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lines on the record: 265
first: 2001-09-10
most recent: 2005-10-27
sittings or episodes: 42
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“To address that critical gap, Australia has created the International Deployment Group, a body consisting of 500 police available to participate in peace, capacity-building and stability missions. These police will be drawn from Australian police services and will have specialized training to equip them for such missions. Many of them will have previous experience in peace operations - in the Solomon Islands and East Timor, for example. We urge other States to consider developing such mechanisms to ensure that trained civilian police are available to participate in peace operations. The report also notes the importance of international institutions in supporting domestic efforts to deliver justice and entrench the rule of law. In that context, the establishment of the International Criminal Court was a highly significant development.”
2004-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5052Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Successive United Nations missions have played an important role in the establishment of the rule of law in Timor-Leste, of course. As the Secretary- General's report notes, activities at the community level to achieve transitional justice and reconciliation - including the work of the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation - hold important lessons for the United Nations in devising, implementing and supporting rule of law strategies in the future. The Secretary-General's report notes that a major obstacle to effectively addressing rule of law issues from the outset of a peace operation has been the fact that police are often too slowly deployed; frequently have insufficient mandates or skills; or, indeed, are in too short a supply, I think we need to note.”
2004-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5052Resumption1 (2004) · source
“This included assessing the state of the Solomon Islands' justice system, providing assistance for the judiciary and to strengthen correctional services, and the deployment of 300 police from the region, who were authorized to use executive powers within the Solomon Islands to support the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force. The police were supported by a deployment of defence force personnel who assisted the deployment and provided additional support for police personnel. This strategy has now paid rich dividends with the arrest of a large number of alleged criminals and, importantly, the removal and destruction of small arms. Law and order have now been re-established, and peace and security restored in the Solomon Islands. The experience of Timor-Leste also indicates the importance of long-term strategies to develop the rule of law.”
2004-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5052Resumption1 (2004) · source
“The experience of the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands is particularly relevant for us and, I think, more generally. The reason for the request by the Government of the Solomon Islands for assistance was a fundamental breakdown in law and order in the very institutions of the State. It was only through restoring the rule of law that a durable peace could be achieved. In devising and implementing a regional response, Australia and Pacific Islands Forum partners worked closely with the people of the Solomon Islands to develop a comprehensive rule of law strategy.”
2004-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5052Resumption1 (2004) · source
“These issues include the need to assess existing capacity in a State emerging from conflict, the importance of developing comprehensive long-term approaches, the need to ensure that responses are tailored to the specific political, cultural and social characteristics of the State concerned, the importance of involving all domestic constituencies throughout the process, and the need to build national capacity. Australia's long history of involvement in peacekeeping operations and other assistance missions confirms these lessons. Let me talk about some specific lessons learned by Australia in recent experience. These flesh out the sorts of general points which I thought Mark was making so eloquently in his helpful remarks.”
2004-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5052Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Thank you, Mr. President, and welcome to New York. We want to thank the United Kingdom for convening this second open debate on justice and the rule of law, and we very much welcome the report of Secretary-General (S/2004/616), which will be a valuable tool in our collective efforts to achieve transitional justice and entrench the rule of law in States which have been torn apart by conflict. As others have remarked, the report identifies valuable lessons learned, and articulates important recommendations for United Nations approaches to transitional justice and rule of law issues, which, as Mark Malloch Brown so wisely said, are too important to be left to lawyers.”
2004-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5052Resumption1 (2004) · source
“We see the Monitoring Team's closer coordination with the Counter-Terrorism Committee - and with other United Nations and regional bodies and Member States engaged in related work - as crucial in that respect. In particular, we welcome the programme of outreach by Committee Chairman Munoz and look forward to his proposed visit to Australia next month. Australia's determination to combat terrorism, including through building strong United Nations mechanisms, is unwavering.”
