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1998-06-06
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2001-07-30
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  1. “However, the security situation in East Timor remains tense: there have been continuing violence and intimidation in many parts of East Timor. The violent clashes which occurred in Dili on 26 August, which were referred to by my colleagues from Indonesia and Portugal, are a matter of serious concern, and the Australian Government forcefully condemns such acts. We, like the United Nations and other members of the international community, believe it essential that the ballot be allowed to proceed and that it not be derailed by the actions of those whose only response to this historic moment is to resort to violence. We have attached the highest importance to creating an environment that is secure and free from violence and intimidation.”

    1999-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4038 (1999) · source

  2. “We have made a significant contribution to the trust fund. We are providing substantial in-kind assistance, including the provision of electoral assistance, transport equipment, training and administrative facilities in the Australian city of Darwin. We are also contributing civilian police to the civilian police contingent and military personnel to the military liaison contingent. We welcome, and we have worked energetically to encourage, the participation of a wide range of Member States in UNAMET. Australia is very conscious that a difficult time lies ahead, in the few days remaining to the ballot, on the ballot day itself and in the period after the vote. But we share the hope that the ballot will be conducted peacefully.”

    1999-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4038 (1999) · source

  3. “It envisages assistance in training an East Timorese police force, whether the outcome of the 30 August consultation is to accept or to reject the autonomy package offered by the Government of Indonesia. This draft resolution will make it possible for the United Nations to continue to assist during the crucial next phase - between the consultation and the implementation of its result - in helping resolve the East Timor issue. Key United Nations responsibilities in the post-consultation period - again, irrespective of the result - will be to build confidence, to support stability and to reassure all groups, including those who are disappointed by the results. Australia will continue to give its full support to UNAMET during this crucial period. Our support for UNAMET goes beyond the rhetorical.”

    1999-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4038 (1999) · source

  4. “We congratulate the parties and the Secretary-General for their efforts and for the spirit of accommodation and compromise with which some very sensitive and difficult issues have been approached. Particular credit is due to the Secretary-General's Personal Representative, Ambassador J amsheed Marker, whose patient and skilful diplomacy has played a major role in the success of the United Nations efforts so far. Australia supports fully the steps taken in today's draft resolution to restructure the United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) in the interim phase following the 30 August consultation. The draft resolution includes, as the Council knows, an increase in the civilian police component of UNAMET to 460, and of military liaison officers from 50 to up to 300.”

    1999-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4038 (1999) · source

  5. “I welcome the opportunity to address the Security Council. The adoption by the Council today, in a few moments, of this draft resolution on East Timor represents a further important step in putting into effect the historic 5 May 1999 New York Agreements between the Governments of Indonesia and Portugal and the Secretary- General of the United Nations. As a neighbour and a country with historical ties to East Timor, Australia welcomed the 5 May Agreements. We said at the time, however, that this was the start of what would be a difficult process. In the time since the signature of the Agreements, a great deal of hard work has been done by all the parties concerned, and while the historic ballot is now only days away, a considerable distance still remains to be travelled.”

    1999-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4038 (1999) · source

  6. “Australia is known for its deep commitment to nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. We remain deeply committed to these goals. And so do most Member States of this Organization. Nuclear testing by India and Pakistan is in flagrant disregard of the will of the international community. It must not go unchallenged. We believe it is very important to speak out clearly and strongly on this matter. We believe also that the international community has a shared responsibility to take action quickly, effectively and without reservation to help reverse both the trend towards proliferation and increased tension in South Asia and the challenge presented to the global non- proliferation and disarmament regimes. The adoption of this resolution is an important initial step in this direction.”

    1998-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3890 (1998) · source

  7. “This states that new supply arrangements to non-nuclear-weapon States - that is, to all countries but the five nuclear-weapon States - should require acceptance of the International Atomic Energy Agency full-scope safeguards and internationally legally binding commitments not to acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. A further important element in the resolution is the call on India and Pakistan to stop immediately their nuclear-weapons development programmes, to refrain from weaponization or deployment of nuclear weapons and to cease development of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles. Finally, we also welcome the references to the Secretary-General' s efforts to encourage dialogue between India and Pakistan and endorse the request for him to report back to the Council on the implementation of the resolution.”

