YouSaid · the spoken record

Abdelaziz

lines on the record: 873
first: 1999-05-14
most recent: 2023-07-27
sittings or episodes: 80
sources: un-security-council

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

“Allow me, Mr. President, to read out the statement of Mr. Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, who would have liked to attend today's meeting in response to your kind invitation, but urgent circumstances required that he be in Cairo. "I would like to begin my statement today by expressing our deep appreciation to you, Mr. President, for your pioneering initiative to convene today's high-level open debate. I thank you for inviting me in my capacity as Secretary- General of the League of Arab States to participate in the meeting. "We welcome the briefings by Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs; His Excellency Mr.”
2019-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8473 (2019) · source
“That should take place in parallel with steady progress on other main issues connected with establishing peace and stability in the Arab world, foremost of which is the peace process in the Middle East; establishing the independent Palestinian State, with East Jerusalem as its capital along the 1967 borders; and restoring peace and security in Syria, Libya, Iraq, the Sudan, Yemen, Somalia and other hotbeds of tension and instability that continue to impede the efforts of Arab States to achieve progress and prosperity.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“We call for Israel's immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal from those territories, in accordance with resolutions of international legitimacy. At the same time, the League of Arab States calls on the Security Council to deal effectively with the blatant Iranian interference in Arab affairs, in support of the implementation of the League's decisions adopted at summit and ministerial levels. The League also calls for the immediate withdrawal of Iran from the three Emirati islands that it occupies.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“Despite the suspension of Syria's membership in the League of Arab States, which was done in accordance with the rules of the League, the issue of Syria remains a fundamental one for the Arab world, and the League remains interested in a comprehensive, peaceful settlement of the Syrian issue so as to ensure maximum protection for the brotherly Syrian people. The League reaffirms the need to promote its participation alongside the Arab States concerned in the negotiating process to implement the relevant Security Council resolutions. In that regard, I underscore that the League of Arab States is strongly opposed to any and all illegal attempts to codify the occupation of Syrian or Lebanese territory - be it in the Syrian Golan or the Shaba'a farms.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“In that regard, we call on the Council to take action aimed at establishing such a mechanism, based on the report and in cooperation with the Group ofArab States and the League ofArab States, and to ensure that it is under the supervision of the United Nations to protect the Palestinian people. Such action would be akin to the dispatch of 90 international unarmed observers by the Security Council to Yemen in order to monitor the situation there, in accordance with Stockholm Agreement. That could be duplicated on a larger scale in the occupied Palestinian territories.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“There is a dire need to create a mechanism under the auspices of the United Nations to protect the Palestinian people through a group of observers who submit periodic and prompt reports to the Security Council. The Secretary-General has submitted a report (A/ES-10/794) to the Security Council and the General Assembly on the establishment of an international mechanism to protect the rights of the Palestinian people, as requested in General Assembly resolution ES-10/20 of 13 June 2018. Despite that effort, the report remains dead letter and the Security Council has taken no measure relevant to it.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“The Security Council should also intervene to protect the right of the Palestinian people to protest peacefully and express their legitimate stand against the occupation without being subject to vicious attacks by the occupying forces. Since the Land Day incidents of30 March 2018, more than 300 Palestinians have been killed and tens of thousands of others wounded. The demonstrators in question were all peaceful, defenceless civilians demonstrating for the right of return to their occupied territory. The occupation forces attacked them with live ammunition, in flagrant violation of every relevant law, without any accountability whatsoever.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“At the same time, it is incumbent upon the international community to reaffirm the illegality of such heinous racist laws as the new nation-State law adopted recently by the Knesset, which seeks to deny the Palestinian people of their rights to their historic territories by legislating settlement activities, the confiscation of land, the demolition of homes and the displacement of populations in flagrant violation of international law, international humanitarian law and international human rights law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention. The League of Arab States calls attention to the ramifications of those laws and their racist effects, which undermine the solid, inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, which are fully supported by the international community.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“The League of Arab States calls on the Security Council to oppose those colonial and expansionist plans, which are intended to change the historic, legal and demographic status of occupied Jerusalem, in order to protect the religious sites, sacred to all religions, and defend the identity of the historic character of Jerusalem by preserving the established and steadfast rights of the brotherly Palestinian people.