International Security (ISD)

We, the Member States of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (NPDI) renew and consolidate our commitment to building positive momentum towards the 11th Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the full implementation of this Treaty.

Forty years of the Australia Group: Successful international cooperation to prevent the spread of chemical and biological weapons

We share Czechia’s deep concern about the increased scale and severity of malicious cyber activity by state-affiliated actors. 

Australia expresses its strong support for the European Union’s decision to impose cyber sanctions on three individuals linked to the Russian Armed Forces for their role in malicious cyber activity targeting Estonia.

The Australian Government’s response to the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee report, Migration Amendment (Overseas Organ Transplant Disclosure and Other Measures) Bill 2023, was tabled in Parliament on 19 December 2024.

The unimaginable hardship and horror the Syrian people have endured as a result of chemical weapons is front of mind for us today. We, the States Parties of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), need to ensure such devastation does not occur again.

The Australia Group formed in 1985 to harmonise export controls on chemical weapons precursor chemicals. The Proliferation Security Initiative provides the international community with the practical means of cooperating to prevent illicit trafficking in weapons of mass destruction, their delivery systems and related materials.

Australia shares Germany's deep concern about the increased scale and severity of malicious cyber activity by state actors.

DFAT engages in a range of multilateral processes and forums on cyber and critical technology issues.

Australia and India continue to strengthen our relationship by working together to help shape a global technology environment that meets our shared vision of an open, inclusive, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific, where the rules-based international order is upheld.