Chair,

I take the floor on behalf of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States to respond to misleading claims about Australia’s acquisition of a conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarine capability through the AUKUS partnership. Once again, we are compelled to invoke our Right of Reply to address remarks that purposefully mischaracterise the nature of our collaboration.

Australia’s cooperation with the UK and US on this matter is being undertaken in full compliance with our respective obligations under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear-Weapons (NPT), South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Rarotonga), and Australia’s safeguards agreements with the IAEA.

The repeated attempts by one member state to add this item to this meeting’s agenda falsely im

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