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Aziz

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  1. “Weeks after the resolution had been adopted and Iraq had begun implementing its provisions those countries announced that they would not be prepared to lift the economic embargo until the political leadership of Iraq was replaced. These countries continue reiterating this precondition, despite its flagrant contradiction of the principles of the United Nations Charter and contents of the resolutions adopted by the Council itself. Thus those States have exploited resolution 687 (1991) to achieve political objectives not provided for in the resolution, in the way they exploited resolution 687 (1991), as I explained earlier.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  2. “None of the parties adopting the resolution has attempted to show any understanding of, or sympathy with, the terrible, tragic situation forced upon Iraq. A series of demands and decisions on the implementation of this or that paragraph of the resolution was taken in rapid succession and came hammering down, regardless of the facts of the situation suffered by Iraq. I am also forced here to remind the Council, and through it the international community, that the countries to which I have referred did not stop at Iraq's compliance with the provisions of resolution 687 (1991) as a condition for lifting the economic sanctions.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  3. “Some members of the inspection teams visiting Iraq have been selected from people linked to the intelligence services of certain countries in order to create problems and hence keep the Council in this atmosphere of distortion, I wish here to remind the Council that the first steps in implementing resolution 687 (1991) were taken during the weeks and months immediately following the cessation of the military operations, when Iraq was suffering bitterly from the impact of the total destruction which had left the country without electricity, communications or transport, and had resulted in the destruction of its buildings and documents and in other damages, caused by tens of thousands of tons of explosives dropped all over Iraq.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  4. “We have sent many notes and letters to the Council, and our Permanent Representative has spoken repeatedly before the Council explaining Iraq's position and the extent of its fulfilment of the provisions of resolution 687 (1991), but all these efforts have been ignored under pressure from a small, but influential and perhaps even tyrannical, number of members of the Council. Now and again, storms of false allegations and ill-intended extremist conclusions have been raised against Iraq's position on one subject or another. The Council was repeatedly put in an atmosphere of distortion aimed at suggesting non-compliance by Iraq with the provisions of the resolution.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  5. “Paragraph 21 of resolution 687 (1991) stipulates that the Security Council review the provisions of paragraph 20, which provides for the continuation of the embargo in light of the implementation of the relevant resolutions of the Council, in order that the Council should determine whether to ease or lift the sanctions referred to in the said paragraph. The Council has continued, since it conducted its first review of Iraq's compliance in June 1991, to declare after each review that Iraq had not yet fully complied with the resolution, which meant that the embargo upon Iraq remained in place and that the sufferings of 18 million Iraqis continued unmitigated.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  6. “While I find it sufficient to mention these matters in relation to the provisions of resolution 687 (1991), I wish to reaffirm that Iraq, as is clearly stated in the letter of the Foreign Minister of Iraq to which I have referred, has indeed fulfilled the greatest and most fundamental part of the provisions of the resolution in relation to the other matters addressed in sections A, B, D and H of the resolution. The implementation of the remaining provisions, which by their nature require a period of time to be fully implemented, is being carried out in the proper manner, and Iraq is extending serious and professional cooperation in order to achieve such implementation.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  7. “We have submitted inventories, expressed willingness to return the items, and have indeed returned very many items and huge quantities of property. That there are other items to be returned is not a responsibility of Iraq; rather, it is the responsibility of the Secretary-General's delegate entrusted with taking the measures required for the properties to be received from Irag, which has reiterated its readiness to cooperate and facilitate the task.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  8. “And I wish to ask: What benefit would Iraq expect to gain from detaining one or two thousand Kuwaiti citizens, when Iraq has already repatriated high-ranking Kuwaiti officers and other high officials, including 20 members of the ruling family in Kuwait? In order to remove any vagueness or equivocation and reach the truth, we addressed an official note to the ICRC, on 20 February 1992, in which we requested that this whole matter be entrusted to the ICRC to take whatever measures it deems appropriate in order to determine the facts. I have been informed here that implementation of these procedures with the ICRC has begun: the newspapers in Iraq began publication of this fact in three newspapers, on 10 March, and this will be repeated once a week for four weeks running. The same thing goes for the subject of properties.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  9. “It is worth mentioning that while the Kuwaiti authorities, which have submitted a list containing 2,242 persons claimed to be in Iraq, 233 of these are proven to have been returned to Kuwait through the ICRC and 59 of them remain in Iraq awaiting approval from the Kuwaiti authorities for their return. We have stated our position on this matter to the Council more than once, as well as to the League of Arab States, from which we received an envoy who came to see the facts of the situation. The false allegation, however, that Iraq is holding Kuwaiti individuals as detainees continues to be bandied about by certain Governments, which are not bothering to ask themselves the obvious question: Why should Iraq do this thing?”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  10. “All this is taking place under the supervision of the inspection teams. This fundamental fact has been deliberately hidden from the Council with a view to keeping it in a climate of suspicion as to the position of Iraq. Let me now address a second matter, which has also been used as a pretext to raise doubts and ill-intended allegations against Iraq; I mean by that the Kuwaitis detained in Iraq. Since 4 March 1991, the Iraqi authorities concerned have repatriated, in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), 6,520 Kuwaitis and third-country nationals. There are now in Iraq 3,594 Kuwaitis who are not detainees there, but live in freedom and are registered with the ICRC office in Baghdad. However, the Kuwaiti authorities have agreed to the return of only 468 of them.