soviet union - hofreps - 1970

Contexts in which the phrase soviet union was used in the House of Representatives during the 1970s

I can inform the House that it is the normal policy of the USSR to try to ensure that countries in its immediate vicinity or close to the Russian borders give the kind of help, and according to the conditions, that might be imposed by the Soviet Union itself. [More…]
Has the Soviet Union tied strings to its help by demanding full military and economic cooperation as the price for flood damage assistance? [More…]
A second tabled in the General Assembly by the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries would have called for the prohibition of the development production and stockpiling of chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons and the destruction of such weapons. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister noticed reports that Malaysia’s new Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, has called for the neutralisation of South East Asia with guarantees from the Soviet Union, China and the United States of America? [More…]
Comparable figures are not available for commitments by other countries including the Soviet Union. [More…]
In how many of these cases have unexplained delays occurred in securing the consent of the Soviet authorities for the nominees to leave the Soviet Union? [More…]
I would not like to think that the Soviet authorities would impose such a meagre penalty on evildoers in the Soviet Union convicted of a similar crime in relation to our embassy in Moscow. [More…]
Which is the southernmost of the islands over which sovereignty passed to the Soviet Union under the terms of the treaty. [More…]
It was the second contract that the Meat Board was able to negotiate with the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union is understood to have interpreted ‘Kurile Islands’ as including Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan and the Habomais, the last being the most southerly. [More…]
The delegation from the Soviet Union has been to Canberra and has been entertained by the InterParliamentary Union. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Has Australia expressed a view to Indonesia and Malaysia on the regime in the Strait of Malacca, as the Soviet Union and Japan are reported to have done? [More…]
The Soviet Union, if you like. [More…]
Has the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen reports that Jews wishing to leave the Soviet Union are being forced to pay for their freedom by being charged, on a sliding scale commensurate with their education, for their visas? [More…]
However on several occasions in the United Nations, the last occasion being at the meeting of the General Assembly last year, we have raised our voice and spoken in favour of the free movement of Jews from the Soviet Union in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
We had received information that in fact the Soviet Union had been relaxing ds restriction upon the movement of Jews from the Soviet Union. [More…]
Is there any inter-departmental committee or committees dealing with any aspects of Australia’s trading relations with (a) New Zealand (b) Japan (c) the United States (d) Great Britain (e) the European Economic Community (f) the Soviet Union (g) China (h) India (i) Indonesia and (j ) any other countries. [More…]
I cannot mention precisely at this time or in this place the countries that I shall be visiting but among them clearly will be the Soviet Union which for some time has been pressing for a visit, particularly since I have already visited the United States of America, Japan, China and Britain. [More…]
Has agreement been reached with the Soviet Union for the conduct of joint research programs with Australia. [More…]
1 ) What action has the Government taken to assist the 3 million Jewish people in the Soviet Union. [More…]
If no such action has been taken, will he raise this matter when in the Soviet Union, [More…]
Will he also ask the Soviet Union to end its oppression of these people. [More…]
What other action will he take to assist the 3 million Jewish people in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Did the delegates from the Soviet Union move at the International Whaling Commission meeting in London, held on 24-28 June 1974, to increase the eligible size of sperm whales to be killed. [More…]
If so, did the telegram ask him to inquire about the fate of 5 Lithuanians imprisoned in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Has the Government had any reports of Soviet Union reaction to his foreign policy statement? [More…]
The Opposition has encouraged a situation which would have helped to persuade the United States not to be involved, not to reinforce its capacities at Diego Garcia, and therefore it has encouraged a situation which would have left the Indian Ocean to the Soviet Union alone. [More…]
If President Carter can be successful in persuading the Soviet Union to take its extensive naval facilities out of the Indian [More…]
Does he support the President’s suggestion to the Soviet Union that the super- powers should agree to demilitarising the Indian Ocean? [More…]
Today, honourable members received parcels of unleavened bread or matzah, as it is known, for forwarding to Jews in the Soviet Union who are unable to get the proper bread for their celebration of the Passover this year. [More…]
This is one of the ways in which the atheistic Soviet Government persecutes all religions and I have here an account of the mean and horrible way in which it has endeavoured to deprive the Jews in the Soviet Union of the ceremonial bread which they need for their celebration of the Passover. [More…]
Six days ago I drew his attention to reports from the Los Angeles spy trial that the Central Intelligence Agency was engaged in deception against Australia and that secret material involving Australia had been passed to the Soviet Union. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to an article on page 44 of the Bulletin of 1 2 March 1 977 concerning the treatment of political prisoners in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Reasonable people can however reasonably conclude that the Soviet Union still seeks to expand its influence throughout the world in order to achieve Soviet primacy. [More…]
In the last decade, the Soviet Union has expanded its armed forces by 1 million men. [More…]
It would seem that there is an impression that the present activities of the United States are a reaction to the growing strength of the Soviet Union. [More…]
There would also seem to be the impression in some places that the Government is not aware of the concerns that are aroused as a result of the growing strength of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union’s offensive forces. [More…]
Kurile Islands: The Soviet Union claims, occupies and exercises jurisdiction over the Kurile Islands, which it is understood to interpret as including Kunashiri and Etorofu Islands and Shikotan Island and the Habomai group. [More…]
The United States, The Soviet Union, France, Britain , The Federal Republic of Germany, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, The German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia and Poland. [More…]
It is perhaps not surprising that the Sydney Morning Herald, in its brief and inadequate report of my criticisms, published the inaccurate smear of the honourable member for Eden-Monaro (Mr Sainsbury) that I have not opposed nuclear power in the Soviet Union. [More…]
That in the opinion of this House the Soviet Union has by its continuing violations of basic human rights revealed itself to be unfit to be the host nation of the 1980 Olympic Games. [More…]
If so, has the Government made the strongest possible protest to the Government of the Soviet Union over this deplorable incident? [More…]
He also said that Vietnam went hand in hand with the Soviet Union for the military and otherwise subversive destruction of Asia and all that that threat implies to Australia Where do members of the Labor Party stand? [More…]
We are not exchanging the model safeguards agreement with the Soviet Union, as the honourable member knows. [More…]
He also knows that the review of relations with the Soviet Union was brought about by discovery of the devices to which I referred and nothing more than that. [More…]
That this House condemns and censures the procommunist Victorian State ALP for its shameful and disgraceful abrogation of its responsibilities to uphold basic human rights by its failure to deplore the continuing persecution of dissidents within the Soviet Union. [More…]
The record was evident even theft, and the rape of Hungary stands as a monument to the fulfilment of that threat by the Soviet Union in the fifties- a monumental example of interference, invasion and the rape of another nation’s independence. [More…]
(i) Australia has agreements for scientific and technological cooperation with the Federal Republic of Germany, India, the Soviet Union and the United States of America. [More…]
Can he say (a) whether the United States of America has expressed support for the proposal and (b) whether (i) the Soviet Union, (ii) the Peoples Republic of China and (iii) Vietnam have opposed it. [More…]
Human Rights Detainee in Soviet Union: Mr I. Ogurtsov (Question No. [More…]
That the House notes the 40th Anniversary of the signing of the infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov Treaty in Moscow on the night of 23-24 August 1939 as a vital prelude to the commencement of World War II, and recalls with regret that notwithstanding the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 the Soviet Union continues to enjoy the rights guaranteed to it by the said Treaty, involving the enslavement of many independent nations and over 250 million citizens of Central and Eastern Europe. [More…]
For example, sales of beef and mutton totalling 30.000 tons have been made to the Soviet Union and there is a possibility of further sales being made to that country. [More…]
The Soviet Union, which was a big importer of wheat is now an exporter. [More…]
The General Assembly of the United Nations in 1957 voted to admit South Vietnam, only to be confronted with the veto of the Soviet Union in the Security Council. [More…]
He explicitly recognised that these matters are crucial in achieving a detente between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
In view of the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ recent decision to accept the invitation of the Soviet trade union organisation for the ACTU President to visit the Soviet Union, and in view of the ACTU’s favoring a reciprocal visit by the Russian union leader, can the Prime Minister say whether that person would be given a visa by this Government? [More…]
The person concerned is Alexander Nikolaevich Shelepin, who for 2 years from December 1958 was chief of the Soviet Union secret police and who retired from the position to one of less obvious connection but no less influence with that infamous organisation. [More…]
Then between 1941 and 1945 Vietnam was treated as a mere pawn in the game of big power by the Soviet Union, China, America and Britain. [More…]
He visited the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is no use saying, as was said in the defence statement, that we cannot confront the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe that it is to the credit of the Soviet Union that it has made that offer. [More…]
We could never enjoy any real security or even a sense of security if we turned a blind eye to the problems of South East Asia, to the aggressive and subversive policies of the Communist planners and nations, and especially to the recent activities of the Soviet Union in the Indian Ocean and South East Asia. [More…]
The Soviet Union is clearly involving itself in the Indian Ocean and the South East Asian area for several reasons. [More…]
The Soviet Union remains the greatest threat to world peace. [More…]
The Soviet Union is extremely conscious of this. [More…]
With a threat from Hitler’s Germany, there was an alliance with the Soviet Union on the eastern side of Germany. [More…]
Today the’ Soviet Union has created a supra-national Communist military force and claims the right to use it to exercise surveillance within Communist countries. [More…]
If the Soviet Union can get rid of the Chinese distraction on its eastern border its possibilities of surveillance over Albania, Yugoslavia and Rumania may begin to operate, and then from the forcible consolidation of the Communist bloc the Soviet Union may be well placed to dominate western Europe. [More…]
The embarrassments of the Soviet Union in relation to China exist because China has the intelligence to raise ideological issues about her borders and about Soviet domination of subject nationalities which have put the Soviet Union on the ideological defensive. [More…]
China is in the position of being a revolutionary power vis-a-vis the Soviet Union. [More…]
De Gaulle asked the simple question: ‘If a nuclear attack is made on France will the United States on behalf of France make a nuclear attack on the other power - the Soviet Union, shall we say?’ [More…]
Throughout its history, the Soviet Union may on occasions have achieved some good production results but they are rare occasions. [More…]
This morning it was broadcast that the administration of Communist China had criticised the Soviet Union for, in this centenary year of Lenin’s birth, straying from Leninism and preaching Socialism while practising imperialism. [More…]
Is the Minister for External Affairs aware of a broadcast made last night over certain commercial broadcasting stations by a Mr Frank Chamberlain in which he inferred that the United States action in respect of Cambodia was no different from the Soviet Union’s actions in regard to Czechoslovakia last year? [More…]
Peking and the Soviet Union are right. [More…]
It goes on to indicate that Mr Jacob Malik, the Soviet Union’s chief delegate to the United Nations, had said that a Geneva conference could bring about a fresh solution and a relaxation of tension in the Indo-China peninsula. [More…]
There seemed to be an indication of a conciliatory attitude on the part of the Soviet Union at that stage. [More…]
As other honourable members have said, whether we like it or not - I am not suggesting that Australia alone can or should do much about it - the Soviet Union ;s building up its Indian Ocean fleet. [More…]
But the United Kingdom is withdrawing and now the Soviet Union is there. [More…]
The Soviet Union will endeavour to gain bases in countries with which it can establish relationships, it will use the might of the Soviet fleet to bring about trade and diplomatic relations with those countries. [More…]
As was suggested by the honourable member for Mitchell, 1 did serve in the Soviet Union, from which country I was expelled twice. [More…]
In the Soviet Union, the Attorney-General tells me - and I have always found that anything the honourable gentleman says about the Soviet Union must be consummately sound - consent is not required for marriage after 18. [More…]
Marked reductions in imports into India and Pakistan and also in those by Mainland China and the Soviet Union were the main cause of the decline in world trade in 1963-69. [More…]
This excluded production in the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
This is due to several factors, the first being that the Soviet Union was a big importer in the mid 1960s but today is an exporter. [More…]
I hope that the attack contained in the article does not represent the development of a united front between the Soviet Union. [More…]
1 suggest that it would be in the interests of the Soviet Union also to make a constructive effort towards a solution to the problems of the area in the same spirit as thai adopted by those vthc met at Djakarta. [More…]
Rumania has had 2 hijackings, the Soviet Union has had 1 and Yugoslavia has had 2. [More…]
A request was made for this person to be handed over to the Soviet Union to be taken back to that country to be tried. [More…]
It was Lenin’s technique in the Soviet Union. [More…]
On 21st August when asking the Prime Minister a question regarding the photographing of pensioner deputations by this Government’s secret police, I prefaced my question by reference to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Czechoslovakia exactly 2 years previously. [More…]
I suggest that it would be better for Australia to follow the example of those American leaders than of the Soviet Union and those countries which give lip service to law and order. [More…]
This is not always the case with some other Western donors,It is certainly not the case with the Soviet Union and the other Communist countries, whose aid announcements are ludicrously short of the actual transfer of resources, short by more than 50 per cent. [More…]
Indeed, in the misguided belief that Australia’s defences were best guarded by having American troops held down indefinitely on the Asian mainland, the Australian government has helped to distort America’s own foreign policy, particularly her efforts to achieve a detente with the Soviet Union. [More…]
There is, of course, a very marked division between the foreign policy of the Soviet Union and the foreign policy of China. [More…]
The Soviet Union now, as a very great power following in every respect and in every detail the foreign policies of the Czars, deals with the respectable nationalist governments - the Nassers and others - and hopes to spread its power. [More…]
I do not believe that any Indian Ocean country has given the Soviet Union bases or any permanent position such as that. [More…]
There is a tacit agreement between the United States and Russia that if the United States does not blockade the port of Haiphong the Soviet Union will not provide certain weapons to the North Vietnamese. [More…]
The purposes of the Soviet Union in Czechoslovakia were evil and anti-freedom; but its action was carried through swiftly and effectively, and the minds of men have forgotten it. [More…]
The Soviet Union has made capital from India’s fear of China and the mutual distrust between India and Pakistan. [More…]
It is reported that Canada and the Soviet Union are to engage in negotiations later this month in relation to Soviet fishing operations in the high seas adjacent to the west coast of Canada. [More…]
America met in Russia the then head of the Soviet Union- [More…]
The Soviet Union, with massive support from the Warsaw Pact, is endeavouring to secure its position in [More…]
The total of 190 tons is estimated to be very close to the current gold output of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Nations both the United States and the Soviet Union have examined this matter very closely and have suggested a treaty, which has not yet been approved, to control off-shore submarine aggression. [More…]
The Soviet Union was showing an interest. [More…]
In the last few weeks the Malaysian Government, in pressing for accommodatios with China - Mainland or Communist, depending on whether or not wheat is being sold to it, as far as the Aus tralian Country Party is concerned - and the neutralisation of South East Asia, guaranteed by the United States of America, the Soviet Union and China, has shown a sanity and a maturity which is sadly lacking in this Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
Clearly, the Soviet Union hopes to match whatever kudos the United States gels from Vietnam intervention if this intervention suggests United Stales protection of South East Asia with a Soviet suggested role as the protector of South East Asia herself. [More…]
Indeed, negotiations are being undertaken by the Soviet Union so that it can come in and lake over the bases. [More…]
I think that the Soviet Union is exerting influence on India at the present time, ft is also exerting influence on Singapore and Malaysia. [More…]
Every Australian should know what most Americans now realise, that the United States nuclear superiority over the Soviet Union in 1961 has now been reversed. [More…]
In the space of 3 years - from 1965 to 1970- the Soviet Union has virtually quadrupled the total megatonnage in its strategic defensive force. [More…]
J remind the House that, even in 1967, the American Security Council reported that the available evidence indicated that the Soviet Union had a goal of strategic superiority designed to win a nuclear war rather than merely deter one. [More…]
Trie Soviet Union wants to penetrate in strength and deeply into the Indian Ocean. [More…]
So are 40-odd other states, including the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, New Zealand, Malaysia and Thailand. [More…]
It is important to remember that when Sir Allen Fairhall made this speech the Government was in full flight under pressure from the Democratic Labor Party from the Freeth doctrine of using a short spoon when supping with the Soviet Union. [More…]
When I have explained to the poor immigration officer who had put the question that I was not really a citizen of the Soviet Union he has said, ‘No, it does not mean that’. [More…]
If the discussions take place in this forum there is a good indication that the Soviet Union and other countries will participate in the agreement. [More…]
The coal miners in the United States produce twice as many tons per shift - about 14 tons per shift as against 7 tons per shift here and about 1 ton per shift in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The censorship imposed by the Soviet Union on the great novelists of the day is an historical fact of great sadness to all who are interested in the propagation of man’s artistic and creative ability and freedom. [More…]
A study of the treatment of criminals in the Soviet Union shows how far we are behind in our methods in this country. [More…]
In the Soviet Union attempts are made to reform a criminal, to convert him to be a useful member of society. [More…]
If someone wants to be critical of the Soviet Union and say that what the Soviet is doing is not allowing the Jews to emigrate, or someone wants to criticise South Africa for the way it treats its black people and liken those in authority to Hitler by carrying banners to this effect, surely this is insulting. [More…]
No, all one has to show is that somebody who wants to do something for some political purpose, a protest or a demonstration, interferes with someone who wants to make money or with someone who wants to use a public office for conscription or to work for the war in Vietnam, or with some diplomat working for apartheid or for the Soviet Union. [More…]
But I must say that many of the slogans used previously by Government supporters in favour of this sort of legislation are similar to those used by the authoritarian and totalitarian nations such as those of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Surely we are not trying to imitate the sort of State that exists in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The same sort of approach toward dissent and the rights of a minority characterises the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Labor Government of West Germany under Herr Brandt has greatly influenced relations between the two Germanies, between West Germany and Eastern Europe and between West Germany and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Let me mention the Soviet Union.’ [More…]
It is the Soviet Union that has penetrated into the Middle East with policies that have been highly successful. [More…]
It is the Soviet Union that, the United States charged, had assisted Egypt in breaking the ceasefire in the early days of the ceasefire. [More…]
There is a clear, implicit Soviet objective of a canal reopened, but perhaps reopened for the ships of one navy - the Soviet Union’s navy. [More…]
This would clearly make it much easier for the Soviet Union to maintain and strengthen her naval presence in the Indian Ocean, a presence which must first be established before she can use that presence for political or strategic purposes. [More…]
It may be in 1 year, it may be in 5 or 10 years, but there will be increased tension as a result of Soviet activities in this part of the world, and the Soviet Union will use that tension and its presence to advance its political and strategic purposes, and the shorter time scale may be more relevant than the later. [More…]
Clearly China in history has no cause to love any of the great powers, least of all the Soviet Union which still occupies territories that China regards as her own. [More…]
This Congress, which is the supreme body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, saw the return of Mr Breznhev as Party Secretary and Mr Breznhev is a resolute opponent of any concessions on the border dispute. [More…]
Despite the very great differences between the Soviet Union and China, it would be unwise to hope for any real rapprochement between China and America against Russia. [More…]
In Chinese terms the United States is an Imperialist country; the Soviet Union is Social Imperialist. [More…]
The institutional framework for relations between this country and the Soviet Union is remarkably primitive. [More…]
The Soviet Union does not lack interest in Australia but quite clearly it regards it as an anomaly - a country which cannot be accommodated in its geographical region. [More…]
This puts Australia in a very difficult position to assert its foreign policy to the Soviet Union in a regional context. [More…]
Appeals for military aid were made to a number of countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States of America, India, the Soviet Union and Australia. [More…]
The aid given by India and the Soviet Union involves, in both cases, the provision of military personnel from those countries. [More…]
The Soviet Union has sent pilots with its helicopters and MIG 17 fighter aircraft. [More…]
The Soviet Union will work with you to prevent the Chinese thrust south’. [More…]
thrusting south the Soviet Union would be supporting her. [More…]
The Soviet Union’s objection to China was that China was raising the question of the 600,000 square miles of Chinese territory annexed by the czars after 1858 and was raising the kind of ideological issues which are a potential dissolvent of the Soviet Union, whether Georgians, Ukranians or others would continue or wish to continue to be subordinate to the White Russians in what is a vast colonial empire of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The revolutionary anti-colonialist principles of China are a potential dissolvent of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union has 3 million troops along the borders of China. [More…]
De Gaulle realised that if the Soviet Union could get rid of this Chinese distraction nothing would stop her from occupying with the greatest of ease Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Romania - all Communist countries. [More…]
Whether we like Mao Tse-tung or not, a lot of people who have not the slightest sympathy with his regime would prefer Mao if he is not subordinate to the Soviet Union than Liu Shao-chi if he was prepared to go into unity with the Soviet Union. [More…]
But there is no doubt in anybody’s mind that we Australians and the Australian Government are opposed to the sort of government which is in existence in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister seen the reports that the United States Government has initiated proposals with the Soviet Union to establish a zone of neutrality in the Indian Ocean? [More…]
The question at large of social attitudes and social influences in this area can, of course, open up a whole gamut of possibilities between the wholesale creches of the Soviet Union and our hitherto held concept of a young child’s place being in the home with the mother. [More…]
They could produce nuclear weapons and all the other weaponry possessed bv the United States of America and the Soviet Union. [More…]
We are told that the People’s Republic of China is at least 2 to 3 years behind the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe that Japan in its weapons development could outpace such countries as the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
Our exports to Japan, the United Kingdom and particularly the Soviet Union are up on the previous year. [More…]
I notice, in the ‘Encyclopaedia Britannica’, that the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, the Argentine, Brazil and Mexico already have compensation payable on the basis of 100 per cent rate benefit in their normal wages. [More…]
Let us consider other countries such as; to mention the ones I have already spoken of, Mexico, Argentina, the Soviet Union and Bulgaria. [More…]
Let us seize the opportunity now to get rational, peaceful and fruitful relations between all the great powers in the Pacific - China and the United States, Japan and the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is not only a humanitarian question, but it is a provocation towards a war - a provocation towards a war in which both the Soviet Union and Communist China might intervene if it is launched. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that India has signed a treaty of peace, friendship and co-operation with the Soviet Union on 9th August. [More…]
Naturally we are studying this treaty closely to assess its possible implications for the presence of the Soviet Union on the Indian sub-con tinent and in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
I do not think it is any use at this stage the American Government wringing its hands about the friendship treaty between the Soviet Union and India. [More…]
I am sure that honourable members who were here at the time when troops from the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries invaded Czechoslovakia will recall that on both sides of the House honourable members united to express the concern through this Parliament of all the people of Australia at what was happening in that part of the world at that time. [More…]
1 would not be so bold as to say that we were so well situated to improve relations with the Soviet Union but I did notice - as a matter of fact when I arrived in Tokyo and was met by my old opponent but good friend, Mr Gordon Freeth - as a crowning irony that the Prime Minister had just said this about the Soviet Union and me: [More…]
The situation technically is that not only is Japan still in a state of war with the Soviet Union but she is still also in a state of war with China. [More…]
Perhaps I should speak briefly on the difficulty between China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
She realises that she could not defeat the Soviet Union. [More…]
She is willing to hold o.ut for 20 or 30 years until she is in a position of equality with the Soviet Union before she enters into an equal treaty to ratify those borders. [More…]
Then, when Mr Chou denounced *he Soviet Union for terminating the Sino-Soviet friendship treaty, the Leader of the Opposition said: [More…]
Japan may either go in with China in an economic entente, despite words, or she may go in with the Soviet Union. [More…]
We must re-assess our position with regard to Great Britain, the United States, China, Japan and the Soviet Union. [More…]
We had to take those steps because the Soviet Union could not, because of differences that they have that at the present time seem to be irreconcilable. [More…]
But at least the doors must be opened and the goal of US policy must be in the long term, ending the isolation of Mainland China, and a normalisation of our relations with Mainland China because, looking down the road, and let’s just look ahead IS to 20 years, the United States could have a perfectly effective agreement with the Soviet Union for limitation of arms - the danger of any confrontation there - [More…]
He is referring to the Soviet Union - might have been almost totally removed. [More…]
The honourable member further forgets that the one significant strategic difference between the situation that then prevailed and that which is now beginning to emerge is China’s growing fear of the Soviet Union which makes China look outward to see what other relationships she might form and what changes she might be able to make in her connections with other countries. [More…]
