Caroline Millar is an Australian diplomat and public servant who is currently Ambassador to Belgium,Luxembourg,the European Union and NATO. She has previously served as the Deputy Secretary for National Security of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,Deputy Head of Mission of the Australian Embassy in Washington,D.C.,the Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva,and was briefly the acting-Head of Mission of the Australian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York.
Reactions to the 2006 Lebanon War came from states on all continents,supranational bodies,individuals and international NGOs,as well as political lobbyists in the United States.
Israel–New Zealand relations are the foreign relations between the State of Israel and New Zealand. While Israel has an embassy in Wellington,New Zealand's embassy in Ankara,Turkey is accredited to the Israel. Diplomatic relations between the two countries date back to January 1949. New Zealand has exported a mixture of agricultural and manufactured goods to Israel. In return,Israel has exported a range of manufactured goods to New Zealand. Bilateral relations between the two countries have been complicated by issues such as the 2004 Israel–New Zealand passport scandal,United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334,and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The State of Israel and the Republic of Turkey formally established diplomatic relations in March 1949. Less than a year after the Israeli Declaration of Independence,Turkey recognized Israeli sovereignty,making it the world's first Muslim-majority country to do so. Both countries gave high priority to bilateral cooperation in the areas of diplomacy and military/strategic ties,while sharing concerns with respect to the regional instabilities in the Middle East. In recent decades,particularly under Turkey's Erdoğan administration,the two countries' relationship with each other has deteriorated considerably. However,diplomatic ties were reinstated after a successful normalization initiative in mid-2022.
Peter Richard Woolcott is an Australian public servant,diplomat and the former Australian Public Service Commissioner. He was previously the Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Woolcott has served as the Australia's High Commissioner to New Zealand,the Australian Ambassador for the Environment,the Australian Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva,the Australian Ambassador to Italy,the Deputy Head of Mission in Jakarta,and the Consul-General in Honolulu.
Richard Arthur Woolcott was an Australian public servant,diplomat,author,and commentator.
Qatar and the United States are strategic allies. Qatar has been designated a major non-NATO ally by the United States.
Sir Walter Kieran Prendergast is a British retired diplomat who was Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs at the United Nations.
Israel–United Kingdom relations,or Anglo-Israeli relations,are the diplomatic and commercial ties between the United Kingdom and Israel. The British embassy to Israel is located in Tel Aviv. The UK has an honorary consul in Eilat and a non-accredited consulate-general in Jerusalem,that represents the United Kingdom in that city and the Palestinian territories. Israel has three representative offices in the United Kingdom:an Embassy located in London and consulates in Cardiff and Glasgow.
Israel–Ukraine relations are foreign relations between Israel and Ukraine. Both countries recognized each other on 11 May 1949 as the Ukrainian SSR and established de jure diplomatic relations on 26 December 1991 when Ukraine became independent. Israel has an embassy in Kyiv. Ukraine has an embassy in Tel Aviv and a consulate-general in Haifa. There are 30,000 Ukrainians settled in Israel,while Ukraine has one of Europe's largest Jewish communities. Ukraine is also the first state,apart from Israel,to have had both a Jewish president and a Jewish prime minister simultaneously.
Israel–Singapore relations,also referred to as Israeli–Singaporean relations,refers to the bilateral relations between the State of Israel and the Republic of Singapore. Relations between the two countries have been extremely cordial and friendly for more than half a century,which are influenced by their similar geopolitical state of affairs,being relatively small states surrounded by larger neighbors hostile to their continued existence.
The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict,also known as the Goldstone Report,was a United Nations fact-finding mission established in April 2009 pursuant to Resolution A/HRC/RES/S-9/1 of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) of 12 January 2009,following the Gaza War as an independent international fact-finding mission "to investigate all violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law by the occupying Power,Israel,against the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory,particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip,due to the current aggression". South African jurist Richard Goldstone was appointed to head the mission. The other co-authors of the Report were Hina Jilani,Christine Chinkin and Desmond Travers.
The Victoria Affair was a military operation conducted by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in March 2011 in which the Israeli Navy intercepted the vessel Victoria on the international waters in the Mediterranean,and discovered concealed weapons which,according to the IDF,were destined for Palestinian militant organizations in the Gaza Strip. The vessel was found to be carrying approximately 50 tons of weapons,including C-704 anti-ship missiles,rocket launchers,radar systems,mortar shells and rifle ammunition.
International recognition of the State of Palestine has been the objective of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence formally established the de jure sovereign state on 15 November 1988 in Algiers,Algeria,at an extraordinary session in-exile of the Palestinian National Council. The declaration was promptly acknowledged by a range of countries,and by the end of the year,the proclaimed Palestinian state was recognized by over 78 countries. As of 31 July 2019,138 of the 193 United Nations (UN) member states and two non-member states have recognized it. Palestine also has been a non-member observer state of the UN General Assembly since the passing of United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19 in November 2012.
Jonathan Philp is an Australian diplomat and career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
David James Ritchie is an Australian diplomat and a senior career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). His last appointment was as Ambassador for Australia to Germany,a post to which he was appointed in 2013.
Robert S. Merrillees is a former Australian diplomat and archaeologist. His memoir Diplomatic Digs was released in 2012 as an e-book.
Paul Grigson is an Australian diplomat and public servant. He is currently the deputy secretary of Infrastructure,Transport Security and Customs Group and the deputy comptroller-general of customs. He has served as the Australian ambassador to Indonesia,Thailand and Myanmar.
Matthew Ernest Keith Neuhaus is a career diplomat with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) who was appointed as the Australian Ambassador to the Netherlands on 29 August 2018.
