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  1. “We hope that the tenor of the present debate will find its reflection in a strong, effective resolution that will enhance the reputution and credibility of the Security Council. If we aim for anything less, history will judge us very harshly.”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source

  2. “We hope that Belgrade and its collaborators will be listening carefully to this debate, We hope that they will heed the message of indignation coming from the Council. The sooner they lay down their arms and get on with the process of negotiation, the better it will be for everyone, including themselves. Turkish public opinion and especially our many citizens of Bosnian ancestry are appalled and outraged by the indescribable horrors inflicted on a peaceful nation. Our people are determined not to allow the naked use of force to be rewarded or the crimes committed in Bosnia to go unpunished. My delegation is duty bound to reflect these sentiments here in the Council.”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source

  3. “Furthermore, all concentration camps and other detention centres must be closed and all prisoners and detainees released. The accountability of the perpetrators of crimes against humanity has already been established by relevant Security Council resolutions. We are confident that a speedy process will get under way to gather and analyse information on the crimes that are being committed. The violators of international humanitarian law must be made aware that by pursuing the policy of "ethnic cleansing" they have violated the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, namely article Ii(c), which stipulates that the act of deliberately inflicting on an ethnic group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical Gestruction in whole or in part is an act of genocide.”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source

  4. “We expect this resolution to contain stern warnings to those who are resorting to force to comply with previo.s resolutions, end hostilities and get on with the business of reaching an overall political settlement through negotiations. We agree with Austria that provision must be made to establish secure regions under United Nations protection in Bosnia and Herzegovina where refugees can be looked after. We earnestly hope that the ideas contained in operative paragraphs 4 and 5 of the Turkish draft resolution will find their way into the resolution to be adopted by the Council. Tne flow of relief supplies and essential needs to the beleaguered people of Bosnia and Herzegovina must not be allowed to be disrupted, because it is a matter of life and death.”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source

  5. “As the situation stands, not only are the Serbian aggressors continuing to fight and grab more land, but they are also threatening the lives of literally hundreds of thousands of civilians by exposing them to starvation and disease in harsh winter conditions. At this fateful hour, the credibility of the Security Council is being tested. For well over six months a catastrophic war has been raging in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the conflagration threatens to spill over to other parts of former Yugoslavia. The time has come to tell Belgrade and the Bosnian Serbs that the patience of the international community is at an end. We expect the Security Council to adopt a resolution at the end of this debate which squarely condemns those who are responsible for the carnage and the suffering.”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source

  6. “Consequently we have included paragraph 7 in the Turkish draft resolution that has been prepared for the consideration of the Council, We strongly believe that, in the light of the horrors facing Bosnia and Herzegovina and our inability in the United Nations to reverse that situation, the least we can do is allow the heavily outgunned Bosnians to exercise their inherent right of self-defence against an enemy that threatens their very existence. So long as the Serbian side continues tio impose its w the use of overwhelming force, there will be no incentive for it to negotiate. If the Bosnian Government had adequate means to defend itselt, this would deter the agyressor from pursuing a policy Lased on the use of force and perhaps induce it to resort to dialogue to overcome differences.”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source

  7. “Everybody knows the sinister role played by the Belgrade regime through the Yugoslav National Army and the Serbian and Montenegran irregulars who are aided, abetted and comforted by Belgrade for tne purpose of creating a Greater Serbia. No evasion can hide these facts. We also know that, despite successive resolutions, the Security Council has thus far not been able to end the fighting. It is against this background that Turkey advocates the selective lifting of the arms embargo imposed by resolution 713 (1991).”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source

  8. “territorial integrity and unity of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the only basis for an acceptable peaceful solution. On the question of Bosnia and Herzegovina, we must confront the facts and understand their full implications. A Member of the United Nations, one in which all ethnic communities have lived for centuries in exemplary tolerance and harmony, is being dismembered and its people are being exterminated by the chauvinistic ambitions of a rapacious neighbour operating through its surrogates in that country. War is a terrible thing, and terrible deeds are committed in wartime by all combatants. But in the case of the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, there can be no doubt about who the aggressor is and who the victim.”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source

  9. “In this connection, we commend the untiring efforts of the Co-Chairmen of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia and strongly urge all parties to cooperate with them and to refrain from exploiting the Conference. We commend the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR), from its commander to its base units, for its professional competence, discipline and bravery while working under very difficult conditions. Within the context of the International Conference, we firmly suppert, in particular, the new proposals for a constitution for Bosnia and Herzegovina based on the principles of democracy, the protection of human and minority rights and the rejection of all plans based on ethnic or religious separation. The restoration of the sovereignty.”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source

  10. “The inadequate response of the United Nations has probably encouraged the Serbs to proceed with their land-grab and the attendant genocide. The Serbs in Bosnia and their sponsors in Belgrade would do well to realize that the international community cannot and will not remain indifferent to their acts of aggression and that they will be held accountable for their terrible crimes. In line with its international responsibilities, my Government continues to support all efforts to reach a peaceful settlement. We remain prepared to assist any concerted international action to bring about an end to the Bosnian tragedy.”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source

