Alexander Downer: Perbedaan antara revisi
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Downer ditunjuk sebagai Menteri Luar Negeri ketika pemerintahan [[John Howard|Howard]] terpilih pada bulan Maret [[1996]]. Ia menjadi Menteri Luar Negeri yang menduduki jabatan terlama sejak [[20 Desember]], [[2004]].
Tahun 1999, Downer turut serta dalam negosiasi masuknya pasukan perdamaian [[INTERFET]] ke [[Timor Timur]].[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/447639.stm] Ia juga melakukan sebuah negosiasi atas migas di [[Celah Timor]], di tengah tuduhan bahwa persetujuan tersebut merugikan Timor Timur. [http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s799609.htm] Sebagai Menteri Luar Negeri, Downer memainkan peranan penting dalam perselisihan diplomatik yang dikenal dengan [[MV Tampa|Tampa affair]] tahun [[2001]], dimana Australia menolak izin mendaratnya MV Tampa di [[Pulau Natal|Pulau Christmas]] yang memuat pengungsi.
He has been a firm supporter of the legality of the [[Iraq war]] and he vociferously defended the claim that [[weapons of mass destruction]] would be found in [[Iraq]] to justify the [[2003]] [[invasion of Iraq|invasion]] of that country, long after this claim was abandoned by many others. [http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2003/s870415.htm] [http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2005/s1302767.htm]
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[http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Australian_foreign_minister_tells_inquiry_it_was_the_UN%27s_job_to_investigate_Iraq_kickback_claims] [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Portal:Australia/Cole_Inquiry]. In July [[2006]] it was revealed that six months before the [[2003]] invasion of Iraq, Downer had argued that participating in the invasion would be commercially beneficial for Australia. [http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/australias-other-war-in-iraq/2006/07/02/1151778811475.html]
As Australian [[Foreign Affairs]] minister, Downer has supported the U.S. in the incarceration of two Australian citizens, [[David Hicks]] and [[Mamdouh Habib]] in the [[Guantanamo Bay detainment camp|Guantanamo Bay detention center]]. Habib was eventually released without charge, while Hicks remains imprisoned. Downer supports the Bush Administration's position on the special [[Guantanamo military commissions]] that are to be used to try Hicks.[http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2005/s1428678.htm]
A major recent challenge has been handling relations with Australia's most important neighbour, [[Indonesia]] when Australia accepted a boatload of asylum seekers from Indonesia's Papua province in March [[2006]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4835788.stm]
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