2004-09-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5031 (2004) · source
“Australia played a leading role in having Jemaah Islamiyah and associated individuals listed in October 2002. We remain alert to any developments that might require revised or additional listings, and we urge other Member States to do likewise. Governments need to ensure that, as Al Qaeda and affiliated terrorist groups mutate, those Governments have the tools to cut off the terrorists' finances and other support. Improving the effectiveness of the 1267 regime also requires improved implementation by Member States. Many have limited capacity to meet their obligations. Australia supports ongoing efforts to facilitate better national implementation and reporting.”
2004-09-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5031 (2004) · source
“Terrorist groups rallying around the banner of Al Qaeda's extremist cause increasingly have few obvious links to Al Qaeda's leadership or to other listed groups or individuals. They nevertheless operate according to Al Qaeda's agenda and follow its example. It is vital that States take all measures under the resolution 1267 (1999) regime to constrain the activities of such groups. The pressing challenge - rightly identified by the Monitoring Team - is to ensure that the Consolidated List of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) concerning Al Qaeda and the Taliban and associated individuals and entities remains responsive to those developments. Member States must contribute to the ongoing improvement and revision of the List.”
2004-09-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5031 (2004) · source
“And, as members are aware, in Indonesia last week, at least nine people were killed and 180 injured in a bomb blast outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta. In that regard, I am very grateful for the expressions of sympathy around this table today. The good news is that Indonesian and Australian authorities are working hand in hand - as they did in the wake of the Bali and J .W. Marriott Hotel attacks - to track down the perpetrators and bring them to justice. In Australia's region and further afield, Governments are working more closely together than ever before to combat terrorism, with some noteworthy successes. But, as the Monitoring Team's report (S/2004/679) makes clear, the threat from Al Qaeda- related terrorism remains as serious as ever and is evolving.”
2004-09-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5031 (2004) · source
“I would like to thank you very much, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting. I, like others, would like to begin by thanking our friend and colleague, Heraldo Mufioz, for his very comprehensive briefing this morning. As always, it was a typically professional effort from him and his colleagues. We continue to support their efforts very strongly. Three years after the attacks of 11 September 2001 and five years after the Security Council adopted resolution 1267 (1999), the international community regrettably confronts new terrorist atrocities with shocking regularity. Most recently, of course, the people of Russia have suffered grievously in attacks targeting airliners, city streets and - most appallingly - the school in Beslan.”
2004-09-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5031 (2004) · source
“I am pleased to report to the Council that those discussions made very significant progress and that Australia and East Timor are now much closer to an agreement on a framework for a settlement on permanent maritime boundaries. Both our countries are pursuing a creative approach that preserves the fundamental interests of both Australia and Timor-Leste. For our part, Australia believes in the strength of its legal position, and sovereignty is also a key issue. We look forward to working with Timor-Leste to resolve outstanding issues as soon as possible. In that context, I should report that the second round of negotiations is likely to be held next month, in September. As members are aware, Australia has been a significant contributor to the international effort in support of our newest nation.”
2004-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5024 (2004) · source
“The programme has been well received by the Government of Timor-Leste. We will continue to stand alongside our neighbour to help bring opportunities and stability to the people of Timor-Leste, not least through our commitment of 100 military and 17 police personnel to the current United Nations Mission and through our significant development assistance, police and defence programmes. There has been much discussion this morning about the maritime boundary negotiations between Australia and Timor-Leste. I should say very clearly that no country is more aware than mine of the significance of those negotiations. Our Foreign Minister, Mr. Downer, met with Ambassador Guterres's Foreign Minister, Mr. Ramos-Horta, as recently as 11 August to discuss that issue.”
2004-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5024 (2004) · source
“I particularly appreciate the comments of our colleague Ambassador Guterres about measures which his Government is taking in that respect. I think this also highlights the value of having an emergency backup international police response unit in place until 20 May 2005. The unit, in our View, must remain at its present strength. It is important that UNMISET continue to provide the time which Timor-Leste needs to strengthen its key institutions and to consolidate the gains made to date. It is also important that that time be efficiently and productively used. I am pleased to tell the Council that the joint Australia-United Kingdom police development programme - which was mobilized in July, committing $A32 million over four and a half years - is making good progress; I am also pleased that others have made reference to that.”
