Globe-trotting PM chalks up air points on Gallipoli trip

The Prime Minister will visit Thailand, Poland and Germany when she heads overseas to attend the 90th anniversary of the Anzac landing at Gallipoli in Turkey later this month.

In Bangkok, she will meet Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Helen Clark and Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton will be at the signing of the New Zealand-Thailand free trade deal.

Her delegation then travels to Poland where Helen Clark will open New Zealand's first embassy in Warsaw. She will also travel to the nearby Auschwitz/Birkenau concentration camps.

Then she goes to Ankara to meet the President and Prime Minister of Turkey.

In Berlin she will meet German Prime Minister Gerhard Schroeder.

The Prime Minister leaves on April 18 and returns to New Zealand on May 1.

* Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono arrives tomorrow after postponing his trip following an earthquake in his country last month.

- NZPA