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“The League of Arab States therefore condemns all Israeli settlement activities, including attempts by Israel to control the nomad communities in Abu Nuwar and Khan Al-Ahmar in order to establish a connection between Israeli settlements and East Jerusalem, the capital of the Palestinian State. Israel also continues to besiege Jerusalem by surrounding the outer band of the city with settlements, in addition to other projects implemented under the guise of tourism, such as the high-speed train that is on its way to be expeditiously implemented. Another project is the creation of a recreational park connecting the Mount of Olives settlements facing the Al-Haram Al-Sharif from the east.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“In that regard, the League of Arab States reaffirms the need to guarantee the right of return of the Palestinian refugees to the occupied Palestinian territories, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 194 (III) of 1948, and to uphold the cause of refugees as a final-status issue that must be settled definitively through direct negotiations between both the Palestinian and Israeli parties. At the same time, the increased pace of Israeli settlement activities presents a great challenge to the peace process in the Middle East, as well as a gross violation of international law and resolution 2334 (2016).”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“We welcome the strong international support that has been provided for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), enabling it to carry out its noble mission to respond to the humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people and to counter the negative effects of the United States decision to cease its financial support for the Agency, which resulted in a budget gap that was more than bridged by States which believe in the just cause of refugees, most notably the Arab States.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“Accordingly, the League of Arab States reaffirms the illegality of the United States decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital ofIsrael and to move its embassy there. Furthermore, the League thanks those States that refused to cede to the pressure and decided not to relocate their embassies. We also express our gratitude to those States that rejected implementing prior decisions in that regard as a sign of upholding international multilateral legitimacy. The League calls on all States to remain committed to rejecting the fierce campaign to remove the issue of Jerusalem from the five final-status issues.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“That in itself constitutes a terrible failure of the international multilateral order and the steadfast positions laid out in the resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly, which indicate broad international consensus in support of the just Palestinian question and rejection of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and all unilateral Israeli practices in violation of international agreements. The League of Arab States supports the commendable stand taken by States and peoples of all geographical groups to resist pressures to move their embassies to Jerusalem, which runs contrary to international legitimacy and all relevant United Nations resolutions.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“Today's meeting of the Security Council is being held in the absence of any clear prospect for a peace process in the Middle East, and in the light of intentional disregard for the main international terms of reference of the peace process, including Oslo and Madrid accords, including the Arab Peace Initiative, the international Quartet road map, the principle of land for peace, the two- State solution and the 4 June 1967 borders.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“The League of Arab States looks forward to the Security Council and the General Assembly supporting that plan so that we see the establishment of an independent Palestinian State with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375Resumption1 (2018) · source
“On 20 February, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas presented to the Council a practical plan for peace through direct negotiations between Israel and Palestine, based on the two-State solution, the principle of land for peace, the Arab Peace Initiative and other terms of reference that would lead to the establishment of an independent Palestinian State along the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, before the beginning of next year. That should be achieved through negotiations on all final-status issues without exception and without biased external intervention. He reaffirmed the elements of that plan in his speech before the General assembly at the beginning of its seventy-third session.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375Resumption1 (2018) · source
“Holy sites should be protected by addressing attempts by Israel to enact a law that permits Jewish worshippers to pray at the Holy Mosque, which is a flagrant violation of the status of Jerusalem as a symbol of coexistence among faiths. There is also the issue of providing protection for the Palestinian people in Gaza against the destructive impact of Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, which undermines Egypt's tireless efforts to achieve the desired Palestinian reconciliation.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375Resumption1 (2018) · source
