Omitted UN Resolution 1969 4/10/26
This is what Australia left out of its 1985 Agent Orange Royal Commission — despite it being on the UN record for more than 15 years
What Australia knew, & why this was omitted, matters.
Children are affected by this atrocity in 2026
On 16 December 1969, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 2603 A (XXIV) by 80 votes to 3, with 36 abstentions. The UN’s official record confirms the date, vote and 1836th plenary meeting.
It recognized that the Geneva Protocol embodied generally recognized rules of international law prohibiting biological and chemical methods of warfare, and declared contrary to those rules the use in international armed conflict of chemical agents employed because of their direct toxic effects on “man, animals or plants.”
Evatt wrote in 1985:
“At the United Nations the ‘ecological’ warfare debate continued.”
Royal Commission on the Use and Effects of Chemical Agents on Australian Personnel in Vietnam, Final Report, July 1985, Vol. 1: Introduction and Exposure, Justice Phillip Evatt, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, Parliamentary Paper No. 288/1985, p. I-41 (PDF p. 67).
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