Michael Danby (Melbourne Ports, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

to move—

That the House:

(1)

notes statements by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran:

(a)

calling for the destruction of Israel;

(b)

warning any Muslim who supports Israel that they will burn in the hell of Islam; and

(c)

denying Nazi genocide against the Jews of Europe and demonising Jews;

(2)

calls on the Australian Government, Australia being a party to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to:

(a)

refer the incitements to genocide by President Ahmadinejad and other Iranian leaders to the appropriate agencies of the United Nations for account;

(b)

initiate in the International Court of Justice an inter-state complaint against Iran for its criminal violation of the Genocide Convention; and

(c)

urge the United Nations to act against Iran’s threats to eliminate the State of Israel;

(3)

affirms the principle that no country should be allowed to call for the elimination of another; and

(4)

condemns the incidents to genocide by President Ahmadinejad and other Iranian leaders.

to move—

That the House:

(1)

notes that 2007 marks the 75th anniversary of the Great Ukrainian Famine—Holodomor—of 1932–33, caused by the deliberate actions of Stalin’s communist Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics;

(2)

recalls that an estimated 7 million Ukrainians starved to death as a result of Stalinist policies in 1932–33 alone, and that millions more lost their lives in the purge that ensued for the remainder of the decade;

(3)

notes:

(a)

that this constitutes one of the most heinous acts of genocide in history;

(b)

that the Ukrainian Famine was one of the greatest losses of human life in one country in the 20th century; and

(c)

that it remains insufficiently known and acknowledged by the world community and the United Nations as an act of genocide against the Ukranian nation and its people, but has been recognised as such by the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of Ukraine);

(4)

honours the memory of those who lost their lives;

(5)

joins the Ukrainian people throughout the world, and particularly in Australia, in commemorating these tragic events; and

(6)

submits that the Australian Government supports a resolution to the General Assembly of the United Nations, which may be submitted by the Government of Ukraine, that the Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932–33 be recognised as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian nation and its people.

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