Story: Multilateral organisations

More links and websites

• Commonwealth Secretariat

  The Commonwealth is a voluntary organisation of 54 countries.

• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

  The OECD is a forum of 34 countries that works for economic growth and financial stability.

• Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat

  The Pacific Islands Forum represents 16 Pacific nations.

• United Nations

  The website of the United Nations.

More suggestions and sources

• Alley, Roderic. ‘New Zealand and the United Nations.’ In Beyond New Zealand I, foreign policy into the 1990s, edited by Richard Kennaway and John Henderson. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1991: 164–177.

• McKinnon, Malcolm. Independence and foreign policy: New Zealand in the world since 1935. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1993.

• New Zealand in world affairs IV, 1990–2005. Wellington: New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 2007.

• O’Brien, Terence. Presence of mind: New Zealand in the world, Wellington: New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 2009.

• Templeton, Malcolm, ed. New Zealand as an international citizen: fifty years of United Nations membership. Wellington: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 1995.

• New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade manages many of the country’s multilateral relationships.