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Aboul-Gheit

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first: 1999-08-25
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“Mr. Aboul Gheit (Egypt) (spoke in Arabic): In a few days, the third year of the intifada of the Palestinian people will begin. This week, the occupied Palestinian territories witnessed an escalation in the brutal violence being perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces. It witnessed the destruction and siege of the headquarters of the Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat. That violence, which has gone on for the past six weeks, comes at a time when the Palestinian people, in all their groupings and factions, have exercised self-restraint, hoping to achieve real detente, leading to a quieting of the situation in general, thus opening the way to serious negotiations for the two parties to achieve peace.”
2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614 (2002) · source
“Those forces will continue to attempt to obstruct our efforts to move towards the comprehensive final settlement." President Mubarak continued on to say that "The way to stand up to the enemies of peace is to move forward boldly and with determination in the peace process in order to give new hope to the Palestinian and Israeli peoples of achieving a future of prosperity and stability, away from the specter of violence and confrontation." My country will continue on that path. We hope and expect that all Powers with influence will shoulder their share of responsibility. Undoubtedly, the Security Council and all its members - and in particular the permanent members - bear special responsibility in this regard.”
2002-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4552 (2002) · source
“The latter would basically mean leaving the conflict unresolved and continuing the violence, without hope of seeing an end to it. Finally, it requires reaching a stable settlement would require providing the largest possible amount of economic support to Palestinians so that they may rebuild their institutions and the infrastructure of their society. We are confident that the international community will seriously take this fact into account. Seventh, Egypt is committed to the achievement of a comprehensive and lasting peace, to ending the suffering of the Palestinian people and to the provision of security to all without allowing any party to carry out acts of aggression. As President Mubarak said at Camp David on 8 June, "We must always keep in mind that there are forces that lack a conviction in this vision.”
2002-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4552 (2002) · source
“It further requires that, once the parties are convinced of its integrated and final objectives, the necessary settlement must be reached in accordance with the agreed frames of reference, foremost among which are the principles contained in resolution 242 (1967), the principles of the Madrid Conference and the Arab initiative adopted at the Beirut Summit. In that regard, there is also a need to reaffirm the vital importance that my country attaches to the question of the timeframe for the achievement of a comprehensive settlement and the need for the necessary guarantees not to impede the implementation of such a settlement. We also wish to reaffirm the need to overcome the tendencies aimed at maintaining the status quo and working under an interim settlement for a long period of time.”
2002-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4552 (2002) · source
“It also requires the warring parties - with the support of all interested international Powers interested in seeing the establishment of stability and peace in the region - to recognize that the objectives of a final and just settlement will be achieved by ensuring the right of Palestinians to establish a viable Palestinian State, with its capital in East Jerusalem, on the Palestinian territories occupied since 5 June 1967; as well as an agreement to provide equal security for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel, which must live in good-neighbourliness, within secure and recognized borders and in the framework of legal and security arrangements to be agreed upon.”
2002-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4552 (2002) · source
“Those include, for example, Israel's ending its blockade of the Palestinian people and their cities and stopping its incursions into Palestinian cities; the withdrawal of all Israeli forces to the positions they held prior to 28 September 2000; and an end to Israeli assassination, settlement and other subversive activities. There is also a need to end all the acts of violence that currently mar the Palestinian- Israeli relationship.”
2002-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4552 (2002) · source
“Sixth, Egypt believes that the objective of achieving peace in the Middle East is at a critical crossroads that calls for all parties and the international community, in particular the more influential members of the international community, to make every effort to establish the necessary climate for rebuilding confidence between the Palestinian and Israeli sides and to return once again to genuine political negotiations aimed at reaching a final and comprehensive settlement. We are fully convinced that doing this requires the following. It requires an attempt to rebuild the confidence that has been lost between the two parties through a number of measures and steps.”
2002-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4552 (2002) · source
“Security cannot be achieved through the colonization and settlement of Palestinian territories to satisfy certain tendencies or groups in Israel, whether under the pretext of security, religious rights, geography or anything else. Genuine lasting security can only be achieved through the establishment of confidence and the building of bridges, communication, good-neighbourliness, equality andjustice. Fifth, the Palestinian people are the only party entitled to choose Palestinian representatives. Therefore, the legitimacy of the Palestinian leadership emanates from the free choice of the Palestinian people, and not from any other quarters or with the backing of anyone else.”
