Media releases from the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs

2001 | Index

December

• New Asia Pacific Television Service Starts (31 December)
• Australia Leads Efforts to Reduce the Humanitarian Impact of War (24 December)
• Australia Signs Protocol to the Convention on The Rights of the Child (24 December)
• Joint Release: Australia Signs UN Protocols to Combat People Smuggling and Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms (22 December)
• Ministers Welcome Progress on Timor Sea Gas Agreement (22 December)
• Australia Welcomes the Inauguration of the Interim Authority in Afghanistan (22 December)
• Joint Release: Gazettal of Terrorists and Terrorist Organisations Under the Charter of the United Nations (Anti-Terrorism Measures) Regulations 2001 (21 December)
• Visit to London for CMAG Meeting (18 December)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Ambassador to Russia (18 December)
• Solomon Islands: New Prime Minister (17 December)
• Ministers call for committed leadership in the Solomon Islands (16 December)
• Terrorist Attack on India's Parliament (14 December)
• Australia and Mauritania Establish Diplomatic Relations (13 December)
• Fiji Visit (12 December)
• 30th Anniversary of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (12 December)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Ambassador to the UN in Geneva (11 December)
• MOU on Asylum Seekers Signed with Nauru (11 December)
• Visit to Nauru, Fiji, Vanuatu and New Zealand (10 December)
• Welcome Progress on the Cyprus Dispute (7 December)
• Solomon Islands National Elections (7 December) 
• Australia and India: Investing in Our Relationship (3 December)
• Triple Bombing in Jerusalem (2 December)

November

• Refusal of Visa for ABC Journalist by Zimbabwe Government (30 November)
• Australia Indonesia Institute Establishes Scholarship in honour of Herb Feith (27 November)
• Visit by Indonesian Foreign Minister (27 November)
• Joint Release: Ethiopia Qualifies for Debt Relief (16 November)
• Australia and the International Community Maintain Strong Support for Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (15 November)
• Japan's Contribution to UN Peacekeeping Force in East Timor Welcome (8 November)
• Kerry and Kay Danes pardoned in Laos (6 November)
• Additional Assistance to Help Solomon Islands Elections (5 November)
• Downer Condemns LTTE Suicide Bomb Attack (1 November)

October

• Australia Helps Deliver APEC's Pro-Trade Message (18 October)
• Australia Supports APEC's Push for Regulatory and Institutional Reform (18 October)
• Satellite Ground Stations: Australia-Japan Joint Venture (16 October)
• Fight Against Terrorism Major Focus at APEC Ministerial Meeting (15 October)
• Government Implements New Anti-Terrorism Regulations (15 October)
• The Australia Group: Tackling the Threat of Chemical and Biological Weapons (8 October)
• Joint Release: First Meeting of the Council on Australia Latin America Relations (5 October)
• Sanctions Against Fiji are Lifted (5 October)

September

• Intelligence Services Bill (27 September)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Ambassador to Egypt (27 September)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Ambassador to Lebanon (27 September)
• Burma (24 September)
• Assistance for Families of Australian Victims of Terrorist Attacks in New York (22 September)
• Joint Release: Australia and Pakistan - Resumption of Defence Links (21 September)
• Visit to Islamic College of South Australia (21 September)
• East Timor Council of Ministers (20 September)
• Fears for Australians Still Missing in New York (18 September)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Consul-General in Hong Kong (18 September)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Ambassador to Mexico (18 September)
• Appointment of Chairman of the Board of the Australia-Indonesia Institute (18 September)
• Australian Death Toll in the US Terrorist Attacks (13 September)
• Cyprus Report could Aid Peace (11 September)
• East Timor Elections (10 September)
• Joint Release: Australia Welcomes Conclusion of the World Conference Against Racism (10 September)
• Zimbabwe: Abuja Agreement (7 September)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Consul-General in Shanghai (5 September)
• Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group Meeting and Visit to Indonesia (1 September)

