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Al-Kidwa

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  1. “At the present time, what must be done, and what is much more important, is to ensure that the necessary political will exists to implement those resolutions through the available machinery within the context of international legality. We wish to express our appreciation for the efforts made within the context of the international conference on the former Yugoslavia. We should like to pay particular tribute to the co-Chairmen of the conference, and to express our full support for the constitutional plan on the government and future authority of Che Repyblic of Boznia and Herzegovina. We hope it will soon be implemented. In that respect, we should like also to express our very deep admiration for che Secretary~-General's valuable efforts, aimed at ensuring the success of the conference.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  2. “The solution to this crisis, as in the case of other crises, may be, or - rather - should be, achieved through the straightforward implementation of the principles of the United Nations Charter, and strict adherence ta the neres and rules of international law. Foremost among those norms, rules and principles is the upholding of the sovereignty and the preservation of the territorial integrity of States, non-recognition of the rssults of aggression, the inadmissibility, in particular, of the acquisition of territory by force or by war. In addition, there is the need to ensure respect for the inalienable right of refugees to return to their homelands and to recover the properties they were forced to abandon. In our view, the Security Council has already adopted the necessary resolutions based on the aforesaid principles.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  3. “In this regard, we commend the efforts of many countries and international organizations, especially those by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Red Cross and many non-governmental organizations that have been providing humanitarian assistance. We should like also to pay tribute to the United Nutions Protection Porce (UNPROFOR) and ask that it be reinforced, at least for the purpose of improving performance in the provision of humanitarian assistance. We also call upon all parties to cooperate fully with the Force in providing humanitarian assistance and mitigating the suffering of the population there. We believe that the propossl calling for the establishment of safety zones under the protection of United Nations military forces should be supported as a temporary measure.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  4. “The countries of the Arab group should like to reaffirm here their condemnation of all the human rights violations and breaches of international humanitarian law committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially the atrocious practice of "ethnic cleansing" and the massive concentration camps. , These practices must cease. Their practical consequences must be reversed. We also underscore the need for the international community to meet the humanitarian needs of the population by providing foodstuffs and medical supplies, as well as all other necessities, as a matter of urgency.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  5. “We are also deeply concerned about the situation prevailing in other areas of the former Yugoslavia. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in our view, requires that the Council, as the authority with the prima responsibility for the maintenance of intecnaticnal peace and security, should take practical, immediate steps to put an end to the human suffering and to ensure complete implementation of its resolutions in that regard with a view to restoring stability and peace and to easuring coexistence and prosperity in Bosnia and Herzegovina and for its people.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  6. “Mr. AL-BLDWA (Palestine) (iuterpretation from Arebic): Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your essumption of the presidency of the Council for this meatb. I wish you every success iu your work. I should also like to cougiatulete Ambassedur Kerimee oo his successful presidency of the Councihi lest meath. I should like aleg to thank mll the meabers of the Council for giving ue the oppurtuaity to speek today. t spwes vo behelf of Falustine and the Group of Areb States io the United Metiuas, io wy capacity es Chei:man of the Group for November. First of ail, 1 ehovld like to convey to the Council the Cesp concern within the Group over the Veiy serious alituation in the Republic of Bosnia end Herseyovins. Our concern reflects the prevalent feelings in the Arab world and the Muslim world in general.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  7. “In the hope that our expectations will be fulfilled, we should like to express our thanks to all the members of the Council for their swift response and for their support for the draft resolution. In any event, we wish to place on record ovr thanks to the pon-aligned members for their efforts in this regard, as well as to you personally, Mr. President.”

    1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

  8. “The takiug of an appropriate action by the Council today will undoubtedly reflect positively on the course of events. in addition to its representing a principled position, the Council's successful adoption of a reselution today presupposes that Israel will be committed to it, which means that it will not implement ics decision to resume deportation and will allow those deported earlier to return. It also presupposes that the Council will reconvene to take the necessary action should Israel not comply with the resolution. In addition, it will mean that in all cases the Council will have discharged its responsibilities under the Charter and towards the Palestinian people. We expect the Couucil to adopt the draft resolution in document 8/23372.”

