21-June-2012
Senator Ron Boswell –
Today saw unique agreement on the floor of the Australian Senate with the Government and Opposition unanimously passing a Motion that calls on the Government to improve Australia’s human rights dialogue with Vietnam.
The Motion, moved by Queensland Labor Senator Mark Furner and Queensland Nationals Senator Ron Boswell, states:
I give notice that on the next day of sitting Senator Mark Furner and myself, Senator Ron Boswell, will move—That the Senate:
1. Notes that:
i. Since 2002, Australia and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (the SRV) has held eight rounds of Dialogue on Human Rights;
ii. The Executive Government, through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, considers the improvement of the human rights situation in the SRV ‘a high priority of the Australian government’.
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