2002-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4552 (2002) · source
“This was the concept that served as the basis for the convening of the Madrid Conference, in October 1991, at which all agreed to the principle of land for peace as a frame of reference. In this context, it came as no surprise that some in Israel tried to claim that the occupied territories were disputed territories. Resolution 242 (1967) did not refer in any way to such perverse and misleading logic. The Security Council has adopted more than one resolution, in the course of recent years and decades, that reaffirm the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention to the occupied Palestinian territories. Fourth, the settlement to be achieved for the Israeli and Palestinian parties must contain their conviction that security cannot be achieved through occupation or attempts at humiliation, repression or other such practices.”
2002-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4552 (2002) · source
“The international community will continue to call for an end to the occupation and to settlement activity, as well as for Israel to deal with the occupied territories and their inhabitants in accordance with the terms of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. It is pointless for Israel to cast doubt on the settlement principles that have been unanimously agreed by the international community since the Security Council adopted resolution 242 (1967), on 22 November 1967. We are all aware of the persistent Israeli attempts to cast doubt on that resolution, attempts that are not worthy of a reply. The resolution establishes the inadmissibility of the acquisition of the territories of others by war. As such it calls upon Israel to withdraw from the territories it occupied in 1967.”
2002-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4552 (2002) · source
“Secondly, the core of the current conflict between Israel and Palestine is the continued Israeli occupation of the territory of Palestine and of all the other territories occupied since 5 June 1967. The achievement of a just and final settlement of this conflict requires as a sine qua non that Israel withdraw from those territories. The mutual acts of violence that are currently being perpetrated will not come to an end so long as this occupation lasts, because this occupation represents an inhuman and immoral act of violence. Third, all attempts to circumvent or stall a peaceful settlement through manoeuvres and various ploys will be to no avail.”
2002-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4552 (2002) · source
“Mr. Aboul Gheit (Egypt) (spoke in Arabic): The Security Council is meeting once again to consider the sad and tragic situation prevailing in the Holy Land and in the context of the relationship between the Palestinian and Israeli peoples. My delegation would like to address this question by touching on a number of points. First, Egypt wishes to reiterate its opposition to the use of armed force to attempt to break the will of the Palestinians who are resisting the Israeli occupation and the colonization of their land by settlers from Israel and other parts of the world. This will never achieve the objectives of Israel nor provide lasting security for its citizens.”
2002-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4552 (2002) · source
“The investigation that the Council requested into violations of the sanctions imposed on the rebels in Sierra Leone and Angola and into the plundering of the resources of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has led to the naming and shaming of those parties and entities involved in violating those sanctions. The Working Group's review of the Council's pledges will, perhaps, increase the Council's own enthusiasm to redouble its efforts to implement what it has promised and to follow-up on what it has previously pledged with regard to Africa.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“I should also stress that the most valuable contribution that the ad hoc Working Group can make is to review all the resolutions, statements and declarations adopted by the Council, starting perhaps with the resolutions on Somalia adopted since 1991, moving on to those adopted pursuant to the report of the Secretary-General on the causes of conflict in Africa and ending with the presidential statement of 31 January. The Working Group could then assess which pledges the Council has kept - and they are many - and which promises did not materialize - which are also many.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“If the Security Council were to play a role in election monitoring, we would suggest that such a role be confined solely to the Council's announcing its political support for the conclusions of United Nations election observers and their requesting all national parties concerned to respect the recommendations of observer missions. Finally, the meeting today will undoubtedly result in the presentation of innovative ideas and varied suggestions on how to enhance the role expected of the Security Council with regard to Africa. Once again I feel obliged to express our appreciation for the increased political will that the Council has been displaying to shoulder its responsibilities towards the continent, as it has done with regard to Sierra Leone and Angola and as it is doing now with regard to the Great Lakes region and Ethiopia and Eritrea.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“That can be accomplished, in particular, by holding institutionalized consultations with the ad hoc advisory group that is currently being established for African countries emerging from conflict, as well as by tasking the chairman of the Security Council's ad hoc Working Group with holding regular consultations with the President of the Economic and Social Council on actions needed with respect to specific African countries in order to prevent the eruption of conflicts or to prevent their resumption during the post-conflict peace-building phase. We would like to stress the primary role that the General Assembly must play in election monitoring by, inter alia, supervising the activities of the Electoral Assistance Division of the Department of Political Affairs.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“Not only did the Council fail to respond to those initiatives but some of its major members worked to hinder and abort them. What is needed here is for the Security Council to appreciate that Africa and its organizations have their positions and interests with respect to the maintenance of peace and the resolution of conflicts in the continent. Fifthly, while we consistently reaffirm the need to respect the competencies and jurisdictions of the other primary organs of the United Nations, there are a number of other ideas contained in the programme of work of the ad hoc Working Group for which the delegation of Egypt would like to express its support. Among those ideas is enhancing coordination with the Economic and Social Council.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“In the past, we have seen a number of cases in which the Council - or more specifically, some of its more influential members - has taken a path contrary to the one proposed by the OAU or by the subregional organization directly concerned with the issue. In the past, for example, the Economic Community of West African States adopted a position during the outbreak ofthe crisis in Sierra Leone in May 2000 but that position received no response. The States of West Africa had previously taken a common position on how to address the situation in Liberia; that situation was not addressed. More recently, the Community of Sahelan Saharan States - on whose behalf the Ambassador of Libya will speak later - adopted tangible initiatives to prevent the situation in the Central African Republic from escalating.