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lines on the record: 361
first: 1992-01-21
most recent: 1993-08-27
sittings or episodes: 40
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“The Security Council is today responding to Liberia's request and that of the Community of West African States in order to help find a solution to the crisis in Liberia, which, as the members of the Community have indicated, is theatening international peace and security and acquiring truly tragic human dimensions. Venezuela supported the request to bring this matter before the Security Council because we sre convinced that the Council should be attentive and receptive to issues that are of concern to and affect regional organizations. It is the Council's responsibility to interact with them without detriment to its own undeniable and unavoidable obligations and authority.”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source
“Mr. ARRIA (Venezuela) (interpretation from Spanish): Venezuela is pleased to welcome the Foreign Ministers of the countries of West Africa who are today participating in this meeting of the Council. We wish to express to them our support and appreciation. Liberia has for almost three years been the victim of a civil war, ao war against itself, that has already cost thousands of lives. It is another society which, like Somalia, is the victim of irresponsible international arms trade, which generates so-called low-intensity conflicts, but these conflicts have a high mortality rate.”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source
“Countries that are genuinely capable of doing so bear continuing responsibility for the potential loss of the Security Council's credibility and prestige. Should that occur, it would have incalculable - indeed, inexcusable - effects on other conflicts in the world.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“What is the future of peace-keeping operations in support of humanitarian assistance, as is the case in Sarajevo, where peace-keeping is regarded as an instrument to support humanitarian assistance?" The quotation concludes: "The international community must coneider a more structured approach to these objectives, instead of addressing them on a case-by-case basis." Venezuela will vote in favour of this new draft resolution - the twenty-third in fact - just as we have consistently been supporting the activities of the international community to put an end to this intolerable conflict, But we must place on record our profound concern at the fact that we have not yet found the ways and means of putting such resolutions into effect and of ensuring compliance with them.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“Peace-keeping needs to be viewed as an inatrument in the peace process, not as an end in itself. Basically, we should look critically and creatively at peace-keeping as an dustrument for the administration of conflicts." And Mrs. McDougall asked: "Would this be the best instrument wich which to address the new kind of ethnic, social and religious conflicts that we see in Moldova, Somalia, Nagorny-Karabakh and Cambodia?”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“This is so because we are using methods that we know to be unsuited to a crisis affecting a country devoid of political structure. Canada, a country that has particular authority by virtue of its great contribution to the United Nations, in particular its active role in peace-keeping operations, has launched an intense public debate about the nature and function of peace-keeping operations. For this reason, and because of the truth and insight of her words, I want to cite the statement made in Toronto recently by Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Barbara McDougall. Speaking at a conference entitled, "Adapting to Survival: global security from Sarajevo to Maastrecht to Rio", she said: "The nature of peace-keeping is changing. Changing circumstances require new methods and approaches.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“We are faced with a situation that does not lend itself specifically to a noble conventional operation: fundamentally, order must he imposed; yet the forces on the ground, who face enormous risks, are neither authorized nor equipped for the task. It is unimaginable that the local war lords of the fratricidal carnage in Somalia have seen any action in the former Yugoslavia that would dissuade them from pursuing their present course. They have seen our resolutions flouted; they have observed our own insistence on following the conventional practice of requesting the agreement of the parties before intervening. But that has only served to legitimize and to give international recognition to the war lords, who represent no one.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“That, in my delegation's view, is the obligation which accompanies the privilege of being a non-permanent member of this body. In that respect, though, we must admit ~ and the socner we do so the better - that the regional organizations, including my own, are ill-prepared to deal with tragedies of such magnitude and intensity as this. Conventional methods of peace-keeping and humanitarian assistance do not suffice. Peace-keeping operations, in which many countries and non-governmental organizations are generously and courageously participating, were designed for situations in which there is consensus and agreement between the parties to the conflict. That is certainly not the case today.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“It is not just that which calls on us to take action commensurate with a crisis of this magnitude: there is also the imminent prospect of terrible conflicts, the breakdown of the demilitarization process in the protected areas of Croatia, and the spread of the violence against the Albanian populace in Kosovo and the Hungarian populace in Vojvodina, as well as increasing tension in Macedonia. The pattern of these developments seems to be leading inexorably to a tragedy of even greater magnitude than the one that we are now facing. When discussing here the nature of the conflict and the means to be used to address it, it is fitting, as Members of the Organization, that we should exercise our responsibility to pause and reflect and to speak out in no uncertain terms.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“Vance is absolutely correct in warning us that: "Given this complex and testing situation, it will require the strongest resolve of the international community to bring about a durable cessation of hostilities and compliance with the principles of the Charter and of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the decisions of this Council." (8/PV,.3134. p. 16) I believe this warning could not be more clear or elogueat. There can be no cempromise with our objectives. It is not just a question of the vandaliz.ag and destruction of the Republic and people of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“His reminder was very timely, and my delegation fully shares his views, especially those he expressed when he seid: "XY do ... want to underscore my firm conviction that there can be no compromise when it comes to respect for the principles of the Charter aud of the international norms of human rights and humanitarian law." (B/PV.3134. pe 22) The Council will undoubt .ly endorse this extraordinary statement by taking the appropriate action. That is our real mandate from the international community, to which we in the Security Council should respond in accordance with Article 25 of the Charter. That is our duty. Lastly, Mr.