Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that:

(i)

on 7 September 2001, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 55/282 declaring that the International Day of Peace should be observed annually on the fixed date of 21 September, as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence, and

(ii)

the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his predecessor, Kofi Annan, have urged member states to support the observance of global ceasefire on the day;

(b)

supports non-government organisations in Australia who intend to observe the day through vigils, concerts and walks;

(c)

calls on the Australian Government to actively support the observance of a ceasefire in Iraq, East Timor, Afghanistan, the Solomon Islands, Egypt (the Sinai Peninsula) and Sudan on Sunday, 21 September 2008, by ensuring that Australia’s armed forces:

(i)

do not engage in hostilities for the duration of 21 September, unless provoked to do so in self-defence, and

(ii)

promote the observance of a global ceasefire for the duration of 21 September; and

(d)

requests that the Australian Government encourage other nation states also to support the observance of a global ceasefire.