David Shearer
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"David James Shearer" is a New Zealand politician and former United Nations worker. He spent nearly 20 years working for the UN, managing the provision of aid to countries including Somalia, Rwanda, Liberia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Iraq. In 1992, Shearer was named (together with his wife) as New Zealander of the Year by the New Zealand Herald. The following year he was appointed as Member of the British Empire (MBE) in the British New Years Honours list. In 2009 he won the Mount Albert by-election, 2009/Mount Albert by-election becoming a Member of the Parliament of New Zealand for the New Zealand Labour Party/Labour Party. He was the leader of the Labour Party from December 2011 to August 2013. He currently serves as the party spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Energy & Resources.

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This is getting to precarious levels.

We can do food aid. We can do job creation. But taking over a health ministry is not something that we're equipped to do.

I can't remember (the West Bank) being that locked down for such a long period of time.

What we were warning before was that stocks were getting low. Today we are saying stocks are gone, and the end-point has been reached.

Nothing is going through to Gaza at the moment and private food supplies are drying up.