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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 sanctions are killing 5,000 Iraqi children monthly. The least one can say about this is that it is a crime of genocide being experienced today with the full knowledge of the Security Council. Despite all this, the United Nations is still incapable of providing even the slightest explanation as to why these sanctions that are killing children every day continue to be in place. As if that vengeance were not enough, the United States and the United Kingdom continue to take revenge on the Iraqi people, including children, despite the norms of international law and the United Nations Charter. Both those States have imposed no-fly zones in the northern part of Iraq since 1991. Those zones were extended to the south of Iraq in 1992.”
2001-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4422Resumption1 (2001) · source
“All this has had a devastating impact on children, both directly and indirectly; to say nothing of the use of depleted uranium, which led to birth defects, leukaemia and great suffering for children. At the time, the United Nations simply stood by as a spectator of an aggression that caused tens of thousands of child victims and that continues to produce victims. Before and after that aggression, the United States imposed an unprecedentedly comprehensive sanctions regime on an entire people in the name of the United Nations. According to a UNICEF report published in August 1999, those overall sanctions led to the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children under the age of 5 between 1991 and 1998. As of today, the number of civilian victims resulting from the sanctions against Iraq has reached over 1.6 million, most of them children.”
2001-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4422Resumption1 (2001) · source
“In fact, it has even become the cause of a number of armed conflicts, thereby subjecting children to suffering and daily dislocation, starvation, bombings, killings and other acts of aggression that have deprived them of the most basic rights, particularly the right to life. The situation of children in Iraq, Palestine and numerous other parts of the world provides but a few striking examples of this. Iraqi children were the first victims of the military aggression by the United States and its allies against Iraq in 1991. In the course of that aggression, over 88,000 tons of bombs were dropped, striking civilian targets and our infrastructure: roads, bridges, hospitals, schools, water purification plants, electric power stations and so on.”
2001-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4422Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Children are even being deliberately targeted, which is a flagrant violation of international conventions and instruments, as well as an undeniable international crime. My delegation would like once again to emphasize that the Security Council's addressing this matter is a very positive sign. However, this should not prevent us from dealing with this issue in a broader and more appropriate forum in which all States are represented on an equal footing, namely, in the General Assembly. Because of the existing balance of power, the Security Council has become incapable of dealing with a number of cases of armed conflict.”
2001-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4422Resumption1 (2001) · source
“In fact, that task is referred to in the Charter: "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war". As children are the most vulnerable group in any society, it is quite natural that they should be the first to be affected by armed conflict. Despite all the efforts that have been made by the international community for several decades to lay solid foundations of international law to protect civilians in armed conflict, and children in particular - efforts that have led to a number of international instruments and numerous declarations governing the conduct of combatants and providing protection for the most vulnerable members of society - we unfortunately continue to see indifference towards children on the part of certain people and even States.”
2001-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4422Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Olara Otunnu, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, for the presentation of his report and for his efforts in this area. I very much wish that, when he presented his report, he had referred to the children of Palestine or of Iraq, particularly since he quite correctly referred to the children of Africa, particularly of Sierra Leone, and to the children of Afghanistan. May I also thank the Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), who has been making very sincere efforts. In fact, the children of Iraq have witnessed the sincerity of her efforts over the last 10 years. Since we are taking up this important issue, it should be noted that what we are trying to do here is to carry out one of the most important tasks entrusted to the United Nations.”
2001-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4422Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Mr. Aldouri (Iraq) (spoke in Arabic): On behalf of my delegation, Madam Chairman, I would like to congratulate you on presiding over the work of the Council this month. We are convinced that you will be able to direct its work with the wisdom we know you possess. My delegation would also like to thank you for having convened this public meeting devoted to the question of children and armed conflict. This is a subject of paramount importance in today's tumultuous world. We believe that your interest in children, your experience and the fact that you presided over the Preparatory Committee for the Special Session on Children will make it possible to achieve concrete results. Nor can I fail to thank Mr.”
2001-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4422Resumption1 (2001) · source
“We hope that the Council will continue dealing with similar humanitarian situations in the same way, the solution of which may well contribute to international peace and security. After having heard the statements made by some members of the Security Council today, we felt a clear sense of hesitation. The reasons cited call, we believe, rather for Council's intervention, not reluctance and hesitation in taking a position. As the Ambassador of the Libyan Arab J amahiriya said this morning, insisting on the need to hesitate will not help to solve Somalia's problem, but merely add to its deterioration. We therefore express the hope that the Council will adopt a more positive position so as to assist the Transitional National Government and the Somali people to overcome their problems and difficulties.”