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“Vance reminded us that the Council and the Assembly have called for a political agreement in accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter and the international norms of human rights and humanitarian law. He reminded us that we have condemned the forced expulsion of citizens, illegal detentions and any attempt to change the demographic composition of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He reminded us that we had invoked the principle of tia inviolability of borders and non-recognition of their alteration by force. He reminded us that we called for respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He reminded us that the Council would disavow and reject the acquisition of territories by force. Mr. Vance did well to remind us of all these things.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“The international community appreciates and values their dedication and efforts in that process. Their prestige and experience unquestionably are and have been of special importance. Their statements in this debate have strengthened our confidence in them, and it is precisely for thi reason that I feel bound here to commant on the statement of former Secretary of State Vance. He said: "The international community cannot accept non~compliance with these guidelines." (S/PV.3134, p. 22) What are those guidelines to which he refers? They are precisely those that this Council and the General Assembly have set out in order to tackle and resolve the enormous tragedy that we are facing. Mr.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“Former Prime Minister Mazowiecki, the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, has informed us that he has evidence that war crimes have been committted. Resolution 781 (1992) banning military flights over Bosnia and Herzegovina has been violated from the very first day. Heavy weapons in the possession of Serbia, which should be under international control, continue to devastate the towns of the Republic. The leader of the Serbian aggression, Radovan Karadzic, describing the situation of the Muslim population, said that they were trapped like rats in a cage. ppalling state of affairs and one that the international community cannot accept. In the current debate in the Security Council, we have heard from the Co-Chairmen of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, Mr. Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“The Serbians, with extraordinary cruelty, have undertaken to re-enact thease crimes against humanity. International peace and security in the former Yugoslavia are clearly being further undermined. Not only has the Republic of S3osnia and Herzegovina seen its population and territory decimated, but "ethnic cleansing" policies are expanding significantly. The most fundamental rights are being violated. The sanctions regime authorized by this Council has been continously violated. The crisis is overflowing into Kosovo and Vojvodina, and the death toll among the unprotected population in Bosnia and Herzegovina this winter could exceed that of the victims of the armed conflict. Concentration camps remain in operation.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“Racial and religious persecution and extermination; agareasion and armed violence} concentration camps: breaches of human rights; war crimes; genocide; violation of soveraignty; the conquest of territory by force; the devastation of cities: these were the main elements that galvanized the world into establishing the United Nations '1n San Francisce Charter. Barely 47 years have passed and once again the Security Council and the General Assembly sre seeing, in the Republic of Bonuia and Herzegovina, the same tragic scenario of crimes, assaults and aberrant violations of all the norms and principles embodied in the Charter of this Organization. Our peoples believed that the world would never again have to undergo such an experience, which tested the mettle and the will of humanity as a whole.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“I should like to commend ana congratulate you, Sir, on your presidency over our work this month. I assure you of our full support in your important task. I should also like to pay a tribute to Ambassador Jean-Bernard Merimee of France, who presided over our deliberations so effectively and akilfully in October. I should like to begin by expressing our gratitude to Mrs. Ogata, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and to General Nambiar, commander of the United Nations Protection Porce (UNPROFOR), who have earned the international community's recognition for their noble and valiant efforts. We note that, despite all the limitations and constraints on them, they hava brought o tremendous sense of sensitivity and responsibility to this very tragic situation.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“The renewal of the mandste of ONUSAL until 30 November 1992 is an expression of this commitment, a8 well as of the advisability of accelerating the implementation of the agreed commitments. The Government of El Salvador, headed by Mr. Alfredo Cristiani, and the leadership of the FMLN must continue to honour the historic responsibility they undertook in the Castle of Chapultepec in Mexico City on 16 January this year. We trust in their commitment to peace and national reconciliation for their people. We urge them both today to maintain their endeavours to make this commitment a reality. The international community has been supporting them in this noble and essential purpose, but responsibility now lies entirely with them,”
1992-10-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3129 (1992) · source
“We unreservedly support the efforts of the Secretary-General and, as operative paragraph 3 of the resolution states, we urge both parties to respect scrupulously and to implement in good faith the commitments assumed by them under the agreements signed on i6 Januaiy 2532 at Mexics respond positively to the Secretary-General's latest proposals to them aimed at overcoming the current difficulties. However, I consider it important to emphasize that we understand these proposals to be practical and realistic responses and not a renegotiation of the agreements. Both parties must continue to show prudence and to remain steadfast at this stage. The Council will no doubt continue to follow the Salvadorian peace process closely and remain committed te it.”
