Reeves Addresses U.N. Conference
Episcopal News Service. September 17, 1991 [91183U]
Sir Paul Reeves, the Anglican Communion's observer to the United Nations, addressed the annual conference of nongovernmental organizations on the theme, "Peace, Justice, and Development: Ingredients for an Emerging World Order." The former governor general of New Zealand and former primate of the Anglican Church in New Zealand told the three-day meeting in mid-September that a new world order "is one where power structures are redefined, the context of international relationships has changed, and hopefully peace depends, not on some theory of nuclear deterrence, but on a properly functioning United Nations." Global politics in the future will be driven as much by economics as military strength, he said.