New Zealand (NZ) is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean located about 2,000 km (1,300 mi) southeast of Australia. The island-nation consists of some smaller islands and two main islands, the North Island (Te-Ika-a-Maui) and the South Island (Te Wai Pounamu), which are separated by the Cook Strait.
<em>The United Nations also should move more quickly to wind down operations that have outlived their usefulness, improve mission assessment and planning, shorten the time it takes to deploy personnel and assets to the field, and ensure the safety and security of UN mission personnel, including through adequate medical. </em>
<em>These reforms have encompassed a variety of issues, including restructuring the permanent membership of the UN Security Council (UNSC), increasing UN secretariat transparency, accountability and efficiency, financial reform, and calling for diversity and democracy through the implementation of representative voting.</em>
<em>Repositioning the UN development system so that it is best able to make progress on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. </em>
<em>Pursuing management reform that simplifies processes, and works toward gender parity streamlines human resources procedures.</em>
Divergent boundaries move oceanic plates (plates found in the ocean) away from each other, making magma seep in to fill those cracks, thus spreading the sea floor.