    1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

  9. “It is responsible for the maintenance of the credibility and effectiveness of all the resolutions it has adopted and of all those that it will adopt. The Council is entrusted with upholding international law and international treaties. All of these are respongibilities that the Council cannot shirk, especially given the new conditions under which we all live, and it cannot disregard developments in the region. Ia the specific case before us, and in addition to what I have just mentioned, the Council is responsible for resuscitating the peace process. The latest Israeli decision has compelled the members of the Palestinian delegation to the peace conference to suspend their journey to Washington while they await the decision of the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in this regard.”

    1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

  10. “For that to take place, the international community and, in particular, the sponsors of the peace conference must deal with the substantive issues and must face the true israeii position, instead of evading it through procedural ploys to postpone facing up to the situation without achieving any progress. It is also necessary to desist from trying to tempt Israel with a large number of political and financial prizes, including those in the United Nations, because, so far, that policy has proved a failure. Until one of the sponsors, the United States, has done se, it will remain necessary to maintain the continued role of international legitimacy as represented by the United Nations and, in particular, by the Security Council]. The Council is entrusted in all circumstances with the maintenance of international peace and security.”

    1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

  11. “The only logical conclusion to be drawn is that Israel, having been compelled to participate in the peace process, is acting systematically to derail it and to maintain the Israeli position, which insists on subsuming the occupied territories even at the cost of eliminating any possibility for the establishment of peace in the Middle East. . Does this mean that we are about to withdraw from the political process ag a result of the Israeli position? No. We are truly interested in the "stablishment of peace. We are committed to the political process. We will continue persistently in our attempt to realize our legitimate rights through that process as long as it continues. What is necessary is to prevent Israel from succeeding in derailing the peace process. We and the other fraternal Arab States must have a process in which to continue.”

    1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

  12. “Despite having gained a great deal even before the heginning of the process, what has Israel done? It has encouraged further settlements in the occupied territories, intensified military aggression against southern Lebanon, reaffirmed its rejection of the principle of land for peace, reaffirmed its intention not to withdraw one inch and refused to arrive at the first round of the Washington talks at the appointed time. The intensification of its repressive actions against the Palestinian people in the occupied territories culminated in its latest deportation decision.”

    1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

  13. “As for the Palestinian party, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has weicomed the peace initiative and has approved Palestinian participation in the Madrid Conference and in the subsequent talks. This took shape through the resolutions of the Palestine National Council, as well as the Central Council and Executive Committee of the PLO. We have done so despite the magnitude of the concessions demanded of us, which were not proportionate with the concessions asked of the other party. We had hoped to facilitate seme movement and to achieve serious and tangible developments towards peace. The Palestinian delegation to the peace conference conducted its business in an internationally recognized excellent manner that reaffirmed our commitment to move towards peace.”

    1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

  14. “We must recall here that the presence of those settlers in the occupied territories is illegal under international law and resolutions of the Security Council. The arming of those settlers by the Israeli Government is illegal and immoral. The Israeli Government must be fully r sponsible for that action as well as for ali its consequences. That Israel hag carried out all the aforementioned activities may not be very strange under normal circumstances. But what makes us truly wonder is the fact that Israel has been doing al] those things during the current peace process in the Middle East and during a stage in which many parties are intensifying their efforts in order te achieve its success. All Arab parties conceraed have committed themselves clearly to the peace process.”

    1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

  15. “It was the culmination of a series of actions, resolutions and decisions thet violate intornational law and the resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly. Israel has intensified mass punishments, such as the demolition of homes and the imposition of curfews for extended periods. Israel] has also intensified its feverish policy of settlements, which has taken a dangerous form through the seizur. of a number of homes owned by Arab families in Selwan, which is one of the neighbourhoods of Arab Jerusalem. Thereafter, the Israeli Government decided to allocate two thirds of its 1992 budget for the establishment of those housing units in the occupied territories. Following that we had the encouragement of criminal misconduct by the armed settlers against the Palestinian people in the occupied territories.”

    1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

  16. “The roots of that policy lie in the racist vision which insists on the need to depopulate the territory of its Palestinian inhabitants through a policy of transfer in order to annex the territory, while keeping the pure Jewish nature of the State. It is the same ideological position and the same racist vision. It may take different forms of expression: insistence on the continued occupation and subsuming of the territory, the continued construction of illegal settlements, the theft of Palestinian waters and other natural resources, the contiaued systematic destruction of the social and economic infrastructure of Palestine, or the policy of deportation, which is under consideration today. The recent Israeli position to resume the policy of deportation was not an exceptional act during the previous stage.”