1992-10-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3129 (1992) · source
“Together with Colombia, Spain and Mexico, Venezuela has given its assistance in the delicate tasks of guaranteeing the agreements entered into by the Secretary-General. As Friends of the Secretary-General, together with the United States of America, we can today testify to his endeavours to lend continuity to the complex and ambitious process initiated by his predecessor Secretary-General Javier Peres de Cueliar, and to his firm and constructive role in successfully bringing to a conclusion the process of peace and national reconciliation in El Salvador. Thanks to the admirable mediation of the Secretary-General and his esteemed assistants, we are today in the process of overcoming the innumerable difficulties, and this will make it possible to conclude the process on 15 December 1992.”
1992-10-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3129 (1992) · source
“Very significant progress has heen made in creating the conditions to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion, but it has not ended as we would have wished, and as had been foreseen. Efforts of all kinds have had to be made by all sides to achieve progress towards this objective. We value this steadfastness, for it is a reaffirmation of our belief in the political maturity of the parties and of their capacity and political will to live up to the commitments they have entered into among themselves and with the international community, which has endorsed and supported their efforts. Today we are definitively reiterating our confidence in the capacity of Salvadorian leaders to ensure the future of their people.”
1992-10-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3129 (1992) · source
“The peace agreements on El Salvador constitute a series of interrelated commitments which both Parties have undertaken, compliance with which is aimed at ensuring that the Salvadorian nation can finally enjoy lasting civil peace on the basis of national reconciliation. These agreements put an end to a long and cruel conflict by providing mutually agreed solutions to the most serious problems of Salvadorian society. As such, they are admirable examples of what is possible when a passion for peace prevails and animosity is overcome. As such, they deserve our unreserved support and perseverance, especially now when they are encountering perhaps the most delicate circunstances. The cessation of the armed conflict as a critical stage in the peace process should soon be completed.”
1992-10-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3129 (1992) · source
“Mr. ARRIA (Venezvela) (interpretation from Spanish): Permit me first of ail to congratulate you, Sir, on your outstanding guidance of the Council's proceedings during this month, in which there have been so many difficult negotiations. The resolution just adopted by the Council supports the Secretary-General's recommendation to extend the mandate of the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL) for a period of 30 days in the context mentioned by the Secretary-General in his letters dated 19 and 28 October 1992. In this regard, I wish to make a few observations.”
1992-10-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3129 (1992) · source
“That would be the first step in a process responding to the mass murders and to the practice of "ethnic cleansing" - a process that will assign personal responsibility to those found guilty of grave violations of international humanitarian law. We know that war constitutes the greatest tragedy. That is why it becor?s imperative to make all those who initiate or promote acts of war or ecor vest understand clearly that they shall be held accountable to the conq! rnational community for their responsibility in crimes against humanity. This is how the delegation of Venezuela uaderstands its obligation to the inte national community, which we in the Security Council represent.”
1992-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3119 (1992) · source
“As a State party to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, and as a contracting party to the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and ~unishment of the Crime of Genocide, Venezuela supports all efforts contributing to stopping and punishing all those who commit crimes against human dignity, wherever they may occur. The lack of an international penal jurisdiction should not exempt these criminals from trial and punishment. We trust that the commission of experts that would be established under the draft resolution will begin its work urgently and will frame its mandate in an objective and impartial manner.”
1992-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3119 (1992) · source
“Here we find the opposite: through the mass media, the world has been witnessing the greatest and most terrible devastation - the systematic attempt to destroy the city of Sarajevo, the capital of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The draft resolution before us today is a specific reflection of the will and determination of the Security Council, as expressed in the preamble to the Charter of the United Nations, which begins, "We, the peoples of tho [world], determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war ... and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small".”
