I would like to begin by thanking Ms. Ellen Margrethe Løj for her briefing and service to the United Nations, particularly in South Sudan. I would also like to thank Mr. Adama Dieng for his frank and clear briefing of the risks that we now face in South Sudan, as well as the President, Mr. Fodé Seck…
Like my colleague from the United Kingdom, I am also going to shorten my statement. The full version will be available on the website of the Permanent Mission of New Zealand.
Let me begin by thanking Senegal for convening this important discussion, and our briefers for the information and analysis …
I begin by thanking my friend and colleague, Judge Silvia Fernández of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for presenting the report on the work of the Court (see A/71/342) and for her ongoing service to the Court. We welcome the opportunity for continued dialogue to discuss the Court’s contribu…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy, Mr. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed; the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr. Stephen O’Brien; and the World Food Programme Regional Director, Mr. Muhannad Hadi, for their briefings and for their work and for their support of Yemen and it…
I too thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General Bordyuzha, Secretary-General Alimov and Vice-Chair Ivanov for their briefings.
New Zealand strongly supports active and regular cooperation between the Security Council and regional and subregional organizations in preventing and resolvin…
Today’s briefing highlights once again the horror of the situation in Syria. After nearly six years, the conflict gets even more brutal and shocking. The situation currently unfolding in eastern Aleppo, where the presence of a few hundred terrorists is being used as a pretext for indiscriminate atta…
Let me also like to thank Nickolay Mladenov and Stephen O’Brien for their briefings.
This is the final Middle East open debate of New Zealand’s current Security Council term. We think it appropriate, therefore, to reflect on the Council’s collective response to the grave and intensifying peace-and-…
I am used to the fantastical reveries of the Syrian representative. Very little of what he says can be relied upon as accurate. But when he tells blatant lies about the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Syrian people, I must speak up. The record is clear. The delays in the delivery of humanitarian…
New Zealand voted against the draft resolution submitted by the Russian Federation (S/2016/847) due to its partial and misleading nature and Russia’s destructive role in the Syrian conflict and because Russia provided no scope for any negotiation on a text on such a sensitive issue — an issue to whi…
The situation in Aleppo is devastating, as Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura made very clear to us yesterday. He warned us that we are facing a situation not dissimilar to those in Rwanda and Srebrenica, atrocities the Council signally failed to prevent. We must learn our lessons; we must stop the de…
Let me begin by congratulating Malaysia and your team, Mr. President, for conducting the Security Council’s work so well during this past month. We want to thank you, Sir, for convening this meeting and for providing a very useful focus for our discussions, including on conflict- prevention and on t…
New Zealand, too, welcomes the adoption of resolution 2304 (2016). It is disappointing that the Council was unable to reach unanimity on the text, but on issues as important as this, sometimes that is just not possible. The Council has nonetheless adopted this resolution under Chapter VII of the Cha…
We congratulate Malaysia on convening this debate and on
its leadership of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict. We thank the Secretary-General for his careful briefing, and Ms. Zerrougui and Mr. Lake both for their briefings and for their important work in protecting the interests of c…
I thank you, Sir, for presiding over this important debate today. I also wish to acknowledge the presence of the other Ministers.
The Secretary-General, Cabinet Secretary Mohamed and Commissioner Chergui have each thoughtfully laid out important issues that we must address as we seek to give life t…
I thank Stephen O’Brien for his briefing. As Stephen O’Brien has described, the humanitarian situation in Syria is devastating. The numbers verge on incomprehensible, although we know that for Syrians, their ordeal is all too real. And as Mr. O’Brien has confirmed, despite the improvements that had …
New Zealand welcomes today’s open debate. As Matthew Rycroft has just said, Security Council working methods matter because poor working methods can lead to poor outcomes. Progress has been made in recent years in codifying existing
Council practice in documents such as presidential note S/2010/507…
We thank Under-Secretary Feltman for his briefing and the Secretary-General for his report (S/2016/589). The Secretary-General had a difficult task on a sensitive topic. In our view, he has presented a balanced report that provides a useful overview of developments since the adoption and implementat…
Our remarks today will address only the Israeli-Palestine conflict. We will comment separately on other Middle East issues when the opportunity arises. Today’s open debate is particularly important because it gives Council members and the wider United Nations membership the opportunity to reflect on…
New Zealand welcomes today’s unanimous adoption of resolution 2295 (2016) and thanks the French delegation in particular for the continuing leadership it has shown on Mali, in close consultation with the African members of the Council.
We support a mandate for the United Nations Multidimensional In…
Let me begin by expressing New Zealand’s sincere condolences to the people and the Government of Turkey over the attacks at the Istanbul airport.
The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) plays a critical role as a stabilizing force in an extremely troubled region. We strongly support…
