Last week, New Zealand won a seat on the United Nations Security Council. And over the weekend the New Zealand business community made it clear what they wanted from the position:
A business director says New Zealand's new seat on the UN Security Council will help push free trade agreements through more quickly.
New Zealand's ten-year campaign to win a two-year seat on the body came to fruition yesterday in New York.
The Foreign Affairs Minister, Murray McCully, said having a place on the Security Council will enable better discussions on trade with other countries.
Grant Thornton Consultancy's tax director Greg Thompson said this would help advance free trade deals.
How? The UNSC doesn't have jurisdiction over trade. The only way this is going to happen is if New Zealand corruptly abuses its new position - a position we should be exercising to protect world peace - in order to gain benefits for ourselves. This would be deeply unethical, and the fact that the New Zealand business community is proposing it tells us everything we need to know about their lack of ethics.
