There are indeed real grounds this year for unprecedented optimism as we address the situation in the Middle East. New Zealand joins others in warmly welcoming the recent dramatic breakthrough in the peace process begun in Madrid two years ago. The agreement on mutual recognition and the Declaration…
Let me start out, Sir, by conveying to you my congratulations: congratulations, first, on your initiative to put this item on the agenda of the Security Council; and secondly, congratulations on your assumption of the presidency. It is a great honour and privilege for me to sit here at this table wi…
New Zealand has been shocked at the recent events in Israel and Lebanon, and the New Zealand people have been outraged at the death and destruction visited upon innocent civilians in both countries.
This cycle of violence must stop. Each attack by either side becomes the justification for a further…
I congratulate you, Madam President, on assuming the presidency of the Council for this month of February. In fact, I believe that special congratulations are in order, because, if I recall rightly, this is the third time I have seen you as President of the Council. And of course it is a very rare d…
My congratulations go to you, Mr. President, and also to Ambassador Al-Khussaiby, the President of the Council last month.
It will come as no surprise to anybody in this room that my delegation endorses 100 per cent the proposals put forward this morning by Ambassador Cárdenas, on behalf of a large…
Malta has put a new matter, this agenda item, before the General Assembly. We believe Malta has raised a very important issue: how should the United Nations machinery for dealing with international environmental issues be handled? It is particularly important in this fiftieth anniversary year, since…
New Zealand is strongly in favour of reform of the Security Council, but, as we have said many times in the Working Group, simply changing the composition of the Council misses the point. The most important reform that must be made relates to the political culture of that body.
My comments on the e…
New Zealand supports the idea of more public meetings of the Council. We have therefore given public support, in a letter to you, Mr. President, to the French initiative. We have also strongly supported the notion that this issue should be discussed here today. To be blunt, our particular concern in…
The annual draft resolution on this agenda item has traditionally been uncontroversial. It has been an opportunity to recognize and express support for the important and valuable work of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Up until very recently this annual draft resolution was consistent…
The Secretary-General was absolutely right when he took the dramatic step at the end of the general debate in October to call attention to the financial crisis facing the Organization. It is right that Member States should now have the opportunity of this special debate to react to the Secretary-Gen…
Today we celebrate the beginning of an International Decade with a unique character. This Decade is an opportunity to acknowledge the status of indigenous people in their respective countries. The Decade is directed at making an effective and ongoing contribution towards the solution of the problems…
Let me first congratulate you very warmly, Sir, on assuming the office of President of this Council. Please be assured that the New Zealand delegation stands ready to work with you and assist you in any possible way. In the same spirit, I
Tonight we have witnessed what I think is a very strange spe…
We believe the Security Council has just made two very important decisions about the situation in Rwanda. One was the presidential statement on the security situation in the camps outside Rwanda. The other was the resolution we have just adopted renewing the mandate of the United Nations Assistance …
We remember only too well how difficult it was, back in April this year, in similar circumstances, when the safe area of Gorazde was under attack. At that time, it was not until the tanks were actually in the streets of the city that the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NAT…
We voted in favour of this resolution, but my purpose in speaking is to say that we do have some reservations about certain aspects of it. We believe that this resolution would have benefited from further reflection and further negotiation. We recall that it was made available to Council members as …
My delegation is very grateful to the delegation of Pakistan for requesting this meeting. It gives the Security Council the opportunity to consider the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the light of General Assembly resolution 49/10, which was adopted by the Assembly last week. In the view of m…
The decision which we have just taken is a very important one. It is also of great significance to Rwanda. But it is of even more fundamental importance to the international community as a whole. It is a decision which the Security Council is taking on behalf of all the Members of the Organization.
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I too should like to begin by joining my delegation’s condolences to those of
For the South Pacific, one of the most important international events of 1994 was the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States. New Zealand has a particular interest in this subje…
The decision which the Security Council has just adopted in the presidential statement which you, Madam President, read, to establish a system of institutionalized consultation with troop- contributing countries is, we believe, of historic significance.
For more than a year now New Zealand has been…
Let me first offer my congratulations, Madam President, on your assumption of the presidency for this month of November and my thanks and the thanks of my delegation to Ambassador Hannay and his team for the excellent leadership they gave us during October.
The draft resolution before the Council t…
