Media releases from the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
2000 | Index
December
- Cyprus: Appointment of Australia's Special Envoy (29 December)
- Australia to Help Vanuatu's Legal Sector (19 December) AusAID media release
- Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Easing of Restrictions (16 December)
- New Zealand Apples (14 December)
- Fiji: Election Timetable and the SPARTECA-TCF Scheme (12 December)
- Visit to New Zealand, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea (12 December)
- Australia Indonesia Ministerial Forum and Australia-Indonesia Development Area Ministerial Meeting (8 December)
November
- $100,000 Grant to Promote Australian Studies in Indonesia (30 November)
- China's commitment to prevent ballistic missile proliferation welcomed (23 November)
- Visit to North Korea (16 November)
- Agricultural Research and Development Cooperation with Democratic People's Republic of Korea (15 November) ACIAR media release
- Australian humanitarian assistance for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (15 November) AusAID media release
- Australia helping APEC members maximise benefits of globalisation (13 November)
- Downer urges APEC to address unsustainably high oil prices (12 November)
- Diplomatic appointment: High Commissioner to Mauritius (9 November)
- Visit to Brunei, Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea and Hong Kong (7 November)
- Solomon Islands Peace Monitoring Team (6 November)
- Pacific Islands Forum support for whales sanctuary (1 November)
October
- New lecture series to promote links with India (31 October)
- $1.5 Million for international culture promotion (30 October)
- Diplomatic appointment: High Commissioner to Kenya (25 October)
- Ratifying the International Criminal Court (25 October) Joint media release.
- Release of James Mawdsley (17 October)
- Appointment of Australia-Korea Foundation chairman (17 October)
- Appointments to the Australia-China Council (16 October)
- Solomon Islands: Signature of the Townsville Peace Agreement (15 October)
- Middle East situation (13 October)
- Yugoslavia (07 October)
- Australia's golden glow from the Olympics (06 October)
- Developments in Yugoslavia (06 October)
- Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to Indonesia (03 October)
September
- Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: elections (28 September)
- Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: elections (26 September)
- ANZ decision to open branch in East Timor (26 September)
- Burma: Treatment of Aung San Suu Kyi (25 September)
- Shiraz appeal verdicts (22 September)
- Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to Thailand (22 September)
- Timor Gap Treaty negotiations to begin (18 September)
- Burma: Lifting of restrictions on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (16 September)
- Australian elected to the Human Rights Committee (15 September)
- Visit to the United Nations (14 September)
- Diplomatic appointment: High Commissioner to Brunei Darussalam (13 September)
- Diplomatic appointment: High Commissioner to Samoa (13 September)
- Bougainville Peace Process (7 September)
- Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to the Netherlands (02 September)
- Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to Cambodia (02 September)
- Diplomatic appointment: High Commissioner to Nigeria (02 September)
- Bougainville peace process (02 September)
August
- Improving the effectiveness of United Nations Committees (29 August)
- International oil prices (25 August)
- Burma (24 August)
- Visit to East Timor (24 August)
- Australian Representative Office, Ramallah (23 August)
- Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to the French Republic (18 August)
- Diplomatic appointment: Consul-General in Shanghai (18 August)
- Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (18 August)
- Australia China Human Rights Dialogue (15 August)
- South Pacific Forum foreign minister's meeting (10 August)
- Visit by high-level mission to Solomon Islands (09 August)
- Broadcasts to Asia-Pacific region (08 August)
- Solomon Islands: Ceasefire agreement (03 August)
July
- Middle East peace process: outcome of the Camp David summit (26 July)
- Australia Launches Global HIV/AIDS Initiative (26 July) AusAID media release
- Death of New Zealand peacekeeper in East Timor (25 July)
- Visit to Thailand and Iran (24 July)
- Solomon Islands (20 July)