August

• Visit to Australia by the Croatian Foreign Minister, Mr Tonino Picula (31 August)
• Bougainville Peace Agreement (29 August)
• Diplomatic Appointment: High Commissioner to India (28 August)
• Australia Welcomes Commencement of Fiji Elections (24 August)
• Sir Ninian Stephen to Chair ILO Mission (22 August)
• New report: Investing in Latin America (15 August)
• Solomon Islands Elections on Course (14 August)
• Australian Cultural Residency Program (14 August)
• Diplomatic Appointment: High Commissioner to Sri Lanka (13 August)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Ambassador to Chile (13 August)
• Safeguards Arrangements for Uranium Exports to Taiwan (13 August)
• Bomb Attack in Jerusalem (10 August)
• Nuclear Safeguards Agreement between Australia and Hungary (9 August)
• Bougainville (8 August)
• Visit to Australia by Former French PM, Michel Rocard, AC (7 August)
• Australian Television Service to the Asia Pacific Region Contract Signed (7 August)
• Visit by Argentine Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 August)
• Australian to Head International Safeguards Expert Group (2 August)
• Israel - Palestinian Violence (1 August)
• Joint Statement: Timor Gap: Phillips Petroleum's Decision to Defer Pipeline (1 August)

July

• Australia to Participate in UN Experts Panel on Missiles (28 July)
• Australia and the Czech Republic Sign Safeguards Agreement (28 July)
• Joint Statement: Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) 2001 (27 July)
• Joint Statement: International Transfer of Prisoners Treaty Signed with Thailand (26 July)
• Cambodia Passes Khmer Rouge Law (24 July)
• Diplomatic Appointment: High Commissioner to Vanuatu (23 July)
• Small Arms Conference Adopts "Program of Action" (22 July)
• Australian assistance for Solomon Islands Elections (20 July)
• Visit to Singapore and ASEAN Regional Forum/Post Ministerial Conference - Hanoi (19 July)
• Australia-New Zealand Foreign Ministers' Meeting (18 July)
• Launch of new publication: East Timor in Transition 1998-2000: An Australian Policy Challenge (17 July)
• Australia welcomes IOC announcement that Beijing will host 2008 Olympic Game (14 July)
• Land for East Timor Embassy in Australia (12 July)
• Small Arms Destruction Day and UN Conference (9 July)
• Australia, East Timor and the United Nations Agree on new resources Deal for the Timor Sea (3 July)
• Visit by Thai Minister for Foreign Affairs (3 July)

June

• Australia Welcomes Reappointment of Secretary General of the United Nations (30 June)
• Launch of Fulbright Professional Award in Australia-US Alliance Studies (29 June)
• Milosevic Transferred to the Hague (29 June)
• Joint Statement with the Foreign Minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Resident Embassies (28 June)
• Australia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK): Continuing the Engagement (June 28)
• Downer Welcomes Announcement that Japan will Send Election Monitors to East Timor (June 27)
• Visit by the Foreign Minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (27 June)
• Bougainville Peace Process - Conclusion of a Comprehensive Political Settlement (25 June)
• Successful Visit to Australia by Jaswant Singh (25 June)
• Australian Government Welcomes the Release of Fourteen Political Prisoners in Burma (22 June)
• Diplomatic Appointment: High Commissioner to the Solomon Islands (22 June)
• Appointments to the board of the Australia-Indonesia Institute (22 June)
• Praise for Australian Passport Services (21 June)
• Australian television service to the Asia-Pacific region (20 June)
• Joint Statement: Australia to host workshop on improving reporting to the UN human rights treaty committees (20 June)
• Bougainville Peace Process - Political Settlement Close (20 June)
• Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to Micronesia (19 June)
• Visit by India's Minister for External Affairs and Defence (19 June)
• Diplomatic appointment: Consul-General in Chicago (13 June)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Ambassador to Israel (12 June)
• United States Review of Relations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (7 June)
• International Peace Monitoring Team: Shooting Incident (7 June)
• Eurico Guterres (7 June)
• Assistance for Elections in Solomon Islands (6 June)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Ambassador to Turkey (6 June)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Consul-General in New Caledonia (6 June)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Ambassador to Jordan (6 June)

May

• Australia-ROK Inaugural Foreign Ministers' Meeting (30 May)
• Meeting with President Kim Dae-Jung (30 May)
• Downer Welcomes Return to Normal Fisheries Relations with Japan on Southern Bluefin Tuna (29 May)
• Mitchell Report into Violence in the Middle East (25 May)
• Downer to Visit Japan, Korea and Hong Kong (25 May)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic (25 May)
• Joint Media Release: Replacement of Secure Diplomatic Communications Network (22 May)
• Joint Media Release: Opening of Australian Consulate-General in Chicago (22 May)
• Joint Statement: Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon Alexander Downer, and Minister for Trade, the Hon Mark Vaile (22 May)
• Meeting of the National Consultative Committee on Peace and Disarmament (22 May)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Consul General in New York (21 May)
• Australia's Criticisms of the UN Human Rights Committee System Validated by New Report (18 May)
• Federal Government Support for Flinders-Baudin Commemoration (16 May)
• Australia to Sign Agreement to Reduce Toxic Pollution (16 May)
• Bougainville Peace Process - Agreement on Plans for Weapons Disposal (11 May)
• Death of Sir Arthur Tange (10 May)
• Australia Re-elected to UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (10 May)
• Australia and Japan to Host Workshop on Treaty Banning the Production of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons (8 May)
• Diplomatic Appointment: High Commissioner to Canada (2 May)

