Labour’s associate foreign affairs spokesperson Phil Twyford previously explained: “They stole democracy at the barrel of a gun. Do we want them in our country? No”.
The group was looking for interim orders to keep the diplomat out of the country.
But Justice Matthew Palmer ruled that, as the representative was already an accredited diplomat, and there was no evidence this status was obtained illegitimately, they should be allowed to enter.
The judge noted that none of this mitigated the understandable concerns about the human rights abuses by the military junta in Myanmar.
“The evidence before me indicates the junta is responsible for well documented, widespread and systematic human rights violations and crimes against humanity,” his judgement reads.
The ASEAN conference began today in Wellington.
RNZ