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Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade representatives regularly make speeches to a range of international organisations, primarily the United Nations. The speeches are arranged by date with the most recent first. The subject of the speech and the organisation addressed is contained in the link to the speech.
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UNGA 62: Commemorative High Level Plenary meeting devoted to the outcome of the Special Session on Children. Statement by New Zealand Youth Delegate, Te Kerei Moka
UNGA 62: Commemorative High Level Plenary meeting devoted to the outcome of the Special Session on Children
Human Rights Council Sixth Session: NZ statement on the report of the Group of Experts on Darfur
Third Committee: Item 66 (a) Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Child Omnibus Resolution
United Nations General Assembly 62nd Session Third Committee: Item 70(c) Human Rights Situation: Statement in opposition to a motion of no action on draft resolution A/C.3/62/L.41/Rev1 – the situation of human rights in Myanmar
United Nations Security Council, Protection of civilians in armed conflict
United Nations General Assembly 62nd Session Third Committee: Item 63(a) Advancement of Women: Joint New Zealand-Canadian explanation of vote on the adoption of resolution A/C.3/62/L.16/Rev1 on eliminating rape and other forms of sexual violence in all their manifestations, including in conflict and related situations
United Nations General Assembly, Sixty-second Session,Special Political and Decolonisation Committee,Agenda Item 33: Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories
United Nations General Assembly Sixty-second Session, Special Political and Decolonisation Committee, Agenda Item 40: Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples: Question of Tokelau
United Nations General Assembly, Sixty-second session, Sixth Committee, Item 82: The report of the International Law Commission: Chapters IV (Reservations to Treaties), V (Shared natural resources) and IX (The Obligation to Extradite or Prosecute)
UNGA 62 General Assembly 62nd Session, Third Committee, Item 65: Report of the Human Rights Council
United Nations General Assembly, Sixty-second session,Agenda Item 19: The Situation in Afghanistan
United Nations General Assembly, Sixty-second Assembly, Plenary, Item 73: Report of the International Court of Justice
United Nations General Assembly, Item 76: Report of the International Criminal Court
United Nations General Assembly, Sixty-second Session, Special Political and Decolonisation Committee, Agenda Item 34: Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects
United Nations General Assembly, Sixty-second session, Sixth Committee, Item 82: The Report of the International Law Commission Chapters I-III & X (Introductory Parts and Other Decisions), VI (Expulsion), VII (Effects of Armed Conflicts on Treaties), and VIII (Responsibilities of International Organisations)
United Nations General Assembly Sixty-second Session, Agenda Item 167: “Peace, security and reunification on the Korean peninsula”
UNGA 62 General Assembly, Third Committee, Item 70(c): Human Rights Situations
United Nations General Assembly, Item 86: The Rule of Law at the International and National levels
United Nations General Assembly: Fifth Committee: Item 128: Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2008-09. On behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand
United Nations General Assembly, Sixty-second session, Sixth Committee, Item 84: Consideration of prevention of transboundary harm from hazardous activities and allocation of loss in the case of such harm
United Nations Security Council: Women and Peace and Security
United Nations General Assembly: Fifth Committee, Item 135: UN Common System
United Nations General Assembly: Fifth Committee: Item 128: Programme budget for the biennium 2008-2009: Capital Master Plan
United Nations General Assembly 62: Third Committee Item 66a: CANZ Statement to the Third Committee on Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Children
United Nations General Assembly, Second Committee Plenary:Triennial Comprehensive Policy Review
UN General Assembly, 62nd Session: Third Committee, Item 63a - Advancement of Women
United Nations General Assembly Sixty-Second Session: Report of the Peacebuilding Commission
UNGA 62: First Committee: General Debate (Disarmament)
United Nations General Assembly Sixty-Second Session: Report on the Activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services
United Nations General Assembly, Sixty-Second Session: High-level Dialogue on Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding and Cooperation for Peace
United Nations General Assembly: Sixty-Second Session, General Debate
United Nations Security Council - Open-Ended Working Group on Security Council Reform
Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples. Explanation of Vote by HE Rosemary Banks, New Zealand Permanent Representative to the United Nations
United Nations General Assembly: Informal consultation process of the plenary on the issue of the institutional framework for the environmental activities of the United Nations in follow-up to paragraph 169 of the 2005 World Summit Outcome
The United Nations at 62 - Relevant or Becoming Redundant. Address to UN Nations Association of New Zealand/NZ Institute of International Affairs by HE Rosemary Banks, NZ Permanent Representative to the UN - Wellington.
