I thank the President of the General Assembly for convening this important high-level meeting.
New Zealand welcomes the adoption of the Political Declaration on the implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons (resolution 76/7). A strong, cooperative, …
I have the honour and the pleasure to introduce a pre-recorded statement by Her Excellency Ms. Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister and Minister for National Security and Intelligence, Child Poverty Reduction, and Ministerial Services of New Zealand.
Today I have the honour of speaking on behalf of Australia, Canada and New Zealand (CANZ) at this general debate on the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.
Terrorism remains an urgent threat that can best be addressed through collective action. However, the nature of that threat is ch…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this important meeting.
New Zealand aligns itself with the statement delivered earlier by the representative of Portugal on behalf of the Accountability, Coherence and Transparency (ACT) group. Let me therefore make a few additional comments in my national capacity.
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I would like to start by thanking Ms. Catherine Marchi-Uhel, the Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March …
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of Western European and other States on the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Today we honour the memories of the women, men and children, especially those of African descen…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of Western European and other States on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Today’s meeting is an important reminder that more than 50 years after the adoption of the International Con…
E ngā mana, e ngā reo, Rau Rangatira mā o te Ao, Ngā māngai o ngā whenua ake, Huri rauna I te Ao, Tēnā koutou katoa mai Aotearoa.
My opening remarks were in Te Reo Māori, an official language of New Zealand and the language of the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand. While geographically remo…
The Convention on the Rights of the Child has had a profound influence over the past 30 years on the way we work with children and, in turn, develop our policies and practices, from our work here at the United Nations, to classrooms and in communities across the globe. New Zealand joins in celebrati…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s debate and for your efforts both as Chair of the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions and as Council President.
I would also like to acknowledge and thank our briefers for their expert insights.
Inspired by the cur…
As the Secretary- General’s report (S/2019/373) notes, it is a sad fact that 20 years since the Council’s adoption of resolution 1265 (1999), the state of the protection of civilians is tragically similar to that time. Members speaking today will no doubt express their outrage at this state of affai…
I would like to provide New Zealand’s explanation of vote.
New Zealand is a strong supporter of the international rules-based system. International obligations relating to processes of decolonization have particular resonance for us, given our own history in the South Pacific. In those contexts, Ne…
I would like to commence by thanking the Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011, Ms. Marchi-Uhel, f…
New Zealand is pleased to support draft resolution A/73/L.79, as we join with all here today in condemning violence, terrorism and extremism in all their forms, including where it targets individuals on the basis of or in the name of religion or belief.
New Zealand expresses its appreciation to Tur…
New Zealand voted against the draft resolution entitled “Preservation of and compliance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty” (A/73/L.70). That is categorically not because we disagree with the importance of the Treaty but rather because we think the draft resolution sidesteps issues th…
I have the honour to present New Zealand’s explanation of vote. New Zealand supports the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The Compact meets New Zealand’s overall objectives of encouraging the strengthening of international cooperation to address irregular migration and best pr…
Two years ago, when New Zealand last made a statement during the General Assembly’s discussion of humanitarian affairs (see A/71/ PV.56), we lamented the rise in global humanitarian needs, the toll that the conflict in Syria was having on civilians and the flagrant violations that we were seeing of …
New Zealand thanks Bolivia for convening this important open debate, and the Secretary-General for his report (S/2018/900). We would like to highlight two themes from the report. The first is women’s participation in peacekeeping and the second is the barriers to women’s access to essential services…
Canada, Australia and New Zealand warmly welcome the appointment of Her Excellency Ms. Michelle Bachelet as the next United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Ms. Bachelet brings a wealth of expertise to the role from her long history of promoting human rights in her own country and interna…
Speakers before me have described this agenda as having the power to be transformative and to be a paradigm shift. New Zealand could not agree more, and we thank the President for having convened this meeting.
The promise of our discussions today is that of a world in which we can significantly red…