1992-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3119 (1992) · source
“Article 54 of the 1977 Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions also prohibits the destruction of infrastructures basic to life, such as electricity, drinking water, sawage and other basic public services. Such are the acts today being perpetrated in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. History abounds in enemies of mankind ~ what the ancients called hostis humanis generis - ranging from slave traders to the criminals responsible for the Holocaust. The only crime that has not been committed in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina is that which in another place and another time Bertrand Russell called the crime of silence.”
1992-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3119 (1992) · source
“All those instruments classify as war crimes those crimes comnitted against peace, including the initiation of acts of war, aggression and all other crimes against humanity, including those committed against civilian populations such as indiscriminate bombing, mistreatment of prisoners, mass deportations, "ethnic cleansing" and so forth. It is precisely such crimes that justified the sentences of execution or long prison texms meted out to the criminals of the Second World War. Nor must we forget that the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide clearly states that genocide means inflicting on a group of human beings conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”
1992-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3119 (1992) · source
“It is our understanding that the commission established by the draft resolution before us would collect the information that will make it possible to prosacute those who may be found to be responsible for the criminal or vandalistic acts that have been perpetrated against thousands upon thousands of citizens of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and of crimes defined as war crimes by the 1907 Hague Convention respecting the Laws and Customs of War, the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the Nuremburg Charter of 1945, the Nuremburg Principles of 1950, the 1977 Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”
1992-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3119 (1992) · source
“In our view, this would not only serve to establish responsibility and punish the guilty, but would also, we believe - and most particularly ~ constitute an important deterrent in the context of the process the United Nations has undertaken to bring peace to the population of the former Yugoslavia, and especially to the suffering Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, Mr. Tadeusz Mazowiecki, former Prime Minister of Poland, in his eloquent and valuable report of 3 September 1992, noted the need to prosecute all those responsibie for human rights violations. Not only should his recommendations be taxen into account by this commission of experts, but Mr. Mazowiecki should be invited to be a member of that commission.”
1992-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3119 (1992) · source
“Without question, the implementation of this criminal, uncivilized philosophy, which has been under way for nearly a year, constitutes genuine trampling underfoot of all the values that guide and inspire the United Nations, The Security Council is Guty-bound to address this situation firmly and swiftly. The escision to establish a commission of experts to Javestigate ali such violations of international humanitarian law would be inspired by the commission that was set up in 1943 for similar purposes and later served as the basia for the proceedings of the Nuremberg tribunal.”
1992-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3119 (1992) · source
“Mr. ARRIA (Venezuela) (interpretation from Spanish): I wish first to convey to you, Mr. President, my delegation's congratulations as you guide the work of the Council; we are sure you will do so with your known qualities and talents. (spoke in English) "The powarful do what they will, and the poor suffer what they must". (spoke in Spanish) That was the barbarous philsophy that, according to Thucydides. obtained during the Peloponnesian Wars and cost the lives of thousands of children, women and 014 people and the massacre of defenceless civilian populations. History is being repeated today against the equally defenceless civilian population of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovins.”
1992-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3119 (1992) · source
“We also hope that this decision will contribute to a process that will allow the establishment of an appropriate framework for negotiation. The expanded conference to be held in London on 26 August 1992 should serve as such a forum; it should bear the ultimate responsibility for achieving a comprehensive political solution in the territory which, from 1918 to 1991, constituted the former Yugoslavia.”
1992-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3106 (1992) · source
“Allow me to recall that Latin saying "Amicus Plato. sed magis amica aca Done MR Ban fata veritss". Siy, we ose frisnds to ohh the peoples involved 4a the conflict, but we are more of a friend to the truth, which emerges clearly from the objective, well-founded analysis of the atrocities that are being committed against the innocent people of The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In conclusion, we cannot but hope that the use of force will be unnecessary and that humanitarian assistance can be properly provided. We likewise hope that the decision we have just taken will serve as sufficient warning not only to those directly involved in the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina but to collaborators involved in the conflict.”