    1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

  17. “Israel persisted in the policy o£ deportations, thus violating the provisions of the United Nations Charter and even the conditions for membership of the international Organization. Israel is now doing it again through its latest decision of deportation. The policy of deportation, in addition to violating international humanitarian law and the United Nations Charter, takes its real roots in the ideological position which rejects not only the Palestinian national identity but the very Palestinian existence. It is an ideological position which insists on considering the existence of Palestinians in their own country as a transient situation that must be changed.”

    1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

  18. “Altogether, Israel has deported approximately 2,000 other Palestinian citizens £rom the occupied territories since the beginning of tne occupation in 1967, thereby violating numerous resolutions of the Security Council, all of which confirmed the applicability of the August 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, to all the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalems these resolutions called upon Israel to desist from deporting any Palestinian civilian from the occupied territories and to allow the return of those who had already been deported. As is well known, Israel did not abide by any of these resolutions. None of the Palestinians deported was allowed to return.”

    1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

  19. “Since the beginning of the jntifadah, the Palestinian uprising which began in December 1987, the occupation authorities have deported 69 Palestinian citizens, thus violating five resolutions of the Security Council.”

    1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

  20. “May it be a year in which we shall all be able to achieve the goals of the United Nations Charter. However, the beginning of this year, as members are well aware, was not an auspicious one for the Palestinian people. The Security Council finds itself compelled once again to convene to consider a grave development relative to the situation in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem. On 2 January 1992, the Israeli Minister of Defence issued an order for the deportation of 12 Palestinian citizens from their homeland. The Israeli Government thereafter, despite all international reactions, including those of the permanent members of the Council, reaffirmed that decision unanimously.”

    1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

  21. “We will cooperate fully with the Secretary-General on the question of Palestine and the situation in the Middle East in a manner that will promote the role of the United Nations and his personal role in the peace process. Here I cannot fail to place on record our bigh appreciation for and thanks to Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, who ended his term of office a few days ago. On behalf of the Palesiinian leadership I should like to thank him for the great efforts he made during ais term of office on the question of Palestine and the crisis in the Middle East. These are the first days of 1992 and this is the first official meeting of the Security Council this year. Allow me, Sir, to wish all the members of the Council, the Secretary-General and the Secretariat staff a Happy New Year.”

    1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

  22. “They are all friendly countries, and we look forward to cooperating with them. On this occasion, I cannot fail to thank the outgoing members of the Council, the friendly countries of Cete d'Ivoire, Cuba, Romania, Yemen and Zaire. Nor can I fail to welcome Mr. Boutros Boutros Ghali, the new Secretary-General of the United Nations. I should like to congratulate him upon his assumption of his high post. We are proud that the Secretary-General comes from a sisterly Arab country, and we highly appreciate his personal qualities. We are confident that he is the appropriate leader to conduct the work of the Organization aimed at the consulidation of international peace and security and the promotion of the role of the international Organization in the other important fields.”

    1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

  23. “Palestine has recognized the Russian Federation and all the other independent Republics which had formed the Soviet Union in the past. It is our hope that the bonds of friendship which had tied us with the USSR will continue with the Russian Federation and all the other Republics. We count on the continued friendship with Russia, a friendship which in the past was expressed through practical and political positions supportive of our legitimate rights. This friendship has made us and other Arab countries welcome the continued role of Russia as one of the sponsors of the peace conference on the Middle East. We should like to wish the people of Russia and all the peoples of the other Republics progress and prosperity. I wish also to express our welcome to the new members of the Council, Cape Verde, Hungary, Japan, Morocco and Venezuela.”

    1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

  24. “Mr. AL-KIDWA (Palestine) (interpretation fron Arabic): Allow me first to congratulate you, Sir, upon your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month, We have had occasion to witness your presiding over the Council in the past, and through that experience, and given our knowledge of your abilities, we are confident that you will guide the work of the Council successfully. I should also like to pay a tribute to your nredecessor Ambassador Yuliy Vorontsov, for his efforts during the past month. This is the first time that the Security Council is meeting with the participation of the Russian Federation in place of the Soviet Union. Allow me to congratulate Ambassador Vorontsov on his new representative capacity.”

    1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source