Paakiwaha | Willie Jackson
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Today Willie Jackson talks to Paul Moon about New Zealand defending its' Treaty of Waitangi record before the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
UN meddling demeans sovereignty
Monday 15 March 2010
An Auckland historian says the United Nations Human Rights Committee are demeaning New Zealand's sovereignty by meddling in the country's treaty issues.
Justice Minister Simon Power is in New York today, submitting New Zealand's Fifth Periodic Report to the UN Committee on Human Rights.
The UN are wanting to see how New Zealand implements the Treaty of Waitangi in its domestic law.
But Professor Paul Moon of AUT University, who has written two books about the Treaty of Waitangi says New Zealand shouldn't have to defend its record to a group of foreigners.
'We'll get people who don't live in the country who haven't read much about it apart from a few briefing papers and they'll be asking these questions and demanding answers from Government officials."
" I think you have to have lived here for some time and put some effort into reading about it before you get a sense of appreciation of how the intricacies of that relationships works,"
Professor Moon says since 1840 New Zealand has relied less on Britain on its path to sovereignty.
" When you get an international body like this saying, "we demand that you attend a meeting because we are going to interrogate and grill you about how you carry out your internal affairs", that has an impact on that sovereign status and that's quite worrying."
He says the UN wanting to see how New Zealand implements the Treaty of Waitangi in domestic law is negating that sovereignty.
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