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United Nations General Assembly 61st Session - Adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session - Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly - Report of the Secretary-General
CANZ Statement on the Budget Outline for 2008-09
Human Rights Council Fourth Special Session - Human Rights situation in Darfur
11th Conference of States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Fifth Committee Item 117 - Programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007: Capital Master Plan
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Third Committee Item 68 - Report of the Human Rights Council - Working Group of the Commission of Human Rights - Explanation of Vote
United Nations Security Council - Children and Armed Conflict
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session - General debate on the situation in Afghanistan
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Third Committee - Statement in opposition to a motion of no action on draft resolution A/C.3/60/L.53 – the situation of human rights in Myanmar
3rd Review Conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Fifth Committee - Item 151 Financing of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT)
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session - 10th Emergency Special Session (resumed) - Illegal Israeli Actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Third Committee - Item 68 Report of the Human Rights Council - Convention on Enforced Disappearances
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Fifth Committee - Item Improving the Financial Situation of the United Nations
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Fifth Committee - Item Human Resources Management reform
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Sixth Committee - Item 78 The Report of the International Law Commission Chapter VIII (Reservations and Treaties) and Chapter IX (Unilateral Acts of States) Chapter XI (Obligation to Extradite or Prosecute and Chapter XII (Fragmentation of International Law)
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Third Committee - Item 67 (b) and (c)
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session - Item 70, Report of the International Court of Justice
Statement on behalf of the Pacific Islands Forum Group - Women, Peace and Security
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Fifth Committee - Item: Procurement Reform
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Fifth Committee - Programme Planning Statement
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Third Committee - Item 67(a) Implemention of human rights instruments
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session - Item 64(b): Indigenous Issues
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Third Committee - Item 64(a): The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Sixth Committee - Item 128: Administration of Justice
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Sixth Committee - The Rule of Law at the National and International Levels
Special CTBTO Prepcom - Nuclear Test in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), New Zealand intervention
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Third Committee - Item 63(a) - Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Child
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Sixth Committee - Measures to eliminate international terrorism
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Third Committee - Item 61(a), Promotion and Protection of the rights of the Child. Launch of the Independent Expert's Study on Violence against Children
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session First Committee - Thematic Debate - Conventional Weapons
Nuclear Suppliers Group Consultative Group meeting - Nuclear Test in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session First Committee - Thematic Debate - Other WMD and Outer Space (Disarmament Aspects)
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Third Committee - Item 61(a) Advancement of Women
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session First Committee - Right of Reply General Debate - North Korea nuclear test
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session - Item 74 Report of the International Criminal Court
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Fifth Committee - Item 122 Scale of Assessments
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session - Informal Consultations on Sustainable Fisheries
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session First Committee - Statement by New Zealand Ambassador for Disarmament
Special Political and Decolonisation Committee - Agenda item 39 - Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session - General Debate
United Nations Plenary - Launch of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
Human Rights Council - Presentation of report by Special Rapporteur on the Situation of the Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Plenary statement - high-level meeting on the midterm review of the implementation of the programme of action for the least developed countries
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session Plenary statement - High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development
Fourth Meeting under the US/New Zealand Bilateral Climate Change Partnership - Joint Statement by New Zealand and the United States
International Seabed Authority (ISA) 12th session - Assembly
United Nations Security Council - The Situation in Timor-Leste
Eleventh Annual Meeting of The Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions - Reports from Asia Pacific Governments
United Nations Security Council - The situation in the Middle East including the Palestinian question
United Nations Security Council - Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Related Matters: Follow Up Statement to the Outcome of the Millennium Summit
Human Rights Council First Session - Special Session on the Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Human Rights Council First Session - CANZ statement on the programme of work for future sessions of the HRC
Human Rights Council First Session - Universal Periodic Review
Human Rights Council First Session - Review of Mandates and Mechanisms
Human Rights Council First Session - New Zealand Statement
Sixteenth Session of the Conference of States Party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea - Item 10 Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf
United Nations Security Council - The Situation in Timor-Leste
Seventh Meeting of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and Law of the Sea - Item 3 Ecosystem Approach and Oceans
New Zealand statement - Prevention of an arms race in outer space
New Zealand Mission to the United Nations - Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the General Assembly
New Zealand Mission to the United Nations - UN High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS
Review Conference on the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks - Item 9 Consideration of Elements relating to Monitoring, Control and Surveillance; Compliance and Enforcement
Review Conference on the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks - Item 9 Consideration of Elements relating to Mechanisms for International Cooperation and Non-Members of RFMOs
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues - Free Prior Informed Consent
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues - Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Plenary on a Counter-terrorism strategy - CANZ statement at the informal Consultations of the
United Nations Security Council - The Situation In Timor Leste
Fifth Committee - Explanation of Vote for adoption of Resolution A/C5/60/L37/Rev1 on "Investing in the United Nations"
United Nations General Assembly Sixtieth Session - Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) on the Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Related Matters
Plenary - The Institutional Framework for UN Environment Activities
United Nations General Assembly Sixtieth Session Plenary - Establishment of the Human Rights Council
Security Council General Debate - New Zealand Statement on Afghanistan
Organisation For The Prohibition Of Chemical Weapons - 44th Session Of The Executive Council
New Zealand Statement - Conference on Disarmament
New Zealand Mission to the United Nations 50th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women - Follow-Up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the Twenty-Third Special Session of the General Assembly Entitled “Women 2000 Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-First Century”
Conference on Disarmament - Thematic Debate on Nuclear Disarmament
Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations - Statement on behalf of the CANZ Group
United Nations Special Political and Decolonisation Committee 2006 Session - First Organisational Meeting
International Atomic Energy Agency - extraordinary meeting
