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Aldouri

lines on the record: 226
first: 2001-08-20
most recent: 2003-03-27
sittings or episodes: 19
sources: un-security-council

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“The Iraqi people will defend the principles of the United Nations and the principles of peace and security. Therefore I call upon the Security Council to take notice that the United States and Great Britain and Australia are about to start a real war of extermination that will kill and destroy everything. Then, regret will be of no use. If the humanitarian issue is very important then halting the war is more important, as it is the cause of this deteriorating humanitarian situation. I call upon all of you to move towards taking a resolution to halt the war, to halt the aggression, to rid the Iraqi people of what they are facing. Thank you, Mr. President. I would like to tell the entire international community that Iraq is committed to the Geneva Conventions and the provisions of international humanitarian law.”
2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Therefore, when the United States found itself facing fierce resistance by the Iraqi people, who are keen on their independence, security and sovereignty, and since they realized that the Arab people and Muslim people and people all over the world support Iraq and call upon it to resist, the United States has started to destroy the Iraqi people. Yesterday the United States destroyed 200 houses in one suburb of Nasiriyah, and they have continued to destroy residential areas in A'zamiyah and Yarmook, in Baghdad and many poor suburbs in Basra. We do not know what the future holds for us. The United States will destroy the Iraqi people because the Iraqis hate it and because the Iraqi people will resist and will pay the price in blood in order to get the United States out of Iraq.”
2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source
“The warning I would like to make to the members of the Security Council is that the United States and the United Kingdom were hoodwinked when they were told that the Iraqi people will receive them with flowers and embraces and adulations, that the children and their mothers will come and rejoice at the coming of the United States forces. What happened is that the Iraqi army, until now, has not confronted the United States forces. The Iraqi people - the women, students, peasants - are facing the American and British forces in Iraq today.”
2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Today the carrot is provided to those many States which, regrettably, are contravening the values and principles of the United Nations in following the caravan of war and aggression. The last point I would like to make is that Iraq has not crossed the Atlantic to attack America and in fact has no connection with whatever occurred in the United States in September 2001. Despite the fact that we have no weapons of mass destruction, the United States armed forces have crossed the Atlantic Ocean by the hundreds of thousands - and they are preparing hundreds of thousands of other soldiers, because their forces have been defeated - in order to finish off Iraq and to control the region.”
2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Some of them are to rebuild the oil industry infrastructure, which is the basic reason for the war, some are for rebuilding the infrastructure of the ports, and others for rebuilding the infrastructure of Iraqi industry. I apologize to all those States that participated with the United States in this vision and in the aggression, such as Spain, Bulgaria and many other small States, because they will get nothing from the cake, if Iraq falls. This "cake" was pre-planned by the United States and the United Kingdom even before Iraq entered Kuwait in 1991. The contracts are safeguarded and the companies have been preparing themselves for many years, but officially these contracts were concluded in 1997.”
2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source
“British General Maude came to Iraq in 1917. He faced the people of Baghdad and said, "I come to you as a liberator, not a conqueror." Britain then stayed in Iraq from 1917 until 1958. Today, the new colonialists come and tell us they have come as liberators, not as conquerors, and will need some time to withdraw. If the Security Council does not pay attention to the term "some time", we will know the reality of the American-British neo-colonialism in Iraq. The United States concluded contracts to rebuild the infrastructure of Iraq in 1997. Six years ago they had commercial industrial contracts with companies that some members of the American Administration supervise; in fact, you can find these contracts on the Internet.”
2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source
“The United States wanted to legitimize its aggressive, criminal military action against Iraq after it had lost its legitimacy, owing to its inability to persuade a majority of Security Council members to adopt its criminal draft resolution. Therefore, it has tried to use another way to achieve its objectives, and I think it is a British plan, because the British are well known for their trickery. As I listened today to the representatives of the United States and the United Kingdom, the stance of both countries seemed to be that they are shedding tears over Iraq and that what really interests them is Iraq's future. I do not know how they accept this - they kill someone, shed crocodile tears over him and then attend his funeral. What is said today reminds me of what General Maude said in 1917, and I referred to it in a previous statement.”
