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" Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it. "
Security
Countries
Earth
" Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding. "
Management
Natural
More
" Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality. "
More
Equality
Serious
" 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. "
Role
United Nations
Us
" Business can talk itself into a blue funk. "
Blue
Business
Funk
" Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people. "
People
Some People
New
" Health and education are always issues. "
Always
Issues
Health
" I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. "
Deeply
Snobbery
Social
" I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try. "
Own
Try
You
" If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters. "
Suffering
Grow
Community
" If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries. "
People
Poor
Create
" I have no beliefs of a religious kind. "
Kind
Religious
Beliefs
" I'm not into power for the sake of it. "
Sake
Power
" In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things. "
Yes
Think
Leadership
" In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government. "
Australia
Government
Perspective
" I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom. "
Reality
New
Nation
" I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through. "
Zealand
Think
New
" I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis. "
Think
Work
Community
" 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. "
Say
Democracy
Working
" I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work. "
Work
Building
Kind
" Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks. "
Fish
Effective
Very
" New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues. "
New
Labor
Human Rights
" Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries. "
Country
You
Other
" Of course I have an opinion on many things but I don't micromanage. "
Things
Course
Many
" People are optimistic about the future. "
Optimistic
About
Future
" The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in the end the buck stops with the Prime Minister. "
Team
Woman
Know
" There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water resources, and work hand-in-hand with nature. "
Building
Nature
Work
" We don't want to deal with a separatist party. "
Deal
Party
Want
" We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy. "
American
Tragedy
President
" Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case. "
World
Well
End
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