United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. 39th Session: Sixth Periodic report of New Zealand, Opening Statement
United Nations General Assembly: Informal Thematic Debate: Climate Change as a Global Challenge
United Nations General Assembly: Informal Consultations of the Plenary on United Nations System-wide Coherence - Mainstreaming of Human Rights
United Nations Security Council - Open-ended working group on the question of Equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council
United Nations Security Council open debate - The Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict - CANZ Statement
General Assembly Informal on the Secretary-General's report on the High-level panel on UN System wide Coherence - CANZ Statement
UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues - Item 7: Urban Indigenous Peoples and Migration
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues - Item 4: Implementation of the Millennium Development Goals
Sixth Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues - Item 3 : Dialogue on the theme of Territories, Lands and Natural Resources
General Assembly - Informal Thematic Debate, 'Civilisations for the Challenge of Peace: Obstacles and Opportunities', Panel number four: Civilisations and the Challenge for Global Peace and Security'
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session - Fifth Committee - Item - Governance and Oversight - CANZ statement
New Zealand Cluster I Statement (nuclear disarmament) to the First Preparatory Committee for the 2010 NPT Review Conference 8 May 2007
Joint Statement on disarmament and non-proliferation education. Delivered by Japan, 30 April 2007
Preparatory Committee for NPT 2010 Review Conference – First Session: 30 April – 11 May 2007, Vienna. Cluster 1 Statement on behalf of the New Agenda Coalition, 30 April 2007
Preparatory Committee for NPT 2010 Review Conference – First Session, Vienna. General Statement on behalf of the New Agenda Coalition, 30 April 2007
Preparatory Committee for the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: General Debate. Statement by HE Don Mackay, Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, 30 April 2007
United Nations Security Council - Letter dated 5 April 2007 from the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council
United Nations General Assembly 61st session - Ad Hoc Committee on criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission - CANZ statement
United Nations General Assembly 61st session - Tribute to the late Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, HE Mr Andranik Margaryan
United Nations General Assembly 61st session - Item 155 - Commemoration of the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
United Nations General Assembly 61st session - Fifth Committee - Item 128 Administration of Justice at the United Nations
United Nations General Assembly 61st session- Fifth Committee - 151 Financing of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste
United Nations Security Council - The situation in Afghanistan
Human Rights Council, Fourth Session, 12-30 March 2007 - Follow-up of Human Rights Council Decisions - Situation of Human Rights in Darfur
Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI) Speech by Deputy Special Coordinator Paul Ash
Commission on the Status of Women - Explanation of position made by New Zealand, Canada, Norway, Switzerland and Mexico on the resolution on Forced Marriage
Informal Consultations on the Secretary-General’s Proposal to Realign the Department for Disarmament Affairs - CANZ statement
United Nations Security Council - Cooperation between the Security Council and International Organisations in the Implementation of Resolutions 1540 and 1673. Statement on behalf of the Pacific Islands Forum.
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session - Plenary - Strengthening the Capacity to Manage and Sustain Peace and Security Operations and to advance the Disarmament Agenda - CANZ Statement
Western Europe and Others Group - CANZ statement
United Nations Security Council - The situation in Timor-Leste
United Nations General Assembly 61st session - Agenda items 47, 113 and 149: progress achieved in the work of the Peacebuilding Commission
United Nations Security Council - Post-conflict Peacebuilding - CANZ statement
United Nations General Assembly 61st session - Institutional framework for the environmental activities of the United Nations
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