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 Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, Friends I welcome you in te reo Māori, language ofthe tangata whenua, or first individuals, of Aotearoa New Zealand. I do so not on the grounds that it is a similar wayI would start a location on the off chance that I were at home, but since there are difficulties we face asa world that I realize no better method to communicate. Māori ideas like kaitiakitanga. The possibility that every one of us here today are watchmen. Watchmen of the land, of our environmentand of our kin. There is an effortlessness to the idea of sovereignguardianship. For quite a long time we have collected here under theassumption that we barely coordinate just on the issues that clearly sway on one another;issues like global exchange controls, the law of the ocean, or compassionate access towar zones. The space in the middle of has basically, beenleft to us. We, the political heads of the world, havebeen the creators of our own homegrown legislative issues and strategies. Choices have been our own, and we have ultimatelylived with the outcomes. Yet, the world has changed. Over the long haul we have gotten progressively associated. We see increasingly more frequently homegrown decisionsthat have worldwide consequences. Actual occasions have instructed us that in obviousways: oil slicks that show no regard for sea limits; atomic mishaps andtesting, the effects of which are never kept to the specific area in which they happen. In any case, our reliance, our association, runsso a lot further than that, and encounters as of late should lead us to all questionwhether any of us actually genuinely work in separation any longer. This is an inquiry that we, the distant butconnected country of New Zealand, have been wrestling with this year. There are things that we are notable forin New Zealand. Green moving slopes, wonderful you may sayfor hobbits to stow away and for a lot of sheep to meander. We're known for manaakitanga, or the pridewe take in thinking about our visitors, to such an extent that it even reaches out to our most entrenchedsporting rivals. Furthermore, presently we are known for something different. The fifteenth of March 2019. The day a supposed fear based oppressor attempted themost horrendous assault on a position of love, ending the lives of 51 blameless individuals, devastatingour Muslim people group and testing our feeling of who we are as a nation. There is no changing a country's history,but we can pick how it characterizes us. Furthermore, in Aotearoa New Zealand, the individuals wholined up outside of mosques with blossoms, the youngsters who assembled spontaneouslyin stops and open spaces in a demonstration of fortitude, the large numbers who halted peacefully to acknowledgethe call to supplication seven days after the fact, and the Muslim people group who indicated just love – theseare the individuals who all things considered concluded that New Zealand would not be characterized by an actof severity and viciousness, however rather by sympathy and compassion. No doubt about it however, we don't guarantee tobe an ideal country. While we are home to more than 200 ethnicities,that doesn't mean we are liberated from bigotry or segregation. We have wounds from our own set of experiences that,250 years on from the main experiences among Māori and Europeans, we keep on tending to. In any case, since the psychological militant assault in New Zealand,we have needed to ask ourselves numerous hard and troublesome inquiries. One model sticks in my brain. It was just a brief time after the shooting and Ivisited a mosque in our capital city. In the wake of investing some energy with network leadersI left and strolled across the vehicle leave where individuals from the Muslim people group were accumulated. Somewhere off to the side I saw a youngboy signal to me. He was timid, nearly withdrawing towards a barrier,but he likewise had something he plainly needed to state. I immediately squatted down close to him. He didn't state his name or even hi, hesimply murmured "will I be protected now?" What does it take for a kid to have a sense of security? As grown-ups, we rush to make the practicalchanges that will empower us to state that a particularly awful act would never happen again. Furthermore, we did that. Inside 10 days of the assault we made a decisionto change our firearms laws and restricted military style self loading weapons and attack riflesin New Zealand. We have begun a second tranche of reformsto register weapons and change our permitting system. These progressions will assist with making us more secure. In any case, when you're a kid, dread isn't discrete,and it can't be eliminated through administrative acts or declarations from parliament. Having a sense of security implies the nonappearance of dread. Living liberated from bigotry, harassing, and segregation. Feeling adored, included and ready to be exactlywho you are. What's more, to have a sense of security, those conditions needto be all inclusive. Regardless of what your identity is, regardless of where youcome from, regardless of where you live. The youthful Muslim kid in Kilbirnie, New Zealand,wanted to know whether I could allow him those things. My dread is, that as a head of a proudlyindependent country, this is one thing I can't accomplish alone. Not any longer. In our borderless and innovatively