Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin must be so relieved. International tours are usually a snooze-fest of handshaking and monotonous muttering about trade, diplomacy and national security with important men in blue ties.

But not in New Zealand.

Because, as an observant Kiwi radio journalist noted at a joint press conference in Auckland this week, New Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, isALSOa woman. Yep, a whole other one.

Addressing the two

world

leaders

womenfolk, theNewstalkZBreporter said these actual words: "A lot of people will be wondering, are you two meeting just because you're similar in age and got a lot of common stuff there?"

Marin is 37 and Ardern is 42. So common stuff? Sure! They must.

In their rare in-person meeting during a global economic downturn and at a critical time for the state of the climate, we can only presume the minutes of their discussion read as follows:

[Pause to braid each other's hair.]

Stay tuned next week for conversation topics between Chilean President Gabriel Boric and Prime Minister of Montenegro Dritan Abazović, both aged 36.

*Note: This is not the real minutes from the meeting between Sanna Marin and Jacinda Ardern. This is satire.

Feature Image: Getty/Mamamia.

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