“It is a solid foundation for the Security Council to regain the initiative on that important issue and to work with the General Assembly to adopt an effective mechanism that will provide protection in all its forms: physical protection from armed aggression against the defenceless Palestinian people; legal protection in the face of the nation-State law of the Jewish people, which denies the Palestinian people any connection to their historic land; and the protection of Palestinian territory against settlements that contravene resolution 2334 (2016). Israel's action to demolish Khan Al-Ahmar village and other Bedouin communities in order to establish geographic contiguity between East Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Palestine, and the neighbouring Israeli settlements is unacceptable.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375Resumption1 (2018) · source
“We call on the Council to take action in order to implement the Fourth Geneva Convention and the new internationally agreed humanitarian concepts in the occupied Palestinian territory, particularly those of the responsibility to protect and human security, which are established foundations for the protection of the Palestinian people from a reckless occupying Power that violates all their rights, including their right to peacefully demonstrate against occupation. In that regard, the recent report of the Secretary- General submitted at the request of the resumed tenth emergency special session of the General Assembly includes alternatives for action.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375Resumption1 (2018) · source
“That fierce attack has been exacerbated by the Israeli inhumane practices against the defenceless Palestinian demonstrators since the beginning of the Great March of Return this year, when more than 200 people were martyred and nearly 5,000 injured. Most recently, an Israeli attack claimed the lives of seven martyrs east of Bureij camp in the Gaza Strip. Such practices require decisive action by the Security Council, the Human Rights Council and the International Criminal Court so as to end Israel's violation of its commitments as the occupying Power in line with the Charter of the United Nations, international law and international humanitarian law and human rights law.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375Resumption1 (2018) · source
“Such actions attempt to settle the issue of Jerusalem, the most critical final-status issue, in favour of Israel by means of an illegal acknowledgement of Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel and the transfer of the United States Embassy to that city. Another example is the ending of funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, which is an attempt to undermine the will of the defenceless Palestinian refugees to exercise their inalienable right of return to their occupied territories, while resolving the matter of the refugees, which is the second final-status issue, in favour of Israel.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375Resumption1 (2018) · source
“This meeting is being held at a critical time. The credibility of the multilateral system is at stake, particularly that of the Security Council as it addresses flagrant violations of international legitimacy and defends the firm and established foundations of the peace process in the Middle East, which is subjected to fierce attack. The League of Arab States warns against the grave threat to the main principles of the United Nations peace process, in particular the two-State solution, the principle of land for peace and the five final-status issues. All those principles are under fierce attack by unilateral, irresponsible decisions that seek to change the facts on the ground through unilateral actions, without negotiation, in contradiction to established international legitimacy.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375Resumption1 (2018) · source
“In conclusion, the League ofArab States affirms that this ugly racist law and all similar laws imposed forcibly by the Israeli occupation are null and void. They are not legitimate, as declared by the international community. We call on the international community itself, with all of its States and organizations, to assume its responsibility and force Israel to respect international law and recognize the rights of the Palestinian people. This will not happen without establishing a clear mechanism to protect the defenceless Palestinian people from the tyranny of the Israeli occupation. In that context, we look forward to the proposals of the Secretary-General and the support of the Security Council and the General Assembly for those recommendations.”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“It encourages settlement-building in a new step to annex the West Bank, consecrate racism, legitimize the apartheid exercised by the Israeli Government on ethnic, religious and linguistic grounds, and entrench the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians within the Green Line as a way to maintain the Jewish identity of the State. The League of Arab States strongly condemns this law enacted by the Knesset, which denies the right ofthe Palestinian people to their historic land and perpetuates horrendous colonialism and racist Israeli practices against the Palestinians by means of using force to impose a de facto situation on the ground, expropriate land, demolish buildings and build settlements.”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“Since the United States stopped supporting UNRWA and in accordance with confirmed 2018 pledges of $716.88 million, as published by UNRWA, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait alone have pledged more than $200 million, in addition to smaller contributions made by other Arab countries. Those donations were made despite the fact that none of those countries contributed to the Palestinian refugee crisis. Lastly, Israel's defiance of the international community reached its peak when the Israeli Knesset recently adopted its nation-State law, stipulating that the State of Israel is for Jewish people alone, not for Palestinians. Hebrew is the official language, not Arabic. Immigration into Israel is permitted to Jews, not to Christians, Muslims or others.”