Another Cabinet minister caught up in United Nations letter-writing saga
RNZ
Another Cabinet minister has been caught up in the United Nations letter-writing imbroglio, with new documents showing David Seymour first ran his response past Paul Goldsmith before he sent it.
Seymour, writing as Regulations Minister, fired off a blunt reply to the UN in July that prompted public rebukes from both Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters for bypassing proper processes.
Seymour refused to concede any mistake but agreed to formally withdraw his letter so Peters could issue one on behalf of the full government.
New correspondence, released to RNZ under the Official Information Act, reveals Goldsmith, the Treaty Negotiations Minister, had been looped in early on and appeared comfortable with Seymour’s approach.
On 1 July, two days before the letter went to the UN, one of Seymour’s advisors sent a draft to Goldsmith’s office.
“Attached is the Minister for Regulation’s proposed response… He mentioned that we had agreed to run it past your Minister before we sent it off,” the email read.
“It is a little more direct than what MFAT might draft. Please let me know if your Minister is happy.”
Goldsmith’s office responded the next day, asking for a phone call.
By the morning of 3 July, Seymour’s advisor emailed him: “Goldie is happy for us to send it. He is going to send his own mild MFAT holding letter on behalf of himself and [Māori Development Minister Tama] Potaka.”
Seymour replied: “Ok, great.” His letter was sent to the UN that afternoon.
In a statement provided to RNZ on Saturday, Goldsmith said: “When asked, I did not object to [Seymour] sending the letter, but when commenting on UN matters, it is the Foreign Minister’s views that are relevant, not mine.”
A spokesperson for Seymour said he had nothing further to add.
Earlier correspondence in late June showed Goldsmith’s office drafted an initial “holding response” to the UN but requested it be sent with Seymour’s letterhead as “the senior Minister for this response”.
Emails between Seymour’s staff also canvassed the options for responding to the UN. It noted MFAT’s preferred approach would be a joint reply from “relevant Ministers” Seymour, Goldsmith and Potaka, in line with previous UN communications in 2024.
Instead, Peters ultimately issued a government-wide letter on 11 August, striking a softer tone and expressing regret for the “breakdown in protocol”.
The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, Albert K Barume, had raised concerns on 12 June about Seymour’s Regulatory Standards Bill, suggesting it failed to recognise Māori traditions or uphold Treaty principles.
Seymour’s reply branded the critique “presumptive, condescending and wholly misplaced” and “an affront to New Zealand’s sovereignty”.
After news of Seymour’s letter broke in July, Luxon told media he agreed with its content but Seymour was wrong to have sent it: “I expect Winston Peters to be the person that engages with the UN.”
Just shows how useless Luxon is as leader.
Luxon has tits for hands
and clearly a dick for a brain as he can only ever think of how to fuck things.
A storm in a teacup, It’s only the UN. It should be demolished and set on fire. Nobody would notice and we’d all save a huge amount of dosh.
Its my prediction the when trump and Putin sorth the crap out and china and India join them that the next big target is the UN.
Never forget that the USA pays the biggest share of the funds that the UN needs.
Where Does U.S. Funding Go?
The United States paid nearly $13 billion to UN entities in 2023
Trump could make a nice big pub with that building.
I’m sure the yodelling Nazis would love to have them based in their country.
If they could snatch them up the whole country would a Wellington public service town.
100%. An MP replied to an unjust criticism of his country, and in doing so trod on the toes of another MP who is not even in his party. A minor lack of etiquette. Yawn.
I’m sure that’s happened many times over the life of NZ’s Parliament, and I can’t believe that simple minds are still being exercised over it.
The only surprising aspect is that the wet Paul Goldsmith might actually have a pair of balls after all. Kudos to him
Must say I was surprised.
But then they have to keep their heads down, or Luxon and Collins will chop them off.
They have form.
If the slimy sycrochants in the media hadn’t jumped on it, as they do.
“UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, Albert K Barume”
Putting the name “UN Special Rapporteur”, is showing another way of DEI, meritless appointment. using the UNDRIP United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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A good short documentary here in Canada, which shows the same issues and more in Canada, the templates are very similar in NZ, as they call it DRIPA Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act where it has become enshrined as an Act, first from a state government, BC British Columbia, & then the Canadian Federal Government.
The more we know of it, how it works, to see it in action, with a slightly different perspective, then we in NZ should be better able to stop it.
Reconciliation or discrimination? The truth about B.C.’s UNDRIP law and how to stop it
https://youtu.be/niVM-cSyqbw
14 mins : 16th August, 2025 : RebelNews : Drea Humphrey .
