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Aboul-Gheit

lines on the record: 661
first: 1999-08-25
most recent: 2023-11-29
sittings or episodes: 72
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“No one wants that. All Libyans aspire to get past this difficult and delicate period safely so that they can move towards achieving stability at the end of this year, God willing.”
2021-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8820 (2021) · source
“We would underscore the danger of such a trend and its negative effects on Libyan stability. While we are totally convinced of the humanitarian needs in this regard, the demographic situation in Libya is sensitive, and anything affecting the current demographic balance in the country by settling hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals on Libyan territory would undoubtedly add a new element to the crisis and exacerbate its complexity. Finally, I would like to reiterate the position of the Arab League in favour of implementing the political road map and its agreed details, which enjoy the unanimous approval of the international community, including the holding of elections on time as agreed upon by all parties. Changing this would risk plunging the country once again into further darkness of political division and disagreement.”
2021-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8820 (2021) · source
“Some of the positive momentum made in the 5+5 Joint Military Commission has slowed or reversed. The unification of institutions is a critical aspect of the transition process in Libya that must be given due consideration. Completing the political transition in the country will depend on applying the principle of unifying institutions. Secondly, the Arab League has noted the trend whereby some parties are seeking to make Libyan territory into a transit zone for irregular migrants and asylum-seekers — numbering in the hundreds of thousands — who have illegally entered Libya in the hopes of transiting to third countries. Some parties, deliberately or otherwise, seek to turn Libya from a transit zone into a permanent zone of settlement for these migrants.”
2021-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8820 (2021) · source
“Regrettably, it remains far from being achieved. There is no doubt that the delays — indeed, the procrastination — of some in withdrawing foreign forces and mercenaries from Libya will have serious negative repercussions for the entire political process. Issues pertaining to the transition period in Libya are numerous and intimately linked. I would like to stress the need for all of these issues to be dealt with at the same time so as to ensure that the next stage is completed peacefully. Nevertheless, I would like to specifically dwell on two of them. First is the unification of State institutions, including military and security institutions. What has been accomplished to date in this domain is far less than expected. Neither the Governor of the Central Bank nor the President of the Supreme Court has been appointed.”
2021-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8820 (2021) · source
“I am saying explicitly that reopening discussion about the date of the elections would trigger a return to competition and conflict and would not serve the interests of Libya or Libyans. All participants in the second Berlin Conference in June unanimously agreed on the need for mercenaries, foreign fighters and foreign forces to leave Libyan territories. The Arab League believes that this is critical if the transition from chaos to stability, and from fighting foreign forces on Libyan soil to maintaining the independence and sovereignty of Libya and ending foreign interference in its internal affairs, is to succeed. The withdrawal of foreign forces without further delay is a fundamental principle of the political process; it was agreed at the first Berlin Conference and reiterated at the second.”
2021-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8820 (2021) · source
“The League of Arab States is working tirelessly to encourage brotherly Libyans, regardless of their political or geographic affiliation, to move on from the mindset of competition to that of consensus — at least during the next few months — so as not to squander this opportunity and to work tirelessly to remove all the obstacles, be they legal, constitutional or logistical in nature, that are hindering the convening of elections on the agreed date. Indeed, the holding of presidential and legislative elections on 24 December will be a milestone in the process to save Libya and preserve it as a unified State that enjoys full sovereignty over all of its national territory.”
2021-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8820 (2021) · source
“Indeed, slowing down or stopping the process would be a real source of disappointment and deep frustration for the Libyan people, who have placed great hope in the political process and its potential to bring the country out of the abyss into which it has been plunged for over a decade. We all followed the deliberations in the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum in Geneva at the beginning of this month and saw the outcome — the inability to agree on a constitutional foundation for elections to be held on 24 December. This inability to reach consensus and unanimity reflects the primacy of narrow interests and reminds us of the divisions that we thought we had overcome in order to build a future for all the Libyan people, both in the east and in the west.”