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“Despite the pledges made at the UNRWA conference held on 25 June, and given the international community's belief that supporting UNRWA is one way to help resolve the refugee issue, the United States and Israel have a moral and financial responsibility for the Palestinian people until the refugee problem has been settled as one of the final-status issues. I would like to reply to certain comments made today by saying that Arab and Islamic Governments and peoples are no less generous than the Governments and peoples of the United States and other donor countries, to which we express our deep appreciation. Arab and Islamic countries have contributed billions of dollars to support UNRWA over the years to ease the humanitarian suffering of Palestinian refugees. Allow me to correct false information.”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“Israel's continued closure of the Karm Abu Salem crossing and the prevention of basic needs from entering the Gaza Strip are yet further humanitarian obstacles that have led to enormous suffering and a massive spike in the prices of basic goods, in particular as 49 per cent of Palestinians in Gaza are unemployed. The United States decided to stop financing UNRWA and froze its economic aid for the Palestinian Authority. Israel refuses to transfer taxes and custom fees to the Palestinian Authority, as it must pursuant to the Paris Protocol.”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“The Israeli aerial bombardment of Gaza on 13 July, which targeted women and defenceless children, only strengthens our conviction that we need an effective international mechanism to protect the Palestinian people against barbaric Israeli aggression, in accordance with the aforementioned General Assembly resolution. The League of Arab States expects the Council to support the establishment of this mechanism by upholding important humanitarian principles, at the top of which is the responsibility to protect and human security, which are applied effectively by the Council in other parts of the world but not enforced in Palestine.”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“Furthermore, the Israeli settlement expansion is not only overwhelming, but has been extended to include a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people. Since the events of Land Day, on 30 March, and according to the Israeli authorities, the Israeli army has killed more than 150 defenceless Palestinian demonstrators, including at least 22 children, and injured more than 15,300, some of them critically. This has occurred despite resolution ES-10/20, which was adopted by the General Assembly at its resumed tenth emergency special session on 13 June, calling on Israeli forces to stop their use of live ammunition against the defenceless Palestinian people and to protect the right of Palestinians to peaceful demonstration, in accordance with their commitments as an occupying Power, under the Geneva Conventions.”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“The forced displacement of Abu Nuwar and Khan Al-Ahmar Bedouins - with their houses, schools and health centres demolished, despite the fact that 53 per cent of them are children and 95 per cent are registered as refugees with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) - is yet another Israeli attempt to create an illusion of Greater Israel by preventing refugees from returning to their land, seizing the land of Bedouin Palestinians and demolishing their homes in order to expand the illegal settlements of Ma'ale Adumim and Kfar Adumim, make them contiguous to occupied East Jerusalem and end the desirable contiguity for the West Bank.”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“It pursues its policy of entrenching the occupation and undermining the prospects of the Palestinian people establishing its independent State, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in a useless attempt to eliminate the concept of the two-State solution, which is the essence of the peace process. Israel continues its illegal settlement policy in clear and grave violation of resolution 2334 (2016). This policy poses a serious threat to the peace process, as Israel is relentless in its attempts to remove 46 Bedouin groups, totalling more than 10,000 Palestinians, in order to prevent them from returning to their land in southern Israel.”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“The Security Council meets today against the backdrop of an unprecedented and very serious Israeli escalation of the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. It is a blatant violation of international law that undermines the ability of the Security Council and the international community to achieve a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East. Despite repeated international appeals to Israel, the occupying Power, to respect its obligations under international law, including the Charter of the United Nations, Security Council and General Assembly resolutions, international humanitarian law and international human rights law, Israel continues to disregard them.”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“We are sure that the Arab world is able to overcome its current crisis and move towards achieving peace, development and progress.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“They should commit themselves to the Charter of the United Nations and to Security Council and General Assembly resolutions, in particular when it comes to the creation of an independent Palestinian State within 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and to making the Middle East a zone free of nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction. They should also stop trying to impose hegemony on the Arab region or any part of it. In that regard, the League of Arab States would like the Secretary-General to play a more effective and pivotal role in the political sphere, through his good offices, in re-establishing peace and stability in the region and ridding the Middle East of weapons of mass destruction.