Leslie Bravery | Palestine Human Rights Campaign www.palestine.org.nz

In a New Zealand Government press release on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Murray McCully welcomed news of the agreement reached on a nuclear deal with Iran. McCully commented, “This agreement is a positive development for regional stability in the Middle East”, saying also that “as the current President of the United Nations Security Council, New Zealand will do what it can to expedite any necessary Security Council action.”

It would appear that, as far as New Zealand is concerned, the accusations levelled against a country of intending to develop nuclear weapons arouses greater concern for “regional stability in the Middle East” than the fact that another country actually has introduced nuclear weapons of mass destruction to the region. When will New Zealand, as the current President of the United Nations Security Council, break its silence and “do what it can to expedite any necessary Security Council action” regarding Israel's refusal to co-operate with the IAEA and blunt refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty?

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