I wish to congratulate you, Sir, on your country’s latest triumph in the World Cup. It only goes to show how globalized telecommunications can span the digital divide. I should like to use this opportunity today to describe some of the practical steps which Australia has been taking to help narrow t…
I am speaking on behalf of the delegations of Australia, Canada and New Zealand. We regard this agreement on the list of speakers as a pragmatic step taken for the sake of ensuring the smooth running of the important conference at Monterrey, Mexico, next week. Financing for development is a topic of…
We raised our flag earlier as one of the sponsors of the draft resolution proposed by the delegation of Benin, on support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies. We had signed the lists of sponsors held by the delegation of B…
Oceans and law of the sea issues are of critical importance to Australia, which is the world’s largest island and has one of the world’s longest coastlines and among the world’s largest
maritime zones and continental shelves. Three of the world’s great oceans break on our shores. Australian maritim…
Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council. Australia looks forward to working closely with Singapore and, indeed, with the other new
members of the Council that have begun their terms this month.
We welcome in particular the opportunity to contribute to…
For Australia, the developments in the Middle East over the past year have produced both hope and deep frustration.
The Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and the second Camp David summit raised our hopes. But during these last two months, cycles of provocation, violence and retribution have gravely d…
Australia welcomes the Secretary-General’s report evaluating the outcome of the steps taken in the United Nations system and by Member States to resolve the problems of the year 2000 date conversion for computers. My delegation would also like to acknowledge and applaud the efforts of the Permanent …
Australia strongly supports the draft resolution under the item entitled “Peace, security and reunification on the Korean peninsula” and is happy to co-sponsor it.
We are delighted at the success of the North- South leaders’ summit of June 2000. The Australian Prime Minister made a public statement…
Ambassador Mahbubani is always a hard act to follow and I think he has made a particularly interesting intervention today. I thank him for that. My delegation would also like to thank Ambassador Andjaba of Namibia for presenting the report of the Security Council to the General Assembly
today in it…
One of the worthwhile results of the Millennium Summit is that the Declaration has given us an agenda to work on. This features a number of goals for tasks that ought to be quite central to the way the United Nations develops as an Organization in this new century. Some of these goals have been put …
I commend your decision to open this meeting to participation by non-members of the Council at short notice. Developments in recent days have again highlighted the continuing challenges faced by the people of East Timor and by the international community in the transition process. These challenges d…
Mr. President, I applaud your decision to conduct this open meeting of the Council, which provides non-members with an opportunity to participate in the discussion on an issue which for my Government remains of particular importance.
Through you, Sir, I wish to thank the Special Representative of t…
The report of the Open-ended Working Group on Security Council reform, which we have before us in document A/53/47, contains both good news and bad news. The good news is that the report shows once again the high level of interest in and
Credit is due to Mr. Gurirab’s predecessor, Foreign Minister …
My delegation is pleased to have the opportunity to speak on the item concerning global implications of the year 2000 date conversion problem of computers, and we welcome the report of the Secretary- General. We wish to thank Ambassador Mangoaela and Ambassador Kamal for their efforts in focusing at…
Australia looks back with satisfaction on another year of solid incremental progress in the life of the institutions established by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The health and vigour of these young institutions is an essential underpinning of an effective international law of…
