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Al-Salafi

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1998-06-30
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2022-06-14
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  1. “We hope that the Council will support the establishment and financing of a fund for the survivors of sexual and gender-based violence without delay, as per the recommendations of the Panel of Experts of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2140 (2014). We ask for support for the Yemeni feminist road map for peace by considering it as a point of reference for the peace process. The Council should also continue to call for inclusive peace talks that ensure the participation of women, young people and civil society, including on peace implementation committees. Finally, we hope that the Council will support the Special Envoy in creating a permanent position for a gender adviser, ensuring the appointment of a qualified expert with strong feminist values.”

    2022-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9063 (2022) · source

  2. “We hope that the Council will support the opening of all Yemeni entry ports and airports, allowing civilian travel and commercial use and encouraging the operation of more flight services, as well as the opening of all roads inside the country, starting with Taiz, along with lifting checkpoints and clearing landmines. We would also ask for the Council’s support for restrictions on the flow of arms into the country and the removal of military camps and depots from densely populated cities. We further ask that the Council urge the donor community to fulfil its humanitarian, development and reconstruction pledges to Yemen, ensuring sustainable solutions that empower Yemenis and that focus on stabilizing basic services, disbursing salaries and strengthening infrastructure.”

    2022-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9063 (2022) · source

  3. “We would like to thank the Council for taking account of our recommendations on inclusion and multi-track design and reflecting them in its adoption in February of resolution 2624 (2022), which eventually materialized in the design of the recent United Nations- led peace consultations and in the outcomes of the GCC intra-Yemeni talks. We hope that our recommendations will continue to have a positive impact, and we hope that the Council will continue to support the truce with a view to transforming it into a sustainable nationwide ceasefire with a clear implementation mechanism that can be monitored.”

    2022-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9063 (2022) · source

  4. “That progress needs the support of the international community to ensure that women’s participation in all State entities during the peace and political process increases by no less than 30 per cent, including in any upcoming Government reshuffle. In June 2021, we launched a feminist road map for peace that was developed with women leaders in a participatory manner through consultations with local communities in Yemen. It is an expert document that was collectively conceived by hundreds of Yemenis from all walks of life.”

    2022-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9063 (2022) · source

  5. “While the Special Envoy’s peace consultations made progress in terms of including women in the political party delegations, there are still no women among the members of the committees formed as a result of the peace process, including the prisoner exchange committee, the military and security committee and the Taiz committee. Similarly, while the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) intra-Yemeni talks also made progress in women’s participation on various tracks, the security and anti-terrorism track had no women at all. Nonetheless, the entities formed as a result of the GCC intra-Yemeni talks did make progress in the inclusion of women, particularly in their appointment to the national commission for reconciliation and consultation and the legal and economic teams supporting the Presidential Leadership Council.”

    2022-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9063 (2022) · source

  6. “Yemeni women human rights defenders and members of vulnerable groups who relocated outside Yemen to escape arbitrary detention and life-threatening situations successfully registered as refugees yet have been waiting for years for resettlement opportunities. They are also unable to move on in their lives, and many of them are not allowed to work. This has aggravated their trauma, which led to many of them having suicidal thoughts. The participation of women in the peace and political processes remains limited and way below the 30 per cent quota we had committed to as a nation in 2014.”

    2022-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9063 (2022) · source

  7. “Although the city of Aden is serving as the internationally recognized capital of Yemen, the people in Aden are suffering. The Yemeni riyal used in Aden is extremely devalued compared to that used in Sana’a, owing to inconsistent economic policies and lack of coordination between the two central banks. Additionally, Aden suffers from poor basic-service infrastructure, such as electricity, water and sanitation, communication and Internet access and transportation, affecting the ability to stabilize the city. Urgent support is necessary. Yemenis abroad also face challenges as they seek refuge and safety in other countries.”

    2022-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9063 (2022) · source

  8. “However, not only do we want free mobility to continue by opening ports and airports, but we also demand that all roads inside the country, especially in Taiz, which is one of the most populated areas in the country, be opened immediately. We continue to document cases of aid-relief convoys tipping over and people, including pregnant women seeking medical services, losing their lives because of the siege. To this end, we welcome the internationally recognized Government’s acceptance of the United Nations Special Envoy’s proposal for opening five roads, and we call on the Houthis to reciprocate and accept his proposal. We hope it will be the first step to opening all roads in the country, leading to unrestricted and affordable mobility.”

    2022-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9063 (2022) · source

  9. “While cross-border military operations have halted, we still receive reports of indiscriminate targeting of people inside Yemen, especially in Taiz, Hajjah, Ma’rib, and Al-Hudaydah We are also concerned about reported escalation preparations, including the sending of reinforcements to battle fronts, continued placing of landmines and the digging of new trenches. On a positive note, we celebrated the reopening of Sana’a airport, which allowed many of our friends and families to reunite with their loved ones after years of separation. The airport is a lifeline for many civilians in Sana’a who are fragile and unable to endure the long and risky journey by road.”

    2022-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9063 (2022) · source

  10. “Ms. Al-Salafi: Thank you, Mr. President, for giving me the opportunity to brief the Security Council on behalf of the Peace Track Initiative and the Women Solidarity Network, which includes more than 350 Yemeni women leaders inside and outside Yemen. Yemen continues to be ravaged by a devastating war that has gone on for eight years now, disproportionately affecting women, girls and marginalized groups and contributing to increased sexual and gender- based violence. The United Nations-led truce has restored hope in the hearts of the Yemeni people, yet much is needed to be done to uphold the ceasefire and eventually reach a just and lasting peace.”

