General Assembly

2013

February

• Launch of the International Year of Quinoa.   Statement by Stephanie Lee, Charge d'Affaires, A.I,   20 February 2013

   

2012

December

• UNITAR - UN Reform: Enhancing the Effectiveness of UN Response and Security Council Reform.  Statement by H.E Jim McLay,  Permanent Representive,   6 December 2012.

October

• 67th Session of the United Nations General Assembly - Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism.  Statement by Giles Norman, Permanent Mission of Canada on behalf of Canada, New Zealand and Australia,  8 October 2012.

August

• General Assembly 124th Plenary Meeting: Concerning draft Resolution (A/66/L.57) "The Situation in the Syrian Arab Republic".  Statement by H.E Jim McLay,  New Zealand Permanent Representative,   3 August 2012.

June

• Informal meeting of the General Assembly to hear briefings by the Secretary-General, the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, the Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States and the Office of the High Commissioner for the Human Rights, on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic.   Statement by H.E Jim McLay, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations,    7 June 2012.

May

• Intergovernmental Negotiations on the question of equipable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Council.  Statement by H.E Jim McLay, New Zealand Permanent Representative,    2 May 2012.

March

• United Nations General Assembly: The International Day to Commemorate the Abolition of the Transaltantic Slave Trade.  Statement by H.E Jim Mclay, New Zealand Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations,   25 March 2012

2011

September

• United Nations General Assembly: General Debate.  Statement by H.E Ambassador Jim McLay,  New Zealand Permanent Representative,   27 September 2011.

July

• Interactive dialogue of the UN General Assembly on the role of regional and sub-regional arrangements in implementing the Responsibility to Protect. Address by H.E. Ambassador Jim McLay, New Zealand Permanent Representative, 12 July 2011.

March

• United Nations General Assembly Resolution calling for the explusion of Libya from the Human Rights Council. Statement by H.E. Jim McLay, New Zealand Permanent Representative, 2 March 2011.

2010

November

• UNGA 65: Plenary: Statement on Afghanistan. Delivered by HE Ambassador Jim McLay, 4 November 2010.

2009

December

• Explanation of position on resolution on "the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict: breaking the link between the illicit transaction of rough diamonds and armed conflict as a contribution to prevention and settlement of conflicts. Statement by Ambassador Jim McLay, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 11 December 2009
• United Nations General Assembly, 64th session: Item 70(a) and (b) Oceans and the Law of Oceans and the Law of the Sea and Sustainable Fisheries. Statement by H.E. Ambassador Jim Mclay, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 4 December 2009

November

• United Nations General Assembly - Plenary: The Situation in Afghanistan. Statement by HE Jim McLay, New Zealand Permanent Representative, 9 November 2009.

October

• Statement by New Zealand on Presentation of the HRC Report,  HE Jim McLay New Zealand Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Friday, 30 October 2009.
• UNGA 64 (Plenary). Item 75, Report of the International Criminal Court. Statement on behalf of CANZ by H.E. Jim McLay, Permanent Representative, 29 October 2009

September

• 64th UN General Assembly - General Debate. Statement by By our Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. John Key, New Zealand, 26 September 2009

July

• Statement to General Assembly on Responsibility to Protect Statement by Jim McLay Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 17 July 2009

June

• General Assembly Plenary Meeting: GA Hall: Agenda Item 107 (follow-up to the outcome of the Millenium Summit): New Zealand Statement (after adoption of Draft Resolution A/63/L.8/Rev.1) by Kirsty Graham, Deputy Permanent Representative, NZ Mission, 3 June 2009

February

• United Nations General Assembly, Sixty-third session; Special Committee on Peacekeeping operations. Comprehensive review of the whole question of Peacekeeping operations in all their aspects. Statement by Captain Michael Millar, RNZN, on behalf of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, 23 February 2009