- Cambodia: Chhouk Rin (19 July)
- Fiji (18 July)
- Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to Argentina (18 July)
- Fiji: Release of hostages (13 July)
- Solomon Islands (11 July)
- Solomon Islands: peace talks on HMAS Tobruk (07 July)
- Visit to Germany and the United States (06 July)
- Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to Laos (05 July)
- Latvian extradition treaty (05 July)
- Fiji (03 July)
- Ambassador's visit marks new beginning in Australia-DPRK relations (03 July)
- Verdicts in trial of Iranian Jews and Muslims (03 July)
June
- Solomon Islands: election of new Prime Ministers (30 June)
- Australian Passport Information Service to commence operations in Hobart (30 June)
- Zimbabwe elections (29 June)
- Senator Marise Payne to represent the Australian Government at International Democracy Conference (27 June)
- Sydney Media Centre - open for Olympic visitors (23 June)
- Solomon Islands: visit to Honiara (22 June)
- Win for S.A. exporters in settlement reached with U.S. on Howe Leather dispute (22 June)
- Zimbabwe elections: Parliamentary Observer Group (21 June)
- Solomon Islands: Australian assistance (20 June)
- Solomon Islands - Special Envoy (16 June)
- Successful summit between the leaders of South and North Korea (15 June)
- Fiji - visits by Fiji touring sides (13 June)
- ACIAR appointments (2 June)
May
- Ceremony for the presentation of certificates for the "Policy Analysis and Advocacy Training for Indonesian NGO Leaders" (30 May)
- Fiji (29 May)
- Fiji Olympic torch decision to be announced next week (27 May)
- Silex: Australia/US nuclear cooperation (26 May)
- Zimbabwe elections: Australian observers (25 May)
- Appointment of APEC Ambassador (25 May)
- Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament regime reinforced (22 May)
- Fiji crisis (20 may)
- Forced closure of media outlets in Serbia (20 May)
- Hostage situation in Suva (19 May)
- Commonwealth Government extends Import Credit Scheme (18 May)
- Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to Denmark(17 May)
- New Lord Mayor for Adelaide (17 May)
- Sierra Leone (17 May)
- Signing of Humanitarian Accord on Aceh (13 May)
- Solomon Islands (12 May)
- Visit to Cambodia and Vietnam (12 May)
- Priority aid assistance for East Timor - joint statement (9 May)
- Australia's aid budget to increase in 2000-01(9 May)
- Relations with Democratic People's Republic of Korea (8 May)
April
- Resolution on good governance (27 April)
- Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to Belgium (26 April)
- Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to Portugal (26 April)
- Visit to Japan, China, United States and United Kingdom (18 April)
- Australia welcomes IMF stand-by arrangement for Papua New Guinea (18 April)
- Russian parliament supports nuclear reductions (15 April)
- Solomon Islands ethnic violence (13 April)
- Summit meeting between leaders of North and South Korea (April 11)
- Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to Cambodia (10 April)
March
- 25th Anniversary of the entry into force of the Biological Weapons Convention (27 March)
- Government to review UN treaty committees (27 March)
- Australia welcomes progress in Bougainville peace process (24 March)
- Australian young business ambassadors to Singapore (24 March)
- Visit to India (17 March)
- Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (15 March)
- Arrangement for CTBT monitoring stations (13 March)
- UN reference paper on mandatory sentencing (13 March)
- 12th Australia-Papua New Guinea Ministerial Forum (07 March)
February
- Diplomatic appointment: High Commissioner to Pakistan (11 February)
- Timor Gap agreement reached with UNTAET (10 February)
- East Timor: arrest of militia leader "Moko" Soares (10 February)
- Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador To Burma (Myanmar) (10 February)
- New Austrian Government: Freedom Party as coalition partner (06 February)
January
- Diplomatic appointment: High Comissioner to Cyprus (31 January)
- Visit to the UK, Switzerland, France, Portugal and Belgium (25 January)
- Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to Spain (21 January)
- Visit to Indonesia (21 January)
- Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to Austria (07 January)
- Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to Israel (07 January)
- Release of Branko Jelen (01 January 2000)
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