1992-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3106 (1992) · source
“Still haunted by memories of the Holocaust, which we never expected to be repeated, mankind would neither understand nor accept it. The preamble to the National Constitution of Venezuela repudiates warfare as an instrument of relations between States, and we have always advocated the settlement of differences or conflicts by peaceful means. Thus, the decision to vote in favour of both resolutions was for my country a difficult one, owing to the fact that this resolution, while it specifically mentious the iaplementation of ail the means necessary to eusure humanitarian assistance in the country in question, implicitly presupposes the use of force if circumstances should call for it. Indeed, this is the first time that the Security Council has taken a decision of this sort. to provide humanitarian assistance in a country.”
1992-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3106 (1992) · source
“These efforts have been unsuccessful and today we are witnessing an organized vandalism that has chosen to call itself "ethnic cleaasing", a criminal practice by which hundreds of thousands of families have been displaced from their ancestral territories, the intent being to "cleanse" those places of ethnic communities that are different from those that have the lion's share of the weapons. This abominable, criminal practica must cease. To that end, the resolution we have just adopted includes pertinent provisions for the implementation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 relating to war crimes. The resolution should give us the opportunity to begin to try as war criminals all persons responsible for the horrible crimes that are being comaitted. The perpetrators must not go unpunished.”
1992-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3106 (1992) · source
“But for those who direct the violence all of this action by the Security Council has been and remains a matter of indifference. The European Comunity itsel£ has also promoted initiatives to achieve a lasting cease-fire and begin the search for a permanent peace based on respect for the rights of the various ethnic groups that make up these peoples - a permanent peace that assures the establishment of political structures respected by all and legitimized by the demccratic participation of the members of those communities.”
1992-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3106 (1992) · source
“It is clear that the old Yugoslavia, renowned for the intense international activity of Marshall Tito, who, along with Nasser, Nehru, Sukarno and Nkrumah, created the Non-Aligned Movement, has disappeared. During the past 11 months, the Security Council has made many efforts to achieve a negotiated solution to this conflict, whose main confrontations have evolved within the terricory of the uswly created Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. During this period the Council has adopted 15 resolutions relating to the crisis - to this tragedy - ranging from the arms embargo contained in resolution 713 (1991) to the formation of the United Natioas Protection Force (UNPROFOR), and including the aconomic sanctions provided for an resolution 757 (1992), besides several Presidental statements.”
1992-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3106 (1992) · source
“The multinational Yugoslavia organize' by Marshall Tito in 1945 exists no more. In its place, the United Nations has recognized and admitted the Republics of Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which, along with Serbia and Montenegro, represent the historical and political heritage of this ancient land, divided today among all those Repubiics. The plan of Tito, a Croatian by birth, was to establish a solid Balkan State capable of ethnic integration that would produce a new Yugoslavian nationality, the product of a mixture of Croats, Serbs, Montenegrans, Macedonians, Slovenians, Bosnians, Hungarians and Albanians; but it could not overcome their deep-rooted ancestral differences.”
1992-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3106 (1992) · source
“"What is Bosnia and Hersegovian today? It is a land where the hills and villages resound with the echo of the aggressors' guns, where churches, mosques and synagogues are desecrated and graveyards are razed, where parks and back yards, once filled with carefreee children and happy parents, are now makeshift cemeteries, places of torture and concentration camps; starving children, dismembered corpses and orphans murdered. As horrifying as this suffering is, it is only the symptom of a disease called 'ethnic cleansing' ." (spoke in Spanish) It is difficult to add anything more to describe the situatiion that we have today condemned and repudiated in the two resolutions we have just adopted. This no doubt complements the reports of che International Committee of the Red Cross that have been cited today.”
1992-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3106 (1992) · source
“Mr. ARRIA (Venezuela) (interpretation from Spanish): Mr. President, on my way to this meeting of the Council I had an opportunity to read a copy of the communication which you circulated to members of the Council containing the statement which the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey, would have wished to make at this meeting. This statement contains particularly eloquent and tragic passages, which I should like to quote in English at the beginning of my statement: (spoke in English) "What did Bosnia and Herzegovina use to be? It was a land of peaceful green hilis and planted fields, of towns and cities where Catholic and Serbian churches, mosques and synagogues shared our skyline for centuries, a place of learning and art, libraries and skilled artisans.”
1992-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3106 (1992) · source
“In conclusion, I think it is important to highlight the fact that the concern of my country in this debate is founded on its unswerving solidarity and concern in respect of a subject of primary importance for humankind, nomely, the defence of human rights wherever they are violated or trampled unde....t, and on its aspiration to see peace and harmony restored in a region whose people are traditionally friends of Venezuela.”