April

• Joint Media Release: Australia-Japan: Strengthening Economic Relations (29 April)
• Australia to Provide Demining Assistance to Lebanon (27 April)
• Joint Media Release: Australia- Japan Conference for the 21ST Century Sets New Directions (30 April)
• Australia to Host Workshop on Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Chemistry Under the Chemical Weapons Convention (30 April)
• Laos - Special Envoy (30 April)
• Appointment of World Trade Organisation Ambassador (26 April)
• Peter Nugent (24 April)
• Visit to Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, South Africa and The United Kingdom (20 April)
• Visit by the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination and Xenophobia (12 April)
• Australia to Chair Major International Conference on Conventional Arms Control (10 April)
• Solomon Islands: Discussion with Prime Minister Sogavare (6 April)
• Visit by Fiji Caretaker Foreign Minister Kaliopate Tavola (5 April)
• Australian Initiative to Improve the Effectiveness of the UN Treaty Committees (5 April)

March

• Concern Over Space Junk (30 March)
• Mr Downer Welcomes the Outcomes of Inaugural Fealac Meeting (30 March)
• Downer Lobbies for Reduced Oil Prices (30 March)
• Kay and Kerry Danes: Meeting with LAO Deputy Prime Minister (30 March)
• Nuclear Cooperation and Safeguards Agreement with Argentina (27 March)
• Council on Australia Latin America Relations (23 March)
• Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to the Republic of Korea (19 March)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Ambassador to Japan (19 March)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the OECD in Paris (19 March)
• Australian television service in the Asia-Pacific region (19 March)
• Australian Judge Re-elected to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (15 March)
• Fiji (15 March)
• International Oil Prices (15 March)
• Fiji: Oceania Qualifying Round Soccer (13 March)
• Joint Statement by the Hon Alexander Downer MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia and the Hon Brian Cowen TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ireland (13 March)
• Successful visit by Irish Foreign Minister (13 March)
• Inaugural meeting of the East Asia - Latin America Forum (9 March)
• Visit to the United Kingdom, United States and Latin America (9 March)
• Visit by Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs (9 March)
• Asia Heads of Mission meet in Canberra (7 March)
• Diplomatic appointment: Ambassador to Iran (6 March)
• Diplomatic appointment: High Commissioner to Singapore (6 March)
• Destruction of Buddhist Statues in Afghanistan (2 March)
• Diplomatic appointment: High Commissioner to Zimbabwe (2 March)
• Fiji Appeal Court Upholds Gates Judgement (1 March)

February

• Launch of Young Business Scholars in China Program (28 February)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Consul-General in Bali (27 February)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York (27 February)
• 13th Australia-Papua New Guinea Ministerial Forum (26 February)
• Bougainville Peace Process - Townsville Talks (16 February)
• Joint Declaration by the Hon Alexander Downer, Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Hon Lamberto Dini, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs (10 February)
• Visit by Italy's Minister for Foreign Affairs (9 February)
• Diplomatic appointment: Consul-General in Ho Chi Minh City (8 February)
• Diplomatic appointment: Consul-General in Honolulu (8 February)
• Solomon Islands: Marau Peace Agreement (7 February)
• Focus on South Australian Wines in Stockholm (1 February)

January

• Australia welcomes release of Burmese political detainees (29 January)
• Joint statement by the Hon Alexander Downer MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and the Hon Mark Vaile MP, Minister for Trade (28 January)
• Bougainville Agreement on Referendum (27 January)
• Visit to Switzerland, Spain, Denmark and Sweden (24 January)
• Diplomatic Appointment: High Commissioner to Barbados (22 January)
• Iran: Berlin Conference Trial Verdicts (19 January)
• International Oil Prices (17 January)
• Australian Government Welcomes Developing Dialogue in Burma (12 January)
• Stations Approved for Nuclear Test Monitoring (12 January)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Ambassador to Hungary (10 January)
• Diplomatic Appointment: Ambassador to Italy (10 January)

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