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“Here, as a first step, the Council could demonstrate its interest in responding to this suggestion by involving a representative of the OAU secretariat in the working mission that it agreed to send to Somalia in accordance with the presidential statement it adopted on 28 March. Fourthly, we hope that these suggestions will be translated into specific actions to strengthen the relationship between the Council and the African continent and subregional organizations. It is most important, therefore, that the Council pay due attention not only to ascertaining the common positions of Africa but also to responding to African requests as far as possible before proceeding to take any decision or action regarding the maintenance of peace and security in the continent.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“We would also suggest considering convening regular meetings, perhaps once every year, between the Security Council and the Central Organ, similar to those that the Council has become accustomed to holding during the last two years with the members of the Political Committee of the Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement in the Democratic Republic ofthe Congo. Finally, the delegation of Egypt has previously suggested that the Council seek to involve a representative of the secretariat of the OAU in the missions dispatched by the Council to various regions, such as those that visited the Great Lakes region, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia-Eritrea.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“For example, an institutionalized channel for consultation and the exchange of information could be established between the Central Organ of the OAU Mechanism on Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution and the Security Council's ad hoc Working Group that would allow the Council to be accurately apprised of the positions taken by the OAU on the issues under consideration. The Permanent Observer of the OAU in New York and the Permanent Representative of the country chairing the Central Organ could serve as the contact points so as to enable the Working Group to listen to Africa's common voice on African issues under consideration by the Council.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“The Council has taken it upon itself today to listen to the views of non-members and the necessary objective of this meeting should be to strengthen our conviction that our positions will be considered and that our concerns will be taken into account. Thirdly, concerning the issue of enhancing cooperation between the Security Council on the one hand and the OAU and African subregional organizations on the other, the delegation of Egypt acknowledges that the subject has indeed recently received the increased attention it deserves. Everyone now recognizes that the Council cannot act on its own or in isolation from the political and security arrangements already in place in the continent. We should like to propose a number of specific methods for enhancing this relationship.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“Secondly, I find it important to refer here to a similar open debate in the Council in January last year. That debate, like this one, was held under the presidency of Singapore. It addressed the issue of enhancing cooperation between the Security Council and countries contributing troops to United Nations peacekeeping operations. It appears to us that many of the constructive views and suggestions put forward by the troop-contributing countries at the time - which were compiled by the delegation of Singapore in a non- paper, for which we are grateful to the delegation of Singapore - were, unfortunately, not incorporated into operations on the ground nor were they reflected in the mechanism for consultation with the troop-contributing countries that was established by the Security Council at a later stage.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“While it is hoped that the Group will be able to propose concrete, realistic and workable recommendations to the Security Council, the delegation of Egypt would like to stress above all a central and primary point: the need to consider the points of View to be expressed today by the non- members of the Council - especially the African countries, which are supposedly the parties directly concerned - if we are to attain the objectives of monitoring the results of the Council's previous interests in Africa, enhancing cooperative relationships with the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the subregional organizations in the continent, and developing the relationship between the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council on issues related to Africa.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“I would like in this context to express in particular our appreciation for the initiative of the Permanent Representative of Mauritius, Ambassador Jagdish Koonjul, that led to the establishment of the Security Council's ad hoc Working Group on Conflict Prevention and Resolution in Africa and the elaboration of its terms of reference and programme of work. In light of my delegation's interest in the subject under consideration and our anticipation of a positive outcome from this meeting, allow me to address a number of specific points that we feel deserve to be highlighted. The delegation of Egypt agrees with the broad outline contained in the terms of reference of the Working Group, including its mandate and the programme of work agreed to following its first meeting on 22 March.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“Mr. Aboul Gheit (Egypt) (spoke in Arabic): I would like at the outset to extend to you, Sir, our thanks and appreciation for convening and presiding over this important meeting, which comes at a time that is witnessing a number of developments on the African scene - some positive and others discouraging - and thus requires an assessment of the expected role of this Council vis-a-vis Africa and an assessment of that role against the efforts currently being made to resolve the continent's conflicts and to assist it in overcoming the difficulties and obstacles it faces.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“We prefer to make this particular statement before the Council in order to point out once again the unprecedented policy of double standards - this moral dysfunctioning - which is extremely dangerous and which jeopardizes the world order that emerged after the Second World War and its accompanying tragedies. Images of that war are now repeated before our eyes. The most recent such image was that of a heavy Israeli tank that just yesterday stopped in a street of Nablus and shelled the surrounding buildings. The Security Council looks on in silence. The Security Council has lost not only its credibility before the international community in the context of this conflict, but also its authority in the face of a State that violates and derides international law and legitimacy and all the noble principles of that law.”