1992-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3105 (1992) · source
“confident that the Government of Iraq will understand its humanitarian responsibilities to ensure the national reconciliation of its people with full respect for the human rights of all its citizens, many of whom are now subjected to untold and unjustifiable violations of such rights". (S/PV,3059, p,. 89) The final responsibility for normalizing its relations with the international community, symbolized here by the Security Council, and for not jeopardizing international peace and security in the region yet again, lies in the hands of Iraq.”
1992-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3105 (1992) · source
“Preventing access by the international humanitarian organizations - the Non-Governmental Organizations - is clearly a violation of resolution 688 (1991), but it also lends credibility to the condemnations heard today in the Council. I do not think that the letter dated 10 August from the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran - which was circulated today as Security Council document 8/24414 - can go unnoticed at this meeting, because it states that: "The annihilation of large numbers of people in the south of Iraq, mainly Shiites, may lead to a situation like the one which obtained in the spring of 1991 and so threaten peace and security in the region". I shall repeat here what I said, as representative of Venezuela, during the "We are ...”
1992-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3105 (1992) · source
“It also mentioned operative paragraphs 3 to 7 of Security Council resolution 688 (1991), in which it was agreed that immediate access by international humanitarian organizations must be allowed to all those in need of their assistance. The resolution also required the full cooperation of the Government of Iraq in this respect. Lastly, in this connection, in my capacity as President cf the Council I said that as long as the repression continued, there would be s threat to international peace and security. The fact that the Memorandum of Understanding has not been extended implies de facto the withdrawal of the Non-Governmental Organizations, bodies whose presence enhanced the credibility of the international humanitarian action, and it is of course regrettable that this should be so.”
1992-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3105 (1992) · source
“For that reason, my country attaches particular value and importance to his statement before the Council. Mr. van der Stoel's first report before the Council in March of this year caused Council members deep concern and serious alarm - as did today's report - in the light of resolution 688 (1991). On 11 March, exactly five months ago, the Council held its 3059th meeting, at which the Deputy Prime Minister of Irag, Mr. Tariq Aziz, was invited to speak. On behalf of the Council, in my capacity as President, I referred on that occasion to paragraph 2 of resolution 688 (1991), which indicated that in order to remove the threat to international peace and security in the region, an end had to be put to the repression of the civilian population.”
1992-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3105 (1992) · source
“Mr. ARRIA (Venezuela) (interpretation from Spanish): Mr. President, your traditional poise and wisdom in the conduct of our debates will be much needed this month, when the Council deals with such important, complex and novel issues such as the situation that is before us today. Mr. van der Stoel''s appearance before the Council today was not in his capacity as Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights. Nonetheless, Mr. van der Stoel is no ordinary person. He has twice- been Minister for Foreign Affairs of his country, the Netherlands, a prestigious distinguished and democratic nation, and today he is also a member of his country's Council of State. His credibility and prestige are backed by a distinguished public career. We feel that his good faith is beyond question.”
1992-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3105 (1992) · source
“The people of Cambodia do not deserve the attitude adopted by the party in question. We are confident that the unassailable authority of the Secretary-General will prevail in the minds of the leaders of the Party of Democratic Kampuchea. His appeal for cooperation could not be any clearer. The international community, represented by the Security Council, is in no doubt about that appeal by the Secretary-General, which is reflected in the draft resolution we are about to adopt, a draft resolution that should be heeded with the urgency the process requires.”
1992-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3099 (1992) · source
“Mr. ARRIA (Venezuela) (interpretation from Spanish); My delegation is very pleased to associate itself with the appreciation expressed for the report of the Secretary-General and, in particular, for the activities of the Secretary-General's Special Representative, Mr. Akashi. The report reflects, objectively and clearly, the lack of cooperation by one of the parties, the Party of Democratic Kampuchea, which represents a serious obstacle to the effort that was undertaken so vigorously after the Paris Agreements. My delegation hopes that the efforts of some members of the Council will result in the Party of Democratic Kampuchea joining in this decisive stage in the process, which is essential for an authentic process of national reconciliation. In such a process there is no room for sabotage by any of the parties.”
1992-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3099 (1992) · source
“Mandela himself stated the following here at the United Nations: (spoke in English) "It will ever remain an accusation and a challenge to all men and women of conscience that it took as long as it has before all of us stood up to say enough is enough." (spoke in Spanish) Mankind, represented by this Council, cannot agree that (spoke in English) the book on apartheid has been closed. (spoke in Spanish) The international community remains committed to promoting a new, united, non-racial and democratic South African nation.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source