Oceania
Australia - The Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has told reporters that:
"I hope the international community will use this, as Australia does, as an opportunity to express our heartfelt support for the people of Burma who want to see reform there, but also to send a very strong message to the military leaders in Burma that some hardline crackdown like we saw in the 1980s, in 1988, would be completely unacceptable to the international community."
On September 27, there were protests in major cities across Australia, supporting the rights of Burmese to democracy and peaceful protest.
Also on September 27, Alexander Downer said there was little the United Nations could do after the Security Council's call for restraint, adding:
"The very fact of the Security Council addressing the issue of Burma is important because it helps to provide momentum for international support for reform in Burma and this opportunity has to be used for that."
Read more about this topic: International Reaction To The 2007 Burmese Anti-government Protests