Between 2003 and 2017, New Zealand contributed both military and law enforcement personnel to the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI).

[4] In March 2015, the New Zealand journalists Nicky Hager and Ryan Gallagher reported that New Zealand's signals intelligence agency, the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), was using the internet mass surveillance system XKeyscore to intercept email communications from several senior Solomon Islands government ministers, the Solomons Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and anti-corruption campaigner Benjamin Afuga.

[6] In March 2022, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern supported Australia's concerns about a security pact between China and Solomon Islands; claiming that it would lead to the militarisation of the South Pacific.

[7] In addition, the New Zealand Government unsuccessfully lobbied French Polynesian and New Caledonian officials into taking a position on the Chinese—Solomon Islands security pact.

[11] In 2016, the New Zealand and Solomons foreign ministers Murray McCully and Milner Tozaka signed a revised Joint Commitment for Development focusing on transport infrastructure, fisheries, education, tourism, aviation, revenue administration and justice.