At the outset, I should like to echo others in congratulating our colleagues from Poland and Qatar on their appointments as co-Chairs of the intergovernmental negotiations, as well as to thank our colleague from the United Arab Emirates for her contribution during the previous session.
This year ma…
My statement is on behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand (CANZ). On behalf of CANZ, I would like to congratulate the co-Chairs on their appointment to the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the General Assembly. In the case of our good friend Ambassador Mlynár, I note that this is a…
Australia thanks the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for submitting its report (see A/75/3030) and Canada for introducing draft resolution A/75/L.9, which we are pleased to co-sponsor. As a founding member of the IAEA and a long-standing member of the Agency’s Board of Governors, Australia…
Australia has long supported the need to end impunity for mass atrocity crimes, the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole. As the preamble to the Rome Statute states and decisions taken in this Hall recognize, those crimes threaten global peace and security.
Conte…
It is my pleasure and honour to introduce the statement by the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Honourable Scott Morrison, MP, on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations.
First, I should like to make a procedural comment in my national capacity by asking that the Secretariat, in giving its procedural advice, consider whether it may be a better practice that
statements be made before votes are taken so that States have the benefit of the contribution of others when c…
This week marks the sixth anniversary of the Maidan protests in Ukraine. It is also almost six years since Crimea’s annexation — an act that the General Assembly recognized as illegal in resolution 68/262. It is critical that the Assembly keeps the situation in Ukraine, as well as ongoing violations…
I take the floor on behalf of Canada, New Zealand and my own country, Australia. Our delegations attach great importance to the questions of membership of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) and its working methods and overall functioning.
Let me be very clear a…
At the outset, I wish to express my sincere condolences to the many countries and families who lost loved ones on Ukrainian International Airlines flight 752. To echo the words of Australia’s Foreign Minister, Senator Payne, we know what it feels like to be a country that is searching for
lost love…
I am pleased to deliver this statement today on behalf of Australia. We would first like to thank the facilitators of the humanitarian resolutions to be adopted today for their tireless work to achieve consensus. They are important for ensuring the collective international commitment to collaboratio…
Australia fully aligns itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Vanuatu on behalf of the members of the Pacific Islands Forum.
We thank the facilitators from Singapore and Norway for their excellent work in facilitating the negotiations on the oceans and sustainable fisheries dr…
The Australian Government congratulates the people of Afghanistan on their courage and determination in participating in presidential elections on 28 September. We commend the Afghan people for exercising their democratic right in difficult circumstances. We await the results of the election and enc…
Like others, I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and I can assure colleagues that the tie I am wearing, with its five shades of orange, was actually fashionable 15 years ago. It is indeed important that we use what…
Australia is deeply committed to making sure that children realize their full rights, at home and abroad. That is one of the sacred trusts of Member States. Today’s is a great and welcome initiative — a forum to hear the views of children.
The good news is that most Australian children enjoy high l…
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a key element of the Rome Statute system — a system designed to ensure that those responsible for the most serious crimes of concern to the international community face justice. Accountability for atrocity crimes remains critical to sustaining peace and supp…
Australia thanks the President of the Human Rights Council (HRC) for his presentation of the Council’s report (A/74/53 and A/74/53/Add.1).
At the end of our second year as a member of the Human Rights Council, Australia would like to take this opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to it as a leadi…
I thank President Agius for his briefing. I have the honour to speak today on behalf of Canada, New Zealand and my own country, Australia (CANZ).
CANZ continues to strongly support the important work of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. The Mechanism safeguards and contin…
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) embody Australian values and our ambitions for our region, the Indo- Pacific — prosperity, stability and inclusiveness. We were pleased to join others in reaffirming our
commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the SDG summit and through…
Much has changed since the United Nations was established many years ago. Australia was there in the beginning and we are here today because we continue to believe that differences can be resolved through dialogue and mutual respect; because we believe that an international rules-based order is esse…
