NEW YORK – New Zealand’s prime minister has been proclaimed a history makerfor taking “first baby” — daughter Neve — into the United Nations GeneralAssembly hall, shaking up what is still a boys’ club of world leaders.

Photographs of Jacinda Ardern, 38, kissing and bouncing her three-month-oldin the main hall at the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit on the eve of theGeneral Assembly have gone around the world and taken the internet by storm.

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric confirmed on Tuesday that it had been thefirst time in the organization’s 73-year history that a woman leader hadtaken her newborn into the assembly room.

“It’s altogether a good thing and we were delighted to have Neve in theGeneral Assembly hall. With only five percent of world leaders women, weshould do everything to make them feel as welcome as possible,” he added.

The sight of Neve and her father, who is her chief care giver, watchingArdern at work has attracted plenty of positive commentaryin United States, where many worry the Trump administration imperilswomen’s rights.