2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source
“We all know what is going on there in terms of killing and destruction of the infrastructure, the economy and the agricultural system, as well as deprivation of basic provisions, particularly medicine. We cannot disregard this issue, but it has been represented from two points of View: a purely humanitarian perspective - and I congratulate all States that have begun to think seriously about it, because it is a very serious issue, and all of humanity will bear responsibility for it if they do not move quickly to provide assistance to Iraq - and from another perspective, represented by the United States and the United Kingdom, which from the very beginning wanted to put this issue before the world in order to mislead it, distract it and alter its views concerning the main issue, which is that of war and aggression.”
2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source
“The warnings that the United States has made to many other Member States have reached us and everyone else present here. I believe that the United States used a carrot-and-stick policy in order to intimidate or entice smaller States to make them do its bidding. I understand that some other States whose military bases are now being occupied by hundreds of thousands of American soldiers have also been coerced and have no other choice but to obey the orders of the United States. What I have just said is a general comment; I have two other comments to make. My first comment concerns statements on the humanitarian aspect, to which we have all listened. I believe that I cannot disregard the inhuman effects of the aggression against Iraq.”
2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Mr. Aldouri (Iraq) (spoke in Arabic): I should like to express my sincere thanks to the majority of Member States of the United Nations, whose honourable voices have expressed their views and those of their people and their Governments with regard to the need of putting an end to this aggressive war as a violation of international law, moral values and the Charter of the United Nations. As I listened to a number of voices of those who are misled or who have misled others, which declared that they have joined the camp of war and aggression, in opposition to the United Nations and its Charter, I am fully aware that they have spoken not because their people wanted them to do so, but because of reasons that are well known to everyone.”
2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source
“We hope that the Council will be able to stand up to the machinations that have originated with the United Kingdom and are being implemented by the United States, which can only deceive those who blindly follow those two countries.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“Should not the Council pay attention first and foremost to the cessation of the war of aggression and pay attention to the lives of the Iraqi people, who are subjected to killing and destruction every day in barbaric, evil acts of aggression, which cannot be ignored? Is this not an attempt to put the cart before the horse and distract the Council from its main role in the maintenance of international peace and security? Who stopped the oil for food programme? Who withdrew the inspectors from Iraq? Who withdrew the monitors from the Iraq? Was this not done with the agreement and the blessing of the Council? How could the Council allow itself to be manipulated - and it bears repeating, manipulated - in a matter regarding which the United States and United Kingdom could not obtain a resolution that legitimized the act of aggression.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“We hope it will find a peaceful solution to spare the world the dire consequences that will come out of that aggression and to prevent that aggression from giving rise to a new era of colonialism. The signs of that are becoming evident through the domination of one Power over the destiny of the world, with its dependent other Power. This will mean the collapse of the United Nations and the current international system. Allow me before concluding my statement to point out that in the past few days during the period of aggression the Council has been busy considering the humanitarian aspect rather than the act of aggression itself. Is it not strange that humanitarian questions, however important they are, are being discussed before the war and aggression, which are the main cause for the need to consider the humanitarian aspects?”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“The Council must demand that the American-British aggressors and others withdraw their attacking forces immediately outside the borders of the Republic of Iraq. It must hold them fully responsible for this act of aggression, in accordance with international law. It must impose respect for Security Council resolutions and their implementation, particularly those relating to the lifting of the unjust sanctions against Iraq. While we thank all the countries, peoples and personalities who have called for peace and for the removal of the spectre of war, we are still hopeful that the international community will be able to impose its will on those who have broken international law.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“This colonial Anglo-American aggression is a blatant defiance of the will of the international community and its organizations, all of which have expressed their total rejection of the unilateral use of force, their adherence to international legal instruments and their emphasis on the essential role that the United Nations has to play in maintaining international peace and security and in suppressing acts of aggression. This barbaric, colonial military aggression against Iraq constitutes a dangerous violation of regional and international peace and security. The United Nations, and the Security Council in particular, are called upon to condemn this invasion and aggression. They are called upon to work to put an end to it immediately, without conditions.