    2022-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9063 (2022) · source

  11. “We therefore called for an urgent meeting of the Security Council so that the Council could assume its responsibilities in the maintenance of international peace and security under the Charter of the United Nations and on the basis of the resolutions of the Council. The Council should take measures against the plan adopted by the Israeli Cabinet on 21 June. This would send a clear message to Israel to desist from its practices, which represent a contravention of international legitimacy and the position adopted by the international community.”

    1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900Resumption1 (1998) · source

  12. “The city of Holy Jerusalem is important to the Arabs as well as to millions of Muslims and Christians throughout the world. The League of Arab States expresses its appreciation for the clear international consensus which condemns the Israeli programme and plans. It calls on all to support Arab rights in the face of Israeli provocations, which represent a clear violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949. This plan aims at seizing the territory by force and eliminating the rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories, as well as foreclosing the possibility of any peaceful solution in the region.”

    1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900Resumption1 (1998) · source

  13. “We call upon the United States to maintain its positive response in the wake of the declaration of that settlement plan in order to maintain the peace and security of the area in the interest of all the countries of the region, and to move the peace process forward towards a just, lasting and comprehensive peace, because a continuation of the Israeli policies and practices will plunge the area into the cycle of conflict once again. We would like to refer to the 1991 American letter of assurances wherein the United States does not recognize the annexation of East Jerusalem or the municipal expansion and encourages all parties to avoid unilateral measures that would increase tension, make negotiations more difficult and pre-empt their final outcome.”

    1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900Resumption1 (1998) · source

  14. “The Israeli Government, however, continued its practice of settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories, including Holy Jerusalem, in violation of international law, United Nations resolutions and the agreements signed with the Palestinian Authority. The League of Arab States, in view of the stalling of the peace process as a consequence of Israel's decisions and practices which constitute negative indications, calls upon the sponsors of the peace process - the United States and the Russian Federation - and all peace-loving countries to take a stand against the irresponsible Israeli measures.”

    1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900Resumption1 (1998) · source

  15. “The programme and plan adopted by Israel on 21 June are aimed at expanding the boundaries of Holy Jerusalem to 184 square kilometres - in 1967 it comprised only 7 square kilometres - so as to tighten the grip of the municipal authority of Jerusalem as part of the Israeli plan to Judaize Holy Jerusalem. Arab States have adopted peace as a strategic option. This was affirmed at the Summit of Arab States in Cairo in 1996 and was based on the desire to make it possible for the area to avoid more wars and more pain and to develop economically, culturally and in a way that would make it civilized.”

    1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900Resumption1 (1998) · source

  16. “If those figures are combined with figures for the whole of Jerusalem, the result is a three-to-one ratio in favour of Jewish citizens. As for the possession of Palestinian territory, when the Balfour Declaration was made in 1917, Jews owned 4 per cent of Jerusalem, Arabs 94 per cent and foreigners 2 per cent. Now Jews own 84 per cent of the territory of Jerusalem, with Arabs owning 14 per cent and foreigners 2 per cent. With regard to the possession of territory in East Jerusalem, Jews now own 74 per cent of the territory and Arabs 26 per cent. Israel has seized most of that territory by force. That brief comparison of the situation in Jerusalem clarifies the situation.”

    1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900Resumption1 (1998) · source

  17. “In addition, the Security Council, in resolution 476 (1980), decided that, inter alia, all measures adopted by Israel to change the character and status of Jerusalem are null and void; and in resolution 478 (1980) that, inter alia, the Council refused to recognize the "basic law". It is high time for the Council to assume its responsibilities for international peace and security in accordance with the Charter and to examine this issue. With regard to the status of Holy Jerusalem, it is clear that Israel is trying to surround Jerusalem with three settlement belts, leading to a decrease in the percentage of Arab citizens, who in East Jerusalem now make up 47 per cent, as opposed to 53 per cent for Jewish citizens.”

    1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900Resumption1 (1998) · source

  18. “The Israeli plan to expand the Holy City, whether to the east or to the west, represents a clear violation of international legitimacy as established in the 16 resolutions of the Security Council on Jerusalem, especially 252 (1968) and 267 (1969), adopted some 30 years ago. Security Council resolution 267 (1969), provides, in paragraph 4 "that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel which purport to alter the status of Jerusalem, including expropriation of land and properties thereon, are invalid and cannot change that status;" and in paragraph 7 "that, in the event of a negative response or no response from Israel, the Security Council shall reconvene without delay to consider what further action should be taken in this matter".”

    1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900Resumption1 (1998) · source

  19. “The decision by the Israeli Government on 21 June to annex to the municipality of Israel several villages west of the city and some of the settlements in the Palestinian territories is designed to tighten the Israeli grip on the Holy City and to separate it from the other Palestinian territories. The objective of this decision is to Judaize Jerusalem, eliminate its Arab character and alter its demographic composition. The League of Arab States is concerned about these measures adopted by the Israeli Government, which represent a clear violation of the agreements reached between the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Israeli Government.”

    1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900Resumption1 (1998) · source

  20. “Mr. Al-Salafi (League of Arab States) (interpretation from Arabic): I should like at the outset to extend to you, Sir, my congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month. I am also pleased to express my appreciation to Ambassador Mahugu, the Permanent Representative of Kenya, for his efforts in presiding over the Council last month. The question of Jerusalem is one of the most important issues that was deferred to the final status negotiations by the agreements concluded in Oslo in 1993 between the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Israeli Government.”

    1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900Resumption1 (1998) · source