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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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UN Security Council: Afghanistan. Statement by HE Jim McLay, Permanent Representative, New Zealand Permanent Mission to the United Nations
New Zealand Statement to the Sixth High Level Conference of the CERF. Statement by HE Jim McLay, Permanent Representative, New Zealand Permanent Mission to the United Nations
Preparatory Committee for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development. Statement by Juliet Hay, Counsellor, New Zealand Permanent Mission to the United Nations
Preparatory Committee for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development. Statement by HE Jim McLay, Permanent Representative, New Zealand Permanent Mission to the United Nations on behalf of Pacific Islands Foruim Members
Strenghthening of the Coordinatioon of Emergency Humanitarian Assiastance of the UN. New Zealand Statement by HE Jim McLay, Permanent Representative, New Zealand Permanent Mission to the United Nations
United Nations General Assembly - Agenda item 76 - Oceans and the law of the sea. Statement on behalf of the Pacific Islands Forum by H.E. Jim McLay, Permanent Representative.
UN General Assembly - Fifth level dialogue on Financing for Development. Statement by HE Jim McLay, Permanent Representative, New Zealand Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
UN General Assembly - Strengthening the United Nations System:
Report of the Secretary-General (A/66/311)(Civilian Capacity in the Aftermath of Conflict)
Statement by Jim McLay, New Zealand Ambassador and Permanent Representative
UN Security Council - The situation in Timor Leste
Statement by Jim McLay, New Zealand Ambassador and Permanent Representative
United Nations Security Council - Briefing by Chairs of Subsidiary Bodies
Statement by H.E. Bernadette Cavanagh, Deputy Permanent Representative
United Nations General Assembly - Agenda items 74 and 75 Annual Reports of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda
Statement on behalf of CANZ by HE Jim McLay, New Zealand Ambassador and Permanent Representative
UN Security Council reform
Statement by Jim McLay, New Zealand Ambassador and Permanent Representative
UN General Assembly - Report of the United Nations Human Rights Council
Statement by Jim McLay, New Zealand Ambassador and Permanent Representative
UN General Assembly - Sixth Committee- Agenda item 81 part III: Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its sixty-third session: Chapters VII (immunity of State officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction); X (the obligation to extradite or prosecute); XI (treaties over time); XII (the Most-Favoured-Nation clause)
Statement by Ms Alice King, Legal Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand
UN General Assembly - Fifth Committee- Agenda item 143: Administration of Justice
Statement by Mr Paul Ballantyne on behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand
UN General Assembly - Launch of the International Year of Cooperatives
Statement by HE Jim McLay Permanent Representative New Zealand Permanent Mission to the United Nations
Sixth Committee - Agenda item 78 Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission
Statement by His Excellency Guillermo E. Rishchynski, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations, on behalf of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (CANZ).
Report of the International Criminal Court - item 75
Statement by Mr Richard Rowe, Senior Legal Adviser, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand (CANZ)
First Committee - Conventional weapons
Statement delivered by Dell Higgie, Ambassador for Disarmament
Item 69(a) Promotion and Protection of Human Rights; Implementation of Human Rights Instruments [Rights of Persons with Disabilities]
Statement by Ms Bernadette Cavanagh Charge d’Affaires a.i.
UNGA Third Committee: Item 66 Indigenous Peoples
Statement by Ms Bernadette Cavanagh Charge d’Affaires a.i.
Cluster Nuclear Weapons: De-alerting – Decreasing the operational readiness of nuclear weapons systems
Statement delivered by H.E. Mr. Alexandre Fasel Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the Conference on Disarmament
First Committee - Nuclear weapons
Statement delivered by Dell Higgie, Ambassador for Disarmament on behalf of the New Agenda Coalition
Third Committee: Rights of the Child
Statement by Helen Horsington First Secretary Australian Mission to the United Nations
Statement on behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand: Advancement of Women
Statement by The Honourable Rona Ambrose, P.C., M.P., Minister of Public Works and Government Services and Minister for Status of Women
Special Political and Decolonisation Committee (Fourth Committee) - The Question of Tokelau
Statement delivered by Bernadette Cavanagh,
Deputy Permanent Representative
Sixth Committee - Agenda item 78 Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission
Statement delivered on behalf of CANZ by Ms Alice Revell Second Secretary/ Legal Adviser
Sixth Committee - Rule of Law at the National and International Levels (item 83)
Statement delivered by Ms Sue Robertson Legal Adviser, Australia Mission to the United Nationson behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand (CANZ)
UNGA 1st Committee - General debate
Statement by Dell Higgie, Ambassador for Disarmament
Sixth Committee - Agenda item 109 Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism
Statement on behalf of CANZ by Ms Alice Revell Second Secretary/ Legal Adviser
UNGA 1st Committee - General debate
Statement by Dell Higgie, Ambassador for Disarmament, on behalf of the New Agenda Coalition
New Zealand's General Debate Statement.
Statement by H.E. Jim Mclay, Permanent Representative, to the United Nations in New York
7th Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty (Article Xiv)
Statement by Hon. Simon Power, Minister of Justice of New Zealand
Panel Discussion on the Role of Languages and Culture in the Promotion and Protection of the Well-Being and Identity of Indigenous People
Statement by Lucy Richardson, New Zealand Permanent Mission, Geneva
Secretary-General’s Symposium on International Counter-Terrorism - Strengthening Law Enforcement and Capacity-Building Efforts
Statement by Hon. Simon Power, Minister of Justice of New Zealand
High Level Meeting of the General Assembly - The Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases
Statement by
Hon. Simon Power, Minister of Justice of New Zealand
United Nations Security Council: Maintenance of International Peace and Security - The Impact of Climate Change.
Statement by Anthony Simpson, First Secretary
Interactive dialogue of the UN General Assembly on the role of regional and sub-regional arrangements in implementing the Responsibility to Protect.
Address by Hon Jim McLay,
New Zealand Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Question of Tokelau.
Statement by Jonathan Kings, New Zealand representative
Human Rights Council 17: Item 4. Statement by New Zealand
United Nations high level meeting on HIV and AIDS.
Statement by Charge D’affaires Ad Interim Bernadette Cavanagh
Fourth United Nations Conference on least developed countries.
New Zealand statement by Amanda Ellis, Deputy Secretary International Development
General Assembly 5th Committee - Agenda item 150: Financing of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste.
Statement by Bernadette Cavanagh on behalf of Australia, Canada and New Zealand
United Nations Security Council: Afghanistan.
Statement
by H.E. Jim McLay Permanent Representative
Fifth Committee, Item 129: Capital Master Plan.
Statement
by Paul Ballantyne on behalf of Australia, Canada and New Zealand
United Nations General Assembly - Resolution calling for the expulsion of Libya from the Human Rights Council.
Statement
by H.E. Jim McLay, Permanent Representative
General Assembly - Informal Thematic Debate on Disaster Risk Reduction.
Statement by H.E. Jim McLay, Permanent Representative
United Nations Security Council: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Institution Building.
Statement by Charge D’affaires Ad Interim Bernadette Cavanagh
