Alexander Downer
Alexander Downer
Alexander John Gosse Downer, ACis a former Australian Liberal Party politician who was Foreign Minister of Australia from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007, the longest-serving in Australian history. He was also the Leader of the Opposition for eight months from 1994 to 1995. Until early February 2014, Downer was the United Nations Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Cyprus...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 September 1951
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These are principles on which our country has been built, as well as the United States, and in fact they are amongst the most important values that bind our two countries together,
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Countries in the region must learn from the SARS experience,
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vital interest in finding a constructive diplomatic solution to address the nuclear question.
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Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.
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Well, I'm not going to go into what the letter says, because the police are looking at that. But as you say it's in Bahasa. But of course that's not to suggest that the letter came from outside of Australia. It came from in Australia. It came from Victoria.
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We hope that it's going to be possible to get back on to the diplomatic path before too long,
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I suppose people could hide all sorts of equipment in all sorts of clothing,
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It is deeply regrettable that the Pakistani government has shown absolute disregard for the many direct appeals to exercise restraint and has willfully turned its back on the sincere efforts of the international community to encourage reason to prevail.
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We think, at the end of the day, it makes a great deal more sense to have dialogue with North Korea, rather than to freeze them out of regional and international arrangements,
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If these talks are a success, clearly we hope a U.N. presence can be on the ground in the next few weeks,
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Sheik Hilaly is making a good contribution. He is making a good contribution.
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No one is suggesting, and no one should suggest, that the United States is anything but vigilant and determined in its opposition to the proliferation and even the use of biological weapons,
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There can be no justification for the continued detention of Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters and I urge that they be released immediately,
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We ask that the length of the sentence be appealed in the Indonesian courts.