I have the honour to speak today on behalf of the CANZ countries, which are Canada and New Zealand, as well as my own country, Australia.
The CANZ countries would like to thank the President of the International Court of Justice for her report (A/76/4) on the work of the Court over the past year. W…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the MIKTA Group of countries — Mexico, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Turkey and Australia — and then, in my national capacity, a short statement on behalf of Australia.
Gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls are priori…
I have the high honour and distinct privilege to introduce a pre-recorded statement by Mr. Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia.
I have the distinct honour to deliver the following remarks on behalf of Canada, New Zealand and my own country, Australia (CANZ), on the occasion of the adoption of resolution 75/285, on the status of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, i…
It is my distinct pleasure and honour to introduce a message from Her Excellency Ms. Marise Payne, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Women of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Australia wholeheartedly welcomes the announcement of a ceasefire, which must be the start of a process towards a genuine, just, durable and resilient peace. We commend the diplomatic efforts of all the parties that have sought to bring an end to the conflict, including Egypt and the United States.
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I have the honour to speak today on behalf of a core group of countries: Armenia, Burkina Faso, Chile, Costa Rica, Georgia, India, Jamaica, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Maldives, Morocco, North Macedonia, Qatar, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Serbia, Uganda, Ukraine and my own country, Australia. …
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, a tribunal established in 2005 by an agreement of the General Assembly, has made substantial progress in fulfilling its mandate, including by obtaining convictions for genocide, crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions…
The events of 2020 have devastated lives and livelihoods around the globe. The front line of the humanitarian response has been local staff, national organizations, community groups, friends and families, all rallying to support one another through this dreadful year. The United Nations system has a…
Australia welcomes the ongoing Afghanistan peace negotiations, and we call on all parties to embrace this opportunity to create and implement a sustainable, inclusive political settlement. We support an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process that preserves and builds on the political, economic an…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