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“How can we speak about trust when Israel and Iran continue to develop their undisclosed nuclear capacities and when Iran flagrantly interferes in the internal affairs of Arab countries by providing support to organizations that are opposed to the Arab Governments on ideological and religious bases? The League of Arab States believes that a regional dialogue based on a format similar to Helsinki could be a positive development, but only if it were based on practical processes that could bring about a just and comprehensive peace, and provided that the territorial sovereignty of Arab countries were respected, that all parties undertook not to interfere in internal Arab affairs and committed to respecting States' regional unity and respecting international legitimacy, international law, international humanitarian law and human rights law.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“President, to launch a regional dialogue similar to the Helsinki process that was launched in Europe in the 1970s, with the participation of foreign partners, such a process should be based on the Arab Peace Initiative and on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian nuclear programme, in order to foster trust among Arab countries and Israel and Iran. Such a proposal is not being made for the first time. The main thing that we need to ask ourselves here is what sort of trust we are talking about. Israel continues to occupy territories in Syria, Palestine and Lebanon and obstructs the establishment of a Palestinian State with East Jerusalem as its capital, and is supported in its positions by foreign Powers.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“We see that Arab conflicts have become proxy wars for the major Powers, which limit our capacity as Arabs to do away with the conflicts once and for all and to develop ourselves. That is not really what these major Powers should be doing in terms of their responsibilities at the international level, especially when they are permanent members of the Security Council. We do not have enough time to delve into an in-depth analysis of the root causes of the conflicts in Middle East. It is a complicated issue where everything is interconnected that would require many meetings. But I would like to conclude with a final point. With regard to your proposal, Mr.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“That clearly shows that we need positive efforts in order to resolve the differences between Arab countries and to strengthen common Arab action, particularly since the Arab countries have all the necessary human and material resources to do so. Fifthly, the Middle East region, in particular the conflict areas, has become a battleground between the major Powers. We have seen the use of the veto by the major Powers in the Security Council, particularly when it comes to issues relating to Palestine and Syria and other urgent Arab issues. That is clear proof that the major Powers use the destiny of our peoples and countries to strengthen their areas of influence and power in order to forge regional alliances, while ignoring the great human and material suffering that this imposes on the peoples of the Arab world.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“Some support the Shiites to destabilize the Sunni countries and give support to extremist terrorist groups such as Da'esh, the Al-Nusra Front and others in Arab countries, in order to show that Governments are weak and rejected by the people. Fourthly, the Security Council and the international community wrongly interpret differences among Arabs, which contradicts its position in other parts of the world where there are different political groupings and where we see that the Council and the international community support the settlement of disputes. They put the common interests over and above individual interests without foreign intervention. What exacerbates the situation is the plethora of foreign mediators who have opinions differing from those of the Arab peoples and from those of the Arab States themselves.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“We see this very clearly in the increase in the number of flagrant violations and acts of interference in the internal affairs of Arab countries that support certain religious and ethnic movements, in order to defend restricted interests that have nothing to do with the aspirations of the Arab peoples for change. There are many clear examples of that. There are those that support the Kurds and incite them to declare their independence. Some support Hizbullah, Hamas or Islamic Jihad in order to impose their power and to stir up tensions between Israel and Palestine, rather than resolving the crisis. Others support the Muslim Brotherhood in order to revitalize the failed visions of previous empires.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“Furthermore, we see chemical weapons being used in Syria, and the United Nations is not even able to investigate and determine who is responsible. All of that indicates that the Middle East region could move into a new phase of an arms race for conventional, and perhaps nuclear, weapons in order to try to strike a certain strategic balance when it comes to armaments, particularly with the growing international concern about Iran's nuclear capability. Thirdly, some international and regional Powers wrongly interpret Arab trends towards change and development, particularly in countries that have experienced popular revolutions or societal movements since 2011 or in countries that have seen changes in their attempts to develop and modernize themselves.