U.N. Latest: Ban Ki-moon urges Australia to reconsider its refugee policy in bashing

Ban Ki-moon urges Australia to reconsider its refugee policy in bashing

Top diplomat in the world has issued an unusual appeal to the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull policy on asylum-seekers in Australia, expressing concern over the marine detention and urged him to reconsider the country's borders protect the entire system.
He met with the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, Mr. Turnbull on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur last week, trading the usual soft diplomacy stronger language when discussing refugees and migrants in the Asia-Pacific region.
In a statement, the United Nations said, "expressed concern about the conditions of detention in the wild gas processing centers in Australia," Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Mr. Turnbull and encouraged to "reconsider" the sovereign process of the system boundary that Australia's military-led anti-human trafficking and supervision of the border.Advertising
The fight against terrorism dominated talks at the summit of 18 countries, one of a series of international meetings that Mr. Turnbull involving less than three months of work.
It came the Australian Navy turned away a boat suspected asylum seekers from Christmas Island on Friday, and while Australia is preparing to accept 12,000 refugees have fled the devastation in Syria.
A statement by the United Nations, Mr. Ban acknowledged Australia's commitment long ago to resettle the refugees, but Mr. Turnbull appealed to "share responsibilities".
The pair reportedly discuss the problems in Syria, Iraq and exchanged views on the prevention of violent extremism.
"The Secretary-General pointed out that it was preparing a comprehensive action plan to prevent violent extremism to be presented to the General Assembly at the beginning of 2016, and looks forward to supporting Australia," the statement said.
It is understood that the language used in the statement issued by the United Nations is stronger than that of Mr. Ban personally used when speaking to Mr. Turnbull.
Mr Turnbull said he was talking to reporters in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur over the weekend that the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Bamako focused attention on how to counter violent extremism.
"We are intensifying our cooperation in the fight against terrorism with all our partners in the region. Intelligence post, of course, is of critical importance," adding that the fight against terrorist messages on social media and also a high priority.
Mr. Ban Ki-moon and Mr. Turnbull also discussed climate change negotiations before global climate talks in Paris later this month.
"Australia encouraged to lead efforts to ensure low-carbon, and the future resilience to climate change," said a UN statement, Mr. Ban.
Meanwhile, the Senate on Monday passed a bill to remove all children from detention by the wild Christmas holiday.
The draft law amending the Immigration and Marine forces (NO.1) now return to the House of Representatives.
Issued amendments proposed by the Greens Senator Sarah Hanson Young the support of the working and which crossbenchers.
It included other amendments passed open detention centers controlled media, and mandatory reporting of abuse and reverse the law changes that punish employees for speaking out about the conditions of detention.
Senator Hanson Young Mr. Turnbull must now decide whether to "reverse the will of the Senate and the people just so he could keep children locked up in prison?"
"It was these children their childhood taken them ... at least now they can have a real Christmas holiday," she said.