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1. “I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the MIKTA Group of countries — Mexico, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Turkey and Australia — and then, in my national capacity, a short statement on behalf of Australia. Gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls are priorities for the MIKTA Group. This prioritization calls for the full and effective implementation of the women and peace and security agenda. Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights, safety and dignity of women and girls are goals in themselves and essential for the achievement of sustainable peace. Recent events in Afghanistan highlighted the critical importance of the women and peace and security agenda.”

   2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886 (2021) · source

2. “Against that backdrop, Australia welcomes and urges the fullest possible implementation of the ongoing system-wide United Nations reforms to improve the Organization’s effectiveness in contributing to sustaining development and sustaining peace. In that way, we can demonstrate our practical commitment to the Charter in the world today.”

   2020-01-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8699 (2020) · source

3. “Australia continues to advocate for the implementation of the principles of the responsibility to protect across the United Nations and encourages current and future members of the Security Council to recall it during the Council’s deliberations. As we consider the contribution of the United Nations Charter and the frameworks and norms that have flowed from it, we renew our call for greater cooperation within and outside the United Nations, for increased focus on effectiveness at the field level and for the use of preventive tools. And from Member States, we need a recommitment to collective security that can enable the system to adapt to new challenges.”

   2020-01-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8699 (2020) · source

4. “We need to ensure that the fundamental norms reflected in the Charter are protected — for all States Members of the United Nations and for the millions of individuals who look to the United Nations to protect their lives and their human rights. The credibility of the United Nations system depends on its willingness and capacity to do so. That, in turn, is dependent on Member States. Upon seeing the warning signs, the United Nations must use its political authority and the preventive tools at its disposal to address potential conflicts and seek de-escalation. The political will of Member States is central to enabling that. Members should be alert to these signs and should be able to flag them in order to ensure that fundamental norms are respected for the benefit of all.”

   2020-01-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8699 (2020) · source

5. “From freedom of navigation to chemical weapons to accountability for serious international crimes, we need to ensure that the norms we have built on the Charter’s foundations are upheld on land, at sea and in cyberspace. Built in the shadows of the Second World War, the Organization’s central tenets and responsibilities for Member States, as articulated in the Preamble, are to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, to practice tolerance and live together in peace and to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security. However, in recent years, the strain upon the international rules-based order has continued to intensify. This is a collective problem that requires a collective solution.”

   2020-01-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8699 (2020) · source

6. “As we commemorate the seventy- fifth anniversary of the United Nations, Australia recognizes the ongoing importance of the Charter of the United Nations in terms of peace and collective security, development and human rights in what is an ever-changing and ever more complex world. The Charter forms a central foundation of the international legal framework that Member States enjoy the benefits of today. However, we cannot look at the Charter in isolation. The international rules we have today are built on the Charter and the current moment is one where States and civil society need to use their voices to support multilateralism and the rules-based order.”

   2020-01-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8699 (2020) · source

7. “At the outset, I wish to express my sincere condolences to the many countries and families who lost loved ones on Ukrainian International Airlines flight 752. To echo the words of Australia’s Foreign Minister, Senator Payne, we know what it feels like to be a country that is searching for lost loved ones at this time. In that vein, I also wish to take the opportunity to thank my colleagues in this Chamber and their Governments for their concern and support during our current bushfire challenge in Australia. I warmly congratulate Viet Nam on taking up its position on the Security Council and on holding the first presidency of 2020. I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate on maintaining international peace and security.”

   2020-01-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8699 (2020) · source

8. “We look forward to continuing to promote reconciliation, nationally and internationally, in partnership with the United Nations, its Member States and civil society, to further efforts to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 16 and the sustaining peace agenda.”

   2019-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8668Resumption1 (2019) · source

9. “For example, the Nazareth Centre for Rehabilitation has been an important contributor to the ongoing peace and reconciliation process, and Australia has been proud to be a long-term supporter. We urge that United Nations assistance to Member States focus on and integrate reconciliation needs, including in the context of comprehensive analysis, which Member States have decided should be delivered under the sustaining peace agenda and United Nations reform. We welcome the use of the Peacebuilding Commission and other United Nations forums to learn lessons from national experiences and provide a platform for the discussion of effective approaches to reconciliation for the purposes of sustaining peace.”

   2019-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8668Resumption1 (2019) · source

10. “The Australian Government also supports work with the corporate sector to deliver reconciliation action plans. These plans support organizations in considering how they can contribute to reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. That delivers jobs, culturally aware workplaces and businesses and helps to develop future generations of indigenous leaders. Reconciliation is a key focus of Australia's international efforts. An example of that is our support to peacebuilding in Bougainville island, as part of our bilateral partnership with Papua New Guinea. Working in partnership, the role of community leaders and faith- based organizations, and ensuring women's involvement have been key in advancing reconciliation and building and sustaining peace.”

