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1. “Such steps also involve the infrastructure for UNMOVIC offices in Baghdad, Mosul and Al Basrah; unconditional assistance provided to the inspectors, including the opening up of all sensitive sites and official institutions, homes and public and private properties; providing the necessary guarantees for UNMOVIC aircraft; interviews conducted freely with Iraqi scientists; and, ultimately, a presidential decree on the prohibition of the production, importation and stockpiling of all precursors for the manufacture of proscribed chemical, biological, nuclear and ballistic weapons. These are unprecedented, positive developments in Iraqi cooperation, and we believe that they ought to be developed and invested in, instead of being aborted through the threat of waging war.”

   2003-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709Resumption1 (2003) · source

2. “The international community cannot deny these results, and we consider them a positive and important step towards a just and comprehensive settlement of the issue of weapons of mass destruction disarmament in Iraq. The United Arab Emirates fully appreciates the major efforts being made by Mr. Blix, Mr. ElBaradei and their fellow inspectors in verifying the various proscribed weapons programmes in Iraq. It welcomes the important steps taken by the Iraqi side in the past few weeks, including the re-evaluation of its stockpiles after the four years following the departure of the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) team.”

   2003-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709Resumption1 (2003) · source

3. “The United Arab Emirates has very carefully followed all the developments in the implementation of resolution 1441 (2002) since its adoption approximately three months ago, believes that this is a major turning point in Iraq's implementation of its commitment and obligation to fully disarm its weapons of mass destruction and proscribed weapons, in accordance with the relevant international resolutions. The important and valuable information provided by Mr. Blix, Executive Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), and Mr. ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), on 27 January 2003 clearly shows the progress and the extent of cooperation on the part of the Iraqi Government in facilitating the mission of the international inspectors.”

   2003-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709Resumption1 (2003) · source

4. “Mr. Al-Shamsi (United Arab Emirates) (spoke in Arabic): On behalf of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates, I have the honour to convey our warmest congratulations to you, Sir. on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. Allow us also to thank you, Mr. President, for having responded to the call by the Non-Aligned Movement for the convening of this important meeting in order to take up the dimensions of the Iraqi issue and its grave potential consequences, not only for the Gulf States, but also for international peace and security as a whole. Nor can I fail on this occasion to express my appreciation to your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of France, for his excellent leadership of the Security Council last month.”

   2003-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709Resumption1 (2003) · source

5. “In conclusion, we hope that this debate on the question of Iraq will lead to a positive and effective consensus, an agreement to find a just, comprehensive and objective solution to this issue, which, in our opinion, will definitely contribute to containing the existing tension in the region and will assist in strengthening international peace and security and enhancing confidence-building and cooperation among the countries of the region.”

   2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source

6. “This requires that the international community call on the Government of Israel, just as it is calling on Iraq to destroy its arsenal of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction and to subject all its nuclear facilities to the safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as a first step towards establishing a zone free of all types of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.”

   2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source

7. “Fourthly, we call for a positive response to efforts calling for the immediate lifting of the international sanctions imposed on the people of Iraq in order to alleviate the tremendous suffering of the Iraqi people that has resulted in the death of 1.7 million of its people. We also call for assistance for Iraq to reconstruct its infrastructure and its basic service sectors. Fifthly, we must ensure that paragraph 14 of Security Council resolution 687 (1991) apply to all countries of the region and not to be limited only to Iraq.”

   2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source

8. “We also reject all forms of escalation and confrontation that might lead to a military strike against Iraq and cause destruction of the people of Iraq and the Gulf, as well as the entire region. Thirdly, we demand that the Iraqi Government immediately implement its obligations and commitments as stipulated in Security Council resolutions and by Arab League summit meetings, of which the latest, the Beirut Summit, called for full cooperation in order to solve the problem of Kuwaiti prisoners and detainees and nationals of third countries, and the restoration of Kuwaiti property detained by Iraq since 1990. In this context, we also affirm the importance of Iraq's respect for the territorial sovereignty of Kuwait and non-interference in its internal affairs.”

