soviet union - senate - 1970

Contexts in which the phrase soviet union was used in the Senate during the 1970s

Has the Australian Government been consulted about the offer of the base to the Soviet Union? [More…]
Did the Prime Minister state in the House of Representatives in September and October last that the Government would not favour the Soviet Union’s obtaining base facilities in the Indian Ocean area? [More…]
Did the Soviet Union veto a proposal in 1951 and 1957 that South Vietnam be admitted to the United Nations, a proposal supported by all other members of the Security Council? [More…]
Finally, is it a fact that in 1957 the Soviet Union proposed that South Vietnam and North Vietnam- [More…]
Is it a fact that no Tasmanian meat was included in the last Australian shipment of meat to the Soviet Union? [More…]
Does the Minister subscribe to the views expressed by Senator Wright when representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the former Government, that any fragmentation of Yugoslavia as desired by certain members of the Croation Liberation Movement would increase tension in Europe and provide an opportunity for the Soviet Union to pursue its expansionist territorial policy? [More…]
Senator Hannan has requested that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) take certain action in regard to the statements that have been made about the events in the Soviet Union. [More…]
That this Senate recognising that the question of human rights is a matter of universal significance, believes there is prima facie’ evidence to support allegations by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov that human rights of political dissidents are being abrogated inside the Soviet Union and resolves that this question should be referred to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations for examination. [More…]
(Quorum formed) I was saying that at a meeting of the Australian Labor Party some 1 8 months or 2 years ago it was resolved that there should be forwarded to the international socialist parties throughout the world the text of a resolution passed at our meeting deploring attacks by the Soviet Union on some sections of the Jewish fraternity. [More…]
I thank all honourable senators on both sides of the chamber for the spirit in which they have entered into the debate and indicated their support for the motion on human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
1 ) that they oppose the Australian Government’s recognition of the incorporation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union; [More…]
3 ) that the Government should appreciate that the Baltic States were unlawfully occupied in 1940 by the Soviet Union through using armed forces following the signing of a pact by Stalin and Hitler. [More…]
The question of advising the Soviet Union did not come into it. [More…]
Is the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware that on 4 August the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Snedden, posed a series of questions to the Prime Minister relating to reports that Australia had recognised the Soviet Union’s jurisdiction over the Baltic states? [More…]
Will the Minister say when the Government of the Soviet Union was informed of the Australian Government’s change of policy? [More…]
I refer to the situation concerning the Government’s recognition of the Baltic states as part of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Has Australia decided to grant de jure recognition to the incorporation of the independent states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union? [More…]
That the Australian Government’s willingness to officially recognise the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union will cause considerable difficulties to former citizens of Baltic countries who have acquired Australian citizenship and are revisiting the countries of their origin. [More…]
By this hasty act, taken without consultation with the groups of Australian citizens concerned, the Australian Government has seemingly recognised the Soviet claim that the Baltic immigrants, upon their arrival in Australia, were really citizens of the U.S.S.R., and as such are not entitled to assume the protection of Australian citizenship until released from the citizenship of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Russian author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, has revealed the detail’s of the crimes against tens of millions of people in the Soviet Union through the activities of the secret police and vast concentration camps. [More…]
The humble petition of the citizens of Australia respectfully sheweth that: the decision to recognize the incorporation of the Baltic countries- Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania- into the Soviet Union is an alarming and dangerous reversal of foreign policy by the Australian Government, this decision legitimizes the occupation of formerly free and independent nations by an imperialist power, the Soviet Union has suppressed civil liberties in the Baltic states and has tried to ruthlessly eliminate movements for national identity and self-determination among the Baltic people, the desires of the Baltic people have always been and will continue to be for an end to occupation by a foreign power and a return to self-determination of government, there are neither moral nor legal grounds for legitimizing the present regime in the Baltic countries, all other democratic nations have refused to recognize the illegal incorporation of these countries. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Australian Government rescind its decision to acknowledge the Soviet Union as the rightful government of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and support the continuing struggle of the Baltic people for national liberation and self-determination. [More…]
And the Senate requests that the Australian Government revokes its de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom. [More…]
That the Australian Government’s diplomatic action to recognise officially the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union has been taken contrary to the Prime Minister’s assurances to Australian citizens of Baltic origin given as recently as 1 7 May 1974. [More…]
The undersigned citizens of Australia of Baltic origin wish to express their concern at the announced intention of the Australian Government to recognize the annexation of the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union. [More…]
The undersigned citizens of Australia of Baltic origin wish to express their concern at the announced intention of the Australian Government to recognize the annexation of the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whereas the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognized the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union, it has been announced from Moscow that the Australian Government is now recognizing them as part of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Can the Minister for Foreign Affairs provide any details of the condition of the Australian tourists who were injured in a bus smash in Kiyev in the Soviet Union? [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United Stales of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
The annexation and incorporation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union has not been recognised by any Western democracy, including Australia. [More…]
Whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
Whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia- by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
The annexation and incorporation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union has not been recognized by any Western democracy, including Australia. [More…]
Whereas the right of self-determination belongs to every nation, big or small, the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been deprived of it for 30 years by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whereas the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognized the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union, it has been announced from Moscow that the Australian Government is now recognizing them as part of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The undersigned citizens of Australia of Baltic origin wish to express their concern at the announced intention of the Australian Government to recognise the annexation of the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
Did Mr Bukevicius specifically ask if Mr Whitlam, as head of the Australian Government, was going ‘to continue not to recognise the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union or should we expect a policy change on this matter’. [More…]
1 ) Did the Australian Government make a contribution towards the cost of the tour of the Daly Wilson Big Band to the Soviet Union under the cultural agreement with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics signed earlier this year; if so, what was the extent of the contribution. [More…]
Did either the Soviet Union or Cuba ever claim that events in Angola threatened their national security? [More…]
If no bans have been placed on trade or other communications with the Soviet Union or Cuba, is this another example of the double standard of left wing groups who attack so-called expansive aggressive acts by right wing governments but are noticeably silent in relation to aggressive acts by communist governments? [More…]
He further informs me that President Carter’s reference to the proposed demilitarisation of the Indian Ocean was made when he was detailing arms control proposals which the United States has put to the Soviet Union. [More…]
As honourable senators will know, members of the new United States Administration have said in testimony before the Congress that the Administration would be interested in negotiating with the Soviet Union on arms limitation in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
I intend to speak very briefly but would like to congratulate Senator Wheeldon, the Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union upon the tremendous work that he has done in producing this report, also the members of his committee including, from this chamber, Senator Sibraa, Senator Martin, and Senator Scott, who was originally also a member. [More…]
As Senator Wheeldon has said, the Committee’s first reference was the situation of the Jews in the Soviet Union and later that reference was widened. [More…]
The report deals at great length with the situation of people of the Jewish faith and persuasion in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Like Senator Wheeldon, I would not be worried if the Soviet Union wanted to inquire into a section of the Australian public. [More…]
Attaches weight to the statements by the governments of the United States, United Kingdom and the Soviet Union declaring their intention to seek immediate Security Council action to provide help to any nonnuclear weapons State party to the treaty that is subject to aggression or the threat of aggression with nuclear weapons. [More…]
The point I am making on the sophisticated approach is that the United States and Britain, if they can do so at any time, skilfully play off China against the Soviet Union in world politics. [More…]
If we were to capitalise on any schism between the Soviet Union and China, that would be well and good. [More…]
But some people in the Department of External Affairs have said thai Australia ought to rely on the Soviet Union. [More…]
Probably all members of Parliament have received all sorts of representations from some people who are antagonistic to almost every Eastern European Government, even to the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Communist system has in the Soviet Union, the Communist Republic of China and North Vietnam slaughtered more of its own people than were killed in two world wars. [More…]
In September 1952 the Republic of South Vietnam was denied admission to the United Nations by one vote - the veto of the Soviet Union. [More…]
However, with the veto of the Soviet Union, South Vietnam was denied formal recognition. [More…]
Mr B. Gafurov of the Soviet Union? [More…]
What action does the Government take to ensure that exchanges of academics with the Soviet Union are bona fide? [More…]
Ministers of Great Britain and the Soviet Union, the responsibility for circulating to the members of the Conference the reports and any other important information they receive from the Commission. [More…]
But I should like to have seen more in this statment about the Minister for External Affairs placing his cards on the table and indicating to Mr Malik rhat he did not define every person who wants militant nationalism as a stooge of the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is quite clear that in the global grand strategic picture in which we are involved it would merely require the Soviet Union to make threatening noises in north western Europe for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation partners to refuse the United Kingdom the right to withdraw troops from the NATO area in order to fly them to South East Asia. [More…]
So India has allied itself with the Soviet Union. [More…]
We find recorded on page 13,689 for the period 24th to 31st July 1954 that the 8-nation declaration was signed by the representatives of France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, the 3 Associated States - of which South Vietnam was one - and the Vietminh Government. [More…]
Only in today’s newspapers I noted that the Ford company had been offered a big sum to build a motor lorry factory in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Only 3 or 4 years ago the Fiat motor company in Italy won a contract to build a motor car factory in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The contract is to build this factory in the Soviet Union, because the Soviet Government simply was not supplying its own people with motor cars. [More…]
The Fiat company won the contract to build this factory in the Soviet Union and to operate it, because the Soviet had shown itself to be incapable of providing motor cars for its own people. [More…]
In that and in other respects the Soviet Union certainly has not delivered the goods to its own people. [More…]
Although the Republic’s admission was vetoed by the Soviet Union in the Security Council, the USSR had itself put forward in the General Assembly in January 1967, a draft resolution for the simultaneous admission of both North and South Vietnam, arguing that, as in Korea, two separate States existed with different political and economic structures. [More…]
I am sure that he would not find it amusing if he heard about something like this happening in the Soviet Union, for example. [More…]
In view of the encouragement and support given by some members of the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party to the North Vietnamese, Vietcong and aggressive Communist imperialism, and acknowledging that China and Romania have purchased rams and that the Soviet Union has expressed interest in purchasing rams, will the Minister draw the attention of trade unions to the fact that the ban is opposed to the principle of solidarity of Communist powers expressed by some members of the Australian Labor Party and sections of the Australian trade union movement? [More…]
Although the Republic’s admission was vetoed by the Soviet Union in the Security Council, the U.S.S.R. had itself put forward in the General Assembly in January 1957, a draft resolution for the simultaneous admission of both North and South Vietnam, arguing that, as in Korea, two separate States existed with different political and economic structures. [More…]
Have executive members of a Jewish youth organisation recently made statements indicating that they would be boycotting the Bolshoi Ballet, currently touring Australia, because of the discrimination which exists in the Soviet Union against Jewish people. [More…]
It is a fact that such discrimination exists in the Soviet Union; if so, is that situation, in principle, different from the situation which exists with respect to coloured people in South Africa. [More…]
Australian Representatives to the United Nations have on several occasions drawn attention to the plight of Jews in the Soviet Union. [More…]
There was the action of the Soviet Union in Czechoslovakia, which was commemorated by Senator Wright, who is now sitting on the front bench, in a statement in support of the then Minister for External Affairs, who welcomed the presence of the Soviet Union in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
I do not want to canvass any issues as to whether the Soviet Union ought or ought not to have forces in the Indian Ocean; nor do I want to canvass again what happened in Czechoslovakia. [More…]
But here we have a Government that has said that aggression by the Soviet Union took place in Czechoslovakia. [More…]
The Australian Government at all times welcomes the opportunity of practical and constructive dealings with the Soviet Union, as with any other country . [More…]
This is an area of conflict between China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
As I mentioned before, I do not think we should become too obsessed with Russia because, in the long term, it may well be that China will present a greater threat than the Soviet Union in the Indian Ocean area. [More…]
China has strong influences in Tanzania and Somalia, particularly in Somalia, in conflict with the Soviet Union. [More…]
So we find China taking an active interest in this area and, in many portions of it, in conflict with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Let us examine the reasons why the Soviet Union has moved into the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Fourthly - and this is a matter of concern - Russia desires to exploit local situations in order to replace pro-Western governments with ones more sympathetic to the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe 1 should mention in this very brief review 2 factors influencing SinoSoviet relations, lt is very obvious that the Soviet Union has no wish to see China expand her influence in Africa or Asia. [More…]
He went on to state thai for the indefinite future the Indian Ocean will remain the major mari time thoroughfare between the eastern and western parts of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union is aware of the strong fears of China held in South and South East Asia, and it is entirely logical that she should seek to exploit these in order to limit Chinese influence in the area, increase her own influence and with a minimum outlay strengthen the military capacity of the states on China’s southern boundary at a time when the Sino-Soviet border is under dangerous tension. [More…]
But to return again to what is germane to this debate, that is, our relations with various countries, I was very intrigued when Senator Sim developed a thesis about a possible world struggle between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
I referred to the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons and said that I would like to feel that when the chips were down we had an alliance of some sort between the nuclear powers - Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
When the final crunch comes the Soviet Union will go along with China.’ [More…]
The United States and the Soviet Union have had to exercise considerable restraint with Israel and the Arab nations because that conflict could balloon into another blood bath in the Middle East. [More…]
I acknowledge, as I think our present Minister does, that the United States and the Soviet Union realise that in this atomic age a big power battle is not worthwhile unless the 2 countries can be contained. [More…]
Is it a fact that at the week-end the Soviet Union established a military garrison at the former British crown colony of Socotra at the mouth of the Red Sea? [More…]
We all know - history and the relevant figures prove this conclusively - that when South Vietnam became a single entity with the sanction of the United Nations and the support of the Soviet Union over 1 million people migrated from North Vietnam to South Vietnam to avoid the dangers of Communism. [More…]
Strange as it may seem, the other day the Canberra evening Press had a very good article about what it cost the Australian taxpayer to provide security guards to look after the embassies of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. [More…]
We should not rely on droughts in China or the Soviet Union; we should be looking for other areas in which to dispose of our surplus wheat. [More…]
I think I have made my views with regard to the Soviet Union fairly well known and I will not engage in a red baiting campaign in order to make myself sound acceptable to any of those people because I have no desire to be acceptable to them. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Soviet Union has established a military garrison at the former British Crown Colony of Socotra, at the mouth of the Red Sea. [More…]
Even the Communists found that out when the Soviet Union was compelled, or at least decided, to export art treasures to try to balance its overseas trade. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Externa) Affairs aware of Malaysia’s new Prime Minister’s call for the neutralisation of South East Asia with guarantees from the Soviet Union, the United States and China? [More…]
We have formed better trading links with other countries - Japan, the Soviet Union. [More…]
-Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware that the Soviet Union is conducting a month-long series of missile firing tests in the Pacific Ocean from Thursday, 29th October, until 30th November of this year? [More…]
Cuba is selling substantial quantities to the Soviet Union. [More…]
I understand that the Soviet Union is supplying arms and personnel to Ceylon in response to a request from the Government of Ceylon to meet an immediate insurgency threat. [More…]
The Soviet Union and India are the only countries so far which have provided personnel. [More…]
In the case of the Soviet Union it was because it is unlikely that Ceylon could have provided personnel who were trained to use Soviet equipment. [More…]
It was not until November 1933 that the United States under the late President Roosevelt recognised the Government of the Soviet Union as being the Government of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The reason why the United States Government refused to recognise the Government of the Soviet Union as being the Government of Russia was not that it did not realise it was the Government but that it wanted to use the fear of Communism for domestic consumption to frighten people into voting for it when polling day came around. [More…]
For example, someone might take the view that the Soviet Union’s treatment of lews is similar to the treatment meted eat by the Nazis and might give a Nazi salute, to a visiting. [More…]
Can honourable senators imagine what would happen if a number of students in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany or Red China entered the office of an administrator or a leader in the Government and performed as these people did? [More…]
When it comes to financial arrangements, it was pointed out to us, when the break with Stalin came, while the American bankers cheered them on to stand up against the Soviet Union, this was not reflected in the loan terms that they got. [More…]
The Minister made no reference to any application by Aeroflot or the Soviet Union. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Soviet Union and Aeroflot have been pressing heavily over the last 2 years for regular landing rights in Australia? [More…]
What is a fact is that the Soviet Union, in the normal process, would have had some discussions with the Australian Government on a foreign affairs level. [More…]
I think that last year,’ in about August, the new Soviet Ambassador made a courtesy call on me, which was very kind of him, and he discussed the general question of Australia-Soviet Union flying relationships. [More…]
There was conflict between the Soviet Union and the Western Powers. [More…]
In 1939 the Soviet Union bad made territorial gains at the expense of Finland, Poland, Romania, parts of north-east Germany and eastern Czechoslovakia. [More…]
All armies, other- Unas those of the Soviet Union, began to move out of Europe. [More…]
The Soviet Union maintained its forces on a wartime footing and kept armament production at full speed. [More…]
The Soviet Union refused to participate and denounced the Plan. [More…]
Can he further confirm that the current going price for wool in the Soviet Union is in the vicinity of 300c per lb? [More…]
Soviet Union. [More…]
I was reading about the friction that has developed between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union because of the embassies from Communist countries. [More…]
It is a fact that the Soviet Union was compelled at one time to dispose of some of its art treasures to try to balance its overseas trading position. [More…]
Has the Government received from champions of democracy in Australia any request to deny admittance to Soviet sporting or cultural’ bodies, such as the Russian ballet, until the Soviet Union changes such policies? [More…]
In mid-June, 1971 the Soviet Union advised the other four nuclear weapon states - the United States, Britain, France and the People’s Republic of China - that it ‘proposed to convene at the earliest time a conference of the Five Powers possessing nuclear weapons.’ [More…]
It called on the United States and the Soviet Union to issue undertakings, as China had repeatedly done, not to be the first to use nuclear weapons, and also to withdraw all nuclear arms resources to their own territories as a preliminary gesture. [More…]
A British Note passed to the Soviet Union in mid-August declared interest in and support for the concept of nuclear disarmament, but suggested that the Chinese attitude did not make the proposed conference seem practicable at present. [More…]
For instance, we pay for the petroleum products that we import far in excess of what we would have to pay if we obtained them from the Soviet Union, but we are not allowed to import anything from that country because the Australian Government disagrees with the ideology of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union and its allies are well aware of this situation. [More…]
In 1958 the Soviet Union proposed a package deal by which South Vietnam and North Vietnam, and South Korea and North Korea should be admitted to the United Nations. [More…]
So in 1958 the Soviet Union was prepared to recognise, and indeed did recognise by this proposal, that South Vietnam was an independent country. [More…]
They said that there was a threat of world wide Communist expansion and that both the Soviet Union and Communist China - Red China as they called it when they were not talking about wheat sales - were determined to conquer this country. [More…]
How many candidates are there for the Prime Ministership of the Soviet Union’?, as if this is some devastating, knock-down argument for use against anybody who asks: ‘What is the situation in regard to the elections in South Vietnam’? [More…]
Is it correct that, as one correspondent states, the United Nations is carried on in the main by the United States of America’s largesse, that many other members, particularly the Soviet Union, have failed to meet their financial obligations to the organisation and that the United Nations is hence drifting info a state of bankruptcy? [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs any knowledge of the allegation that on 17th February 1971, Mr V. E. Tulayev, the second secretary of the consular section of the Soviet Embassy in Canberra, personally led a party of men to a home in Auburn, Sydney, and sought by great psychological pressure to persuade Dr Soloviev, a defector, to return to the Soviet Union? [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether it is correct as reported in one newspaper that the Ukraine and one other State of the Soviet Union - I forget which but there are 2 of them - are both fully fledged members of the United Nations? [More…]
Let me remind honourable senators that the closest the world came to major war since the Second World War - we were on the very threshold of it - was during the confrontation between the United States of America and the Soviet Union over Cuba. [More…]
The Soviet Union is not withdrawing from the area. [More…]
Some mention has been made of the menace of the Soviet Union and its naval forces. [More…]
He is referring to a very complex bubble chamber which has been manufactured in France and transported to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Here we find a country such as France with an anti-communist government under President Pompidou so little in a state of fear of what the Soviet Union might do that it is even cooperating with the Soviet Union in such important matters to the life of humanity and the security of France as nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors. [More…]
Yet the Australian Demorcratic Labor Party and the Australian Government are still talking about this great menace coming from the Soviet Union. [More…]
The significance of the United Kingdom decision is that we now see being created in Europe a huge world ‘force, a new super power - indeed, it might be said, a power capable of exercising enormous economic, political and, if need be, military power in the world, lt will be a power equal to, if not greater than, that of the United States, of the Soviet Union, of the People’s Republic China, if it seeks to be a super power, and of Japan. [More…]
I have in mind the North American continent, the Soviet Union and its satellites, and the European Economic Community. [More…]
As Senator Little pointed out, there are people in this Senate who cry aloud about the peaceful intentions of the Soviet Union and Red China. [More…]
I believe that, with respect to the Soviet Union, the Hungarians, the Czechoslovaks and the Poles, on the one hand, would not believe them. [More…]
If the United States sinks more and more into isolationism and withdraws its forces or part of them from or substantially reduces them in Europe, it does seem reasonable to think that this action might speed up the further federation of the countries that comprise the European Economic Community into a real, virile defence unit as a counterpoise to the influence further east of the Soviet Union. [More…]
For example, the Byelorussian and Ukrainian republics of the Soviet Union are members of the UN. [More…]