At this time Australia is seeking to broaden its relations with the Soviet Union and to normalise its relations wilh the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
In submitting proposals to the Secretary-General regarding the review of the United Nations’ Charter, which are required before 1st July 1972, will the Government give consideration to the need to move for (a) negotiating an international exchange of press space and broadcasting time, (b) representation for China and Tibet separately (as for the Soviet Union, the Ukraine and Byelorussia) to encourage China to accept de facto representation for Taiwan, and separate representation for contending regimes in other divided countries, (c) universal suffrage in developing nations as a step towards democratic representation at the General Assembly or an associated House of Deputies and (d) growing legislative, judicial and executive powers for the United Nations as a pre-requisite for total disarmament, co-ordinated world development and control of the environment, subject to safeguards for national sovereignty in purely national matters? [More…]
He was talking about the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) - he gave away in advance every bargaining counter that Australia has in future negotiations with China and in the process gratuitously insulted not only the United States, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines and Cambodia but even the Soviet Union. [More…]
On Monday night, Mr McMahon said that Mr Whitlam had even spoken contemptuously of the Soviet Union- [More…]
Has he forgotten the Soviet Union’s invasion of Czechoslovakia? [More…]
He spoke of the differences between China and the Soviet Union over their border dispute. [More…]
The Government wants to forget Czechoslovakia and the freedoms that have been crushed in that country, lt even wants to ignore the restrictions on the freedom of the artists and writers in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The first matter, which I dealt with in greater detail last Thursday afternoon, is this: There is still no peace between Japan and the Soviet Union. [More…]
China and the Soviet Union were not represented at San Francisco. [More…]
For myself, I reject the concept of suppression, whether it be practised in the United States of America, South Africa, China, the Soviet Union oi any other place in the world. [More…]
1971, the United States and the Soviet Union presented to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament (CCD), a joint draft convention on biological weapons. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: In view of his thwarted effort to write directly to the Soviet Premier, Mr Kosygin, does he intend to visit the Soviet Union or extend an invitation to Mr Kosygin to visit Australia in return for the visit of the former Deputy Prime Minister? [More…]
One must have a short memory if one forgets what the Russians did in Hungary or Czechoslovakia, or the present persecution of the Jewish people, the Baptists and other minorities in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The United States and the Soviet Union have enough explosives to kill and overkill mankind 25 times. [More…]
Before we all pass on 1 should like to hear the honourable member for Reid ask one day that the Soviet Union make available all information about its defences. [More…]
In one phrase he said that my criticism was directed only one way, meaning that I never criticise the Soviet Union. [More…]
When the former Minister for External Affairs and former honourable member for Forrest, Mr Gordon Freeth - the present Ambassador to Japan - introduced his infamous new Government line on the proposed Soviet security treaty in the Indian Ocean, etc., in 1969, I was the first in this Parliament to place on record strong criticism of our linking ourselves in any way in a security treaty with the Soviet Union, just as I criticised our involvement with the United States of America in Vietnam and our involvement with the United Kingdom in the Malaysian-Indonesian crisis. [More…]
I do not consider that I said at any time that the honourable member for Reid supported the Soviet Union. [More…]
I did say that if the honourable member was prepared to obtain from the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China details of their instruments and weapons installations he would be more impressive. [More…]
Mr Klass has said that the Pine Gap base is used to get information about a possible sneak attack by the Soviet Union upon the United States of America, or indeed, upon us - a sneak attack from anywhere. [More…]
If there is one thing more than another which is likely to lead to war it is the belief by the Soviet Union that it could launch a sneak attack and get away with it. [More…]
The one purpose of this base, if one accepts what Mr Klass has sard, is to prevent a sneak attack by the Soviet Union on one of us. [More…]
Since the only information that honourable members of the Opposition had was what Mr Klass had said, they are coming out openly in favour of aggression by the Soviet Union. [More…]
They want to help the Soviet Union to perpetrate aggression. [More…]
The only purpose of the base as set out by Mr Klass is to prevent the Soviet Union from launching a sneak attack upon us or upon the United States. [More…]
In point of fact, whether they know it or not, they have tried to encourage the Soviet Union in aggression. [More…]
Sovereignty did not pass to the Soviet Union, by the terms of the treaty, in respect of any islands. [More…]
Can the Minister for the Navy give the House some indication of the very serious recent decline in the naval strength and sea power of the United States compared with that of the Soviet Union? [More…]
Moreover, in terms of other matters, the Soviet Union has been equipping its ships with surface to surface missiles. [More…]
Its gross national product is now the third largest in the world behind the United States of America and the Soviet Union. [More…]
We were informed through administration sources and the Australian Embassy in Washington that the President had made a decision that he would visit the Soviet Union. [More…]
On what occasions has the Soviet Union evinced hostility to Australia of such a nature as to threaten us with aggression? [More…]
Consistently with this view Australia has supported moves to bring the matter before the United Nations, which, however, were successfully opposed by the Soviet Union and other supporters of North Viet-Nam. [More…]
I think something like 50,000 a week have been moved largely by the efforts of the Soviet Union which has put in large passenger aircraft to help transport some of the war victims to the central States of India. [More…]
When we are talking about the Soviet Union Navy sailing its ships up and down the Indian Ocean we get terribly excited. [More…]
Our trade is growing with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and, as 1 said to this House only a week or so ago, the Soviet Union is now our second largest market for beef. [More…]
I know that the honourable member visited the Soviet Union on his trip. [More…]
Perhaps if the Prime Minister had gone to the Soviet Union or to Peking the honourable member would have been on his feet applauding him and saying what a good thing it was. [More…]
This is a sphere in which I think undoubtedly the West has fallen behind the Soviet Union in thought and in evolution because it has stuck very largely to surface to air weapons, which are not especially designed to meet our purposes. [More…]
One of the countries in which he spent a considerable time was the Soviet Union. [More…]
If he says there is no dissent, perhaps he should ask the Jewish people and those people who have moved out of the Soviet Union and the areas over which the Soviet Union has control. [More…]
Whenever he has been to the Soviet Union there has been a revival within months of that visit. [More…]
I have heard it said that there is no threat to Australia from the Soviet Union. [More…]
Let us also remember that the Soviet Union has some perfectly legitimate interests in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Furthermore, the Russians have no bases in the Indian Ocean, even in Indian ports, and India is the country which has just signed a treaty with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Only last week Mr Gandhi told a meeting of the Royal Institute of International Affairs that India had no intention of offering military bases to the Soviet Union. [More…]
A new balance is emerging which includes the United States, the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, Japan and the European community, including Britain. [More…]
China and the Soviet Union in North Asia. [More…]
But beyond the indescribable sufferings facing millions of people in the subcontinent, it is essential that the great powers, particularly the Soviet Union, the Peoples Republic of China and the United States, do not become further and directly involved. [More…]
We have become used to taking for granted that if the United States and the Soviet Union were determined to prevent or confine a war, their will would prevail. [More…]
Equally significant about the new period and relationships is the fact that the first time China has acted in the Security Council she has aligned herself with the United States and Japan in opposition to the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union is a valued customer for Australian primary products and non-strategic goods generally, having consistently purchased large quantities of wool from Australia and, at various times, of wheat and meat. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Soviet Union is never likely to be a threat to the integrity of Australia whereas Communist China might pose such a threat twenty or more years hence, will he do everything possible to encourage peaceful relations in trade, tourism, culture, medicine, literature and science with the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
There are now 5 major power groupings: The United States of America, the Soviet Union, China, Japan and the European Community. [More…]
Such visit is objectionable not only because of the treatment of political prisoners by the Soviet Union but also because it may precipitate violence similar to that experienced during the South African Rugby Tour. [More…]
He is happy to go to such meetings to rant about the Labor Party and the Soviet Union but be is not prepared to send a substitute. [More…]
Despite what the honourable member for Corangamite has said in regard to South Africa, the Soviet Union or any other country, when fine wools are required the buyers of the world come to Australia. [More…]
The United States of America maintains its global balance with the Soviet Union and it has a marked superiority in strategic nuclear strength vis-a-vis China. [More…]
The United States, the Soviet Union, China and Japan are exploring each other’s attitudes and examining the effect of initiatives taken. [More…]
In the present situation of uncertainty about the intentions of China and the Soviet Union, and the aggressive militancy of the North Vietnamese throughout IndoChina, and widespread insurgency in our northern neighbourhood, a positive Australian policy founded on an adequate defence effort and on defence arrangements or understandings with our neighbours may contribute to confidence and stability in the region in which we live. [More…]
To lay stress on dangerous contingencies against which Australian defence efforts must steadily prepare over the longer term is not inconsistent wi.h the hopes entertained by the President of the United States of progressively negotiating understandings which will reduce tensions among the 4 great powers: The Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, the United States and Japan - and particularly among the 3 great military powers in this group. [More…]
The following countries have resident missions in Cyprus headed by an Ambassador, High Commissioner or Charge d’Affaires: Britain, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, West Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Romania, Syria, Turkey, Soviet Union, United States, Yugoslavia. [More…]
In the present situation of uncertainty about the intentions of China and the Soviet Union, and the aggressive militancy of North Vietnamese throughout Indo-China, and widespread insurgency in our northern neighbourhood, a positive Australian policy founded on an adequate defence effort and on defence arrangements or understandings with our neighbours may contribute to confidence and stability in the region in which we live. [More…]
Of course the North Vietnamese are using tanks, but the problem is to get the supplies of the Soviet Union out of the place and to get the American advisers out and bring the war to an end. [More…]
They put out feelers for a regional arrangement with the Soviet Union. [More…]
He said we should not be the followers of big powers, whether it be the Soviet Union, the United States or Great Britain. [More…]
We could and should be representing to the Soviet Union that her massive and continuing support for North Vietnam is a massive contribution to a continuation of the war, to upgrading the level of violence of the war and the continuation of the bloodshed. [More…]
Nothing has characterised the hypocrisy of this Government over Vietnam more than its silence and its acquiescence on the role of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The tanks, the surface-to-air missiles, or SAMs, all the sophisticated weaponry there now - the things that have made what was a guerrilla war into a massive war between 2 of the largest and best equipped armies of the world today - have been brought about not by China but by the Soviet Union and by the United States. [More…]
What I repudiate is any view which does not record our objection to and rejection of any action, by either side - not just by the Vietnamese but by all the powers, namely, the United States, the Soviet Union and China, who in pursuit of utterly mistaken ideas of national interest have hurled Indo-China into this crucible of blood - which prolongs the sacrifice and suffering of the people of Vietnam. [More…]
Can the Minister for Foreign Affairs inform the House what evidence his Department has been able to discover as to the amount of supplies being given to the North Vietnamese by the Soviet Union? [More…]
With the qualification that one cannot guarantee the accuracy of the figures, I can say that the evidence at the moment points to the “fact that the Soviet Union would have supplied aid to North Vietnam to the extent of SI, 000m in the past year whereas the People’s Republic of China would have provided aid to the extent of about $300m in that time. [More…]
The second reason is to impress the allies of North Vietnam - ‘the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China - of its capacity to strike at this time and to involve them, particularly at a time when the United States President is visiting the capitals of those 2 countries. [More…]
In the House on 18th April 1972 in an earlier debate recorded on page 1694 of Hansard the Leader of the Opposition berated the Government for its silence and acquiescence on the role of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlan) recently criticised the massive commitment of the Soviet Union and, of course, the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The people of the Soviet Union who supply to the’ forces of North Vietnam arms such as the rockets that rain on to Saigon, and the pilots of the B52 bombers which are raining bombs on Hanoi and Haiphong, are killing ordinary people. [More…]
But the Labor Party, in government as in opposition, would strive to work through every diplomatic avenue possible, through the United Nations and through our influence with the United States and the Soviet Union to bring about a peaceful solution to the war in Vietnam. [More…]
Does the honourable member for Wills not know that many members on his side have recently been in the Soviet Union and are continuing to go to the Soviet Union? [More…]
Are they to speak in this debate about the great influence that they had in the Soviet Union? [More…]
They were concerned that the North Vietnamese, with the support of the Soviet Union and with sophisticated weaponry, were moving throughout South Vietnam in an endeavour to take the provincial cities. [More…]
The sophisticated weapons have all come from the Soviet Union. [More…]
The United States of America now knows that the Soviet Union has not the slightest reason for regret at United States involvement in Vietnam. [More…]
The Soviet Union fights the US by giving the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong weapons. [More…]
The reason for this is that the US is trying to exploit the divisions between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
General de Gaulle believed that a ‘union des patries’, a united Europe, would be possible because the Soviet Union was distracted on her eastern border by China. [More…]
We are now brought to the appalling situation where a mistake, a rash reaction, could bring the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of war. [More…]
And now, 18 years later, a million or more lives later, the United Stales and the Soviet Union confront each other across the minefields of Haiphong Harbour. [More…]
Canada in the Pacific and Herr Brandt in the Atlantic community have been true friends of the United States because they have eased the United States’ path to sane relations, in the one case with China and in the other case with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Anything which can prevent a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union here must be tried and Australians are the people incomparably well placed to try it. [More…]
The Soviet Union has been a socialist country for 55 years. [More…]
Was it correctly reported that the Minister recently granted political asylum to a ship’s deserter from the Soviet Union because he did not want to return to his nagging wife? [More…]
Does the Minister consider that his actions were in the best interests of diplomatic relations between this country and the Soviet Union? [More…]
We know that the Soviet Union has an arrangement and is using the island of Socotra at the southern end of the Red Sea to carry out naval repair work and so on. [More…]
Undoubtedly, some of the countries in northern Africa will make naval bases available to the Soviet Union which is interested in the area. [More…]
Our continental shelf has an area of over 800,000 square miles and is the fourth largest in the world, after that of the United States of America, the Soviet Union and Canada. [More…]
I ask: Has Australia made any representations to the Soviet Union where, unlike China, we have an embassy, in support of the British representations? [More…]
Indeed, traders should be aware that the whole of the East European area, including the Soviet Union, constitutes a very large market of some 350 million people whose rising incomes and living standards represent a valauble potential market for Australia. [More…]
My Department of Trade and Industry will be ready to assist businessmen in their endeavour to increase trade with the Eastern European countries and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Opposition approves of this development, and we note with interest that even in detail it accords with the position taken by the Opposition 5 or 6 years ago in respect of both the need to explore the realities of trade with the central European countries and the Soviet Union and the need to build into such trade the new negotiating principles and advisory bodies to take advantage of the kind of trade that the central European countries and the Soviet Union represent. [More…]
The only regret that the Opposition has is that the initiative was not taken earlier because of an atmosphere of political prejudice, which seems to have prevailed in and around the Government, in which it was difficult for the Government to undertake trade with countries like Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union and still to dispense the kind of foreign policy that it required. [More…]
lt has often been said that Australian government instrumentalities and other similar bodies are not anxious to accept or are not comfortable in accepting tenders from the Soviet Union or from Czechoslovakia because these countries are not experienced in working in the Australian environment. [More…]
The first is India’s abandonment of non-alignment in favour of an accord with the Soviet Union. [More…]
The basis of this detente is that the Soviet Union could destroy China and could destroy the United States. [More…]
Equally, the United States could destroy the Soviet Union. [More…]
I would like to say to the honourable member for Henty that I think the assessment by his friend that the dispute between China and the Soviet Union is a dispute as to who is to be ‘the boss’ of the communist world is a very serious error in analysis. [More…]
China fears the Soviet Union because the Soviet Union could destroy China. [More…]
Equally, the Soviet Union suspected that Chinese policy over Cuba in 1962 was an attempt to involve the Soviet Union in a war with the United States in which they would both destroy one another, leaving China as the gainer. [More…]
The analysis of the dispute between the Soviet Union and China is not as trivial as the honourable member’s friend says. [More…]
I refer to China’s growing significance as a distraction to the Soviet Union, forcing a Soviet military concentration on the eastern border of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Chinese claims that have been put forward for an abrogation of the unequal treaties imposed by the Czars seriously worry the Soviet Union. [More…]
A less obvious factor is the Soviet fear of a Chinese strategy to disintegrate the Soviet Union. [More…]
Many of the people in the Soviet Union - Ukrainians, Georgians and so forth - in essence are colonial people and ideological comments from China aimed at those people are interpreted by the Soviet Union as an attempt to disintegrate the Soviet Union. [More…]
We were also an ally, willy nilly, of the Soviet Union during the Second World War. [More…]
We did not say: ‘Germany is noncommunist and the Soviet Union is communist*. [More…]
President Nixon is making approaches to the Soviet Union and to China. [More…]
If true peace and national integrity are to be secured on the world scene, the countries constituting the European Communities, the United States, the Soviet Union, Japan and the People’s Republic of China, will need to arrive at some balance. [More…]
Both the Soviet Union and the United States have for some years been searching for ways of reducing the tensions between them, particularly those tensions that have buttressed the super power confrontation and have from time to time erupted into serious disputes that exposed the danger of nuclear war. [More…]
Soviet Union and the United States. [More…]
I think we can all remember that, when the Mao Tse Tung administration took over in Peking at the end of 1949, it was the view of this Government and the United States Government that it was an agent for the Soviet Union and that this was the eastwards thrust of Soviet Communism into China. [More…]
If one assumes that naval warfare between the United States of America and the Soviet Union takes place, and the world has reached that point of disaster, it is quite possible that the war would be nuclear warfare. [More…]
I shall shortly give the number of migrants from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which incorporates Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Ukraine. [More…]
and (2) The Soviet Union has never asked the British Government to reconvene the Geneva Conference on Vietnam. [More…]
The honourable member for Lalor seems to indulge in a number of visits to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Let us hear the honourable member for Lalor and the honourable member for Reid make speeches in the Parliament - where they are paid to be - about the Chinese and Soviet Union atomic tests. [More…]
That may be right or it may be wrong but they are certainly exercising a parental preference which is available to parents under this system in contrast to the system in the Soviet Union where a great proportion of females work and State child-minding centres in which there are children in great numbers, are found in profusion. [More…]
I think it is of interest to note that only today the Australian Wheat Board has reported a sale, the largest sale ever, to another Communist country, the Soviet Union, of one million tons of wheat for an approximate sum of $50m, and of course, that sale is for cash. [More…]
the Soviet Union, we in Australia should be thinking not only of the need to look after country areas everywhere but in particular of the need to look after the country areas in the north - that is, in Queensland and if need be in the Northern Territory and the northern parts of Western Australia. [More…]
Despite large increases in North Sea production, it appears likely that European natural gas imports from the Soviet Union and North Africa will increase and Shell T. and T. Co. estimates that by 1976 imports from these 2 areas will have risen to 2.4 billion cubic feet per day. [More…]
The Government ought to realise that this is not a dictatorship: this is not a police State; we are not living under a government of Hitlerite Germany; we are not living in the Soviet Union; we are not living in Portugal or Fa.sc.isl Spain. [More…]
The Komar and Osa class patrol boats used by the Soviet Union have been considered for particular purposes. [More…]
I have mentioned in this House the sale of one million tons of Australian wheat to the Soviet Union for cash. [More…]
In the Security Council the frequent use of the veto by the Soviet Union served constantly to paralyse the organisation in matters concerning world security. [More…]
I would like to go on to say that the detente in relations between the Soviet Union and the United States owes nothing to the United Nations General Assembly or to the Security Council. [More…]
In the IndoPakistani war the Security Council did, after much debate, reach a resolution urging a cease fire but only when the war had virtually come to the end desired by the Soviet Union. [More…]
The unjust discrimination against Jews in the Soviet Union is another instance of this double morality, because it is apparently ignored by the United Nations. [More…]
I repeat what I said: The unjust discrimination against Jews in the Soviet Union is just another instance of this double morality, because apparently it is ignored by the United Nations. [More…]
I put it to honourable members that we are prepared to sell out some of our views and some of our reasonable propositions vis-a-vis the Soviet Union to get the support of that country. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen) has proudly announced that the Soviet Union will support our election to the Security Council. [More…]
This contrasts with the behaviour of some Ministers who proudly parade before migrants from captive countries like Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the Ukraine and parts of Poland and speak of support for them against the Soviet Union. [More…]
We are doing everything we possibly can and are coming to secret agreement with the Soviet Union so as to get the 3 Soviet votes - as honourable members know, the Soviet Union has 3 votes - necessary to enable Australia to be elected to the Security Council. [More…]
One of the ways in which we have been antagonising the Soviet Union up until now has been by accepting its political refugees into Australia. [More…]
It has been alleged that for the next few months - until the vote for the Security Council is taken - the Soviet Union should not be antagonised and that the Department of Foreign Affairs has told the Department of Immigration that it should not be sympathetic to people whom the Soviet Union wants to exclude from membership of any outside nation - people whom it wants to get back into its own clutches. [More…]
There axe allegations that this has been done with respect to a prominent Ukrainian who has escaped fromthe Soviet Union to Vienna. [More…]
I am happy about supporting the right of people to be out of the Soviet Union and in Australia, but we should not be giving them misinformation and pretending we support them while at the same time remaining silent in places where what is said really counts - in the United Nations - and making general statements simply to get support from the Soviet Union on an issue that is not really terribly important to Australia, namely, whether Australia is to be a member of the Security Council next year. [More…]
The Prime Minister of Malaysia has recently been to the Soviet Union. [More…]
He made a statement there in which he said that the Soviet Union was welcome in trade matters but he did not want to enter into defence arrangements. [More…]
They are able to put their country in a position that it does not have to fear the might of the Soviet Union on its borders. [More…]
The Soviet Union realises that it could not hope to conquer Sweden without paying an enormous price. [More…]
However, it is obvious from a list of Communist countries which have signed the agreements that the Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, Hungary and countries like that are just as concerned about hijacking as we are. [More…]
There is no doubt about how we should regard the hijacking of planes for the purposes of extorting money or for any of the other purposes that have been raised by honourable members from both sides of the House today; but I can see the proposition that people might try to leave the Soviet Union, East Germany or other countries such as these when there is no legal way in which they can do so. [More…]
If a person who considers himself to be a political refugee has to take the step of hijacking a plane - let us say a plane going from Moscow to Warsaw - because he feels that this is the only way in which he can get out of the Soviet Union, and uses what we would all agree to be extremely unpleasant methods to force the pilot to fly that plane to Bonn, or some other city in West Germany or the nearest airport in a free country, are we prepared to say that that person is to be returned to that country? [More…]
He worked for detente with the Soviet Union, for an agreement on the reduction of fissionable materials, on reciprocal civil air flights, on cooperation in space research and on a nonproliferation treaty. [More…]
There is no doubt in my mind that the Chinese Government has made certain that Australia will become a satellite communist country much the same as Czechoslovakia is to the Soviet Union, much the same as Poland is to the [More…]
Soviet Union, much the same as Bulgaria is to the Soviet Union and so on. [More…]
The Whitlam plan for reshaping Asia with a new pact to include China and Japan, but excluding the United States and the Soviet Union, lost its last possible South East Asian supporter when Malaysia weighed in against the proposal last weekend. [More…]
There is no doubt in my mind that the Chinese Government has made certain that Australia will become a satellite communist country much the same as Czechoslovakia is to the Soviet Union, much the same as Poland is to the Soviet Union. [More…]
enthusiastic about and I do not believe that if there were a development of tension in the world that caused the Soviet Union to attack the North West Cape installation, the United States would necessarily treat that as the casus belli and sentence to death 100 million Americans in retaliation for an attack on that station, lt could, in a certain diplomatic situation, be an area where a warning attack was made which may lead to a change in United States policy. [More…]
The Soviet Union was trying to develop the exquisite advantage of having the control of critical nuclear weapons on somebody else’s soil. [More…]