   2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source

9. “In this context we would like to emphasize the following important issues; first, the urgent need to reach a peaceful, just, comprehensive and final settlement of all pending issues relating to the agenda item concerning the situation between Kuwait and Iraq, a settlement based upon the principle of transparency without a double standard in order to maintain the prestige and credibility of the Security Council in accordance with the United Nations Charter and the provisions of international law. Secondly, we would like to insure implementation of all provisions of Security Council resolutions calling for respect for the sovereignty of Iraq, its territorial integrity and non-interference in its internal affairs.”

   2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source

10. “We call upon the Security Council and the influential members therein to urgently and unconditionally respond to this positive Iraqi initiative bearing in mind Iraq's concerns about the repetition of mistakes which were committed by UNSCOM. in the past. This is, in fact, a first step towards Iraq's full commitment to comply with its legal obligations in accordance with the relevant Security Council resolutions.”

    2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source

11. “The United Arab Emirates has, on all occasions, encouraged the adoption of peaceful means and ways to address this issue and is thus profoundly concerned about the danger of escalation leading to war in the region. We believe that more than ever before it is incumbent upon the international community, particularly the United Nations, to assume their legal and political responsibilities and to promote the preventive diplomacy which the Secretary-General has more than once called for in order to avoid a third war in the region, with its nefarious consequences. We would like to reiterate that we welcome the recent initiative of Iraq calling for the UNMOVIC inspectors and the IAEA experts to Visit Iraq unconditionally. We also welcome the recent Vienna agreement on the arrangements for immediate resumption of the mandate of the inspectors.”

    2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source

12. “As far as the humanitarian condition of the Iraqi people is concerned, the periodic reports issued by the Secretary-General and other international humanitarian organizations, such as UNICEF, FAO and WHO, and other human rights organizations clearly indicate that the living conditions of the Iraqi people are deteriorating constantly, particularly the increase in the mortality rates among children and women because of malnutrition and deteriorating medical care. All this goes to prove that the oil-for-food programme has not been adequate in fulfilling the basic and urgent human needs of the Iraqi people. Moreover, this also reflects the fact that stalled efforts to reach a settlement between Iraq and Kuwait constitute one of the main reasons for the continuing tension in the region.”

    2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source

13. “As for the relation between Iraq and the Security Council, it has become obvious today, more than ever before, that the gap separating the two sides is increasing, particularly with regard to the interpretation of the articles of resolutions relevant to disarmament of weapons of mass destruction and their implementation. Of course, this increases the tension and affects the political and security situation in the region and deeply affects the economic, social and development conditions of the countries and peoples of the region, as well as international peace and security as a whole.”

    2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source

14. “Mr. Al-Shamsi (United Arab Emirates) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset and on behalf of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the Council for this month, wishing you every success in leading its activities. I would also like to seize this opportunity to thank your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of Bulgaria, for his valuable efforts, which certainly contributed to the success of the work of the Council last month. The holding of this open formal session on the question of Iraq reflects the growing concern of the international community in view of developments related to this important and sensitive issue that unfortunately has not found an appropriate solution in the past 12 years.”

    2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source

15. “This requires the dispatch of a United Nations international force to protect the Palestinians, restore their territories, pave the way for restructuring their institutions and buildings destroyed by the Israeli military machinery, and develop social, economic, national, cultural and development programmes inside the Palestinian territories.”

    2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source

16. “This should be in a manner conducive to applying these resolutions in all the occupied territories, lifting the siege on the Church of the Nativity and the city of Ramallah, halting the murder and destruction by Israel of the Palestinian people, its leadership and its institutions, releasing the thousands of Palestinian detainees and ending the policy that impedes the delivery of relief supplies and assistance to areas affected by Israel's military incursions. Fourthly, the international community should deal with Israel according to international resolutions as an aggressive occupying force.”

    2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source

17. “It has to reject Israel's blatant attempts at justifying its crimes under the pretext of fighting terrorism. Secondly, the United Nations has to fully shoulder its legal and ethical responsibilities to investigate Israeli crimes in Jenin. Those who are directly and indirectly responsible for these crimes should be tried along the lines followed by the United Nations in its war-crimes trials in Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Thirdly, the international community must resort to Chapter VII of the Charter and take effective measures that would serve as a deterrent to Israel.”