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“The full-scale Anglo-Saxon military invasion and the hostile, aggressive war against the Republic of Iraq constitute a blatant material breach of international law and the of United Nations Charter, particularly Article 2, paragraphs 4 and 7. It is also a material breach of the relevant Security Council resolutions. All of these resolutions, without exception, oblige United Nations Member States to respect Iraq's sovereignty, political independence and territorial integrity.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“The international community is also well aware that the Security Council has not authorized the use of force by the United States and Britain. The international community is aware that resolution 1441 (2002) did not allow the use of force at all. Both Britain and the United States confirmed when resolution 1441 (2002) was adopted that it did not contain a hidden agenda, trigger or automatic use of force. Nevertheless, despite the opposition to war of the majority of Council members, and despite Iraq's cooperation with UNMOVIC - according to its Executive Chairman's declaration - these two countries launched their criminal war against Iraq.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“The invaders and aggressors say that the goal of their aggression is the disarmament of Iraq. However, the whole world knows that the task of verifying Iraq's compliance in disarmament was entrusted not to the United States and Britain but to the United Nations itself, through the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In their report to the Security Council on 7 March, these two agencies stated that the inspections conducted during three and a half months did not find any evidence contradicting Iraq's declarations and no evidence of the existence of proscribed activities or items in Iraq. Yet today the whole world is well aware that the real reason for this aggression and invasion is the occupation of Iraq, to recolonize it and control its oil wealth.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“It is known that the American and British troops penetrated the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait after the United Nations Secretariat withdrew the monitors of the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM), in blatant violation of Security Council resolution 687 (1991), which provided for the inviolability of borders between Iraq and Kuwait. The Security Council must react to ensure that these borders are respected. The United States and Britain have deployed in the south and west of Iraq in order to launch their forces against Iraqi cities and villages. However, the Iraqi armed forces and armed civilian units, made up of the great Iraqi people, are fighting honourable and fierce battles against this foul aggression and are confronting it with heroism.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“For example, the water and electric facilities in the city of Basra were destroyed. This will lead to a health disaster and to a real crime of genocide. The Moustansiriya Mosque in Baghdad was bombed, and a popular bazaar in the same city was also bombed today. On 20 and 21 March, the American- British invaders and aggressors dropped more than 2,000 long-range guided missiles. They conducted more than 1,000 daily aerial sorties over all of Iraq's cities and villages, during which they used cluster bombs and prohibited new weaponry, much bragged about, to terrorize Iraq.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“United States President Bush declared at that time that the goal of this aggression was the occupation of Iraq and the change of its political regime. As his Secretary of State, Colin Powell, previously stated, the goal of the aggression was to change the political map of the Middle East region to ensure the interests of the United States and Israel. This constitutes a blatant violation of international law and of the United Nations Charter; it defies the international community and deviates from international legality. The aggression has targeted, among other things, civilian installations - economic infrastructures, homes, schools, hospitals, mosques and churches in Iraq's cities and villages. It has led to thousands of casualties, including women, children and the elderly.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“Mr. Aldouri (Iraq) (spoke in Arabic): Iraq, a founding Member of the United Nations, is being subjected to criminal, tyrannical, barbaric American- British military aggression. This aggression is killing women, children and the elderly, and it is destroying the lives and future of the people of Iraq, who are the people of civilization - of Sumer, Babylon and Akkad. Previously, they tried to kill our civilization through a weapon known as sanctions. These sanctions lasted more than 13 years, during which a whole generation of children and youth was destroyed. Condolences here are extended to you all - the entire world community - and to all those who love peace and security in the world. The American-British full-scale military aggression commenced at dawn on 20 March 2003.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“In conclusion, I would like to reaffirm that Iraq will continue to work with the Security Council to make the truth known: Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction. Iraq hopes that the Council will continue to search for a peaceful solution to the crisis, ensure that the work of the inspectors continues and resume the oil for food programme.”
