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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