We know that many world crises have been avoided because of the understanding - I admit there have been some misunderstandings - between the Soviet Union and the United States. [More…]
Nobody can say that either China or the Soviet Union has given up the Leninist idea of world revolution but experience has clearly shown that both countries are pragmatic enough to accept agreements that they reach with major countries. [More…]
The Soviet Union does not support this proposition. [More…]
Perhaps it would be better if Senator Cavanagh addressed his remarks to the leaders of the Soviet Union. [More…]
It can express pious hopes and pious feelings, but does any honourable senator think that if we express these feelings the leaders of the Soviet Union will say: ‘You are good fellows; we will withdraw our naval ships from the Indian Ocean’? [More…]
I noted also that Senator Cavanagh made the comment that the Soviet Union was playing the game as much as the United States was with regard to atomic testing. [More…]
The United States is an open society and it announces to the world weeks - sometimes months - beforehand that it is going to conduct a nuclear test, but the Soviet Union never announces it to the world. [More…]
The only indication that the world has it through modern instru ments which monitor testing in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union is a closed society - not an open society. [More…]
That we request the Commonwealth Government to make representations to the Government of the Soviet Union expressing the deep concern of a large section of Australians of East European origin and other Australians at the harsh treatment of prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union and the non-implementation by the Soviet Union of the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
The Soviet Union, France and some others were in arrears in accordance with Article 19 in 1965 because they refused to meet the expenses of the organisation connected with the peacekeeping operations of the United Nations Force in the Congo and the United Nations Emergency Force in the Middle-East. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether it is correct as reported in one newspaper that the Ukraine and one other State of the Soviet Union - I forgot which but there are 2 of them - are both fully pledged members of the United Nations? [More…]
Is it correct that, as one correspondent states, the United Nations is carried on in the main by the United States of America’s largesse and that many other members, particularly the Soviet Union, have failed to meet their financial obligations to the organisation and that the United Nations is hence drifting into a slate of bankruptcy? [More…]
Its present contribution to the regular budget is assessed at 31.52 per cent of the whole, in comparison to 14.18 per cent by the Soviet Union, 5.90 per cent by the United Kingdom and 6.0 per cent by France. [More…]
In 1965 the United Nations experienced a crisis when Article 19 was invoked against the Soviet Union. [More…]
It was hoped that this indebtedness would be reduced by voluntary contributions, especially by the Soviet Union and [More…]
Secondly that the General Assembly of the United Nations did the same and, had it not been for the Soviet Union, this would have been accepted. [More…]
Presumably only the Soviet Union and the Opposition line up on the proposition that this was not a free and independent nation. [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…]
I emphasised the need to take full account of Japan in the emerging balance between the United States, China and the Soviet Union in North Asia. [More…]
This choir isan integral part of the military forces of the Soviet Union which in recent years have undertaken the military occupationof [More…]
I ask the Minister whether the man Edgley named in this firm is the same man who has specialised in bringing to Australia brilliant theatrical troupes, circuses and ballets, etc., from the Soviet Union, many of whose members refused to join Actors’ Equity. [More…]
Has the Minister any knowledge of an allegation that on 17th February 1971 Mr V. E. Tulayev, Second Secretary of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Embassy in Canberra, led a party of men to a home in Auburn, Sydney, and sought, by great psychological pressure, to persuade a defector, Dr Soloviev, to return to the Soviet Union. [More…]
However, officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs satisfied themselves before Dr Soloviev left Aus- tralia that it was his personal decision that he should return to the Soviet Union. [More…]
I think also it is even more incorrect to look on the problems which have to be resolved if we are to have peaceful relations with our neighbours in the Indian Ocean as being solely the result of the intervention of major powers, whether they be Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union or China. [More…]
While on the one hand the Pope is offering prayers for the success of President Nixon’s visit to Peking and, at the other extreme, both India and the Soviet Union are expressing concern about the possibility of a new alliance between China and the United States of America, we can get no intelligible statement whatsoever from this Government apart from the usual old anti-Communist claptrap it has been serving up for about 25 years that everything which is going on is the part of some Red plot. [More…]
First in today’s world, the Soviet Navy first contributes to the strategic deterrent potential of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Second, is capable of guarding the maritime frontiers of the Soviet Union from surprise attack. [More…]
Friendship and Co-operation between the Soviet Union and the Republic of India. [More…]
The report claims that we have to match whatever the Soviet Union is doing in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Of course the Soviet Union has ships, submarines and so on but it is our fault that it has them. [More…]
We have virtually forced the Soviet Union to become a super-power by reason of our foreign policy, by reason of United States foreign policy and by reason of British foreign policy which believed that the Soviet Union must be matched. [More…]
The Soviet Union has as much right to the oceans of the world as we have. [More…]
If we adopt the attitude that anything the Soviet Union can do we can do better, or if we try to keep up with the Joneses, we will impoverish ourselves and the country that we imagine to be our opponent. [More…]
The debate on this report presents an opportunity for the Senate to think very deeply about what we are doing when we imagine that we can match the Soviet Union and, if necessary, even go to war with the Soviet Union to determine which is the superior power in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
He said that anything the Soviet Union can do we can do better. [More…]
Soviet Union as a result of the IndianPakistani clash. [More…]
but al the present lime India’s favours are certainly bestowed upon the Soviet Union. [More…]
The report refers lo the possibility of India granting to the Soviet Union a base with full facilities at Vishakhapatnam. [More…]
Clearly the closest ally to India in the conflict with Pakistan was the Soviet Union, and clearly the closest ally of Pakistan in the conflict with India was the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It is interesting that the statements of the Indian Government have indicated the gratitude which it feels lo the Soviet Union for the support which was given by the Soviet Union to India in that conflict. [More…]
We now find that India is even much more closely aligned with the Soviet Union than it was before the conflict took place, and the Government of Pakistan, although now exercising authority only over what was formerly West Pakistan, is much more closely allied with China than it was before this conflict took place. [More…]
Whatever assistance was given by the Soviet Union or the People’s Republic of China to the differing parties iri the India-Pakistan conflict, I do not think that anybody, not even the most hysterical anti-Communist, could say that either the Soviet Union or the People’s Republic of China was responsible for what happened. [More…]
In the past, we have been in the position where we could make it very difficult for a country such as the Soviet Union to exercise that right. [More…]
The fact is that we have caused the Soviet Union to build its fleet to the size that it is today. [More…]
The Soviet Union was virtually a land-locked area. [More…]
The Soviet Union is exercising its right as a super-power, a status which it has achieved along with the United States of America, to accept what was given to us during our heyday as part of the colonial and imperialist power that was the British Empire and then the British Commonwealth. [More…]
The proposition that Senator Carrick is putting forward is that we have to perpetuate this fanaticism which is getting the world into so much trouble, namely, that whatever the philosophy of these countries - the Soviet Union, China, North Vietnam, [More…]
If we examine the situation closely, we see that the frictions and wars which are taking place and which have taken place over the last 20 or 30 years have been justified by the American strategy or policy that if the Americans were able to create sufficient strength and power they could cause an undermining of the governments of the Soviet Union, China and various other countries scattered throughout the world. [More…]
The Soviet Union in particular has diverted most of its resources into adopting a defensive attitude. [More…]
The most important Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean region are the initiatives taken in the economic, political, diplomatic and military involvement and assistance which is applied to those major areas of the region in which the Soviet Union seeks to obtain greater influence, power and prestige. [More…]
It is clear from those words that the Committee is telling us that really the most important thing being done by the Soviet Union is to take some diplomatic and eco- nomic initiatives. [More…]
Quite clearly no country with a responsible approach to its own interests - no doubt the Soviet Union has that - would want to have naval forces of such size as would destroy the effect of the diplomatic and economic initiatives. [More…]
It is possible in peace-time to envisage circumstances of East-West tension in areas where facilities may be denied to Australia which are made available to the Soviet Union. [More…]
But when considering the extremely remote possibility- 1 emphasise those words ‘the extremely remote possibility’ - that the Soviet Union may threaten Australia’s trading communications, it must be remembered that a high proportion of our trade is carried in foreign vessels including Soviet. [More…]
I believe that the most important step that Australia can take in relation to the Soviet Union is to normalise our relations with that country. [More…]
Not only should this be the task of Australia in rel a-, tion to countries such as the Soviet Union; we ought to act in that way directly with the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union is a vast empire. [More…]
It is believed, altough there is no certainty of it, that the Soviet Union is building its first aircraft carrier which is believed to be of about 45,000 or 50,000 tons, putting it in the class of the United States carrier ‘Enterprise’. [More…]
The United States has developed Polaris missiles with a range of 2,500 miles which, if they were deployed in submarines in “ the Indian Ocean, would threaten any of the cities of the Soviet Union. [More…]
If one reads the various statements of the Prime Minister of India, the new Prime Minister of Bangla Desh and the Prime Ministers of Ceylon and other countries in the Indian Ocean area one finds that they take a somewhat similar view - that the Soviet Union should accept some responsibility, as the United States does, in assisting the growth and development of the under-privileged nations of that part of the world. [More…]
The Soviet Union seeks to accomplish these aims in the Indian Ocean by: [More…]
While the Admiral expressed some concern about the Soviet presence in this region he nevertheless came to the conclusion that it was normal international behaviour and that it related to the general security of the Soviet Union in the global conflict which we all agree still exists between some of the major powers. [More…]
But I think the Senate should examine the declarations which were made when the Indian Government and the Soviet Union had discussions and reached agreement on matters affecting peace in that region during 1971. [More…]
If these countries can normalise relations with the Soviet Union I think it would be an act of statesmanship if our Prime Minister took the same sort of initiative regarding the Soviet Union as President Nixon is taking in his current discussions with the leaders of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
After all, the Soviet Union has a quite minor presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
These appear to be the areas of major political and strategic interest to the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union professes not to seek to exercise influence which would be prejudicial to Australia. [More…]
But it remains unlikely in our view that the Soviet Union could demonstrate that its long term objectives would not compete or clash with our own. [More…]
Ecuador knows that whether the other country is the United States, the Soviet Union or Mainland China those countries believe that, irrespective of their big battalions, t’hey need a good image. [More…]
I think it would be a much better idea if the Department of Foreign Affairs were a little more militant and if it argued that if it is good enough for the Soviet Union and for a small country like Greenland to have defined fishing rights we should have defined fishing rights also. [More…]
The Soviet Union, as I understand it, has taken measures to decrease income taxation progressively until it disappears, lt was certainly very close to that situation some few years ago. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether his attention has been drawn to the recent warning by the United States Defence Secretary, Mr Melvin Laird, that the Soviet Union is aiming to achieve overall military supremacy by the late 1970s and that the existing, dwindling margin of military superiority of the United States on present trends will disappear within the next 2 or 3 years? [More…]
But with more particularity in response to the question I think I should say that in Australia we follow closely statements made from time to time by the United States Defence Secretary, Mr Laird, on matters of relevant strength of the United States and the Soviet Union. [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…]
As the Department of Defence review points out, its strength in the Pacific Ocean is vast but American resources are not unlimited and the United States Administration has set conditions for its assumption of further responsibilities 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 with 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…]
He is so involved now over the Middle East situation and the Israeli war that he believes that there is a plot between Israel and the Soviet Union. [More…]
United State, for that matter, of the Soviet Union and some of the other Eastern bloc countries. [More…]
Talking to those people on their trade expeditions when they are trying to deal with Britain on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other, one finds that they seem to be able to walk an economic tightrope. [More…]
It is printed in a variety of languages and is posted all over the world to political refugees who have left the Soviet Union or countries under its domination. [More…]
They are in no doubt that this indicates the existence in Australia of a Sovietsponsored espionage organisation which keeps tab on the movements and addresses of political refugees from the Soviet Union. [More…]
19 of March 1972 this paper which, as I said, is mailed from the Soviet Union or one of its subject countries to Russian refugees throughout the world, devoted considerable space to an attack on Bishop Constantine of Brisbane. [More…]
denials of the leaders of the Soviet Union that they are anti.semitist are completely untrue. [More…]
By using that particular epithet they have revealed the truth of the allegations made by Jewish people in this country that there is vicious and vile anti-semitism in the Soviet Union today. [More…]
How otherwise can people who have come from a different country and who have established themselves in various parts of Australia have their names and addresses known to people in the Soviet Union from where this document is sent? [More…]
The Soviet Union veto is the reason for South Vietnam not having been recognised by or admitted to the United Nations. [More…]
In addition to that, the efforts of Great Britain to get the Soviet Union, as a cosponsor of the Geneva conference, to reconstitute that conference will have come to the knowledge of honourable senators. [More…]
But the Soviet Union recently has been quite adamant in refusing any such reconstitution, jointly with Great Britain, to get consideration of the situation at that level. [More…]
Finally, is the supply of arms by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to North Vietnam, without which the invasion of South Vietnam could not have taken place, a good example of the benefits we could hope to enjoy as a result of our association with the Soviet Union? [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether it is a fact that the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, on 8th May, called on the Soviet Union to join Britain in re-convening the Geneva conference which, in 1954, ended the Indo-China war and of which Britain and the Soviet Union were co-chairmen? [More…]
If these are facts, has there been any response by the Soviet Union or the People’s Republic of China to this earnest attempt by Britain to bring about a just peace in Vietnam? [More…]
I have been informed that the General Manager of Williamson-Edgley Theatres Ltd is Mr Michael Edgley, whohas brought to Australia a number of attractions from the Soviet Union and from other countries. [More…]
As Senator Carrick ably pointed out when mentioning those countries in which advertising has not become part and parcel of daily life, such as the Soviet Union where there is no commercial advertising of cigarettes, cigarette smoking is as popular a pastime as it is in those countries which are subject to this form of salesmanship. [More…]
The present increase in the volume of softwoods imported from islands to the north and the volume of timber that is now entering Australia from the Soviet Union together with the significant imports coming to Australia from New Zealand are interesting. [More…]
In public statements the Soviet Union has made no specific reference to the role of the Security Council in this question. [More…]
It was, however, reported in the Press that the Soviet Union did not favour the holding of a meeting of the Security Council to consider the situation in Vietnam. [More…]
What I am seeking to know from Senator Greenwood is: If the Soviet Union is one of the 28 nations with which we are negotiating, would agreement with that country encompass Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, which are now part of the Soviet Union? [More…]
What happens in the Soviet Union or in China ought not to be held up as an example. [More…]
I am assured that overtures have been made by agents of the Soviet Union to the Croatian people in certain places. [More…]
That Party has been assured of Soviet help and the Soviet Union at the present time is endeavouring to involve itself in the possibilities which will arise after the death of Marshall Tito. [More…]
Tito has been moving closer and closer towards the Soviet Union. [More…]
Apparently to the Australian Labor Party there is nothing wrong with that because it is being done by the Soviet Union. [More…]
We certainly do not underwrite the internal structure of any country, whether it is Portugal and Spain on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other. [More…]
Should the Government tell these people to go stew in their own juice or should it make representations to the Soviet Union? [More…]
I disapprove of the violence that is practised by the builders labourers union on some occasions and I also disapprove of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Czechoslovakia. [More…]
Leaders of the Croatian extremist organisations have said that they would be prepared to receive aid from any source, including the Soviet Union, for the liberation of Croatia. [More…]
If their requests were accepted the Soviet Union could exploit the present dissident movement against the interests of the West. [More…]
I have not finished because 1 suppose that the greatest implication of the link between the Communist Party and the Labor Party, if one wanted to establish it in this same guilt by association method which Senator James McClelland used, is to point to the Labor Party’s support for communist aggression in Vietnam - the support for the North Vietnamese Government which is backed by Communist China and by the Soviet Union - and to the attitude which would favour victory in South Vietnam to the North Vietnamese against the South Vietnamese, the Loatians, the Cambodians, the Americans and all our allies to our north who have engaged with us in supporting the right of self determination of the South Vietnamese. [More…]
I think it may be said that it was the result of his strength which enabled the present detente between the United States of America and the Soviet Union to come about. [More…]
No matter how much honourable senators opposite talked and no matter how much they endeavoured to label the Labor Party as a group of Benedict Arnolds, when the United States Republican President Richard Nixon had a dialogue with the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China he destroyed the credibility of the present Opposition’s foreign policy. [More…]
It has positions in relation to the Soviet Union, China, Japan and western Europe which cannot be adopted or shared by Australia. [More…]
They explained in considerable detail that Pine Gap is uniquely placed to control and monitor space vehicles crossing the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
whether at any time whatsoever Wilfred Burchett has had any professional relationships with the KGB of the Soviet Union; [More…]
They know very well that any sensible statesman in the world is prepared to talk to China, North Vietnam and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I understand that last year arrangements were negotiated between the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the Soviet authorities for a ‘Four Corners’ team to enter the Soviet Union this year for the purpose of making certain film programs. [More…]
During the course of a visit to the Soviet Union last year, one of the Assistant General Managers of the ABC, Mr Buttrose, who was there to arrange for certain Soviet artists to come to Australia, entered into arrangements for getting the ‘Four Corners’ team into the Soviet Union. [More…]
It was an understanding on the part of the ABC that as part of the agreement the team would be allowed to take its own camera crew into the Soviet Union. [More…]
I understand that as a result of the negotiations between the ABC and the Department of Foreign Affairs, on the one hand, and the Soviet authorities on the other hand, the team has now left the .Soviet Union and has been dispatched by the ABC to Vienna where certain film programming will be conducted by the team. [More…]
The result has been that the Soviet Union has offered assistance to the Croatian people in order to throw off the yoke of those who are running the country at the present time. [More…]
I know from speaking to Croatians that they have been offered the assistance of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union hopes that when Marshall Tito dies it will be able to take advantage of what follows. [More…]
Probably - I would say almost certainly - Soviet armies will enter the country, and 1 predict that every endeavour will be made to incorporate it into the group of countries which at present are under the influence of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The particular case concerned was one in which the Soviet Union sought, although it did not have an extradition treaty with Australia, the extradition of Ervin Viks, an Estonian, who pointed out that no evidence had been put forward that he was the guilty person. [More…]
At the same time, I received correspondence from a lawyer from as far away as Iceland who informed me that the Soviet Union had requested the extradition of certain Estonians who were prominent in anti-Soviet activities in that country and that the Government of Iceland also had refused their extradition. [More…]
We had none with the Soviet Union, we had one with Hungary, which had an escape clause by which neither country had to hand over people if it did not want to do so; and as far as I know we have had treaties - unless they have been repealed - with Albania, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia. [More…]
That would assist the Soviet Union’s foreign policy. [More…]
He would say that on a priority basis the Soviet Union is more dangerous to world peace than Marshal Tito is. [More…]
The people involved may not be only people for whom the Soviet Union may be looking. [More…]
He could have been from the Soviet Union or from one of the Baltic nations. [More…]
It could well be that a member of, for instance, the Country Party in the Senate is on a trip to China and that another member of the Country Party is on a trip to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Be that as it may, it could well be that a member of the Australian Democratic Labor Party is on a trip to China or to the Soviet Union. [More…]
They would come under increasing pressure to be dominated by one of the power groups in the world; more probably than not by the Soviet Union. [More…]
I think the answer could well be that it was when the Soviet Union had obtained land accommodation in Cuba, within the area of the United States, and set out to mount missile landing weapons on that piece of territory. [More…]
For various reasons the Soviet Union was not enthusiastic about it. [More…]
It is also correct that a large proportion of the military equipment supplied to Indonesia by the Soviet Union is no longer serviceable. [More…]
He said that although you talk about internal politics in the Balkans, the moment that Yugoslavia is fragmented you would have an expansion of territorial aspirations by the Soviet Union which, in turn, would destroy the power structure, the balance of power between the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and Warsaw. [More…]
Has the Minister seen the suggestion made by the Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, that there should be created a joint naval force by Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia, in view of the expanding naval presence of the Soviet Union in the South-East Pacific and Indian Oceans? [More…]
Our policy further states that when countries such as the Soviet Union and China refuse to take action to end nuclear armaments in the world Australia then has no alternative but to endeavour to obtain a nuclear deterrent for herself. [More…]
There was one man whose position gave him unique power to achieve these changes and I here gratefully acknowledge - as everybody with the welfare of the world at heart must - 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 and’ the Soviet Union, and thereby achieving a successful first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and in ending foreign intervention in Vietnam. [More…]
Similarly we have decided that on commercial trade with the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Cuba, North Korea, North [More…]
Australia is surrounded by water but had been so lagging in marine science that nations such as the Soviet Union and Japan were far more knowledgeable of what was happening with the fish life around the coast of Australia than were Australian scientists who were placed in the position of having to ask the Japanese or the Russians for information about our own resources. [More…]
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…]
Five years ago, although the government was communist, that government was attacked on the ground that it sought some small degree of independence from the demands of the Soviet Union. [More…]
He said that this Government sees hope in the new relationships between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. [More…]
In those years there were new relationships between the United States of America, Germany and the Soviet Union. [More…]
It will be 1 1 years, on 18 October, since I appealed in this chamber for the then Government to raise before the United Nations the question of the persecution of Jews within the Soviet Union. [More…]
Tonight’s reference is again an appeal to our Government to take some action on a matter inside the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is the question of the supression, imprisonment and torture of political dissidents inside the Soviet Union. [More…]
But protests had this impact within the Soviet Union only when it is backed by the united might voice of hundreds of prominent people- by the opinions of a whole continent. [More…]
But in the world in which we live it has not been possible so far to obtain world nuclear disarmament because of the refusal of the communist countries- particularly the Soviet Union- to agree to a system of inspection which would make any system of world nuclear disarmament trustworthy. [More…]
At the moment India, on her border, has 2 powerful neighbours with nuclear arms- the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
One can understand the attitude of Mrs Ghandi who, at the United Nations through her representatives, said frankly that she would sign the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty if the nations which had nuclear arms- great nations like Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union- would guarantee to defend, if necessary with nuclear weapons, any country such as India or Australia which might be attacked by a country having nuclear arms. [More…]
