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 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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I will raise bilateral issues and regional security concerns, including measures to prevent nuclear and missile proliferation and other arms control objectives,
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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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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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The kangaroos appear to hop up and down when the page is moved backwards and forwards, and my department thinks that that is a very nice touch,
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You could hide things under a raincoat I suppose. I don't think we're going to ban raincoats.
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I don't think there's any need to be concerned about it, ... I think this is just another paragraph in a very long book of fiery rhetoric, that we've heard for many years.