to the unusually bad seasons in most of the agricultural countries, especially the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
It did so when tests were carried out by Britain, by the United States and by the Soviet Union, and it continues to do so now that it is carried out by China and France alone. [More…]
No longer will we be able to point to Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union and say that these are the countries that are leading the world in workers compensation. [More…]
The visit to Australia in March by the Soviet Trade Minister, Mr N. Patolichev, has confirmed the importance of Australia’s trade with the Soviet Union and has added scope for development of our trade. [More…]
What a changed situation it would be if as a result of that naked aggression, without any attack from New Zealand on the Soviet Navy, the Soviet Union plastered every New Zealand city almost to the stage where they were rubble for years to come, dropped the greatest bomb load in the history of the world and oppressed a small nation which is much less than it in size. [More…]
The Soviet Union and the United States came to fruitful conclusions after entering into the strategic arms limitation talks, and there has been a general movement throughout the world to lessen the impact of strategic arms. [More…]
There was one man whose position gave him unique power to achieve these changes and I here gratefully acknowledge the pivotal role played by President Nixon in ushering in a new and saner phase in our relations with China; in clearing the way for more intensive commercial, scientific, technical and cultural exchanges between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, and thereby achieving a successful first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and ending foreign intervention in Vietnam. [More…]
Similarly, we have decided that on commercial trade with the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam and China, Australia will no longer maintain restraints different from those applied to any other country. [More…]
Similarly we have decided that on commercial trade with the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam and China, . [More…]
The Norwegian Convocation of Bishops have unanimously adopted the following strong and clear statement on the suppression of dissidents in the Soviet Union and other Iron Curtain countries. [More…]
There are many factors which made the United States of America, the Soviet Union, China, Japan, Europe and India the major actors on the world stage. [More…]
On the contrary, what we have done is solidly based on a clear appreciation of the gradual but nevertheless real shift in international affairs which has been going on for years and which can be summed up as a change from the bipolar world which characterised the years of the Cold War to the multipolar world which emerged from such events as the split between the Soviet Union and China, the integration of Europe through the European Common Market, the emergence of Japan as a major power and the Nixon Doctrine of greater self reliance in defence preparedness. [More…]
It is true that we are opening up normal diplomatic relations with China, North Vietnam, East Germany and Poland and normal trading relations with the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam and China. [More…]
In the Indian Ocean, the Soviet Union has no naval bases; the ships it positions there are drawn from the Pacific and Atlantic Fleets. [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1973/19730531_reps_28_hor84/#subdebate-59-6)
The ability of the 2 super powers, the Soviet Union and the United States, to destroy each other by nuclear exchange has placed substantial restraint on direct military confrontation. [More…]
I confessed with a sense of no shame last evening the effect that the disintegration of the old Commonwealth had had upon me; the fact that I had looked with a measure of anxiety, a measure of unfeigned hope, for the Commonwealth to be given a role between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. [More…]
We know that already nuclear weapons are in the hands of the United States of America, the Soviet Union, Communist China, Great Brittain and France. [More…]
It was alleged and apparently proved to the satisfaction of the American courts that they had given atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, which was about to make this development in nuclear technology in any event. [More…]
The Soviet Union pays certain copyright duties to the Australian producers of Australian films which go to the Soviet Union and similarly persons who show Soviet produced films in Australia are obligated to pay the copyright to the Soviet producers. [More…]
I do not believe that any honourable member would support the illegal showing of an illegal film on which copyright duties have not been paid when the Soviet Union correctly meets its copyright duties on Australian films shown in the Soviet Union. [More…]
This evening I have been reliably informed by Mr Murnane that he has been told that the story is being circulated in the Newcastle district that his copy of ‘Swan Lake’, legally and properly obtained through Quality Films whose head Mr Alison purchased it from the Soviet Union, is 20 minutes shorter than the pirate film being exhibited by Harry M. Miller. [More…]
But let me say these things on the matter of principle: I think it is only quite recently that the Soviet Union adhered to copyright. [More…]
In a sense the Soviet Union does not come into this country with clean hands in this matter because of its own past history. [More…]
Obviously the Russian Ballet has some kind of copyright on its own performance, but has the Soviet Union paid copyright to the originators or has it, in accordance with its practice, pirated the copyright of the originators? [More…]
It is quite pathetic that the art forms of the Soviet Union all relate to the past. [More…]
The Soviet Union seems incapable of producing significant new work. [More…]
Now, whatever disagreements there might be about the validity of theories, no economist of any persuasion, whether in the United States or the Soviet Union, Brazil or Australia, disagrees with what Robertson had to say about the wide significance of the word ‘price’. [More…]
Does he regard the Soviet Union as having a legitimate interest in a community involving the Asian region. [More…]
Of course, a deterioration in relations between the US and the Soviet Union could be a consequence of the Middle East fighting. [More…]
Present indications strongly support the expectation that the stability of relations between the US and the Soviet Union will not be seriously affected by the Middle East hostilities. [More…]
In big power terms and stating the position baldly, I expect the next few years to be marked by a fairly stable equilibrium between the 3 major nuclear powers - the United States of America, the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
The latest Middle East crisis between Israel and the Arab States has produced an even more important crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union, and between the United States and the Communist Government of China. [More…]
Yakob Malik of the Soviet Union not only supported the military activities of Egypt and Syria against Israel, but criticsed the United Nations Security Council for even raising the question at the United Nations. [More…]
And this is the main point - the information coming here to the United Nations was that the Soviet Union, while committed to reduce tensions under the Nixon-Brezhnev agreement, was actually urging Algeria, Lebanon and particularly the King of Jordan to get into the war against Israel. [More…]
Both the United States and the Soviet Union are not as concerned today if smaller countries formerly in their orbit in the 1950s and 1960s move to non-alignment, neutrality or even to other coalitions mainly because military technology has limited the need for forward bases, not only for strategic deterrents but also for combat and reconnaisance. [More…]
I refer to the dispute between China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Chinese Vice-Premier’s reply was that the Chinese are prepared to discon tinue their nuclear testing but only in the context of all nations, including the United States of America and the Soviet Union, dismantling their own nuclear arsenals. [More…]
They believe that they cannot reasonably be expected to stop their nuclear testing while nothing is done to reduce the nuclear capacity of the Soviet Union - which is their next door neighbour and which they believe is threatening their security - and of the United States. [More…]
I do not believe that one can justify developing nuclear weapons just because the United States, and the Soviet Union already have nuclear weapons. [More…]
The overwhelming impression given to our parliamentary delegation in China, as far as the foreign policy of the Chinese is concerned, was that their great fear is of the Soviet Union. [More…]
In fact, they maintain that the Soviet Union is demanding territory beyond even that which was conceded to it under these unequal treaties. [More…]
The Chinese also claim that the Soviet Union has maintained and does maintain one million troops on the Sino-Soviet border to enforce its claims on what it believes is Chinese territory. [More…]
These talks are supposed to be about arms limitation - that is, disarmiment Yet I wonder how many people realise that at the most recent round of SALT talks the United States and the Soviet Union mutually agreed on the Soviet Union increasing its numbers of intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs. [More…]
The Soviet Union - one of the 2 parties to the talks - will actually increase its numbers of ICBMs. [More…]
I believe that it is no longer sufficient for the representatives of the United States and the Soviet Union to make agreements behind closed doors on the size of their nuclear arsenals. [More…]
The current rapprochement between the United States and the Soviet Union indicates that both these countries wish to avoid a war between them. [More…]
I believe too that the only way in which these goals can be achieved in the short and middle term is for the United States and the Soviet Union to give such guarantees and to mean them; to refuse to arm and to train countries in the area to the extent that they could be posed as a threat to any other country, and to make it so clear that they are believed that if any future aggression does take place from any direction, they will act in concert to defeat it at once. [More…]
Is there anybody who does not believe that the United States and the Soviet Union, acting in concert, could do that? [More…]
But he raised the possibility of joint enforcement by the United States of America and the Soviet Union in respect of difficulties in the Middle East. [More…]
There is no doubt that the United States and the Soviet Union have been acting as policemen in the Middle East. [More…]
I would have thought that over the last few days there was some earnest of intention on the part of the Soviet Union and the United States to act in a joint manner to resolve the difficulties in the Middle East. [More…]
The members are Afghanistan; Bulgaria - both those countries are military dictatorships; Chile; Czechoslovakia, which is a satellite of the Soviet Union; Congo Brazzaville; Communist China - I do not suppose that Communist China could ever claim to be anything but a country that discriminates against Tibetans; Ethiopia- [More…]
Naturally I am concerned at the continuing tension between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Yesterday, at his Press conference, the Prime Minister was asked about his concept of a broad regional grouping for Asia and whether he would consider the United States of America and the Soviet Union as possible members. [More…]
Also, in answer to a question on notice on 3 October, did the Prime Minister not say that he saw no restrictions on individual membership, and this applied to the great powers, including the Soviet Union? [More…]
While accepting that the Government is flexible on the timing, structure and membership of any arrangements, will the Prime Minister say whether he sees any objections to China and the Soviet Union being included in the sort of Asia-Pacific arrangement which he has in fact already suggested? [More…]
I do not urge that the United States or the Soviet Union should be in such an organisation. [More…]
It is a worn out cliche, just as the cliche about communism which the former Government employed for 20-odd years has now become worn out because President Nixon has gone to China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
He stresses his concern not only at the situation in the Middle East but also at the deteriorating situation between the Soviet Union and China and their constant border confrontations, with 67 divisions from each force facing one another across the boundary between the 2 countries. [More…]
Has the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the President of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Robert Hawke, been an embarrassment to this country in presuming to undertake discussions between Israel and the Soviet Union as a sort of roving, self-appointed diplomat? [More…]
Mr Hawke has recently and in earlier years visited both Israel and the Soviet Union and had conversations with both the Prime Minister of Israel, Mrs Golda Meir, and with the trade union leader in the Soviet Union, Mr Shelepin. [More…]
I believe that any contacts which can be established between Israel and the Soviet Union are valuable. [More…]
I would hope that Israel and the Soviet Union can restore diplomatic relations as Egypt and the United States have re-established diplomatic relations. [More…]
It ought to be supplying 20 per cent as that is the world average figure, excluding the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
We have a treaty with the Soviet Union signed, I believe, by the former Government to which the honourable member for Mackellar belonged. [More…]
Did he say that he saw Australia moving towards the pattern in England and the Soviet Union where only a few well-off people use private doctors? [More…]
It has applied to the Soviet Union under a government of one colour - and indeed under governments of one colour in other parts of the world. [More…]
I therefore said that I cannot foresee the day in this country when private practice will fall to a proportion as low as 10 per cent, which is the estimate in Britain and the Soviet Union. [More…]
He has said that we will go in the direction of Britain and the Soviet Union in that area. [More…]
He has just recorded in Hansard, at my invitation, the fact that in his view it is not only inevitable but also desirable that in the future 80 per cent of Australians will attend for their medical care at a government run clinic where they will get their services free, where there will be no doctor-patient relationship, and that only 20 per cent, the very wealthy, will reserve the right to receive private treatment, as happens in the Soviet Union and other countries. [More…]
When I was in the Soviet Union in 1962 I was told that a Soviet geologist had done some research in Australia, with the authority of the Australian Government, and he had said there must be petroleum products off-shore and in the land mass of Australia. [More…]
In those days it was regarded as politically traitorous to talk about the achievements of the Soviet Union. [More…]
It has never been said in this House yet but I take the risk of saying - it is my own personal view - that if I thought something serious would happen to the Australian nation as a result of these people with the know-how - the multi-national corporations which are well equipped to search for oil - leaving us out in the cold in the search for oil, I would urge my Party to confer with the Soviet Union with a view to using its geologists, its equipment and its know-how to search for petroleum products and natural gas on the Australian land mass or in the offshore regions of the Australian continent. [More…]
The Soviet Union offered to drill for petroleum on behalf of those countries and said it would not lay any claim to the petroleum it found. [More…]
As a result of this offer by the Soviet Union the international petroleum company supplying petroleum products to India and Pakistan reduced the price of its products so that those countries would not show interest in the Soviet Union carrying out further searches for oil. [More…]
If the international consortiums are going to leave us out in the cold they should be told that there are members of the Australian Parliament who are prepared to ask the Government to reconsider its attitude on asking the Soviet Union to search for petroleum in our region. [More…]
It prevents emigration of Jews and other people from the Soviet Union. [More…]
If it wants to condemn a lack of freedom in South Africa, for example, let it also condemn the far more flagrant and vicious violations of freedom which are still taking place in the Soviet Union and its satellites. [More…]
If we are worried about some hundreds of people killed at Sharpeville why are we not worried about the millions of victims murdered in the campaign of genocide by the Soviet Union in the Ukrainian Socialist Republic? [More…]
There Mr Solzhenitsyn and other people find themselves amenable to quite drastic penalties because they have written something which offends the Soviet Union; in fact, they have engaged in what is known as anti-communist propaganda. [More…]
There is the prospect of the development of a new relationship between the Soviet Union and Japan particularly in the development of Siberia. [More…]
The recent Middle East crisis raised a new element of uncertainty in relations between the Soviet Union and the United States. [More…]
What of the Soviet Union? [More…]
If there is military significance in any such proposals from the Soviet Union or from anybody else it is most unlikely that the proposals will be accepted. [More…]
A major feature of last October’s conflict in the Middle East from our strategic point of view was the manner in which the United States of America and the Soviet Union successfully managed the crisis in their relations and used their influence to limit the conflict. [More…]
The Government will encourage and support measures designed to remove tension amongst all states’ and welcomes the moves by the United States and the Soviet Union to stabilise their strategic relationship. [More…]
My good friend, the honourable member for Wentworth, will concede that in terms of international law, conflict of laws, private international law, call it what you will, Victoria and New South Wales are as foreign as France and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union has demonstrated the most utter hypocrisy in regard to human rights and I think it is time that the Government officially associated itself with a protest in the United Nations. [More…]
I ask now that the Government officially bring to the notice of the United Nations the consistent violation of all human rights which the Soviet Union is perpetrating against its .own citizens inside its own borders. [More…]
If we are to make this kind of protest against one nation, let us make it against the Soviet Union. [More…]
I know that when these matters are raised the represenatives of the Soviet Union in the United Nations in the past have used the elegant phrase: ‘Let them keep their pig snouts out of our Soviet garden’. [More…]
The third point I make is that the Government should use its resources to see that people in Australia are better informed about factual developments inside the Soviet Union. [More…]
Censorship in the Soviet Union even extends sometimes to prohibition of normal Soviet newspapers reaching us in time. [More…]
We have an embassy in Moscow and it should be used to see that proper factual information about what is happening inside the Soviet Union reaches us here in Australia. [More…]
But if we do this we are entitled to ask for equal opportunity for our diplomats and our representatives - whether they be private citizens or government officials - inside the borders of the Soviet Union itself. [More…]
Before the Government recognised the de jure incorporation of the 3 republics in the Soviet Union there had been representations by Australia’s representatives to the Soviet Government alone. [More…]
It is deluding and deceiving people from those countries who have settled in Australia to give them the impression that any Australian government would promote the detachment of those countries from the Soviet Union. [More…]
I know that for their own temporary domestic purposes members of the Opposition have from time to time suggested that Croatia should be detached from Yugoslavia, that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania should be liberated from the Soviet Union. [More…]
Since we have recognised the de jure incorporation of the 3 republics in the Soviet Union we have been able to make representations on such state matters as we call them on behalf of people in Australia. [More…]
In fact the 3 countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I refer to such things as the Ermolenko affair, which was very hard to understand; to the recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic States, de jure, into the Soviet Union, which was almost impossible to understand; to discriminatory help given to certain organisations in Africa which are called liberation movements but which are actually rather communist inclined; to the incident, which I cannot, of course, go into much further because of the security aspects, of the refusal of asylum to a diplomat from the Eastern European communist bloc in Australia only recently. [More…]
Did the governments of the Soviet Union and the United States of America accept the Australian Government’s request in March 1974 that they consult with a view to agreeing to exercise initial restraint in the growth of forces in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The Governments of the United States and of the Soviet Union both agreed to consider the appeal we made to them in March 1 974 to enter into discussions on mutual restraint in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
In March 1974 Australian representatives in Washington and Moscow re- quested the Governments of the United States and te Soviet Union respectively to consult with each other with a view to reaching agreement on mutual restraint in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
He should tell that to the Latvians; he should tell that to the Lithuanians; he might also tell it to the Estonians, whose aspirations for independence the Government has denied with the stroke of a pen when recognising the incorporation of those states into the Soviet Union. [More…]
I had the privilege of serving Australia in the Soviet Union from 1952 to 1954 and from 1961 to 1963. [More…]
The very movement of an accredited diplomat into any area of the Soviet Union is in reality an acceptance of the control of that country over the various territories of that country. [More…]
This is all it has said, but the Government has never said that it agreed with the manner in which the Soviet Union brutally took over the Baltic states. [More…]
During the war the Soviet Union had direct control over those territories, and the only way Australia can operate in those territories on behalf of the Baltic people in Australia is through the recognition of that control. [More…]
Solzhenitsyn spoke out in favour of depressed people in the Soviet Union and lost his citizenship as a result. [More…]
The Minister said that he did not agree with the way the Soviet Union brutally overtook the Baltic States. [More…]
If that was the situation, should we condone the brutal overtaking of those States by now recognising them as part of the Soviet Union? [More…]
By the same token, the Baltic states are under the effective control of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I do not know exactly what happens when we let people in from Yugoslavia or Spain or the Soviet Union. [More…]
Since 1972 the Soviet Union has been involved in a great grain grab to meet its own deficit. [More…]
The honourable member for Barker recently has drawn attention to the fact that the Soviet navy continues to be active in the Indian Ocean and that recent reports from New Zealand suggest that the Soviet Union obviously has a strong intelligence interest in the Australasian region. [More…]
A very senior Army officer, Brigadier Hooton who last year resigned as the head of Army intelligence in protest against cuts in defence expenditure, has pointed out that Japan, China and India, as well as the Soviet Union, have the nuclear capacity to threaten Australia. [More…]
What of the visit of the Prime Minister to the Soviet Union that will take place in another month’s time? [More…]
When he goes to the Soviet Union what will he tell the Soviet Union? [More…]
The Soviet Union, with its conflict with China and the conflict over borders will be interested in the statement made by the Prime Minister when in China in which he said: [More…]
The Soviet Union is believed to be planning a major expansion of its merchant fleet at a time when western shipping is in a state of uncertainty over the international oil and currency situation. [More…]
-The purpose of my visit is to visit the Economic Community, the Soviet Union and the principal countries from which migrants have come and are coming to Australia. [More…]
In that period, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States, all signatories to the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963, have not carried out any nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to reports that the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the Soviet Union have agreed to a nuclear embargo on India. [More…]
Prior to the recognition of the incorporation of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania into the Soviet Union as de jure incorporation, there was no extradition treaty in force between Australia and the U.S.S.R. Australian citizens wishing to visit the three Baltic States had to apply to a Soviet Embassy or Consulate for a visa, and a person residing in one of the three Baltic States who wished to enter Australia as a migrant had to comply with the relevant provisions of Soviet law regarding exit permits and had to apply to the Australian Embassy in Moscow for a migrant visa. [More…]
After the Soviet Union seized control of the States, these treaties remained in force in theory, but in practice ceased to have any effect. [More…]
During the period before Australia’s recognition of the incorporation of the area into the U.S.S.R. Australia had no formal governmental relations with the three governments which as members of the Soviet Union were effectively administering the Baltic States. [More…]
The Soviet Government has been made aware of the strong feelings in Australia concerning the fundamental human rights of the Jewish people in the Soviet Union to emigrate if they so wish. [More…]
I am considering whether the circumstances would justify my raising this matter when I visit the Soviet Union. [More…]
Last week, as I informed the House, a senior official from the Soviet Union discussed with me the subjects which we would be raising, and this was one that I mentioned to him. [More…]
As for a zone of peace, it is perfectly obvious that if there are 2 superpowers, the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China, in competition with each other and if they both have naval forces in the Indian Ocean the threat to Australia can come from the ripples of competition between those 2 superpowers. [More…]
Between 14 December and 21 January I visited Sri Lanka, Belgium, the headquarters of the European Communities in Brussels, Britain, Ireland, Greece, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, the Federal Republic of Germany, Pakistan and Bangladesh. [More…]
No Australian Prime Minister had visited the Soviet Union in the 33 years since diplomatic relations were established between the Soviet Union and Australia. [More…]
The Soviet Union is one of the world’s two superpowersone of the nations whose policies determine the fate of all mankind. [More…]
On 12 January I flew to Leningrad and 2 days later to Moscow where I had wide-ranging discussions with President Podgorny and Prime Minister Kosygin of the Soviet Union, and signed cultural and scientific agreements between the Soviet Union and Australia. [More…]
Joint communiques were issued after my visits to Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union which I shall seek leave to table. [More…]
There is a developing competition between China and the Soviet Union for influence in regions adjacent to Australia. [More…]
The Prime Minister said that the Soviet Union is sincere in its wish for detente. [More…]
As a direct result of the visit of the Prime Minister to the Soviet Union a meat contract was entered into involving 40 000 tonnes of meat. [More…]
If we have an opportunity to develop trade with the Soviet Union we should explore it immediately because there is a market there for our products and we ought to do it in the interests of producers both in the primary field and in the secondary field. [More…]
They have to be with Japan and they have to be with the Soviet Union. [More…]
We were told by the Special Minister of State that if the United States of America is able to expand Diego Garcia the Soviet Union will seek access to facilities around the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Prior to the Prime Minister’s visit an Australian Prime Minister had never visited Ireland, Italy, the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia. [More…]
The point was that the Prime Minister had raised with the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union the question of Jewish emigration and the question of the emigration of Soviet citizens to Australia. [More…]
Can honourable members tell me that any predecessor of the Prime Minister from the other side fo the House would have gone to the Soviet Union and- I will put it in pretty blunt Australian terms- had the guts to raise in that environment the issue that Prime Minister Whitlam raised? [More…]
It is because we can put propositions and we do put propositions- on Diego Garcia, on Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union- that we have rightfully earned the respect of the world powers. [More…]
There are such things as Polaris submarines in the Indian Ocean, so arranged there that they constitute a threat not only to the Soviet Union but also to China. [More…]
We put a very simple proposition to the Soviet Union and to the United States. [More…]
We did not put it just to the Soviet Union and forget about the United States, nor did we put it to the United States and forget the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is a tragedy that in the speech just given to us by the Minister for Science (Mr Morrison) he did not realise the degree to which in seeking the respect of the United States and the Soviet Union, which he asserts his Government has gained, he does not realise the realities of even the visit we are discussing presently. [More…]
It is of interest that in the Soviet Union members of the Press who accompanied the Prime Minister found themselves so critical of KGB surveillance and that the Prime Minister himself found it necessary to take a debugging expert with him to ensure that those conversations which he wanted to have in private were in fact private. [More…]
It is important to realisethat Mr Brezhnev is the Head of State of the Soviet Union. [More…]
We could find ourselves involved in an agreement, which we do not like, with the United States of America, the Soviet Union or a number of countries. [More…]
A visit to the Soviet Union by a group of Australian scientists to discuss earth sciences has already taken place. [More…]
