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Issues in Australian Foreign Policy: January to June 2000

Issues in Australian Foreign Policy: January to June 2000 HENRY S. ALBINSKI Government and International Relations, University of Sydney Australia played a key role in regional and international politics during the first half of the year 2000. Perhaps most importantly, it spearheaded efforts to place a multilateral force in East Timor following the outbreak of the crisis there in September 1999. It supplied the single largest military contribution to the UN-sanctioned International Force in East Timor (INTERFET), as well as providing its commander, Major-General Peter Cosgrove. Operating under difficult and delicate conditions, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) acquitted itself with admirable professionalism. Cosgrove became something of a national idol; as of July 2000 he was promoted and became Chief of Army. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s subsequent appraisal was more than geste: “If Australia had not been nearby and offered to lead and shown the leadership that Prime Minister Howard and the people of Australia did, we probably would have got to East Timor a couple months later and it probably would have been too late to pick up the pieces”.1 The cost of East Timor’s civil reconstruction has been estimated at $700 million per annum. The support must come from a consortium of donors, of whom http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Politics and History Wiley

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Wiley
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Departments of History & Government, The University of Queensland and Blackwell Publishers 2000
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0004-9522
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1467-8497
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10.1111/1467-8497.00112
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HENRY S. ALBINSKI Government and International Relations, University of Sydney Australia played a key role in regional and international politics during the first half of the year 2000. Perhaps most importantly, it spearheaded efforts to place a multilateral force in East Timor following the outbreak of the crisis there in September 1999. It supplied the single largest military contribution to the UN-sanctioned International Force in East Timor (INTERFET), as well as providing its commander, Major-General Peter Cosgrove. Operating under difficult and delicate conditions, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) acquitted itself with admirable professionalism. Cosgrove became something of a national idol; as of July 2000 he was promoted and became Chief of Army. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s subsequent appraisal was more than geste: “If Australia had not been nearby and offered to lead and shown the leadership that Prime Minister Howard and the people of Australia did, we probably would have got to East Timor a couple months later and it probably would have been too late to pick up the pieces”.1 The cost of East Timor’s civil reconstruction has been estimated at $700 million per annum. The support must come from a consortium of donors, of whom

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Australian Journal of Politics and History – Wiley

Published: Dec 1, 2000

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