2021-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8820 (2021) · source
“At the outset, I would like to thank the French presidency for convening this timely meeting. As the Security Council is aware, many of the parties to the Berlin process are concerned, if not demoralized, by the major delays that are hindering the political process and undermining the significant achievements made thus far. We are here today to reaffirm that the positive momentum that the political process has enjoyed since the first Berlin Conference must continue, as must ceasefire agreed in Geneva in October and the formation of the Government of National Unity and the Presidency Council, in addition to the agreement on the date for elections and the unanimous support expressed by the international community for the process at the second Berlin Conference last month.”
2021-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8820 (2021) · source
“In conclusion, I was appalled to hear a while ago a clear call to exclude Palestinian President Abu Mazen, characterizing him as not a true partner in making peace. Such rhetoric demonstrates ill intentions vis-à-vis the Palestinian President and a real cause for concern. This way of thinking clearly reflects a personal problem, because I strongly believe that if Abu Mazen does not sign, no other Palestinian will sign. Those are the ambitions and rights of a people and not a leadership problem. I heard similar rhetoric 15 years ago, targeting another Palestinian President. Both of them rejected the proposal and did not give up. The meeting rose at 12.40 p.m.”
2020-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8717 (2020) · source
“However, there is no doubt that such ideas cannot pave the way towards genuine security, lasting peace or a historic settlement to a conflict that has lasted for decades. We demand that the international community safeguard its credibility and uphold the principles it has established and called on the two parties to acknowledge. Those principles came to be required for a settlement, and most Palestinians believed in them and struggled for the last three decades to achieve them, since the signing of the Oslo Accords. If those principles are neglected, the credibility of the international community would be at stake and the position of the Palestinians, who have embraced the path towards achieving just peace and political settlement, would be weakened.”
2020-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8717 (2020) · source
“It should have been the outcome of direct negotiations. I have worked for decades towards achieving peace in the Middle East. I have learned an important lesson, namely, that there can be no lasting peace between two parties unless it is based on justice. There can be no peace in the Middle East if it means one party acknowledging defeat and forced to succumb. That would unfortunately lead to the continuation of the conflict. Dashing the national aspirations of the Palestinian people for freedom and independence while attempting to obliterate their national dream and push them to yield to an unfair settlement would be a major sin on an international level, were the international community to permit it. Perhaps the current balance of power today allows for ideas such as these to emerge.”
2020-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8717 (2020) · source
“It was a robust, clear and simple initiative presented to Israel, seeking normalization of relations with 22 Arab States — if Israel ended its occupation and allowed a Palestinian State to emerge along the 4 June 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, accompanied with an agreed solution for the refugees issue. Those are the principles of the Arab solution. Our initiative does not include details because we do not want to impose details. We want to help both parties reach a solution through negotiations — I repeat, through negotiations — between the two parties concerned. Turning to the United States plan, it undermines the very meaning of negotiations. There was no need for the mediator to present a solution detailing what the lasting solution was to be, unless the two parties requested that.”
2020-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8717 (2020) · source
“This is a plan that practically suggests the creation of a single State with two categories of people: citizens enjoying full-fledged citizenship and others with no rights. This is shameful, as has been echoed here in the Chamber, along with condemnation and denunciation. Will the international community accept a new apartheid in the Middle East? On the holy land? The Arab and Palestinian position is not rejection for the sake of rejection. Neither is it allowing an opportunity to slip away, as some might say repeatedly, as if we were pleased to live in an endless conflicts and crises. We Arabs have a peace proposal as well, based on the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative.”
2020-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8717 (2020) · source
“First and foremost among those principles is that of land for peace, which means ending the occupation versus achieving security, recognition and the beginning of peaceful relations in exchange. The proposed plan includes new parameters that can be summarized as follows: granting land, settlements, Jerusalem and security to Israel and then normalization and peace — also for Israel. As for the Palestinians, they will merely get a dismembered territory, without sovereignty or Jerusalem and without an acceptable solution to the problem of refugees. In short, this is not even tantamount to full autonomy, let alone an independent State. The plan does not propose the two-State solution, even if it mentions it. What it proposes falls well short of that.”
2020-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8717 (2020) · source
“It is as if the plan had been drafted to be rejected by the Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims, and then be imposed unilaterally, leaving us to face a new version of unilateral withdrawal plans promoted by the Israeli right but under the slogan of a permanent solution. All of this negates the basis of neutral mediation. In principle, we welcome the interest of the Government of the United States to seek a political settlement to this conflict. We welcome this initiative; but, unfortunately, we found that the proposed plan contravenes the principles that the United States itself set out as the basis for a lasting solution when it committed to a political settlement for the Israeli-Arab conflict 40 years ago.”