It is also true that one company submitted a tender involving the supply of pumps manufactured in the Soviet Union and motors manufactured in Germany. [More…]
Does he realise that if these problems had gone to the United Nations there would have been obstruction not from the Australian Government of 1972 and preceding years but from the Soviet Union? [More…]
Above all, Australia’s security, as with the peace of the world, rests ultimately upon making the detente between the United States and the Soviet Union a success and upon associating China in a wider detente. [More…]
In this Parliament on more than one occasion he has blamed the South rather than the North, the United States rather than the Soviet Union. [More…]
In those circumstances, who is in breach of the Agreements and why does the Prime Minister seek to blame the United States rather than North Vietnam or the Soviet Union? [More…]
The United States has drawn the attention of the Soviet Union, China and other countries to the actions of North Vietnam. [More…]
But the Prime Minister, as I understand it, has said very little to anyone other than Saigon and the United States and has ignored the actions of North Vietnam and the Soviet Union, which are the 2 parties principally responsible for the situation that has developed. [More…]
If the contacts that he has made in many countries- in Hanoi, Peking, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe- are of any account surely his voice is one that could be heard with power and influence. [More…]
The Australian Government should approach the Soviet Union and China to seek observance of the Paris Accords. [More…]
North Vietnam tends to look to the Soviet Union for help, aid and military supplies much more than it does to China. [More…]
With some of the largest armies in the world, it is still likely to be closer to the Soviet Union than to China. [More…]
If it could be achieved, if it was a reality, maybe it is an objective worth pursuing, but he ought to know that the Soviet Union has no intention of allowing that to occur, and he also knows quite well that other measures are needed to be taken as a consequence of that. [More…]
The Chinese see the Soviet Union as attempting an encirclement of China, and that will lead to countervailing action and competition on the mainland of South-East Asia and in other parts of South-East Asia. [More…]
Or is it just something which the Soviet Union uses to help disarm the democracies, to help establish the circumstances in which soft spots will develop around the world where it can probe further and further, as I believe it has done in the Middle East and SouthEastAsia? [More…]
What protests have been registered with the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China which continue to supply the Government of North Vietnam with arms? [More…]
The folk who put forward that proposition completely ignore the fact that there is probably as much difference between the Soviet Union and the United States as there is between the Soviet Union and Communist China. [More…]
The Khmer Rouge is a national communist group, and although during the period of fighting the North Vietnamese have had to make their accommodations with the Chinese communists and the Soviet Union, the differences are fundamental. [More…]
Article 7- the oneforone replacement provision- has been demontrably breached by North Vietnam, by the People’s Republic of China and by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Indeed, the inclinations of the Government of North Vietnam have been contributed to in an alarming degree by the Government of the Soviet Union and the Government of the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
They never once used the expression ‘Soviet Union’. [More…]
He said that when he was in Peking he was taken underground and saw what was virtually a duplicate city which had been built under Peking against the day when it thought it might be subject to aerial bombardment from the Soviet Union. [More…]
Their preoccupation is with their borders with the Soviet Union. [More…]
After his visit to the Soviet Union, was this condition agreed to and a visa issued to a Russian veterinarian. [More…]
But the assistance to North Vietnam from China and from the Soviet Union continued. [More…]
The laws of New South Wales and Victoria and Western Australia and Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, to go on without mentioning all of them, are as different from each other for practical and legal purposes as the law of Paraguay is different from the law of the Soviet Union and are treated as such in terms of public international law. [More…]
The Chinese feel encircled by the Soviet Union. [More…]
If North Vietnam stands aside from that dispute it might be a different matter, but hitherto the North Vietnamese have been closer to the Soviet Union than to China. [More…]
There has been no criticism of Soviet Union bases and refuelling facilities around the Indian Ocean but there has been criticism of the United States, designed to prevent Diego Garcia from being established as a base of any kind. [More…]
It seems that as a result of a communist victory the Soviet Union probably will establish a naval base in South Vietnam. [More…]
If one examines the trade figures between Australia and the Soviet Union it will readily become apparent that there is a need to correct the glaring imbalance that operates at present. [More…]
The value of wool exports to the Soviet Union during 1973-74 was $147m. [More…]
The total value of exports to the Soviet Union in 1973-74 was $154m. [More…]
The imports from the Soviet Union to Australia in that year were valued at $5.9m. [More…]
We do not want the stuff to be sent to the United States or the Soviet Union or any place else where Japan may choose to have it enriched. [More…]
It is with some degree of regret that I listened to the honourable member for Ryan (Mr Drury), a man who is generally respected by all members of the House, giving what I consider to be a one-sided version of life in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I think that most members of this House would not like to live in the Soviet Union, but for the past 50 years that country has been pioneering another political system against hes, subterfuge and great position from the rest of the world. [More…]
I have been to the Soviet Union on 2 occasions and, like members in this House of all political colours I have enjoyed its hospitality. [More…]
I remember that on my first visit to the Soviet Union I was most anxious to see the kindergartens because I had been brainwashed and led to believe that the children there were taken away from their parents, against the parents’ wishes, and brought up in and brainwashed to the communist system. [More…]
I found that working couples voluntarily allowed their children to go to the kindergartens because those couples placed a high degree of importance on producing essential goods for the Soviet Union. [More…]
During question time the diplomats were asked whether it was true that women worked in all types of professions in the Soviet Union, and whether this was necessary. [More…]
One of the diplomats answered the questions very courteously by saying that more women worked in the Soviet Union that probably in any other country in the world, the reason being that when they were at war as our allies against the tyranny of Nazi Fascism, so many of their men were in the fighting forces that it was necessary for the women to do the men’s jobs. [More…]
Then, the diplomat added in conclusion that women in the Soviet Union worked for the same reasons as women worked in Australia, that is, to get extra money for the household. [More…]
I suppose that he has been a little self-conscious knowing that the Soviet Union for many years has been buying considerable quantities of Australian wool which the people in his electorate produce. [More…]
I believe that we should not refrain from criticising the Soviet Union at times. [More…]
But let us be fair and honest about the Soviet Union. [More…]
We know that in the Stalin era there was a degree of barbarity in the Soviet Union. [More…]
But as I observed the position in the Soviet Union, the Russian people have become adopted to their firm laws. [More…]
I like to hear members of the Parliament make balanced speeches when they talk about the Soviet Union. [More…]
As well as criticising the Soviet Union, they should point out the things that are praiseworthy in that country. [More…]
I regret that a man as respected as the honourable member for Ryan is should give such a one-sided speech in bitter criticism of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I have tried to balance the submissions he made to the Parliament by giving something which is favourable to the Soviet Union and of which I believe the Soviet Union is worthy. [More…]
If detente is to mean anything, so should the Soviet Union. [More…]
Goodness me, as if applying that charge was not bad enough, apparently the Government now is saying that, in respect of that $3m that apparently it is lending to the Meat Board to offset freight costs for that rather unfortunate sale to the Soviet Union, it will place a levy on the beef producer to pay for that as well. [More…]
The British and United States Governments have on many occasions unsuccessfully urged the Government of the Soviet Union to agree to his release. [More…]
The Whitlam Labor Government tries to make changes, tries to develop treaty relationships and tries to develop the legal apparatus appropriate for an independent nation- not for 8 different nations; not for New South Wales as a nation and Victoria as a nation, each as different from the other as France is different from the Soviet Union, as the members of the Opposition would sometimes like them to be. [More…]
The threat arises in this way: The Soviet Union and China have great enmity towards each other. [More…]
What is so unusual about that when all the major powers today- Britain, the United States, possibly China and certainly the Soviet Union and Francehave nuclear submarines and submarines with nuclear potential? [More…]
I want to say that again: The Australian Governmentthe Australian Labor Party- in terms of the global balance, the nuclear deterrent- the big league, if you like, of nuclear balance between the Soviet Union and the US- is fundamentally aligned with the US. [More…]
Britain and the Soviet Union are 2 countries where people pay a modicum for prescriptions which were formerly free because authorities have not yet evolved a more efficient way of deterring the over-use of drugs. [More…]
The Soviet Union is the largest. [More…]
The honourable member was not in this place at the time one of the major eastem European countries made an application to the then Attorney-General, the present Chief Justice of the High Court, to extradite to the Soviet Union mass murderer- and I name him again in this place- -Evon Vicks. [More…]
Whether it is Diego Garcia which might be built up by the Americans, or whether it is Somalia or some of the places in the Gulf of Aden which might be built up by the Soviet Union, the attitude is the same towards each. [More…]
The Soviet Union, Sweden and other countries have had complete bans on all forms of tobacco advertising but have still suffered from an increase in consumption. [More…]
He told me that the Soviet Union has recognised that the changing pattern of human behaviour is such that a great deal more attention will need to be paid to the social sciences than we now pay. [More…]
Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, the Soviet Union, Spain, South Korea, Uganda, Argentina and Brazil are among the countries with long records of violations of human rights. [More…]
In the last decade, while the United States has continued to maintain a parity at the atomic and hydrogen level, at the conventional military level the Soviet Union has moved into a position of quantitative superiority. [More…]
I am merely stating a fact that the Soviet Union today does give the impression to the world of a nation which is determined whereever possible, whenever the opportunities arise, to make use of them to turn a situation to its own advantage and therefore to increase its own international prestige and influence. [More…]
I believe quite firmly that if the Soviet Union increases its influence in South-East Asia, through North Vietnam for example, a point will be reached where China might well have to consider taking action in its own interest. [More…]
The one thing that China is terrified of today is that it is going to be surrounded by the Soviet Union, its growing navy and its satellites. [More…]
That is the Russian equivalent of the CIA- is inside the Soviet Union, but its international operation is small compared with the CIA. [More…]
De Gaulle was the first significant foreign affairs spokesman to recognise the significance of China’s fear of the Soviet Union. [More…]
China, studying the possibility of her own destruction, decided that the United States could not destroy China but that the Soviet Union could, and that the Soviet occupation of Hungary and Czechoslovakia was a claim to supervise other communist powers in the way that everybody supervised China in the nineteenth century. [More…]
China, finding this prospect intolerable, broke with the Soviet Union. [More…]
In the developing tensions, this obliged the Soviet Union to concentrate a couple of million troops on Russia’s Far Eastern border. [More…]
The NATO headquarters was in France, and it finally came to the point where de Gaulle needed to ask a straight question: ‘If, because of the presence of these headquarters, or because of the position of France in the alliance, the Soviet Union were to land a few nuclear missiles on France, would the United States retaliate on her behalf?’ [More…]
The very large French naval forces in the Indian Ocean, which at first sight is an ocean that appears to have absolutely nothing to do with the strategic defence of Fance, are there simply so that nuclear missiles on submarines or on other vehicles are deployed on Soviet Donets Basin cities so that if the Soviet Union were to use nuclear weapons on France, France might have this deterrent to be able to retaliate and not be beholden in any way to the United States of America. [More…]
It has become part of the mythology in this country that we have an automatic guarantee that if the Soviet Union were to land one on North West Cape the United States would retaliate on our behalf and sentence to death some millions of New Yorkers, San Franciscans and others. [More…]
I think it is generally accepted that the submarine missiles of the Soviet Union do not have the range of the submarine missiles of the U.S.A. but they are sufficient. [More…]
So if the Soviet Union actually wished to attack Cockburn Sound- I am not suggesting that it would at the moment- it could do it from off Capetown, from the Antarctic, from 2000 miles north of Singapore or from 800 miles east of Wellington, New Zealand. [More…]
It follows from this that even though the Soviet Union may be mistaken in this view the fact has to be recognised that rightly or wrongly it does hold this view. [More…]
As the chairman of the military committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation pointed out last December, an intelligence analysis of Warsaw Pact military developments has discerned only one trend in the Soviet Union and her satellites- a steady and continuous improvement in both the quality and quantity of weapons, equipment and training with growing emphasis on offensive capability. [More…]
In particular the presence of Cuban troops acting as agents for the Soviet Union, and also Soviet weaponry, made this impossible. [More…]
In the basic document of detente, ‘The Statement of Basic Principles of United States-Soviet Relations 1972’, the Soviet Union together with the United States promised to ‘attach major importance to preventing the development of situations capable of causing a dangerous exacerbation of their relations’, and recognised that ‘efforts to obtain unilateral advantage at the expense of the other, directly or indirectly’ were inconsistent with the objectives of detente. [More…]
While it is possible that the involvement of the Soviet Union and Cuba in deterrnining the outcome of the struggle in Angola grew with events and opportunity as much as or more than it was a deliberate attempt to steal a march on and humiliate the United States, it is difficult to see how the Soviet Union’s unprecedented and significant military incursion into southern Africa can be squared with that basic statement of principle. [More…]
It is difficult also to see how the image of the Soviet Union as a conservative, status quo, defensively-minded state- an image which has often been projected lately, not least when the Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean is under discussion- can be reconciled with this deliberate projection of its power. [More…]
First I mention the present plight of thousands of Jewish people trapped in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The relationship which Japan will build between the Soviet Union on the one hand and China on the other could cause tensions. [More…]
In their maiden speeches unfortunately, four or five Government supporters made bitter and unfair criticism of the Soviet Union, a friendly country, over its build-up.of forces in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
1 quality, which is equal to the best in the world, attracts a higher premium than the Manitobas and the best wheat from the Soviet Union. [More…]
The particular sources of concern with the proposals, which I am advised did become law on 14 February of this year are, firstly, the description of Poland as a ‘socialist state’; secondly, a reference to the Polish United Workers Partythat is, of course, the Communist Party- as the leading political force in the country; thirdly, a reference to Poland’s alliance with the Soviet Union; and, fourthly, a clause that would have made citizens’ rights contingent upon their fulfilling duties towards the state. [More…]
There is the European Common Market, and Cominform countries under the control of the Soviet Union, an economic bloc made up of North America and South America, the emerging nations in Africa and, beyond those, out on our own and alone, Japan and Australia. [More…]
The Soviet Union is a country whose friendship we enjoy. [More…]
The Foreign Minister of India recently refuted on the floor of the Indian Parliament an allegation that the Soviet Union had any bases in India or elsewhere in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
When I was in Europe in June last year I was approached- because the discussions were more or less on a confidential level I feel that I am not free to name the people who spoke to me- by people who stated that all the leading people in European shipping are concerned about the way the Soviet Union is expanding its shipping operations throughout the world today. [More…]
The Soviet Union is one of the minor trading countries and probably has less trade than most other countries; but it is the sixth largest shipping nation in the world today. [More…]
Every country is concerned about the way the Soviet Union is expanding its shipping fleet. [More…]
From the attitude of the Minister for Transport and the Government as a whole, the Minister for Defence should have added that with the entry of FESCO into Australian trading we welcome our great friend the Soviet Union into Australian trade and its use of Australian ports, because that is what it means to have Australian ports used by Soviet shipping. [More…]
Of course, the Soviet Union will not face total war- none of us would want that to happenbecause, with the use of today’s weapons, little would be left of civilisation or, indeed, of humanity if such a thing were to occur. [More…]
One cannot trust the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union will never keep its word if it is to the advantage of communism that it should break it. [More…]
What happened in Poland is deplorable as is what happened in the Soviet Union and in satellite countries of the Soviet Union. [More…]
If a country is living next to a giant such as the Soviet Union it is even easier for freedom to disappear, as happened in the case of Poland. [More…]
The Soviet Union is an authoritarian and totalitarian country, but we have a distinction on the part of this Government between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
We criticise the Soviet Union and attempt to make friends with China. [More…]
I do not know whether this is really a conscious attempt by our Department of Foreign Affairs or whether it is just a preference by the new Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who has always been closer to the peasants and therefore prefers the Chinese regime to that of the Soviet Union. [More…]
He was reading to us from a document which I believe was somewhat akin to the constitution of the Soviet Union. [More…]
If he had been listening to the introduction to my speech he would have heard specific reference to India, Indonesia and a number of other countries which might be said to be in a different bloc from the Soviet Union. [More…]
Honourable members will find that this same situation pertains in countries such as Canada, the United States of America, the Soviet Union, China and India. [More…]
Can he say how many visible surface warships or sighted submarines of the Soviet Union were in the Indian Ocean in each of the years 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1975 and to what categories of warships, e.g. [More…]
The facts of life are that in the Soviet Union one does not have any say, and one does not have any say in many other countries. [More…]
Does he regard this intrusion by FESCO as part of the Soviet Union’s foreign policy to have a major shipping presence in every country and on every ocean? [More…]
The amendment also included the incorporation into the constitution of an official eternal alliance with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or, to use the original wording, to make the constitution reflect the ‘unshakable fraternal bond’ with the Soviet Union. [More…]
These measures were designed totally to subjugate the Polish people and their country to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Regarding Poland’s place in the socialist community, the revised wording of the constitution omits reference to an ‘unshakable fraternal bond’ with the Soviet Union and simply states that Poland ‘strengthens its friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union and other socialist states’. [More…]
Although some minor liberalisation of citizens ‘ rights and duties was achieved, the basic points- that is, the socialist character of the state, the role of the Polish United Workers Party and the country’s reliance on the Soviet Union for political support and defence- remain in force. [More…]
The Soviet Union today would stand before the world in the United Nations and would say, as the Chairman of the Council for Religious Affairs said in Izvestia on 30 January 1976: [More…]
That is the Soviet Union today, which would take a Christian leader from his wife and family because he dared to take the Bible, the scripture in his hand, and go into the Soviet Union and read from it. [More…]
The Soviet Union has but one thought in mind- to stop freedom. [More…]
Disagreement between Congress and Executive has impaired the capacity of America- the only power that can provide a balance to the Soviet Union- to act with full effect abroad. [More…]
Australia lives in a world where predominant power is controlled by the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is not in China’s interests that the Soviet Union should become dominant in South East Asia, nor in Japan’s interests that the Soviet Union should become dominant in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
On the other hand, it is not, presumably, in the Soviet Union’s interests that relations between China, Japan and the United States should be too close. [More…]
over the past two years the naval deployments of the United States and the Soviet Union have remained relatively stable. [More…]
Soviet Union. [More…]
Geography alone ensures that the Soviet Navy will remain in the Indian Ocean as long as the Soviet Union remains a maritime power. [More…]
Wedded as he is to the doctrines of confrontation, to notions of monolithic ‘camps’ and ‘blocs’ in world affairs, the Prime Minister imagines that the only way Australia can please the Chinese is by insulting the Soviet Union. [More…]
What possible gain can there be for Australia in taking sides in the dispute between China and the Soviet Union? [More…]
In attacking the Soviet Union the Fraser Government is antagonising one of the two mightiest powers in the world, and a major trading partner of Australia. [More…]
His treatment of the Soviet Union is totally superficial. [More…]
In its most recent survey the International Institute for Strategic Studies notes that in the last year ‘the overall perception of the Soviet Union in the West was perhaps the most anxious for many years’. [More…]
For him, to take note of what the Soviet Union is doing and to consider its implications is to ‘insult’ the Soviet Union. [More…]
This is not the Government’s view, nor, I might add, would it be the Soviet Union’s view when it feels its interests are involved. [More…]
The Government has irresponsibly stimulated public anxiety at the possibility that Australia is about to be threatened by some outside power- in this case the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Government has irresponsibly exploited statements made by American leaders for domestic electioneering purposes in support of an alarmist policy completely out of keeping with the real politik in which the highly sensitive relationship between the United States, the Soviet Union and China is based. [More…]
While there is an obvious need for continuing surveillance to be carried out over Australian waters and the adjacent region, to create public concern that Australia is suddenly confronted with a threat from the Soviet Union or any other power serves only as a contribution to the undermining of efforts of reasonable men in all great powers to bring about a genuine relaxation of tensions and progress towards a better relationship between those powers in a position to threaten the security of our globe. [More…]
It is reasonable to ask: Why does the Soviet Union desire a military power far greater titan any needed to secure her own frontiers, or the expanded frontiers embraced by the Warsaw powers?’ [More…]
The Soviet Union has a much greater land mass to defend, and perceives major defence problems both in Eastern Europe and on the Asian front, where nearly half of the Soviet army is now stationed. [More…]
Do these wheats command premium prices in world markets in competition with the best wheats from Canada, the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I refer to the Soviet Union. [More…]
I shall cite some figures of exports from Australia to the Soviet Union in recent years and the exports to Australia from the Soviet Unionthe country that was unjustifiably kicked about in the statement made to the Parliament by the Prime Minister. [More…]
In 1971-72 the Soviet Union imported from Australia $82.8m worth of goods and we imported from the Soviet Union $1.8m worth of goods- a balance in our favour of $81m. [More…]
In 1972-73 Australia exported to the Soviet Union $ 123.6m worth of goods and imported from the Soviet Union $2.9m worth of goods- a balance of trade in Australia’s favour of $ 120.7m. [More…]
In 1973-74 Australia sold or exported to the Soviet Union $ 154.2m worth of goods and imported from the Soviet Union $5.8m worth of goods- a balance of trade in our favour of $148.4m. [More…]
In 1974-75 $243m worth of Australian goods were exported to the Soviet Union and we imported from the Soviet Union $6.3 m worth of goods- a balance of trade in our favour of $236.7m. [More…]
I ask the Parliament and I ask honourable members: Is it fair to start this warmongering and unfair criticisms of the Soviet Union because she has put naval vessels in the international waters of the Indian Ocean? [More…]
They must have felt embasrrassed to listen to the speech of the Prime Minister censuring the Soviet Union and its role in world affairs today. [More…]
Only a few months ago the rural people of Australia and the beef producers who are in a tragic plight sold 40 000 tons of Australian frozen beef to the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union paid for it but not at the price they wanted for it. [More…]
The farmers were glad to get this purchase of 40 000 tonnes of beef by the Soviet Union. [More…]
They were disappointed when they did not get a follow-up order from the Soviet Union. [More…]
At present the Soviet Union has one of its naval vessels in Portsmouth Harbour on a goodwill mission to our mother country, Great Britain. [More…]
On the other hand the Prime Minister of Australia has launched this vicious and unfair criticism of the Soviet Union and has accused it of warmongering. [More…]
That brings to my mind the tragic embarrassment that Anthony Eden- and the Soviet Union- in the late 1960s when 2 Russian naval vessels were visiting Britain on a goodwill mission with the Premier of the Soviet Union, Mr Bulganin, and a British skindiver was detected obviously interfering with the bottom of these Soviet warships. [More…]
The Soviet Union is subjected to undue embarrassment by the West. [More…]
He has not hesitated to attack in almost vitriolic terms the government of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Again on 11 May 1966 he referred to the division between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
He stated that the Government did not regard the Soviet Union as posing a direct military threat. [More…]
Sociology is unpopular in the Soviet Union. [More…]
After more than a century of exploitation by colonialist powers, and economic disruption at the hands of the Soviet Union, the Chinese economy has been set upon the course of self-reliance. [More…]
The 4 countries are Canada, the Soviet Union, Mainland China and Australia. [More…]
The person responsible for recognising the brutal suppression of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union can in no sense be described as someone who is genuinely interested in freedom. [More…]
Suggestions have been made that the Soviet Union is tending to move into the control of the world’s gold reserves and production. [More…]
That strategy has been evidenced by a variety of moves by the Soviet Union aimed ultimately at reinstituting an international gold standard, with Russia itself as the major holder and producer of the metal and as the heir apparent to the United States as the monetary strong man of the world. [More…]
The first option which faces the Soviet Union in moving towards a position of monopoly in the production of the world ‘s new gold would be the fall of Rhodesia, followed by the fall of South Africa, to Soviet controlled communists groups. [More…]
The second option, and a much more likely one, is for the Soviet Union to try to disrupt the supply of gold production through the support of terrorist or guerrilla activities or to disrupt the exports of gold flowing from South Africa by means of border harassments and possibly through a sea lane blockade. [More…]
Thus the Soviet Union would achieve many of the same benefits which Britain first achieved during the 19th century, when it virtually controlled the world’s gold supply and which the United States achieved in the postWorld War I period up to the 1960s; that is, a continuous flow of real resources to those countries as others sought to exchange with them to possess the gold-convertible pounds and dollars and perhaps, in the future, roubles. [More…]
The Soviet Union and its satellite territories are presently indebted to Western financial institutions to the tune of around $35 billion, the major portion of that debt being owed by the Soviet Union. [More…]
It has also been suggested that perhaps the Soviet Union is buying up the gold being sold by the International Monetary Fund. [More…]
