Pity it was to an empty chamber
“We’re grateful for help that Ukraine gave us and are naturally sympathetic to a country struggling to preserve its independence and territorial integrity against a bully,” he said.
“This organisation ( UN )in fact, is founded on the principle that we should work together for the common good, and that over time, talking together and working together will improve our capacity for living together.”
One needs to ask why the mud slinging at this moment when cooperation is needed the most?
The prime minister also talked about his vision for economic growth and Australia’s determination as the chair of the G20 to help strength the world economy.
By being the only nation to drop the Carbon tax, remove RET targetsand not reveal any future plans passed 2020
“We’re strong enough to be useful but pragmatic enough to know our limits.”
We will raid the Foreign Aid and Welfare budgets for Defense and Sovereign Borders and of course sell you cheap coal….see Andrew Robb MP
“Bully” according to Abbott.
Noun
1. A person who uses strength or power to harm or intimidate those who are weaker.
Ring a bell?
USA & Australia sit on the UN Security Council and have no mandate to take action in Syrian Territory. The UN is committed to assisting the Syrian government. So Australia is about to commit an illegal raid in Syrian sovereign territory. Doesn’t that give Putin a green flag to do what it wants in the Ukraine? Isn’t Australia complicit in terrorist action? While Abbott proudly swans on the international stage as a member of UNSC and wants to be a member on the UNHRC he has no regard for the united Nations whatsoever. Will Tony Abbott start WW3
Washington and its Western allies have supported the insurgency against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and have ruled out cooperating with him to fight Islamic State, which seeks to create a cross-border caliphate.
However any foreign intervention in Syria would be an act of aggression unless it is approved by Damascus, a Syrian government minister said on Thursday, after the United States said it was prepared to strike against Islamic State militants in the country.”There must be cooperation with Syria and coordination with Syria and there must be a Syrian approval of any action whether it is military or not.”
Syria’s Western-backed National Coalition opposition has said it is ready to work with the United States against Islamic State, saying it had long called action and had repeatedly warned about the threat of radical Islamists.
Speaking in Damascus after meeting with Assad and other senior Syrian officials, U.N.-appointed mediator Mistura said it was important for the international community to tackle radical militant groups in Syria.
“The terrorist threat has become an international concern shared by everyone,” he told a news conference, adding that the international community was getting closer to taking action.
He said he had a “very long and useful meeting” with Assad, but declined to give details, saying only that the United Nations would work with Syria to help tackle the violence, provide humanitarian aid and work on a solution to the crisis.
“Syrians, wherever they are, and the government should be helped by the United Nations and the international community to find a Syrian-owned all-inclusive, positive, political process,” he said. However President Barack Obama “has emphasized repeatedly that Assad had lost all legitimacy and must go, but the President has also been clear and his first priority is the safety of the American people.
Syria has said it is willing to work with Mistura and has called on him to be fair and respect the wishes of the Syrian people.
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