Since we last gathered in this great Assembly one year ago, we have witnessed developments of historic dimensions. There has been democratic protest and democratic reform across the Arab world, as we discovered afresh that freedom is the right of all, not just of the few. Also, a global economic cri…
We, the international community, have come to this meeting in order to make a difference — not just to talk, negotiate a text or simply to describe a problem that affects 33 million of our brothers and sisters around the world. Despite our progress, that figure is still growing by 7,000 persons per …
This great body has been in existence for two thirds of a century — three times longer than its predecessor body, the League of Nations, and longer than previous attempts to fashion a continuing collective approach to the common problems of nation States. The question we must ask ourselves today is …
As nations we have a responsibility to do that which we say we will do — a responsibility to keep our promises to fellow Member States and a responsibility to turn our commitments, solemnly given in this great Hall, into concrete actions that change the lives of the poorest of the poor across the wo…
I come to the Assembly, as Australia has each year since the first session of the General Assembly in 1946, and I come in the same spirit, to seek solutions to the great challenges of our age and together help give those solutions effect.
The challenges are not new. They are reflected in the Preamb…
I would like to congratulate Mr. d’Escoto Brockmann on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-third session. The Australian delegation looks forward to working closely with him throughout the session.
We gather together at a time of great challenge to the international syste…