They share the attitude of the Australian Labor Party and Senator Sim- a senator from the Government’s own benches- that there is no reason to be particularly alarmed about the Soviet Union’s activities in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
We must realise that uranium is being mined on an increasing scale in overseas countries, including the United States, Canada, South Africa, Niger, France, Gabon, and the Soviet Union. [More…]
On 22 April in a statement to Congress, the Administration said that naval deployments by the Soviet Union in the Indian Ocean over the past 2 years had remained relatively stable. [More…]
His speech, lasting half an hour, contained not a single mention of the Soviet Union nor a single reference to military threats of any kind. [More…]
Has the Soviet Union reduced its naval presence this year? [More…]
First, it has strained relations with a major trading partner, the Soviet Union, which as recently as yesterday responded by accusing Australia of stepping up the arms race and heightening tension within the region. [More…]
The Labor Party view is a view that is shared by the Soviet Union. [More…]
He says that the view of the Labor Party is shared by the Soviet Union. [More…]
It was not the Labor Party which tried to initiate the regional pact with the Soviet Union; a conservative government put forward that proposal in 1968. [More…]
I call for support from every member of this House, particularly the members of the National Country Party whose leader was in the Soviet Union quite recently to negotiate further trade for the country people of Australia. [More…]
It is also interesting to note that those bases on our territory are in fact supplied by the Soviet Union by way of Africa. [More…]
I understand that initially the planes, that the Soviet Union used- it has planes regularly coming and going from the area- would have flown through South Africa but probably today they fly through Mozambique. [More…]
It is concerned about the Soviet Union and about India. [More…]
By all means discuss the matter with the people in the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is building up, as it should be, with the Soviet Union. [More…]
In 1 975-76 we exported to the Soviet Union wool, wheat, barley, oats and meat to the value of $37 1 m. That is important for them and important for us. [More…]
The value of the imports we received from the Soviet Union was only $3.7m. [More…]
I noticed a news item in today’s Melbourne Herald suggesting that the Soviet Union has threatened to intervene in China at a time when the Chinese leadership is not at its strongest. [More…]
They are no higher than the price paid by Japan for coal from either South Africa, Canada, the Soviet Union or the United States of America after taking into account the quality of coal and freight differentials. [More…]
I think that the key global elements of that agenda, using the terminology of the Carter team- do not ask me to spell it all out extensively in the time available for questions without notice, or in any order of priorityare, firstly, a cooler hard-headed approach to the Soviet Union; secondly, a stress on reducing the proliferation of nuclear weapons; thirdly, the building up of core alliances with democratic countries, which Mr Carter describes as a democratic concert and in which he includes quite specifically, Australia; fourthly, greater stress, to use his terminology, on global issues, and in particular the north-south dialogue; and finally, and this is by no means unimportant, the belief that there is a need to get a firm domestic base for his foreign policies by making these policies reflect, as he puts it, the moral values of the American people. [More…]
At any chance it has a jibe at the Soviet Union yet its Ministers are still trotting off to Moscow and trying to arrange meat quotas, meat imports, in order to save their bacon back in what they believe are traditionally National Country Party electorates. [More…]
It seems to me that it is totally wrong for people to assume a one-to-one relationship between our policy towards the Soviet Union and our policy towards China. [More…]
Nevertheless, as we have indicated, we believe there is ground for reasonable concern about some of the Soviet Union ‘s policies, in particular the magnitude of the Soviet arms buildup. [More…]
The Soviet Union sent its top leaders there recently. [More…]
If they do not like the system they can go and live in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I am pleased to say that it is after my visit to the Soviet Union and the invitation of the head of the Soviet State Trading Agency that we look like making sales to the Soviet Union and Soviet bloc countries of about 100 000 tonnes which is additional to last year’s sales. [More…]
I am pleased to say that it is after my visit to the Soviet Union and the invitation of the head of the Soviet States Trading Agency that we look like making sales to the Soviet Union and Soviet bloc countries of about 100 000 tonnes which is additional - [More…]
If China and the Soviet Union had a common policy, as they did up till about 1958, 1 think that it would be extremely difficult for the United States and for countries associated with the United Statesthe democratic countries of the world- to stand up to pressure from the 2 communist super powers. [More…]
The only basis on which I would think it would be reasonable to support China vis-a-vis the Soviet Union is that the Chinese appear to be weaker. [More…]
After making the point that China is a weak country militarily compared with the Soviet Union he went on to state: [More…]
Personally I would be against dismantling the facilities on Diego Garcia unless the Soviet Union dismantled its facilities in Berbera and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
He said, firstly, that the Soviet Union had closed the strategic nuclear gap between the United States and itself. [More…]
Soviet Union in bomber payload, missile accuracy, survivability and numbers of warheads and bombers. [More…]
United States Defence Department figures show that since 1960 the United States has built 122 ships over 3000 tons while the Soviet Union has built only 57. [More…]
In every 5-year period since 1960 United States construction has exceeded that of the Soviet Union in large ocean-going naval vessels. [More…]
The Joint Chiefs of Staff do not agree that the Soviet Union has achieved military superiority over the United States. [More…]
He said, however, that he thought it was of great international significance that the conflict between the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union should continue, the inference being, of course, that were there to be established between the Government of Peking and the Government of Moscow a rapport and an understanding the probability would be that there would be a greater threat in the world because those 2 governments would be so powerful- in truth, two super-powers combined- that the rest of the world would need to tremble. [More…]
I doubt very much that there is any real basic animosity between the people who live in Western Europe and the Soviet Union and the people who live in the People’s Republic of China in the south. [More…]
There are many thousands of men and great installations of weapons in the eastern area of the Soviet Union. [More…]
For one thing, it only antagonises the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Orlov group ignored the warning, however, and stepped up their activities, distributing their slanderous writings besmirching the Soviet Union and its state and social system. [More…]
Yuri Orlov was arrested not for his ‘dissent’- no one is punished for this in the Soviet Union -but for spreading slander, that is, an offense punishable under Articles 70 and 190. [More…]
Yuri Orlov was arrested not for his ‘dissent’- no one is punished for this in the Soviet Union -but for spreading slander, that is an offence punishable under Articles 70 and 1 90. [More…]
It is the duty of the Government to meet this threat and to meet it by publicising the truth about what is happening in the Soviet Union and in other communist countries. [More…]
What this Government has put forward is that a zone of peace will not be created by one nation but by the co-operation of many nations and particularly of two of the major nations- the United States of America and the Soviet Union. [More…]
What we have said is that if there is no indication of the Soviet Union accepting its responsibilities, the only answer to that is that the United States and other nations must take precautionary measures to see that there is no advantage to the Soviet Union in this area. [More…]
Whether this will eventuate will be seen in the months that lie ahead, in the response from the Soviet Union to the initiatives taken by the President of the United States. [More…]
I will not go into the details of this shocking performance by the Soviet Union because the document will appear in Hansard. [More…]
But this I would say: The Soviet Union persecutes all religions. [More…]
Under the pretence of freedom, we know that there are inside the borders of the Soviet Union discrimination, persecution and worse of all who profess any religion because, as Lenin said, communism is necessarily militant atheism. [More…]
The Jews in the Soviet Union have fought back. [More…]
They are making their presence felt and they are getting some protection inside the Soviet Union for the practice of their religion because they have stuck together and they are demanding that they have freedom for religious practice and worship. [More…]
They are getting support, and they deserve support, from their compatriots outside the Soviet Union. [More…]
There are other faiths including, and principally, the Christian faith against which continuous outrage and a lying pretence of sufferance is perpetrated inside the Soviet Union. [More…]
Some of these people in the Soviet Union had had the tremendous courage to face martyrdom to face deprivation, to face discrimination, to face persecution. [More…]
I wonder whether they are receiving sufficient support from their co-religionists outside the Soviet Union. [More…]
Algeria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, German Democratic Republic, Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, Sudan, Turkey, United States. [More…]
-The short answer is that discussions of significant moment are taking place at present between the Secretary of State for the United States of America and the Government of the Soviet Union. [More…]
But, after all, what he said was a reiteration of what the Soviet Union has been saying for some time; that it favours demilitarisation and that it wishes to have a zone of peace. [More…]
In this context our officials on occasions have had discussions with the Soviet Union as to just what this means. [More…]
For example, my former Permanent Head put to the Soviet Union: ‘Does it mean that you agree to the dismantling of your base at Berbera?’ [More…]
‘No’, said the Soviet Union, ‘because it is not our base; it is a Somali base’. [More…]
We must await the reaction of the Soviet Union to the proposal enunciated by the American President and discussed in somewhat greater detail by the Secretary of State. [More…]
Until that time I think it would be wiser for countries outside the 2 super powersthe United States of America and the Soviet Union- not to do any more than the form of exploratory discussions that officers in my Department have had with representatives of the Soviet Union. [More…]
But clearly there will need to be, either during this period of talks with the United States or at some future date, if it is agreed that there be further discussions on the Indian Ocean, an acceptance publicly by the Soviet Union that the base in Somalia is in fact what most would accept it to be, a Soviet controlled entity. [More…]
Perhaps he was referring to Press reports that the Soviet Union might give aid to some South Pacific countries. [More…]
I have been approached on a number of occasions by people seeking to assist Jewish citizens in the Soviet Union. [More…]
What are the general rights of national groups in the Soviet Union. [More…]
How many Churches and Mosques are there in the Soviet Union? [More…]
Why has it been forbidden for Jews to make religious artifacts in the Soviet Union? [More…]
Why has not the Soviet Union honoured the Helsinki Pact with reference to freedom of immigration? [More…]
It would hardly be stretching it to describe this treatment of the Australian Parliament as being most discourteous and lacking any element of the co-operative spirit underpinning the Helsinki Pact about which the Soviet Union has been so sanctimonious lately in respect of President Carter. [More…]
The issue of human rights in the Soviet Union and in other countries has concerned me and I have placed a question on notice for the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) seeking information on the number of political prisoners in every country on which information can be obtained and I eagerly await that reply. [More…]
To return to the Soviet Union, I have received on a regular basis a document called Survey. [More…]
I have just received the March 1977 issue of Survey, volume 2 number 12, which has as a standard subheading on all issues, the following words: ‘A monthly digest of trends in the Soviet Union and other socialist countries.’ [More…]
On the front page of this special issue under the heading ‘Human Rights and Socialism’ the statement is made that in the Soviet Union there is ‘the right to freedom of religion’, which of course stands most peculiarly alongside the correspondence I have just mentioned from the Soviet Embassy. [More…]
Finally, it seems to me that the Soviet Union is jeopardising detente and world peace and is curiously supersensitive on the issue of human rights when it complains so bitterly about President Carter’s comments on Soviet dissidents. [More…]
The evidence is there and it is up to the Soviet Union to prove otherwise. [More…]
As the Prime Minister and I have previously emphasised, our bilateral relations with the Soviet Union are sound and we wish to make them as extensive and friendly as possible. [More…]
Some eastern European and European countries and the Soviet Union have resorted to strict controls on abortion as a means of bolstering birth rates. [More…]
The chances of explosion, breakdown or fault in a plant or in transportation by accident or design will increase in proportion to the number of reactors, and if reactors needed to fulfil projected electricity demand in the next 20 years are built, then trains and trucks loaded with deadly radioactive materials will constantly travel across the United States, Europe, the Soviet Union and many other places. [More…]
It is unlikely that the non-competitive, perhaps less acquisitive, but disciplined societies of the Soviet Union and the European state economies will any more achieve increasing human happiness from increasing consumption of material goods. [More…]
Canada, South Africa, Nigeria, France, Gabon and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Has the new Indian Government expressed any views regarding its proposed relationship with the Soviet Union and its own attitude towards the future development of defence installations in the Indian Ocean? [More…]
It is clearly not putting quite the same stress as the previous Government did on relations with the Soviet Union, though most of its statements are couched in the sort of language I have just mentioned. [More…]
As a result of the allegations that Russia was involved in a gigantic build-up in the Indian Ocean, the Soviet Union, through the Somali Government, invited some United States legislators to inspect the base in Somalia. [More…]
I would think it needs to be understood that a great deal has been said and written as a result of comments made by a person who has been convicted in the United States of America of the most serious charges and that the only beneficiary of the matters in relation to which he has been convicted is the Soviet Union. [More…]
This House notes the systematic abuse of psychiatry for political and religious purposes is a deliberate policy of the Government of the Soviet Union; [More…]
1 ) To condemn the practice of the use of psychiatry in punishing dissidents, or for whatever reason and calls on the Government of the Soviet Union and any other government using such methods to cease this torture of human beings immediately; [More…]
He made the unqualified statement at his trial that the CIA had engaged in deception against Australia and that details of that deception had been passed to the Soviet Union. [More…]
I think we could judge that the Soviet Union has this capacity. [More…]
The KGB, or Committee for State Security, is the principal instrument through which the Soviet Union is ruled and Soviet foreign policy is executed. [More…]
As such, it impinges on the lives of nearly 250 million individuals in the Soviet Union and countless others in nations affected by the Soviet Union’s presence. [More…]
One wonders why there is not a ban on wheat sales and other export to the Soviet Union- a nation notorious for its suppression of human rights, for locking up dissidents in psychiatric hospitals and harassment of ethnic groups. [More…]
The situation I have described has been precipitated by the allegations of one Christopher Boyce, a 23 year old communications clerk, who was on trial in California and has since been convicted of selling United States secrets to the Soviet Union. [More…]
, (3) and (4) President Carter has proposed negotiations between his country and the Soviet Union on mutual military limitations in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The only country which is in a position to ‘lend effective assistance to the implementation of this initiative’ is the Soviet Union. [More…]
Questions about the level of forces and capabilities on which the United States and Soviet Union might be able to reach agreement or about a role for Australia in implementing an agreement between them are premature and hypothetical at this stage. [More…]
Along with scientists and conservationists, they are exerting pressure on those nations which do whale, particularly in this respect the Soviet Union and Japan which currently take some 85 per cent of the world catch. [More…]
… the Australian Meat Board entered into some arrangements with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Insofar as this can be done within the limits of intelligence security, will the Minister have prepared for the information of honourable members a report showing the increase in the conventional armed forces of the Soviet Union during recent times and the nature, extent and location of Soviet armed forces distinguishing, as far as possible, between conventional and non-conventional weaponry? [More…]
The Soviet Union, which has experienced reduced influence in the region, may be tempted to make use of the Soviet Union’s improved military capacity for intervention in the Middle East and thus risk a confrontation with the United States. [More…]
When Canada withdrew its supplies from India the gesture proved futile because the United States and later the Soviet Union kept up supplies of enriched uranium to the Indian Government. [More…]
Honourable members should not suppose that the Soviet Union and other countries are not also using commercial nuclear reactors to produce electricity. [More…]
One of his more Neanderthal back benchers has since suggested that such deportations should be to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Fourthly, as 65 per cent of the world ‘s oil deposits are located within this vicinity we ought to acknowledge the growing dependence on the area by the West, by the Soviet Union and by Australia. [More…]
And each conflict within any of the countries, between any of the countries, has deepened the possibility of confrontation and conflict between the two great powers, the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Anyone reading this report and unfamiliar with the politics of the Middle East may well throw up his hands in despair at what appears to be the impossibility of finding a solution that will satisfy everyone-Egypt, Syria, the Lebanon, the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Israel, not to mention the many other neighbouring Arab countries which abound in the region and the two super powers that wield such influence there, the Soviet Union and the United States. [More…]
It is also said that one of the forces behind the PLO is the Gaddafi Government in Libya and behind Gaddafi stands the Soviet Union. [More…]
In chapter 4 the Committee looked back at the one time when a world war might have threatened but where, clearly, neither the United States nor the Soviet Union wanted to allow this situation to develop into a war. [More…]
Specifically, the Soviet Union did not want to be pulled by those they were sponsoring. [More…]
Instead President Nasser turned to the Soviet Union and by January 1970 the U.S.S.R. had agreed to supply Egypt with an integrated airdefence system comprising surface-to-air missiles, some 20 000 advisers and Russian piloted Mig 23s. [More…]
4.14 The Soviet Union had been forced to intervene to preserve President Nasser’s regime, which it had come to depend upon for its influence in the Arab world. [More…]
The Soviet Union therefore acquiesced in the American proposed cease-fire of August 1970 which ended the War of Attrition and reduced the dangers of a general war. [More…]
By restricting arms supplies the Soviet Union would prevent Egypt from going to war and also prevent it from achieving the ‘position of strength’ necessary for negotiations involving the U.S. [More…]
In this way the Soviet Union could exercise control over Egypt’s belligerent aspirations while preventing a deterioration in its position of influence. [More…]
There is a tendency in Australia to talk about the foreign policy of the Soviet Union as if it were an endless summer of successes. [More…]
It was a very distinguished Egyptian Ambassador who pointed out to me that back in 1955, at the time of the Bandung conference, the Soviet Union was the dominant influence in China, the dominant influence in Indonesia, the dominant influence in Egypt, the dominant influence in Syria and the dominant influence in India. [More…]
The Soviet Union is in the role of urging them to be at peace with one another, obviously so that it can retain its influence with both. [More…]
I merely say that there is no infallibility in the foreign policy of the Soviet Union. [More…]
We must realise that uranium is being mined on an increasing scale in overseas countries, including United States of America, Canada, South Africa, Nigeria, France, Gabon and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The strange thing we have not noticed in this debate is that the other section of the world, namely the Soviet Union and its satellites, which are also well along the road to nuclear development, have not been brought into this debate. [More…]
I was very proud when I visited the Academy of Science in the Soviet Union and the Indian Academy of Science to hear leading scientists from around the world say that our country was leading the world in solar energy research. [More…]
He said that this is a foul communist plot designed to immobilise the Western world so that the Soviet Union can forge ahead with ample power while we will have no power at all. [More…]
Now what we are doing when we say that all these countries can have the fast breeder reactor is saying that the detente that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union, which detente has perhaps played a leading role in the world’s living in peace, is now to be broken. [More…]
Israel, Egypt, Brazil, all the European countries, India, China, the Soviet Union, the United States of America, all the countries in eastern Europe if the Russians allow them to build the same sort of nuclear reactors, will have the ability to build nuclear weapons. [More…]
The Labor Party does not agree with what the Soviet Union is doing in the proliferation of nuclear reactors throughout eastern Europe. [More…]
The aim is for mutual balanced reductions, a viewpoint we put forward since the days when we were in opposition in contrast to the demands of the former government, the present Opposition, which was calling for unilateral withdrawal by the US irrespective of the moves of the Soviet Union in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The Australian views have been communicated in great detail to the United States and the US Administration has undertaken to consult very closely with this Government before any final agreement is reached with the Soviet Union. [More…]
This consultation is taking place as the negotiations continue between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Algeria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, German Democratic Republic, Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, Spain, Sudan, Turkey, United States of America. [More…]
We should be spending more time seeing what kind of technology is available to industry in countries such as West Germany, the United States, even the Soviet Union, Italy and France. [More…]
In countries such as the Soviet Union and the United States they have now discovered that, with the rapid pace of life we are living towards the end of the century, they need a big influx of psychologists if people are to be able to handle the pace of life. [More…]
As the honourable member would be aware, the present International Wheat Agreement expires next year, and as there is a substantial world build up of stocks, particularly in the United States of America and Canada, and increasing stocks in Europe and the Soviet Union there are great fears about the pressure being applied on the market by these stocks. [More…]
In the Security Council there is a further protection of the veto power which may be exercised by the United States of America, the Soviet Union, France, the United Kingdom and China. [More…]
We do not want the stuff to be sent to the United States or the Soviet Union or any place else where Japan may choose to have it enriched. [More…]
You do not even know that the Soviet Union at this moment is building one of the most powerful atomic breeder reactors ever seen. [More…]
We cannot tell the Soviet people what is happening here, and the Soviet Union continues to tell uslies. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to allegations that the Soviet Union, while it pretends support of international detente, nevertheless indoctrinates its own citizens with concerted falsehoods about conditions in the Free World, with the object of raising up unwarranted hatred and contempt. [More…]
My understanding is that various signatory states, including the Soviet Union, have indicated interest in discussing this subject in order to correct what they regard as distorted views, held in other countries, of their own countries ‘ socio-political systems. [More…]
The international market for sugar does not include agreements which exist between the European Economic Community, French Caribbean and Pacific countries under the Home Convention, Cuba and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I think it is worth noting that the Soviet Union in these particular matters continues to spend 12 per cent to 14 per cent of its gross national product on defence, not only for direct offensive weapons of a great variety but also for the construction in very large measure of strategic nuclear shelters for a large part of the Soviet population. [More…]
It is something that is far beyond the needs of the Soviet Union for purely defensive purposes. [More…]
In any case, in undertaking the considerable task of investigating alleged discrimination against Jews in the Soviet Union, the-. [More…]
Committee needs to make comparisons with other groups in the Soviet Union which may or may not be disadvantaged. [More…]
It has therefore been decided by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence to rename the Sub-Committee on the Petition regarding Soviet Jewry as the Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Human rights in the Soviet Union bearing in mind Australia’s support for the principles contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Final Act of the Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
It is already harvested by a number of countries including, I think, West Germany and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I understand that whilst informally there are good relationships between the geologists of these countries there has not been any formal exchange of information, and that in fact the Soviet Union has not honoured its undertaking which was apparently given to that expedition and which was in accordance with the Treaty to provide Australia with this information. [More…]
One must ask whether the Soviet Union has anything to hide. [More…]
I call upon the Soviet Union to make that information available. [More…]
Regarding the export of beef from Queensland, as in other States of Australia, there has been a very creditable performance over the last year by all parties concerned in exploring new markets, particularly in the Soviet Union, the East European countries and the Middle East. [More…]
We do not want the stuff to be sent to the United States or the Soviet Union or any place else where Japan may choose to have it enriched. [More…]
In the letter he describes as ‘a stupid deception’ the attitude that Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania are not legally part of the Soviet Union. [More…]
In China we are regarded as imbeciles; we do not understand world power; we have not comprehended the power of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Was any protest made throughout the nation at the Soviet Union actually having in outer space a satellite driven by nuclear power? [More…]
We have debates about Indonesia, but nobody seems to understand the importance of submarines of the Soviet Union passing through the Straits of Sunda or south of Australia into the Indian Ocean. [More…]
At every meeting that I had with Chinese Ministers concerned with foreign affairs they pointed out that Australia and Western Europe are completely unable to understand the power of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Certainly we would have difficulty in meeting the defence forces of the United States of America or the Soviet Union in open combat, but we are hardly likely to expect to do that. [More…]
We have friendly relations with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Because it follows a political philosophy which is different from that of Australians and that of the Western world, we are inclined to resort to unfair and bitter criticism of the Soviet Union. [More…]
That expenditure is often matched- we read recently it was exceeded- by the amount of money expended by the Soviet Union. [More…]
The honourable member for Holt, in what I referred to as unfair criticism of the Soviet Union in this chamber yesterday, said such things as: ‘I hear no member of the Opposition protesting to the Soviet Embassy in connection with the Soviet nuclear powered satellite which came down in Canada’. [More…]
We heard no tribute- I have not heard a tribute paid by any member of this House- paid to the Soviet Union for its co-operation in recent times in making its facilities at its Antarctic base at Mirney available to members of the Australian Antarctic expedition. [More…]
Many honourable members seem to forget the fact that the Soviet Union fought as our ally against the barbaric Nazi war machine and lost over 20 million citizens in the last World War, over twice the then population of Australia. [More…]
I ask: Are we fair in this unjustified criticism of the Soviet Union from time to time? [More…]
We are sometimes inclined to forget the fact that the Soviet Union has been buying for a considerable number of years now over $80m worth of Australian goods each year and that in return Australia has been buying somewhere in the vicinity of $5m to $8m worth of its goods annually. [More…]