2001-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4392Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Dealing with Somalia at the international level, particularly at the United Nations, in a neutral, unbiased and objective manner, distanced from the sensitivities of the recent past - and we trust that it shall be thus - will provide impetus towards unifying Somali society, following a comprehensive reconciliation. We believe that the current Transitional National Government in Somalia is working towards this objective. Giving the Prime Minister of Somalia the opportunity to speak to the Security Council today and, indeed, the very holding of this open debate to allow Member States, and Arab States in particular, to express their points of View, are in themselves positive developments.”
2001-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4392Resumption1 (2001) · source
“The appointment by the Secretary-General of a Representative for Somalia responsible for following the developments of the Somali situation in all its aspects, in coordination with the Transitional National Government, the neighbouring States and regional and international organizations, will surely help solve some of the principal problems in Somalia, particularly those relating to the parties that remain outside the circle of national unity. It should also help in reinforcing State institutions, through the provision of financial and technical assistance from specialized agencies and funds. The Government of Somalia, today more than at any time in the past, must be dealt with through an honest approach that is far removed from the maze of international political sensitivities, international polarization and narrow interests.”
2001-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4392Resumption1 (2001) · source
“In this regard, however, we would recall the responsibility of the international community to stand in solidarity with other States and to provide financial assistance to Somalia, when required, in order to enable it to fulfil its duty towards its people. Allow me to repeat our call for a redoubling of efforts to provide immediate assistance so as to enable Somalia to reconstruct and rehabilitate its society and re-establish stability and security.”
2001-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4392Resumption1 (2001) · source
“We consider our support for the Transitional National Government a priority for achieving unity and comprehensive reconciliation with a View to re- establishing stability and security and reconstructing the country. We urge the Security Council in particular, and the United Nations in general, as well as the international community, to ensure that this matter is taken up seriously, proceeding from the purposes and principles of the Charter. Such attention may solve some problems in Somalia. However, translating concern into programmes requires large financial allocations. We hope that Arab States will be able to cover some of these financial needs.”
2001-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4392Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Finally, I am duty-bound to welcome the Prime Minister of the Transitional National Government and the delegation accompanying him, as they represent the State of Somalia. We take part in the Security Council's meeting today to express our support to sisterly Somalia and its people. We also express, together with all other Arab States, our concern that Somalia become again a united, fully sovereign and independent State able to defend the Vital interests of the Somali people, following the attempts by evil forces - external and internal - to tear apart the social and political fabric of its society and destroy its economic infrastructure.”
2001-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4392Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Mr. Aldouri (Iraq) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me at the outset to express to you, Sir, our sincere congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council this month. We are confident that your wisdom and skill will ensure success for your presidency. I cannot fail to express our appreciation to the Ambassador of France for his presidency of the Security Council last month. We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his report on the issue under consideration today, and to his Representative for the statement he made this morning. We would also like to express our appreciation to the sisterly country of Djibouti for the efforts made on behalf of our brothers the Somali people to overcome the crisis in Somalia and for creating the necessary environment to set up the Transitional National Government (TNG).”
2001-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4392Resumption1 (2001) · source
“In conclusion, I would like to say, so as not to waste more time in making speeches, that what we must do is to adopt specific, emergency measures to protect the Palestinian people from the murders and massacres that have been committed against it for more than 50 years and to enable it to regain its due rights. If that is not done, everyone - and I say everyone - will bear the responsibility, and regrets will then serve no purpose.”
2001-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption1 (2001) · source
“We believe that the Security Council should respond on an emergency basis to Iraq's offer to devote not 1 million but 1 billion euros of its oil revenues to assisting its brothers in occupied Palestine, because they are in urgent need of economic assistance. If we all agree that the acts committed by Zionism have led to the destruction of the economic infrastructure of Palestine, why then would the Council not allow Iraq to assist its Palestinian brothers in rebuilding their economic infrastructure? That would mean keeping silent in the face of suffering, accepting it and contributing indirectly to the continuation of this tragic situation.”
2001-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption1 (2001) · source
“The international community, represented by States and Governments and by the United Nations itself, where we are meeting today, must work to restore the right of the Palestinian people to the return of all usurped territory, and the right of refugees to return to their homes, from which they had been chased by the Zionist usurpers. The Security Council today must shoulder its responsibility. It must adopt appropriate measures under the United Nations Charter to put an end to Zionist aggression, to make the occupation forces scrupulously respect the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 1949.”
2001-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption1 (2001) · source
“The Zionist occupier is uprooting more than 150,000 olive trees from Palestinian land, in addition to confiscating all water resources from the Palestinians, who own the land and the water. The occupation forces, in plain view and with the knowledge of everyone, delight in detaining old people and sick people for many hours at inspection and transit points. Media reports tell of sick people dying at crossing points because of the severity of the wait and the humiliation and insults to which they are subjected during long waiting periods.”
