The Need For UN Reform

There is a good Editorial in today's NZ Herald on the need for UN reform. We agree with every word. New Zealand, as a non-permanent member of the Security Council can have only little say on this, but we hope that New Zealand is backing the work being done by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. We recall New Zealand playing a reasonably positive role on UN reform under previous Governments. We can't really see why that position would have changed much under the current Government. Winston Peters should be a bit more open and let us know what the current position is. We are sure he will have detailed and sophisticated views on what needs to be done. Maybe Mr McCully should allow Winston to explain these views through a few questions for oral answer.