connectedworld, critique on race, demonstrations of segregation dependent on religion, sex, sexuality or identity they are not perfectly limited behind limits. They are felt internationally. The reality I got such countless letters from Muslimchildren from around the globe in the weeks after March 15 addresses the intensity of association. These kids had no feeling of distance. They may have never known about New Zealand beforeMarch 15. They just observed a demonstration of scorn against theircommunity, and it felt near them. Regardless of whether it is demonstrations of brutality, language intendedto affect dread of strict gatherings, or presumptions about nationalities to raise doubt and bigotry these activities and expressions are as globalized as the development of merchandise and ventures. Kids hear them. Ladies hear them. Individuals of confidence hear them. Our rainbow networks hear them. Thus presently, it's our chance to stop and tolisten. To acknowledge that our words and activities haveimmeasurable results. What's more, to talk like the entire worldis tuning in, yet with the duty of somebody who knows a little kid somewheremight be listening as well. The spaces in which we convey are partof this test as well however. In an undeniably online world we need tocreate spaces for the trading of thoughts, the sharing of innovation and free discourse, whilealso recognizing the potential for this innovation to be utilized to cause hurt. Walk 15 was an amazing illustration of suchharm, and an intentional exertion to communicate fear on a gigantic, viral scale over theinternet. The supposed fear monger didn't simply take thelives of 51 individuals, he did it live on Facebook. In the initial 24 hours after the assault, Facebooktook down 1.5 million duplicates of the livestream video. YouTube saw a duplicate of the video uploaded,at times, as quick as once consistently during a similar period. The supposed psychological militant utilized online media asa weapon. The assault exhibited how the internet,a worldwide center with uncommon capacity to do great, can be distorted and utilized as atool for fear mongers. Thus what occurred in Christchurch, as wellas a significant misfortune, is additionally an unpredictable and progressing issue for the world. What's more, it's a difficult we felt a feeling of responsibilityto take care of, so we tried to team up with the innovation organizations so integralto the arrangement. Two months after the assaults, pioneers gatheredin Paris for the Christchurch Call, uniting organizations, nations and common society,and focusing on a scope of activities to decrease the mischief this substance can cause. In doing so we have maintained our attention on thedeeper point we as a whole need: innovation that releases human potential, not the most noticeably terrible in us. Recently, I met with Call allies to checkon our aggregate advancement. We declared that a key tech industry institutionwill be reshaped to offer impact to those responsibilities – and we dispatched an emergency reaction protocolto ensure that we can react to such occasions should they occur later on. Neither New Zealand nor some other countrycould roll out these improvements all alone. The tech organizations couldn't by the same token. We are succeeding on the grounds that we are working together,and for that remarkable and ground-breaking demonstration of solidarity New Zealand says bless your heart. The centrality of innovation in our livesis not by any means the only illustration of our expanding interconnection, and our dependence on one anotherif we are to react to the difficulties we face. There is maybe no finer illustration of ourabsolute reliance than the issue of environmental change. At the point when the United Nations Secretary-Generalvisited the Pacific area this year, he saw direct how nations that have producedthe least ozone depleting substance discharges are currently confronting the most disastrous impacts. In his words: "To save the Pacific, is tosave the entire planet." truth be told seven out of the 15 most atmosphere effectednations on the planet sit inside the Pacific area. Spots like Tuvalu, with a populace of justover 11,000 individuals, scarcely adds to worldwide emanations yet is following through on the cost forour aggregate inaction. Atolls so low lying that in climate eventsthe water on one or the other side of it can stream together and join at the tightest focuses. Immersed by the ocean. Or then again Tokelau, an excellent arrangement of three atollsthat must be gotten to by boat, where the youngsters talk knowledgably about climatechange, realizing that not at all like the entirety of the difficulties their confident abstains have ever faced,this is one that is totally and absolutely in others' grasp. They have never met you, nor you them. In any case, I can disclose to you that their expectationson us all are high. Meeting those assumptions will require usto utilize each arrangement switch accessible – and, much the same as the Christchurch Call to Action,we need to work with accomplices inside and outside government to make change. In New Zealand, we have a lot of work task. We may just make up 0.17% of worldwide emissions,but like so numerous others, our gross discharges have been rising consistently since the 1990s. That is the reason we have coupled desire withaction. In the course of recent years since we took officeNew Zealand has delivered