2004-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5024 (2004) · source
“But there still are many challenges ahead, including the development of Timor-Leste's police and justice sectors. Although the decision will not be before the Council until November, our firm View is that UNMISET should continue in its current form through May 2005. We are not in favour of an early withdrawal or downsizing of the mission's police or military elements. We share the Secretary-General's assessment that Timor-Leste's law-enforcement agencies, including the Rapid Intervention Unit, require further training and development to strengthen their technical skills and professional values. It has been much discussed this morning, but the events of 19 and 20 July at the veterans demonstration highlighted a need for ongoing capacity-building in Timor-Leste's national police service.”
2004-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5024 (2004) · source
“I appreciate the fact that these days we try to limit courtesies, as a way of making the Security Council more efficient. But it would be wrong of me on this first occasion that I am speaking before the Council since your arrival, Sir, not to warmly welcome you to New York and to congratulate you on a highly efficient and effective presidency this month. It is very good to be here today. Australia very much welcomes the Secretary- General's excellent report (S/2004/669) on the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET) and also this morning's very comprehensive and helpful briefing from my friend Hedi Annabi. As the report shows, UNMISET continues to make significant progress in acquitting itself of its mandate, facilitating Timor-Leste's transition to self-sufficiency.”
2004-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5024 (2004) · source
“It facilitated the removal of guns from communities across the country, which resulted in the hand-in or confiscation of some 3,700 weapons, which have now been destroyed. Our experience is, of course, not unique. As we have heard today, the critical contribution of civil society to post-conflict situations is well documented in other examples around the world - indeed, often better documented, frankly, than the three of which I have spoken today. The challenge before the Council is how to apply lessons learned, how to incorporate them into the design of mandates and how best to involve all the United Nations agencies more closely with civil society organizations. Our experience and that of our neighbours provides important textbook material.”
2004-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4993Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Australia, through its involvement in the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI), has been engaged with civil society there from the outset. There is a broad range of well- organized civil society groups in Solomon Islands comprising all sections of the community, including churches - crucially, women - and youth. Many are well organized in regional areas. RAMSI regularly consults with these groups. A striking example is RAMSI's relationship with the National Peace Council, an important indigenous organization striving for peace and reconciliation for the benefit of all Solomon Islanders. The National Peace Council has worked tirelessly throughout Solomon Islands with RAMSI.”
2004-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4993Resumption1 (2004) · source
“In Bougainville, with the encouragement and support of the PMG and the BTT, representatives of civil society were able to promote peace and reconciliation at the grassroots level. Members of the Bougainville Constitutional Commission - a broad- based body that included representatives of women's groups, churches, traditional leaders and youth - were among those responsible for developing a draft constitution for the autonomous government. The involvement of civil society brought a perceived neutrality, shared experience and local knowledge to peace-building activities such as reconciliation and trauma counselling. The Solomon Islands is an even less well-known example, but it is every bit as important as Timor-Leste and Bougainville.”
2004-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4993Resumption1 (2004) · source
“A recent World Bank study on governance issues in Timor-Leste reconfirmed the importance of developing the role of Timor-Leste's civil society as a critical element of a system of checks and balances to ensure good governance and prevent public corruption. Bougainville is a less well-known example. Australia is a strong supporter of both the Bougainville peace process and the role that civil society has played in successful peace-building there. Through our leadership of the four-country regional Peace Monitoring Group (PMG) and, more recently, the small civilian Bougainville Transition Team (BTT), Australia has been closely involved in peace-building efforts, working closely with the United Nations Political Office on Bougainville.”
2004-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4993Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Through its development assistance programme Australia has provided support to local organizations in Timor-Leste to build their capacity to deliver essential services to the people. We have assisted in the development of civil society advocacy and watchdog groups, for example, through the key civil society coordination body established after the crisis, the NGO Forum. That we see as an essential part of building and maintaining stability in the young State. A well-informed and dynamic civil society helps to ensure that societal tensions and conflicts can be resolved in constructive and non-violent ways. We welcome the fact that strategic dialogue on the role of civil society is a regular feature of the planning and review of implementation of the Timor- Leste Government's core multidonor-funded transitional support programme.”