2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525 (2002) · source
“We deeply regret that today the Security Council is sending a clearly disturbing message to the Palestinians and to other peoples around the world that might some day come before the Council to plea for protection and justice. The Council's message is one of powerlessness and silence, revealing the Council's inability to maintain international peace and security; it demonstrates that the Council is often strong and united in the face of the innocent and the weak but not in the face of aggression. At this stage in the Council's discussions, my delegation has decided not to refer to all the events that have occurred in the West Bank and its cities. We have decided not to refer to the acts of aggression and the attacks that have occurred over a period of weeks.”
2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525 (2002) · source
“Regrettably, Israel continues to defy the Council, to show its contempt for Council resolutions and to hide behind certain powerful States members of the Council, convinced that those States will protect it and will disregard its actions, which are in violation of international law. We have no doubt that the Security Council has failed in the responsibility entrusted to it by the Charter: to maintain international peace and security. In fact, the Council has completely failed to preserve its credibility and that of its resolutions. The Secretary- General had to face those delaying tactics and tricks alone. Anyone who reads the Secretary-General's most recent letter to the Council will reach the same conclusion. In our view, the letter represents an indictment of all those manoeuvres.”
2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525 (2002) · source
“Despite all this, the Secretary- General attempted to satisfy the Israeli requests through negotiation. The fact-finding team was to include military and legal experts. The Secretary- General responded to requests for clarification. However, there were further delaying tactics and further attempts to gain or to waste time. On every occasion, at the request of the Secretary-General, the Council agreed to delay the dispatch of the fact-finding team for 24 hours in order to meet the requests of the Israeli Government, because the Council and the Secretary-General believed that Israel would promptly give its approval.”
2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525 (2002) · source
“Since 19 April, the Secretary-General has ceaselessly made intense efforts to implement the mandate entrusted to him by the Council. On 25 April, he quickly established a fact-finding team including personalities with internationally recognized skills. It caused the first episode in a long series of delaying tactics on the part of Israel, which continues to this very day. It showed the extent to which Israel defies the Council, its resolutions, the provisions of international legitimacy and the international community, and holds them in contempt. During the past two weeks, the Secretary-General has kept the Council informed of the Israeli Government's repeated delays in allowing the dispatch of the fact-finding team. The Council's credibility was thus jeopardized.”
2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525 (2002) · source
“Mr. Aboul Gheit (Egypt) (spoke in Arabic): On 19 April, the Security Council adopted a resolution welcoming the Secretary-General's initiative to send a fact-finding team to the Jenin refugee camp. The Security Council supported that initiative. At the time, we were delighted that, after difficult negotiations, such action could be taken to shed light on events in Jenin and in the Jenin refugee camp during the 13 days in which we witnessed Israeli aggression against the camp and saw the Israeli military forces defiantly use aggression as they destroyed homes and the infrastructure of an entire city. The Israeli occupation forces committed atrocities and violated international humanitarian law. The resulting acts can be described as war crimes.”
2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525 (2002) · source
“The success of the efforts by the international community in East Timor clearly reflects what success is possible when there is the international will. That is the will to promote and strengthen the principles of the United Nations Charter, namely, saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war, respecting human rights and the rights of the individual, establishing justice and complying with obligations under international law. Egypt attaches special importance to East Asia, with which we enjoy strong relations due to our long- standing diplomatic relations with that region. We welcome warmly the emergence of a new, friendly State joining the international community, a State whose people have worked hard to ensure peace, equality and justice, and whose will has finally triumphed.”
