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Al-Ni'Mah

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1992-11-16
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1994-04-21
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  1. “It cannot bring about a decisive solution because it stops short of taking a decisive step to separate right from wrong, because it deals with the cease-fire without distinguishing between the aggressor and the victim. This draft resolution does not contain the desired measures to compel the Serb extremists to withdraw and their aggressive leaders to desist. We 38 believe that the draft resolution should have been stronger, more eloquent, firmer and more effective, that it should have distinguished clearly between right and wrong and that it should have contained a firm deterrent solution that would lead to the end of the arrogant display of power by the Serb aggressors. It is time for the Council to be inspired by the appeals of mankind, the calls for the elimination of this shameful tragedy, this shameful chapter in human history.”

    1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source

  2. “The resolutions of the Security Council should be fully implemented in a way that would provide justice for the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina and ensure their legitimate right to independence and to enjoy the blessings of peace, security and stability. We call upon the Council to take all necessary measures to put an end to the tragedy of our brothers. Leaving this tragedy without an urgent and firm solution will add a dark, new chapter to the book of human history, because power will be the arbiter and the tool in the hand of the ambitious, and the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter will go for naught. I do not think I am wrong to say that the draft resolution now before the Council is very limited, that it can never bring about what we hope for.”

    1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source

  3. “We condemned, and we continue to condemn, all the barbaric practices that have become a habit for the extremist Serb aggressor, because we believe in the principle of solving all disputes between parties through dialogue and negotiation, and because we believe in and are committed to the letter and the spirit of the United Nations Charter and international law. We call here for the mobilization of all the efforts of the international community, especially the efforts of this Council, to take deterrent measures and to take a firm stand to force the extremist Serb aggressors and their hateful leaders to give up their aggressive objectives and expansionist ambitions based on the shameful practice of "ethnic cleansing". We should seek the implementation of the resolutions of the Security Council based on Chapter VII of the Charter.”

    1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source

  4. “The Serbs have even violated the sanctity of the Organization, for the first time in history, by taking hostages from among the international troops and by taking back their weapons by force. This is a complete flouting of the presence of the international troops, and this behaviour should be met with suitable and stern punishment. The Government and people of Qatar at all levels have expressed our feelings over the suffering of the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina resulting from the excessive acts of aggression and the continued killing and harm perpetrated against the Muslim population of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source

  5. “After the Serbs' defiance, the restoration of the Organization's lost credibility is at stake. It goes without saying that the moral responsibility is quite clear. However, the matter is not only a moral one. Even more important, it is a question of world security, stability and peace. It is a question of teaching the aggressor a lesson, stopping the aggression and restoring rights to those lawfully entitled to them, so that no other party anywhere else in the world can even envisage the use of force to achieve its ambitions by targeting its neighbours or even specific groups of its own population. Such parties can never think they are immune from punishment 37 if they commit acts of aggression like the Serbian aggression.”

    1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source

  6. “It is a fair request, and one to which we adhere in order to enable the victim to exercise the natural right, exercised by all human beings, to self- defence, a right that is internationally recognized in Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. Can we now wonder who bears the responsibility for halting the aggression and for ending the savage attack against this suffering town? The United Nations cannot shirk this responsibility to deter aggression so that it will not be repeated elsewhere in the world, a responsibility which is shared by the major Powers, whether they have a direct or indirect stake in the matter, because their first interest is the maintenance of peace in the world. This is not an individual interest but, rather, a collective one shared by the whole world.”

    1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source

  7. “The Serbs in Bosnia have not been affected by this resolution because they are flooded with weapons, ammunition and equipment from Serbia, which inherited the army and the weapons of the former Yugoslavia, while the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, having no weapons and no standing army that could be described as such, has been denied the right to arms. Thus, through the implementation of that resolution the Serbs have become stronger while the Bosnians have become weaker. We therefore call, first and foremost, as the rest of the international community has done, for the arms embargo against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina to be lifted. The Organization of the Islamic Conference was among the first to make this request, which it did at a special meeting.”