2004-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4993Resumption1 (2004) · source
“On the basis of our own first-hand and recent experience, Australia very much welcomes the opportunity to address the Council on this important subject. Through our involvement in peace-building efforts in Timor-Leste, Bougainville and the Solomon Islands, Australia has seen and encouraged the crucial role that civil society plays in post-conflict situations. An important example is the role civil society has played in post-conflict peace-building in Timor-Leste since the earliest days of the international response to the 1999 humanitarian crisis. Such cooperation was identified as a major objective of the Australian Government's interim country strategy for development cooperation with Timor-Leste.”
2004-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4993Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Madam President, let me immediately join you and others in both condemning the barbaric terrorism demonstrated in the beheading of a Korean citizen in Iraq today and in extending to our Korean colleague, the victim's family and all Koreans the heartfelt condolences of all Australians. As close friends of Koreans, we will feel this act of barbaric terrorism very keenly. But let me also thank you very much, Madam President, for convening this meeting and offer you what you will know are my most sincere and personal congratulations. You are a wonderful advertisement for your country, as you have demonstrated over many years in mine. I wish also to welcome today the participation in this debate of our friends from the International Centre for Transitional Justice and from CARE.”
2004-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4993Resumption1 (2004) · source
“In this context, I want to remind the Council that we have already negotiated valid and generous interim arrangements, and I was pleased this morning, I have to say, to hear Minister Ana Pessoa Pinto's expression of confidence in Australia as a negotiating partner in these very important negotiations. May I conclude by restating to the Council that Australia is committed to supporting and working closely with UNMISET for the term of its renewed mandate. Australia wishes the follow-on mission every success and will actively contribute to that success.”
2004-05-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4965 (2004) · source
“Further generous assistance for coming years will shortly be announced. Consistent with our commitment to assisting Timor-Leste to develop strong and effective institutions, Australia, with assistance from the United Kingdom, will be providing a four-and-a- half year, $40-million programme of assistance to develop the capacity of Timor-Leste's police force and justice sector. Australia's significant defence cooperation programme will also continue. A number of delegations, and especially Minister Ana Pessoa Pinto - who we, like others, very much welcome to New York today - have referred to the importance of maritime delimitation negotiations between East Timor and both Australia and Indonesia. I need hardly say that we, too, recognize the importance of those talks.”
2004-05-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4965 (2004) · source
“Australia is particularly pleased with the shape of the security sector support, with both a small peacekeeping force and a 125-member international response unit to provide backup support to Timor- Leste's security forces in emergency situations. This arrangement will provide a strong and stable security platform for Timor-Leste in the year ahead. We are pleased to reiterate to the Council and to Timor-Leste that Australia will continue to provide strong support to UNMISET, including through the contribution of personnel to the peacekeeping, military liaison officer and police adviser contingents. Australia will also continue to be a major provider of bilateral development assistance to Timor- Leste. Currently, Australia is fulfilling the final year of its four-year, $150-million development pledge.”
2004-05-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4965 (2004) · source
“This contribution is testament not only to UNMISET personnel, but also to the continued attention of the Council, the efforts of the Secretariat and the contributions of a number of United Nations Member States. In that context, the follow-on mission is a highly appropriate response to Timor-Leste's ongoing needs. The mission will help Timor-Leste consolidate the many gains that have been made and will address those gaps in capacity that are still evident. In particular, the Mission will continue to provide solid support to Timor-Leste's fledgling public administration, judicial and security institutions - institutions critical to Timor-Leste's future.”
2004-05-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4965 (2004) · source
“We welcome the Security Council's readiness to adopt a draft resolution extending the mandate of the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET) for another year through to May 2005. In doing so, Australia congratulates the Secretary- General, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and Kamalesh and his team for their excellent work in developing the follow-on UNMISET mission model. No one would dispute the fact that Timor-Leste has made remarkable progress in its first few years as an independent nation. That success is, of course, primarily due to the commitment and efforts of the people of Timor-Leste. Nevertheless, UNMISET has played an important supporting role.”
