Turnbull Defends And Promotes Refugee Policy In Address To United Nations General Assembly

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has defended and promoted Australia’s refugee policy, in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly.

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Turnbull addressed the UN at 8pm local time.

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Transcript of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Address to the General Assembly of the United Nations.

PRIME MINISTER MALCOLM TURNBULL: Secretary-General, Mr President, Your Excellencies.

The tenor of our times is change.

Accelerating with a pace and scale unprecedented in all of human history. [Read more…]


Tony Abbott’s Address To The United Nations General Assembly

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York.

AbbottAbbott’s speech was a general statement of principles in which he talked of the United Nations as a body that works for the “common good”. He itemised Australia’s contribution to global issues since the organisation’s founding in 1947.

Abbott said: “Since 1947, Australia has provided more than 65,000 personnel to more than 50 multilateral peace and security operations. We are not a country accustomed to turning back once we’ve put our hand to the plough; we’ve had blue beret personnel in the Middle East since 1956 and in Cyprus since 1964. When leadership is needed, we step up, as we did in Bougainville, in Timor-Leste and in Solomon Islands. In Korea, Cambodia, Kuwait and Afghanistan; in Somalia and Sierra Leone and in other troubled places, Australians have lent a hand under the UN’s banner.” [Read more…]


Text of the U.S.-British-Spanish Draft Resolution On Iraq

This is the text of the U.S.-British-Spanish draft resolution on Iraq.

UNITED NATIONS –– Text of the U.S.-British-Spanish draft resolution on Iraq.

Recalling all its previous relevant resolutions, in particular its resolutions 661 (1990) of 6 August 1990, 678 (1990) of 29 November 1990, 686 (1991) of 2 March 1991, 687 (1991) of 3 April 1991, 688 (1991) of 5 April 1991, 707 (1991) of 15 August 1991, 715 (1991) of 11 October 1991, 986 (1995) of 14 April 1995, and 1284 (1999) of 17 December 1999, and 1441 (2002) of 8 November all the relevant statements of its president, [Read more…]