Mr. President, I wish to thank you very much for having organized today’s important meeting.
Australia welcomes the report (A/69/315) of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing, which we believe provides a very sound basis for our forthcoming discussions. The…
I thank Special Representative Farid Zarif for his briefing. I also acknowledge the report by the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security on the activities of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX). The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Ko…
Let me begin by congratulating you, Sir, on behalf of all the members of the Security Council, on your election as President of the General Assembly. I thank you for arranging today’s meeting.
As the President of the Security Council for the month of November, it is my honour to introduce the annua…
Draft resolution A/69/L.20 appropriately recognizes the major milestones reached this year in Afghanistan. It also recognizes the continuing security, economic and development challenges, and the continuing vital importance of effective partnerships between Afghanistan and the international communit…
When I last briefed the Council as Chair of the Al-Qaida Committee in May (see S/PV.7184), I spoke about the threat arising from an increasing range of heterogeneous Al-Qaida-linked or splinter groups. Since May we have all witnessed the dramatic shift in that threat, with the brutal extremism and r…
Australia was pleased and proud to support the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States in Samoa in September this year and to contribute to the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway (Samoa Pathway) outcome document (resolution 69/15, annex). At the outset, Au…
Australia commends Director General Amano for introducing the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the Agency’s achievements and the challenges it faces over the coming years (see A/69/255).
Australia is honoured to be a member of the IAEA Board of Governors and a non-permanen…
From Australia’s vantage point as a member of the Security Council, we are acutely aware that Rome Statute crimes continue to be committed in many locations on an alarming scale. The preamble to the Rome Statute describes the crimes that fall within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Cou…
I think it is worth reminding ourselves regularly that the Security Council’s primary responsibility is to act on behalf of the Members of the United Nations — all Members — to maintain international peace and security. In meeting that responsibility, the Council cannot and should not work in isolat…
I thank Under-Secretary- General Jeff Feltman for his briefing, and I note the statements from our Palestinian and Israeli colleagues.
Australia remains very disappointed at the failure of final-status negotiations earlier this year. Efforts to achieve a durable peace based on a two- State solution…
Australia thanks Argentina for convening this open debate on women and peace and security, and for drawing the Council’s attention to the specific risks and challenges faced by some of the most vulnerable members of society — displaced women and girls. We also thank the Secretary-General, the Execut…
I will be extremely brief. I would like to agree with my Russian colleague on the importance of answering all questions that need to be answered in respect of the independent investigation that is currently under way with regard to Flight MH-17. That investigation is independent. It is being underta…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Fernandez-Taranco and Assistant Secretary-General Šimonović for their briefings. Australia supports the ongoing work of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in Ukraine, which is so important to enabling the Council to …
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this debate and for Argentina’s and your own commitment to improving the Council’s working methods as a very diligent and insightful Chair of the Working Group on Documentation and
Other Procedural Questions. I would also like to thank Ombudsperson Kimber…
I thank the Secretary- General for his briefing earlier this morning and the Palestinian observer and the Israeli representative for their statements.
Like all of us, Australia welcomed the ceasefire agreement that brought the destructive conflict in Gaza to an end, but all parties to the agreement…
Australia is committed to the principles of sport for development and peace and to the role that the United Nations can play in furthering those principles. We welcome the Secretary-General’s report on the subject (A/69/330) and would like once again to thank the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser …
The issues covered by the follow-up to the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) are central to global efforts to achieve a peaceful, stable and prosperous world and are at the core of our human experience. While there has been some good progress in…
In what can seem to be darkening times, I want to begin with a message of hope. Amid all our problems, the murderous rage of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in Syria and Iraq, Russian aggression in Ukraine, the spread of Ebola in West Africa and the stubborn sluggishness of many economies, …
While I am happy to be here at your urging, Mr. President, it is the weightiest of matters that brings us together today.
Right now, thousands of misguided people from around the world are joining terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq because they claim Islam is under threat and because they are excit…
Russia called for a transparent and accountable investigation. Russia is participating in it now. The Under-Secretary-General said that the United Nations was confident that the investigation was being conducted in accordance with International Civil Aviation Organization guidelines. Those are the v…