They have examined the situation in Europe today and have come to the conclusion that because the Soviet Union has the bomb, Great Britain has the bomb and the United States has the bomb and because they have had no guarantees from any of those countries that they will be protected or defended against nuclear attack, they have to defend themselves from nuclear attack. [More…]
In view of the situation in Europe and as no other country in Europe has the military power to stand up to the Soviet Union, the French have decided that their only hope, faced with the possibility of an American withdrawal from Europe, is if they have a nuclear deterrent. [More…]
What they are proposing to do is to obtain for themselves a form of deterrent which will offer them some prospect of being taken notice of by the Soviet Union in the event of the Soviet Union attempting to take over Europe. [More…]
He said that the French have gone ahead for the same reason as the British and the Chinese- also the Americans, if it came to the point- that is, because they are afraid of the Soviet Union. [More…]
France and Britain believe that if the Soviet Union threatened them they could not be certain that the United States would place its own cities at risk in order to save its allies. [More…]
Professor Burns points out further that the only power that would be immediately disadvantaged by France’s development of an efficient thermo-nuclear warhead is the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whether we agree with it or not, we have to concede at least that in the present balance of the powers in Europe under which no country could stand up to the Soviet Union the French have an argument which ought to be looked at. [More…]
Premier Chou En-lai said that he believed that France, like China, had to have nuclear armaments because of the threat from the Soviet Union. [More…]
In this present equation the United Kingdom and the United States are superimposed on the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
I think it is inevitable, even disregarding ideological reasons, that there be a conflict of interest between China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
This is the crunch of my assertion: Whether the tests were held in Australia, underground in the Urals in the Soviet Union, or in the Nevada desert in the United States, they were held on home ground. [More…]
Remarkably, one of the by-products of the cold war- fear of the Soviet Union- put Japan and West Germany back on their feet. [More…]
They are prepared to be a bit tolerant and say that he achieved some understanding with the Soviet Union and China and that there has been a reduction of tension in South Vietnam, although there are a few other odd things still happening in that country. [More…]
Will the Minister re-examine his answer to my question last week when he said that restrictions placed on Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union was an internal matter? [More…]
I know that that is the way the system operates in the Soviet Union. [More…]
1 ) That this Senate, recognising that the question of human rights is a matter of universal significance, believes there is prima facie evidence to support allegations by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov that human rights of political dissidents are being abrogated inside the Soviet Union, and resolves that this question should be referred to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations for examination; and [More…]
It rightly condemns the aspects of apartheid and decides that it is not an internal matter for South Africa; then it runs away from the question of Russian tyranny on the specious ground that it is an internal matter for the Soviet Union. [More…]
Unfortunately it swallows all the diplomatic nonsense which is put out by the Soviet Union in respect of detente. [More…]
The gravamen of these interviews is that intellectual freedom is nonexistent in the Soviet Union and anyone who criticises the Government is liable to imprisonment and, in many cases, to torture, the favourite method being the injection of excessive amounts of the drug halopiridol to cause depression and ultimately madness. [More…]
In the Soviet Union we have seen the degrading spectacle of Dimitri Shostakovich, a name that will be familiar to all senators in this chamber as a very distinguished Russian composer, being compelled to write a letter to ‘Pravda’ in which he attacked his colleagues and his friends. [More…]
According to Sakharov, he is receiving excessive doses of the drug halopiridol The writer Andre Amabrik was sentenced to 3 years in July of this year for anti-Soviet activities, consisting largely of writing what might be called a Russian ‘1984’ predicting what the Soviet Union would be like in the future. [More…]
It should not be thought that the Soviet Union is entirely impervious to criticism from outside. [More…]
He did not quite accept the Soviet view on the conduct of World War II nor the amount of freedom which was available to people of intellectural attainments in the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is extraordinary that dissidents in the Soviet Union who receive treatment are not placed in an ordinary prison. [More…]
It is important that the West should know what is happening in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The ‘Sydney Morning Herald ‘ of 1 1 September also points out that there is plenty of evidence that international criticism is taken seriously inside the Soviet Union. [More…]
Two American Cabinet Ministers- that is the nearest approach I can get to their status- have indicated to Russia that arrangements, presumably made with President Nixon when Brezhnev was in the United States recently, might well not be carried out unless there was some liberalisation of the condition of dissidents inside the Soviet Union. [More…]
Please God, this protest will ring around the Soviet Union and may spring the traps which imprison so many courageous men. [More…]
I would say that with the serious position to the north of Australia the increasing power of China and the Soviet Union and the big increases in the size of their navies, anybody who simply says that we can forget the rest of the world for 10 to 15 years will have a very serious awakening. [More…]
This has developed in place of the former bi-polar system involving the United States of America and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The balance between the United States, China, the Soviet Union and Japan- the quadrilateral in our region- is far from clear. [More…]
Relations between Japan and the Soviet Union are bedevilled by great differences over the return of the islands north of Japan. [More…]
Only today it was reported that the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr Tanaka, left for a tour of Europe and the Soviet Union. [More…]
It was reported that he may reach agreement with the Soviet Union over the return of the northern islands- this was disputed in other reports- in return for Japanese investment for the development of Siberia. [More…]
On the other hand, if Japan cannot reach agreement with the Soviet Union will Japan reach agreement with China? [More…]
There are reports- I think this was mentioned by Senator McManus- that there are between 44 and 49 Russian divisions along the border between China and the Soviet Union and that they are faced by an equivalent number of Chinese divisions. [More…]
The Soviet Union, obviously. [More…]
No one who has any knowledge of military matters would say that the only threat would come on the border, that the only fighting would take place on the border, because everybody knows that the Soviet Union has nuclear submarines spread all over the world. [More…]
If the Chinese feel that there is a threat from the Soviet Union then obviously they will try to match those particular bases and a situation could develop where the confrontation will be not on the border between Russia and China but in some remote part of the Pacific. [More…]
That is why there have been negotiations between the Administration of the United States and the Government of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The dispute between the Soviet Union and China is a black feature at the present time. [More…]
1 ) That this Senate, recognising that the question of human rights is a matter of universal significance, believes there is prima facie evidence to support allegations by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov that human rights of political dissidents are being abrogated inside the Soviet Union, and resolves that this question should be referred to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations for examination; and [More…]
Western rapprochement with the Soviet Union could be dangerous if the West acquiesced over the lack of democracy in the Soviet Union, he said. [More…]
He called upon the United States Congress to support the Jackson amendment which sought to place safeguards, in terms of liberty, in any negotiation between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
What we are saying- we are asking the Senate to support us- is: ‘Please ask the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations to look into this matter because human freedom and human dignity in the Soviet Union must be as precious to us as human freedom and human dignity in our own country ‘. [More…]
Just ask any Jew who has left the Soviet Union whether he was ever a hundred per cent sure that he would get out. [More…]
The second technique is even more subtle: the Soviet Union, by joining the Universal Copyright Convention (membership became effective on May 27), has ensured that works banned within the USSR can never be published abroad. [More…]
The first is Andrei Amalrik, the internationally known historian whose crime was that he wrote a book entitled: Will the Soviet Union Survive until 1984’. [More…]
After all, at the present time we are in a particularly delicate situation in relation to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whatever we think about the Soviet Union and whatever we think about the United States, there is no doubt that the relationships between those 2 great powers will have a great deal to do with the sort of lives that we and our children will live in this country. [More…]
Whatever we may think of President Nixon, there is no doubt that over recent months negotiations designed to produce a real detente between the great rivals in the world- the Soviet Union and the United Stateshave been in train. [More…]
Understandably, there is in the United States, as there is in the rest of the world, a justifiable concern with what I believe are clear-cut manifestations of repression of opinion by dissident intellectuals in the Soviet Union. [More…]
On the one hand we have to strive to conduct our relations with the Soviet Union in such a way as to promote the detente. [More…]
We have to face up to the fact that, whatever anybody may think about the Soviet Union, it is not going to be puffed out of existence; it is here to stay for the foreseeable future. [More…]
We have to learn to live with it, just as the Soviet Union has to face the fact that it has to learn to live with the capitalist United States. [More…]
I believe- I agree with Senator Carrick on this - that we do not do any service to the cause of detente or to the cause of liberty throughout the world by remaining silent about the repression which I believe is occurring in relation to dissidents in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Having said all that, 1 think we have to face the fact that the Soviet Union has come a long way since the days of Stalin when a Solzhenitsyn or a Sakharov, far from being able to trumpet an appeal to the world, would have been allowed nothing much more than to stand up in the dock and parrot a prepared confession prior to a quick death. [More…]
Nonetheless, I accept that in the terms of this motion there is a prima facie case to support the allegations made by the 2 leading Soviet dissidents, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov, that human rights of political dissidents are being abrogated in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The dissident movement in the Soviet Union developed following Khrushchev’s admission to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party that the horrors of the Stalinist period, which had long been known to discerning people throughout the rest of the world but which had been denied by the communist movement throughout the world, in fact had occurred. [More…]
But members of what might be called the opposition in the sense of people who did not go along fully with the regime in the Soviet Union were dissatisfied with the restrictions that continued to be placed on them even after Khrushchev’s speech and some of them advocated radical changes to the social and economic system. [More…]
I think the Soviet Union has reached the stage where it is no longer completely impervious to world opinion. [More…]
Among other things the Soviet Union has reached a stage where it needs massive technical and capital assistance to develop its own resources. [More…]
I think that in a situation like this is behoves people in the rest of the world, like ourselves, who while accommodating to the fact that the Soviet Union exists and is possibly a permanent fixture in world society, nonetheless to regard dissident intellectuals or human beings in general in those countries as people like ourselves, people in whose fate we have an interest and people for whom we are prepared to raise our voices. [More…]
Whilst I disagree with Senator Hannan on many of his views of the world, especially his view of the Soviet Union, I applaud his raising of this issue. [More…]
I would hope, as I said when I got to my feet, that everybody who speaks in this debate will speak responsibly, will speak without hate and will speak with a knowledge that we can no longer afford the luxury of just sounding off about what we do not like in the Soviet Union or, if it comes to that, what we do not like in the United States. [More…]
But I think it behoves any people who claim to be civil libertarians and who claim to be democrats to raise their voices against the sort of repression which I am convinced is occurring in the Soviet Union at present. [More…]
So I feel no inhibition whatsoever although I belong to a Party which has traditionally been considered to be over-partial to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whilst not resiling from the proposition that we should restrain ourselves from any violent attack on the Soviet Union, I feel no inhibitions at all in solidarising with the speakers who suggested and who moved that we should speak up on behalf of Solzhenitsyn, Sakharov, Amalrik, Grigorenko and all those other courageous dissidents in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Honourable senators would know that since he has become Chancellor he has devoted a lot of his energies to a detente with the Soviet Union. [More…]
I wasn’t proposing, and despite your invitation I don’t think it’s likely that I will, to protest to the Soviet Union about these matters. [More…]
But I quoted this extract as an illustration of the fact that our own Prime Minister is not unconscious of what is happening in the Soviet Union in respect of dissident intellectuals and that he also solidarises himself with their cause. [More…]
Australia- this present Government- believes, together with other Western countries, that this detente is in the interests not only of the people of the Soviet Union but also of the people of the world at large. [More…]
If we are sincere- and I give credit to the mover and seconder of the motion as being sincere- in our attempt to help these men I believe that we can do so by being restrained, temperate, avoiding hymns of hate and by reminding the Soviet Union that it lives in the world, that it needs the goodwill and the help of the world to develop its own system to nourish in the world and that the cause of detente is served by paying regard to the liberties which are considered to be a minimum requirement of civilised society. [More…]
I also was pleased to note what Senator James McClelland said about the situation in the Soviet Union, as he sees it. [More…]
But protest had this impact within the Soviet Union only when it was backed ‘by the united, mighty voice of hundreds of prominent people, by the opinions of a whole continent. [More…]
The importance of this motion arises from these developments which seem to have occurred in recent years in the Soviet Union. [More…]
That is the tendency which now seems to be growing in the Soviet Union to confine dissidents to psychiatric hospitals. [More…]
Of course, we all know that the Soviet Union is not the only country in which there are infringements of human rights. [More…]
Scientists and writers throughout the world have been assailing the Soviet Union’s handling of dissident intellectuals. [More…]
I don’t think it’s likely that I will protest to the Soviet Union about these matters. [More…]
Why is not the Australian Government prepared to protest to the Soviet Union? [More…]
Why is it not prepared to take this stand with regard to the protection of individuals in the Soviet Union? [More…]
Why is the Government not prepared to take a similar stand in regard to the Soviet Union? [More…]
We know that at present there is a growing detente and a so-called closer relationship between the governments of the Western world, in particular the United States, and the Government of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Yet, whilst the United States of America is stating these things as objectives of detente- of this closer relationship- as it seems the position in terms of growing contacts with Russia at the same time we are finding a clamping down in the Soviet Union of any movement for freer contact, freer information and the interchange of it amongst the Soviet intellectuals. [More…]
But surely if that obligation is recognised by this Government, why is it not an obligation which is also maintained and exercised in relation to what is now happening in the Soviet Union? [More…]
After the words ‘Soviet Union’, insert ‘and other countries throughout the world ‘. [More…]
1 ) That this Senate, recognising that the question of human rights is a matter of universal significance, believes there is evidence to support allegations that human rights of political dissidents are being abrogated inside the Soviet Union and other countries throughout the world, and resolves that this question should be referred to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations for examination; and [More…]
Tonight we had broad unanimity in relation to the question of oppression in the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is this: The Arab attack could not have been launched had it not been for the military and political support of the Soviet Union- support about which the Arabs and the Soviet Union have made no secret. [More…]
It has been not only a matter of Moscow building for the Arab States a massive arsenal of its most advanced weapons but it has been the urging and goading of the Soviet Union which has allowed and enabled the Arabs to feel confident in their military planning. [More…]
The United States and the Soviet Union have a special responsibility to do everything in their power so that conflicts on situations will not arise which would increase international tension. [More…]
Yakob Malik, the Soviet Union ‘s Ambassador, not only supported the military activities of Egypt and Syria against Israel, but criticised the Security Council for even raising the question at the United Nations. [More…]
Meanwhile, and this is the main point, the information coming to the United Nations was that the Soviet Union while committed to reduce tension under the Nixon-Brezhnev agreement was actually urging Algeria, Lebanon and particularly the King of Jordan to get into the war against Israel. [More…]
In conclusion, let me say that today we hear authoritative reports that the Soviet Union is re-supplying heavy weapons to the Egyptians and the Syrians and that the war is to be a long and bitter one. [More…]
After all, only the other night the Senate unanimously passed a resolution to go to the United Nations on the question of the dissident intellectuals in the Soviet Union. [More…]
In the making of its attitude known to the Soviet Government, did the Australian Government specify restrictions on Jewish immigration from the Soviet Union as an instance of denial of this fundamental human right? [More…]
Did the Australian Government protest, that is, did it make a formal statement of dissent or disapproval, to the Soviet Government specifically concerning that Government’s refusal to allow free immigration of Jewish citizens of the Soviet Union? [More…]
However, in view of the fact that the war has now proceeded to the stage where the United States and the Soviet Union are supplying large quantities of arms to both sides, I ask whether it is not time that the Government should use its undoubted influence at the United Nations level and internationally to promote a ceasefire. [More…]
This was illustrated by the very large purchase recently by the Soviet Union of 200,000 tons of butter from the European Economic Community countries at the give-away price of 22c per lb. [More…]
In view of these lying statements put out by the Soviet Union in regard to the cause of the conflict, and in view of the fact that a tiny nation of 3 million people is confronted by the Arab nations of 1 10 million people, backed by one of the world’s super powers, can the Government still adhere to its declaration of neutrality? [More…]
I note that both the Soviet Union and the United States were criticised together for the supply of arms. [More…]
I do not accept that a even handed policy blames the United States to the same degree as it blames the Soviet Union for the war in the Middle East. [More…]
We also believe- it is referred to in our foreshadowed amendment- that there must be an understanding and an agreement between the 2 major powers concerned, the Soviet Union and the United States of America, that they will ensure that there is no massive rearmament and that they will adopt an even handed policy on both sides to ensure that peace is maintained. [More…]
Even if one were to argue that it was a mistake for the United Nations to decide some 25 years ago that Israel should be established as a state- even if one were to say that it should not have been done, despite the fact that the United States, the Soviet Union and practically every country in the world voted for the establishment of Israel- it is too late now to say that it was a mistake. [More…]
Senator Little would like us to make an heroic declaration in Canberra condemning, I take it, the Arab states, the Soviet Union and anybody else who happened to be connected with the Middle East position, and then to withdraw from the proceedings and take no further part in them, because that would be the consequence. [More…]
I would say at the same time that it seems to be quite absurd for the Senate to say that it is going to condemn the Soviet Union for selling or providing arms to the Arab countries. [More…]
We can condemn the Soviet Union for providing arms to the Arab countries only if we condemn the United States for providing arms to Israel because there has been a two-sided traffic going on. [More…]
It is not as if Israel is manufacturing its own arms and the Arab countries are getting their arms from the Soviet Union. [More…]
What has happened is that there has been a conflict of interest between the Soviet Union and the United States with the Soviet Union supporting certain Arab countries and the United States supporting Israel. [More…]
I am not saying that either the United States or the Soviet Union is acting maliciously or endeavouring to create havoc or harm. [More…]
It is all very well to condemn the Soviet Union and the United States of America in this conflict. [More…]
The fact is that it was the Arab states that made the first move and it was the Soviet Union that assisted the Arab states before the United States came in. [More…]
It is wrong to ignore the part that the Soviet Union is playing in the Middle East conflict or the part that it is still playing in the Korean conflict. [More…]
Even today representatives of the Soviet Union appear continually at peace conferences to conduct negotiations with members of the United Nations. [More…]
Those circumstances were that Nasser, who led the Arab nation, was supplied with the most sophisticated armaments of warfare by the Soviet Union; he closed the Suez Canal; he demanded the withdrawal of the United Nations forces from the Gaza Strip thus cutting off the Straits of Tiran from the Israelis and placed [More…]
The Soviet Union then established in the Arabian states up to 20,000 military experts who were advising and training in the use of still more sophisticated armoury and weapons which it had supplied and still continues to supply. [More…]
The Soviet Union is still supplying arms to the Arab nations, and America is trying desperately to catch up by supplying arms to Israel. [More…]
One must ask the reasons why America allows herself to get into the situation where she is only endeavouring to match with what the Soviet Union has already supplied and is continuing to pour into an area of conflict. [More…]
Those reports seem to establish that the Soviet Union has supplied equipment to the Arabs and has trained the Arabs in the use of that equipment. [More…]
The Soviet Union then informed Israel that the attack was likely to come. [More…]
Even in the Soviet Union they did the same thing. [More…]
In those days we even had the position that the trade unions, such as they are in the Soviet Union, announced that in their view amalgamation was bad for any system of trade unions. [More…]
I can remember- it must have been within the last few months- when the Government was not a front for the Chinese Communist Party but was a front for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The allegation has been made that on one occasion we were following the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. [More…]
No one has ever corrected that allegation and said: ‘We would like to draw the attention of the Senate to the fact that the ALP followed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union but it does not do so any more’. [More…]
We are being told, without any correction, that the same Party which follows the Communist Party of the Soviet Union also follows the Communist Party of China- a remarkable feat which even Houdini would have been incapable of performing. [More…]
They have closer relations, although by no means indissoluble bonds or overpowering bonds, with the Soviet Union. [More…]
-There may well be reason for requiring that the source of any kind of propaganda, as it is called, by or on behalf of any foreign power in Australia be identified, irrespective of the questions which the honourable senator raises about the Soviet Union. [More…]
Did the Australian Government, in making its attitude known to the Soviet Government specify restrictions on Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union as an instance of the denial of this fundamental human right; if so, on what occasion, on what date, and at what diplomatic or governmental level was this done. [More…]
In 1970, in the Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly, the Australian representative expressed concern about the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union and appealed to the Soviet Union to resist from policies or practices of discrimination against citizens of Jewish origin and to allow those wishing to emigrate to do so. [More…]
The Soviet Union has in recent years considerably relaxed its restrictions on the emigration of [More…]
The Soviet Union has bought 700 million bushels from the United States. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Is it not a fact that the real aggressor in the Middle East is the Soviet Union and that it has supplied and is supplying Arab nations aggregating 100 million or more people with the latest weapons and technical advice as to how to use them in an attempt to subdue a tiny nation of 2.5 million to 3 million people. [More…]
-The honourable senator asked me whether the real aggressor in the Middle East is the Soviet Union. [More…]
There is no doubt that for a long time the Soviet Union has been backing the Arab States and has given some war materials to them. [More…]
I accept what the honourable senator said about the Constitution of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Is he aware that one of the signatories, the Soviet Union, celebrated its ratification, in October of this year, with hundreds of new arrests and closed trials within its own borders and within the captive nations which the Soviet Union occupies? [More…]
While this Senate has already expressed its view on the treatment of the Soviet Union’s own dissidents, I ask the Minister whether he is aware that a particularly brutal and repressive persecution by the Soviet Union is now taking place in the Ukraine. [More…]
Will the Government sponsor a resolution at the United Nations requiring the Soviet Union to live up to its membership obligations by releasing all prisoners of conscience in the Ukraine and in other captive nations? [More…]
It is true that the Soviet Union was a signatory to the famous Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Everingham said that he saw Australia moving toward the pattern in England and the Soviet Union, where only a well-off few use private doctors. [More…]
of the Soviet Union; [More…]
Will the Prime Minister use the occasion of his coming visit to the Soviet Union to protest to the heads of the Soviet Government against such brutal and mindless oppression of a distinguished writer whose only crime was to publicise the denial of human rights in the Soviet Union? [More…]
However I think we have to recognise that in the case of China and in the case of the Soviet Union they are countries which, with whatever favourable aspects they may present, and indeed have presented, are dictatorships and that there are disputes as to which of them should have hegemony, if not throughout the whole world, at least in part of the world between the leaders of those 2 countries. [More…]
Certainly I think it has to be said that a contributing factor- I would not suggest that it is a major factor because I think there are other more important factors involved over which we never did have any influence- involved in the present intransigence of the Soviet Union and China is the many years of isolation in which both countries were placed after their revolutions. [More…]
