I repeat again, Sir, the personal greeting I extended to you yesterday.
While, as the Assistant Secretary-General’s briefing has sadly made very clear, there are a number of regional issues that deserve consideration by the Security Council. I want to take this, our first, opportunity to outline ou…
I welcome you, Mr. President, back to New York and thank you for convening this important discussion today. I also thank Ambassador Patriota, not only for his briefing today, but also for his chairmanship of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC). We value that very much.
Finally, I thank the Deputy Se…
New Zealand welcomes the firm resolve expressed by Pakistan in response to the atrocity in Peshawar, and I reiterate the comments of sympathy and support that I expressed to the Council three days ago in an earlier debate.
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate. It is an important re…
New Zealand joins those who have expressed outrage at the atrocity committed at the Pakistani school over the past 24 hours. It seems that more than 140 young people left their homes in the morning in school uniforms and now lie in caskets. No political creed, no religious creed and no military stra…
Over the past year there has been a stark rise in global humanitarian needs, much of it due to armed conflicts, many of which are now protracted emergencies. New Zealand therefore calls on parties to all armed conflicts to work in good faith with each other and with the United Nations to end these c…
The New Zealand delegation is pleased to join many others in sponsoring the draft resolution entitled “Oceans and the law of the sea” (A/69/L.29), to be introduced shortly by the representative of Trinidad and Tobago. We extend our compliments to Ambassador Eden Charles on his careful stewardship of…
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate and, in the process, underscoring Australia’s prominent leadership on this issue.
Without a doubt, terrorism remains an issue of pressing and shared concern. Today’s world bears witness to terrorism in its modern form, eschewing borders and author…
We thank President Song for presenting the International Criminal Court’s annual report for 2014 (A/69/321) and, as this will be his last presentation as the President of the Court, we wish to acknowledge his years of service to the International Criminal Court (ICC). As a strong supporter of the IC…
I thank you for convening this important debate today, Madam President. I would also like to thank this morning’s briefers for their thought-provoking presentations.
New Zealand welcomes the ongoing development and strengthening of the normative frameworks around the agenda on women and peace and s…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand (CANZ).
CANZ reaffirms its strong support for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal T…
New Zealand welcomed the twenty-ninth special session to review progress towards implementing the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) agenda. We particularly thank you, Mr. President, for providing this occasion to ensure that those who lacked the opportunity to speak on th…
It is an honour to address the General Assembly today on behalf of the Prime Minister and Government of New Zealand. Our general election took place in the past week. Our Prime Minister, the Right Honourable John Key, is engaged in forming a Government, and that is why he is unable to be in New York…
New Zealand commends the United States for organizing today’s meeting and thanks the many leaders from around the world who have come to give their support to this important initiative. We also extend our deep condolences to the Government of France for the horrific execution this morning in Algeria…
I should note that I have just resigned from the New Zealand Government as Minister of Maori Affairs, so this is probably my last official act as Minister, but perhaps I can come back next year to do the prayer.
To all those who were present at the meetings I co-chaired, and whom I asked to hurry u…
New Zealand thanks you, Madam President, and Secretary of State Kerry for having convened this very important debate. I place on record New Zealand’s continued and deep concern about the situation in Iraq. Like others, we have been outraged by the brutal actions of the Islamic State of Iraq and the …
Member States often thank the Council presidency for convening an important meeting, but that comment is uniquely appropriate and uniquely meaningful for today’s open debate. New Zealand compliments the United States on its initiative in convening this critical discussion about a crisis that is unpr…
New Zealand thanks Special Representative of the Secretary-General Zerrougui, Under-Secretary-General Ladsous and Ms. Brandt of UNICEF for their particular presentations. We commend Sandra Uwiringiyimana for so bravely sharing her experiences; and we acknowledge Forest Whitaker’s very real contribut…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate and for initiating work on a resolution on conflict prevention (resolution 2171 (2014)).
New Zealand is concerned that the Security Council has been debating conflict prevention as a thematic issue for over a decade. But, too often, conflic…
New Zealand joins those who have paid tribute to all United Nations peacekeepers. We particulary mourn those who have died in the course of their duty.
I also acknowledge Rwanda’s very considerable contribution to peacekeeping. It is a tribute that Rwanda is now the sixth largest United Nations tro…
New Zealand is deeply concerned about the recent escalation of violence and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, in a conflict that could and should have been avoided. Yesterday, my Prime Minister, The Right Honourable John Key, made a motion in the New Zealand Parliament expressing tha…
