New Zealander - Statesman | February 26, 1950 -
Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.
Helen Clark
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Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding.
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I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.
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If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
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Well, we don't think for a moment that either the U.S. or Australia are out to damage the New Zealand economy, but if there were a sustained period in which they had a free-trade agreement and New Zealand didn't have that same arrangement with the States, that could be both trade- and investment-distorting.
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We're a nation in search of an identity, but it's quite exciting. I don't regard it as a problem. It's a challenge.
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The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in the end the buck stops with the Prime Minister.
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As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.
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Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.
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Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.
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We don't want to deal with a separatist party.
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We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.
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