Australia Minister Doesn't Want IAEA Post
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Australia's foreign minister said Wednesday that the United States had asked him to challenge International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei for the top job at the U.N. nuclear watchdog, but he had declined.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard Sunday stared down reports his own environment minister had urged him to reverse government policy and sign the Kyoto Protocol ahead of next month's election.
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Australia has no plans for setting a timeline for the withdrawal of its troops from Iraq, Defense Minister Brendan Nelson said Thursday.
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Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says the Australian Federal Police Commissioner did not oppose the Government&#39;s decision to release information about a warning before the Australian embassy bombing in Jakarta.
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HAMISH ROBERTSON: The Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, sparked quite an argument last week with his comments in Beijing about whether Australia would side with the United States in any war over Taiwan.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard, seemingly isolated after New Zealand signalled it might join a Southeast Asian non-aggression pact, remained defiant on Tuesday, saying his country had no intention of attacking anyone.
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HONG KONG: North Korea shows no sign of accepting US incentives to give up its nuclear weapons programmes, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said in remarks released on Thursday.
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. The Government confirmed Australia had turned down an approach by the United Nations to send troops to help protect UN officials in Iraq.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard said on Thursday he would tell Russian President Vladimir Putin that he would not approve the sale of uranium to Moscow if there was any possibility it could be resold to Iran or Syria.
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Prime Minister John Howard brushed off criticism of his foreign minister's comment that Australia had no obligation to side with the United States if tensions between China and Taiwan erupted into war.
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Australia rejected a request to provide soldiers to protect United Nations workers in Iraq, a spokesman for Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said.
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THE Federal Government today played down its reluctance to join a non-aggression pact with Asian neighbours while Prime Minister John Howard prepared for a historic visit with ASEAN leaders.
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VIENTIANE, LAOS - Prime Minister Helen Clark is keeping out of a diplomatic row between Australia and the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) over Australian Prime Minister John Howard&#39;s refusal to sign a non-aggression pact.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard spoke out Wednesday against holding a state funeral for a former government minister who died while facing child sex abuse charges.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard Thursday rejected UN secretary-general Kofi Annan&#39;s claims that last year&#39;s Iraq war was &quot;illegal,&quot; while a British
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Australia's foreign minister warned Friday of tougher action to stop Japan whaling, despite calls for calm from both sides over the increasingly emotive dispute.
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The Australian government said it would not block Anglo-Swiss mining giant Xstrata's hostile takeover bid for WMC Resources despite opposition within its own ranks at giving a foreign company control of the world's largest uranium deposit.