Australia is moving to re-evaluate its United Nations treaty arrangements. Richard Egan explains. On March 30, 2000 Foreign Minister Alexander Downer announced that the Federal Government would undertake a “whole-of-government review of the operation of the United Nations treaty committee system as it affects Australia”. The review was expected to take at least two months.The announcement closely followed the adverse “Concluding Observations” by the UN’s Committee on the Elimination o…
