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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It's a deeply disturbing additional submission which confirms what (U.N. chief weapons inspector) Hans Blix was saying 10 days ago,
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It's of some concern to us that the sentence is as short as it is. We're disappointed about that. We'd like to see a longer sentence,
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It will help curb identity fraud and possible misuse by people smugglers, terrorists and other transnational criminals.
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We have said many times before that ... at the very least, Indonesia is responsible for the security situation in East Timor,
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In addition, I will express Australian support for international efforts to meet the pressing humanitarian problems facing North Korea.
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finding a peaceful and lasting solution to the nuclear issue.
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The onus of that task falls on the armed forces and the police force in East Timor and they haven't done a good job in recent times. It's important that they perform more effectively and do everything they can to stop the violence and move to disarm the two sides -- the paramilitaries and the pro-independence side,
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I think in turn the media has become very interested in this specific case, and has gone into an enormous amount of detail.
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