We thank you, Mr. President, for convening this wrap-up session and for your
revealing overview of this record-breaking month. We thank you and your colleagues for managing the extraordinary workload with considerable flare and efficiency. I will focus on three points that have struck our delegatio…
I thank France for holding this very important debate, which, as the High Commissioner reminded us, is about tolerance versus maniacal ideology — a stark choice indeed.
I also thank the two briefers, His Beatitude Patriarch Sako and Mrs. Dakhil, for what they told us through their briefings. While …
New Zealand welcomes the adoption of resolution 2211 (2015) and thanks France for its constructive and inclusive leadership, which secured agreement on the text.
New Zealand strongly supports the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) and…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate and for giving us three action points: action at the diplomatic level, action in operational terms, and stepping up judicial cooperation, all of which are very much at the core of the issues we have to discuss, and which I will address in the cou…
We thank Ambassador Oyarzun Marchesi for his briefing in his capacity as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). New Zealand fully supports the mandate of the Committee.
New Zealand joins others in acknowledging the efforts of the P5+1 and Iran in the…
At the time of its most recent renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), the Security Council emphasized two points: first, that any reconfiguration of the Mission should be guided by facts on the ground; and, secondly, that the Security Council should a…
I would like to thank Mr. Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing and for his ongoing work in Afghanistan. I would also like to thank Ambassador Tanin for so eloquently reminding us where Afghanistan has come from over the past 13 years. We salute that prog…
New Zealand, too, welcomes High Representative Mogherini to the Council and thanks her for her briefing.
New Zealand is a strong believer in cooperation between the United Nations and regional bodies within the framework of Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter. While we will always assert the…
I thank Mr. Feltman, Mr. Ging and Mr. Šimonović for their excellent briefings, which only serve to emphasize that, if the
Security Council is to perform its role of scrutinizing the situation in Ukraine, it must continue to receive regular and reliable information, such as that which we have just h…
I would particularly like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Kang and High Commissioner Guterres for their very helpful briefings to the Council.
Last Sunday, 22 February, marked the first anniversary of resolution 2139 (2014), whereby the Council took action to reduce the suffering of the Syrian…
We commend Minister Ivica Dačić, in his capacity as Chairperson-in- Office, for his efforts to strengthen the range of activities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in promoting regional stability and security. We acknowledge that it is a challenging role.
As a region…
New Zealand congratulates China for this initiative. We agree that this is the right time for the Council to undertake a measure of serious self-examination and to assess where we are performing well and where we are not. We agree that the Council needs to do much better. That is clearly the view of…
New Zealand associates itself with the statement just made by the representative of Malaysia, and we compliment his country on that particular initiative.
It is no secret that over the past four days the Security Council has struggled to negotiate a mutually acceptable text for resolution 2202 (201…
New Zealand welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2201 (2015). We applaud the role played by Jordan and the United Kingdom in the Council, and the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in facilitating that outcome.
For New Zealand the two main purposes of the resolution are, first, …
I thank Special Representative Farid Zarif for his report, and welcome Deputy Prime Ministers Dačić and Thaçi to today’s debate.
New Zealand believes long-term stability and security will come from an inclusive and democratic Kosovo that respects the rights and interests of all its citizens. It wil…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important debate, which is all the more timely given the approaching fifteenth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000). I also thank the three briefers who have informed us so eloquently this morning: the Assistant Secretary- General, the …
As a newly elected member of the Security Council completing our first month of service, New Zealand thanks Chile for its very able stewardship during January, not least in the thematic debates your promoted, Sir, and the important visit to Haiti, which you proposed and which give us a great deal of…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate, and all the more so because of the failure of the Security Council over the weekend to agree to a simple and clear press statement that would have condemned the events in Mariupol. I also thank the Under-Secretary-General for his briefing, whic…
The recent escalation of violence in Ukraine is a very serious threat to what were at best, even before that escalation, fragile steps towards a peace. The Under-Secretary-General’s report that there is a mounting alarm at the situation, particularly the humanitarian situation, is one with which we …
Madam President, I welcome you to New York — perhaps more correctly, I welcome you back to New York. It is a pleasure to have you presiding over the Council. I wish to also thank the Secretary-General and Ambassador Patriota for their respective briefings, and Ms. Gbowee for her unique perspectives.…
