I thank all the briefers and I commend Uruguay for organizing today’s debate.
New Zealand aligns itself with the statement delivered by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Spain.
As we have already heard today, millions of civilians living in areas of armed conflict around the world face…
New Zealand shares the concerns outlined by Deputy Secretary- General Eliasson and Assistant Secretary-General Gilmour, as well as those expressed by other Council members, about the severity and systematic nature of human rights violations in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Sadly, we hav…
I, too, welcome First Deputy Prime Minister Dačić and Ambassador Çitaku to the Security Council today, and thank Special Representative Tanin for his briefing.
New Zealand strongly supports dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina aimed at normalizing relations, and the European Union’s support for t…
I too welcome High Representative Inzko and the Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
We are pleased that the Council has today reauthorized the European Union (EU) military presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The EU-led mission continues to play an important role in supporting Bosnia…
I too thank our briefers and the Secretary-General for his personal commitment to advancing the Women and Peace and Security agenda.
I have four key points to make today, but frankly it is disappointing that I have to make any of them in 2016. It is my personal hope that by the time New Zealand pre…
We too have been following with heavy hearts the reports of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Matthew in the Republic of Haiti. We extend our deepest sympathy to those who have lost loved ones, suffered injury, had property damaged and their livelihoods disrupted.
There is no doubt that the hurr…
I thank Under- Secretary-General O’Brien for his briefing. I would assure him that we remember Khaled Omar Harrah, and we remember and commend all of the humanitarian and search-and-rescue workers who have put themselves at risk as they strive to save and support innocent civilians, both in Syria an…
I, too, thank the Presidents and Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for their briefings and reiterate New Zealand’s strong support for their work.
As noted by colleagues this morning alre…
I welcome the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dačić, and Ambassador Vlora Çitaku back to the Security Council today, and I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Kosovo, Mr. Zahir Tanin, for his briefing.
The political leader…
I should like to take this opportunity to thank Angola for organizing this important debate, and Minister Delgado for presiding over it. We also thank the briefers for their insights.
We have made significant progress in the 15 years since the Security Council adopted its landmark resolution 1325 (…
I thank Special Representative Honoré for her commitment to Haiti’s stabilization, and I wish to acknowledge the important work of United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and its contributing countries.
New Zealand is concerned about the recent political turmoil in Haiti and the co…
We too thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Haysom and Ambassador Saikal for their briefings, and commend Spain for its skillful stewardship of the mandate renewal of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
The first year of Afghanistan’s transformation de…
New Zealand voted in favour of resolution 2272 (2016) because of the clear and pressing need for more robust action to combat sexual exploitation and abuse. New Zealand respects the sacrifice and commends the meaningful contribution of the vast majority of United Nations peacekeepers. The measures i…
We too congratulate Angola on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. New Zealand welcomes the adoption of resolution 2270 (2016), imposing strengthened and expanded sanctions on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Our long-standing commitment to the nuclear non-proliferatio…
I, too, thank Special Representative Tanin for his briefing, and we also welcome First Deputy Prime Minister Dačić and Ambassador Çitaku to this discussion.
The European Union-facilitated dialogue continues to play an important role in normalizing relations between Belgrade and Pristina. New Zealan…
We appreciate the opportunity to hear directly from Minister Steinmeier on the priorities that Germany will pursue as Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). We welcome in particular the Chairperson’s goal of strengthening OSCE capacities in all aspec…
New Zealand welcomes the upcoming adoption of the draft outcome document of this high-level meeting of the General
Assembly on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) (A/70L.33). We are pleased to have participated in this revie…
New Zealand believes that it is right for the Council to meet today to discuss the human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The situation there demands our continuing attention because it remains a threat to regional peace and security.
Two years ago, the commission of i…
New Zealand had the honour to coordinate the informal consultations on draft resolution A/70/L.19, on sustainable fisheries, and is pleased to introduce that text on behalf of all its sponsors. This year’s draft resolution, which I introduce today on behalf of the coordinator, Ms. Alice Revell, is a…
New Zealand welcomes this timely and important discussion. As Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator O’Brien said recently, forced displacement is one of the defining challenges of our time. Nowhere is the urgency and magnitude of that challenge more starkly illustrated than in the…