2004-05-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4965 (2004) · source
“You will know, Sir, what a personal pleasure it is always for me to address the Council during your presidency. I want to begin like others, however, by associating Australia with the expressions of condolences extended to our friends in the Russian Federation following the appalling attack in Grozny over the weekend. It is an appalling sign of the times we live in. I want to begin also, as others have done, and to make a particular point of offering our congratulations and paying our tribute to the work that our former colleague and friend, Kamalesh Sharma, and his colleagues have done in East Timor in the past two years. It has been, as he himself said, good times and bad times, but at all times he has maintained the highest possible standards of professionalism, and we in Australia have very much appreciated that.”
2004-05-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4965 (2004) · source
“Of course, the draft resolution does not preclude the future development of new international instruments in those areas. Australia commends the resolution to all Council members and calls for its early and unanimous adoption.”
2004-04-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4950Resumption1 (2004) · source
“The nuclear black market, coupled with the known terrorist interest in acquiring WMD, underscores the need for quick action from the international community in response to proliferation threats. Unless the international community acts with conviction and unity, terrorist groups could one day acquire WMD, with consequences none of us wishes to contemplate. The obligations on Member States imposed by the draft resolution in no way conflict with rights and obligations under existing WMD-related treaties. Nor does the draft resolution impose treaty obligations on States not parties to such treaties. The draft resolution, however, does support the effective implementation of those treaties and related instruments and is entirely consistent with the aims of the established, treaty-based multilateral disarmament framework.”
2004-04-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4950Resumption1 (2004) · source
“It has been too long since the Council last dealt substantively with the issue of nuclear non- proliferation. It is entirely appropriate that the Council should do so now, consistent with its mandate to maintain international peace and security. Recent proliferation cases have demonstrated the critical importance of effective domestic measures, including in particular export controls, in preventing the misuse of sensitive materials and technology at the State or sub-State level. The draft resolution responds to a clear need for Member States to strengthen their domestic controls and legislation and ensure that proliferators do not exploit legislative and enforcement loopholes.”
2004-04-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4950Resumption1 (2004) · source
“I have not had an opportunity yet this month to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the efficient way in which you are running the Council. I aim to help by taking rather less than the four minutes that you have allocated to us. I promise. Australia regards the draft non-proliferation resolution as an appropriate and timely initiative to help strengthen international efforts to combat weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation, including the risk of non-State actor acquisition of WMD. As a clear threat to international peace and security, WMD proliferation falls squarely within the Security Council's mandate. We recall the Security Council's presidential statement of 31 January 1992 (S/23500), which sets out emphatically the threat posed by the proliferation of all weapons of mass destruction.”
2004-04-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4950Resumption1 (2004) · source
“It would be well armed and backed by local police and, subject to future legislation, potentially Timor-Leste's defence force. We believe that the best way ahead for the new phase of UNMISET is clear. It involves a model built on the key recommendations of the Secretary-General that also addresses the real internal security risks and weak policing capacities. We encourage the Council to move expeditiously to endorse such an outcome and maintain the tradition of consensus on this issue.”
2004-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4913 (2004) · source
“The police unit must therefore have the capacity for timely self-deployment to both urban and rural areas and access to helicopter support. Day to day, we would envision the police unit mentoring and providing some training to Timor- Leste's specialist police units, as well as conducting liaison visits throughout the country. This reassuring, visible presence would promote calm and security. In short, we would see an armed back-up police unit being able to perform many of the tasks the Secretary-General has set out in his report on East Timor's post-UNMISET needs. The safety of such a unit would not be predicated on the availability of a substantial back-up peacekeeping force. The unit would be of a size capable of handling likely law and order threats.”