2003-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4721 (2003) · source
“In light of the imminent dangers facing Iraq, the region and the world, I do not believe that members of the Council and the Secretary-General need to be reminded of their responsibilities under the Charter for the maintenance of international peace and security, especially in the event of a threat to or breach of peace or an act of aggression. This is precisely what is happening now. The prospect of an attack against Iraq by the United States and the United Kingdom is almost certain. It might well occur within hours from now. This fact should compel the Council to immediately take the necessary steps to ensure international peace and security, particularly after the United States, in the words of its President, has confirmed its intention to launch a war against and occupy Iraq, regardless of the circumstances.”
2003-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4721 (2003) · source
“Hence, my delegation believes that in order to minimize the magnitude of the expected humanitarian catastrophe - and the tens of millions of dollars so generously offered by the United States and the United Kingdom will not be enough to cope with it - the Council has no choice but to renew expeditiously the work of the oil for food programme, especially given that delaying the agreed-upon shipment of humanitarian goods on their way to Iraq, amounting to more than $10 billion, will have dire consequences, especially in areas related to food, medicine and basic civilian needs.”
2003-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4721 (2003) · source
“The oil for food programme has nonetheless been suspended and its entire international staff has been withdrawn in record time. This is truly astonishing. The decision to withdraw the inspectors so swiftly paves the way for the United States and the United Kingdom to carry out acts of military aggression against Iraq much faster than was expected.”
2003-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4721 (2003) · source
“The direct humanitarian effects of the military attack will mean tens of thousands of causalities and the complete destruction of the country's infrastructure. I would like to recall here that the United States and the United Kingdom have made commitments to rebuild the infrastructure that they are about to destroy either today or tomorrow. This is, of course, cause for sincere joy to all. Epidemics and diseases will also spread. It is regrettable that this will take place at a time when the work of all specialized United Nations agencies in Iraq has ceased in the fields of health, education, food relief, environmental protection and other humanitarian activities. The personnel in those fields have been withdrawn. We need such personnel at a time of crisis and war, not during peacetime.”
2003-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4721 (2003) · source
“Human beings cannot live by bread and medicine alone, as the United States and the United Kingdom would wish the people of Iraq to do. The Security Council and the Secretary-General will therefore have a direct responsibility if war breaks out. I do not wish to comment about what the Permanent Representative of the United States has said about the humanitarian situation in Iraq and about the great generosity demonstrated by the United States of America and the scores of millions of dollars dedicated to saving the Iraqi people, which they do not need. The executioner cannot help the victim, except by killing him. That is what the United States wants for the Iraqi people; and that is what it is working for.”
2003-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4721 (2003) · source
“At this difficult time, I feel compelled to draw the Council's attention to the reality of what is already a dire humanitarian situation, which is due to an unjust embargo maintained in particular by the United Kingdom and the United States, and to the delay in receiving humanitarian supplies under the oil for food programme. That situation will further deteriorate, in spite of the fact that the Iraqi authorities are currently- and shall be for a reasonable period - able to meet basic needs for food and medicine. However, food and medicine alone are not enough. Electricity, potable water, sewage treatment, communications and other essential needs that cannot be stored or distributed will be affected or, as was the case in 1991, destroyed. That will lead to a real humanitarian catastrophe.”
2003-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4721 (2003) · source
“Iraq therefore welcomes the report, and will do its utmost to complete those tasks as soon as possible and to answer every question raised in the report. In a telephone conversation I had this morning with General Amer Al-Saadi, who is the person in Iraq responsible for this issue, I was told that Iraq had finalized two important reports that it plans to hand over to the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC). The first report, which runs about 80 pages, concerns anthrax. The second, which pertains to unmanned planes, will be delivered to UNMOVIC as soon as we receive it from Iraq. There are currently difficulties in communicating with the country.”