    2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source

18. “While we express our disappointment at the unbalanced way in which the Security Council has followed up on resolutions relating to the occupied Palestinian territories, which has impeded the protection of the Palestinian people today, we call forcefully upon the Secretariat and the influential members of the Security Council to fully shoulder their responsibilities in line with the Charter, free from a policy of double standards and bias in favour of the more powerful side and against the weaker, injured party in this equation. In this connection, we would like to emphasize the following. First, there is a need for the international community to condemn Israel, the occupying force, for its war crimes inside the Jenin refugee camp and in other parts of the Palestinian territories.”

    2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source

19. “We consider that that measure, in addition to the efforts made by these parties to pressure the Israeli Government to force it to cooperate with that team were not at all enough. They were mild to a great extent compared to the unprecedented Israeli policy of blatant rejection and defiance. This runs counter to the provisions of the Charter, international resolutions and international protocols and regulations governing international relations, including human rights conventions, the Fourth Geneva Convention and others relating to decolonization, elimination of occupation, and rejection of systematic international terrorism.”

    2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source

20. “Are not the results of these illegal policies and measures by Israel sufficient to understand the dimensions of the Israeli officials' desperate attempts to shirk their responsibilities and the consequences of the serious war crimes by their troops? Such policies should not be condoned or tolerated, no matter how long it has been since these crimes were committed. We deeply regret the lack of a response among influential Security Council members to the demands of the Arab Group and to other peace-loving States calling for the preservation of the fact-finding team as the mechanism entrusted by resolution 1405 (2002) to investigate the facts and implications of massacres and war crimes committed inside that camp.”

    2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source

21. “All signs and information have explicitly indicated the commission of systematic war crimes by Israel inside that camp, a crime punishable by international law. Otherwise, how can the world justify the signs of murder and comprehensive destruction of buildings and facilities over the heads of hundreds of their inhabitants, and the measures of tight military closure by the Israeli occupying forces to prevent access by international relief and news agencies to that camp, including independent United Nations elements? Why has Israel, after 12 days of consultations with the Secretary- General, persisted in resorting to marginalizing the fact-finding team to Jenin and hampering its arrival?”

    2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source

22. “Despite the recent set of Security Council resolutions, particularly resolution 1405 (2002) drafted and adopted by the American and British delegations - which called, inter alia, upon the Israeli Government to cooperate with the important fact-finding team put together by the Secretary-General to investigate the war crimes perpetrated inside the Jenin refugee camp - we were surprised that these same States hastened to produce forms of retreat from the legal undertakings binding on the Israeli Government to disguise their failure in convincing the Israeli Government to abide by international resolutions. What happened in the Jenin refugee camp is not subject to doubts or justifications.”

    2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source

23. “Mr. Al-Shamsi (United Arab Emirates) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month, and wish you every success. I also wish to thank your predecessor, Ambassador Lavrov of Russia, for the effective efforts he made in conducting the work of the Council last month. I also wish to support the contents of the Sudanese statement on behalf of the Arab Group. Our meeting today embodies international concern vis-a-vis the method pursued by the Security Council in addressing one of the most dangerous and painful developments relating to the oldest and most discussed item on its agenda, which is the occupation by Israel of the State of Palestine and the continuation of the Middle East problem.”

    2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source

24. “We call on the international community, particularly the Security Council and members of the "quartet", to increase political, economic and financial support for the Palestinian people, to secure the withdrawal of the unjust Israeli occupation and to enable the Palestinian people to exercise its inalienable rights, foremost of which its right to self-determination and to the establishment of an independent State with Jerusalem as its capital. We renew our call for transparency in positions on the Palestinian issue that are consistent with equality and justice among nations and peoples. We should make a clear distinction between the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to resist Israeli occupation and the policy of State terrorism carried out by the Israeli Government.”

    2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source

25. “Richard Cook, the Director of Operations for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, and of representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, relief organizations and the world media, despite Israeli Government efforts to hide the facts by burying hundreds of corpses of Palestinians killed, maimed and burned by the Israeli army. In these extraordinary circumstances, the United Arab Emirates renews its full support for all forms of struggle by the Palestinian people, who have suffered continuously since the Zionist occupation of their territories in 1948.”