2004-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4913 (2004) · source
“If agreed by the Special Representative of the Secretary- General - after consulting with the United Nations police adviser and unit commander - the unit would be the lead agency for an incident until it was resolved and responsibility was formally handed back to the Timor-Leste Government. The model is similar to the call-out arrangements proposed by the Secretary- General for a peacekeeping force. Australia's experience suggests that such command and control arrangements do indeed work. I should say plainly that we fully sympathize with the need for force protection for the unarmed military liaison officers, and would envision the police unit also having the capacity to protect United Nations personnel in emergency situations, as United Nations gendarmes have done in other contexts.”
2004-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4913 (2004) · source
“Such a unit would serve an essential complementary role to any peacekeeping force presence - should, of course, the Council agree to that. A police unit would have appropriate training and expertise to enable it to deal with Timor-Leste's internal law and order problems and would provide a more graduated and faster response to any incident. For example, a police unit could provide a constabulary function and would have the power to arrest. Under the model proposed by Australia, day-to-day and executive policing would be the sole responsibility of the Timor- Leste Government and its police service. The United Nations police unit would deploy only in emergency situations that risked overwhelming the local police, and at the request of Timor-Leste's Prime Minister.”
2004-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4913 (2004) · source
“The last major security incident took place more than a year ago, and Indonesia continues to work against cross-border destabilization. We share the Secretary-General's assessment about the weaknesses in Timor-Leste's security institutions. The capacity, experience and policy frameworks of its police service remain limited, and this, too, suggests that a back-up emergency United Nations police response group is likely to be required. Our fundamental concern is that if a back-up United Nations police unit does not help Timor-Leste address its internal security challenges, what will? A properly designed emergency police response group would be able to deal with the broad spectrum of security incidents that might arise, including in the border area.”
2004-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4913 (2004) · source
“As the Council is aware, Australia has been carefully analysing Timor-Leste's security needs for a long time. In October last year, we told the Council what we believed the threats were and how they should be addressed. Developments since then have confirmed that our assessment was fundamentally sound. We consider that Timor-Leste's security challenges - highlighted, for example, by the 2002 Dili riot and the armed assaults near the border in early 2003 - remain substantial. But these are internal and will require a police, rather than a military, response. Timor-Leste's external threat environment is relatively benign. Ex-militia elements in West Timor pose a much-reduced threat; the small group of remaining hardliners are focused primarily on cross- border criminal activity.”
2004-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4913 (2004) · source
“Despite the encouraging progress, further international assistance to Timor-Leste remains essential. That is not in question; it is the form of assistance that we need to get right, and the Secretary- General's report (S/2004/117) is a useful point of departure. Australia fully supports the recommendation for a one-year extension of the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor at a reduced level. The recommendations target the right areas of continuing need. It is clear that the Mission needs some form of armed security component. Australia is firmly of the View that a back-up United Nations policing component is necessary to help East Timor address its likely law and order challenges. If the Council so decides, of course, we would also join the consensus on a peacekeeping force.”
2004-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4913 (2004) · source
“Forgive me, Mr. President, ifI dispense with courtesies, but, unlike Ambassador Mahbubani, I need all five minutes of my allotted time. So let me get straight to the substance. We in Australia are proud of what we have done to assist Timor-Leste in building a stable and sustainable democracy. No country has done more. We remain committed to helping Timor-Leste with its security and development challenges. Together with the United Nations, we have a big stake in ensuring that East Timor is equipped to meet the challenges it faces, and that it succeeds. Australia's contribution has, of course, been part of a highly cooperative and effective international effort. It is our strong desire that this cooperative, consensus-based approach continue as we enter into a new phase of engagement with Timor- Leste.”
2004-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4913 (2004) · source
“Australia urges all parties to remain seized of the serious challenges facing Bougainville and to move swiftly to conclude the peace process and to prepare for free and fair elections. Australia remains committed to providing the parties with continued support. We hope that the international community, and in particular the United Nations, will also stand ready to assist in those endeavours.”
2003-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4881 (2003) · source
“As part of that package of enhanced cooperation, Australia has offered to send a police team of up to 20 personnel to Bougainville. They are available to start work on Bougainville within weeks. Those personnel will work alongside members of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary to help to restore confidence in the police force on Bougainville, to enhance its policing capacity and to assist with the future training and development of new recruits. We will also provide some basic policing equipment, and we will work closely with New Zealand to strengthen other key components of the law and justice sector, including improved police training, courts, correctional services and community policing.”