    2019-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8668Resumption1 (2019) · source

11. “Australia's framework, which is known as Closing the Gap, includes a number of measures to bridge that divide, including economic opportunities for indigenous Australians through an indigenous procurement policy, which seeks to leverage the Government's annual multi-billion-dollar procurement spend. This drives demand for indigenous goods and services, stimulates indigenous economic development and grows the indigenous business sector. The private sector also plays an important role in reconciliation. The Business Council of Australia and major corporations are to be applauded for creating the Raising the Bar programme, which is aimed at seeing more than $3 billion Australian dollars spent by major corporations with indigenous suppliers over the next five years.”

    2019-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8668Resumption1 (2019) · source

12. “That requires putting reconciliation at the centre. An inclusive approach to national conversations is essential in efforts to build and sustain peace. Australia prioritizes reconciliation when working with partners in the context of its overseas development programme, as well as in our own national policies and strategies, bringing stakeholders and affected communities together. Reconciliation is notjust a concept or a practice for countries with recent experience of conflict. It is a work in progress in different contexts for all countries. Domestically, Australia is walking the path of reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.”

    2019-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8668Resumption1 (2019) · source

13. “We thank the United Kingdom for convening this debate. Reconciliation is fundamental to building and sustaining peace and must be seen as central to Member States' sustaining peace agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Security Council and the General Assembly decided in their twin resolutions (Assembly resolution 70/262 and Council resolution 2282 (2016)) that sustaining peace is a shared task and responsibility. It is to be fulfilled by Governments and all other national stakeholders. It flows through all three pillars of the United Nations engagement at all stages of conflict and in all its dimensions. Furthermore, all nations are working towards the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 16, on the establishment, protection and maintenance of peace, justice and strong institutions.”

    2019-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8668Resumption1 (2019) · source

14. “In Australia, the women and peace and security agenda is indivisible from our work on humanitarian response and disaster relief, on development assistance and on peacekeeping and peacebuilding missions. We have seen the difference that gender advisers have made in reconstruction efforts. It is life-changing. It is transformative to the way in which we do business. Australia's second women and peace and security national action plan, to be released this year, is underpinned by a commitment to human rights, inclusion and women's meaningful participation in all aspects of peacebuilding, crisis response and prevention. We look forward to continuing to work with the United Nations, its Member States and civil society to accelerate implementation of the women and peace and security agenda in 2020 and beyond.”

    2019-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8649Resumption1 (2019) · source

15. “Women and girls are central to the success of efforts to prevent, respond to and resolve conflict and to build peace. However, women are too often excluded from conflict resolution, peacebuilding and security operations. This situation puts peace and stability at risk and compounds negative outcomes for women and girls. To deliver on this agenda, we must address the root causes of gender inequality, including harmful norms and inequitable structures. We must promote and protect women's rights, including sexual and reproductive-health rights. We must commit to improving gender composition in our peacekeeping missions and our national security services. We must commit to the Secretary-General's sustaining peace agenda and its important actions on women and peace and security.”

    2019-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8649Resumption1 (2019) · source

16. “Today, all Australian Defence Force personnel deployed to fragile and conflict-affected contexts are trained in women and peace and security. We also have 166 Australian Defence Force gender advisers who can be deployed on military, humanitarian, relief and recovery operations. The women and peace and security agenda reflects the fact that conflict continues to disproportionately affect women. Women's needs, contributions and agency in conflict and peacebuilding situations are too often an afterthought. The rights of women and girls underpin the fundamental components of the women and peace and security agenda. The convergence of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action and the twentieth anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000) provides an opportunity to highlight the intersections of these two important agendas.”

    2019-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8649Resumption1 (2019) · source

17. “I am pleased to address the Security Council for the first time, as the new Permanent Representative of Australia, on a topic of such Vital importance as the women and peace and security agenda. We thank South Africa for its strong leadership on this agenda, and we welcome the Secretary-General's renewed commitment and call to action. We also welcome the report of the Secretary- General on the subject (S/2019/800) and commend the work of the experts who contributed to it. Australia has a proud history of contributing to international peace and security. Since 1947, Australia has deployed troops to more than 60 operations overseas, including long-standing contributions to some of the oldest United Nations peacekeeping efforts.”

    2019-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8649Resumption1 (2019) · source