I do not think it should be any wonder that both the Soviet Union and China should be extraordinarily suspicious countries, that both of them should be countries with which it is very hard for the other nations of the world to have sensible and sane dealings in view of the treatment which was meted out to both of them. [More…]
But at the same time, that action has been very mild compared with the campaigns of economic boycotts and sanctions which were carried out for almost 2 decades against the Soviet Union and against the People’s Republic of China, largely at the behest of the United States of America. [More…]
I believe they are both wrong, but I think that while we are looking at the situation of China and the Soviet Union we have to give some recognition to the historical reasons which have given rise to the difficulties which we now find in dealing with them and to see, insofar as we can, that these policies are not continued in the future because these are things to which the Australian Labor Party is opposed. [More…]
To a large extent the major difficulties between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, and perhaps to a lesser extent between the United States of America and China, have been resolved as a result of some of the initiatives taken by the major powers. [More…]
Now it seems to be generally accepted that the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union, and on the other hand the U.S.A. and China, are taking all sorts of measures to prevent a conflict breaking out between those nations or any nations closely associated with them. [More…]
Although on the one hand this certainly is something which is to be welcomed- only a most negative, destructive, homicidal if not suicidal person would be opposed to the relaxation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the U.S.A.- I believe at the same time that all democratic people need to have some thoughts for the future, and perhaps some fears, as to what might be the consequence of this type of detente. [More…]
His most famous book, ‘1984’, was not merely an attack on the sort of future which could be created under some sort of Stalinist regime similar to that which was existing in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe that while all of us welcome the relaxation in tension between the Soviet Union and the U.S.A., we should be very cautious lest a consequence of such a relaxation could be a division of spoils between 2 super powers with neither of which democratic people have a great deal in common. [More…]
Although obviously the most serious and most disastrous thing that could happen to the world would be a third world war, particularly a nuclear war, at the same time it would be a rather grim prospect for the people of the world if the consequence of the relaxation were to mean that the Soviet Union was free to send its tanks into Czechoslovakia and the United States of America was free to send its marines into the Dominican Republic. [More…]
We have to see that we have our own independent policy, our own desire to assist our own people by an independent national policy, and that we work to see that there is no foreign intervention in any country either by the Soviet Union, the United States of America or anybody else. [More…]
Both the Soviet Union and the United States have a rather dismal record over the past 20 years of interventions and invasions in other peoples’ countries and of efforts to impose their form of economic system and their domination on other countries- the United States of America in South East Asia and Latin America, and the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe. [More…]
At the same time, when we come to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics there cannot be any question but that the position of the ordinary person in the Soviet Union is much better than it was under the Czars. [More…]
It is illegal not only in the Soviet Union but also in those countries where the supporters and friends of the Soviet Union exert dominance. [More…]
I think that something which has always to be borne in mind by members of the Australian Labor Party is that however friendly we may be with many of the countries associated with the Soviet Union, our counterparts in those countries are in gaol or have been executed. [More…]
I do not want to deprecate in any way the tremendous sacrifices which have been made, the tremendous injustices and the tremendous loss of life and devastation which was suffered by the people of the Soviet Union during the second World War. [More…]
But I believe that those people who accept the dictatorship in Spain, who accept the genocide in Vietnam, who accept American intervention in Cuba and Dominica, and who are happy about the coups d’etat and the military juntas in Greece and Chile have no right to protest about civil liberties in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I think that this is one of the most inexplicable things which has been done by the Soviet Union. [More…]
This action of the Soviet Union has placed in jeopardy the very painfully and carefully constructed alliance between the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and the left wing radicals in France which showed very great prospects of defeating the conservative Government which has been in power for many years. [More…]
It is big business inasmuch as in the Soviet Union, for instance, all the capitalists are rolled into one big capitalist. [More…]
Before each election the menace of communism, of China and the Soviet Union was trotted out. [More…]
I think that we are all discouraged to learn that Dr Kissinger’s latest mission to the Soviet Union did not achieve the hoped for results and that the Russian position is obviously hardening, no doubt because of the domestic situation in the United States and the disunity in Europe. [More…]
Another interesting issue in recent times is the request by the Soviet Union for a so-called scientific base in this country. [More…]
Today we understand that the request by the Soviet Union for a so-called scientific base in [More…]
Senator Maunsell ought to know this because recently he and I were members of a parliamentary delegation which visited the Soviet Union. [More…]
In fact, they are so inadequately developed that the Soviet Union is now calling in expertise from the United States of America, France, Japan and other countries because it has been so committed- this is my view, and I am stating it publicly- to the proposition of having huge numbers of” men in uniform that many of the resources which the Soviet Union could have been developing for the good and the benefit of its people were left undeveloped. [More…]
We said at that time that the major oil routes of the world went through the Indian Ocean and the dominance of the Indian Ocean by any one country such as the Soviet Union could result in those oil routes being blockaded and other countries being blackmailed into submission. [More…]
At the present time the situation has become so serious that the United States of America and Great Britain have agreed to the establishment of a base at Deigo Garcia facing the bases which the Soviet Union has acquired from some of the eastern countries. [More…]
Not that it matters a great deal since the 2 super powers- the United States and the Soviet Union- have enough to overkill one another many times over. [More…]
Apparently the Soviet Union does not think so either because 2 months ago it launched a 45,000 ton carrier- and that of course will soon make its way into the Indian Ocean where we wish to preserve a zone of peace simply by saying that we like peace. [More…]
One hears talk of detente between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
If he is visiting Australia at the invitation of the Australian Government I think it is relevant to remind the honourable senator that in this modern day and age Mr Khrushchev once visited the United States of America and President Nixon visited the Soviet Union. [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 and the Soviet Union successfully managed the crisis in their relations and used their influence to limit the conflict. [More…]
Perhaps we are waiting for the day when this Government, if it ever gets back, gulls the people of Australia into believing that perhaps we would get better equipment from the Soviet Union than we would get from the United States or some other country. [More…]
The 2 nations which opposed the Australian amendment were Japan and the Soviet Union, the two major whaling countries. [More…]
It is true that some years ago the Board did negotiate a very good contract for Australian meat in that country but I am not aware of any activities by the Board in the Soviet Union at the present time. [More…]
They could not care less about the fate of Mr Ermolenko or about the relations between this country and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Yes, we are concerned about our relations with the Soviet Union and we are concerned about the fate of Mr Ermolenko. [More…]
This matter was raised by members of the Australian Labor Party because they believed that there had been very clear instances in the past of deprivation of civil liberties by the Soviet Union and because they believed, in the light of the statements which reportedly had been made by and apparently correctly recorded of Mr Ermolenko to various people in Perth- the Sub- Warden of St George’s College and a prominent figure in the musical life of Victoria who happened to be in Perth and whose name I think is Mr Badger-that he had expressed some reluctance to go back to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Certainly the Soviet Union is a country which is singularly short on civil liberties. [More…]
But the other issue is the question of our relations with the Soviet Union. [More…]
If members of the Opposition believe the things which they say, and which I certainly believe in part, about the nature of the political system in the Soviet Union, they should realize that what they are doing is placing this man in a position which, if he does now go back into the Soviet Union after this sort of thing, the position will be very serious for him. [More…]
There is a lack of freedom in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I am not here to defend the Soviet Union. [More…]
But we do not believe that either the maintenance of Australia’s diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, which are important, or even more importantly the preservation of this person’s life and liberty are served in any way by this disgraceful motion which has been moved this evening. [More…]
Perhaps they do not have such contracts in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Australia has for some considerable time recognised the Soviet Union and it should be enabled to continue its relationship with the Soviet Union in the best possible manner. [More…]
I am absolutely amazed that Senator Hall should say that we should sacrifice the liberty and maybe the life of an individual to maintain good relations with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Mr Johnson and Mr Badger, and that he be able freely to make up his mind as to whether he wishes to return to the Soviet Union or remain in Australia. [More…]
All we ask is that this young man be given the opportunity, free from intimidation and threats, to talk to those whom he originally trusted in order to make up his mind as to whether he wishes to remain in Australia or return to the Soviet Union. [More…]
If he declares that he wishes to return to the Soviet Union, there can be no argument- he has made a free decision. [More…]
But if he returns to the Soviet Union, without this opportunity being given to him, in company with Professor Kabalevsky, this other character from the Russian Embassy and the others who go with him, no one will know whether he is going back to the Soviet Union of his own free will or whether he is going back under duress. [More…]
I speak with an even-handed attitude because I have been equally vocal in relation to Polish seamen and I have even led a Yugoslav delegation to the Soviet Union, as Senator Wheeldon has done, complaining about its excesses. [More…]
Whereas the right of self-determination belongs to every nation, big or small, the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania nave been deprived of it for 30 years by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whereas the right of self-determination belongs to every nation, big or small, the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been deprived of it for 30 years by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, Human Rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, Human Rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
Is not this Professor Kabalevsky the same Professor Kabalevsky who was reported in the Soviet News Bulletin of September last year as having criticised Andrei Sakharov as acting contrary to the interests of the Soviet Union? [More…]
In view of his attempt to equate the previous Government’s decision in relation to Goa with the decision by the present Government to recognise the incorporation of the Baltic states into the Soviet Union, I ask him whether it is not a fact that Goa was a Portuguese colony populated by people largely of Indian ethnic origin whereas the Baltic states were formerly free and independent states possessing an ancient culture and traditions and whose people are witnessing the destruction of their culture and traditions and individually and collectively suffering from communist brutality and suppression? [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
The annexation and incorporation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union has not been recognized by any Western democracy, including Australia. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
The annexation and incorporation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union has not been recognized by any Western democracy, including Australia. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
The annexation and incorporation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union has not been recognized by any Western democracy, including Australia. [More…]
Whereas the right of self-determination belongs to every nation, big or small, the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been deprived of it for 30 years by the Soviet Union. [More…]
That the Australian Government’s diplomatic action to recognize officially the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union has been taken contrary to the Prime Minister’s assurances to Australian citizens of Baltic origin given as recently as the 17th May 1974. [More…]
Mr Coleman, the secretary of the Trades and Labour Council, has also seen Mr Ermolenko and is quite satisfied about the genuineness of his desire to return to the Soviet Union. [More…]
As a further demonstration of Mr Ermolenko ‘s desire to be returned to the Soviet Union, he subjected himself to a 25-minute television interview in which he was thoroughly quizzed on his wish to return to the Soviet Union. [More…]
No Russians were present during this interview and Mr Ermolenko at all times maintained that he wished to return to the Soviet Union as soon as possible. [More…]
The undersigned citizens of Australia of Baltic origin wish to express their concern at the announced intention of the Australian Government to recognize the annexation of the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Australian Government to recognize the annexation of the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
The annexation and incorporation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union has not been recognized by any Western democracy, including Australia. [More…]
Whereas the right of self-determination belongs to every nation, big or small, the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been deprived of it for 30 years by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, human rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexion. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States-Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
The annexation and incorporation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union has not been recognized by any Western democracy, including Australia. [More…]
Whereas the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognized the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union, it has been announced from Moscow that the Australian Government is now recognizing them as part of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
The annexation and incorporation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union has not been recognized by any Western democracy, including Australia. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, Human Rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: WHEREAS THE Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
Whereas the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognized the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union, it has been announced from Moscow that the Australian Government is now recognizing them as part of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, human rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
That the Australian Government’s diplomatic action to recognize officially the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union has been taken contrary to the Prime Minister’s assurances to Australian citizens of Baltic origin given as recently as the 1 7th May 1 974. [More…]
The Minister has withheld from the Parliament information on decisions of vital significance to this country, that is, why the Government recognised some 30 years after the event the forceful incorporation into the Soviet Union of the states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. [More…]
The Minister has shown that this Government’s concern for the cause of freedom is subordinate to the maintenance of good relations with the Soviet Union. [More…]
We notice, of course, that this is a right which the Soviet Union denies to its citizens. [More…]
There are Valentyn Moroz and others who are imprisoned in the Soviet Union because they exercised the right of free speech and the ability to dissent which we regard in this country as the right of every citizen and which we have always upheld. [More…]
It is a shameful state of affairs, particularly when linked with the recognition of the Baltic states, that we should mould our foreign policy, decide issues of human rights and override the role of the courts in this country simply to curry favour with the Government of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Those circumstances are clouded by deception, stealth and, one can only suppose, an apparent sense of guilt and shame by a government which has no justification for its actions except that it gratuitously desires to curry favour with the Soviet Union. [More…]
For 30 years this de facto situation has existed without any de jure acknowledgment of the rights of the Soviet Union in relation to these states. [More…]
The policy of the present Australian Government is that while not formally recognising the incorporation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union, it must be cognisant of the de facto situation and deal with the government which has effective control of the territory in question. [More…]
Is it because this Government desires to maintain with the Soviet Union a relationship which it believes will be improved by the servile act of doing something which even the Soviet Union these days has not got on its shopping list of demands for other countries? [More…]
We believe that what this Government has done has been done in order to facilitate a reception by the Prime Minister in the Soviet Union when he visits that country this year. [More…]
Is not the only consistent view of the Government’s decision to recognise the incorporation of these States the view that it accords entirely with the public attitudes of the Soviet Union? [More…]
He persisted throughout the time that he was alive in assuring these people that Australia would never recognise the legal incorporation of these States into the Soviet Union. [More…]
It may be an illusion to seek to maintain the ideal of freedom with regard to these countries because the de facto situation is certainly one in which the Soviet Union has an all powerful control. [More…]
But we have seen in the period in which the Labor Party has been in power a new subservience, and it is a subservience to the Soviet Union, to Communist China and to the nations of the Third World. [More…]
What needs to be said is that the Soviet Union, because of the historical past, regards the 3 Baltic territories as just as much a part of its territory as Britain regards Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. [More…]
I said that the Soviet Union regards it in that way. [More…]
The week in which Ermolenko was spirited out of Australia and the week in which there was de jure recognition by Australia of the incorporation of the Baltic states into the Soviet Union was indeed a shameful week. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has not recognised and does not intend to recognise the incorporation of the Baltic states into the Soviet Union. [More…]
The policy of the present Australian Government is that, while not formally recognising the incorporation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union, it must be cognisant of the de facto situation and deal with the Government which has effective control of the territory in question. [More…]
It is opposed, as the Prime Minister himself has admitted, to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which gives no support to the brutal annexation of the Baltic countries by the military forces of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The decision becomes more extraordinary when we are told and led to believe that there was no pressure from the Soviet Union. [More…]
In fact, the Soviet Union was just as surprised as we were. [More…]
But the Canadian Government has refused to recognise the incorporation of the Baltic states into the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Government itself, by its shameful act of recognising the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union, puts its seal of approval, whether it likes it or not, in the eyes of the world, on this shameful, brutal Russian policy. [More…]
But if this Government were consistent, if it believed in the right of self-determination, if it really believed in the role of self-determination, then it would be giving aid to the liberation movements in the Baltic States so that they could overthrow the savage yoke of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I refer also to the Prime Minister’s speech earlier when he made representations to both the Soviet Union and the United States and said that the situation is hopeful. [More…]
The next thing that was said, in a very colourful way, was that the Minister has prevented the courts of this country from determinng the issue of whether the young man wanted to go back to the Soviet Union. [More…]
The courts were never asked to determine the issue of whether this young man wanted to go back to the Soviet Union. [More…]
I find it very interesting that Senator Greenwood, who sent in the Commonwealth Police to arrest demonstrators at the Melbourne University, and who sent the Commonwealth Police to investigate and interrogate members of this Parliament for exercising this freedom of speech which he believes is so essential in the Soviet Union but which at least in the past he did not think was of any value in this country, has today emerged as the champion of human rights, the champion of civil liberties and the man who says that a person should be able to get up and say what he likes whenever he wants to say it and that he should not be interrogated by the police, that he should be free to insert advertisements in newspapers and should be free to demonstrate at the Melbourne University or at the Perth airport or anywhere else. [More…]
Ermolenko said on a television station in Perth- he said it to journalists and to all sorts of people- that he wanted to leave Australia and go back to the Soviet Union. [More…]
He did leave Australia and he did go back to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Their incorporation in the Soviet Union is one of the most shameful acts in modern European history. [More…]
The argument is used- I think there is a certain amount of justification for it- that the Soviet Union needed to take some steps to protect itself by entering into some sort of treaty with the nazis because the Western powers at that time had refused to co-operate with it and had rebuffed its efforts to organise a common front against the then menace of the Axis powers- nazi Germany and fascist Italy. [More…]
I do not believe that this in any way justified the Soviet Union believing that it could forcibly incorporate those 3 states inside the Soviet Union and I do not believe that it entitled the Soviet Union to occupy the eastern third of Poland and to take part conjointly with nazi Germany in a military attack upon Poland which was then, with whatever faults there may have been in the existing Polish Government, fighting alongside the democracies in defence of the world against nazism and fascism. [More…]
I do not think there is any question that the treatment of the ethnic minorities, the culture and the language of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania under the Soviet Union is something of which the Soviet Union cannot at all be proud. [More…]
What we are doing with regard to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia is recognising an unpalatable fact of life; that is, that they have been incorporated within the Soviet Union and there is no foreseeable chance, beyond a third world war, of those 3 states coming out of the Soviet Union. [More…]
We are not welcoming the fact that these countries have been incorporated in the Soviet Union. [More…]
No, they are merely asking us to carry on with a farce or a fraud and to say to the people of the 3 states: ‘De jure we do not recognise your incorporation inside the Soviet Union, but de facto we do.’ [More…]
There has to be some recognition of the fact that whether we like it or not or anyone else likes it or not, or whether it is just or unjust- and I believe it is unjust and I do not like it- Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have been incorporated into the Soviet Union. [More…]
To continue to say they are not part of the Soviet Union while the Soviet Government and I daresay a majority of the Soviet people believe that they are is something which lessens opportunities for bringing about peaceful settlements with the Soviet Union, and peaceful settlements with the Soviet Union are essential. [More…]
Today’s variation to this theme goes something like this: The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) is contemplating a visit to the Soviet Union at the end of this year. [More…]
Accordingly, for some strange reason which is not immediately apparent to me, it is therefore necessary for him to toady to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Despite everything that he had undergone in the Soviet Union, Solzhenitsyn still regarded it quite clearly as a severe punishment to be expelled from the Soviet Union. [More…]
Pasternak was a man who also suffered from the repressive regime of the Soviet Union. [More…]
To suggest that anybody is in possession of evidence that he was kidnapped by the secret police and that our humane, tolerant, non-fanatical Minister for Foreign Affairs whose record will stand up to the epithets that I have attached to him was somehow acting as a stooge of the Soviet Union and went along with the idea of a kidnapping so that our Prime Minister would have a red carpet when he went to Moscow is in my view in the realm of spy fiction fantasy land. [More…]
That, I say, is supported by the evidence of the conduct, behaviour and literary works of men who have suffered, as presumably he had not suffered, at the hands of the regime in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I do not find it difficult to believe- as I said, I have no more positive evidence than honourable senators opposite have- and I do not find it at all incomprehensible that this man would have decided to go back to the Soviet Union of his own free will. [More…]
We on this side of the Senate do not in any way condone the horrors that have been perpetrated in the name of socialism in the Soviet Union. [More…]
We believe that it is possible to have a just society without the oppression that has been practised in the Soviet Union and we are not heard to condone the tyranny that is practised in that country on individuals or in Russia’s relationships with other countries. [More…]
When Nixon was in power it was all right to go along with the Soviet Union in respect of great issues in order to maintain a peaceful situation; but now it is wrong. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite want to attack the Soviet Union. [More…]
This is quite separate from the argument which I have put against the Opposition’s claim in respect of the American alliance and what has been done to obtain a peaceful relationship with the Soviet Union. [More…]
If somebody did that to a visitor from Australia in the Soviet Union honourable senators would be up in arms, would they not? [More…]
If anybody stopped me from leaving the Soviet Union or China I know that I would expect my country to defend me. [More…]
This Government is unable to assist the thousands in Australia for whom honourable senators opposite are crying crocodile tears today, unless they recognise that the authorities controlling the areas concerned today are the authorities of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Later in the debate Senator James McClelland deplored the fact that the Baltic states had been taken over by the Soviet Union. [More…]
All day long Government senators have deplored the fact that the Soviet Union had taken over the Baltic states. [More…]
I do not shrink from the full meaning of the words ‘callous’ and ‘cruel’, for along with other honourable senators and honourable members I have gathered an appreciation of the treatment and policies of the Soviet Union in relation both to individuals and nations and of the intrigue which it employs. [More…]
I have a report that as late as the Monday morning Ermolenko indicated that he did not want to live in the Soviet Union because in his own words, as I read the report, Australia was a better place in which to grow up. [More…]
