What unfortunately transpired last week in the Security Council (see S/PV.9371) has deeply concerned the Australian Government. Russia’s veto of the Security Council’s draft resolution authorizing the delivery of critical aid to Syrians in need (S/2023/506) is indefensible. For this to happen at a t…
Australia continues to stand with Ukraine today. It has been more than 500 days since Russia’s unprovoked, full-scale invasion
of Ukraine began, and nearly 300 since its attempted illegal annexation of the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhya regions of Ukraine. Australia mourns the incalcula…
In recent years, our world has seen the devastating and lasting impacts of Russia’s illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine; worsening conflicts in Africa, most recently in the Sudan; a rise in global inequality; and the biggest conventional military build-up since the Second World War in Australia’…
The events of 2022 have devastated lives and livelihoods around the globe. Multiple, intersecting and complex crises are stretching humanitarian organizations to their limits. Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine continues to unleash suffering, death, injury and destruction. Last week, Under- Secretary-G…
Two years on, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to cast a long shadow. Too many people are still without access to vaccines, and the threat of new variants is ever present. The continuing impact on incomes and livelihoods is pushing many people in crisis to the brink.
Furthermore, many p…
Australia is a long- standing supporter of the International Criminal Court and its important role in pursuing accountability for the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole. We remain firm in our conviction that accountability for atrocity crimes is critical to sust…
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the release of the report on the responsibility to protect by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, co-chaired by a former Foreign Minister of Australia, Gareth Evans. The world then came together in 2005 to unanimously adopt…
Australia welcomes the submission of the report (see A/75/743) of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism
to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011.
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In a similar vein to my Canadian colleague, Australia supports the strengthening of cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and so joined consensus on resolution 75/16. However, we also wish to dissociate ourselves from the fourth preambular paragrap…
