Speeches | InterAction Council

A high-profile keynote address is the centrepiece of the opening ceremony of every annual meeting. Here you will find the keynote speeches of past meetings, as well as other speeches made by InterAction Council members and special guests.

Greetings

Greetings to the Opening Ceremony of the 20th Annual Plenary Meeting on 8 June 2002 in Berlin, Germany

Opening Speech

Opening speech at the 20th Annual Plenary Meeting on 8 June 2002 in Berlin, Germany

A Global Tour d’Horizon

Keynote Speech to the 20th Annual Plenary Meeting, Opening Ceremony on 8 June 2002 in Berlin, Germany

On Certain Features and Tendencies of Development of the World Situation

Message to the InterAction Council, May 1998, 16th Annual Plenary Meeting, May 1998 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Overview of the COVID-19 Policy Framework

World Health Summit October 2020 presentation by Dr. Joanna Nurse.

COVID-19 Pandemic - Recommendations for the Future

World Health Summit October 2020 presentation by Dr. Joanna Nurse

Remarks to Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention and Canadian Pugwash Group

Remarks by Thomas S. Axworthy on 14 November 2014

Revisting the Hiroshima Declaration

Thomas S. Axworthy address to a Pugwash Canada Conference on Policy Imperatives for an Arctic Nuclear-Weapon Free Zone, 26 October 2012 in Toronto, Canada

Politics, Independence and the National Interest: The Legacy of Power and How to Achieve a Peaceful Western Pacific

The Whitlam Oration, Sydney, 6 June 2012

Australia-US Relations in the ‘Asia Century’: To avoid unnecessary and ill-advised conflict

Asialink Series, Carrillo Gantner Theatre, University of Melbourne, 25 September 2012