Australia welcomes the Secretary-General's
report on the United Hations Conference on Environment and Development
(UNCED).
The Earth Summit was the culmination of two years of extremely complex
and sometimes contentious negotiations. Those negotiations were supported
effectively by the UNCED se…
This Assembly takes up its agenda item on the situation in the Middle East at a testing and troubled time for the Middle East peace negotiations. The succession of historic agreements — which began with the Madrid Peace Conference in October 1991 and was followed by the Declaration of Principles on …
Mr. President, as this is the first occasion on which I am addressing the fifty-first session of the General Assembly, may I begin by repeating the remarks made to you on 30 September by my Foreign Minister, Mr. Alexander Downer, when he expressed to you the immense pleasure Australia feels at seein…
Eighteen days ago, I wrote to you, Mr. President, asking that arrangements be made for the General Assembly to meet today to resume consideration of item 65 of the agenda of its fiftieth session: “Comprehensive test-ban treaty”. I am grateful to you and the Assembly for agreeing to this request.
Wh…
This is an important session of the General Assembly, as reflected by the fact that earlier this week the President of Lebanon was at this rostrum.
Australia is appalled by the events in northern Israel and Lebanon which have been taking place during the past two weeks. The toll of the violence, in…
As many before me have observed, the Summit at Copenhagen was the largest meeting of its kind ever held. That was not the result of an accident or of some reason incidental to the state of affairs of humankind today. That largest summit ever held — that is, until the fiftieth anniversary of the Unit…
The Assembly takes up its agenda item on the situation in the Middle East at a critical time for the Middle East peace process. The succession of historic agreements, which began with the signing of the Declaration of Principles by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Washington…
Having heard your remarks of just a moment ago, Mr. Acting President, I wish to assure you that we have prepared relatively brief remarks on this important subject.
Three weeks ago, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations, all of us declared in this Hall that:
“The commem…
My delegation has given very considerable thought to the issues addressed in draft resolution A/50/L.6/Rev.1. Let me say immediately that this is an important subject. It is an important subject to the United Nations. It is an important subject to Australia.
Under those circumstances we have shared…
I should like to begin this statement by thanking the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. Hans Blix, for his comprehensive statement given to the Assembly. That statement underlined with great clarity the vital role of the IAEA in preventing the proliferation of nu…
Last week the General Assembly convened in special meetings to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations. Those meetings saw the largest gathering of Heads of State and Government ever held. The past was reviewed but, more important, the focus was on the future.
It is deeply approp…
The Assembly takes up its agenda item on the situation in the Middle East at a critical time for the Middle East peace process.
The succession of historic agreements, which began with the signing of the Declaration of Principles by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Washingto…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