2002-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4522Resumption1 (2002) · source
“This independence will, without a doubt, safeguard stability and the achievements of the Transitional Authority. The security situation continues to represent a clear challenge vis-a-vis the achievement of complete stability in East Timor. Consequently, we support the principle of continuing the United Nations mission and reducing its size after independence. This would help provide the most appropriate conditions to guarantee security for the new, emerging State. My delegation subscribes to the mandate set out in the Secretary-General's report, namely, to give the administrative support and assistance necessary for the establishment of legal structures so that the country can maintain internal and external security.”
2002-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4522Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The Secretary-General's report lists those challenges as border demarcation, the return of refugees, the regulation of commercial activities in the border area, the strengthening of nascent governmental structures, including law enforcement and the judicial system, and the consolidation of the framework for economic and social development. However, all these factors have to be accompanied by the complete respect of the international community for the independence of East Timor, for non-interference in its internal affairs and for the guarantee of freedom of action and freedom of choice for the Timorese people represented by its elected leadership. The international community must also respect East Timor's free choice of its future and the model it will follow in its international relations.”
2002-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4522Resumption1 (2002) · source
“That effort has resulted in independence, and has made it possible for the Timorese people to overcome a very difficult period in its history and to build a new State in a climate of good relations and peace with its neighbours. We agree with the Secretary-General's logical analysis, as expressed in his recent report on East Timor, which refers to the numerous challenges that could be faced in the post-independence period. There is thus a need to act quickly in order to guarantee stability and efficient development for the new State.”
2002-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4522Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Mr. Aboul Gheit (Egypt) (spoke in Arabic): It is a pleasure for me to sit next to our brother and good friend, Mr. Annabi, as well as next to the delegation of Colombia. The Council is meeting today to celebrate a unique event - an event in which the international community has participated with a View to fulfilling the principles and purposes of the United Nations Charter and to achieving peace, equality and justice among peoples. The independence of East Timor will complete a very important political process in that territory - a process of reconciliation to which many influential actors have contributed, in particular Indonesia and many national Timorese leaders.”
2002-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4522Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The international community must fully back this concept and must use the ways and means necessary to bring about a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East, on the basis of the norms of international law and international agreements. It is essential that all parties recognize their responsibilities in this matter and act accordingly, taking into account the pressures of time and of the accumulating anger and hatred. We must therefore take immediate action to gain control of the situation, dispatch an international force immediately and insist on Israeli withdrawal from the reoccupied territories and the cessation of all military operations against the Palestinian Authority and its territory. We hope that the Security Council will rise to the challenges it faces and to the demands of this very serious situation.”
2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source
“First, there is no military solution to this conflict. Israel and its Government will eventually come to the conclusion that acts of resistance to occupation will not end until Israel ends its aggression and its occupation. Secondly, the settlement of the Palestinian question should stem from Israel's recognition of the inevitability of its full withdrawal from all the Palestinian territories occupied since 4 June 1967, thus realizing the legitimate national aspiration of the Palestinian people to establish a Palestinian State, with its capital in East Jerusalem. Thus, finally, measures could be agreed upon to provide security for everyone. All these elements possess the legitimacy of unanimous international acceptance.”
2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source
“The right of all peoples to resist foreign occupation is a legitimate legal right under international law and the United Nations Charter. To state otherwise is to confuse the facts and is a denial of internationally recognized legitimacy. It is not possible or conceivable to ask the Palestinian people to accept occupation, the settlements and the colonization of its land by aggressive groups living in the settlements with the support of the Israeli Defence Force, which is implementing a policy of oppression against the Palestinian people. I would like to make some final comments concerning the grave and tragic situation in the Middle East arising from the Israeli Government's actions. These observations are basically an attempt to find a way out of the crisis and to avert confrontation.”
2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source
“We have full confidence in the support of all friendly and principled Powers in rebuilding the institutions and infrastructure of the Palestinian Authority, which Israel has destroyed, and in the perseverance of the Palestinian people. These are two elements that will enable us to overcome the present crrsrs. What is required of the Council and its members, particularly its permanent members, is immediately to compel the Israeli Government to lift its siege on the headquarters of the legitimate, elected President of the Palestinian people, President Arafat, and to halt all desecration of Christian and Islamic holy places, particularly the Church of the Nativity, which is still hostage to Israel aggression.”