2003-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4881 (2003) · source
“Over the next four years, our development assistance will focus on good governance and on helping the parties to establish a viable and affordable autonomous administration for Bougainville. Our aid will also maintain support for essential services and economic growth. We hope to open that programme to other donors, and we will invite interested States to contribute. We are particularly aware of the challenge of maintaining law and justice, including an effective and credible police force. On 11 December this year, Australia and Papua New Guinea entered a new era of cooperation, through which Australian police and officials will work side by side with Papua New Guineans to help the Government of Papua New Guinea to address its key challenges.”
2003-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4881 (2003) · source
“In particular, we note that the United Nations was recently asked by the parties to remain engaged in Bougainville and that it has a clear role under the Bougainville Peace Agreement in verifying and certifying the weapons disposal process. We endorse Papua New Guinea's requests for a smaller, more focused United Nations presence. Such a presence could support the conclusion of the weapons disposal process; facilitate the finalization of Bougainville's constitution; and encourage planning for early, free and fair elections. It should be transitional in nature and could, in the first instance, be headed by UNPOB's current director, Noel Sinclair. In the period ahead, Bougainville will face serious challenges - challenges that Australia remains committed to helping the parties overcome.”
2003-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4881 (2003) · source
“The peace process has now reached a point at which the parties are talking about moving beyond immediate post-conflict issues to the issues involved in restoring democratic good governance. Peace is now becoming self-sustaining. In consultation with our regional partners, and with the support of parties to the peace process, we will therefore withdraw the Bougainville Transition Team at the end of the year. We will remain involved, but our support will now flow more directly through our bilateral cooperation with Papua New Guinea. Australia notes the final extension of UNPOB's mandate granted by the Security Council last year, and we agree that UNPOB should now be brought to an end. The international community must, however, remain involved.”
2003-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4881 (2003) · source
“Both of those bodies have worked closely with the United Nations Political Office in Bougainville (UNPOB), particularly in implementing the agreed weapons disposal plan. The peace process has now moved well beyond the fragile ceasefire agreement of 1998. We acknowledge recent developments in the peace process, including the in-principle agreement by former combatants to destroy their weapons during an Australian-funded meeting on Nissan Island, agreement on many of the practical challenges facing Bougainville through the Kuri Resolution on Implementation of Autonomy, and the recent delegation of policing powers. We look forward to more progress at this week's meeting of the Peace Process Consultative Committee.”
2003-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4881 (2003) · source
“I ordinarily dispense with courtesies - I am an Australian, after all - but this morning, I want particularly to thank you, Sir, for this meeting and to commend you on your excellent stewardship of the Council this month, and indeed for an outstanding term over the past two years. In addition, I want to thank Danilo Tiirk for his extremely helpful and practical contribution and to thank his colleagues for the excellent work they do on this issue. We welcome the opportunity to address the Security Council as it considers this issue. As the Council is aware, we are a strong supporter of the Bougainville peace process. Importantly, our support has included leadership of the four-country regional Peace Monitoring Group and, more recently, the small, civilian Bougainville Transition Team.”
2003-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4881 (2003) · source
“We all now need to focus on practical steps to give effect to resolution 1325 (2000). Australia stands ready to do its part.”
2003-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4852Resumption1 (2003) · source
“In that context there are some questions which many others have asked but which, I think, DPKO and the Secretariat more generally need constantly to address. What are the hurdles in achieving the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000) in current peacekeeping operations? Has the Secretariat put into place any institutional mechanisms to monitor progress made in the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000)? What efforts are being made to ensure that the recommendations in resolution 1325 (2000) are mainstreamed into the work programmes of all United Nations agencies? The responsibility for implementing resolution 1325 (2000) rests not only with the Secretariat. Member States - and, in particular, Council members - also have important responsibilities, not least in ensuring that mandates take full account of gender perspectives.”
2003-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4852Resumption1 (2003) · source