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
Helen Clark quotes about
That's completely unacceptable, and I don't think there would be New Zealanders who would say that New Zealand should do nothing in the face of another country's agents trying to breach our sovereignty. We have to take a stand on that, regardless who the country is,
I haven't detected much constructive from Mr Norris.
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,
I only take on roles that I'm passionate about.
So as other people poach our people, we have to poach other people because we want to have an economy that works well.
This has been confirmed by the declaration of the final result.
We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.
the government was renewing and refreshing itself for the third term in government.
I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.
Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable
Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.
New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.
Well, there have been periods in the past when prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand were at each others' throats publicly and frequently. That's not productive at all.
We live in a very strong and robust democracy. This election has been very finely balanced and the result has been a close one.