  11. “The Muslim and Croatian populations, in the territory controlled by Serbian authorities, live under enormous pressure and terror. Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to leave their homes and to abandon their belongings in order to save their lives". (jbid.. para. 6) Nothing could be more revealing of the lack of effective response to the plight of the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina than those candid observations. It is tronic that this failure comes at a time when we are exploring ways to uphold and develop preventive diplomacy, peace-keeping and peacemaking in our deliberations on "An Agenda for Peace". The core of the problem lies in the evil designs of the Serbian side and in the inability of the international community to deal effectively with these designs, which aim at creating a Greater Serbia by the use of force.”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source

  12. “annex, para, 5) The Special Rapporteur notes further that "the principal object: ve of the military conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina is the establishment of ethnically-homogeneous regions. Ethnic cleansing does not appear to be the consequence of the war, but rather its goal. That goal, to a large extent, has already been achieved through killings, beatings, rape, destruction o: houses and threats. Such practices have intensified in recent weeks and there is less and less resistance on the part of the non-Serbian population, increasing numbers of whom are ready to abandon everything and to flee their homeland. Recent events ... prove that Serbian leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina are not ready to desist in their plans.”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source

  13. “Mazowiecki observes that "widespread and seriois human rights violations continue to be committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina and, in certain respects, have intensified. These violations are being perpetrated at the very time the parties are entering into commitments at the negotiating table at Geneva. As a result of those violations, a great number of people are suffering and have lost their lives. Thousands more find their lives threatened and their human dignity violated. Unless immediate action is taken, many of them will not survive the coming winter. As indicated in the first report, the Muslim population are the principal victims and are virtually threatened with extermination". (§/24766,.”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source

  14. “The international observer forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina remain just that, observing the daily routine of wanton killings and destruction, the violations of human rights and the blockading of lifelines. Despite having been given the mandate, they still have no sontrol over heavy weapons which rain death and destruction on civilian targets. Nor have they yet secured the unimpeded flow of humanitarian relief to the starving victims. In short, their presence has not produced the anticipated results. The failure of the United Nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina is reflected in the grim contents of the report submitted by Mr. Mazowiecki, the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, as contained in document S/24766. In his report Mr.”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source

  15. “The plan called for an international military presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a force with a mandate to act in defence of the wictime of aacrereion. Sun a plan. energetically implemented at an early stage, would have sent a strong signal to Belgrade and its agents in Bosnia and Herzegovina that the international community would shoulder its responsibilities and stand by the victims of aggression. This might have acted as a deterrent and perhaps spared the Bosnians the unspeakable horrors they have experienced in the last few months. In the event, the action taken by the Security Council was well-intentioned but piecemeal and half-hearted. After months of frustrating attempts, a cease-fire continues to elude us, and "ethnic cleansing" continues unabated.”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source

  16. “The urgency of taking resolute and effective action has become all the more pressing in view of the continuing aggression by Serbian forces in brazen violation of Security Council resolutions, the appeals of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia and all norms of civilized behaviour. At the outset of the tragedy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, my Government proposed a plan consisting of a step-by-step approach to solving the problem, The plan called for political will on the part uf Governments and decisive action by the international community. It entailed a set of concrete measures designed to secure an immediate cease-fire and to create conditions that would prevent the aggressors from pursuing their violations of international humanitarian law.”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source

  17. “In joint letters addressed to the Council on 5 and 19 October 1992, circulated as documents S/24620 and S/24678 respectively, the members of the Contact Group of the Organization of the Islamic Conference on Rosnia and Herzegovina drew attention to the fact that aggression by Serbian elements in Bosnia and Herzegovina had continued while the humanitarian situation kept deteriorating. We, the members of the Contact Group, called for an immediate meeting of the Security Council to consider taking urgent action to restore peace and security in this critical region of the Balkans, We welcome the current meetings and hope they will yield results that will help bring to an end the tragedy unfolding in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source

  18. “Sadako Ogata, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, for the truly magnificent effort that she and her devoted staff have made for the benefit of the millions of people who have been rendered homeless in the former Yugoslavia. Also of great significance was the presence in this Chamber of Mr. Mazowiecki, the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights. His revealing reports on the human rights situation in the former Yugoslavia have helped us all to comprehend the true nature of the problem we are dealing with. The four introductory statements that we heard provide us with a clear picture of the tragic situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and should set the right tone for the debate.”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source

  19. “It gives me great pleasure to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of November. You are a veteran iu multilateral diplomacy with a very distinguishad record, and we are confident that under your guidance the Council will successfully carry vut its responsibilities. I would also like to pay homage to Ambassc1tor Merimee of France for the remarkable manner in which he conducted the work of the Council in October. We welcome Mr. Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen, Co-Chairmen of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, who are carrying out a task of historical importance. We also salute Mrs.”

    1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source