We welcome the adoption of resolution 2244 (2015). We particularly welcome the fact that it includes a specific provision to reinforce Somalia’s ability to exercise sovereignty over its natural resources. Disputes between illegal fishing vessels, local fishermen and armed groups concerning the illeg…
It is with a sense of dismay that we address the Council today on the lack of progress in relations between Israel and Palestine and the violence that has raged there in the past few weeks. For the nine and a half months we have been non-permanent members of the Council, we have made clear New Zeala…
I would like to express our gratitude to all the members of the Security Council for their contributions, support and comments and for the confidence they placed in New Zealand during the process of preparing this report.
At the request of Council members, this year we revised the approach that had…
We thank Jordan for having convened today’s meeting and thank Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun for his briefing.
New Zealand is deeply concerned at the recent violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, of which the attempted arson at Joseph’s Tomb is the latest example. In the…
We, too, would like to thank the Secretary-General, the Executive Director of UN-Women, and the three civil society representatives for their briefings. I would like to
commend in particular Ms. Lusenge, Ms. Mohammed and Ms. Murabit for their direct messages and for the challenges they have laid ou…
I would first like to congratulate Spain and your delegation, Mr. President, as you take on the work of the presidency of the Council this month. You can be assured that New Zealand will do all it can to support you. I would also like to thank and commend the Russian delegation for the very calm and…
New Zealand welcomes this Security Council debate on the resolution of conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa, and we welcome the fact that it involves Foreign Ministers from so many members of the Council.
But we do not welcome the fact that today we will adopt no resolution, and not even a…
New Zealand welcomes the ambition contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and we support the substance of the Goals. Indeed, it would be hard not to. As a specific country that places a high priority on the needs of small island developing States, New Zealand regards the achievement o…
We thank Special Representative Haysom and Executive Director Fedotov for their briefings. We thank and extend our heartfelt congratulations to Ambassador Tanin for the work he has done for Afghanistan and for the wider membership during his time in New York. We wish him well in his new assignment.
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We also thank the Permanent Representative of Spain for his briefing and for his leadership of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). New Zealand welcomes the mandate of the Committee and now more than ever urges the Committee and its Panel of Experts to conti…
We thank Nigeria for scheduling today’s meeting and we join colleagues in
expressing condolences over the passing away of the Force Commander of United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti.
We wish to comment today on the Security Council’s work in August and in July, when we had our presidency.…
Like others, I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Zarif for his briefing this morning and for his efforts over the past four years as the Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission (UNMIK) in Kosovo. I wish him well in his next role, and we look forwa…
I wish to thank you, Madam President, for having convened this meeting and for Nigeria’s long-standing engagement in security- sector reform (SSR). I also thank Assistant Secretary- General Titov for his update and the progress made since the adoption of resolution 2151 (2014), as well as Special Re…
New Zealand also thanks Nigeria for convening this meeting, and the Secretary-General for his briefing and for staying with us this morning. We are strong advocates of the role of regional organizations and of the need for cooperation between the United Nations, especially the Security Council, and …
We congratulate Nigeria on its initiative in arranging today’s briefing. Ebola was and remains a truly global threat. It is fitting that the Security Council was, and has remained, involved in dealing with that threat and in ensuring international preparedness in dealing with any recurrence of Ebola…
New Zealand was pleased to support and co-sponsor resolution 2235 (2015), which we have just adopted.
Chemical weapons are an appalling weapon. The international community showed its revulsion of these weapons and its determination to stamp them out in the negotiation and adoption of the Chemical W…
The Government of New Zealand welcomes the outcome of the third International Conference on Financing for Development. We commend the efforts of all those who worked relentlessly over the last month to reach agreement on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (resolution 69/313, annex). We thank the Governme…
Let me too begin by congratulating the representative of Malaysia on his presidency and his hard-working team on their effectiveness this month. My team was so keen that I should offer my personal reflections that they declined to give me formal remarks for this debate, so I am going to see how I go…
I thank the Prosecutor for her report and briefing.
We are deeply concerned about the situation in Darfur. As the report clearly illustrates, the past six months have seen an increase in violence against civilians, including a significant increase in aerial bombardments and rape on a scale never pr…
We thank the representatives of Brazil and Sweden.
New Zealand welcomes this opportunity to discuss the annual report of the Peacebuilding Commission (S/2015/174). We support the report’s recommendations, in particular those focused on increasing the interactivity between the Peacebuilding Commissi…