2020-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8717 (2020) · source
“The presentation of the United States plan was preceded by many proactive measures, as mentioned by President Mahmoud Abbas, all of which would have a direct impact on the issues that were agreed upon in Oslo to be negotiated, such as Jerusalem and refugees. These measures are clearly geared towards settling those issues for the benefit of the Israeli side, prior to any negotiations. Then came the plan as if it were the outcome of negotiations between the mediator and Israel. Palestinians were not consulted, as we heard, much less informed about the content of the plan, which directly impacts their fate. It is now being demanded that they accept the plan and succumb, or subsequently be obligated in the near future to accept its unilateral implementation.”
2020-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8717 (2020) · source
“As embodied by the Security Council, and more broadly by the United Nations, international law constitutes the primary support for the Palestinians in this protracted conflict, even before the support of their Arab brethren. The Palestinian people, even with the support of their Arab brethren, do not have a choice but to remain steadfast on their land first and then call for the Council’s sense of justice and fairness. Direct negotiations, which should have led to a road map for a sovereign and independent Palestinian State along the 4 June 1967 borders, nearly 50 years ago, regrettably did not lead to anything.”
2020-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8717 (2020) · source
“In my capacity as the representative of the League of Arab States, I address the Security Council following the League’s ministerial meeting that took a collective decision on 1 February to reject the peace plan for Palestinians and Israelis proposed by the United States of America on 28 January. That rejection did not come out of the blue or without explanation. There have been well-known and established givens in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, primarily the significant imbalance of forces on the ground between a party under occupation and another party, namely, the occupying Power. That has been set out for decades, but it is not the entire issue. In fact, international legitimacy is on the side of the Palestinian people.”
2020-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8717 (2020) · source
“It also affords the Council the added legitimacy and credibility it often requires to elaborate the most appropriate course of action and secure the requisite support for its decisions vis-a-vis our region.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“I remain equally convinced that advancing the cooperative partnership between the United Nations and the Arab League is an indispensable means of enabling both the Security Council and our regional organization to assume their inherent responsibilities and better discharge their duties in the promotion and maintenance of international peace and security in our region. This partnership alone is not sufficient to resolve the multiple emergency situations that atrophy the Arab region, yet it is an important prerequisite that embodies our collective political will to address these crises and act in a complementary manner that truly reflects the letter and spirit of Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“(spoke in English) Allow me, in conclusion, to clearly state that we are fully aware of the internal political dynamics surrounding the Security Council's approach - or lack thereof - to many of the complex crises afflicting the Arab region. I am confident that the Council also appreciates the complications and tensions that sometimes permeate our own Arab system and curtail its ability to collectively respond to the security challenges it faces. Yet these considerations should not be an excuse for inaction or lead to any abdication of the Council's commitment to upholding the foundational principles of international law.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“Attempts to resolve the Palestinian question outside the framework of international law, while ignoring the established final-status issues based on the two-State solution, or to create an alternative economic or development track perpetuating the occupation constitute a devastating blow to the international legal architecture, the credibility of the Security Council and the basic principles upon which the United Nations was founded. In this regard, I call on the Council to fully assume its responsibilities, without selectivity or double standards, to provide international protection to the Palestinian people, enforce all its previous resolutions and compel Israel to fully comply with implementing them.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“This is especially pertinent given Israel's continued oppressive practices against the Palestinian people and its feverish attempts to expand by annexing Arab lands, even to the point of doubting the Palestinian right itself and the just Palestinian question. Rather, it seeks to legitimize the occupation of the territory and then proceed to illegally annex it by recognizing occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, casting doubt over the just cause of Palestinian refugees, which the Organization has been sponsoring for 70 years. While I trust that the Council is fully aware of the consistent positions espoused by the Arab League on this issue over the decades, I also trust that it recognizes the gravity of the issues I refer to.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“There are also distinguished Arab institutions, such as Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, that are partnered with the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and support dialogue among religions and peoples in a way which promotes the culture of peace, moderation and tolerance in our Arab region and beyond. I believe that these contributions, among many others, all feed into the process of strengthening cooperative relations between the United Nations and the Arab League and demonstrate the benefits of the cooperation and complementarity that can and must be achieved between us. Sixthly and finally, it is incumbent upon me to once again warn against the dangers of maintaining the status quo of the Palestinian situation to the security and stability of the entire Middle East region.