    1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source

  8. “There have even been direct shell strikes against the town's hospital and refugee shelters. Since the aggression began two years ago, the Security Council has adopted several resolutions deploring and condemning, resolutions admonishing and threatening, resolutions declaring safe havens. It is little wonder that we say that the implementation of Security Council resolutions has become selective. Of all the relevant Security Council resolutions, only one has been implemented: the resolution that punishes the victim and, perhaps, indirectly rewards the aggressor, a resolution that imposes an arms embargo on Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source

  9. “The tragedy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in general and the crisis of Gorazde in particular are testimony to the inability of the international community, represented by the United Nations, to resist wanton and excessive aggression committed by the Serb aggressors against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a State Member of the United Nations. The Serbs have acquired Bosnian territories by force and have driven out the Bosnian population through "ethnic cleansing," murder, torture, rape, starvation and displacement. In the past three weeks, the Serbs have defied the entire world by perpetrating a savage and wanton act of aggression against a safe area - the unhappy town of Gorazde - declared by the Security Council in resolution 824 (1993). It has been bombarded with artillery and missiles up to this very moment.”

    1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source

  10. “Mr. Al-Ni'Mah (Qatar) (interpretation from Arabic): Allow me at the outset to extend to you, Sir, our sincere thanks for the tireless efforts you have been making during your tenure of the Council presidency. We are quite certain that your well-known abilities in addressing grave crises such as those before the Council will lead to positive results. I cannot fail to thank your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of France, for his sincere efforts last month. The tragedy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which the Gorazde crisis is only the latest bloody chapter, is the central tragedy of the last decade of the twentieth century, which has witnessed many unprecedented disasters.”

    1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source

  11. “So long as the international community remains unable or hesitant to deter the sggressor by force, to restore usurped rights and to put a halt to the horrors heaped upon the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Continuation of the weapons embargo, in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, amounts to support for the aggressor. We cannot believe that the international community and the Security Council would accept that or turn a blind eye t: ?!. We therefore join the other States that have called upon the Security Council to adopt e resolution to that effect without delay, for otherwise the aggressor will persist in its racalcitrance and aggression, and the international community will continue to appear to be impotent in the face of that continuing aggression.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  12. “The Government in Beligrads, which coutinues to organize and engineer aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the smaller and weaker party, must Gesist. Every State, large and small, strong and weak, must abide by the provisions of the United Nations Charter through unanimous adherence to the principles of international law and by settling disputes by legal means. This would buttress the pillara of international legality and lay the foundations of a world imbued with tolerance, justice and peace. My delegation fully supports the adoption by the Security Council of a resolution that would lift the embargo on the export of weapons to Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  13. “I do not exaggerate when I say that the application of the embargo to victim and aggressor alike is cynical and preposterous and that it goes against the human conscience. Self-defence is a principal right enshrined in the United Nations Charter. We are in duty bound to enable Bosnia and Herzegovina to defend itself as long as the international community is unable to ward off the Serbian aggression by recourse to the provisions of the Charter, lacking as it does authentic resolve and real determination. The international community has a duty to repudiate the Serbian aggression. The aggressor is a stronger and larger party and the victim of aggression is a smaller and weaker neighbour and a Member of the United Nations. Aggression must be prohibited in all cases. Aggression cannot be permitted in certain cases and prohibited in others.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  14. “Although the Security Council adopted resolution 781 (1992) which bans military flights in the airspace of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbian aircraft have continued to breach the terms of that cesolution and have continued to bomb Bosnia and Herzegovina and vent their wrath on its people with impunity, without any fear of the international community. Heavy Serbian guns continue to shell civilian targets in Bosnia and Herzegovina, despite the fact that Serbian troops have agreed to lay down their heavy weapons and place them under the supervision of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR). Bosnien defence forces are unable to repel such aggression for lack of ammunition and because it is impossible for them to obtain new weapons thanks to the resolution's embargo on victim and aggressor alike. The matter is extremely serious.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  15. “It 4s a source of shame for the international community that \t has been unable so far to put a halt to the massacres and an end to the tragedy of the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina whose land has been violated in gross aggression and against whom the crime of ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity are being perpetrated. The consequences of such crimes have proved impossible to mitigate. As the United Nations Special Rapporteur has noted, the Moslems of Bosnia and Herzegovina are being the target of mass extermination.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  16. “The State of Qatar, like every other State that respects hy man rights, and I do not speak of the Islamic States only, is alarmed at tri suffering that has been the lot, for many months, of the population of Busnia and Herzegovina. The situation there is reminiscent of the horror. of the atrocities of the Second World War. We had hoped that such huo..:o.s had a@isappeared for good in our times, in a world where the princip'9s of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Ri:hts prevail.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  17. “Mr. AL-NI'MAH (Qatar) (interpretation from Arabic): Allow me at the outset to extend to you, Sir, our congratulations on your assumptio:: of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I also wish to <<xpress my heartfelt thanks to your predecessor the Permanent Representative uf France, Mr. Jean-Bernard Merimee, for his able and excellent leadership of the Council's work last month. I am pleased to extend to you, Mr. President, our thanks for your commendable invitation to convene this meeting in response to the appeal by the Contact Group of the Organization of the Islamic Conferenca i.1d in light of the existing dangers that may lead to a further deterioration of the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  18. “We therefore join the ~ther States that have called upon the Security Council to adopt a resolution to that effect without delay, for otherwise the aggressor will persist in its recalcitrance and aggression, and the international community will continue to appear to be impotent in the face of that continuing aggression. This is something you would not accept and is not acceptable to the peace-loving peoples of the world.”

