In response to questions about the United Nations’ capacity to hold Aotearoa accountable for indigenous rights, Takitimu emphasized that New Zealand’s adherence to the “international framework” and its past reliance on it for legitimacy necessitate accepting both support and criticism.

takitimu stated, “Indigenous peoples have always utilised that framework, and so has New Zealand as a state party, and so that, again, comes back to the very foundations of the United Nations to set some sort of global standards, and they have, in regards to indigenous rights and human rights, and they are holding the New Zealand Government to account for that.That’s exactly what they are set up to do.”