    2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source

26. “It is of great importance that the United Nations shoulder its responsibility to establish and dispatch such a force immediately to protect the Palestinian leadership and the Palestinian people from the genocide which the Israeli army has been conducting against them. The United Nations should also demand the implementation of international instruments such as the Fourth Geneva Convention, of 1949. We call on the Security Council to send a fact- finding mission to investigate the crimes committed by Israeli forces, especially in Jenin and Nablus. Some of these brutal crimes have recently been disclosed in reports and declarations of Mrs. Mary Robinson, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, of Mr.”

    2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source

27. “That would help the Security Council truly to fulfil its role and would enable the Council to take measures under Chapter VII of the Charter to ensure Israel's compliance with international resolutions, to ensure its immediate and unconditional withdrawal from all the Palestinian territories that it has reoccupied, including Ramallah and Bethlehem, and to remove the harsh and humiliating siege of the headquarters and institutions of the Palestinian Authority and of all Palestinian towns and cities. It should also stop blocking access by relief agencies, ambulances and international supplies of food and medicines, which are not reaching thousands of victims. We would welcome a Security Council initiative to establish a multinational force to be dispatched to the Palestinian territories.”

    2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source

28. “We believe that constitutes the most serious blow ever dealt to efforts to solve the Palestinian issue and to establish an independent Palestinian State, without which there can be no lasting, fair and comprehensive peace in the Middle East. We strongly condemn the policy of double standards employed by some members of the Security Council, in particular the United States, with respect to the acts committed by the Israeli Government, which have constituted a serious and systematic violation of the national and human rights of the Palestinian people and of their holy places and their cultural, historical and economic institutions since the brave Palestinian uprising began in October 2000. We consider that it is time for those influential Council members to reread their resolutions.”

    2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source

29. “The United Arab Emirates had placed great hope on the success of the mission of the United States Secretary of State, Mr. Colin Powell, to the region to deter the Sharon Government from committing further human rights violations, to bring the Israelis back to the negotiating table and to compel them to implement resolutions 1402 (2002) and 1403 (2002). We were distressed at the disappointing failure of the mission, which was due to Israeli intransigence, to the Israeli refusal to implement the Council's resolutions or to withdraw, and to its ignoring of the statements by the "quartet" and, especially, by President Bush, whose country is the principal co-sponsor of the Middle East peace process.”

    2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source

30. “The Israeli occupying forces' killings, premeditated and brutal executions and destruction of houses, with women and children inside, in the camps of Jenin and Nablus constitute but one of the many chapters in the history of the criminal acts perpetrated by the Zionist war criminal, Ariel Sharon, which began with the massacres he committed before and after the 1967 war, and continued with the carnage at Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon in 1982 and the more recent carnage committed in Palestinian cities and villages before the eyes of the Security Council and the world public, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and human rights, in particular the Fourth Geneva Convention, of 1949, relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.”

    2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source

31. “Still worse, that defiance grew even worse when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, his Defence Minister and his generals ordered the Israeli army to continue the siege of the Church of the Nativity and of the Palestinian Authority headquarters and to continue the persecution, detention or killing of most of the Palestinian people's iconic leaders and representatives. They also ordered horrendous massacres against Palestinians, regardless of sex, age or religion.”

    2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source

32. “Despite the frequent emergency meetings convened by the Security Council during the past few weeks and despite the important resolutions adopted, the wording of which was guided by the British and United States delegations, and notwithstanding the appeals and statements of international and regional bodies, including the recent Madrid statement by the "quartet", which have unanimously called upon Israel to cease its military hostilities and to withdraw without delay from all Palestinian towns, villages and camps which it had reoccupied, we have regrettably continued to witness the flagrant Israeli defiance of all those resolutions, efforts and appeals.”

    2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source

33. “Mr. Al-Shamsi (United Arab Emirates) (spoke in Arabic): I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting to consider once again ways of dealing with the serious war of occupation and genocide, which continues unabated, perpetrated by the Israeli occupying force in the occupied Palestinian territories.”

