Posted on 28 September 2023
The United Nations High-Level Week 2023, the 78th session of the UN General Assembly, has just concluded in New York. The summit included the General Debate, the SDG summit, and many high level dialogues and meetings.
Nanaia Mahuta, New Zealand Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, spoke at the General Debate, and among other areas discussed the geopolitical competition in the Pacific.
"We are concerned that the order that has underpinned security and prosperity in our region in the last seven decades is increasingly frail," Mahuta said in regard to US and China’s competing influence.
"We do not believe recent events witnessed in other parts of the world need to become the inevitable trajectory of our blue Pacific region," she says.