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2018-05-22

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2019-01-25

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1. “Furthermore, we join others who have spoken today and encourage the Secretariat to enable the Council to comprehensively address such threats by including relevant analysis and risk assessments on the impact of climate change in all reports submitted to the Security Council. As the Secretary-General has said, climate change is the defining issue of our time. It is a threat to livelihoods, a threat to well-being and a threat to international peace and security.”

   2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

2. “There is no prospect of return for communities that have been forced to abandon their lands to the advancing sea. Such displacements are not anomalies; they are our collective future if the current trends continue. As part of the Security Council's efforts to prevent conflict, the threats to international peace and security caused by climate change should be identified and responded to as they emerge. New Zealand firmly supports the Secretary-General's efforts to ensure a more coordinated and integrated response to the impact of climate change. To help to bring additional coordination and focus to the efforts across the United Nations system, we stand in full support of the proposal by Pacific small island developing States for the appointment of a high-level representative for climate change.”

   2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

3. “The issues outlined in the concept note for this debate (S/2019/1, annex) are the reality for the States of our region. In the Pacific, climate-related disasters are increasing, as they are across the world. Cyclones, storm surges and droughts are increasing the vulnerability of communities across the region and threatening hard- won development. The Pacific States are also already feeling the effects of slow-onset disasters. Sea-level rise is the most obvious risk to low-lying atoll countries, but the warming ocean, ocean acidification and salt pollution of freshwater supplies and agricultural soils are just some of the many compounding challenges that climate change brings to our region. Climate change has already caused some people to migrate, so far mostly within their countries.”

   2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

4. “I would like to thank the Dominican Republic for convening this important debate. At the outset, New Zealand aligns itself with the statement to be delivered by the representative of Nauru on behalf of the Pacific Islands Forum. In September last year, the leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum affirmed that climate change presented the single greatest threat to the livelihood, security and well-being of Pacific people. Our leaders chose their words deliberately. Climate change is not a future challenge to be endlessly discussed; it is a real and immediate threat. The Security Council has recognized the demonstrable links between climate change and security. When the effects of climate change intersect with environmental and social issues, it drives instability and conflict.”

   2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

5. “Taken together, those reforms promise a world where we can significantly reduce the risk of conflict. More directly, the changes to the peace and security pillar should result in a Secretariat better positioned to use and collect information to provide early warnings concerning threats, such as those to civilians and health- care facilities, and then to act on them. It should also lead to a more integrated approach to peacebuilding and sustaining peace across the United Nations architecture, thereby enabling the United Nations to more effectively protect civilian interests. New Zealand is determined to do its part, and we hope that that determination will be shared by others.”

   2018-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8264 (2018) · source

6. “We cannot let the erosion of international rules become the new normal. Respect for accountability must stand. While we supported the General Assembly's establishment of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism for crimes committed in Syria, we regret that it was necessitated by the Council's failure to take action. It is incumbent on all of us to ensure that those rules are strictly adhered to and that violations of international law are met with appropriate consequences, including from the Council, given its unique responsibilities. Thirdly, we need continued determination from Member States in support of the Secretary-General's ambitious changes to how the United Nations works in the areas of management, development and peace and security.”

   2018-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8264 (2018) · source

7. “It must make use of all of the tools available to prevent conflict, defend fundamental international norms and hold those who violate them accountable. It should also consider practical measures such as publicly calling out offending parties and instituting humanitarian safe zones in areas where civilians are at risk during heightened hostilities. The ongoing attacks on health-care workers and facilities demonstrate the urgent need for the Security Council to explore additional ways to use its authority to end attacks and ensure that those responsible face justice. Secondly, we need to see all Member States determined to demand universal compliance with international law from both State and non-State actors. That is a prerequisite for the protection of civilians and health-care workers in conflict zones.”

   2018-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8264 (2018) · source

8. “Despite the best efforts of organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross and Me'decins Sans Frontieres, large numbers of civilians are unable to access health care. Medical supplies are blocked, hospitals bombed and doctors killed. Besieging civilians and denying them critical health care cruelly exacerbates the suffering of innocents. Such a lack of respect for international humanitarian law is totally unacceptable, but we must not become despondent or dispirited. There are three areas in which we need greater shared determination to reverse those trends. First, we need to see the Council more determined to discharge its responsibility to maintain international peace and security.”

   2018-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8264 (2018) · source

9. “I join those who have thanked the briefers for their contributions and the delegation of Poland for organizing today's important debate. As we have heard, there has rarely been a more dangerous time than right now to be a civilian in a conflict zone. Two years ago, New Zealand was pleased to work with four other non-permanent Council members to secure the unanimous adoption of resolution 2286 (2016) in response to the horrific escalation in attacks on medical facilities and personnel in Syria, Yemen and beyond. It was an important reaffirmation of our collective commitment to upholding international law in the face of such atrocities. Yet health-care personnel and infrastructure continue to be targeted in conflict zones around the world.”

   2018-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8264 (2018) · source