NZ Foreign Minister Condemns Russia at UN, Makes Bid for Security Council Seat

New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters showed that the small nation intends to be heard when he addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 27. He briefly deviated from his scripted remarks to say to those were having conversations in the audience: “Or maybe a third principle, when somebody is addressing you, the rest of the people in the room keep quiet.” But that was perhaps the least contentious thing he had to say in a speech in which he called Russia “delinquent,” accused Hamas of “monstrous terrorist attacks,” and characterised Israel’s response as “overwhelming,” saying both had set the world “on the precipice of an even wider conflict.”...