Just to twig to as to refer to “DRIPA” and it seems “bands” are meaning tribes.
UNDRIP-aligned laws and policies create a two-tiered society where an elite group’s influence and legal authority takes precedence over the interests of the vast majority of Canadians.
So it seems that Canada has its “Stop UNDRIP” and here in “Stop CoGovernance”.
In the meantime Luxon acts as a coordinator, (sell-out of NZ sovereignity) co-activist in league as advised by Tama Potaka in cahoots with Willie Jackson’s Parliamentary Maori Cabal to achieve the UN action
directivesobligations as signed of by Ardern, Winston Peters, etc., of the He Puapua Report.Sadly they are pouring a cupful of tea, with quick setting cement into the very guts of NZ.
A blocked gut, becomes another “emergency” as it is also a very painful way of dying unless soothed by plenty of morphine, which the UN has plenty of, so that NZ becomes comatose for the UN’s further administrations.
All a part of the pathway that the UN will gain total sovereignty over the world’s citizens.
What they, Luxon etc., are doing is swirling the tea around with the cement, & getting NZ to swallow a bit more, while waiting for the other nurses Labour, Green & Te Parti to arrive to make us swallow the actual steaming tea pot.
Bloody yodeling Swiss!
Swiss? ? ? One can see that Albert Baume seems to be very black skinned, Sooty.
In Paul Holmes parlance, to be ‘inclusive’ another cheeky darky.
What, Where, first nations people “band” are you in Sooty?
A most interesting parallel in that U tube link with what is being pushed into Canada.
I have heard there is the call of the “Whero-whuck-aarrwee”, that you could answer, echoing down New Plymouth way? that would welcome you in joining for a yodeling practice. -.-.
Just be careful if you open you mouth wide, then some quick setting cement poured in, not so good for the digestive tract.
AI says
The concept of a single, unified “international communist headquarters” is complex, as different iterations and organizations have claimed this title throughout history. The most prominent historical example is the Communist International (Comintern), founded in Moscow in 1919, which aimed to build a “world party” of communists. However, this organization dissolved in 1943. Currently, there isn’t a single, universally recognized international communist headquarters.
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Well in fact AI is often wrong and only sources from approved facty-like things
US Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy was correct in the 1950s
That is why he is constantly discredited.
He was correct about the evil pieces of shit in hollyweird, even then.
look at at these preachy activists today, half of whom are trying to force their kids to be trannies.
in fact soon after 1943 international communism was ensconced in the UN
pretending to be otherwise.
all run from Switzerland
Now. there is a surprise ////
Unknown quote of the day.
“I feel sorry for them, but I also hate them.”
I hear that from the frustration, from the “Empire of Dust”.
So that you too, can have a love & hate issue.
Empire Of Dust – Full Movie
https://youtu.be/kOkrYW3vF0o
1 hour 17 secs : Jul 24, 2020 : Seems much is subtitled.
From another review.:—-“A raw documentary showing Chinese Presence in Africa”.
“The documentary allows you in the end to come up with your own conclusions.
But in a nutshell it follows the construction of a road network in Congo being built by the Chinese, it kinda examines the relationship of the two very different cultures and people working together, and it’s also in the political context of the growing presence of China in Africa.”
From a continent that many ignorant others claim invented everything !
Take a quick perusal of the comments to really judge if it is worth your time watching.
As it from such different thinking, or do we glimpse of that here in NZ too?
Some of it is comedic gold.
I’m sorry, but he just looks shifty and I could never vote for him.
Some are looking at importing LNG to NZ and have looked at a heap of ports and decided that NP is the best option.
They looked at doing a reclamation one before and caned it. Was going to be out in the sea to the north of existing port.
Since then half the NP Power Station has been been demolished. The boiler house has been demolished. Turbine house is still there, but cleaned out for storage.
They could probably demolish the rest of them to allow the construction of a of storage tanks. There is a big bank behind that could be used to raise the building platform above climate change sea level heights. But I don’t think it is enough for new reclamation.
Would also act as a safety barrier to residential areas as well!
The cooling water intake would need filling in and all the pipework all the way to the outfall.
To build a reclamation somewhere would need ten million truckloads of fill.
Not going to happen on our streets. Maybe they could transfer it to the train and a automated tip the train upside down to tip out.
Would have been cheaper to shoot the bitch than let her stuff the oil and gas industry.
Uptick from me as you included “cheaper to shoot the bitch”