Members of the National Country Party are always gratified to know when the Australian Meat Board or the government of the day has obtained another substantial meat sale to the Soviet Union. [More…]
We seem to ignore the fact that a little over 50 years ago more than 80 per cent of the population of the Soviet Union were illiterate, yet it is now one of the major world powers and the Government of the USSR claims to have wiped out illiteracy completely. [More…]
I understand that freedom in the Soviet Union is too restricted for that sort of thing. [More…]
How can any fair-minded person take seriously the Government’s foreign policy when it holds the view that the Baltic states should be given independence from the Soviet Union while East Timor is accepted as being incorporated into Indonesia? [More…]
After all, the Soviet Union did free the Baltic states from the barbaric Nazi occupations and lost millions of its troops in doing so. [More…]
The attitudes that I have expressed in relation to the policies of the Soviet Union originally in June or July 1976 have been echoed on many occasions since in more cogent and more powerful terms by the Foreign Ministers and the Defence Ministers in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and in recent times by a fine editorial in the Melbourne Age. [More…]
I think that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) should be encouraged, without delay, to be quite certain that emergency communications have been opened between President Carter of the United States and President Brezhnev of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I do not see how any peace settlement can arrive in the Middle East unless it is underwritten and supported by an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
However brilliant Mr Herman Eiltz, the United States Ambassador in Cairo, however good the United States Minister for Foreign Affairs, however brilliant Mr Stoltfuss in the Gulf, and however wonderful the diplomats, it seems to me historically impossible to hope for any solution unless the Soviet Union is brought into the discussions. [More…]
All I can do is repeat what I have said before: In the circumstances I think that the Prime Minister should be encouraged to see that emergency communications are opened without delay between the Soviet Union and the United States. [More…]
A meeting in relation to trade matters is held annually between officials of Australia and of the Soviet Union. [More…]
A Soviet Union mission will be arriving today for discussions. [More…]
I am particularly keen to talk with the Deputy Minister to try to assess why the Soviet Union is not buying our meat this year. [More…]
So I am hoping that in the course of our discussions I might get some assessment of the market possibilities in the Soviet Union for Australian meat. [More…]
According to these reports, Cuban troops have killed many civilians in the course of recent attempts to wipe out so-called right wing opponents of the present regime, and there have been other reports that the Soviet Union has established a camp to train guerrillas for operations in Zimbabwe, Namibia and Zaire. [More…]
In 1976, because of the nonsense about saying to the people in the sugar production business that everything was rosy, because of the failure to look at the fact that the European Common Market was expanding its production and the Soviet Union had expanded its production and because of the failure to recognise the fact that Cuba was coming back into the international market and was no longer going to maintain its exclusiveness with respect to the Soviet Union, we did not have the courage to tell the growers of Australia that there would be an over supply. [More…]
We read about our worthy Ministers not having time to talk to trade officials from other countries such as the Soviet Union. [More…]
If one talks to the Soviet Trade Commissioner one will be told that the Soviet Union is buying Australian exports to the value of $400m a year and that Australia is buying from the Soviet Union imports to the value of $4m. [More…]
The Soviet Union and Great Britain had tested nuclear weapons. [More…]
In 1977, twelve Australian scientists visited the Soviet Union. [More…]
a) Visits by Australian Scientists to the Soviet Union: [More…]
We have no figures available for the Soviet Union. [More…]
That is very depressing because the Soviet Union is one of the largest producers of uranium and one of the largest manufacturers of atomic energy plants. [More…]
It is depressing that we do not have any figures available from the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe the position of the Soviet Union on this matter is completely irresponsible. [More…]
He went to the Soviet Union and established a major new trade pact for the first time. [More…]
We also know of negotiations and discussions between the Soviet Union and the United States and of the joint determination of the United States and Australia that those negotiations will not reduce the ambit of the ANZUS Treaty in any sense, shape or form. [More…]
In respect of trading relations with Japan, again I find the Opposition’s claims rather paradoxical and amusing because it has said this afternoon that it is not the function of the Government to try to bully our various trading partners, whether it is Japan, the Soviet Union, the European Economic Community or whatever. [More…]
There were many in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union who thought that Khruschev’s speech at the 20th Congress in 1956 about Stalin’s rule contained ‘useless and unnecessary information’. [More…]
I found the sanctimonious and pious comments in this regard of the Soviet Union, of many other communist countries, a number of Third World countries and some of the Arab countries to be totally hypocritical and therefore lacking in credibility. [More…]
I made the point that countries like the Soviet Union should put thenown house in order before voting against Israel on human rights issues. [More…]
It was the Soviet Union, the communist countries in general, the Third World countries and some of the Arab states. [More…]
In fact the resolution on the comprehensive nuclear test ban was supported for the first time ever by both the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union is seeking a fishery agreement with us and has made specific overtures to participate, alone with Australian partners, in fishing within Australia’s proposed 200-mile zone. [More…]
These areas are already being exploited by fishermen from Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, Japan and the maritime province of the Soviet Union, even in areas inside the 12-mile zone where the waters are generally less than 200 metres deep and contain the valuable demersal fisheries. [More…]
Both countries have a high stake in the security and prosperity of other economically advanced democratic powers in the world; in the continuation of the process of detente between the super-powers; in maintaining an open and nondiscriminatory regime in international trade; in encouraging a continuing United States presence in the Asia-Pacific region to the extent necessary to maintain a sound balance in that region; in opposing any attempt by the Soviet Union- or any other major power- to establish hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region; and in encouraging China to continue to play a constructive role in regional affairs. [More…]
At last year’s General Assembly, the documents of which are again public documents, Australia was instrumental in efforts to secure the adoption of a single nuclear test ban resolution, supported by the overwhelming majority of the Assembly, and for the first time, by the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
A comprehensive test ban treaty now under negotiation between the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain would be an important barrier both to the spread of nuclear weapons and to the expansion of existing arsenals. [More…]
I note that President Carter has said that an ultimate decision on production and deployment of a new weapon- the neutron bombwould be influenced by the degree to which the Soviet Union shows restraint in its conventional and nuclear arms programs and force deployments. [More…]
In the Government’s view, further progress in the SALT negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union to limit their respective nuclear arsenals is crucial to wider nuclear non-proliferation efforts. [More…]
Only five weeks ago, Norman Kirkhan, in a report in the London Daily Telegraph- A report never contradicted by Russia- revealed, not for the first time I believe, but for the third time, that the Soviet Union had set up a guerrilla training camp in Angola. [More…]
The Soviet Union has reportedly set up a secret training camp in Angola for 25,000 African guerrillas who will form armies to attack Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), Zaire and Namibia. [More…]
While we do not discount the real defence needs of the Soviet Union, we cannot fail to be concerned at the apparent Soviet military build-up. [More…]
It is regrettable, to say the least, that this build-up is taking place while the Soviet Union is engaged with the United States in substantive negotiations on arms control in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The system of the Soviet Union is quite different from our own. [More…]
As I understand it, Dr Orlov is the leader of a group within the Soviet Union that has been monitoring the Helsinki agreement. [More…]
I think that in general all I can say is that Dr Orlov ‘s trial and sentence certainly will serve to qualify Western confidence that the Soviet Union intends to honour its commitments on the implementation of human rights. [More…]
One sympathises, of course, with his views on civil rights in the Soviet Union and such places but Indonesia, which is much closer to home - [More…]
It seems to me that the only group in this country which is actively supporting the Soviet Union is the Opposition in this House. [More…]
I refer to the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman), who on 30 May launched a vicious attack against the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whether the Soviet Union is right or wrong I think it ill behoves a supporter of the Government to attack the Soviet Union, a friendly nation, in the manner in which he did when one takes into consideration what is happening in some of the nations more friendly towards Australia, such as Indonesia which is at our doorstep. [More…]
I think that these countries should have deserved the withering attack of the honourable member for Denison before the Soviet Union. [More…]
He bitterly and unjustifiably, in my view, attacked the Soviet Union. [More…]
-Yes, the Soviet Union is right at the end of the list. [More…]
The Soviet Union has its faults; so have we. [More…]
Of course, outside those figures the Soviet Union and other eastern European countries also have large nuclear power programs. [More…]
For example, in October 1977 the sub-committee on human rights in the Soviet Union of the Parliament’s Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence widened its initial terms of reference to include the following: . [More…]
human rights in the Soviet Union bearing in mind Australia’s support for the principles contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the final act of the Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
He was told that no one could doubt that the Soviet Union was sincere about the implementation of the Helsinki Declaration and he was warned that the formation of the group was unconstitutional. [More…]
The sub-committee on human rights in the Soviet Union will shortly prepare a report on the subject of human rights in the USSR. [More…]
The recent trial of Yuri Orlov and the sentence imposed on him have damaged the Soviet Union because it appears that Orlov has been tried for the holding and disseminating of unpopular opinions, something with which we in the Australian Labor Party are all too familiar. [More…]
I was impressed too with the view of leading experts in international affairs in China when they said that the Western world today does not appreciate the threat posed by the Soviet Union through its activities in Africa. [More…]
If he has received a report on the trial, does it indicate whether the trial accords with the Soviet Union’s claim to be taking human rights more seriously in accordance with its minimal Helsinki Pact obligations. [More…]
Concern has been expressed from time to time since the end of the Vietnam conflict that Russia might gain access to Cam Ranh Bay as a major addition to its own shore based facilities, thus enormously increasing the Soviet Union’s strategic reach into the Pacific and linking up the Soviet facilities at Vladivostok and in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Of course, we know that the Soviet Union has a great capacity to maintain ships at sea for long periods and can reach into any part of the world from its present facilities. [More…]
But another major land based facility at Cam Ranh Bay would enormously increase the Soviet Union’s capacity to reach out with great strength. [More…]
But activities of recent times by the Soviet Union have not given us great cause to be confident that the Soviet Union shares that particular objective. [More…]
A major development at Cam Ranh Bay by the Soviet Union would be such a development. [More…]
In addition to that unsettling factor, we have the fact that the move would inevitably tend to push Vietnam towards closer and closer links with the Soviet union in contradistinction with its relations with China. [More…]
I can only say that that is typical of the view that has been taken by the Leader of the Opposition and by his predecessors over a great many years- that an extension of power and influence by the Soviet Union does not create instability. [More…]
That kind of attitude in relation to the extension of the Soviet Union’s influence needs to stand in stark contrast with the Opposition ‘s general criticism of the efforts of the United States whenever that country undertakes initiatives designed to maintain balance. [More…]
If this Government has to make a choice, in blunt and plain terms, between naval facilities under the control of the United States and those under the control of the Soviet Union, I guarantee that we would prefer those facilities under the control of the United States. [More…]
We do not wish to see an extension of major facilities under the control of the Soviet Union that would upset the strategic balance and which would, at the same time, be viewed with great disfavour by ASEAN countries and which would lead to the possibility of political instability of a very serious kind. [More…]
Only yesterday I think it was I heard the Prime Minister answer a question in the House in respect of one of our trading partners- a country from which I have only recently returned- the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Prime Minister could not be disparaging enough about the Soviet Union. [More…]
He had no consideration of the fact that there is a great imbalance of trade between Australia and the Soviet Union- an imbalance which is greatly in Australia’s favour. [More…]
I think it is to the tune of $400m exports to the Soviet Union and about $4m imports from the Soviet Union. [More…]
Plans are going ahead for grounds of the same standard in other countries such as New Zealand, India, Pakistan and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Unhappily, the so-called non-aligned have much too often, especially in recent years, been non-aligned against the United States and on behalf of the Soviet Union in every world forum and on every world issue of consequence. [More…]
Whilst Tito may now be offside with the Soviet Union this was not always the case- so, friendships do change all the time. [More…]
Vietnam is a country which is striving to maintain its independence and freedom from all sides whether it be China or the Soviet Union on the one hand or the United States on the other. [More…]
In olden days I think the Soviet Union used to have a slogan to the effect that the world was divided into two camps: On the one hand there were imperialist powers and, on the other hand, there were peace-loving countries led by the Soviet Union. [More…]
If he had received a report on the trial, I asked him whether it indicated that the trial accorded with the Soviet Union’s claim to be taking human rights more seriously in accordance with its minimal Helsinki Pact obligations. [More…]
I take considerable support from honourable members such as the honourable member for McMillan (Mr Simon) and others in this Parliament who for a long time have been concerned about the question of human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Guidelines were voluntarily adopted by the fifteen leading suppliers of nuclear equipment and technology including the United States, Canada, major member states of Euratom, Japan, the Soviet Union and other east and west European countries. [More…]
I mention for the purpose of comparison that the Soviet Union’s reserves total 18 trillion, or 18 million million, cubic metres. [More…]
Yet the Soviet Union is exporting only 8 per cent of its annual yield of 0.345 trillion cubic metres. [More…]
This honourable gentleman from Bendigo asks about the Soviet Union. [More…]
The truth is that more than half of all the enriched uranium in Western Europe is treated in the Soviet Union. [More…]
When the countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development wish to have uranium enriched in the Soviet Union everything seems to be all right, but when the honourable member for Bendigo wishes to indulge in a Red witch hunt he likes to make what he calls his personal score, making innuendoes against me. [More…]
We have found markets also in the Soviet Union and in the Middle East countries. [More…]
Whilst I criticise our system in Australia for overeducation, I think I have seen a greater measure of it in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I think the Soviet Union system is probably showing the benefit of that over-emphasis on education because at present it appears to be the leader in the scientific field. [More…]
Mr Speaker, the honourable gentleman certainly would not for one moment have raised this question, for example, if a number of members on his own side of the House had organised a dinner with representatives of the Soviet Union or of other countries, and I would not take it as a mark of criticism if they had. [More…]
Therefore, whatever happens it is essential that the United States and the Soviet Union lend their efforts to bring a halt to the complete dismemberment of the Lebanon. [More…]
If anybody imagines that it is going to be possible to bring a peaceful solution to the Middle East without consulting the Soviet Union directly or indirectly he must be gravely mistaken. [More…]
To leave the Soviet Union out of any discussions concerning the Middle East must indeed be a mistake. [More…]
A further possible threat in the future could come from attempts by the Soviet Union to destabilise the South East Asian region in order to encircle or contain China. [More…]
This could take place as part of the Soviet Union’s long term quarrel with China. [More…]
I would have no objection if, for example, Pine Gap were being used for surveillance of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Human Rights in the Soviet Union (Question No. [More…]
The issue of human rights in the Soviet Union is one which has drawn the particular attention of the Government. [More…]
The Government has called on the Soviet Union to implement the important principles of human rights embodied in United Nations instruments as well as the 197S Helsinki Accords. [More…]
The Government’s stand on human rights will be maintained into 1980 (when the Olympic Games are to be held in Moscow) and for as long as basic human rights are denied in the Soviet Union or elsewhere. [More…]
The Soviet Union invariably supports the peace movement. [More…]
The World Peace Council can proudly list its achievements as failure to protest about the Berlin Wall, failure to protest about the invasion of Hungary and Czechoslovakia and its rather dubious protest about nuclear testing, forgetting altogether that the Soviet Union is perhaps the greatest nuclear tester of all. [More…]
Furthermore, we later decided to suspend plans for the holding of a meeting to review the science agreement with the Soviet Union which had been due to take place in Moscow in September. [More…]
The Soviet Union has been shown to be actively engaged in activities of an espionage character which it has recently and unconvincingly condemned in others, including some of its own courageous citizens. [More…]
It need scarcely be emphasised that hostile intelligence activities detract seriously from the purpose of improving and developing relations between the Soviet Union and Australia, a purpose to which the Australian Government has been diligently directing its efforts. [More…]
It is to be hoped that the Government of the Soviet Union will do likewise and direct its energies towards the same objective and refrain from further activities of a nature likely to damage mutually beneficial relations. [More…]
Would honourable members believe- I find it very difficult to believe newspaper reports but apparently these reports are true- that the Labor Party in Victoria had the opportunity to debate this matter but defeated a motion that dissident persecutions in the Soviet Union should be condemned? [More…]
They agree with the Victorian Labor Party ‘s decision to throw out a motion in condemnation of the dissident persecution in the Soviet Union. [More…]
He huffs and puffs, as do many members on the Liberal Party and National Country Party side, on the question of Russia and human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
This House set up the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, which in turn set up a sub-committee chaired by Senator Wheeldon dealing with human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
They will see just how frequently not a single member of the Liberal Party or the National Country Party attends meetings of that sub-committee, which was set up following a resolution of this chamber to investigate the question of human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
involving persecution of dissidents in the Soviet Union. [More…]
My question, which is on a substantive matter, is addressed to the Prime Minister and is subsequent to a number of petitions I have presented to the House concerning human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister inform the House of the Government’s attitude towards the Soviet Union’s attempts to deny the rights and liberties of those of its citizens wishing to exercise the democratic rights of free expression and peaceful dissent? [More…]
We have urged the Soviet Union to implement important principles of human rights embodied in the Helsinki Accords, and if that could occur I am quite certain that the thrust for peace throughout the world would be enormously strengthened. [More…]
The only implication from that can be that that conference of the Victorian Labor Party was supporting the actions of the Soviet Union. [More…]
But for the Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party to reject that motion condemning Soviet actions against the dissidents in the Soviet Union on the grounds that these people would prefer to believe what the Soviet Union, what communist Russia itself, said about the dissidents is, I believe, a totally unreasonable situation and one that would be widely condemned throughout Australia. [More…]
Mr Speaker, in view of answers given at Question Time, I ask whether you will investigate why an undertaking was given by the Department of Foreign Affairs to the Soviet Union that no members of the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union would be included in any parliamentary delegation to the Soviet Union. [More…]
He made reference to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and to the sub-committee which is chaired by Senator Wheeldon and which is currently investigating human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
In moving that motion the speaker made a very specific reference to the position in the Soviet Union and referred to the Dinzburg trial in particular. [More…]
He made generalised allegations that members on this side of the House were not concerned about the question of human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
What the world has been deploring in the Soviet Union is happening in Australia: The Soviet Communist Party is putting in gaol people who have the honesty and courage to publicly criticise the party line. [More…]
Yesterday during Question Time in this House we heard the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) call for human rights in the Soviet Union, a nation as far from Australia’s influence as possible. [More…]
I am comparing the position with that in other parts of Australia, not the Soviet Union. [More…]
It has served notice on the people of Victoria not only in relation to the nationalisation issue, but also in relation to the question of dissidents and human rights for all those those within Victoria who might have come from Eastern Europe as well as members of religious communities who are not given adequate rights within the Soviet Union at the present time. [More…]
-I refer the Minister for Foreign Affairs to his answer to a question on 14 November indicating that a review of relations with the Soviet Union took place in June. [More…]
Do these letters give approval in principle for toll enrichment in the Soviet Union of Australian uranium purchased by Finland? [More…]
Did the review of relations with the Soviet Union encompass this question? [More…]
What safeguards arrangements with the Soviet Union would satisfy the Government? [More…]
why an undertaking was given by the Department of Foreign Affairs to the Soviet Union that no members of the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Sub-committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union would be included in any parliamentary delegation to the Soviet Union. [More…]
As I understand it, one of our officials was told at a social function by a middle ranking Soviet official that the Soviet Union could have a certain attitude. [More…]
The interesting thing is that this is the first time that members of this Parliament sitting opposite have taken such a viewpoint of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Parliamentary delegation that went to the Soviet Union could have been looked upon as one that was elected to comply with the wishes of the middle order official from the Soviet Embassy. [More…]
The honourable member for Corio made an incorrect statement last week when he said that the Department of Foreign Affairs gave an undertaking to the Soviet Union that no members of the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Subcommittee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union would be included in any parliamentary delegation to the Soviet Union. [More…]
There are those with a genuine concern regarding the suppression of civil liberties, as epitomised by the honourable member for Prospect, and there are those who need to aspire to the desires of others who would seek to suppress criticism of the suppression of civil liberties in the Soviet Union, namely, the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Holding) who goes along with the socialists in Victoria who would not condemn the Soviet Union for its brutal suppression of civil liberties. [More…]
Some few moments ago in a speech to the House by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock)- perhaps it was an exercise in the honourable gentleman’s forensic skills- he described members of the Australian Labor Party as being of two kinds: Those who were genuinely concerned with problems of civil liberties and those who, to quote the Minister’s words, were concerned to suppress evidence of oppression of dissident groups within the Soviet Union. [More…]
Indeed, only this morning in another article in the Australian Financial Review I noticed that Mr John Silkin, the United Kingdom Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries remarked on the fact that the EEC has sold subsidised butter to the Soviet Union at a price of about 47.5 pence a pound compared with 60 pence a pound paid by British shoppers for the same product. [More…]
Without wishing to disclose the price that has been received in the recent sale of Australian butter to the Soviet Union I think it is apparent that Australia’s ability to sell agricultural produce in Third World markets is seriously prejudiced by the maintenance of the very high subsidies on European produce that is applied through the Common Agricultural Policy. [More…]
-In recent months mankind right around the world has strongly and vociferously condemned the systematic persecution of civil rights dissidents in the Soviet Union. [More…]
On Remembrance Day 1978 a small section of the Australian community but an influential section of the Australian community not only chose to forget those who are fighting for basic human rights in the Soviet Union, but they callously turned their backs on those freedom fighters in the Soviet Union, the modernday martyrs of 1978. [More…]
What a day of shame for Australia when one of the two major political parties in the State of Victoria came out publicly and refused to condemn the Soviet Union for its treatment of civil rights dissidents. [More…]
We have asked questions of the Minister particularly in relation to the Finnish Agreement and the fact that uranium will be enriched in the Soviet Union- asking about safeguards procedures for toll enrichment- and we are not getting any assistance. [More…]
There is not much point in attacking the Soviet Union on the basis of having bugging devices here as though it is a pleasant exercise and in the same context not telling anything about nuclear safeguards arrangements with that country from the point of view of uranium supplied to Finland. [More…]
Has the EEC suspended export subsidies or restitutions on butter sales pending an inquiry into an attempted sale of French butter to the Soviet Union contrary to the notification procedure introduced after a similar sale in 1 977. [More…]
Is he able to say what is (a) the number or nuclear power plants and (b) the nuclear electricity generating capacity of plants (i) in operation, (ii) under construction, (iii) planned or on order and (iv) planned or on order and subsequently cancelled or deferred during the last5 years in (A) the Soviet Union, (B) Eastern Europe, (C) Cuba and (D) the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It so happens that the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II encompass the cruise missile involving the United States of America and the Soviet Union. [More…]
It ought to be noted, I think, that the ANZUS treaty was emphasised in a very particular way last year because even though discussions were going on between the Soviet Union and the United States about lowering force levels in the Indian Ocean- I have indicated that I hope those discussions can be resumed- a major ANZUS exercise involving significant United States and Australian forces took place off the coast of Western Australia in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Has that not pushed the Vietnamese into the arms of the Soviet Union? [More…]
The Labor Government had good diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Australian Government has failed to maintain a balance in relations with the Soviet Union on the one hand and China on the other hand. [More…]
It has made a strong effort to isolate Vietnam and it has helped to drive it straight towards the Soviet Union. [More…]
The ability of the Vietnam Government to absorb those problems is limited by the lack of assistance it received from other countries except of course the Soviet Union and some socialist countries. [More…]
