FILE - New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters comments during an interview with The Associated Press in his parliamentary office in the capital, Wellington, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Tantrum, File)

In this photo released by Cartenz Peace Task Force (Satgas Damai Cartenz) of the Indonesian security forces, New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens, who was held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region, sits after his release, in Timika, Papua province, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. (Satgas Damai Cartenz via AP)

In this photo released by Cartenz Peace Task Force (Satgas Damai Cartenz) of the Indonesian security forces, New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens, left, who was held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region, sits with police officers after his release, in Timika, Papua province, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. (Satgas Damai Cartenz via AP)

In this photo released by Cartenz Peace Task Force (Satgas Damai Cartenz) of the Indonesian security forces, New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens, left, who was held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region, sits with a police officers after his release, in Timika, Papua province, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. (Satgas Damai Cartenz via AP)

FILE - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, left, thrice Sri Lanka's prime minister, talks with her successor Ratnasiri Wickramanayake after he was sworn in, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Aug. 10, 2000. (AP Photo, File)

Ajantha Perera, an academic and scientist, who in 2019 was the first woman to run for president in 20 years, poses for a photograph, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Women listen to Sajith Premadasa, unseen, the presidential candidate and opposition leader of the Samagi Jana Balawgaya or United People's Power party during an election rally, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

A woman walks on a street across which a large billboard showing a portrait of Sajith Premadasa, the presidential candidate and opposition leader of the Samagi Jana Balawgaya or United People's Power party, is displayed, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)