Helen Clark
Helen Clark
Helen Elizabeth Clark ONZ SSIis the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, and was the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand. As Prime Minister she served three consecutive terms from 1999 to 2008 and was the first woman elected at a general election as the Prime Minister, and was the fifth longest serving person to hold that office. She has been Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, the third-highest UN position, since 2009. In April 2016, she declared...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 February 1950
CityHamilton, New Zealand
We live in a very strong and robust democracy. This election has been very finely balanced and the result has been a close one.
It is clear in New Zealand's view that Zimbabwe has breached all of them.
I think we should see what's happening in the currency, which is still strong, as positive for exporting.
It gives us credibility, ... and links us to a system of support in school improvement.
I think this is going to take quite some time to work through simply because the writs (final results) won't be until two Fridays' time,
It is of concern that when that becomes known it might provoke further disorder.
It is important that the Commonwealth does back the principles which it repeatedly says that it stands for; those principles being constitutional law, human rights and democracy,
Our rates are disturbing and will deliver poor health long-term to many of our people at a very high cost to the taxpayer.
Further talks to progress arrangements around forming a government are likely to be held in the coming week.
Someone had to break the impasse; we've broken the impasse, ... Someone had to agree to take them.
My objective now is to begin negotiations that will enable us to lead a government which brings New Zealanders together,
looking for as broad a base of support and for as stable a government as possible.
Well, we don't think for a moment that either the U.S. or Australia are out to damage the New Zealand economy, but if there were a sustained period in which they had a free-trade agreement and New Zealand didn't have that same arrangement with the States, that could be both trade- and investment-distorting.
Winston has never taken any great interest in foreign policy, so that one looks a bit more remote.