But the Government’s decision to recognise the incorporation of the Baltic states in the Soviet Union is the most extraordinary decision I have heard of for many years. [More…]
It is no wonder that when the event took place I described the decision to recognise the incorporation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union as cruel and unnecessary. [More…]
Most serious of all, the Government has shown its own attitude to the tragic events which led to the dominance of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Some 2,000 people will assemble in Canberra to give effect to their own feelings in this matter and to let the Government know how strongly they feel about the Government’s decision to recognise the incorporation of the Baltic states in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Here is an admission by the Government that the Soviet Union is acting against the charter of the United Nations. [More…]
Here is an admission by the Government that the Soviet Union is acting against the charter of the United Nations dealing with the self-determination of people. [More…]
It is also an admission by the Government that the Soviet Union is acting against its own constitution which provides, amongst other things, that every union republic shall have the right freely to secede from the U.S.S.R. [More…]
Surely the Minister for Foreign Affairs was not serious when he said that the recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union will facilitate consular activities, particularly in relation to the reunion of families. [More…]
The policy of the present Australian Government is that while not formally recognising the incorporation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union, it must be cognisant of the de facto situation and deal with the government which has effective control of the territory in question. [More…]
Suggestions were made that Australia would get votes from the Soviet Union, other countries of the Soviet bloc or the developing countries in support of Senator Willesee ‘s candidature for President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1975 as a quid pro quo for the Australian Government’s de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic republics into the Soviet Union. [More…]
We believe that the conduct which the Minister has shown with regard to these 2 events- the recognition of the Baltic states’ forceful incorporation into the Soviet Union and the attitude which the Government adopted with regard to the surreptitious departure of the young Russian musician, Ermolenko, from Australia- is such that the Minister has a political and personal responsibility which he cannot escape. [More…]
Affairs in the Senate on 1 5 August, in relation to a statement made by the Minister in the Senate on 13 August that Australia did consult a number of friendly countries beforehand to inform them of its intention to review its position on the question of the de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union, without notice: [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union, it has been announced from Moscow that the Australian Government is now recognizing them as part of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
Whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
To this day we have been given no adequate reason- there has been no attempt to give any reason, as my recollection serves me- why before 18 May 1974 the Government adopted an attitude that there would be no change from the traditional policy which successive governments had followed, and why in the middle of July a decision was taken that the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union would be recognised by this Government. [More…]
What is your Government ‘s policy regarding the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia- are you going to continue not to recognise the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union or should we expect a policy change on this matter? [More…]
At that time Australia gave de facto recognition to the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union. [More…]
The policy of the present Australian Government is that while not formally recognising the incorporation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union, it must be cognisant of the de facto situation and deal with the government which has effective control of the territory in question. [More…]
The policy of the present Australian Government is that while not formally recognising the incorporation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union, it must be cognisant of the de facto situation and deal with the government which has effective control of the territory in question. [More…]
The policy of the present Australian Government is that while not formally recognising the incorporation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union, it must be cognisant of the de facto situation and deal with the government which has effective control of the territory in question. [More…]
Whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
I am not talking about the very massive persecutions of Jews which still occur in the Soviet Union but which have been lessened somewhat through the force of world opinion and through the influence of countries which are prepared to express hostility to this type of action because the Soviet Union is sensitive to world opinion. [More…]
And whereas the present Australian Government, by recognition de jure of the Soviet Union ‘s aggression and occupation of the independent States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, imposed on Australian Citizens of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian origin and on all their descendants a foreign citizenship of the aggressor country the USSR, [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Is the Government able to confirm the report given to the Assembly of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation by that Organisation’s military committee that the Soviet Union now possesses 48 ballistic missile submarines with another 15 under construction and that it has recently introduced 3 new missile systems which, if fully developed, would give what is termed in the report a tremendous superiority in warheads and throw weight? [More…]
Latvia and Estonia- by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
And whereas the present Australian Government, by recognition de jure ofthe Soviet Union’s aggression and occupation of the independent States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, imposed on Australian citizens of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian origin and on all their descendants a foreign citizenship ofthe aggressor country the U.S.S.R. [More…]
As the Prime Minister has referred to Australia’s relations with China as most closely representing Australia’s new aspirations and in view of the Government’s de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic States in the Soviet Union, does the Minister agree with the statement of China ‘s opposition to the Soviet incorporation of the Baltic States? [More…]
That whereas the Governments of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia- by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [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…]
It is true that the Australian Meat Board has entered into a contract to sell 40 000 tonnes of beef to the Soviet Union, with an option on an additional 20 000 tonnes. [More…]
As I understand it, Mr Ermolenko wanted to return to the Soviet Union at the time. [More…]
He said that he was ‘grateful to Mr Whitlam’ for having helped his son to return to the Soviet Union since only in this way could the family have been reunited overseas. [More…]
This is part of a general story relating to support of $3m which was made available to the Australian Meat Board to give a better price level for the recent contract negotiated with 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 with associating China in a wider detente. [More…]
He said that the call by the Soviet Union to withdraw all foreign troops from Vietnam was in the interests neither of South Vietnam nor of Australia. [More…]
-He did not attack the Soviet Union; he did not mention China. [More…]
He may argue that the two sets of circumstances are not comparable, but the principle sets out very clearly that in that case he was recognising that Soviet Union dominance of the Baltic States was an acceptable fact. [More…]
People who have apparently never heard of the schism between the Chinese and the Soviet Union, people who are supposed to be speaking responsibly on foreign affairs, talk about our using our influence or whatever it is with the Russians and the Chinese to stop the war in Vietnam. [More…]
If we were to suffer the calamity of having the people opposite in government in this country, if we were to have the calamity of the people in charge in the US being as uneducated, as illtutored, and as unsophisticated as are the people who purport to speak for the Opposition here, we would have a repetition of what occurred in Cuba, which, after what was a non-communist revolution, not even originally supported by the Communist Party- the revolution of Fidel Castro- was driven by the actions of people, whose understanding and sophistication were no greater than those of the people we hear opposite, into becoming one of the most loyal satellites of the Soviet Union. [More…]
We’ve seen what political control has done through manipulation of the media in Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union. [More…]
In addition there was a massive buildup of the most sophisticated war equipment supplied mainly by the Soviet Union. [More…]
But what about the frustration of the South Vietnamese who had full knowledge that North Vietnam in complete breach of the agreements was being armed in a massive way by the Soviet Union and the People ‘s Republic of China? [More…]
The Prime Minister made some vague reference to the United States of America in one of his statements but completely ignored the Soviet Union. [More…]
One of the first papers that was issued by the United States Administration concerning its intervention in Vietnam referred to the weapons that had been captured from the forces fighting for the so-called Vietcong, the National Liberation Front, and only 2V4 per cent of those weapons were manufactured in a country with a communist government, such as the Soviet Union, China or Czechoslovakia. [More…]
In the light of the Prime Minister’s reluctance to discuss the Baltic States issue when he was in the Soviet Union in 1974, will the Minister for Foreign Affairs, through diplomatic channels, undertake to make representations to Soviet authorities for the release of the 5 Lithuanian prisoners of conscience- S. Zukauskas, A. Sakalauskas. [More…]
There is no doubt that we have made it completely clear not only to the Soviet Union but also to every other country that the loss of civil liberties or the gaolings which are not really acceptable in other countriesI speak, quite generally now- make for difficulties in our relationships with those countries because the Australian public who are used to a form of British justice do not accept these things. [More…]
It dealt with a possible nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States, and a stage was reached where only about 5 people were left. [More…]
I only wanted to make the point that the present Australian Government, with its mature relationship in dealing with London, Washington, the Soviet Union and other lesser powers, has proved what can be achieved by conciliation. [More…]
He has made the point that if there is to be a nuclear brawl between the 2 super powers of China and the Soviet Union we could be caught up in the action. [More…]
Of course we advanced a similar argument that if there was a trigger-happy American admiral and something went wrong and there was a response from the Soviet Union, we could have been embroiled. [More…]
As far we know, permission has not been sought from or given by the Soviet authorities for the establishment of an Amnesty International chapter in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union regards matters such as these as falling within its domestic jurisdiction. [More…]
Following the suspension on 22 March of efforts by Dr Kissinger, the United States Secretary of State, to bring about a second-stage agreement between Egypt and Israel, the Egyptian Government has formally requested the two Co-Chairmen of the Geneva Conference on the Middle East, the United States and the Soviet Union, to re-convene the Conference as soon as possible. [More…]
I have seen the news item referred to by the honourable senator and, as one who has had occasion to criticise the Soviet Union for its restrictions on international freedom, I welcome the evidence of a loosening of such restrictions. [More…]
The Soviet Union is one of our major customers and certainly the IWS has been giving technical and commercial advice to the Soviet Union for a number of years. [More…]
I can assure the honourable senator that no financial assistance is involved other than the cost to the IWS of conveying that technical and commercial advice to the Soviet Union. [More…]
-Yes, the Australian Wheat Board has negotiated a new sale to the Soviet Union of 250 000 tonnes of wheat. [More…]
There was purely an option available to the Soviet Union to buy an additional quantity of Australian beef. [More…]
That has caused a glut and that glut will continue because recent reports seem to indicate that the Soviet Union is suffering from drought conditions and that it has now developed a very substantial need for grain, including wheat, and other food commodities. [More…]
On the day of remembrance of the deportations without trial of the inhabitants of the Baltic countries, we, the undersigned ask the Senate to request the Government to revoke de jure recognition of the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania by the Soviet Union. [More…]
The prospects for the Australian crop are extremely good mainly, of course, because of the very large purchases by the Soviet Union in the last few weeks. [More…]
It is always the case that when the Soviet Union becomes a major buyer on the world market it forces the prices up. [More…]
Was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’ Ambassador to Australia accurately reported as saying in August 1975 that the Soviet Union did not have any significant naval presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
1 ) Reports that the Soviet Ambassador to Australia said at a Press conference on 6 August that the Soviet Union did not have ‘any significant naval presence in the Indian Ocean ‘ have been brought to my attention. [More…]
In view of that situation, quite obviously the Soviet Union will be involved in massive purchases of grain, and this must affect the areas and priorities of her demand. [More…]
Does not this Government accept that the surreptitious activities of the KGB are a threat to Australian security and that the KGB has been proven to be the Soviet Union’s effective means of committing espionage abroad, subverting public officials, plotting sabotage and assassinations and promoting strikes, demonstrations, riots and other subversive activities? [More…]
It is also a major area of struggle between the Soviet Union and China, and today it is becoming an area of increasing struggle between those 2 communist powers. [More…]
They further highlight my statement that this is one of the major areas of struggle between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China and that it is an area of increasing struggle between those 2 communist powers. [More…]
Last night I referred to the Indian Ocean as being a major area of conflict between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
So the Soviet Union now has the ability to reinforce its Indian Ocean fleet rapidly if it needs to do so. [More…]
The Soviet Union with its agents or lackeys, as it used to refer to anybody who supported the United States, has taken over Angola. [More…]
It is the first time in history that the Soviet Union has been able or willing to exert its influence in areas far removed from the Soviet Union. [More…]
Angola will provide the Soviet Union with naval and air facilities in the South Atlantic from which it could threaten the Cape route. [More…]
Any move to decrease the influence or will of the United States can only create a decided imbalance in favour of the Soviet Union, and one about which we should be concerned. [More…]
With their own national aspirations they will go to the brink, some with China and others with the Soviet Union, and then they will stop. [More…]
I know that there are massive diplomatic offensives by the Soviet in those countries and within particular institutions to get their members to go to the Soviet Union to learn their system of totalitarianism. [More…]
There has never been any attempt to place a ban on the Soviet Union because of certain acts, whether they be in Hungary or Czechoslovakia. [More…]
As Senator Sim said, if there happen to be organisations which painstakingly, as the record discloses, send their agents into the countries of the free world to promote the interests of the Soviet Union, its satellites and Communist China, you just ignore what they might be doing because they are not matters for debate. [More…]
Labor initiatives between 1972 and 1975, which had resulted in a relationship of trust and confidence between Australia and other littoral states of the Indian Ocean, have been replaced by a policy which seeks to ignore, indeed more accurately to reverse, the passage of time in order to return to the futile era of confrontation between the major powers- the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
In place of Labor’s reasoned approach to the question, which sought strenuously to encourage mutual restraint in military commitment to the region by the United States and the Soviet Union, one now discovers that the present Government has adopted the curious position of both encouraging the United States to increase its arms strength in the region while at the same time asking that the super powers display mutual restraint. [More…]
Of course, he is one who denigrates the Soviet Union on many occasions; yet on the other hand he expects the Soviet Union to buy our primary produce. [More…]
We equally share, though for different reasons, concern at the developments in China and the Soviet Union, their impact on each of us and their impact on the region in which Australia and Japan are. [More…]
-The Commonwealth Government implemented its decision to withdraw de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union soon after its assumption of office in December 1 975. [More…]
We have known for some time about problems with civil liberties inside the Soviet Union. [More…]
Those documents have been brought out and published by Amnesty International, and they set out in detail facts about a number of the prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whilst it is not absolutely relevant to the discussion of these Bills, it is interesting to notice that in the Soviet Union, a country that produces a massive amount of wheat, 32 per cent of the population is engaged in producing wheat. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister seen a report of comments by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic’s Ambassador to Australia in August 1 975 that the Soviet Union did not have any significant naval presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Is the Minister aware also that, in the period since Solzhenitsyn ‘s release from the Soviet Union, the Australian Broadcasting Commission has screened only one interview with Solzhenitsyn, despite the fact that several other interviews were available and at least one was offered by the BBC to the ABC but was rejected as not suitable? [More…]
Will he ascertain also who made that decision and whether any pressure was applied by the Soviet Union on the ABC similar to the pressure applied without success to the BBC? [More…]
It is my understanding that what Senator Harradine has said regarding the attempt by Sir Charles Curran to visit the Soviet Union and the refusal of that visit is true. [More…]
The difference is explained by the fact that at the time of the takeover of West New Guinea Indonesia was very close to the Soviet Union, and the PKI- the Indonesian Communist Party- - exerted strong influence over President Sukarno. [More…]
At that time in 1962 there was an arms deal between the Soviet Union and Indonesia. [More…]
They were silent because in 1962 the Soviet Union supported the Indonesian takeover of West New Guinea. [More…]
That declaration of attitude by the Soviet Union and by the Communist Party of Australia had the effect of signalling to the Left that it should either support the takeover of West New Guinea or turn a blind eye to it. [More…]
However, in the present circumstances the Soviet Union opposes the Indonesian takeover of East Timor, and only recently when Mr Fry left Australia to speak at the United Nations in support of Fretilin the Canberra Times reported on 13 April that the Soviet Embassy in Canberra offered him all possible assistance while in New York. [More…]
But where were the Miscellaneous Workers’ Union and its organisers in 1962 when a pro- Communist Indonesia was taking over West New Guinea with the support of the Soviet Union and the support of the Communist Party of Australia? [More…]
In March the New South Wales branch, under Ray Gietzelt ‘s leadership, was sponsoring the visit to Australia of a delegation from the Soviet Union which was actively backing the takeover at that time of West New Guinea by the Indonesians. [More…]
But like the Miscellaneous Workers Union, the Amalgamated Engineering Union in its journals during the period of the Indonesian paratroop landing on West New Guinea was busy following the Soviet line and also was busy feting delegations from the Soviet Union which in turn was supporting the Indonesian takeover of West New Guinea. [More…]
Who has ever seen anyone happy in the Soviet Union? [More…]
At that time the balance was about 80 to one in Australia’s favour and against the Soviet Union. [More…]
Disagreement between Congress and Executive has impaired the capacity of America- the only power which 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…]
It means that Australia will involve itself and take sides in the dispute that exists between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
Dr Kissinger went on to talk about the efforts that had been made in order to reach some measure of agreement with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Many incipient crises with the Soviet Union have been contained or settled without ever reaching the point of public disagreement. [More…]
The process of detente- and it is a process- looks toward a saner and safer relationship between us and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Now, presumably, we are to be gobbled- up by the Soviet Union. [More…]
The speech deals also with the increased military strength of the Soviet Union which, as I said earlier none of us wishes to see. [More…]
Why does the Soviet Union desire military power far greater than any needed to secure its frontiers or the expanded frontiers embraced by the Warsaw powers? [More…]
There is an entirely different tone to the attitude of the Soviet Union than there is to that of China and that is quite clearly the intention. [More…]
I do not know where Chinese warships happen to be but if the information given to us by the Research Section of the Parliamentary Library is any indication, the countries with the biggest naval force in the Indian Ocean are France and Iran rather than the Soviet Union or the United States. [More…]
The Soviet Union has a trade balance of about $35 billion, twice the size but not very great in view of the vastness of its own economy. [More…]
The Soviet Union has 3 avenues by which it can transport goods and maintain its communications from one end of Russia to the other. [More…]
Geoffrey Jukes in his book which is called Soviet Union in Asia makes the point that before the Suez Canal was reopened 25 per cent of all merchant shipping around the Cape of Good Hope was Russian shipping. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Prime Minister whether he is aware of the fact that the Soviet Union is currently seeking a very large sum on the international money market to finance further purchases of beef and wheat. [More…]
Is he also aware that the Australian beef industry desperately needs an order similar in quantity to that obtained from the Soviet Union last year? [More…]
One of the first acts of this Australian Government when it was officially elected was to reject the incorporation ofthe Baltic States into the Soviet Union because of the rights of the people. [More…]
Yet we retain friendly relations with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Because of the encouragement of the Soviet Union and the intervention of Cuban troops, the present regime- the Angolan Popular Liberation Movement- has been established. [More…]
I realise that Dr Castro has announced- I understand this from a Press statement last week and I have substantiated this by checking with other sources- that many of the 15 000 Cuban troops in Angola, who have acted in my opinion as proxies for the Soviet Union, will be withdrawn in 2 years. [More…]
Prisoners in the Soviet Union [More…]
The second is the statement by the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, that he would be happy to sell uranium to the Soviet Union and would accept guarantees by the Soviet Union that it would not be used for nuclear weapons. [More…]
The third is the frequent statements by the Prime Minister that the Soviet Union constitutes a threat to the security of Australia and the peace of this region. [More…]
They relate to information which I have obtained and brought back from the Soviet Union in the course of a trip I made some two or three weeks ago. [More…]
They relate to the position of dissidents in the Soviet Union and to the Soviet’s action in regard to the Helsinki Agreement to which it is a signatory. [More…]
In the course of obtaining this information I was travelling in the Soviet Union after discussions with the Amnesty organisation, I being a member of the executive of the Parliamentary group here in Canberra. [More…]
It was at the suggestion of members of Amnesty International headquarters that people who are in a position to do so ought to make visits to those who are struggling in the Soviet Union to obtain human rights and to ensure their enforcement. [More…]
I certainly recommend to other members of the Senate and to people generally that they go and see the situation in that country and particularly to give some solidarity and support to those who are endeavouring legally and openly to proclaim the need for human rights and civil liberties in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I found that there was difficulty of contact, even in Leningrad, because the general position is that those who are involved in human rights groups in the Soviet Union do not have a telephone any longer. [More…]
This is a common feature of those who have taken rather outstanding parts in this human rights struggle in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Although various organisations in the Soviet Union would readily employ him, they are not permitted to do so. [More…]
It has existed for some years and has produced documents, one of which is The Chronicle of Current Events which is not allowed to be distributed in the Soviet Union. [More…]
These organisations support those of their members and others who are prosecuted on the sorts of charges that are prevalent in the Soviet Union- slander of the Soviet system and like charges. [More…]
Among these are the prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is a committee that has been formed this year for the implementation of the undertakings of the Soviet Union under the Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
In addition to these groups there are many other groups in the Soviet Union, known to the [More…]
The Helsinki group is concerned with the obligation of the Soviet Union under the Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
They are aware, of course, as we all are, that under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights obligations are imposed upon the Soviet Union to carry out and to enforce rights of freedomrights of freedom of movement, rights to leave the country, rights to have a nationality and many other rights. [More…]
In addition to this the Soviet Union was one of the signatories a year ago to the Helsinki Agreement, an agreement signed by 35 nations, mostly in Europe but including the United States of America and the Soviet Union. [More…]
In some documents I read in the Soviet Union that were produced by the Government on the celebration of its first anniversary, no reference was made to the human rights provisions of the Agreement. [More…]
The Helsinki group has analysed the failure of the Soviet Union to implement in any way the duties it has undertaken under the Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
I brought from the Soviet Union a document written in the Russian language. [More…]
Any attempts to create an association independent of the leadership of the KPSS (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) are persecuted. [More…]
The setting of the same trend was also helped by different factors, such as the preparation for the conduct of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the cessation of war in Vietnam by the U.S.A., war in Angola which had begun after the European Conference, large failures in the agricultural economy of the U.S.S.R. which brought about massive purchases of grain from abroad, and other factors. [More…]
Let us now bring the list of the dissidents repressed ate] the Soviet Union had signed the Final Act (we are convinced that this is only a small part of those who were subject to repression at this time). [More…]
In the course of the last year, there was an increased frequency in campaigns in the central and local press, against people wishing to leave the Soviet Union. [More…]
This directly contradicts Conventions Nos 87, 98 and 111, relating to the rights of association, which have been ratified by the Soviet Union. [More…]
That document is one that I believe honourable senators and others who read it will find striking for it is in strong language and was signed by 9 citizens of the Soviet Union who have endeavoured to publicise the material in it. [More…]
