Australia welcomes the opportunity to participate once again in the Security
Council’s deliberations on Timor-Leste. We particularly welcome the participation of Deputy Prime Minister Guterres today. We congratulate Timor-Leste on its recent tenth anniversary of the United Nations- sponsored popula…
Since this is the first occasion on which I have had the opportunity as Australia’s new Permanent Representative to address the General Assembly, I would like to say how much I am looking forward to working with the President of the Assembly and all of our colleagues in the years ahead. I was a juni…
I would like to thank the President for convening this historic debate on the Secretary-General’s report (A/63/677) on how to operationalize and implement the responsibility to protect (R2P). This is not a debate about the now- discredited notion of humanitarian intervention. Rather, it is a discuss…