2003-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4721 (2003) · source
“After the failure of those two countries to provide even a shred of evidence, and after they realized that the world was beginning to understand the truth, namely, that Iraq was free of weapons of mass destruction, those countries decided to expose their real goals and intentions, that is, to occupy Iraq and to control its oil wells. That is the only truth; no other exists. The coming days will prove the reality of that truth. But by then it will be too late. I do not wish to dwell in detail on the report of Mr. Blix that is before the Council, which pertains to the main disarmament tasks. Suffice it to say that Iraq had been requesting that report for a long time. Iraq put forth quite a bit of advanced information within the context of the tasks being discussed by the Council today.”
2003-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4721 (2003) · source
“Proof of this fact lies in the failure by the United States and Britain to prove any allegation that Iraq has possessed such weapons in recent years, and especially during the period following the adoption of resolution 1441 (2002). I would sincerely like to thank international inspectors for the relentless efforts they have made. I would also like to thank Mr. Blix and Mr. Elbaradei for their distinguished work, which has been characterized by neutrality and objectivity. With regard to weapons of mass destruction, I would like to say that the inspectors have refuted all the misleading information that was presented by the United States and Britain. They proved that information to be false, including the information that the Secretary of State of the United States worked so arduously to put before the Council as damning evidence.”
2003-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4721 (2003) · source
“At the same time, many other voices - responding to the international community and human conscience, as well as to the principles of truth, justice and the Charter of the United Nations - have called for peace. For the record, and for the sake of historical accuracy, as well as to reassure every State that has recently made active efforts to maintain peace and to prevent war, we would like to reiterate that Iraq no longer possesses weapons of mass destruction. The presence of such weapons has been relegated to the past. Iraq decided in 1991 to destroy the weapons it had produced. That action stemmed from the conviction underlying Iraq's policy to rid itself of such weapons.”
2003-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4721 (2003) · source
“Mr. Aldouri (Iraq) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to express my appreciation to the permanent and non-permanent members of the Security Council for their efforts aimed at reaching a peaceful resolution to the current crisis, which was created by the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain, with the intention of launching a hostile war against Iraq and occupying it under the pretext of the presence in Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. I would also like to express my gratitude to the Secretary-General for the sincere and peaceful efforts he has made, and continues to make. We hope that he will be able to continue with those efforts. We have heard three or four discordant voices calling for war in the course of many meetings in this Chamber.”
2003-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4721 (2003) · source
“This is the threat with which many small countries - which have absolutely no interest in such weapons being unleashed against Iraq or in the deployment of such arsenals from all sides around my country - have associated themselves. I wish the Security Council, by exercising its responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, would stand up to the new weapons of mass destruction that will be launched against Iraq. I hope that it will not stand idly by in the face of this threat, which is clear, present and serious. It is your responsibility, Mr. President. I leave you with these questions, along with those I asked the Council in my statement yesterday with respect to myriad issues that have no substance except in the imaginations of the United States and the United Kingdom.”
2003-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Thus, those who have joined the caravan of war, led by the United States and the United Kingdom, to destroy Iraq and its people and to occupy the region will regret and rue their decision. I should have liked them to opt for peace. Why? Because it might have helped to prevent the United States from deploying weapons far worse than weapons of mass destruction. The United States Chief of Staff has announced that 3,000 long-range missiles will strike Iraq. On the first day alone, 800 will be launched at us. The United States Secretary of Defense bragged yesterday about a weapon that is being called "the mother of all bombs", weighing 21,000 pounds, with which he threatened Iraq, just as he has threatened to strike Iraq with weapons of mass destruction of a tactical nuclear nature.”
