I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through.
From Helen Clark
Business can talk itself into a blue funk.
Health and education are always issues.
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.
It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.
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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