During the course of 1977 the Special Committee has broken new ground in the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. During 1977 the Special Committee was a co-organizer of the Maputo International Conference in Support of the Peoples of Z…
The Australian delegation, as a close neighbour of Samoa in the Pacific, would like to address a special welcome to the Samoan delegation.
90. When Samoa gained its independence in 1962, it was the first of the South Pacific nations to do so. It has in this regard shown the way for others as they h…
We have before us the report of IAEA for the calendar year 1975. As usual, the report provides a comprehensive account of the work of the Agency over the year under review, and we thank Mr. Eklund for his comprehensive and comprehensible introduction of it. He and the staff of the Agency have again …
Mr. President, at your request we have consolidated all our explanations on these draft resolutions into a single explanation before the vote. We would hope that possibly on the next occasion when, unfortunately, we may have to consider the problem of apartheid there may be some consolidation of dra…
The Australian Government will not recognize the Transkei. This was announced some time ago and confirmed by our Minister for Foreign Affairs earlier today. The Australian Government's basic opposi- tion to the philosophy of apartheid also embraces opposi- tion to the policy of creating bantustans, …
The Australian delegation wishes to explain its abstention in the vote on the resolution just adopted.
65. The Australian delegation at the thirtieth session 'of the General Assembly supported the adoption of resolution 3385 (XXX) admitting the Republic of the Comoros to membership in the United Na…
The Australian delegation takes great pleasure in associating itself with the Chairman of the Commonwealth group of States in warmly wel- coming and supporting tne proposal to grant observer status to the Commonwealth Secretariat at the United Nations.
24. As my colleague from Singapore has pointed…
I was not one of the members of the Council who asked for a further report from the Chief of Staff. I said that so far as the question of the bridge was concerned, I felt that we should content ourselves with the report before us and that no further action was required by the Council in the present …
I should like to say a few words as one of the sponsors of the draft resolu- tion which is before the Council and to which amend- ments have now been tabled. The original text, so far as Australia and I am sure so far as the other sponsors are concerned, was put forward in the hope that it would adv…
The Australian delega- tion is happy to join with seven other members of the Security Council in sponsoring the application of the Republic of Korea for membership in the United Nations.
31. Comme 1'a souligne le representant des Etats- Unis d'Amerique, 1'Organisation des Nations Unies a eu as'occu…
The Australian delega- tion is happy to join with other members of the Security Council in supporting the application of Viet-Nam for membership in the United Nations. Like Korea, Viet-Nam has been waiting for admission for a number of years and, like the Republic of Korea, its admission has been bl…
In the absence of Mr. Walker, the permanent representative of Australia, !t has fallen to me to present the views of Australia In this important debate on the inclusion of this item. I am very happy, sir, to make my first speech in the Council under your Presidency.
17. M. HILL (Australie) [traduit…
The Australian dele- gation is glad that the Security Council is meeting today, at the request of the United States represen- tative, to consider the stage reached in negotiations regarding the use of the now reopened Suez Canal. We believe that it is right that members of the Security Council shoul…
As one oftheco-spon- SOl'S of the resolution which the Security COl.mcil has now adopted, I wish to associate myself with the re- marks of the representatives of the United Kingdom and the United States, to join in thanking Mr. Graham for the inspiring statement he has just made before the Council.
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I saidthat I thoughtthat the representative of India was at liberty to use any material and information at his disposal. In my con- cluding remarks, I only intervened in support of my colleague, Sir Pierson Dixon, to reinforce his appeal that detailed records of these private conversations should no…
I should like briefly to associate myself with the remarks made by the repre- sentative of the United Kingdom and to endorse his suggestion that it might be preferable if we did not follow the practice here of going into private conver- sations: I would just emphasize the fact that Mr. Menon read fr…
1 wa" very glad when 1 learned that the delegation of Peru would propose the draft resolution recommending the admission of .lapan, a draft resoluticn which, 1 believe, expresses the desire of ail members of the Council, and certainly of the Australian delegation.
21. The Council will recall that w…
1 have only two things that l wish to say. The first is that 1 am still hoping that before we adjourn today we shaH have heard from the Soviet Union representative. It seems to me that the absence of any comment from him would he rather ominous, and, in any case, even in consider- ing whether we sho…
1 myse1f wish, of course, to address the Council this afternoon. This matter has been raised in the Australian Parliament and 1 have cert.ain things that 1 wish to say. But 1 should be quite happy to hear the representative of Hungary reply to questions that will have been raised before 1 speak, pro…
The statement which 1 made in the Council this morning was based upon the latest instructions that 1 had received from my Government. 1 made it quite clear that our ob- jective in this matter and the objective of the Security Council should be to arrest the fighting as soon as possible. At the same …
