Graham KennedyDr KENNEDY GRAHAM (Green): Yesterday Minister Brownlee met with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson here in Wellington. Both Ministers are responsible for the foreign policy of their countries. A few weeks ago Mr Brownlee quaintly explained to a concerned public that he was learning on the job—coming to grips as it were with the language of diplomacy.This morning with the media he continued the lesson. Mr Brownlee said that yesterday's meeting was a good meeting and that the US reaffirmed that it will keep up its presence in the Pacific and have a great interest in its well-being. Beyond that we can only surmise what the Minister said to the United States.Here is what he should have said: Mr Secretary welcome to New Zealand. Aotearoa is the Māori name of our country. Māori is an official language. It is frequently spoken in our Parliament often accompanied by waiata and haka and tears."Your country is a major power; ours is one of the smaller States. We enjoy sovereign equality with you but yours has the largest military known to history. You spend $850 billion on what we all call 'national defence'. We spend 0.3 percent of that. We do not think you have purchased greater security for your people than we have and certainly not for others."The responsibility to use your power in the globalist interest is immense. The use of soft power as US adviser Joseph Nye used to say is more effective. Hard power is legitimate when it is harnessed to and subordinated to soft power. By 'soft power' Joseph Nye means global leadership earned through moral integrity and political wisdom—the kind that people such as Barack Obama and Sadiq Khan have displayed. 'Soft power' means a readiness to respect the rule of international law such as accepting the jurisdiction of the World Court when other States have taken cases against larger ones for blockading or mining their harbours—Britain France the US or anyone really—and joining the International Criminal Court to show that all men are created equal and women too. They are equal before the law including international law and including individual liability for political leaders."In the interests of humanity New Zealand on behalf of small States respectfully proposes that you convey to your President the need for genuine global leadership in the following areas:"(1) Reform the UN Security Council. Listen to those appealing for reform including France—circumscription of the veto power and more transparent procedural decision-making. Do not be defensive. Make the United Nations great again."(2) Join the negotiations for a nuclear weapons convention that will prohibit the possession deployment and use of nuclear weapons for all time. Indicate now that while the US will not sign immediately on completion it will make a declaration that it will pursue a course for the elimination of nuclear weapons from its national arsenal as it promised to do in 1968. Make it time-bound for say 20 years. Make it conditional on all other nuclear-weapon States accompanying the US. Make the major powers all feel great again."(3) Respect the advisory opinions of the World Court including the one on illegal Israeli settlements and respect Security Council Resolution 2334 of December 2016. Help make Israel great again."(4) Accept the overwhelming advice of US scientists that climate protection requires a commitment to the current Paris Agreement and more ambitious national targets including from the US.Tell US voters that job security is to be found in a transformational pathway to a low-carbon economy. Help the Mayor of Pittsburgh make his city great again and congratulate California and China on their climate deal signed today. There are other ways in which we could discuss but I see your time in this country is already up. We wish you well. Let us help you make America great again and when you return the people of Wellington will just line the streets and cheer your motorcade.""