These 9 men have prepared this document in which they set out, among other things, the conclusion that, the Soviet Union does not intend to carry out its international obligations relating to the human rights of man and refer, to Article VII. [More…]
While he has been there another man whose name I have brought to Amnesty from the Soviet Union is Pavel Bashkirov a man who travelled to Jakutsk to see the exiled Amnesty secretary. [More…]
This is by all accounts the way in which I can best help these people who are fighting for liberty in the Soviet Union. [More…]
In the Soviet Union today many thousands of people are persecuted because of their convictions, both by judicial and extrajuridical means; for their religious beliefs and for their desire to bring their children up in the spirit of religion; for reading and circulating- often to only a few acquaintances- literature which is unwelcome to the State, but which in accordance with ordinary democratic practice is absolutely legitimate, e.g. [More…]
Material is available and documents have been produced by Amnesty over the last few years indicating that, in the Soviet Union, there are 330 prisons or prison camps to their knowledge where political prisoners are known to be incarcerated. [More…]
The number of prisoners is not known with any exactitude, but it is believed that, with the inclusion of religious groups, there are something like 10 000 prisoners of this typeprisoners of conscience- remaining in the Soviet Union. [More…]
In conclusion, I wish to say that I believe there is an obligation on those of us who work in a free community, whether we be members of Parliament or businessmen or ordinary tourists, who have the opportunity to go not only to the Soviet Union but also to other countries in the world where this type of persecution is going on. [More…]
I do not expect to have the opportunity of going to the Soviet Union again, but I do hope that others will make use of such an opportunity to highlight the fact that these people live in a state of injustice. [More…]
I hope that all honourable senators will read the document which has been incorporated and will take an ever-increasing interest in the concern being shown for prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union. [More…]
As someone who has been to the Soviet Union, and especially to Estonia, to look for some of the problems referred to by Senator Missen, I listened to his speech with a great deal of interest. [More…]
However, I might suggest that recent statements by the Leader of his Party probably did not help him in his undertaking while he was in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that, in the period since Solzhenitsyn ‘s release from the Soviet Union, the Australian Broadcasting Commission has screened only one interview with Solzhenitsyn, despite the fact that several other interviews were available and at least one was offered by the BBC to the ABC but was rejected as not suitable? [More…]
Who made that decision and was any pressure applied by the Soviet Union on the ABC? [More…]
Under the agreement between Australia and the USSR, the fares to and from the Soviet Union would be paid by the Australian Government, through the Department of Foreign Affairs, and accommodation and expenses in the USSR would be met by the Soviet Government. [More…]
By way of preface, I point out to the Minister that it is claimed that the United States of America has the nuclear capacity to destroy the Soviet Union 35 times and that the Soviet Union has the nuclear capacity to destroy the United States 15 times. [More…]
ls the Minister aware that the Communist Party has adopted double standards on the matter of self-determination, having refused to support this right for the West New Guineans at the time of the takeover of West New Guinea by the Sukarno regime, which was then in close contact with the Soviet Union, a communist country? [More…]
Certainly if India were compared with China or the Soviet Union or, for that matter, with its neighbour Pakistan or with the Philippines or Spain or most of the countries in Latin America, India indeed is a very democratic country and it probably still ranks amongst the most democratic countries in the world. [More…]
Those imprisoned cover a whole gamut of political parties, from the Swatantra Party, the conservative private enterprise party; through the Jana Sangh, a very right-wing Hindu communal party; through the Socialist Party of India; through the Congress (O)- the Congress Party (Organisation), the Opposition Congress Partythrough to the Communist Party (Marxist), a party which broke with the Soviet Union some years ago. [More…]
The only political parties which are supporting the Congress Party of the Government in the actions that it is taking are the Communist Party of India, the pro-Moscow Communist Party- without trying to judge why it is doing these things, I would imagine that the foreign policy interests of the Soviet Union would play some part in it- and the Moslem League, a small communal party representing the Moslems who apparently, for whatever reason, do not wish to become involved in a serious disagreement with the Government. [More…]
I recall discussing with the head of Amnesty International only a few weeks ago while I was in the Soviet Union the situation in which people who believe in democracy in that country found themselves. [More…]
The point was made to me that in fact they may be a very small minority in the Soviet Union but also that those who believe in democratic rights are now in a minority in the world. [More…]
In attempt to break the revolution, numbers of Hungarians, including some women, were deported to the Soviet Union and some may not have been returned to their homes. [More…]
A massive armed intervention by one Power on the territory of another with the avowed intention of interfering in its internal affairs must, by the Soviet Union’s own definition of aggression, be a matter of international concern. [More…]
That today, twenty years later, Soviet troops are still located in Hungary and the Soviet Union exercises undue influence over the affairs of that country. [More…]
Uranium is being mined on increasing scale in the U.S.A., Canada, South Africa, Niger, France, Gabon, Soviet Union and many other places . [More…]
The U.K., U.S.A., Soviet Union, France, Canada, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, West Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Holland, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland and many others are investing massively in nuclear power. [More…]
There was one in the Soviet Union the other day. [More…]
That Convention was signed by the Government of Australia in 1974 and has been signed by a number of other countries including Canada, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. [More…]
We find that the major powers such as the United States of America, Japan and probably the Soviet Union regard as important free and unhindered access to certain areas such as the Arabian Gulf, Indonesia, Malacca and the Sunda and Lombok Straits. [More…]
I think that honourable senators will find that what Representative Aspin puts forward- he has not been contradicted- shows quite the contrary, that is, that the U.S.A. still has overwhelming preponderance over the Soviet Union in both nuclear and conventional weapons. [More…]
In saying this I am not here as any sort of apologist for the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union has itself to blame for its actions in Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and its lunatic meddling in the Middle East where not only has it been immoral but also incompetent and has finished up without a single friend anywhere in the Middle East after having antagonised everybody and having been the original country to move the resolution in the United Nations, it having been moved by Mr Gromyko, that Israel ought to be established. [More…]
Great power has never improved anybody and I think the present people who occupy high positions in the Soviet Union are living embodiments of that adage. [More…]
They come back to this new threat which is the threat of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Once you have the U.S., in opposition to the democratic majority in the U.S. Senate, if it were to take the advice of this Government, establish what are euphemistically described here as some modest installations in Diego Garcia, that would be the surest way of ensuring that the Soviet Union would be in the Indian Ocean as well. [More…]
After all this discussion about the super powers that we have in this document, does anybody seriously believe that one super power can go into the Indian Ocean in the way in which the U.S. has already gone-through its installations at North West Cape for example, which this Government wants it to add to by establishing a base in Diego Garcia- without inviting the Soviet Union to come into the Indian Ocean? [More…]
The Indian Ocean is no more the property of the U.S. than it is of the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is closer to the Soviet Union than it is to the U.S. [More…]
If the U.S. is to be brought into the Indian Ocean then, as night follows day, the Soviet Union is going to build up its resources and seek to do those things which are deplored here- influence governments along the littoral of the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Neither the Soviet Union, the U.S. nor anybody else should be allowed in there. [More…]
The Indian Ocean is not within the immediate range of interest of either the U.S. or the Soviet Union. [More…]
For instance, we have not sought to do what I understand the Soviet Union nas done. [More…]
It has raised something in the vicinity of $36 billion worth of long-term loan money in the Soviet Union for capital and consumer goods. [More…]
This has enabled the Soviet Union to devote enormous amounts of its capacity to the production of aircraft and tanks and to the training of soldiers. [More…]
In fact they said that if a conflict took place in the Atlantic, both the Soviet Union and the United States would pull whatever ships they had out of the Indian Ocean and return them to the Atlantic. [More…]
No matter what we have to say about that now, because the United States took this low posture on the Soviet Union’s stance in Berbera, Diego Garcia as a base is practically completed and we do have a super power buildup in the Indian Ocean whether we like it or not. [More…]
Despite the Prime Minister’s best efforts, relations with the Soviet Union remain at least correct. [More…]
As I have said, these relations with the Soviet Union are not as previously both under Labor governments and under Liberal-National Country Party governments as cordial or friendly as perhaps they should be. [More…]
The Chinese Government would question the wisdom of providing large-scale support for insurgency in Malaysia for fear of alienating the established government and driving it maybe further towards the Soviet Union to the disadvantage of China. [More…]
We do not know whether at the moment China is concentrating on its domestic problems or whether the Chinese have decided that because of a dispute within the communist parties of South-East Asia they can rely upon them to follow the correct MarxistLeninist line and not turn more and more to the Soviet Union. [More…]
As has been pointed out, the same aims and objectives apply to the Chinese as apply to the Soviet Union and none of these is in our interests. [More…]
There is a competition between the Soviet Union and China which is a matter of concern for the countries of the ASEAN region. [More…]
The fear is that, if the United States regards South East Asia as an area of low priority, the only two major powers left to compete are the Soviet Union and China, without the balancing effect of the United States. [More…]
I think it was either Senator Scott or Senator Sir Magnus Cormack who said that detente did not mean that the Soviet Union was not going to support wars of national liberation. [More…]
The Soviet Union itself does not claim that they come within the umbrella of detente yet such wars could be one of the more destabilising influences, particularly in the Indian Ocean region. [More…]
A lot of threats of a similar kind were uttered in July 1976 by the Prime Minister in an attempt to cultivate in Australia the fear of some invasion, whether it be by the Soviet Union or some mythical power about which we have never heard. [More…]
It was only after the Vietnam war that we found people like Malcolm Fraser, the western district grazier with all his prejudices and class concepts, attempting to raise- contrary to his own Defence Minister and Foreign Minister- the concept of a threat from the Soviet Union. [More…]
That is what he was doing in terms of his announced policies in relation to the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
This is despite the fact that the Soviet Union, U.S.A., U.K., Canada and N.Z. [More…]
While on that area the Minister went on to question the Government’s position in relation to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Minister is sincere in his efforts to ensure that the relationship between this country and the Soviet Union is not allowed to deteriorate simply because of the old cold war mentality of the 1950s. [More…]
Therefore there is a strong desire not only to maintain United States presencean investment presence as well as a political presence- in the region as a balancing factor but also to ensure that there is a growing Japanese interest in the region, again to balance the presence of the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China which in itself creates uncertainty and some degree of instability. [More…]
Preeminent amongst them, without any doubt, has been the growth of the People’s Republic of China in strength and in influence, and the dispute between the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
In fact, the division between China and the Soviet Union would probably be the most serious division which exists in international affairs at the present time. [More…]
If there is a danger of a third world war, a major conflict, taking place I do not think that any longer can we look at the disputes between the United States and the Soviet Union, between the so-called capitalist world and the so-called socialist world, or between the democratic world and the authoritarian world; we have to look at something about which we as members of the Australian Parliament can do very little, and that is the problem of the dispute between Peking and Moscow. [More…]
Another change which has taken place only recently has been the change in the role of the Soviet Union itself, or at least in the successful pursuit of that role. [More…]
For a long time we have been used to the fact that the Soviet Union has dominated in a quasi-colonial way a large number of countries in Eastern Europe. [More…]
That was the case, but the Soviet Union’s influence did not go very far beyond that field. [More…]
Despite the ideological differences which are supposed to exist between the policies of Colonel Gaddafi, a man held in reverence in some quarters, and the Soviet Union, the fact remains that there are various very close relations between Colonel Gaddafi and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The relationship which the Soviet Union has been able to build up with various Arab countries has extended its influence into areas where only 10 years ago it had virtually no influence whatsoever. [More…]
It has recognised that China is there, in the same way as the Soviet Union is there, and that we have to deal with both of those countries as governments which have their own interests and set out to pursue their own interests. [More…]
One can only hope that President Carter and his Administration will have the courage, the luck and the fortitude to carry through what they have said to be the objective of their Administration, that is, to pursue a policy in support of human rights wherever they may be throughout the world; that they will protest- and justifiably protest- about deprivation of civil liberties in the Soviet Union, in Czechoslovakia or Poland and will take action accordingly, provided it does not crash us into a third world war. [More…]
This is exactly the same argument as was put by the Soviet Union at the time of its intervention in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia in 1968 and which, as far as I understand, was rejected by honourable senators opposite. [More…]
We cannot allow all sorts of things to be going on in Czechoslovakia which might lead to another terrible attack on the Soviet Union’. [More…]
No doubt many people will say and many critics of Carter have said that he is damaging America’s interests by pursuing this human rights issue; that on the one hand he is damaging relations with the Soviet Union and, on the other hand, he is damaging relations with countries such as South Africa and even, in some more extreme cases, with Rhodesia- countries which apparently are essential to the American military defence. [More…]
Just recently Nkomo stated that the people who supported him- the people who were opposed to the Smith regime- were developing closer and closer relations with the Soviet Union. [More…]
It was because the Soviet Union was supporting them and the western countries, which talk about democracy, were not supporting them. [More…]
As democratic socialists, he and I agreed on a number of objections to the Soviet Union. [More…]
I asked him why he continued to work for the Soviet Union. [More…]
He said that whatever might be said about the Soviet Union or about how much better things were somewhere else, as far as their struggle with the fascist dictatorship in Lisbon was concerned, the fact was that the Soviet Union was supporting him, giving him a job and giving him assistance, whereas the Portuguese Government, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation would have arrested him at least and possibly would have executed him if he had set foot in his own country. [More…]
If we find when that conflagration takes place that the Soviet Union has always been the friend of the Africans and that those people who talk about democracy have been the friends of the Nazis, that will damage us very severely where it hurts us most. [More…]
Why have the people of Angola and Mozambique turned to the Soviet Union and China? [More…]
Why has Joshua Nkomo turned to the Soviet Union? [More…]
They are back again, out again, disappearing in planes on the border with the Soviet Union, returning from the grave, leading the cultural revolution and then becoming members of the Gang of Four. [More…]
It happened throughout the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I put it to the Senate that the best way of watching Australia’s interests is by seeking to achieve human rights in Timor, Chile, the Soviet Union, China and in every place in the world where they have been denied. [More…]
I think I am perfectly conscious of the possible intentions of the Soviet Union within the Indian Ocean. [More…]
In relation to the Soviet Union, while clearly we have some basic philosophical differences- as far as I can see we are likely to retain those philosophical differences- at least we can and must talk and we must recognise our points of view. [More…]
In the context of the Soviet Union I come to a brief thought and commentary on the Australian circumstance in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
guidelines, his sail or his flag towards achieving a decrease in military activity around the world and a rapport with the previous enemies of the United States, in particular the Soviet Union. [More…]
While the Soviet Union may have had more ships there over a longer period, it was clearly obvious that when the U.S. moved into the Indian Ocean with its massive forces, it could outgun, out-manoeuvre and out-everything the Soviet Union could put up. [More…]
Defence went so far as to state in most categorical terms that the Soviet Union posed a direct military threat to Australia. [More…]
However, the Minister has not taken into consideration statements continually made by political leaders in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and leaders of past and present United States Administrations that the present Western military strength is at least equal to and in many respects far superior to that of the Soviet Union and its allies. [More…]
No direct threat to Australia exists at present from the Soviet Union’s naval presence in the Indian Ocean, nor is there a threat of Soviet interdiction to the multi-national merchant fleets that ply their trade throughout the region. [More…]
Will it have to go to the Soviet Union? [More…]
The first is that the United States should agree to the proposal; secondly, that the Soviet Union should agree to the proposal; and, thirdly, that both super-powers then should completely remove all their forces, bases and any other facilities from the Indian Ocean. [More…]
He was able to gain the confidence of countries which were a little wary of the super powers, whether it was the United States, the Soviet Union or China. [More…]
With regard to fishing rights we went the other way and asked what the Soviet Union thought. [More…]
Nations, the technical knowledge of the Soviet Union and the Western world were united. [More…]
Is it a fact that five other nations, which include both the United States and the Soviet Union, believe that there should be no territorial claims by any individual nation under that agreement? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Communist Party has adopted double standards on the matter of self-determination, having refused to support this right for the West New Guineans at the time of the takeover of West New Guinea by the Sukarno regime, which was then in close contact with the Soviet Union, a communist country? [More…]
I know, however, that there are massive diplomatic offensives by the Soviet Union in those countries, and in particular institutions, to get members to go to the Soviet Union to learn their system of totalitarianism. [More…]
That was in direct contrast with conditions in the Soviet Union which has vast rural tracts. [More…]
Last year, the Soviet Union and all their allies in the Warsaw Pact, gave less than half as much aid as West Germany to the under-developed world. [More…]
Can the Minister ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the other place whether he can provide information on, firstly, the amount of foreign aid provided by the Soviet Bloc countries; secondly, the general conditions underlying this aid, tied or untied; and finally, whether the paper’s assertion is correct and whether it is not unusual to find a similar comparison between the Soviet Union and countries other than West Germany. [More…]
We ask the officials of the Soviet Union to take note of world feeling on this matter and to cease this abuse. [More…]
Another interesting fact is that included among those thirty-one members of the office of the High Commissioner for Refugees is none of those so-called humanitarian countries, led by the most humanitarian country in the world- the fatherland of the socialist forces in the world, the Soviet Union. [More…]
Firstly, why did those people not choose to go to the so called humanitarian countries led by the Soviet Union? [More…]
I invite you to go to the Soviet Union and look to the type of system which you are representing today because we are in fact talking about something quite different. [More…]
That should be of some importance to people who continually criticise the Soviet Union. [More…]
But, of course, in the immediate post- War world, the situation existed in which non-aligned countries or the emerging countries- whatever we call them- had the choice of following what was known as the Westera powers- the democracies- or those countries largely led by the Soviet Union or, to a lesser extent, China. [More…]
At the same time the Soviet Union had top officials there to argue on fishing rights. [More…]
-Yes, and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Does this refer to Mr Norm Gallagher, vice chairman of the MarxistLeninist Communist Party of Australia who would spend, I think, more time denouncing the revisionist, Zionist imperialists of the Soviet Union than he would denouncing the Master Builders’ Association? [More…]
Does it refer to Mr Halfpenny of the Communist Party of Australia, who is locked in bitter battles with the Soviet Union and its supporters in the Socialist Party of Australia? [More…]
Not only is the Government not prepared to debate unemployment as the problem that it is; it is back in the days of Dulles and back in Mr Bill Wentworth ‘s better years telling us about the menace of the Soviet Union and how Russian spies have caused the strikes in Melbourne. [More…]
We went to the Soviet Union and to China to seek new markets for wheat. [More…]
But now we find the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the people who sit behind him continually lambasting the Soviet Union and saying that it is a threat to this country. [More…]
Not so long ago, we heard the Prime Minister severely criticising the Soviet Union because of some activities taking place in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite use countries such as the Soviet Union and China for local political purposes. [More…]
But let us look at the position of the Soviet Union. [More…]
In 1974-75 the Soviet Union bought 1,122,861 tonnes of wheat. [More…]
I refer to the Soviet Union and the massive country of China. [More…]
Amongst those countries are the areas generally known as Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I understand that in the Soviet Union there is no advertising of alcohol or tobacco, yet both are used fairly extensively. [More…]
I have no objection to the investigation covering the Soviet Union providing it is also- and this is an argument which has been put quite often by honourable senators on the Government side- an investigation of human rights in a number of other countries. [More…]
Do we commence with the Soviet Union and proceed right across Eastern Europe? [More…]
In other words our Committee is now to engage in an investigation of human rights in the Soviet Union in particular. [More…]
For a period we may seem to be concentrating on the problems of human rights and political repression in Eastern European countries and in the Soviet Union. [More…]
We must consider the position of our country in relation to the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China and many other nations. [More…]
Certainly it is widening the investigation to the Soviet Union. [More…]
This is a matter about which I had a chance to obtain some information when in the Soviet Union last year. [More…]
I believe that there is an excellent reason for this Committee to examine this matter and human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Amnesty International deals with many different countries but it has concentrated considerably in the last year or two on the appalling situation of human rights not only of Jewish people but also of other religious and national groups in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Mr Wentworth is well known for his views on the Soviet Union. [More…]
I am concerned that the Soviet Union should be the one country designated as the subject of this inquiry. [More…]
I am interested to know whether the Committee intends to visit the Soviet Union to further its inquiries or whether it is going to conduct its inquiry within Australia. [More…]
If it is going to conduct this inquiry without leaving the shores of Australia and going to the Soviet Union, it will not come up with a right and proper report for a committee of its standing. [More…]
As Senator Georges pointed out, we ought to be conducting an inquiry into the human rights of many people who live in this country before we go far afield to such places as the Soviet Union. [More…]
Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, as Chairman of the Committee, has sought leave of the Senate to make a statement regarding the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, sub-committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I do not know whether he said there would be a further reference to the Committee on human rights in the Soviet Union and a withdrawal of the reference which is now before the Committee as is set out in the Notice Paper-that is, the reference regarding the status of Soviet jewry. [More…]
I do not know whether that reference has now been deleted or whether the Committee will carry on with it and the Committee will have a further reference dealing with this subject about which Senator Cormack spoke, namely, human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
-by leaveSenator Sir Magnus Cormack sought leave to make a statement relating to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Subcommittee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union under the business heading of presentation of papers. [More…]
The matter of Soviet jewry and the history of religious groups in the Soviet Union present a very sore and long-standing problem. [More…]
This used to be the case in the Soviet Union when the Russian Orthodox Church virtually dominated the activities and the life of the Russian people. [More…]
People in the Soviet Union have been very intolerant towards the revival of the Russian Orthodox religion; although while I was in the Soviet Union I attended a Russian Orthodox Church service not far outside Moscow. [More…]
There were pilgrims from different parts of the Soviet Union and people in a teaching school who were studying to become priests or rabbis- [More…]
It is perhaps a very ambitious project on the part of the Sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence to aspire to go to the Soviet Union, if that is what the Committee hopes to do. [More…]
After all, if the members of the Subcommittee do not go into the Soviet Union it will not get factual evidence. [More…]
I am well aware of allegations that have been made about civil rights and civil liberties in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I wonder what the reaction of this Parliament and this nation would be if the Soviet Union were to conduct an inquiry into the rights of Aborigines in Australia or Queenslanders at the present time in absentia. [More…]
However, for many reasons which are proper to the Committee’s consideration and which it has debated from time to time it came to the conclusion that this was an exclusive area of analysis and examination which should not be confined to the area of Soviet Jewry alone but should relate to the question of minorities inside the Soviet Union in the context of both the Declaration on Human Rights and the Helsinki Accord. [More…]