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“Other Arab countries - such as Kuwait, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar - are among the largest donors of humanitarian assistance to address the humanitarian crises in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia, as well as in supporting the budget and activities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. We all succeeded in bridging the gap in the Agency's budget last year, and we hope that this year will be just as successful. Arab countries have also exercised a significant diplomatic role in sponsoring historic reconciliations in the Horn of Africa and provided further financial and logistical assistance to the countries of the Sahel to enhance their capabilities to combat Boko Haram and other terrorist groups active on their territories.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“Other practices are being undertaken at the level of the Arab League thanks to his support. Fifthly, despite the severity ofthe challenges facing our region, the League of Arab States, as a regional organization and collective of its Member States, remains an active partner in the multilateral system and a major contributor to efforts to maintain international peace and security, not only in the Arab region but also in areas in geographic proximity to the Arab world and other crisis areas. Certain Arab States - like Egypt, Jordan and Morocco - are among the top troop- and police-contributing countries in United Nations peacekeeping operations.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“I believe that we must draw the lessons learned from these and other experiences and strive to replicate their positive results in other situations, whether existing or emerging, that require joint action to prevent the eruption or deterioration of conflicts, leading to their resolution and ensuring them against the possibility of reoccurrence. We also welcome, in this regard, the institutional support provided to us by the United Nations to strengthen the internal capabilities of the Arab League in maintaining international peace and security in the Arab region, which we hope to further develop to the point of establishing and deploying peace missions in the field to Arab crisis areas in the near future. This practice is highly useful and we appreciate the efforts of the Secretary-General and the important resources he provides to us.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“Fourthly, the cooperation that we aspire to achieve with the Security Council and United Nations agencies must expand to encompass all stages of early warning, mediation, good offices, preventive diplomacy, conflict resolution and post-conflict peacebuilding and peace sustainability. There are multiple examples of joint action that we have undertaken together in these fields, perhaps the most notable of which was the appointment of the Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States to Syria in 2012 and the establishment of the Libya quartet, which is comprised of representatives of the United Nations, the League of Arab States, the European Union and the African Union.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“We trust that this framework can be employed to further develop the cooperation we aspire to with the Security Council, not only in resolving armed conflicts but also in addressing all threats to international peace and security in the Arab region in its broader perspective, be it with respect to disarmament and the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, combating terrorism, the protection of civilians in armed conflict or humanitarian crises, the flow of refugees and internally displaced persons and irregular migration. I pledge to take care of and cooperate with the liaison office, providing it with all the support it needs to carry out its mandate in Cairo.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“The agreement and the mechanisms emanating from it, along with the preparations currently under way by the United Nations to open a permanent liaison office to the Arab League in Cairo - to which the Secretary-General has referred- provide a comprehensive framework for advancing the cooperation between the United Nations system and the Arab League.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“This form of cooperation provides a positive example that we hope will be followed to maximize the coordination between the Arab League, the envoys and senior officials of the United Nations and others concerning issues related to the Arab region. Thirdly, there is a long-standing history of institutional cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States in various areas of common interest to both organizations. We established an organizational framework for this relationship almost 30 years ago when the two sides signed an agreement on cooperation in 1989 and proceeded afterwards to update the text of the agreement by signing an additional protocol in 2016.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“Ghassan Salame, and his cooperation with the League of Arab States, especially during the current critical stage in Libya following the outbreak of hostilities around the capital Tripoli and the reversals in the political process that he used to oversee and which the Arab League fully supported and continues to support. We also highly appreciate the approach of the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East in regularly coordinating and interacting with the League of Arab States, especially to address the severe financial crisis that has afflicted the Agency's budget and endangered its operations in the service of Palestinian refugees.