New Zealand takes great pride in our independent foreign policy stance. We've shown it on numerous occasions. And while that independence means that we choose our friends and support a rules-based international order, we do so autonomously. We are among the first and founding members of the United Nations. There have been many, many positives come out of that organisation. But when it comes to expressions of disapproval of rule breakers, of human rights abusers, of those who perpetrate acts of aggression or conquest of others, the United Nations falls well short of what might reasonably be expected.