In the Helsinki Accord it was expressly agreed by the Soviet Union and other participants that matters relating to the freedom of individuals and minorities in countries which accorded in the signing of the Helsinki Agreement could be examined. [More…]
I merely remark that if the Soviet Union has something to hide- it may have something to hide- it should offer no objection. [More…]
so that the Omega station in (Norway) does not represent any additional convenience for Polaris and an equal inconvenience for Norway with regard to her relations -“<th the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Schei report also reveals that a senior Defence Department official recognised that Omega would ‘place a considerable stress on our relations- that is the Norwegians ‘ relations- with the Soviet Union’. [More…]
Regarding the realities of this case I would point out that any agreement to operate (Omega) for the US Navy, will place a considerable stress on our relations with the Soviet Union. [More…]
If one takes this into account and then considers the sort of military uses that will be served by Omega then one cannot avoid the conclusion that the Soviet Union will find ample grounds for objecting to a permanent station being established . [More…]
Is the Minister aware of any evidence that Russian technology is so far advanced over Western technology that nuclear waste can be disposed of safely in the Soviet Union whereas Western nuclear waste cannot be disposed of safely? [More…]
It would look at not only those countries with which in the past it was unfriendly- countries such as the Soviet Union or China- but also countries with which the United States had had friendly relations, countries such as Argentina and Uraguay. [More…]
On the one hand it said that it was quite improper to recognise de jure the incorporation of the Baltic States within the Soviet Union because they had been acquired by force; there was no act of self determination by the people of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia; they had been incorporated into the Soviet Union against their will. [More…]
Hard on the heels of that statement came another statement, that the Government recognised the incorporation of East Timor into Indonesia, an incorporation which took place in precisely the same way as the Soviet Union’s incorporation of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia into the Soviet Union. [More…]
If it is argued, as someone may well argue, that the Australian Labor Party while in office recognised the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union, I wish to make my own position clear, Mr President. [More…]
I hope that any future Australian Labor Party Government would see that no such de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union would continue under an Australian Labor Party Government. [More…]
Other meetings are taking place at which the United States and Britain appear to be taking the leading role as the foreign powers- this is not an occasion when the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other forces are involved- that are pressing for the so-called external settlement with the Patriotic Front in Rhodesia. [More…]
Our hopes for the future lie in the scientific exploration of the resources in that area, as I think I pointed out in the early part of my speech, and consideration must be given to upgrading our communications systems so that we can match other countries which currently, as is the case with the United States of America and the Soviet Union, do not recognise our claims to sovereignty over the areas in the Antarctic which we believe are our possessions. [More…]
We have territory there with New Zealand, the Soviet Union and the United States, and there are real questions as to who has the right to that territory. [More…]
It would be an offence for Australians to engage in or organise campaigns of liberationhowever one may care to term them, depending on one’s own predilections- on behalf of Ukrainians within the Soviet Union, Croatians within Yugoslavia or Africans within the Republic of South Africa. [More…]
But if Cuba, Tunisia and the Soviet Union were the three countries asked to supply the United Nations peace keeping force, which would be the likely composition of such a force within the next five years, and an Australian joined that peace keeping force, would that United Nations peace keeping force be an armed force of a government of a foreign country? [More…]
The Melbourne Herald reported him as accusing Australians of having an immature attitude to the Soviet Union and suggesting that his deal was very attractive to Australians. [More…]
Are there scientific arrangements with the Soviet Union in relation to these matters? [More…]
The Soviet Union has . [More…]
-Yesterday Senator Harradine asked me a question concerning a report in the London Daily Telegraph of an allegation that the Soviet Union had set up a secret training camp in Angola for 25,000 African guerrillas. [More…]
I have been advised by my colleague the Minister for Foreign Affairs that the Government is aware of the Press report carried by the London Daily Telegraph that the Soviet Union is establishing a training camp in Angola to train guerrillas for operations in Rhodesia, Namibia, and Zaire. [More…]
His Government gave de jure recognition to the Soviet Union over the Baltic states. [More…]
His Government recognised the sovereignty of the Soviet Union over the Baltic states. [More…]
Their leaders who opposed the Soviet Union are being gaoled, tortured and kept under the most inhuman circumstances. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party, this great defender of human rights and self-determination, bowed to the Soviet Union and recognised its sovereignty over the Baltic states. [More…]
But the fact of the matter is that even if the minimal estimate of Senator Wriedt is correct and 70,000 people have been killed in East Timor by the Indonesian militarists, if that figure is divided by ten and only 7,000 were killed in East Timor that is more than have been killed in all of the Eastern European countries in any confrontation with the Soviet Union since the end of the Second World War. [More…]
We hear constantly from members of the Parties opposite about action undertaken by the Soviet Union against Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and so on, but if one-tenth of the minimal estimate of the number of people killed in East Timor were accepted as the correct figure it would ten times outnumber the number killed in any Eastern European country. [More…]
I think the most appropriate thing to be said about that body is that it would be a real red letter day if the Congress ever found anything warlike for which to condemn the Soviet Union or its activities. [More…]
They are rightly suspicious of so-called peace organisations which act as propaganda arms of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Particularly in the case of the United States and the Soviet Union, and to a somewhat lesser extent other countries, summer teams of between 850 and 1,000 are engaged, and these numbers are substantially reduced when climatic conditions between March and October make operations hazardous, costly and minimally effective. [More…]
I believe that the $US 10 million referred to by the honourable senator concerns a joint project between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The United States has loaned to the Soviet Union a magnet weighing 45 tonnes and valued at approximately $US10 million. [More…]
The London Financial Times of 5 April 1978 contained a comment on a significant sale of sugar by the Soviet Union. [More…]
As used to be suggested in the 1 940s, he seems to believe that the conspiracy probably originated in the Soviet Union. [More…]
In the week’s adjournment of the Senate I hope Senator Kilgariff will contemplate the fact that the Soviet Union has exactly the same policy on the mining, export and use of uranium as the Fraser Government has. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that Yuri Orlov has been a leader of the Helsinki monitoring group, active in exposing the failure of the Soviet Union to comply with its human rights commitments under the Helsinki Pact? [More…]
Will the Government consider a proposal that Australia boycott those Games in view of these savage new attacks by the Soviet Union on free speech in that country. [More…]
The Government is aware that Dr Yuri Orlov has been a leader of a group in the Soviet Union monitoring the Helsinki agreement. [More…]
This includes adequate and timely briefings on strategic arms limitation talks between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
SALT is central to the achievement of stability in the nuclear balance and the relaxation of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. [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 of power there; 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…]
-On 8 June Senator Sim asked whether the Government had any information which would confirm reports that the Soviet Union has reactivated the naval base at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam. [More…]
Since the fall of Saigon in 1975 there have been persistent Press reports that the Soviet Union has sought Vietnamese permission to use the base. [More…]
The base facilities are used by the Vietnamese Navy, which receives training assistance from the Soviet Union. [More…]
However, the Government has no information which would confirm that there has been any substantial recent change in the Soviet presence at Cam Ranh Bay or that the Soviet Union has taken over Cam Ranh Bay as a naval base. [More…]
As Senator Mulvihill said earlier, the result of any armed uprising in Croatia would probably be the intervention of the Soviet Union with a resultant blood-bath. [More…]
Already the Soviet Union is interested and has made advances to some of the countries of the South Pacific. [More…]
The Chinese, of course, are interested too, if only for the reason that the Soviet Union is interested; the converse also applies. [More…]
The Government has also deplored the trials and sentencing of other courageous men and women associated with the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. [More…]
However, as far as the Government is concerned, we are conscious of the fact that the 1 980 Moscow Olympics will bring large numbers of athletes and other visitors from all over the world, thereby exposing the Soviet Union to greater contact with liberal values and standards of political rights. [More…]
I received an invitation from the Tasmanian Committee for Human Rights in the Soviet Union to speak at a protest meeting organised for last Sunday afternoon. [More…]
During the course of my remarks I made it quite clear that I was not going to engage in an anti-Soviet harangue, that I was concerned about human rights in all countries of the world, including the Soviet Union, and that I was opposed to any moves to stop the 1980 Olympic Games being held in Moscow. [More…]
This meeting declares that the systematic suspension of basic human rights by the Communist Regime in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is an offense against the whole of humanity. [More…]
Senator Wriedt detailed his belief that a boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games would not be in the interests of the resolution of the human rights question in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I refer, for example, to the second resolution which resolved that the committee- that is the Tasmanian Committee- write to the Government seeking its assurance that in the interests of democracy and of the suffering people concerned, it effectively raise at the United Nations and the International Labour Organisation on the human rights committee the systematic suppression of human rights by the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and the foreign domination and alien subjugation by the Soviet Union of the Baltic States. [More…]
The Soviet Union is already bringing politics into sport. [More…]
The Moscow Olympic Games will be used by the Soviet Union as a status symbol. [More…]
The honourable senator cannot compare repression in the Soviet Union with the situation in Queensland. [More…]
The situation in the Soviet Union is simply that there is complete totalitarian control by the State over the people and the denial of human rights in the Soviet Union is systematic to the communist system there and indeed in any communist system. [More…]
In the Soviet Union a system which denies fundamental human freedoms, the freedom of thought, the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, the freedom of association - [More…]
In the case of the Baltic States, the intention of the government of the day was to accord de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union. [More…]
It seems to have been largely concentrated on the problem in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Mr Wolff is reported to have interpreted this as meaning that the Chinese did not rule out the possibility of negotiating with the authorities on Taiwan and of co-operating, especially in regard to the Soviet Union. [More…]
It does seem a pity that the sub-committee of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence was not given a wider reference in relation to human rights than the single reference of human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Support for such a country by a government which joins in the hysteria about human rights in the Soviet Union can only be described as hypocritical in the extreme. [More…]
By way of comparison the Soviet Union spends of the order of 11-13 per cent of GNP on defence against 6 per cent by the United States. [More…]
We can be critical of what is happening in many countries, for example in Uganda, Kampuchea or the Soviet Union; but often we cannot do a great deal about those things. [More…]
Project Pyramider was described during the Boyce trial in Los Angeles in 1 977 as consisting of a number of satellites, controlled through Pine Gap, which would enable CIA agents in the field, including those in the Soviet Union and China, to communicate directly with CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. [More…]
Will he obtain information on the cost of electricity produced from nuclear power compared with power produced from oil and coal in the following countries: The United States, Canada, countries of the European Economic Community, Sweden, the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc countries? [More…]
Is it a fact that the Government has sought some guarantees from the Government of the Soviet Union relating to the personnel who are using or who may use that organisation as a cover for their activities? [More…]
I am sure that such a system would work because last year when I visited the Soviet Union I had a look at the dual system that operates there. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the nation has been occupied by the Soviet Union for 33 years? [More…]
The Vilyuysk River area of the Soviet Union now produces about 16 per cent of the world total. [More…]
Even the Soviet Union sells through the Central Selling Organisation. [More…]
In the current situation between the Soviet Union and China, both countries have spoken about punishing another nation. [More…]
On this occasion he is apparently on the side of China and is opposed to the Soviet Union. [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 relates not only to the extension of Vietnamese influence but 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…]
In terms of the so-called northern tier’ countries that border on the Soviet Union, the upheaval in Iran, following closely on the pro-Soviet coup in Afghanistan and accompanied by very shaky conditions in Turkey, creates an entirely new situation. [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…]
Again I think we are familiar with the background of the conflct that has ensued between these two countries but it has a particular relevance today in this case because of the pact which was formed last November between Vietnam and the Soviet Union and therefore because of the implications that flow from it. [More…]
There is a suggestion towards the end of the statement that this time the Soviet Union is the odd man out. [More…]
With the world as it is, it is foolish to do anything that will exacerbate that feeling of the Soviet Union being the odd man out amongst the great powers. [More…]
I hope that in this case the Government will not take any action which will help to force the Soviet Union into the same sense of isolation. [More…]
He went on to say how important it is that the Government maintain a balance in its relationship between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
The Soviet Union, which is certainly one of the two most powerful countries in the world, and China, which is at the very least one of the half dozen most powerful countries of the world, are on the very edge of armed conflict with states with which they were allied. [More…]
In the case of China it is the so-called Democratic Kampuchea and in the case of the Soviet Union it is Vietnam. [More…]
There is scant, if any, respect for human rights in the Soviet Union, or in China, or in Vietnam or in the previous and, I should imagine, present regimes in Cambodia. [More…]
The Soviet Union is heavily involved in Ethiopia, as is East Germany- in the same way as they were heavily involved, and probably still are, in Angola and Mozambique. [More…]
Certainly, the Soviet Union does not content itself with writing a letter to the editor if it does not like what is happening in Eritrea; it sends in troops. [More…]
I was later asked to undertake a second trip at the invitation of the governments of Romania, the Soviet Union and Hungary. [More…]
If that happens, we then have to look at the European situation, at the communist bloc countries and their association with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Yugoslavia, not being a member of the Warsaw Fact, would not be in that situation, but Yugoslavia has its own problems at present in the form of border disputes with one of the Soviet Union’s allies, Bulgaria. [More…]
This conflict marks the entry of Sino-Soviet rivalry into the politics of the region on a scale greater than the rivalry between those two powers in Africa, or that of the United States and the Soviet Union in other part of the world. [More…]
Some commentators still have not ruled out the possibility of a fullscale conventional war between China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union has 44 divisions, half of which are heavily armoured. [More…]
Although some newspapers say that the Soviet Union has not placed its troops on alert, its 44 divisions on that border are in such a state of readiness that they do not have to be put on a 24-hour alert. [More…]
The attitude of the Soviet Union at the moment has remained low key. [More…]
I emphasise this deliberate and substantial militarisation of African conflict by outside states- particularly the Soviet Union and their . [More…]
As my colleague Senator Sibraa who spoke just a few minutes ago stated, that sort of action is the trigger mechanism that must surely drive Vietnam more and more into the arms of the Soviet Union. [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 . [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…]
Thankfully, as far as I can assess, the Soviet Union has so far played quite a statesmanshiplike role in that it has called for calm. [More…]
I do not think that there is any person in the world who does not want to live in peaceful and stable surroundings, regardless of whether he lives in China, the Soviet Union, America, Australia or somewhere in the Middle East. [More…]
Despite what is happening in Vietnam and despite the argument between the Soviet Union and China, we still have an acceptance by the United States and the Soviet Union that detente ought to be achieved and that the SALT discussions ought to be concluded. [More…]
If one couples that statement with the references to the Soviet Union in a later part of the statement one will see that it draws a number of observations which could impede what has been widely accepted as progress towards the completion of the SALT discussions and the continuation of detente as we understand it. [More…]
The statement goes further than the situation we are talking about- the issue of China versus Vietnam, with Soviet Union on the fringes- and talks about the situation in Iran. [More…]
We should be assisting in reducing tensions and we certainly should make sure that the present encouraging relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States of America is preserved and pointed to. [More…]
The best advice that we have from the experts is that presently the Soviet Union and the USA both expect detente, and that the SALT discussions should proceed satisfactorily. [More…]
We have the encouragement of knowing that at the present stage the Soviet Union has not intervened in any way except by some sort of support operation. [More…]
The Minister has made a very important reference in his statement to the restraint that has been exercised by the Soviet Union in the current crisis in Indo-China. [More…]
In his statement he makes the point that it is to the Soviet Union’s credit that in the present phase of the crisis it has so far shown restraint. [More…]
I think that is an important concession that should be made to the Soviet Union. [More…]
I would suggest that we and others have to be careful not to isolate the Soviet Union and perhaps force it into acts which it would presumably prefer to avoid. [More…]
As we approach the nineteen eighties some perceptive commentators are pointing to a dangerous asymmetry: 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…]
It also emphasises the importance of other nations not forcing the Soviet Union into a situation where it considers itself isolated and threatened. [More…]
Perhaps this sort of attitude is reflected in the treaty which was signed in November between Vietnam and the Soviet Union. [More…]
No doubt that sort of statement in the treaty between Vietnam and the Soviet Union reflects, in part, the sons of ambitions we have seen expressed by the Soviet Union in many parts of the world. [More…]
Soviet Union, at least, with its isolation as a great power and indeed as a super power. [More…]
For example, it is not hard to see that the Soviet Union might feel that Europe, Japan, the United States of America, and China are in fact in many ways aligned against it. [More…]
I believe that we have to be careful about that sort of development if we expect the Soviet Union to continue to exercise the sort of restraint it has exercised so far in the conflict in Indo-China. [More…]
It concerns a country or a district known as Eritrea, which has suffered 17 years of war and which has been virtually ignored by most of the countries of the world with perhaps the exception of the Soviet Union, which is now directing operations for Ethiopia to subdue that territory, and some other countries which have supplied arms for the suppression of that state. [More…]
Last month, in Eritrea, a village called Hergego was cluster bombed shortly after dawn by Ethiopian MIG-21 jets supplied by the Soviet Union. [More…]
If we are talking about selfinterest, that attitude runs directly contrary to the views expressed very strongly by the Prime Minister when he vigorously attacked the Soviet Union as being a threat to peace in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
That was followed a year or so ago by the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, making an even stronger attack on the Soviet Union and speaking of the dangers of its presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
This was borne out, was it not, in World War II when the greatest might that has ever been unleashed in a world war was directed against the Soviet Union by the forces of nazi Germany? [More…]
The conflicts reflect and were created by the hostility and rivalry existing among four states: the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
Whilst there are certain differences in emphasis between the major communist powers, China and the Soviet Union, they are not the underlying causes of the present conflict. [More…]
The Soviet Union was prepared to make available only a third of the amount required, $2.5 billion. [More…]
He said that it is all the fault of Australia that the Vietnamese are the friends of the Soviet Union because we and the United States have not given support to the Vietnamese and have forced them into the arms of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I wonder whether he was referring, amongst other nations, to the Soviet Union where a few days ago elections were held with a strange result- 99.99 per cent of the people voted for the communist candidates! [More…]
He is saying that because the Vietnamese turned to the Soviet Union the United States is one of the bad boys. [More…]
The conflicts reflect and were created by the hostility and rivalry existing between four states: The Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
Regarding the Soviet Union, the Foreign Minister said: [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 troubled spots of the world, politically it is the odd-man-out among the great powers. [More…]
Have we forgotten the problems of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe? [More…]
Of course, China and the Soviet Union came into this. [More…]
But to me the lesson was this: As far as the Western powers- we could call them that or a loose alliance of the ANZUS powers- are concerned, if we look at it strictly on percentage lines, we are no better off than we would have been if we had not worried about the futile war in Vietnam because by now the ideological rivalries between China and the Soviet Union concerning the land mass of Asia, in particular South Vietnam, would have been apparent. [More…]
Regardless of the momentum of the Soviet Union, what happened in Europe would not have happened if we had not had fascism on the march in Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. [More…]
To me the question is not whether the United States, the Soviet Union or China are involved. [More…]
As a National Times article March 6-11,1978, stated: Australia is to play a much more significant role in the strategic weapons plan of the United States, the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
This will place Australia in the front line of any nuclear exchange between the US and either the Soviet Union or China . [More…]
When those on the Government side attack the Soviet Union, perhaps they can give some credit to the Soviets because in the crisis which confronted them and us they showed the utmost restraint in the face of great provocation. [More…]
A visiting delegation does not inhibit me in any way, especially when the Leader of that delegation made some very caustic and undiplomatic remarks about the Soviet Union at a national Press conference today. [More…]
I would have thought that the Chinese people would remember that their philosophy is akin to the philosophy of the USSR and it does them little credit to make a continuous attack on the Soviet Union. [More…]
Let me speak of the fear that I felt transmitted to me by people in the Soviet Union when I was there some time ago. [More…]
It seems to me that the action of the Chinese in invading Vietnam was to put that balance in danger, and again I commend the Soviet Union for its restraint in the face of the action of the Chinese against the Vietnamese people. [More…]
On the other hand the Soviet Union did not believe that the Vietnamese could succeed and, as is now history, the United States folded before that last assault and the Vietnamese were victorious. [More…]
It did to the Vietnamese people what it accused the Soviet Union of doing to itself, which is at the basis of the conflict between the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I refer to the sudden withdrawal of aid by the Soviet Union from China at a crucial time in China’s development. [More…]
China did to Vietnam exactly what it accused the Soviet Union of doing to itself. [More…]
It was afraid that the Soviet Union would obtain bases in Vietnam. [More…]
It did not properly understand the Vietnamese people who, as Senator Gietzelt explained, tried their best to disengage from dependence on the Soviet Union and sought an independent position. [More…]
As I have described before, had the Soviet Union not used restraint, had the Soviet Union crossed the northern Chinese border in order to relieve the pressure on Vietnam, of course we would have been engaged in a war of great magnitude. [More…]
I believe that the United States also is engaged in the same dangerous exercise of encouraging China and is taking sides against the Soviet Union. [More…]
For some reason we now seem to think it is to our advantage that China is strongly opposed to the Soviet Union, as a result of which we believe we may be able to engage in some further trade negotiations with China. [More…]
The then Opposition opposed bitterly the de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic states into the Soviet Union, 40 years after the event. [More…]
That will leave about 45,000 tonnes to be spread around fairly thin markets in the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean and South-east Asia, with perhaps some sales to the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
The next item on the Notice Paper deals with human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I remind the Senate of the significance both to human rights within the Soviet Union and to world peace and prosperity of this particular issue and these particular men. [More…]
Since the conclusion of the Belgrade conference, ten members of Helsinki monitoring groups operating in the Soviet Union have been put on trial, on various charges including malicious hooliganism, anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda and treason. [More…]
Indeed, one recalls the many thousands of people who have been subjected to loss of human rights simply because they chose to note or attempted to note the infringements by the Soviet Union of human rights. [More…]
The committee of experts had requested the Soviet Union to give further consideration to its report as a prelude to the matter again coming before the ILO. [More…]
The Soviet Union has warned the International Labor Organisation against investigating charges that it has harassed self-proclaimed trade unions and it imprisoned their leaders. [More…]