2003-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717Resumption1 (2003) · source
“As I noted in my statement, the entire question boils down to a single point: Iraq destroyed its weapons of mass destruction unilaterally in 1991. We are now being asked about the number of weapons destroyed, where and when they were destroyed This is not an easy question to answer; it is not a coat that can be put on and taken off. It is a 13-year old question. During that time, numerous weapons of mass destruction have been destroyed in various areas. Iraq only requires time to provide what evidence it can to the international community to prove that it has no weapons of mass destruction and to disclose what it currently possesses. The question is not about the presence or absence of weapons of mass destruction. That is a moot point; regardless of the circumstances, the days ahead will reveal the fact that such weapons do not exist.”
2003-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717Resumption1 (2003) · source
“I respect their choice, too. I should like, however, to reassure the members of the Council, those States that have spoken and those that have not that Iraq has taken a strategic decision, as expressed last year by President Saddam Hussain of Iraq when he asserted that we do not have weapons of mass destruction and have no desire to join such a club now or in the future. Throughout this period, the inspectors have searched every corner of Iraq and left no stone unturned. Despite an unprecedented and strengthened inspections regime and unannounced inspections, they said a few days ago that they have been unable to find any weapons of mass destruction or evidence of prohibited programmes in the nuclear or any other field.”
2003-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717Resumption1 (2003) · source
“I understand the magnitude of the pressure that has been brought directly and indirectly to bear by the United States and the United Kingdom on everybody, small States and large, without exception. Some have been able to opt for law, peace and the United Nations Charter, while others have included parts of the Anglo- American draft resolution in their statements to satisfy the United States and the United Kingdom. There are also other States that are in full agreement with the United States and its expansionist objectives of exercising hegemony and domination over the world. I also understand the position of other States that are occupied by hundreds of thousands of United States soldiers; these States cannot speak their minds, as some others did yesterday and today. Some of these States have been and continue to be paid.”
2003-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717Resumption1 (2003) · source
“I also wish to refer to those States that have associated themselves with the United States and the United Kingdom and their draft resolution declaring war on Iraq. I simply want to remind them that they have no interest in such a war, which will wreak incalculable catastrophe upon the world. Although I understand why they have joined the United States and the United Kingdom, I cannot justify it. They are small States that have no interest in the occupation of Iraq and its oil fields by the world super-Power or in dividing the region. They have been compelled to take this position and I respect their decision and their views, since Iraq is a small State too.”
2003-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Mr. Aldouri (Iraq) (spoke in Arabic): I will speak very briefly. I simply wish to express our gratitude to all those States that have spoken over the past two days and to those that have offered and continue to offer their support for a political solution to the Iraqi question. Over these two days, we have heard a clear majority opinion of States, and I wish to thank those that have rightly paid tribute to Iraq's cooperation, the work of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the positive results achieved on the ground since the return of the inspectors. Those States have also affirmed their rejection of the use of force and the importance of resorting to peaceful means that are consistent with the United Nations Charter and international law.”