    2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source

34. “We therefore affirm the need for the Council to distinguish between the terrorism pursued by the Israeli Government and the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to self-defence and to resist occupation until their territories have been liberated and an independent State has been established in independent Palestine, with Jerusalem as its capital, on the basis of the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, the principles of international law and the relevant decisions of international legitimacy. Only then will we be able to uphold our credibility in working together at the international level to fight terrorism.”

    2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source

35. “Israel must also lift the humiliating and unjust siege imposed on President Arafat and the towns, villages and camps that it invaded, using tanks, armoured vehicles and jet fighters. We also call for the urgent dispatch of an international observer force to the Palestinian territories to protect the lives of Palestinians while guaranteeing safe access to those who provide relief supplies and to humanitarian and medical aid workers who need to reach the thousands of victims of the Israeli crimes. In conclusion, we once again call upon the international community not to fall into the trap set by the Israeli Government's repeated attempts to compare what it is currently doing to the Palestinian people and cities with the actions of the United States in fighting international terrorism in the aftermath of the events of 11 September.”

    2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source

36. “The United Arab Emirates welcomed the statements made recently by the President of the United States, George Bush. President Bush called upon Israel to withdraw from all the Palestinian territories it had reoccupied. He also called upon Israel to put an end to the settlements and the siege imposed on the territories. The United Arab Emirates considers those statements to be a positive step towards peace. We therefore urge the United States to carry those constructive steps further by bringing more actual pressure to bear on the Israeli Government through the Secretary of State, who is currently visiting the region. Israel must be pressured to end its brutal war crimes and torture of the Palestinians. We must work for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Israel from all the Palestinian territories that were reoccupied.”

    2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source

37. “Such measures should guarantee compliance by the Israeli Government with resolutions 1402 (2002) and 1403 (2002), as well as the speedy and unconditional implementation of all its legal, moral and political commitments to the Palestinian people, as agreed upon in the peace agreements. In this respect, we also call upon the Security Council, in particular some of the most powerful members of the Council, to abandon their policy of double standards. That policy has led Israel to believe that it is above international law and internationally binding resolutions. That policy has encouraged Israel to persist in its hostile actions against the Palestinians and to directly threaten the peace and security of all the peoples and countries of the region.”

    2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source

38. “Israel has persisted in its acts of aggression - acts that have metastasized, with the irresponsible and arbitrary ravaging of Palestinian cities and camps. It has committed the most heinous crimes - crimes of rape, murder and mass detention - particularly in the refugee camps of Jenin and Nablus. The bodies of hundreds of dead civilians are still strewn in the roads because people have been unable to bury them. We therefore call upon the Security Council, as the body responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security, to take the necessary measures under Chapter VII of the Charter.”

    2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source

39. “Israel is continuing to kill or force out a large number of Palestinians in an attempt to achieve its ideological, expansionist and historical ambitions at the expense of the inalienable national rights of the Palestinians, which include the establishment of the State of Palestine, as supported by General Assembly resolution 181 (II) and Security Council resolution 1397 (2002). The lax approach of the Security Council and its failure to speedily address the grave developments in the occupied Palestinian territories since the desecration by Sharon of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in 2000, or to heed the calls to dispatch an international force to protect Palestinian civilians have encouraged Israel to humiliate and isolate the Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, after having completely destroyed his headquarters.”

    2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source

40. “Once again, as with similar provocative and dangerous statements, the Israeli leader, who is known for his extreme, racist fanaticism against Palestinians and Arabs, has revealed the true intentions of Israel, not only to erode the Oslo Accords to a point of no return, thus preventing further negotiations aimed at achieving peace, but to attempt to impose another fait accompli through its illegal occupation of Palestinian territories. This is being done in what is called the security buffer zone deep inside the Palestinian territories, along the Green Line.”

    2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source

41. “It has also ignored other international appeals for it to put an end to its gross violations of the human rights of the Palestinian people - violations that run counter to all the principles of international humanitarian law, including those of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 on the protection of civilians and their property in time of war. Television channels and international news agencies yesterday carried a statement by the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, in which he publicly declared his determination to continue his bloody and infamous invasion of Palestinian lands and cities, justifying his actions by saying that the objectives of the invasion have not yet been met.”