The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence SubCommittee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union which was chaired by Senator John Wheeldon had before it on 14 April 1978 a person named Leonid Plyushch. [More…]
One must search for an explanation of the action of the Soviet Union in breaching those agreements by punishing the very people who were grouped together to monitor the implementation of the agreements. [More…]
The Government has also deplored the trials and sentencing of other courageous men and women associated with the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. [More…]
However, as far as the Government is concerned, we are conscious of the fact that the 1980 Moscow Olympics will bring large numbers of athletes and other visitors from all over the world, thereby exposing the Soviet Union to greater contact with liberal values and standards of political rights. [More…]
One can argue one way or the other on whether the Olympic Games will be used by the Soviet Union as Hitler used the Olympic Games in Berlin before the war. [More…]
Indeed, I have pointed out before that the organising secretary of the Moscow Olympic Games appointed by the Soviet Union is one Alexander Gresko In 1971 he was expelled by the British as a KGB operative engaged in unauthorised surveillance. [More…]
It is well known amongst fishermen that Japan, the Soviet Union and goodness knows who else, but those two countries for sure, have been out in that area over the last decade or 15 years. [More…]
The practices of disinformation and the practices engaged in by the Soviet Union and by any other number of countries involved in the question of disinformation have to be kept actively under consideration. [More…]
If one is old enough and has been sufficiently involved in politics over the last 20 to 30 years one will recall the scorn and propaganda that was churned out daily at the height of the Cold War by all sorts of people in Australia and in the so-called free world generally about the problems of the people of the Soviet Union with the terrible organisation known as the KGB. [More…]
To use just one example why governments should be a little more sceptical about setting up such secret organisations, I refer to the three British agentsBurgess, McLean and Philby- who worked for years in British security and used that organisation to feed information about Great Britain back to their masters, allegedly in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Disinformation’ is the anglicisation of a Russian word ‘Dezinformatsiya’, first used in the Soviet Union in the nineteen twenties. [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 do not know that any of the plans have turned up yet in the Soviet Union or any other country that opposes us. [More…]
What is sacred about dissidents in the Soviet Union? [More…]
Many Spanish teenage refugees were taken by Latin American countries- probably countries like Mexico- and the Soviet Union. [More…]
When these teenagers had been in the Soviet Union for five years Franco decided that they were to be struck off the books and were not to be recognised as being of Spanish origin no matter what happened. [More…]
Soviet Union type of government. [More…]
The girl who I had in mind left Spain and went to the Soviet Union. [More…]
She was 16 years of age or a bit younger when she left the Soviet Union for Chile. [More…]
The Soviet Union regarded her more or less as being born of non-Soviet citizens. [More…]
By 1976, however, the International Whaling Commission meetings in London saw Australia and South Africa supporting the whaling nations of Japan and the Soviet Union in obtaining higher quotas. [More…]
There are some Indonesian craft which were provided by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, equipped for the Styx surface-to-surface missile. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment told me that it was a case of taking the middle ground and trying to blunt the thrust of the Soviet Union and Japan which wished to maximise their operations. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware of reports that the Soviet Union has gained access to secret information regarding the operation of American defence installations in Australia? [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Senate as to the truth of the assertion that the information that the Soviet Union now has concerning the bases renders the bases virtually ineffective? [More…]
Soviet Union) and the Middle East (incl. [More…]
In the hope of encouraging some economic independence from the Soviet Union and Vietnam, will the Minister also urge the Government to provide whatever aid is possible to Laos for the development of its untapped resources and to request other Western nations, particularly the United States, to do likewise? [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…]
I have referred to the episode in the Soviet Union, but we are asking only for a fine to be imposed and paid. [More…]
Is there anything that Australia and other democratic powers can do to prevent this subversion of international organisations by the Soviet Union? [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen a report in the Press supporting previous accusations that the Soviet Union, through Swiss agents, has been buying large quantities of chrome from Rhodesia and reselling it to the United States at a considerable profit? [More…]
Has the Soviet Union gained access to secret information regarding the operation of American defence installations in Australia; if so: (a) does the information which the Soviet Union now holds render the bases virtually ineffective; and (b) will this alter in any way the Government’s present longterm attitude to the presence of the bases. [More…]
One major power is the People’s Republic of China, which has withdrawn aid, possibly because of Vietnam ‘s dependence on the Soviet Union. [More…]
I too was in Vietnam in the middle of last year and I saw at first hand the desperate problems which Vietnam faced in seeking to carry out reconstruction programs while still under pressure from Kampuchea and China on its borders, pressures which were being applied in order to wrench Vietnam away from the influence of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Under this pressure from China, because of the conflict between China and Vietnam, which is really a conflict between China and the Soviet Union, many hundreds and thousands of people of Chinese origin began to leave Vietnam. [More…]
What effect would such a proposal have on discussions between the Soviet Union and the United States for a reduction of naval forces in the Indian Ocean region? [More…]
I am reluctant to speculate on the effects that such a proposal might have on the negotiations between the Soviet Union and the United States concerning stabilisation of their military presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The Government is on record as supporting an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union on mutual arms limitation in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
In the hope of encouraging some economic independence from the Soviet Union and Vietnam, will the Minister also urge the Government to provide whatever aid is possible to Laos for the development of its untapped resources and to request other Western nations, particularly the United States, to do likewise? [More…]
The Soviet Union has developed a capacity to transfer technology and arms quite rapidly around the world. [More…]
By some twisted logic there are those who think that recognition would aid the aims and objectives of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Why should we all be applying sanctions when Britain, France, Canada and the Soviet Union are breaking them, and have been doing so for years? [More…]
In Southern Africa there are critical supplies of strategic minerals, and as I see it there is some urgency to see that those supplies are not added to the reserves of the Soviet Union and denied to the West. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen a report in the Press supporting previous accusations that the Soviet Union, through Swiss agents, has been buying large quantities of chrome from Rhodesia and reselling it to the United States at a considerable profit? [More…]
I have seen a press report alleging that the Soviet Union has been trading in Rhodesian chrome and tobacco. [More…]
He has also been Australian Ambassador to the Soviet Union, West Germany and Japan. [More…]
One would not expect Australia to be in a position that the Committee heard about where diplomatic representatives from the Soviet Union visited Tonga or Samoa- I forget for the moment which country it was- and when they arrived there could speak the local language. [More…]
Those sorts of facilities and language training could be indulged in only by super-powers like the Soviet Union or the United States of America. [More…]
Neither the Soviet Union, Vietnam, nor China- the principals in the dispute- are thought to support the idea. [More…]
What these Germans, and Cubans, are doing with the co-operation of the Soviet Union within Africa is not fundamentally different from what the Nazis were doing. [More…]
They are acting militarily to extend the influence of the Soviet Union by the brutal use of armed force, as has been clearly evidenced in, for example, Ethiopia and Eritrea. [More…]
Does the Soviet law have special implications for Australian citizens who come under its provisions and who may wish to visit the Soviet Union? [More…]
I am advised that while the new law is clear in some respects it is obscure in others, and clear-cut answers to some of the questions which are uppermost in the minds of Australian residents who have close connections with the Soviet Union are not yet available. [More…]
Reports of prisoners dying through atomic radiation from A Shifrin the Director of a centre in the soviet Union that investigates the Concentration Camps and Psychiatric Prisons in the U.S.S.R. [More…]
I thought that this Government had a distinct distrust and dislike for the Soviet Union. [More…]
Yet the first or second nuclear agreement we signed for the sale of our uranium was with Finland, which is openly sending its material, our uranium, to the Soviet Union. [More…]
In June this year the Prime Minister announced the Government ‘s preliminary assessment of the inhumane and environmentally damaging aspects of the seal hunt in Canada, Norway and the Soviet Union and he proposed a total ban on all seal products imported into Australia, as well as a ban on the products of all other endangered species. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of a recent refusal by Soviet authorities to grant travel visas to a party of Australians of Latvian origin who wished to visit Riga, the Latvian capital, during a planned visit to the Soviet Union for the Olympic Games? [More…]
Some three years ago after I returned from Moscow, where I had visited the Amnesty organisation, I spoke in the Senate of the attempts by the Russian dissidents, under great pressure and a great deal of victimisation, to publicise the Helsinki Agreement and the responsibilities of the Soviet Union under that Agreement. [More…]
I must say that in addition to the people who suffered then people in the Soviet Union went to gaol because it was alleged that they were creating propaganda or defaming the Soviet Union, but in reality they were publicising the failures of their country to comply with the Helsinki Agreement of 1975. [More…]
I became aware of this matter because of material which was forwarded to by by the Australian Committee for Human Rights in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe which has among its honorary members a number of members of this Federal Parliament including Senator Tate and myself from the Senate and Mr Hodgman, Mr Ruddock and Mr Simon from another place. [More…]
The Australian Committee for Human Rights in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is worried, as we are worried, by the dissidents trial in Czechoslovakia, and has sought to provide information which it hopes will go to the Australian people and will bring this matter to full public attention. [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen newspaper reports that there are at present 20 companies of Soviet combat troops in Afghanistan which have allegedly been sent into that country by the Soviet Union in order to defend the Government of Afghanistan against the present insurgency? [More…]
Indeed, success will depend eventually upon the co-operation of other countries, including the Soviet Union, which has the greatest influence in Vietnam. [More…]
It is interesting that, out of what is essentially a list of Communist countries which have a stronger inclination to allegiances with the Soviet Union, Rumania and Yugoslavia have not recognised the Heng Samrin regime. [More…]
Let me list some of those: Vietnam, obviously; the Soviet Union, obviously; the German Democratic Republic; Mongolia; Cuba; Angola; Libya; Mozambique. [More…]
Is the Minister also aware that the Soviet Union’s proposal has been sent to the 23 International Whaling Commission members for a postal vote by 17 October? [More…]
Those 18 countries are Ghana, Greece, Brazil, Philippines, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Vietnam, Pakistan, Jamaica, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Soviet Union, Botswana, Burma, Sweden, Iran, Austria and the United States of America. [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…]
-Is the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Resources aware of the report in the Soviet Union newspaper the Kommunist and reported in yesterday’s Age newspaper in which serious doubts about the scope, safety and environmental consequences of the various stages of the nuclear fuel cycle are expressed? [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the significance of this admission, given the Soviet Union’s commitment to nuclear power and the fact that it has presently 10 large nuclear power plants under construction? [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen newspaper reports that there are at present 20 companies of Soviet combat troops in Afghanistan which have allegedly been sent into that country by the Soviet Union in order to defend the Government of Afghanistan against the present insurgency? [More…]
In the early sixties, the United States and Soviet Union had some hundreds of nuclear warheads each. [More…]
The deployment of these missiles by NATO is based on distrust of the Soviet Union and a growing realisation that the United States would not necessarily risk a nuclear war in the event of Western Europe being attacked by Warsaw Pact forces. [More…]
This growing level of distrust has caused the West to reject an offer by the Soviet Union to withdraw a limited number of troops and tanks from East Germany over the next 12 months. [More…]
The Soviet union has also offered to cutback the number of its medium range missiles if the West does not go ahead with its plan to upgrade its own missile arsenal. [More…]
Only last month, a report produced in France by the Prime Minister of that country proposes that France modernises its nuclear arms to match the quality of the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Let us look at our own region, and as an example, look at the situation in Indo-China today and the massive increase in weapons into Vietnam, where it is estimated that the Soviet Union has supported Vietnam militarily by approximately 100,000 tonnes of military aid this year. [More…]
The United States and the Soviet Union would race to reach the maximum levels of nuclear weapons allowed under the Treaty, including missiles suitable for destroying the other nation’s offence. [More…]
We could talk at length of the fact that a first strike would probably destroy 140 million people in the Soviet Union in a major nuclear war and that, similarly, something like 105 million to 1 30 million would be destroyed in the United States. [More…]
Away from the Middle East, the two highest spenders on defence are the Soviet Union, which is spending between 1 1 per cent and 14 per cent of its GDP on defence, and the [More…]
carries enough warheads to destroy every large and medium-sized city in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I had heard of hegemony, but ‘hegemonism’ is a term which, as I understand it, has gained particular meaning as a pejorative term in the context of the rivalry between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
I have found that those who would complain about such a motion’s harming our relationships with Indonesia will support vigorously the right of this Parliament to investigate the abuse of civil rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
A report on that matter will shortly be brought down by Senator Wheeldon and no doubt it will cause some difficulties in some of our relationships with the Soviet Union. [More…]
-I present the report and transcript of the evidence from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on its inquiry into human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is an inquiry into a controversial subject, but a subject of very great importance not only to the members of this Parliament but to the people of the Soviet Union and, I would venture to suggest, to the people of the whole world. [More…]
It is an inquiry into the situation regarding the human rights of the people of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Status of Soviet Jewry- 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…]
After some discussion the sub-committee came to the opinion that this was too narrow a frame of reference; that the question of human rights within the Soviet Union went beyond the situation solely of the Jewish people although they did have particular problems. [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…]
Why is it that we should be looking at human rights within the Soviet Union, a country with which Australia has diplomatic and in many respects friendly relations? [More…]
We believe it is important that the Australian Parliament and the Australian people should be informed on the situation of human rights in the Soviet Union, for two major reasons. [More…]
The first is that the Soviet Union is a super power. [More…]
It is much more important to know what is happening inside the United States of America and inside the Soviet Union than it is to know what is happening inside Bolivia or Uganda, or for that matter in Cambodia. [More…]
I am afraid I cannot say that of the Soviet Union. [More…]
One cannot learn from listening to Radio Moscow what is the situation inside the Soviet Union with regard to human rights. [More…]
That information can be obtained only by inquiries undertaken outside the official framework of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Apart from the importance of the Soviet Union as a super power, the other reason why we believe it is important to understand what is happening inside that country is that the Soviet Union is an evangelical super power. [More…]
The Soviet Union is the centre of a world-wide ideological system, a system which I would venture to say they describe, not entirely accurately- I do not want to get into a debate about that- as Marxism-Leninism. [More…]
The Soviet Union has as its declared policy the extension of the MarxistLeninist form of government throughout the whole of the world. [More…]
Whatever they have not said, whatever they may have denied, whatever they may have been accused falsely of having said, there cannot be any doubt that, in any one of the major statements made by the Soviet Communist Party or the leaders of the Soviet State on any of their great occasions, they subscribe firmly to the view that the system of Government, the social system, the political system, the economic system, which applies in the Soviet Union is not only one which ought to be emulated elsewhere in the world but also is one which they propose to see is implemented throughout the rest of the world. [More…]
Indeed they have said, as Mr Brezhnev himself has said, I think on more than one occasion, that in those countries which are in close proximity to the Soviet Union, where there is a similar form of government- countries such as Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Poland and so on- the Soviet Union has a right to see that they do not depart from that form of government, a doctrine which was not described by Mr Brezhnev in this way but which I think has been described accurately by others as the doctrine of limited sovereignty, the doctrine which justified the intervention by the Soviet armies into Hungary in 1956 and into Czechoslovakia in 1968. [More…]
The allegation has been made that this constitutes an interference in the internal affairs of another country, namely, the Soviet Union. [More…]
proper that there should be an inquiry, whether it is regarded as interference in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union or not. [More…]
But one should not overlook the fact that the Soviet Union itself is far from loath to comment on the internal affairs of other countries. [More…]
But even the most enthusiastic and ardent admirer of the Soviet Union would not be able to deny that any broadcast on Radio Moscow, any word or line that appears within any Soviet publication, appears only because it accords with the policy and the intentions of the Soviet Government. [More…]
If an article appears in Pravda, which is the official organ of the communist party in the Soviet Union, that is an action by the Soviet Government. [More…]
The Soviet Union has had a great deal to say about situations in a number of countries. [More…]
I believe the Soviet Union is entitled to do that. [More…]
If it is free to comment on the situation in Northern Ireland and the situation in the United States and the situation in Australia and the situation in Chile, as I believe it is entitled, then we are entitled to comment on the situation inside the Soviet Union. [More…]
An additional reason why I believe it is important that we should be examining the situation with regard to human rights within the Soviet Union is that the Soviet Union is a party to the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe which was dealt with in Helsinki in 1975. [More…]
The Soviet Union says that the Helsinki Accords are very important. [More…]
I believe it is important that we should look at the record of the Soviet Union with regard to the Helsinki Accords to see whether the Soviet Union has been carrying out the provisions of those Accords in the conduct of its own government. [More…]
If it is quite proper for the Soviet Union to point to the superiority of the Marxist-Leninist form of government over other forms of government, I believe it is equally proper for those who subscribe to a democratic parliamentary form of government to just as persistently advocate the superiority of the democratic parliamentary form of government over other forms of government. [More…]
If the Soviet Union is to say that its system is superior we are also entitled to say that our system is superior. [More…]
If the Soviet Union is entitled to point out imperfections in our system of government we are entitled to point out imperfections as we see them in its system of government. [More…]
They are of that opinion because the Soviet Union and East Germany have taken the ideological struggle seriously. [More…]
This is because East Germany and the Soviet Union have persistently put forward the proposition that their system of government is better and they have set out to expose what they regard as weaknesses in the systems of other governments while we have not done the same thing. [More…]
Imagine what would happen if we came down with a six page report saying that we had looked at the matter and that the situation of human rights in the Soviet Union is unsatisfactory? [More…]
-Before the suspension of the sitting of the Senate, I was dealing with some of the objections which were raised in the minority report of Mr Armitage, Dr Blewett and Mr Scholes, concerning the nature of the inquiry conducted by the Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union of the Joint Committee of Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
Another objection raised was the difficulty the Sub-Committee experienced in obtaining evidence concerning the Soviet Union. [More…]
that Soviet Jews wishing to leave the Soviet Union had been consistently subjected to harassment and other forms of maltreatment and that their human rights had been denied, Soviet law and procedure infringed, and unwarranted punishments inflicted. [More…]
Although during the last year there has been an increase in the number of Jews allowed to leave the Soviet Union, this Second Colloquium . [More…]
It should also be noted that the pattern of witnesses, which came before the inquiry, was partly due to the active participation of certain international groups, in conflict, with just cause, with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Indeed, one can well wonder that the Soviet Union would be trembling when it has the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church arraying all its might against the Soviet Union and its allies! [More…]
I know that they have expressed opinions favourable to the Soviet Union in and out of season. [More…]
We are all familiar with people and organisations in Australia who have warm, friendly feelings about the Soviet Union and who believe that it is a pack of lies to suggest that there is any infringement of human rights there. [More…]
Not only did they not come from the Soviet Embassy; not one person, not one single, solitary soul, was prepared to come before the Sub-Committee and say one word of praise or commendation or excuse about the record of the Soviet Union with regard to human rights. [More…]
It is not that the Soviet Union is loath to provide information. [More…]
I understand that when an inquiry into the presence of the Soviet Union in the Indian Ocean was conducted by a Senate committee the Soviet Embassy was happy to provide information to that committee. [More…]
During the course of the evidence that the Committee heard from some people to whom I will refer in a moment, we learnt, I believe to my satisfaction- it would have been to the satisfaction of any reasonable person- that 300 dissidents are held quite improperly at any one time in Soviet psychiatric institutions, that their only psychiatric disorder is to be critical of the Soviet Union and that they include many eminent Soviet citizens. [More…]
We learnt that contrary to the Helsinki Accords, to which the Soviet Union is a party, there is not freedom of religion, there is not freedom of speech, there is not freedom of assembly and there is not freedom of migration, even when it is a case of the reuniting of families. [More…]
Among the witnesses from whom we heard was Mr Leonid Plyushch, a Soviet citizen, a man who was allowed to leave the Soviet Union as a result of pressure which was applied by the French Left, by the French trade unions, by the French Communist Party, and who still described himself as a Marxist. [More…]
It is certainly the view of the Sub-Committee that whatever the virtues may be of inquiring into human rights in the Soviet Union- I believe it was probably more important than any other similar inquiry- we would be hypocrites if we were to inquire into human rights only in the Soviet Union and not in other countries. [More…]
Senator Wheeldon just made a magnificent speech denouncing the alienation of human rights in the Soviet Union and Government senators were saying: ‘Hear, hear’. [More…]
We have heard today from Senator Wheeldon about the report from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Soviet Union, which is obviously an excellent and most interesting report. [More…]
I suppose law in the Soviet Union has a different meaning. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs advises that the Soviet Union and governments in Eastern Europe, including Romania’s, continue to deny fundamental civil and political rights to their citizens and that minorities often suffer most in this respect. [More…]
It is amazing that on the very day that this Bill was introduced, Senator Wheeldon, on behalf of an Australian parliamentary committee, was able to criticise the breach of human rights within the Soviet Union which his committee, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, concluded had occurred. [More…]
It will be an interesting day when this is effective in communist countries, many of which have ratified the Covenant- the Soviet Union, for instance. [More…]
Among the countries that have ratified it are Bulgaria, Chile, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Iran, Poland and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Only a few days ago in this chamber we heard a report on the state of civil rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
A report on human rights in the Soviet Union was brought in just recently. [More…]
Chapter 7 powers may only be exercised by the Security Council in which the great powers- the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, China and France- have a veto. [More…]
We can have them in the socialist way, as people do in the Soviet Union where the Government has given people the right to think their own thoughts, to meet, to work- all sorts of things. [More…]
As Senator Mason said, the only one that we know of in the Soviet Union is reported to have blown up in the early 1960s. [More…]
The Indo-China region is a major area of concern at the moment in that the situation may lead to further conflict between China and Vietnam and in turn may further involve the Soviet Union in this area. [More…]
There are a number of important issues mentioned in the report that I think the Senate ought to debate: The situation in Uganda today; the role of the Tanzanian army in Uganda; the elections that have just taken place in Kenya and in Nigeria; the role of the Soviet Union in Africa; and the situation in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia today. [More…]
The activities of the fishing fleets of such major countries as Japan and the Soviet Union, which previously exploited the ocean wherever and whenever they wanted to, virtually around the globe, have now been restricted. [More…]
Has the Australian Government concluded fishing agreements, within the 200 mile Australian limit, with: (a) Japan; (b) Taiwan; (c) South Korea; and (d) the Soviet Union, and are agreements with any other countries being negotiated. [More…]
What fees have been paid to Australia for fishing rights by: (a) Japan; (b) South Korea; (c) Taiwan; and (d) the Soviet Union. [More…]