Within the large number of sub-items with which we deal under agenda item 37, one
Australia takes very seriously its role in working for comprehensive solutions to humanitarian needs. We have an extensive history of assisting both our immediate neighbours and those more distant from Australia. Our …
Four years ago, a little over one year after the world was freed from the strictures and dangers of the cold war, the United Nations and the international community began a cycle of great global conferences and actions designed to shape a new world. The World Summit for Children, the United Nations …
A key objective of Australia at the International Conference on Population and Development was to work for international consensus on a Programme of Action that was strong and forward- looking and that would guide population and development programmes into the twenty-first century.
The Cairo Confer…
I have the honour to address the Council in Australia’s capacity as current Chair of the group of South Pacific countries, on behalf of the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, the Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Western Samoa and Australia.
The resolutio…
I should like to begin by expressing to the delegation of Egypt my own delegation’s profound sympathy following the heavy losses suffered by the Egyptian people as a result of the recent heavy flooding.
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the nine States members of the South Pacific Forum that …
I suppose I would strain the pun slightly if I said it gave us a profound sense of security to see you, Madam President, sitting in the President’s chair this month. May I also offer our congratulations to Sir David Hannay, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, on the job that he did last …
Australia is appalled that fighting continues in Bosnia and Herzegovina, adding further to the suffering of innocent civilian populations there. We support the calls contained in this resolution for an end to this violence and to the violations of human rights, including the practice of “ethnic clea…
Quite properly, the report of the Security Council to the General Assembly is the
It is our view that, if there is a central point to be made from this report, we should acknowledge that in recent years, there has been a growing and expressed concern about the need to improve the briefing procedure…
Combating desertification has been the subject of international efforts for many years, but these efforts have not met with the success hoped of them. Now, there has been a significant step forward. On 14 and 15 October, many countries signalled their commitment to carry forward efforts to combat de…
It is my honour to introduce, on behalf of the sponsors, the draft resolution contained in document A/49/L.3 of 17 October 1994, by which the General Assembly would invite the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to participate in the sessions and the work of the General …
As this is the first occasion on which I have come to the rostrum under your presidency, Sir, may I renew the warm congratulations expressed to you by my Foreign Minister, Senator Evans, when he spoke in the Assembly on 3 October 1994.
In Australia’s capacity as Chair of the South Pacific Forum for…
The report of the Open-ended Working Group describes important first steps towards strengthening the Security Council. There has been progress in areas under the second cluster of issues those dealing with improvements in the working methods of the Council. But much more is needed.
The President of…
I warmly congratulate you, Your Excellency Minister Essy, on your election as President of the General Assembly at this forty-ninth session. Australia is very pleased to serve in the Assembly under your presidency and looks forward to relying on your wisdom and your experience as you preside over ou…
It is seldom that a generation’s work culminates in a moment in which we pause, take stock, and say "it is good, it is done".
In our search for a universal legal order for the world’s oceans, we have reached such a moment.
On Friday 29 July 1994, the General Assembly will adopt the "Agreement rela…
The elections held in South Africa in April and the inauguration of Mr. Nelson Mandela as State President on 10 May 1994 represented a historic turning point, not only for South Africans but for the world. A system of government based on racial tyranny and oppression surrendered power to a Governmen…
The Assembly has before it today a brief report by the Preparatory Committee for
In introducing the report, however, I would like, as Chairman, to express my gratitude to the many delegations that have worked hard on producing the draft resolution that appears in the addendum to the report. That dr…
I have the honour to address the Assembly today in my capacity as Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the United Nations.
I can be brief in introducing the draft resolution, the text of which is found in document A/48/L.51. The draft resolution has been the subject…
My delegation would like to clarify a revision to operative paragraph 9 of the draft resolution that was contained in document A/C.3/48/L.54 when it was introduced in and adopted by the Third Committee.
As a result of consultations after the draft resolution was submitted and before it was adopted …
The Australian Government remains deeply concerned at the appalling situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We condemn the continued attacks on Sarajevo and the fighting in other parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which are still causing death and injury and
The Australian Government continues to call o…
When the Australian representative addressed the Assembly during the debate on this item at its forty-seventh session, we sounded a note of concern at the way in which the long-overdue process of political reform in South Africa had begun to drift. We registered the need for all the parties to that …
