Ghahraman GolrizGOLRIZ GHAHRAMAN (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a pleasure to rise to speak in this debate on disarmament—on peace—and I do that as someone who has lived in a war as a child and as an international human rights lawyer. Both of those experiences make me very nervous about the world that we are living in currently. I do want to commend the Minister the Hon Phil Twyford for his leadership on disarmament issues.This debate is about the report on our nuclear disarmament but I also want to note that we have become leaders when it comes to banning autonomous weapons and to looking at peace in space so we are starting to become leaders again. And it is important because there has never been a time I don't think in the past decade or two when the human rights - based system the international rule of law and that multilateral system which small island nations like ours really rely on has been under threat in the way that it is now.I want to—in the way that others have done also—mihi to our Pacific neighbours because they are still suffering. They're suffering not because of attacks by Russia which you know obviously is the main concern right now rightly so but by some of our friends and neighbours like France—the only nation State who has ever committed an act of terror on New Zealand soil which was related to protests against its nuclear testing in the Pacific and that was the Rainbow Warrior bombing. And I know and I've had the privilege—and others have in this House—of meeting some of the activists that continue to work in the Pacific for their communities who are still facing incredible ongoing generational injury as a result of that testing. So I join members across the House in saying that actually it is our obligation as a Pacific nation to stand with them and to stand against nuclear proliferation.But I want to turn to the fact that France is one of our friends and allies and the fact that actually reparations have still not been paid for that suffering in the Pacific. There are healthcare costs there are all sorts of humanitarian needs that need to be addressed and I urge the Minister to look to that too under his mandate on nuclear non-proliferation. I think we've done really really well on this and I wasn't privileged enough to be a part of that delegation but I know and as others have said that we were strong.But I do want to turn then to an area that still concerns me because I don't think we're strong enough when it comes to our approach to investment and trade with companies and entities who still manufacture and profit from nuclear arms. We're still very far from banning that when it comes to our commercial banks when it comes to our defence procurements and when it comes to investments by our super fund and those are all areas that New Zealand is a live and active participant in contributing to nuclear armament. We don't buy weapons; we don't use these types of weapons—we're good there. But there are other areas that the sector has asked us to be strong in and we're still lagging.So we did have an inquiry an independent inquiry that the Minister for Foreign Affairs the Hon Nanaia Mahuta commissioned—that was done by David Smol—into our export controls regimes. It was found—it was a damning and detailed report—that our export controls regime the regime that looks into how we OK exports when it comes to war industries are still falling incredibly short to the point that the word ad hoc" was used to describe the process by which we OK exports in the war industries. That sitting alongside the lack of regulation of investments is a real problem. The recommendations are there and it's for legislation.So I urge our very active Disarmament and Arms Control Minister to work with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and bring law to the House so we can have clarity that our commitment to peace is central to the way that we do trade to the way that we export goods that are made here and to the way that we interact with the world and profit from war because I think New Zealanders wouldn't want us to be doing that knowingly or knowingly—that's what peace really will look like. Thank you."