Australia remains committed to a future where Israeli and a Palestinian State exist side by side in peace and security within internationally recognized borders. As such, our efforts must be focused on constructively encouraging the parties to return to direct negotiations towards that goal. Regrett…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this session and for guiding us so effectively as President this month. We welcome the fact that you have focused the Council’s attention on issues of crucial importance to Africa, including the lethal
threat from the alliance of terrorism and transnational…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Tayé-Brook Zerihoun and Assistant Secretary-General Ivan Šimonović for their briefings.
Today’s meeting is an historic step forward in the international community’s efforts to consider the situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and its broader imp…
I shall make only a few brief remarks. I would like to start by reading the letter that a group of 10 Council members addressed to you, Mr President, in your capacity as President of the Council on 5 December. The letter stated:
“We the undersigned members of the Security Council — Australia, Chile…
The links between terrorism and transnational crime and the dramatic impact they have on contemporary conflict is a subject that this Council has not adequately addressed before. I therefore thank you, Mr. President, personally for being here and for Chad’s leadership in convening this debate. I als…
I thank Nicholas Haysom for his first briefing to the Council as Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and I welcome him to the role. I also thank Mr. Yury Fedotov for his briefing and acknowledge Afghanistan’s Permanent Representative, Zahir Tanin, for his central and always very persuas…
I have the honour to present the report of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), in accordance with paragraph 18 (h) of the same resolution. The present report covers the period from 13 September to 17 December 2014, during which time the Committee held two informal meetings,…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s debate, for your own presence and for the contribution of Chad to peacekeeping.
I know we all share both shock and repugnance at the terrible murders in Pakistan, and the empathy of all Australians is naturally with the people of Pakistan.
I thank…
As itself a Sahel country, Mr. President, I particularly welcome Chad’s leadership in organizing this briefing. I would like to thank Special Envoy of the Secretary-General Hiroute Guebre Sellassie for her update on the efforts and response of the United Nations to implement the integrated strategy …
I have been assured that, on this very special occasion of the outgoing Chairs of the subsidiary bodies being able to reflect on their chairmanships, I can speak for one or two minutes longer than usual. With your agreement, Mr. President, I intend to indulge myself in that way.
Of all the Council’…
I thank Special Representative Farid Zarif for his briefing. I also acknowledge the report by the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security on the activities of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX). The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Ko…
Let me begin by congratulating you, Sir, on behalf of all the members of the Security Council, on your election as President of the General Assembly. I thank you for arranging today’s meeting.
As the President of the Security Council for the month of November, it is my honour to introduce the annua…
When I last briefed the Council as Chair of the Al-Qaida Committee in May (see S/PV.7184), I spoke about the threat arising from an increasing range of heterogeneous Al-Qaida-linked or splinter groups. Since May we have all witnessed the dramatic shift in that threat, with the brutal extremism and r…
I think it is worth reminding ourselves regularly that the Security Council’s primary responsibility is to act on behalf of the Members of the United Nations — all Members — to maintain international peace and security. In meeting that responsibility, the Council cannot and should not work in isolat…
I thank Under-Secretary- General Jeff Feltman for his briefing, and I note the statements from our Palestinian and Israeli colleagues.
Australia remains very disappointed at the failure of final-status negotiations earlier this year. Efforts to achieve a durable peace based on a two- State solution…
I will be extremely brief. I would like to agree with my Russian colleague on the importance of answering all questions that need to be answered in respect of the independent investigation that is currently under way with regard to Flight MH-17. That investigation is independent. It is being underta…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Fernandez-Taranco and Assistant Secretary-General Šimonović for their briefings. Australia supports the ongoing work of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in Ukraine, which is so important to enabling the Council to …
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this debate and for Argentina’s and your own commitment to improving the Council’s working methods as a very diligent and insightful Chair of the Working Group on Documentation and
Other Procedural Questions. I would also like to thank Ombudsperson Kimber…
I thank the Secretary- General for his briefing earlier this morning and the Palestinian observer and the Israeli representative for their statements.
Like all of us, Australia welcomed the ceasefire agreement that brought the destructive conflict in Gaza to an end, but all parties to the agreement…
As we now recognize, almost too late, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is unprecedented in its scale, its geographic reach and its impact. We have heard that the already high numbers of infections and deaths are multiplying exponentially, doubling every three weeks. Health systems in affected count…