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“Secondly, the absence of a political horizon also relates to the ambiguity posed by an arms build-up in the region, namely, nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, and the absence of any efforts on the part of the three countries signatories of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) or of the Secretary-General to implement the fourth plan of action adopted by the NPT Review Conference in 2010 by holding an international conference for the establishment of a zone free of nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, which did not take place. The deplorable result is that Israel continues to maintain its nuclear capacity, about which we do not know anything and which is not subject to the safeguards guarantees of the International Atomic Energy Agency.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“Such negotiations will be replaced by an attempt to launch major economic projects in the West Bank and Gaza financed and supported by Arab countries and others. There is no doubt that the situation will not be helped by excluding Jerusalem from the final status negotiations, seeking a unilateral decision, averting the issue of refugees by failing to fund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or failing to fund the activities of the Palestinian Authority. There are also the attempts to stand in the way of Palestinians protecting themselves from Israeli military aggression. Some 13,000 have been injured and more than 130 have been martyrs, all of which shows that there need to be an exhaustive attempt to bring the peace process back on track to where it should be.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“First, there is a lack of a clear political end to the peace process in the Middle East that would take into account the plan submitted by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the Security Council on 20 February (see S/PV.8183), as well as various Arab League summit- and ministerial-level resolutions, particularly in the light of the United States Administration's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, defying the international legitimacy, all previous agreements and conventions and contradicting all the relevant General Assembly and Security Council resolutions. The media is also reporting that the United States will no longer pursue negotiations on the five final status issues as a basis for peace.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“The United Nations took part in order to ensure that all of its organs, particularly the Security Council, participated in the peaceful settlement of the dispute. That is the backdrop to the current situation. A fair examination by the United Nations of the causes for the start and continuation of the wars in the Middle East and for the Organization's failure to establish international peace and security in our region might highlight certain fundamental elements that can be summarized as follows.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“That endeavour began with the initiative of the late President Anwar Sadat, who visited Israel, the signing in 1978 of two Camp David framework agreements for peace between Israel and Egypt and Israel and Palestine, the two peace treaties between Egypt and Israel and Jordan and Israel, followed by the Oslo negotiations, the Madrid Peace Conference and the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative. All of those endorsed a two-State solution as the basis for a fair and comprehensive settlement of the conflict. A road map was adopted with the five final status issues, which continue to be the elements for a genuine peace process. In parallel, the Quartet was established to directly oversee the implementation process.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“Mr. Abdelaziz (League of Arab States) (spoke in Arabic): I would like to begin, Mr. President, by expressing the gratitude of the League of Arab States for inviting us to today's high-level debate and congratulating the delegation of the Russian Federation on its preparation of today's distinctive concept note (S/2018/524, annex). We would also like to welcome the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Russia, who has been presiding over this important meeting. As most speakers have said today, the Middle East is the cradle of civilization. But since the founding of the United Nations, it has witnessed several devastating wars in which international foreign Powers have participated. The wars in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973 opened the way for Arab countries to seriously seek a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“The League of Arab States and its member States call on all peace-loving countries to do the same and to express their rejection of Israel's candidacy, given that it is continuing to occupy territories in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon; to violate the norms of international law, humanitarian and human rights law; and to explicitly disrespect the international legitimacy of Security Council and General Assembly resolutions. Israel openly disrespects the United Nations and its principal organs and Member States - whose goal is to maintain multilateral international legitimacy, the Organization's solid foundation - by falsely accusing them of being biased against it.”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“Hence, on the basis of the provisions contained in Article 23 of the Charter of the United Nations, the 22 States members of the League of Arab States believe that Israel is not qualified to be a candidate for non-permanent membership in the Council for 2019- 2020, given that it lacks the main prerequisite needed as stated in that Article, which is to contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security and to achieve the lofty goals of the United Nations.”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source