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  11. “More than 1,500 tons of raw materials have also been destroyed. The number of the various machines and equipment which the inspection teams have put their seals on and prevented from being moved has reached nearly 1,000, in addition to what was destroyed during the military operations, which left none of the locations of the said activities without great damage inflicted on their buildings and equipment. The clear conclusion with which one is left from all this is that Iraq is no longer in possession of any weapons, munitions or major or minor systems prohibited by resolution 687 (1991). The equipment used, or allegedly used, in producing such items has been identified, and its use has either been frozen or converted to civilian industries or industries not prohibited by resolution 687 (1991).”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  12. “During this period, too, United States U2 reconnaissance planes conducted 32 operations over Iraq. The aerial survey and reconnaissance operations conducted by these planes took an average of three to four hours each. The various inspection teams have supervized 40 operations of destruction of missile systems, chemical weapons, equipment and their accessories. 'The items already destroyed under the supervision of the inspection teams have reached a total of around 14,000. These have ranged from half-manufactured parts to missiles and rocket launchers, from machines and equipment to empty chemical ammunition shells. In addition, the Iraqi side has destroyed more than 270,000 items - 1 repeat, 270,000 items - ranging from parts and pieces to machines and equipment, the remains of which have been examined by the inspection teams.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  13. “From April 1991 to February 1992, 29 inspection teams visited Iraq with an overall membership of nearly 400 inspectors, who spent a total of 240 days in the country - that is, about 8 months of continuous work, during which the inspection teams conducted 415 inspection operations, including 127 surprise visits made without notice to locations spread all over Iraq and for which they used the most advanced and sophisticated means of detection, communication, reconnaissance and transport, including helicopters used for conducting large-scale aerial surveys over many plants of Iraq. The number of survey operations conducted with these planes was about 45, while the number of flights made for this and other purposes was about 120, each flight lasting between four and 8 hours.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  14. “As to the equipment used or allegedly used to produce those weapons, it has all been identified, for the inspection teams have visited all the factories and sites they wanted to visit, saw the equipment there, examined it and marked it with labels, thus ensuring their non-use henceforth.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  15. “While I request that the contents of the comprehensive letter of the Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs to which I have referred be seen as a part connected to the contents of the present statement on the Council's assessment of the situation, I should like to focus in some detail on certain aspects of the subject which, since last summer, have often been the source of problems and allegations thrown at Iraq without careful examination. The weapons which Irag is prohibited from possessing have been totally destroyed. Whatever remains, especially in the missiles and chemical ammunition fields, is being successively destroyed under the supervision of the inspection teams and according to a plan about which there is no argument between the Iraqi authorities concerned and these teams.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  16. “More than 11 months have elapsed since resolution 687 (1991) was adopted, during which time Iraq has seriously endeavoured to implement its provisions. I wish to point out in this respect that the Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs sent, on 23 January 1992, a comprehensive letter in which he demonstrated in an objective manner supported by evidence the extent to which Iraq had implemented the provisions of the resolution. The contents of that letter, which I hope all members have read in depth, make clear that the fundamental contents of the resolution had already been implemented.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  17. “Having adopted this resolution, the Council went on to formulate the grounds and measures necessary for an official cease-fire to be declared. Resolution 687 (1991) was then adopted on 3 April 1991. This resolution set out measures and conditions that were without precedent in the entire history of the United Nations, for these measures and conditions transcended by a large degree the initial limits and declared objectives of the Council's previous resolutions. As an independent sovereign State, Iraq stated its views on this resolution on the basis of the United Nations Charter, international law and the principles of fairness and justice. However, the Iragi Government accepted the resolution in order to ward off the dangers threatening the people of Iraq.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  18. “8) Not only we but also members of the Security Council, including permanent members, have said that the operations of destruction carried out had gone beyond the framework of resolution 678 (1990), which became a political tool used to destroy a free, independent country. However, members of the Council are aware that Iraq informed the Council on 28 February 1991 of its acceptance to comply fully with resolution 660 (1990) and all the other resolutions of the Security Council. Then came resolution 686 (1991) on 2 March 1991. That resolution contained a fundamental principle confirmed by the Council stating a reaffirming of the commitment of all Member States to Iraq's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  19. “Dozens of books and reports have been published on the subject, many documentary films made, and several symposia held in various parts of the world, including this city. I quote here Ambassador Martti Ahtisaari, an Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, who visited Baghdad from 10 to 17 March 1991 and wrote a report on his visit. The report was forwarded by the Secretary-General to the President of the Security Council with a letter dated 30 March 1991. Ambassador Ahtisaari wrote: "Most means of modern life support have been destroyed or rendered tenuous. Iraq has, for some time to come, been relegated to a pre-industrial age". (S/PV.22366, para.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  20. “The whole world knows the way in which this resolution has been implemented to inflict, in a deliberate manner, a total destruction of the civilian infrastructure of Iraq: the roads, bridges, power plants, water-treatment plants, civilian factories - including an infant-milk factory - dams and communication centres. In addition to all of this, there was the damage and destruction inflicted on the civilian population, their properties and their residential centres; on mosques, churches, schools and colleges; hospitals and medicine stores; civilian shelters and foodstuff storage buildings. The facts of the terrible, full-scale and iniquitous destructions are now known to all fair-minded people in the world.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source

  21. “Mr. AZIZ (Iraq) (interpretation from Arabic): This is our first opportunity at this level to submit our point of view before the Security Council in respect of the Council's dealing with Iraq. Military force was used against Iraq during the period from 17 January to 28 February 1991 under the umbrella of resolution 678 (1990), adopted by the Security Council on 28 November 1990. Indeed, even after the cessation of military operations, some formations of our armed forces continued to receive air strikes, such as those of 2 March 1991.”

    1992-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3059 (1992) · source