2001-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption1 (2001) · source
“The crimes committed by the Zionist occupation forces against defenceless, innocent Palestinian citizens have exceeded all the crimes previously committed by occupiers, as the annals of history show. Even the apartheid regime of South Africa, despite its brutality, would never have dared to use fighter planes against innocent, defenceless civilians, as the Israeli Zionists do when they shell peaceful Palestinian villages and towns. The sadism of the Zionist occupiers and the barbarity of the occupation have succeeded in driving 68 per cent of the inhabitants of occupied Palestine from their homes since the beginning of the occupation in 1948. That is why there are 4.5 million Palestinian refugees waiting to return to their homes.”
2001-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Peace can be established only at the cost of a bitter struggle; it must be torn out of the hands of the occupier by all means available. Such peace cannot be achieved through American mediation, because the United States sides with the occupier. It is armed struggle and the national intifada of the Palestinian people that will be able to wrest Palestinian rights from the aggressor. It is Palestinians who are daily watering the land of Palestine with their blood. Allow me in this Chamber to hail the valiant, courageous people of Palestine, who are fighting Zionist and American imperialism every day and every hour. I pay true and sincere tribute to the Palestinian martyrs who without hesitation give their lives to defend their country. I also wish to salute those who resist in defence of their rights and their homeland.”
2001-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption1 (2001) · source
“It also claims to be devoted to human rights, while shamelessly supporting the criminal Zionist occupying forces and calling on both parties, including the victims of aggression, to show the same restraint and moderation in order to save the peace process. But what peace are we talking about? What kind of neutral sponsor of peace is the United States speaking about? What we are saying here is that the resistance of the people of Palestine is a right that cannot be taken away. It is the legitimate right to self- defence, which is enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and in principles of international law. True peace cannot be established by cajoling the occupier and imposing submissive solutions on vulnerable, occupied people.”
2001-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption1 (2001) · source
“The death of Palestinian children and civilians and the death machines used by Israel for physical elimination have to date not been enough to wrest from the Council even a single declaration, however timid, condemning Zionist terrorism and deploring the acts committed by that neo-Nazi entity. The President of the United States misses no opportunity to contact the criminal Zionists to offer them his condolences when a single Israeli soldier is killed by a hero of the Palestinian resistance. Yet, Palestinian children are killed, besieged and starved with the blessing of the United States, offered without remorse or morality. The United States loves to give others lessons in morality.”
2001-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption1 (2001) · source
“I am referring to the United States of America, a country that provides military, moral and material cover for the crimes that the Zionist entity is committing against the people of Palestine and their children. Unfortunately, the Council's policy of double standards in dealing with problems affecting the Islamic world in general and the Arab world in particular - and the Israeli occupation of Palestine above all - is a flagrant example of the injustice and ill-treatment suffered by the people of the third world, and more particularly by Muslim people.”
2001-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Operations of assassination and physical liquidation are committed against them. Moreover, they must face collective punishment, siege and isolation. Despite the gravity of these crimes, which are being committed against the people of Palestine day after day and hour after hour, and despite the fact that 63 Palestinian letters of protest have been sent to the Security Council in the course of recent months to request prompt intervention to end Zionist terrorism, the Security Council has remained silent and powerless to intervene to end the suffering of the Palestinian people. The Council will continue to be powerless because its power is constrained by a tyrannical, arrogant and imperialist Power.”
2001-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption1 (2001) · source
“The Council is meeting at a time when the Zionist entity, the occupying Power, is carrying out daily bombings of Palestinian towns, villages and refugee camps using the most sophisticated weapons of destruction supplied by the United States, in particular F-16 fighter planes, attack helicopters, depleted uranium shells and toxic gas. Against whom, exactly, is this merciless war machine pitted? The answer is against unarmed civilians, innocent women and children, throwing stones at the occupier and getting killed or injured by the hundreds and thousands. Civilian Palestinian dwellings are being bombarded and public buildings are being destroyed. The Palestinians are prevented from going home. They are driven from their houses. Evacuations and confiscations take place daily. Human rights are trampled underfoot.”
2001-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Mr. Aldouri (Iraq) (spoke in Arabic): I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I wish you every success in your work. I would also like to thank you for promptly agreeing to the request made by Palestine and the Organization of the Islamic Conference to hold this important meeting. I also cannot fail to take this opportunity to thank the representative of China, Ambassador Wang Yingfan, for his efficient and successful conduct of the Council's meetings last month. The Council is convened today, for the third time in less than six months, to discuss the situation in Palestine in the light of increased Zionist aggression against the defenceless Palestinian people.”
2001-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption1 (2001) · source