2003-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717Resumption1 (2003) · source
“We call upon the Security Council and the Secretary-General to shoulder their responsibilities, in accordance with the provisions of the Charter, to thwart any aggression against Iraq.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“Today, Iraq, before the Council, reiterates its readiness to cooperate in a fruitful and constructive manner so that it will be determined that weapons of mass destruction no longer exist in Iraq and that sanctions imposed on it would be lifted. We will convincingly answer the questions of anyone who has any doubts about Iraq's cooperation. We shall answer the false allegations that are used to justify war against us. Iraq reaffirms that peaceful means, dialogue and cooperation are the quickest and best means to resolve the current crisis. My delegation, through the Council, calls upon the international community to prevent a catastrophe that has now become imminent.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“The first is that Iraq is aware that since it first began dealing with this matter, the United States and the United Kingdom will put in doubt any result reached, because their goal is not disarmament, which has in effect been achieved. They very well know this, as will soon be established by UNMOVIC and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Rather, their objective is to lay their hands on our oil, control the region and redraw its borders in order to ensure the continuation of vital interests for the United States for a long period to come. This is a new direct colonization of the region. My second and last point is that Iraq has taken the strategic decision to rid itself of weapons of mass destruction. Had this decision not been the right one, it would not have cooperated with UNMOVIC.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“This is a radio-controlled aircraft, which is controlled by and remains within the sight range of its ground controller. It does not go beyond eight kilometres. Therefore, it is not a weapon of mass destruction or a delivery method that surpasses the range set forward in Security Council resolutions. Is this truly a material breach of Security Council resolutions, and particularly resolution 1441 (2002)? We leave it to you to ascertain the truth of such allegations. They show the bankruptcy of the attempts of the United States administration to convince the international community that such allegations are true. The issue, ultimately, is in the hands of UNMOVIC. It is up to UNMOVIC to reach its conclusions. I would like to conclude my statement by making two points.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“Eighth, the so-called new evidence put forward by the United States and the United Kingdom during the past two days that alleges that Iraq is in material breach of Security Council resolutions no doubt reflects, I believe, the quandary faced by the United States administration in proving its previous allegations. These allegations have become a subject of ridicule. The issue is no more than that of a small experimental primitive pilotless aircraft without any prototype for production whatever. Inspection teams have viewed the aircraft, its specifications, and their details. They ascertained those technical specifications, especially regarding fuel tank and engine capacity; they were tested within the range of the airport.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“Blix replied to this question by saying the document on remaining disarmament issues does not provide any evidence that Iraq has proscribed weapons or programmes. Rather, the document contains a list of questions, the answers to which will enable UNMOVIC to verify the prior destruction of these weapons in 1991 in order to reach a so-called material balance. UNMOVIC, as well as its predecessor, the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), have spoken repeatedly on this matter. Bear in mind that Iraq did request UNMOVIC for some time, even before the adoption of resolution 1441 (2002), to present such a document. It would be important for Iraq to View the main tasks required of it in order to implement them as soon as possible and to study such questions and answer them.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“Iraq's acceptance of resolution 1441 (2002) and its precise implementation of all provisions contained in it had prevented the United States and the United Kingdom from using it as a pretext to declare war on Iraq. Having lost such an opportunity, they started to raise doubts concerning the inspections and the inspectors and their capabilities. They then sought other new pretexts such as terrorism, regime change, Iraq's threat to its neighbours, American interests and the need to disarm Iraq of its so-called weapons of mass destruction by force. This means waging war, which is the main objection of this game. Seventh, does the document submitted by UNMOVIC to the Security Council at its last meeting (S/2003/232), which takes up unresolved disarmament issues, mean that weapons of mass destruction do exist in Iraq? Mr.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“Fifthly, are there any shortcomings in the work of inspectors and their scientific and technical capacity to discover any proscribed weapons or programmes? The inspectors have at their disposal the latest advanced equipment, including laboratory testing equipment of soil, water and air, remote sensors that detect materials in deep ground, vibration detectors and aerial surveillance aircraft. Iraq has not interfered in the work of inspectors from any technical aspect whatever. Sixthly, was not resolution 1441 (2002) an initiative of the United States and United Kingdom to reinforce the inspection regime and an attempt to rule out implementing resolution 1284 (1999)?”
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“In fact, one of the documents presented, alleging an attempt by Iraq to import uranium from an African country, proved to be a forgery. Furthermore, the latest intelligence report submitted by Britain was originally a thesis by a student of Iraqi origin written in 1990. That intelligence report essentially contained previously published information plagiarized by British intelligence services and was replete with errors of language and syntax, according to the student's statement. The allegations presented by Mr. Powell on 5 February 2003 were refuted by the facts in the possession of the inspectors, following four months of reinforced inspections in Iraq. Therefore, none of the allegations - none of the so-called facts put forward by Mr. Powell - have proved to be true.”
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