Senate debates
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Questions without Notice
United Nations
3:00 pm
Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) | Hansard source
There are obviously a vast range of opportunities for Australia to engage, but we will particularly use next week's climate action summit to convey Australia's steadfast commitment to the Paris Agreement, stressing that our contribution includes building climate and disaster resilience in the Pacific. I'll also represent Australia on a panel for the sustainable oceans economy, because we know that economic production and ocean protection must go hand in hand. We also take a leadership role on human rights in these fora. In recent weeks I travelled to Cox's Bazar, in Bangladesh, where close to one million Rohingya people from Myanmar have taken refuge. I will be discussing also with counterparts how we can make progress on this very difficult problem and on how we are also able to support the response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
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