It had no option but to sign a friendship treaty with the Soviet Union. [More…]
We have some evidence of the sharpening of the differences within the Vietnamese leadership as the links with the Soviet Union are bound tighter and tighter. [More…]
The conflicts reflect and were created by the hostility and rivalry existing among four states: The Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
I emphasise this deliberate and substantial militarisation of African conflict by outside states- particularly the Soviet Union and its Cuban surrogates- because I do not think that the qualitative change it has wrought in African affairs has registered clearly enough. [More…]
The situation began to deteriorate last year with increasing hostilities between Kampuchea and Vietnam, a worsening relationship between China and Vietnam and the signing of a Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation- which included a military assistance clause- between the Soviet Union and Vietnam. [More…]
The Vietnamese attack on Kampuchea was an attack by a client of the Soviet Union on a client of China. [More…]
Whatever its motivation the attack bore directly on the rivalry and competition between the Soviet Union and China for long term influence in the region- and, more generally, on the whole Sino-Soviet dispute. [More…]
China’s subsequent incursion into Vietnam can only be understood as a reaction to Vietnam’s treaty with the Soviet Union, its invasion of Kampuchea and the installation there of a pro- Vietnamese Government. [More…]
In turn, its concern about events in Kampuchea relate not only to the extension of Vietnamese influence but also to the role of the Soviet Union as Vietnam’s principal -backer. [More…]
We have called on Vietnam to withdraw its forces from Kampuchea, on China to withdraw its forces from Vietnam and on the Soviet Union to exercise restraint to prevent the last turn of the screw, which could be disastrous not merely for the region but for the peace of the world. [More…]
It is a neighbour of the Soviet Union, a major oil producer and a principal member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. [More…]
While the Soviet Union is increasing its already enormous military power faster than any other country, and while it is increasingly active in relation to the trouble spots of the world, politically it is the odd-man-out among the great powers. [More…]
At the time of the Korean War, the Soviet Union was pleased to see China at war and can welcome now in its own terms the dissipation of China’s energy in the south. [More…]
The Soviet Union need not lift a finger in the sense that it may well hope that China’s influence could fail. [More…]
The Soviet Union is greatly advantaged by the Chinese operation in Vietnam. [More…]
The Soviet Union was delighted when China was embroiled in Korea in the 1950s and those qualities of spreading the interest and flexibility which so characterise Soviet policy are likely to be satisfied to see China at war with Vietnam and China’s relations with Vietnam being shattered for a generation. [More…]
The central elements of his arguments in relation to these various international elements can be linked with a decline in the power of the United States and the increase in the power of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whilst all of us wish for nothing more than peace between nations regardless of differences of ideological approach, the reality facing us today is that we have seen, over the last few years in particular, a steady but sure increase in the military capacity of the Soviet Union compared with the United States of America. [More…]
It is so easy to imagine a situation where one mistake, one miscalculation, one rifle bullet across an international frontier, could well be enough to launch the Soviet Union against China- an action which would result, quite likely, in disastrous consequences for all of mankind. [More…]
Our world today is a relatively small place and nations have the capacity, in the form of intercontinental ballistic missiles and manned bombers, to travel great distances, for example from the Soviet Union to Australia, or from the United States to the Soviet Union- in fact virtually around the world. [More…]
Despite this enormous military build-up by the Soviet Union in recent years, it must be recognised that since 1945 no Soviet unit has been placed in a military position against any other state. [More…]
In recent years there has not been one trouble spot, not even Northern Ireland, in which has not been found among the arsenal of those who wish to fight equipment supplied by the Soviet Union. [More…]
For example, in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation area of Western Europe there is again a degree of malaise in that the United States and its Western allies demonstrably do not have at this point of time at least equality of strategic capability with the Warsaw Pact countries, which include the Soviet Union. [More…]
Cuban forces, armed and equipped by the Soviet, have again been prepared to be the catspaw of the Soviet Union, dabbling wherever possible in strife between states, in civil wars between rulers and people and between rulers and their own elite as in Chad. [More…]
In fact, we are seeing a pronounced deterioration in the relative strength of the United States and its allies visavis the Soviet Union and its allies, a pronounced deterioration in the capacity of the Western alliance to present a united face, and a deterioration in the capacity of the Third World to feel that in the West it has a group of states which are reliable, can be depended upon to make decisions and have the courage to carry them out for the welfare of mankind. [More…]
We commend the Soviet Union for its moderation in response to the Chinese actions, but it is to be regretted that the same moderating influence was not extended from Moscow in the case of Vietnam’s actions against Kampuchea. [More…]
Co-operation with the Soviet Union serves the cause of peace, for in the nuclear age world peace must include peace betweeen the superpowers- and it must mean the control of nuclear arms. [More…]
President Carter went on to say that SALT II will not be based on sentiment, but on the self interest of the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Our relationship with the Soviet Union is a mixture of cooperation and competition, and as President of the United States, I have no more difficult task than to balance the two. [More…]
It is in our national interest to pursue it even as we continue competition with the Soviet Union elsewhere in the world. [More…]
She has her own reasons for trying to marshal powerful forces against the Soviet Union. [More…]
Frankly, it would suit China to see the United States with overwhelming weapons superiority over the Soviet Union. [More…]
Yet, in fact, the United States is prepared in SALT II to accept numerical equality of nuclear weapons with the Soviet Union. [More…]
If anyone were to suggest that the Soviet Union is not involved in any way in this matter and is just an innocent bystander wanting to assist wherever possible, he would be very naive indeed. [More…]
If one were to read the statements made by the foreign ministers of other great nations one would realise that there has been an obvious attempt in each case to try to appreciate a situation which involves the possibility of an unthinkable conflict, that is, the possibility of the Soviet Union and China coming into conflict. [More…]
The Australian Foreign Minister has made this statement at a time when continuous attempts are being made by the United States to achieve a genuine detente with the Soviet Union. [More…]
I am not suggesting for one moment that they gave me classified information, but the general impression there is that America is getting nearer to a genuine understanding- and this is being achieved in a remarkable way- with the Soviet Union at the same time as this very wonderful association is being built up with communist China. [More…]
As people who have talked about the Soviet Union have said, we are dealing not with the dictatorship of the proletariat but with the dictatorship of the secretariat. [More…]
There is a dictatorship in the Soviet Union and there is a dictatorship in many other countries. [More…]
In some cases the difference may be only marginal such as in the disputes between the Soviet Union and China or between Chile and Argentina. [More…]
I raised the point that the Soviet Union indicated to this country last year that it would invite a parliamentary delegation to visit that country only on the basis that no members of the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Sub-committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union would be on that delegation. [More…]
This Government to its eternal shame agreed to send to the Soviet Union a delegation on the basis that the Soviet Union had decided that certain persons in this Parliament were persona non grata. [More…]
For example, there would be no point in Australia deciding to boycott the Olympic Games to be held in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Olympic Games would be held in the Soviet Union even if Australia decided not to participate. [More…]
The Soviet Union would be able to say that a campaign was being conducted by countries opposed to the holding of the Games there. [More…]
This would only be to the advantage of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I would like to make this point in relation to the conflict in South East Asia: It is utter hypocrisy for the Soviet Union to criticise China or the United States for interfering in other countries. [More…]
The Soviet Union has occupied- in some cases continually- nearly all of Eastern Europe. [More…]
In some cases- for example, the Baltic States- it has actually incorporated the countries into the Soviet Union. [More…]
With its Cuban mercenaries fighting in much of Africa, the Soviet Union has a hide to talk about interference in other countries. [More…]
One would imagine that if a direct request were made and the Soviet Union attacked China in any force, the Chinese would neutralise their southern flank with a much, much heavier blow being directed at Vietnam than at present. [More…]
I suppose that it is not in Vietnam’s interest to call in aid from the Soviet Union at this time. [More…]
In the world scene, it is perfectly clear that the Soviet Union is seeking to obtain strategic dominance throughout the world. [More…]
In 1985 the Soviet Union will have a strategic superiority over the United States of America that will be very, very pronounced. [More…]
Therefore, at about that time there will be a predominance by the Soviet Union, which has shown itself willing to use client states to the utmost to achieve its strategic aims. [More…]
That aim has been announced by the Soviet Union. [More…]
When the honourable member for Dawson (Mr Braithwaite) and I paid a state visit to China in July 1978, we were both struck- and this is a highly bipartisan comment- by the widespread fear, which was expressed everywhere we went, about the Soviet Union. [More…]
In China at the moment there is enormous fear of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I have been to China on two occasions in the last four years and I have been to the Soviet Union as well. [More…]
The Chinese are fearful of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union detests the Chinese. [More…]
The United States, the Soviet Union and certainly Vietnam and Cambodia should be present as should some of the other great countries of the world. [More…]
The Soviet Union is the only country in the world that can endanger world peace and the only country that has both the will and the ability to create a world diversion and involve the rest of the world in possible nuclear assault of one kind or another. [More…]
I remember my last visit to the Soviet Union when all the Russians talked about was war. [More…]
Just as the United States of America and the rest of the world want the SALT II negotiations to be completed soon I have no doubt that so too does the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union knows that it could not do more than possibly take out Singkiang Province and destroy the oil reserves and oil operations in Taching. [More…]
If one goes to the Soviet Union and talks to the people- they cannot talk very much to you- one finds that the people in Leningrad and Moscow are people of energy, physical strength, and effervescence. [More…]
Of course the Soviet Union cannot go on permanently appropriating so much of its real wealth not to the purposes of humanity and its consumers throughout the whole of the Union, but in order to sustain the greatest army, navy and air force of all time. [More…]
I could not be confident but many of the great world leaders such as the Chancellor of West Germany and others, have expressed their belief that the Soviet Union will act with restraint. [More…]
seen alongside negotiations of the United States .and the Soviet Union on the strategic arms limitations talks, the Camp David negotiations which have just resumed in regard to the Middle East, the situation in Indo-China and the African position. [More…]
The United States-Peking recognition, this new United States-Sino link, is in its own way one counter to the strategic balance which has moved in favour of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The first is the discussions on the stabilisation of forces in the Indian Ocean that were taking place between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
So talks, although currently stalled, are being held between the Soviet Union and the United States on the stabilisation of naval forces in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
We should also be very thankful at this point in time for the restraint displayed by the USSR because when China invaded Vietnam everyone was concerned that there could be immediate intervention by the Soviet Union. [More…]
That is to say, there would be a non-aligned communist country- a country not aligned with the Soviet Union or with China. [More…]
Why did Australia work with the United States to force Vietnam into COMECON-the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance- and into a close dependence on the Soviet Union against Vietnam’s wishes against its independence and against its integration into the region? [More…]
In its search, Vietnam was struggling to avoid being locked into economic dependence on the Soviet Union. [More…]
Vietnam was attempting to free itself from the powerless, triangular balancing between China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs almost excuses the Chinese invasion of Vietnam as part of its containment strategy against the Soviet Union. [More…]
He also dismisses the incursion by Vietnam into Kampuchea as the act of a client of the Soviet Union against Kampuchea as a client of China. [More…]
At least the Vietnamese do not make Cam Ranh Bay available to the Soviet Union. [More…]
During the past two or three weeks the whole world has held up its hands in horror at a possible confrontation between two giant nations, the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
On all fronts we have seen the Soviet Union take the initiative: In IndoChina with the Vietnamese in Kampuchea, with the Cubans, in Africa and in Iran where the leftist forces helped set the stage for the toppling of the pro-Western Shah. [More…]
We have already witnessed in Angola the takeover of a Soviet orientated government with the assistance of would be Cuban mercenaries armed and supplied by the Soviet Union. [More…]
With the Soviet Union spreading its influence in Asia, Chinese intervention was inevitable. [More…]
It is not that the People’s Republic of China was prompted by territorial ambitions in Vietnam, but they wished, probably naturally enough, to make sure that they were not outflanked by the Soviet Union in Asia. [More…]
Overall the situation in Indo-China seems to indicate that here is another explosive situation, sparked by the Soviet Union, which has caught Jimmy Carter once again with his pants down. [More…]
A lot has been said in the last two or three days about who sent the Cuban troops, and the relationship of President Castro and Mr Brezhnev of the Soviet Union. [More…]
If we give the central place to the traditional issues of power politics we may be led to forget that the threat to the peace of the world and to the security of this country derives much more fundamentally from the gap between the rich nations and the poor, between the developed and the developing nations than it does from the global ambitions of the Soviet Union or the paranoia of China. [More…]
It leads one, I think, to particularly unbalanced analyses and one of these is the role of the Soviet Union as portrayed in his comments. [More…]
It does not mean that Vietnam will not use the Soviet Union or that the Soviet Union will not use Vietnam each in its own interest. [More…]
Interestingly enough, in nearly every case members of that party were blinded by their obsession with the threat of atheistic communism or with geo-political visions about the threat of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Above all, we should not exaggerate the global menace of the Soviet Union to the extent that it blinds us to the local realities of Iran, Indo-China and Southern Africa. [More…]
He said that the Soviet Union ‘is the odd man out among the great powers’. [More…]
The Soviet Union occupies both a dangerous and a difficult position. [More…]
In the triangular balance of power between China, the United States and the Soviet Unionone could also include Western Europe- the odd man out at the moment is the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Minister noted, I think quite rightly, that there is a dangerous asymmetry between the military strength of the Soviet Union and its diplomatic isolation. [More…]
Arab States- we ought to remember this point- produce 60 per cent of OPEC oil and 39 per cent of the world’s oil supply, excluding the Soviet Union or, if one likes, the communist bloc. [More…]
Algeria, Iraq- Iraq seems to be getting out of the Soviet Union orbit- Kuwait, Qatar and the Emirates are closely tied in influence to Saudi Arabia. [More…]
They are Mexico, Norway, Britain, the United States, Canada and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Vietnamese attack on Kampuchea was an attack by a client of the Soviet Union ona client of China. [More…]
I am concerned because of the increasing influence of the Soviet Union in the South East Asian area. [More…]
Was it to sit still and, to use the Minister’s words, let this client of the Soviet Union actually jeopardise its territorial boundaries? [More…]
The remark was significant, because it was generally assumed that Indonesia was as suspicious of Vietnam’s intentions in the region of its ASEAN partners, particularly given its links with the Soviet Union, enhanced by the Moscow-Hanoi friendship treaty signed soon after Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong’s goodwill tour around all the ASEAN countries. [More…]
I remind Dr Mochtar that Australia says that Vietnam is the client of the Soviet Union. [More…]
But one member of ASEAN is leaning towards the Soviet Union. [More…]
I express the gravest concern that a client of the Soviet Union engaged in military aggression, precipitated this crisis. [More…]
I do not apprehend any fear for Australia should Indonesia come under the influence of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe that if Indonesia had been more under the influence of the Soviet Union than it was probably there would have been little likelihood of Indonesia doing what she did to little Timor. [More…]
opposes the Soviet Union instead of uniting with it, opposes the People’s democracies instead of uniting with them, opposes the Communists, the proletariat and the People’s forces in all countries instead of uniting with them, opposes the national liberation movements, instead of uniting with them and all the oppressed nations . [More…]
Washington, Friday- ASEAN leaders urged yesterday an increased US economic presence in the region to counter the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is utter hypocrisy for the Soviet Union to criticise China or the United States for interfering in other countries. [More…]
The Soviet Union has occupied- in some cases continuallynearly all of Eastern Europe . [More…]
The general purport of what the Opposition has been saying is that the Soviet Union could be made to feel the odd man out if we do not take an even-handed posture in this international situation; the Soviet Union could feel bad about things and this would make the situation very difficult. [More…]
Of all the super powers I believe that the Soviet Union is the only one which is building up an offensive capacity well beyond its needs for defence. [More…]
I am talking about the extreme interventions of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe that there is an increasing concern about the balance of power as we move into the 1980s and about the activities of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The two principal situations that the Minister discussed, both of which are described as being geo-politically critical, are set out in terms of the imperialistic ambitions of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Thus, in the South East Asian situation, where currently there exist conflicts between Kampuchea and Vietnam and between Vietnam and China, we are told simplistically, if impressively, that the conflicts reflect and were created by the hostility and rivalry existing among four States- the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
In the Minister’s terms, it was clearly in the United States’ geo-political interests, after the conclusion of that notorious and infamous war in Vietnam and Cambodia, to provide massive resources to rebuild Vietnam on the basis that that would be the only way to lessen the dependence of that country on either the Soviet Union or China. [More…]
The result is that Vietnam has been drawn into a struggle between China and the Soviet Union in which her own national interests ought not to be at stake. [More…]
Whilst the Minister has admitted that the Shah’s regime collapsed through internal causes, nevertheless the dreaded Marxist influences are at work in the region, which he asserts is of great strategic importance to the Soviet Union. [More…]
It involved itself in that way and, as one of the consequences of that involvement, Vietnam has been drawn into what might be described, in the Minister’s terms, as a geo-political conflict between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
I want to place on record my personal thanks to the officials in the embassies of China, the Soviet Union, the United States and France from whom I sought advice during the recent conflict in South East Asia. [More…]
At one time one might have said that the Soviet Union possessed an overwhelming armed force in its conventional troops and the United States possessed an overwhelming capacity to move by sea, that one was a sea power and the other a land power. [More…]
Anybody who has read the recent strategic studies will appreciate that the Soviet Union has now moved into a state of parity with the United States in both offensive and defensive weapons. [More…]
Therefore it is absolutely correct, given the damage that can be done by missiles in the event of a misunderstanding, that the United States and the Soviet Union should make the SALT agreement their priority above everything else. [More…]
All that the Soviet Union had to do, quite succinctly, was to stand by and wait for the effect of these mistakes in international affairs to manifest itself. [More…]
They thought that when Vietnam signed the agreement with the Soviet Union Vietnam took advantage of the agreement and immediately went into Kampuchea. [More…]
However I am not too certain that the Soviet Union would have encouraged Vietnam to do anything of the sort. [More…]
The difficulty is to get a rule of law which will be acceptable to the antagonists; to get some sort of world authority, world court, world police or world legislature which both the Soviet Union and the United States of America will recognise as being sufficiently impartial to warrant them surrendering that much of their national sovereignty that they will accept a decision, a compromise, short of an armed solution, which nowadays is no solution. [More…]
One gets this answer from Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
My second point is that the dispute amongst the totalitarian gangsters- the Soviet Union, China and Vietnam- proves what I have always thought about them. [More…]
I hope that the drum beats in Asia and the murderous antics of the gang of three- the Soviet Union, China and Vietnam- are heard and noted by every Australian. [More…]
In part, the lack of Western support forced the Vietnamese Government to adopt more orthodox Soviet style communist policies and to lean increasingly upon the Soviet Union for support. [More…]
It ought to be pointed out that if we have learned anything from the history of Vietnam it is that Russians and Vietnamese interests do no perfectly coincide and that the fiercefully nationalistic Vietnamese are not likely to become simply puppets of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe that it is false strategy at this time to engage in positions based upon moral and pontifical statements which are designed essentially to alienate Hanoi, because the effect of any strategy of isolation is to drive Hanoi further into the arms of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Anyone who has been to China knows that throughout China, at almost every level and on almost every street there is concern and fear about an attack by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Equally, one can understand that China will be, and obviously is, concerned when it sees that in the communist world the Vietnamese are operating in an increasingly closer alliance with, and with an increasing dependence upon, the Soviet Union. [More…]
He mentioned that South East Asia is again the scene of armed conflict created by the hostility and rivalry existing amongst four states- the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
Of course the Soviet Union is interested, and so are we. [More…]
He talked about the Vietnamese attack on Kampuchea as an attack by a client of the Soviet Union on a client of China. [More…]
Whatever its motivation the attack bore directly on the rivalry and competition between the Soviet Union and China . [More…]
In turn, its concern about events in Kampuchea relate not only to the extension of Vietnamese influence but also to the role of the Soviet Union as Vietnam’s principal backer. [More…]
Accepting the Minister’s assumptions, what he is saying is that Vietnam has behaved in the way it has because it is beholden to and dependent upon the Soviet Union. [More…]
It sought aid where it could and that aid came from the Soviet Union. [More…]
Why has it encouraged Vietnam, in its conflict with China, to seek refuge in the arms of the Soviet Union? [More…]
The events in Vietnam and Kampuchea are largely the continuation of a long historical struggle between the two countries and it is highly unlikely that any other country including China and the Soviet Union will become involved directly. [More…]
To be sure, the Soviet Union has the capability to attempt the invasion of virtually any country in the world, as for that matter does the United States. [More…]
If one were allowed flights into fancy sufficient to conjure up a world in which no-one else existed but the Soviet Union and one other country, it would require no brilliant insight to demonstrate that the Soviet Union possesses overwhelming conventional military power visavis any one of a hundred or more potential victims. [More…]
I think it is also true that it is unlikely that either the Soviet Union or the United States would engage in any military venture against Australia in isolation and, I would hope, not in combination with any other group of people. [More…]
If such place happens to be within the present boundaries of the Soviet Union and the passport is presented to a Soviet authority abroad, or at a place which is governed by the Soviet Union, the authority may treat the person as a Soviet citizen for all purposes. [More…]
If they go back to Yugoslavia or back to the Soviet Union they are treated as nationals of those countries. [More…]
It would be of concern not only to Australia but also to other countries in the Asian-Pacific region and would be a further indication of the increased reliance of Vietnam on the Soviet Union. [More…]
The situation is that most of the uranium used by Western Europe is enriched in the Soviet Union, so I am sick to death of all the talk about a red bogy. [More…]
The uranium used by countries which honourable members opposite regard as allies and with which they want us to trade could be enriched in the Soviet Union. [More…]
So far as United States-Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean is concerned, it is well known that in recent years the Soviet Union has had more ships, up to approximately 20 at any one time of which nearly half have been combatants. [More…]
This general pattern was broken at the beginning of 1978 when the Soviet Union, in response to its growing involvement in the Horn of Africa, particularly in Ethiopia, significantly increased its naval deployment in the region. [More…]
In response the United States broke off talks with the Soviet Union which were aimed at stabilising their naval presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Australia, of course, is on record as welcoming the talks on the United States-Soviet Union Arms Limitation Agreement in the Indian Ocean which, as I mentioned earlier, were suspended. [More…]
It will be recalled in the latter connection that in 1977 I received a firm and unequivocal assurance from the United States Secretary of State that nothing entered into between the United States and the Soviet Union would qualify the operation of ANZUS. [More…]
Finally, it needs to be recognised that a prerequisite for any agreement, such as talks between the Soviet Union and the United States that might be resumed, would be a degree of political stability in the region which is not there at the moment. [More…]
Last but not least, can the Minister indicate, even though the full text of the Treaty has not yet been released, what sanctions are envisaged with respect to discovered breaches of the Treaty by the Soviet Union? [More…]
We welcome the announcement made by the United States Secretary of State along the lines that basic agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union on a second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty has been reached. [More…]
The SALT negotiating process, of course, is central to the maintenance of stability and the relaxation of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
It should, at least in theory, reduce the threat of a nuclear war and place limits on the strategic arsenals of both the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
We have to look to the Soviet Union to honour the spirit as well as the letter of the agreement if and when it is signed. [More…]
The nature of the Chinese proposals indicates that Peking is linking any improvement in its relations with Vietnam with the Vietnamese military presence in Kampuchea, and more indirectly with Vietnam’s treaty relationship with the Soviet Union. [More…]
The balance of power shifted dramatically towards the Soviet Union, and we now have the Chinese stating openly that Vietnam is the Cuba of Asia. [More…]
The Vietnamese obtained aid from the Soviet Union in Cam Ranh Bay in October and November of last year. [More…]
In order to pursue their aims of attacking Kampuchea they obtained more aid from the Soviet Union, according to one very important published report, than they received in the whole of the Vietnam war. [More…]
