avoided questions about China's role in the Pacific.

It's New Zealand's "Pacific Reset", which is more of a "partnership" than a "donor-donee" relationship.

One of the three hosts of Waikato University, where Ardern studied.

She spoke about the Coalition Government, the rights-free policy and women in New Zealand, the novelty had worn off.

Quizzed about why New Zealand did not go abroad, it was praised Singapore's innovation as well.

"But when it comes to us, we are isolated, we are so small that we are ever going to solve problems we had to do it. wire mentality – a real can-do.

"We always find a way We can not tell anyone we can not do something We just try and find a way that we can."