Amended Answers to Oral Questions — Question No. 4 to Minister

I seek leave to correct an answer I gave to a supplementary question during oral question No. 4 today.

SPEAKER: That’s to give a personal explanation?

Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: Yes.

SPEAKER: Leave is sought. Is there any objection to that? There appears to be none.

Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: I said that there wasn’t a plausible risk. What I should have said is that the court was not required to determine whether Israel had actually breached its obligations under the genocide convention. Therefore, the court did not make any findings that Israel has actually engaged in genocidal conduct. However, the court found that there is a plausible case that Israel’s conduct in Gaza may breach its obligations under the genocide convention. That will be the subject of a full and substantive hearing in the International Court of Justice.