They have signed a contract, agreement or treaty with the Soviet Union which gives them a certain degree of protection. [More…]
) Regrets that the Association for International Cooperation and Disarmament is a lineal descendant of the World Peace Council whose interests in foreign policy have consistently supported the Soviet Union; [More…]
This Government certainly places very great importance on the negotiations of adequate and appropriate arrangements between the Soviet Union and the United States. [More…]
It is not only the question of the arrangements in SALT itself but also the changed environments and the changed perceptions of the relationship between Russia and the United States that properly negotiated arrangements between the Soviet Union and the United States can acheive. [More…]
We expressed the hope that the Soviet Union would make a similar constructive contribution to the peaceful development of the region- a contribution which would be of particular importance because there are areas in which the Soviet Union is not without influence. [More…]
The Soviet Union invariably supports the peace movement. [More…]
He said that the United States was embarrassed as a result of events in Iran and that there were uncertain allies in the Middle East on the borders of the Soviet Union that existed previously. [More…]
I have read Senator Wriedt ‘s speech very carefully and I want to say quite frankly that the only group in the world that I think would applaud that speech is the Soviet Union and its surrogates. [More…]
If they are to be removed, is he suggesting that they be replaced, for example, with bases run by the Soviet Union? [More…]
They sounded more like the words we have become used to hearing from the pro-communist left wing which has now most assuredly taken control of the Australian Labor Party in this country- the same sort of people who are in charge of the Victorian branch, which last year at its conference refused, and I repeat ‘refused’, to stand up and condemn the systematic and brutal violations of human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
These people were not even prepared to utter one word of criticism in respect of those continuing violations of human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Where has been the controversy in Australia except between those who support the aims and ambitions of the Soviet Union and those who are determined that this country will be defended? [More…]
Real fear to the Soviet Union but certainly not to the people of Australia. [More…]
As the honourable member for Lilley said, once one makes these things public one does not just make them public only to the people of Australia, one makes them public to the Soviet Union and to any other nation which has territorial designs upon Australia. [More…]
The only country to gain by the removal of the United States bases from Australia is the Soviet Union and its satellites. [More…]
If he wants to assist the Soviet Union I will be bitterly disappointed in him. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition’s speech will also be applauded by the Soviet Union. [More…]
We do not control massive reserves, compared with Western Europe, the Soviet Union or the United States of America. [More…]
I thank the honourable member for Phillip for his question because I know of his strong and continuing interest in the reunification of Jewish families from the Soviet Union with their families in Australia. [More…]
Since that time about half of those leaving the Soviet Union have settled in Israel. [More…]
In 1973, 100 people from the Soviet Union were allowed to resettle in Australia. [More…]
As recently as 29 April this year- before Mr Hawke made his much celebrated and publicised visit to the Soviet Union- I gave permission for an additional SO families, covering 250 to 300 people, to be added to the numbers already being resettled in Australia. [More…]
For some years the Government has been carrying on in an active and positive way a program of reunification of families from the Soviet Union with their Jewish relatives in Australia. [More…]
That is a proposition that has been successfully pushed in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I am surprised that the honourable member for Calare pushes the sort of proposition that has come into force in the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is also intimated that several things could happen in regard to Soviet Union grain production and consumption, and a long-term prediction is hard to make. [More…]
We have no information to the effect that the Soviet Union has opposed the proposal. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to a statement of President Carter that human rights constituted the soul of American foreign policy and that the United States of America would demonstrate its affinity with democratic nations through its allocation of assistance funds and will not hesitate to convey its outrage- nor will it pretend that its relations are unaffected- if human rights violations persist in Cambodia, Chile, Uganda, South Africa, Nicaragua, Ethiopia and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Yet we never hear a word about the Soviet Union or the East European countries which are pushing ahead with nuclear power generation as fast as they can. [More…]
The Soviet Union would like to buy Australian uranium, but the Government will not sell it. [More…]
Minister has said in the Parliament that no safeguards agreement will be concluded with the Soviet Union. [More…]
We supply the fuel to Finland and it will be enriched by the Soviet Union. [More…]
I note a tendency to prefer confrontation to diplomacy, The Government has shown this tendency to ‘have a go’ in its dealings with the Soviet Union, the EEC, the ASEAN countries and Vietnam- and there has been more than a tinge of confrontation about the handling of a number of bilateral issues with the US. [More…]
At that meeting I also met Dr Gajdusek who is a Nobel laureate and who has been working in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The generation of electrical power in the Soviet Union doubles each decade. [More…]
The Soviet Union has said that it wants to reserve and save its fuel and other forms of energy. [More…]
They are now a major source of electrical power in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union is now proposing to construct nuclear stations of two to 6 million kilowatts each in the following areas: Leningrad, Ignalinskaya, Kursk, Smolensk, South Ukrainian, Kalinin and Rovno. [More…]
As we all know, the Soviet Union is now supplying 3,000 advisers, but even Soviet civilians have been involved in the fighting and even killed. [More…]
We realise that the Afghanistan army and air force have been trained by the Soviet Union. [More…]
We recognise too that because of the close proximity of Afghanistan to the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union is bound to be at least sensitive to the government in Afghanistan. [More…]
What is the Government’s attitude to the proposals by Senator Edward Kennedy for an international conference on Indo-China designed to bring about a process of Vietnamese military withdrawal from Kampuchea and Laos, to be followed by an easing of the present economic isolation of Vietnam, an isolation which has created such a high degree of dependence on the Soviet Union? [More…]
It was Vietnam which chose to execute an agreement with the Soviet Union. [More…]
What argument would we then have against, for example, the Soviet Union? [More…]
They consider that anybody who says anything against the Soviet state inside the Soviet Union is spreading malicious propaganda against the state and is a threat to their security. [More…]
An extensive inquiry has just been carried out by a committee of this Parliament into the denial of” civil liberties to persons in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The clause before the Committee is not greatly different from the law in the Soviet Union which permits breaches of civil liberties to occur. [More…]
Australia has concluded agreements for scientific and technical co-operation with the Federal Republic of Germany, India, the Soviet Union and the United States. [More…]
With the United States, the Soviet Union and other nations relying increasingly on nuclear power, we in Australia, who have something like only 20 per cent of the world’s uranium supplies, can have little influence indeed on the world trend towards the use of nuclear energy. [More…]
It means that throughout the Far East, besides listening to the booming voices coming from the United States and the Soviet Union, at last the voice of Australia is being carried to our neighbours and at last what is going on in Australia is clearly of interest to our neighbours. [More…]
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks now going on in Moscow are proof that the Soviet Union and the United States would like to come to an agreement, and that the agreement should be honoured by the United States, but the discovery of a Soviet mechanised regiment in Cuba- even though it has been there since 1972- has caused some problems. [More…]
A war between the Soviet Union and China is as illogical as it is unthinkable. [More…]
Even though the Soviet Union may decide to build more modern battle cruisers this should not cause us undue alarm. [More…]
If the Soviet Union persuades Vietnam to build naval installations at Da Nang and Cam Ranh Bay that would be a matter of some concern to Japan and all of us in the Pacific area. [More…]
Maybe the Soviet Union just wishes to demonstrate that she is a world power in practice as well as in theory. [More…]
It is a fact of life that in the past 15 years military expenditure by the Soviet Union and its allies has leaped dramatically far beyond the increase in the United States. [More…]
What is the Soviet Union doing about aid? [More…]
Yet we find that the Soviet Union has increased its forces in Asia. [More…]
But, of course, any of the five permanent members- the United States of America, Britain, France, the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union- has the right of veto. [More…]
The prime element behind what is transpiring in Indo-China is not restricted solely to the People’s Republic of China and Vietnam, but in fact to the variants within the play of the four communist states- the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, Vietnam and, to a lesser extent because of its control by Vietnam, Kampuchea. [More…]
It appears to me that the Vietnamese Government, backed by the Soviet Union, is now determined to mount another offensive in Kampuchea for the purpose of eliminating the remnants of the Pol Pot regime. [More…]
I believe that the Vietnam Government, and the Soviet Union, which supports it, seek to mount another offensive for the principal purpose of obtaining international recognition for the Heng Samrin regime in Vietnam. [More…]
Therefore, one has to ask whether we could remove from Vietnam and the Soviet Union the incentive to mount another bloody offensive. [More…]
It is also interesting to note that a considerable amount of Australian wheat is getting into Kampuchea via the Soviet Union. [More…]
At present, the Soviet Union provides about $2m of military aid to Vietnam each day. [More…]
The delivery of wheat to Vietnam from the Soviet Union- wheat that has been purchased in Australia- is something that we should keep under review; but it is hoped that the supplies are going to the people concerned. [More…]
Only the Soviet Union and the United States have the capacity for the air transportation of huge amounts of equipment, material and other aid. [More…]
The Soviet Union bears a heavy degree of moral responsibility for the recent invasion by Vietnam and that country is supplying food as well. [More…]
The Soviet Union introduced fairly all-embracing laws regarding its citizenship and the ramifications of these laws should be responded to, I believe, with the best of legal advice available, both at private international law and public international law. [More…]
For example, between 1956 and 1958 the Soviet Union concluded bilateral agreements with Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, North Korea, Poland and Mongolia. [More…]
Unlike the Conventions concluded between the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, which require only that a person seek the consent of the State in which he is not resident but whose nationality he wishes to retain, Chapter II of the Council of Europe Convention requires that a person seek the consent of the State whose nationality he wishes to renounce. [More…]
between 1956 and 1958 the Soviet Union included bilateral agreements with Yugoslavia - [More…]
It may have a good deal more in common with the system of the Soviet Union. [More…]
We would have to go to the Soviet Union or China to see a comparable concentration of media control. [More…]
The Committee gave extensive consideration to the text ban question, but work on the drafting of a treaty awaits the conclusion of the discussions now under way among the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain. [More…]
The United States and the Soviet Union presented to the Committee a draft convention banning- radiological weapons. [More…]
The Soviet Union at that stage did not seem to have enough allies to enable Australia to get a place on the Committee. [More…]
The Minister notes that this prospective treaty is currently the subject of negotiations between the two super-powers, namely, the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
This is true, but even more to the point is that the achievement of a comprehensive test ban is dependent in the first instance on the conclusion of a new Strategic Arms Limitation Talks agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Firstly, without agreement on SALT II there is little prospect of the United States and the Soviet Union agreeing on any other arms control matter in the next few years. [More…]
Secondly, unless the Soviet Union and the United States agree on limitations to their own armaments, there is nil prospect of critically important countries, such as India, Pakistan, Brazil, Argentina and South Africa, agreeing to a comprehensive test ban. [More…]
I point out in passing that the leading officials of the Building Workers Industrial Union have a very close association with the Soviet Union and strongly support the policies that that country pursues. [More…]
-On behalf of the Joint Committee on Foreign AfFairs and Defence I present the Committee’s report on Human Rights in the Soviet Union, together with the transcript of evidence. [More…]
-by leave-The report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence entitled ‘Human Rights in the Soviet Union’ is based on the evidence given to a sub-committee of the Joint Committee. [More…]
Many witnesses had extensive experience in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Nevertheless, the Soviet Union has failed to enter into the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and has failed to implement many of its formal commitments in such documents as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Final Act of the 1975 Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
Within three years of Mr Brezhnev signing the Final Act of the Helsinki Agreement, the Soviet Union flouted the Agreement’s human rights provisions to such an extent that it has even imprisoned or expelled most of the people who, with considerable courage, had openly monitored the extent of Soviet compliance with the Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
Soviet citizens may not engage in independent political activity, nor form or belong to political parties other than the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; nor do the Soviet people have an opportunity to effect a change in their government or parliaments through the ballot box. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is unique among the major powers in that the Soviet Union’s dominant nationality is portentially outnumbered. [More…]
The democratic movement in the Soviet Union has received some severe setbacks in recent years. [More…]
Many leading activists are now imprisoned for long terms, exiled to remote parts of the Soviet Union or expelled abroad. [More…]
The Soviet Union is systematically abusing psychiatry through the forced internment of mentally healthy people in order to cure them of their political or religious beliefs. [More…]
This also enables the Soviet Union to avoid the presence of some important dissidents at trials. [More…]
Australia should be conscious of its respect for human rights in its relationship with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Similarly this can be done by individual Australians during cultural, academic and scientific exchanges with the Soviet Union. [More…]
As the evidence before the Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union was to a great extent unfavourable to the Soviet Government, the Committee regrets that the Soviet Embassy in Australia did not avail itself of ample formal or informal opportunities to put a Soviet viewpoint to the Sub-Committee. [More…]
-by leave-As a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence but not a member of the Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union I think it is important that the House take note of the fact that a number of dissenting reports have been published as well as the report which has just been tabled. [More…]
They are not available in the Soviet Union. [More…]
-Before the suspension of the sitting I was speaking to the report on human rights in the Soviet Union which has been presented today. [More…]
They do not indicate that there is not a denial of human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
My concern is that in undertaking an inquiry of the magnitude of this report into human rights in the Soviet Union no funds- I repeat, no funds- were made available for the Committee to enable it to ensure it had available to it those witnesses whom it sought in order to carry out its inquiries or inspections. [More…]
Certainly, an invitation was extended to the Soviet Union to give evidence. [More…]
I do not think that anyone of intelligence in this House would expect the Soviet Union to appear before a jury in Australia to give evidence on its own affairs. [More…]
-The Soviet Union is not obliged to appear before such an inquiry and Australia is not obliged either. [More…]
The Soviet Union is a restrictive and repressive regime as are those regimes throughout the world which are totalitarian in character. [More…]
Such regimes are not limited to the Soviet Union but many do not profess to be libertarian or democratic. [More…]
The conditions exposed in this report deal with civil liberties in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Those I speak of are those responsible for the denial of those civil liberties in the Soviet Union. [More…]
-by leave-This report is an indictment against the Soviet Union. [More…]
It documents the alleged devotion of the Soviet Union to human rights. [More…]
Whether or not Jews in the Soviet Union are the victims of adverse discrimination in citizenship, in rights to religious practice, in rights to publish, communicate, travel, emigrate and organise. [More…]
Human rights in the Soviet Union bearing in mind Australia’s support for the principles contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the final act of the Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
Included in those 25 witnesses were six who had served prison sentences in the Soviet Union- for example, Pastor Grivans, who had graduated from the theological institute in Riga in 1928. [More…]
The human rights movement throughout the world was responsible for the ultimate release by the Soviet authorities of Leonid Plyushch and the permission which was granted to him to leave the Soviet Union. [More…]
It will be clear to any reader of the transcript of the public evidence which is available, or from this report, that witnesses were called to give their evidence because of expertise on the Soviet Union and its application of human rights, and not for their political allegiance or philosophy. [More…]
If one examined the documents from the Soviet Union- for example, the Soviet Constitutions of 1936 and 1977, the Helsinki Accords, the criminal code or the law on religious associations, and then took the evidence of former citizens of the Soviet Union who suffered as a result of action by Soviet authorities pursuant to Soviet law, the Committee’s conclusions are found to be soundly based. [More…]
In the first place, I refer to the program of Russification adopted by the Soviet Union. [More…]
If the political climate of the Soviet Union does not change, then the consequence is likely to be the dilution of our nation in the sea of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Anti-semitic practices adopted in the Soviet Union are summarised in Chapter 5 of the report. [More…]
In 1975 the Soviet Union signed the final act of the Helsinki Agreement, which states: [More…]
That is part of the Helsinki accords which were signed by the Soviet Union four years ago. [More…]
The Committee received evidence, for example, that such literature is published outside the Soviet Union and we had one case referred to us where an action was taken against the Soviet officials in the USSR Embassy in France to stop the dissemination of anti-semitic literature in that country. [More…]
On this particular matter the Committee recommends in paragraph 26 of the conclusions and recommendations that our Government should press the Soviet Union to cease the circulation of any anti-semitic literature in this country. [More…]
The Committee found it difficult to understand Soviet thinking because there are many citizens of the Soviet Union who practise the Jewish faith who are anxious to remain as citizens of that State and who wish to continue with Jewish cultural activities within the USSR. [More…]
I conclude by considering one matter which the Committee was careful to determine early in its deliberations and that is the question whether an investigation by a parliamentary committee into human rights in the USSR would have an adverse affect in the Soviet Union on those people whom the Committee was anxious to support. [More…]
Almost without exception witness after witness confirmed that the Committee’s actual hearing, let alone its final report and recommendation, was of considerable assistance to those within the Soviet Union who were seeking to establish human rights. [More…]
In the course of his examination, I asked whether protests by lawyers or legal institutions in Australia would have any influence on the denial of due process of law in the Soviet Union. [More…]
When Professor Telford Taylor has criticised the proceedings that have been conducted in the Soviet Union, and particularly in many of the Jewish dissident cases, I think it is important, although they deny that it makes any impact upon them. [More…]
He referred in particular to the Soviet Union being a super power which, because of the enunciation of the rights of Soviet citizens in the Constitution, wants the world to believe that those rights are enjoyed by every citizen in that country. [More…]
The Chairman would also say that the Soviet Union is an ‘evangelising super power’ seeking to persuade people outside the Soviet Union that the USSR model is one which should be followed in other nations. [More…]
It would be also my wish that every member of the Red Army Russian Song and Dance Company, presently touring Australia, could return to their homeland with a copy of the human rights in the Soviet Union report made to this Parliament. [More…]
This report should be compulsory reading for every visitor, sportsman and woman and official who will visit the Soviet Union for the 1980 Moscow Olympics. [More…]
This report should be read by all people interested in the freedom of the individual and by those who seek to understand how society operates in the Soviet Union. [More…]
As a member of the Sub-Committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which prepared the report on human rights in the Soviet Union, I would like to make a few points. [More…]
The Soviet Union has only one political party. [More…]
That is why the present position in respect of human rights exists in the Soviet Union, as illustrated in this report. [More…]
I make one point in relation to human rights in the Soviet Union and in relation to the nationality question: I do not necessarily support nationalistic claims, whether they be by people who originated in the Baltic States or in the Ukraine, those of Jews and so on and tend to oppose nationalism. [More…]
I think that it is important to have democratic freedom in the Soviet Union. [More…]
But what is happening at the present time is that they can neither change the setup inside the Soviet Union nor leave the Soviet Union. [More…]
I would like to make a couple of points about human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I think that those of us who have been interested in the question of freedom and the question of human rights in the Soviet Union and in other countries know- the report emphasises it in its first conclusions- that there have been positive changes. [More…]
In other words, changes have occurred in some ways away from the extreme totalitarian state of what was generally considered to be a Stalinist society in the Soviet Union until the death of Stalin. [More…]
But it is still important to know what is happening in the Soviet Union at the present time. [More…]
He has a very intelligent approach to what is happening in the Soviet Union. [More…]
It was certainly a pleasant change from the usual content of Broadband programs on the Soviet Union and its satellites. [More…]
I hope that it will stimulate discussion on the question of civil liberties not only in the Soviet Union but in other countries. [More…]
-Following on from what was said by the previous speaker, the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman), I have never asked for a visa to visit the Soviet Union, or any country associated with the Soviet Union, either in Europe or in Asia. [More…]
The Committee has aimed in its report on Human Rights in the Soviet Union to present an objective, factual body of material. [More…]
From this information the Committee has drawn a number of conclusions which to a large extent are based on the testimony of witnesses whom the SubCommittee on Human Rights had sought due to their personal experience in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Other speakers have outlined the justification for the production of the report on human rights in the Soviet Union and some of its findings. [More…]
A major area in which the Soviet Union represses human rights concerns ethnic minorities. [More…]
As emphasised in the report there is State interference in almost all religious activity in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union will need to pay great attention to the aspirations of its large Muslim communities. [More…]
A further example of repression of human rights is the restriction on a citizen’s intention to permanently move to another part of the Soviet Union. [More…]
There have been some successful campaigns outside the Soviet Union to secure the release or emigration of imprisoned Soviet intellectuals and dissidents, or on behalf of those threatened with imprisonment. [More…]
One of the most notable international efforts to counter human rights violations in the Soviet Union has been the campaign against Soviet abuse of psychiatry for political purposes. [More…]
The report makes several recommendations on what the West can do to secure improved human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
As long as the Soviet Union seeks goodwill and economic concessions from the West, there seems to be scope for the West to achieve a more humane Soviet attitude towards its own people. [More…]
Australia should insist that a regard for human rights be part of Australia’s relationship with the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union sometimes claims a lack of understanding in the West of its case on human rights. [More…]
The Committee has recommended that the Australian Government suggest to the Soviet Union that it may be possible to arrange a reciprocal exchange of views in the Soviet and Australian newspapers and in other publications. [More…]
That may seem to some to be an unrealistic suggestion and I doubt that the Soviet Union will take it up. [More…]
Furthermore, it is recommended that Australia seek the right to distribute informative publications in the Soviet Union, in the same way that the USSR is allowed to distribute in Australia. [More…]
The Soviet Union of course is not the only offender regarding the violation of human rights; there are some other nations where attention needs to be directed. [More…]
However, the substance of this particular report is directed to the Soviet Union and therefore that is where the original charge lies. [More…]
We would reiterate our view that based on the substantial evidence available the civil rights of certain groups, especially minorities, in the Soviet Union are seriously infringed and fall below that which should be expected in any civilised society. [More…]
For those reasons, whilst I accept completely that there are infringements of civil rights in the Soviet Union, I am one of those who feel that the recommendation in paragraph 65 and the original reference of the matter to the SubCommittee can do untold harm to Australia in the future. [More…]
-As a member of the Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union, which undertook this inquiry, I want to speak for a few moments on this subject. [More…]
We are concerned here with civil rights not only in the Soviet Union but also throughout the world. [More…]
I shall read part of the Reservations that was expressed because we did not hear evidence from the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is realised that the Soviet Union was asked to provide contrary evidence and refused to do so. [More…]
Above all, the important aspect of this document is that a group of members from both sides of this Parliament was given the responsibility to look into human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I am depressed that suspicion of the Soviet Union has increased over the last few years, and likewise Soviet Union suspicion of the rest of the world, particularly the West, has also increased. [More…]
But, one would have to be blind to not recognise that inside the Soviet Union there are great deprivations of human rights. [More…]
First of all, why pick the Soviet Union? [More…]
One has to say that the Soviet Union is powerful, influential and stable. [More…]
Having been there, I can say quite emphatically that one feels safe and secure wherever one travels in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union now has some of the problems of the rest of the world in regard to these matters but, it does have freedoms. [More…]
So far as one can tell, the people of the Soviet Union are free of the real poverty that inflicts a great number of other societies. [More…]
That is obviously not the case in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Chilean Government, which I think would be much worse than that of the Soviet Union, permitted the inquiry to go ahead. [More…]
This compares with 83,000 million tonnes in the Soviet Union and 1 14,000 million tonnes in the United States. [More…]
There is the potential that the situation there may lead to further conflict between China and Vietnam, which in turn could possibly involve the Soviet Union in the area. [More…]
The potential influence of the Soviet Union, using its surrogate, Cuba, for disruption in the internal affairs of Africa, has caused considerable concern both on the continent and elsewhere. [More…]
The Government took the view that the situation then existing in southern Africa was morally wrong, and we believed that it would only enhance the interests and activities of hostile outside nations, including the Soviet Union and its supporters. [More…]