Parker DavidHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for Trade and Export Growth): Can I thank the shadow Leader of the House for that contribution and thank the National Party for their support of this piece of legislation. Can I endorse the comments of the Hon Gerry Brownlee about the importance of multilateral institutions. It is a nervous time in the world and the multilateral institutions that have supported the international rule of law and made for relatively increasing peaceful coexistence in the world since World War II are a precious thing.The less cohesive nature of those multilateral institutions compared with even 10 years ago is a thing that I think concerns politicians around the world and certainly politicians from various parties in this Parliament. Those multilateral institutions obviously include the United Nations APEC the OECD and the International Court of Justice. Each of these institutions is precious and has to be nurtured and every country has to do its bit to support those institutions. We're lucky in New Zealand that we never have to host the United Nations because the sort of security arrangements that arise for institutions like that when they host world leaders are every bit as complex as those applying to New Zealand during leaders' week for APEC.Institutions that are under siege if you like at the moment—under siege" is perhaps too strong an adjective but the multilateral institutions that are less settled than they were—include the World Trade Organization as well as some aspects of the United Nations. It's interesting; I've heard the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs talk to me and to Cabinet about the United Nations Security Council and how that's increasingly blocked these days. We all know that the World Trade Organization is facing some challenges in respect of updating its rules and also keeping the appellate body going.As a small trading nation which will never be big enough as a country to support internal markets for things like computers and cars we actually have to sell to the rest of the world the goods and services that we do produce efficiently in order to pay for the things that we import. In order for us to do so on fair terms that maintain the standard of living of New Zealand we need fair trade access to other countries.One of the support bodies for the World Trade Organization is APEC. It's a grouping of countries on the edge of the Pacific—countries that are as varied in their systems of government as is possible really in the world: countries like Russia China United States New Zealand and Australia Japan South American countries. These countries come together under the APEC banner and try to sort out differences for the benefit of the world.I was always struck by a statement that was highlighted recently by one of the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials who wrote an article about the Atlantic Charter. The Atlantic Charter was essentially agreed between Roosevelt and Churchill during the middle of World War II who recognised that in order for peaceful relations to continue post - World War II there had to be fair access for countries to a fair share of resources and the benefit of trade. And so at that time they set out a course for post - World War II where countries could cooperate in order to have good trading relationships in order for them to have secure economic places in the world and to have benefits from good relationships with each other which they thought would flow through to peaceful relationships outside of trade. And they were right. APEC is the organisation that we now rely upon to bolster the likes of the World Trade Organization to ensure that. So every 22 years or so it's New Zealand's turn to host it. And when we host it we actually have to be able to provide for the security of world leaders. Some of those world leaders come from countries that have different circumstances to our own. And they face greater security threats than we have and actually in some ways they bring their expectations as to the protections they need to guarantee the safety of their leaders. And that essentially is what this APEC bill does. It actually says for this event we actually have to provide for some changes to our normal laws in order to achieve the protection of those leaders. And I thought that the Minister of Foreign Affairs set that out very well in his speech. I'm not going to go through all of them and the detail that he did but we actually do for this short period of time need to have a lot more people in the police. And where do we get them? We can't train them overnight. It wouldn't be wise to train them just for a week's work. So we actually have to bring in some of the armed forces and get them to do some of the policing during that period. We also need to accept help from on occasions the private sector but also from Australia. And so this legislation enables that. Sometimes we need road closures and secure areas. This enables that. Sometimes we actually have to stop—we have to enable the blocking of electronic signals that could be used to activate explosive devices. And I think that's a pretty small and temporary inconvenience that New Zealanders will have to accept in order to do that as motorcades pass. A fifth point of course as he has raised relates to drones and I don't think that will prove to be contentious.But the issue as to some of the security details that these leaders bring with them—being able to bring their own arms—is something that we've got to get the balance right on and this legislation I think appropriately attempts to do that by requiring all of those arms to be approved essentially by the Commissioner of Police to be registered in and out of the country. And were there—and we hope this never comes to pass—but were those arms ever discharged in the course of those people's duties then the circumstances of that will be judged according to New Zealand's law and our laws as to self-defence and the like would not change. So with those comments I support this bill and I'm interested to hear comments from other speakers."