UN diplomacy

The United Nations relies on the commitments of Member states to give effect to its various conventions, agreements and resolutions. New Zealand, diplomatically, relies on a rules based international order lacking, as we do, the wherewithal to do anything else. As part of this commitment to a rules based system New Zealand commits some of its government capability to UN missions. An important part of this is our military capability.

Typically New Zealand contributes the following

Potentially there are other roles New Zealand could assist with, particularly in the Pacific