    2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source

42. “War crimes, massacres, genocide, arbitrary detention and wanton destruction are continuing at the hands of the Israeli army, whose forces are armed with the most dangerous weapons, including some that are internationally banned - weapons that are being used against the defenceless Palestinian population. The Security Council has adopted resolutions 1397 (2002), 1402 (2002) and 1403 (2002), all of which call upon Israel to put an end to its acts of aggression against the Palestinians and to withdraw without delay from their territories, which it has recently reoccupied by force. Regrettably, however, the Israeli Government, in keeping with its position in recent decades, has blatantly ignored its legal commitments, including those set out in international instruments.”

    2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source

43. “Mr. Al-Shamsi (United Arab Emirates) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me, on behalf of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates, to thank you wholeheartedly, Mr. President, for having responded so quickly to the request to convene this urgent meeting. We hope that the outcome of this meeting will meet the challenge posed by the worsening situation and the exceptional events taking place inside the occupied Palestinian territories. This is the eighth meeting that has been convened by the Security Council on an emergency basis in less than two weeks. The Council has been meeting to consider the grave, deteriorating situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.”

    2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source

44. “In looking forward to the declaration in the near future of the establishment of an independent Palestinian State, with Jerusalem as its capital, as a fundamental reason to strive for a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the Middle East, we express the hope that the international community will provide urgently needed financial, economic and humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people in order to heal their wounds and to allow them to rebuild the towns, villages and economic and social infrastructures that have regrettably been destroyed by Sharon and his accomplices in war crimes.”

    2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source

45. “Sixthly, we must support and adopt the historic peace initiative of the Arab leaders at the Beirut summit as the strategic basis for a comprehensive settlement of the Palestinian question and the Arab- Israeli dispute, including a just and comprehensive peace based on international legitimacy and the relevant United Nations resolutions, including General Assembly resolution 181 (II) and Security Council resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973), 1397 (2002) and 1402 (2002), and the principle of land for peace.”

    2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source

46. “Fifthly, we must promote and strengthen the role of the "quartet" of the United States of America, the European Union, the Russian Federation and the United Nations, based on evenhandedness and transparency in order to help the two parties - the Palestinians and the Israelis - to implement the Tenet plan and the Mitchell recommendations and to resume dialogue and peace negotiations from the point at which they stopped in the year 2000.”

    2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source

47. “Thirdly, the dispatch of international observers from the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, human rights organizations and international emergency aid organizations in order to protect the Palestinian people and ensure provision of food, medicine and humanitarian assistance to the thousands of displaced persons and to identify those Israeli war criminals who have killed hundreds of people, including women and children. Fourthly, Israel must be compelled to pay adequate compensation for the grave damage to the Palestinian infrastructure and property of defenceless Palestinian civilians.”

    2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source

48. “First is the strongest possible rejection and condemnation of these war crimes and Israeli terrorism so that Israel does not misunderstand the message of the international community, as enshrined in Security Council resolutions, particularly the most recent one, resolution 1402 (2202), calling for a withdrawal from all Palestinian territories that were reoccupied in violation of previous agreements - the Oslo Agreement in particular - and other relevant international resolutions. Secondly, we must demand an immediate and unconditional Israeli withdrawal, which must also mean lifting the siege against the President of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, as the legitimate elected leader of the Palestinian people, and the release of thousands of Palestinian detainees.”

    2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source

49. “While reaffirming our solidarity with and full support for the fraternal Palestinian people and its courageous leadership, we call on the Security Council and all States of influence, particularly the United States of America and the European Union member States, to shoulder their political, legal and moral responsibility vis-a-vis the question of Palestine and the grave developments there. These should include the following measures.”

    2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source

50. “The international community and the Security Council, which have always condemned terrorism in the past and which have renounced colonialism and occupation in all forms, must differentiate immediately between State terrorism and war crimes perpetrated relentlessly, on a daily basis, by the Israeli army inside occupied Palestinian territory, and the legitimate struggle of the defenceless Palestinian people to lift this unjust occupation, to defend themselves, their properties and their aspirations to an independent State, with Jerusalem as its capital.”

    2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source