2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source
“The Security Council must today compel the Israeli Government to respect the freedom of action and movement of international relief organizations, such as the International Committees of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. What is required today of the States and organizations of the international community is to provide assistance and relief to the Palestinian people and to the legitimate Palestinian Authority, represented by President Arafat and his Government. We should start the process of rebuilding what has been destroyed by Israel's brutal aggression, which has left deep wounds in the physical well-being and in the psyche of the Palestinian people.”
2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source
“Also necessary is the Security Council's agreement immediately to dispatch an international force to verify a full Israeli withdrawal from the Palestinian territories, cities and villages that have been reoccupied since late March. One function of such a force would be to monitor the implementation of a ceasefire, the violence and the military confrontations and to protect the Palestinian people. It would also ensure that Israel does not in future resume the kind of practices, violations and aggression that have occurred in the past two weeks. In this connection, Egypt supports the comprehensive proposal submitted by Secretary- General Kofi Annan this morning.”
2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source
“The Council must act decisively and immediately to dispatch a mission of its members to investigate the devastation wrought by Israeli aggression on Palestinian cities, the crimes committed against the Palestinian people and the destruction of Palestinian infrastructure. This mission should be accompanied by representatives of all the bodies and organs of the United Nations system, of its Secretary-General and of humanitarian assistance and human rights agencies. The mission should submit a report to the Council within two weeks. On the basis of that report, we could consider the international community's options with respect to legal measures to address recent and ongoing events. The aggressors of right and truth will know thereby that they shall not escape the hand ofjustice.”
2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source
“It must affirm that it has not forgotten the lessons of the past century, when the international community stood resolutely against aggression and defeated it, erecting the pillars of a new world that today faces the open challenge of preventing history from repeating itself. We must reject the double standards, the violation of international law and the policies of arrogance and force that the Council has so far failed to deter. The Council and all its members, particularly its permanent members, must stand up today in defence of the principles of international law and international humanitarian law and compel Israel, the Power that has reoccupied the Palestinian territories, to respect them.”
2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source
“Mr. Aboul Gheit (Egypt) (spoke in Arabic): The Security Council has returned yet again to address the tragic results of the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian territories, people, institutions and infrastructure. Over the past few weeks, the Israeli Government has flouted the resolutions of the United Nations and the Security Council calling on it to withdraw from the cities, villages and territory that it has aggressively and unjustly entered and to respect the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Times of War. It has thereby challenged all the values and principles of international humanitarian law, and the civilized world must respond with deterrent measures.”
2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source
“First, all attempts to jeopardize the personal safety of President Arafat in his capacity as the legitimate President of the Palestinian people will be broken on the solid rock of Palestinian determination to maintain its national leadership and the entire world's support of that leadership. Secondly, the acts of the Israeli Government will, unfortunately, lead to further innocent victims on both the Palestinian and Israeli sides. We hope that the Council will succeed in fulfilling its responsibilities in facing the defiance and aggression of Israel.”
2002-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510 (2002) · source
“Therefore, we hope that the Council will call for immediate Israeli withdrawal so that the situation can be brought under control and so there can be an end to all acts of confrontation, allowing the opportunity for calm and for the entry of international observers in an appropriate and requisite number so that the situation may be stabilized, thus allowing implementation of the understandings and recommendations that we have already mentioned. This must be followed by the return to negotiations in order to achieve settlement on the basis of international law and the resolutions, agreements and understandings of which we are all aware. I wish to make a final comment. We emphasize this and call on the Council members to understand it, confident that they will agree with us on these particular points. We mean the following.”
2002-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510 (2002) · source
“Israel feels that the arrival of such a force refers to textual commitments in the Tenet plan and Mitchell recommendations, which contradict its expansionist policies and its policy of glorifying occupation and maintaining the land for the settlers at the expense of the future of the Palestinians and of international law. The Israeli Government's practices are deepening the conflict and the hatred. They threaten the future of coexistence and cooperation in that region. My country is at the very heart of that region, and thus we hope that the Security Council will understand the role it is called on to play and that it will carry out that role with the effectiveness expected of it.”
2002-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510 (2002) · source
“Despite the bilateral efforts by several parties of the international community and the forces that influence the international scene, the Security Council is called upon to stop the aggression, using the mechanisms available to it. It is called upon to order the immediate withdrawal from the Palestinian territories and to dispatch an international observer force to guarantee protection of the Palestinian people and to ensure that Israel will never again carry out aggression against the Palestinian territories. Until now Israel has rejected the proposal to send an international observer force to the Palestinian territories. On our side, we fully realize the reasons behind this intransigent attitude.”
2002-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510 (2002) · source