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“This request is not in fact entirely new; it merely requires the commitment to putting it into effect, as it already constitutes an established principle in the relations between the Council and other regional and subregional organizations. Secondly, there is a parallel need to advance the level of coordination and interaction with the Arab League on the part of the United Nations special representatives and envoys to Arab conflicts and areas of crises in a manner that truly results in a unified and common understanding of the causes of the eruption or continuation of these conflicts, leading to coordinated and complementary action by both organizations to resolve them. I commend in particular the commitment shown by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya, my dear friend Mr.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“To that end, allow me to present a number of observations and proposals. First, any fruitful cooperation between the League of Arab States and the Council should be underpinned by the establishment of a permanent and institutional arrangement for the exchange of information - transparently as well as frankly - between the two sides in order for the Council to be apprised of the views and assessments of the regional organization concerned and able to articulate the appropriate position and adopt the proper measures, in conformity with this vision and these assessments, when addressing any matter related to the region.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“My principal message to the Security Council today, as a representative of the oldest regional organization to be granted observer status in the General Assembly, in 1950, is based on our desire to establish a broad and solid platform to elevate the level of consultations between the League of Arab States and the Security Council and to consider ways and means to translate that coordination into further support that will advance the joint and complementary activities between our two organizations, similar to those arrangements in place with other regional organizations and in a manner that enhances efforts to maintain international peace and security in the Arab region and their credibility, in conformity with the provisions of international law, the objectives of our two organizations, and the principles and purposes of their charters.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“International solidarity is therefore essential in order to send an unequivocal and unambiguous message to all our neighbours that subversive activities are no longer acceptable and that concealing themselves behind regional proxies or through grey-zone operations that are non-attributable to their original perpetrators is a tactic that is rejected by all of us.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“The Arab leaders gathered in an extraordinary session and condemned the terrorist acts that targeted oil installations on Saudi territories and commercial vessels in the territorial waters of the United Arab Emirates. They further reiterated their full solidarity with both countries in the face of Iranian interference and practices, as well as the crimes perpetrated by the Houthi militias, supported by the regime in Teheran. I find it important in this regard to clarify that the maintenance of the security of the Arab region is a central condition for the preservation of the international security system, and that threats and acts which undermine Arab security will have serious consequences that will not stop at the borders of our Arab region.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“While the League of Arab States looks forward to enhancing the effectiveness of its partnership mechanisms with the United Nations, and with the Security Council in particular, to resolve these conflicts and crises and address all these challenges, it has also become determined to exercise a more effective role in contributing to the maintenance of international peace and security in our Arab region, defending the Arab national security of its member States and deterring the dangers that threaten them, all in accordance with the Charter and international law. The emergency Arab Summit that was held in Mecca on 31 May was the most recent and perhaps best testimony to this.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“In addition, I refer to the condemned and alarming developments with regard to the targeting of oil tankers in the Arabian Gulf yesterday and on 12 May, as well as the ballistic missile attacks on the territory of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia two days ago. These dangerous developments must, in our view, compel the Security Council to act against those responsible in order to maintain the security and stability of the region. Some parties are trying to set the region aflame, and we all must be aware of that.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“A host of additional factors have contributed to exacerbating all these conflicts and instigating turmoil elsewhere in the region, foremost among which are the unprecedented regional and international interference in the internal affairs of Arab countries; the spread of militias and armed groups that are fighting against national armies and challenging the authority of States and threatening their sovereignty and territorial integrity; and the growing threat posed by terrorist groups that are afforded support, funding and media platforms that allow them to commit their crimes and disseminate their message based on murder and hatred.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“That region will never enjoy security or genuine stability without an end to the Israeli occupation of the Arab territories in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, the establishment of the independent Palestinian State and the attainment of a just and comprehensive settlement to the Arab- Israeli conflict.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“As for Somalia, we continue to work with other partners, as the Secretary-General noted, in solidifying the pillars of security and stability and consolidating peace there and in the entire Horn of Africa, which is a region of direct geographic proximity and importance to the Arab world. Having said all that and more, I cannot neglect or ignore the centrality of the Palestinian question in the minds and conscience of the Arab peoples and leadership. The ongoing Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories is and will remain the main source of destabilization and radicalization in the Middle East region and beyond.