    1998-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3890 (1998) · source

  8. “I have already referred in this statement to many of the key elements in the resolution, and I don't want to repeat our support for them here. But the resolution does deal with some other important issues that I have not yet mentioned. These include the reference to States' preventing the export to India and Pakistan of equipment, materials or technology that could be used to develop their nuclear- weapons capacity. In this respect we would emphasize not only the importance of national policies but also the commitment made by all NPT parties to the principles and objectives of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament.”

    1998-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3890 (1998) · source

  9. “And in this context we do welcome the reaffirmation by the five nuclear-weapon States in the P-5 communique and in the resolution to fulfil their commitment to nuclear disarmament under article VI of the N PT. But it defies logic and credibility to pretend that the emergence of nuclear weapons in two new States, outside the norms of the international nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament regime, will assist, rather than retard and complicate, the task of nuclear disarmament. The international community has a clear responsibility to respond to such proliferation by stating that we do not want and we will not tolerate the development or acquisition of nuclear weapons by additional States. Australia, therefore, supports fully the Security Council resolution just adopted.”

    1998-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3890 (1998) · source

  10. “If fulfilment by the nuclear-weapon States of their disarmament obligations under article VI of the NPT was stalled during the cold war, that is no longer the case. Dramatic cuts in the nuclear arsenals of Russia and the United States have been made under the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) process, which, when completed, will further reduce those arsenals to some 80 per cent below cold-war peaks. Beyond the START process, the international community will be looking to a process of plurilateral and multilateral disarmament, with the objective of the total elimination of nuclear weapons. We want and we urge all the nuclear- weapon States to accelerate these processes as much as possible.”

    1998-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3890 (1998) · source

  11. “We call on them to sign and ratify unconditionally the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and to join 186 States by acceding to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). We call on them to engage in negotiations on a treaty to ban the production of fissile material for weapons purposes. We call, too, for both countries to take steps urgently to resume constructive political dialogue and negotiations on the issues that divide them, including, importantly, with respect to Kashmir. We have heard some refer, in connection with nuclear tests in South Asia, to the slow pace of nuclear disarmament by the nuclear-weapon States. Australia is committed to the twin goals embodied in the NPT of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.”

    1998-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3890 (1998) · source

  12. “The pursuit by both countries of nuclear-capable ballistic-missile programmes is an additional cause for alarm and tension. Australia's response to the nuclear tests by India and Pakistan has been firm and unequivocal. We condemn them as we do all nuclear testing. We have instituted a number of bilateral measures, including the suspension of bilateral defence relations with both India and Pakistan, the suspension of non-humanitarian aid and the suspension of bilateral visits by ministers and senior officials. We have called on both countries - and we reiterate that call today in this Council - to announce immediately the cessation of all further nuclear testing and renounce their nuclear- weapons programmes.”

    1998-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3890 (1998) · source

  13. “The nuclear tests by India and Pakistan less than two years after this historic standard-setting action directly challenged the Treaty and the international consensus against nuclear testing that it represents. These tests also challenge the international non- proliferation regime, threaten the process of nuclear disarmament and set back efforts to work towards the goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world. They are totally irreconcilable with claims by both countries that they are committed to nuclear disarmament. Beyond this grave threat to the maintenance of international peace and security, the tests undertaken by India and Pakistan's decision to respond with its own tests heighten the tension between them, threaten the security of South Asia and raise the alarming prospect of a nuclear arms race in that region.”

    1998-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3890 (1998) · source

  14. “It is true that the Security Council acts on behalf of United Nations Member States, but we believe it is vital when such serious threats to regional and global security occur that the wider membership be given the opportunity to present views directly to the Council and thus to contribute to Security Council deliberations by participating in formal meetings of this kind. Australia has a direct security interest in preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons. We are therefore deeply concerned at nuclear testing by India and Pakistan. After years of calls from the international community, the General Assembly's adoption in 1996, by an overwhelming majority, of the Comprehensive Nuclear- Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) established a powerful international norm against the testing of nuclear weapons and other nuclear explosive devices.”

    1998-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3890 (1998) · source

  15. “Australia is pleased to be able to participate in this extremely important open debate in response to the recent series of nuclear tests by India and Pakistan. Nuclear proliferation, with the attendant horrifying risks of a nuclear war, constitutes the worst possible threat to international peace and security. It is therefore essential that the Security Council, with its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security under Article 24 of the Charter, take action on this issue and remain seized of it until it is resolved.”

    1998-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3890 (1998) · source