New Zealand was pleased to support the draft resolution in document A/56/L.38 today. For many years, we advocated, within the United Nations, the importance of a Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. Its adoption in 1996 and the establishment of the Preparatory Commission marked significant steps f…
New Zealand voted in favour of draft resolution A/56/L.22 today, but not without considerable reservations. We would greatly have wished to have seen a more balanced text, particularly in the sixteenth preambular paragraph,
which might have acknowledged the high number of deaths and injuries among …
We are pleased to see once again the long list of speakers inscribed for this item. While our attention in the weeks following the events of 11 September has perhaps been largely focused elsewhere, as others have remarked previously, the Security Council’s leading role in the international effort to…
Thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to speak today. May we also express our thanks to Under-Secretary-General
Guéhenno for his excellent briefing this morning on the result of the election in East Timor.
It is indeed with great pleasure that we join with others who have spoken earlier in…
First of all, I should like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on convening this plenary meeting of the General Assembly to consider the Secretary-General’s important report. There is a great deal of wisdom in this document, and we believe it will serve as an essential frame of reference for the Or…
Mr. President, may I first congratulate you and your delegation on bringing this very important matter to the Security Council this month in this open format. I would also like to thank the Under- Secretary-General, Mr. Prendergast, for his valuable introduction to today’s debate.
As others have ob…
At 5.45 on the morning of 1 January 2000, the sun will begin to rise over the east coast of New Zealand. New Zealand's easternmost city, Gisborne, will be literally the first city to see the light of the new millennium. New Zealand is 13 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and 18 hours ahead of Easte…
First of all, I would like to join other speakers in thanking the Secretary- General for his comprehensive report on this item, contained in document A/54/445.
In the year since the General Assembly last considered this matter, the Ottawa Convention has entered into force at an admirable pace. New …
A little more than a year after the Ottawa Convention was opened for signature, it is pleasing to note that the pace of the Ottawa process has continued and that the Convention will enter into force in March next year. I am pleased to report that New Zealand has nearly completed the domestic require…
I shall be very brief. At the outset, I would like to express my delegation’s appreciation to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei, for his introduction of the Agency’s report and for his skilled leadership of the Agency over the past year.
It…