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“The complex situation in Syria has entered its ninth year without the emergence of a genuine horizon for the political solution which the international community has called for since the eruption of the crisis in 2011. In Yemen, the Yemeni people remain the victims of a humanitarian crisis that results primarily from the insistence of an outlaw faction on seizing control of the capital of the country and posing a clear threat to Yemen's neighbours and to maritime navigation in its surrounding waters. Libya has fallen anew into military hostilities that have come to threaten its societal fabric and its chances of completing its political transition to preserve its unity.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“I also thank him for his commitment to the two-State solution. I speak today coming from a region rife with conflicts and deep crises, some ofwhich are excessively difficult to resolve. Those conflicts and crises have had a severely negative impact on generations of our peoples, who have fallen victim to vicious cycles of anger and frustration. As the Secretary-General noted, most of these conflicts and crises are on the Security Council's agenda, yet regrettably and for a variety of reasons, the Security Council has not been able, in some cases, to adopt a clear position towards them or act on those positions it had already reached.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“It gives me pleasure to extend my sincere congratulations to the State of Kuwait on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of June and to express my deep appreciation for the its role as the Arab member of the Council. I especially commend its initiative to convene this meeting in order to elevate the level of partnership between the League of Arab States and the Security Council within the general framework governed by Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing, and for his firm commitment to strengthening the cooperation and institutional coordination between our two organizations in a manner that enhances the complementarity of our activities in maintaining international peace and security in the Arab region.”
2019-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8548 (2019) · source
“I hope that it will be able to restore confidence and hope to the Palestinians and show them that the world will not abandon them and that they will not become forgotten statistics. The Arab League is fully ready to work with the Council to achieve the long-desired peace.”
2017-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7977 (2017) · source
“It is absurd, really, for a Government whose members do not accept the Palestinian right to an independent State to require that the Palestinians accept its State as a condition for negotiations. It is painful to recall that 50 years have passed since the occupation of the Arab territories. It is time to end the nightmare of occupation, which is the underlying cause of the increase in violence, radicalization and terrorism throughout our region. I have said for many years that violence and terrorism are the direct result of our failure to resolve the Palestinian issue. The world needs us to arrive at a just and lasting solution to the conflict, in order to pave the way for peace and development and enable the Palestinians to regain their rights. The Security Council must uphold its responsibilities in this regard.”
2017-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7977 (2017) · source
“We may have heard that a few days ago the Israeli Prime Minister called for the dismantling of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, accusing it of working against Israel. This is no surprise, because the Agency represents an international commitment to refugees. The Israeli Government is trying to bury this issue completely and erase it from the international agenda. Sixthly, addressing the issues of the border, security, Jerusalem and refugees is the basis for an acceptable and lasting solution, but the current Israeli Government continues to excel at framing the most complicated issues as though it were trying to kill all prospects for peace, for example requiring the Palestinian side to accept what is called a Jewish Israeli State and providing a minimum level of security guarantees.”
2017-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7977 (2017) · source
“Israel is in consistent violation of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, and, accordingly, it fails to meet the minimum conditions required to become a member of the Council. Accepting Israel as a member thereof would strike at the heart of the Council's credibility and give impetus to Israeli extremists and settlers. If Israel can normalize its international status so easily, what will induce it to engage in serious negotiations aimed at ending the conflict? It is bewildering, really, that Israel can find the courage to submit its candidature for membership in the Council. It never misses an opportunity to weaken the credibility of the United Nations.”
2017-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7977 (2017) · source
“Fourthly, the Arab Peace Initiative offers Israel a historic opportunity to normalize relations not only with its Arab neighbours but also with Muslim nations. The Amman summit of 29 March 2017 reaffirmed this initiative as a strategic Arab choice. However, I am compelled here to reaffirm the position of the Arab Summit: that Israel cannot reap the benefits of peace before achieving peace. Fifthly, Arab States have noted of late continuing efforts on the part of Israel, which remains, under all norms of international law, an occupying Power, to normalize its situation in the United Nations and its specialized agencies. Most significant in this respect are Israel's efforts to become a member of the Security Council in 2019-2020.”
2017-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7977 (2017) · source