UN General Assembly
2011

called for Rio+20 to recognize the Pacific’s economic and environmental significance, and its contribution to sustainable development. At Rio+20, we will seek the support of the United Nations for that blue economy. We work to protect the health of people and their environment, but we must also enhance collective security by advancing the disarmament agenda. Over the coming year, we must focus on the full implementation of the action plan agreed at the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. As coordinator for the New Agenda Coalition, a group of non-nuclear- weapon States committed to a nuclear-weapon-free world, New Zealand will soon introduce a draft resolution highlighting the work that will be required to achieve its implementation during the coming review cycle of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. We commend that draft resolution for the Assembly’s consideration. There have been gains over the past year with respect to conventional disarmament, but we have yet to see the results of those achievements. There has