Sixty years ago, Prime Minister Peter Fraser of New Zealand told representatives to the San Francisco Conference that its sole aim should be
“the setting up of a world organization that will really work, and that will be the background for an orderly progress towards security, prosperity and happin…
As Member States, we stand together at the threshold of a new era in the evolution of the United Nations. If we are to honour and fulfil the vision of 1945, we have to renew our Organization.
The draft outcome document will give impetus to that renewal. We would have liked a more ambitious result. …
New Zealand looks forward to the adoption of this draft resolution, which we trust will add impetus to the fulfilment of the Mauritius Strategy for Implementation within the United Nations system.
New Zealand remains committed to the Mauritius Strategy. We are pleased to see that its importance has…
New Zealand has said many times in the General Assembly Hall that the current structure of the Security Council is unrepresentative and anachronistic.
In considering the nature of the expansion of the Security Council, our overriding concern is to ensure that the Security Council is more effective …
Since the launching of the Bougainville peace process in 1997, New Zealand has addressed open meetings of the Security Council on a number of occasions. We have welcomed steps forward and have urged parties to address issues where progress has lagged. We have on several occasions encouraged Council …
New Zealand warmly associates itself with the statement presented by Palau
on behalf of the Pacific Islands Forum States, of which New Zealand is one.
We are happy once again to co-sponsor both the draft omnibus oceans resolution and the draft sustainable fisheries resolution.
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