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

  19. “My delegation fully supports the adoption by the Security Council of a resolution that would lift the embargo on the export of weapons to Bosnia and Herzegovina. So long as the international community remains unable or hesitant to deter the aggressor by force, to restore usurped rights and to put a halt to the horrors heaped upon the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Continuation of the weapons embargo, in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, amounts to support for the aggressor. We cannot believe that the international community and the Security Council would accept that or turn a blind eye to it.”

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

  20. “The aggressor is a stronger and larger party and the victim of aggression is a smaller and weaker neighbour and a Member of the United Nations. Aggression must be prohibited in all cases. Aggression cannot be permitted in certain cases and prohibited in otners. The Government in Belgrade, which continues to organize and engineer aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the smaller and weaker party, must desist. Every State, large and small, strong and weak, must abide by the provisions of the United Nations Charter through unanimous adherence to the principles of international law and by settling disputes by legal means. This would buttress the pillars of international legality and Jay the foundations of a world imbued with tolerance, justice and peace.”

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

  21. “Bosnian defence forces are unable to repel such aggression for lack of ammunition and because it is impossible for them to obtain new weapons thanks to the resolution's embargo on victim and aggressor alike. The matter is extremely serious. I do not exaggerate when I say that the application of the embargo to victim and aggressor alike is cynical and preposterous and that it goes against the human conscience. Self-defence is a principal right enshrined in the United Nations Charter. We are in duty bound to enable Bosnia and Herzegovina to defend itself as long as the international community is unable to ward off the Serbian aggression by recourse to the provisions of the Charter, lacking as it does authentic resolve and real determination. The international community has a duty to repudiate the Serbian aggression.”

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

  22. “The consequences of such crimes have As the United Nations Special Rapporteur has noted, the Moslems of Bosnia and Herzegovina are being the target of mass extermination. Although the Security Council adopted resolution 781 (1992) which bans military flights in the airspace of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbian aircraft have continued to breach the terms of that resolution and have continued to bomb Bosnia and Herzegovina and vent their wrath on its people with impunity, without any fear of the international community. Heavy Serbian guns continue to shell civilian targets in Bousaia and Herzegovina, despite the fact that Serbian troops have agreed to lay down their heavy weapons and place them under the supervision of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR).”

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

  23. “The State of Qatar, like every other State that respects h' nan rights, and I do not speak of the Islamic States only, is alarmed at tri suffering that has been the lot, for many months, of the population of Bisnia and Herzegovina. 'The situation there is reminiscent of the horror. of the atrocities of the Second World War. We had hoped that such ho..'ors had disappeared for good in our times, in a world where the princip§9s of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Ri:hts prevail. It is a source of shame for the international community that °t has been unable so far to put a halt to the massacres and an end to the tragedy of the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina whose land has been violated in gross aggression and against whom the crime of ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity are being perpetrated.”

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

  24. “Mr. AL-NI'MAH (Qatar) (interpretation from Arabic): Allow me at the outset to extend to you, Sir, our congratulations on your assumptio:: of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I also wish to ixpress my heartfelt thanks to your predecessor the Permanent Representative .f France, Mr. Jean-Bernard Merimes, for his able and excellent leadership of the Council's work last month. I am pleased to extend to you, Mr. President, our thanks for your commendable invitation to convene this meeting in response to the appeal by the Contact Group of the Organization of the Islamic Conference '.1d in light of the existing dangers that may lead to a further deterioration of the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

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