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Azzam

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7

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2023-09-07

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2023-12-12

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1. “We also appreciate the efforts led by the Mechanism’s judges and the Office of the Prosecutor to streamline and conclude its pending work. The United Arab Emirates urges all States, particularly those directly concerned, to comply with their obligations and cooperate with the Mechanism while supporting it in completing its tasks. Ensuring accountability and upholding justice are the best ways to honour victims. In conclusion, as this is our final meeting on the Mechanism during our membership of the Security Council, the United Arab Emirates affirms that strengthening international justice and the rule of law based on the Charter of the United Nations is vital to enabling the international community to achieve peace and security effectively and sustainably.”

   2023-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9502 (2023) · source

2. “We urge it to focus on planning for the future, guided by the Security Council’s vision for the Mechanism as a temporary and effective body whose functions should diminish over time. We therefore commend the progress that it has made in its work, resulting in its finally becoming the genuinely residual mechanism it was designed to be. In that context, we urge the Mechanism to continue to perform its mandated tasks and make progress, particularly with regard to overseeing the enforcement of sentences, providing assistance to national jurisdictions and protecting victims and witnesses. We would like to emphasize that States bear the primary responsibility for holding the perpetrators of crimes accountable, while at the same time we acknowledge the complementary role played by international bodies in achieving international justice.”

   2023-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9502 (2023) · source

3. “Its contributions have been instrumental in achieving and ensuring justice, protecting the rights of victims of serious international crimes and combating impunity. We would like to take this opportunity to reiterate that the international community must address the root causes of such crimes, which are often fuelled by hate speech, discrimination and racism. We will continue to monitor the Mechanism’s progress in performing its core functions, including developments related to the indefinite suspension of trial proceedings in the Kabuga case owing to the accused’s health problems. We commend the Mechanism’s ongoing efforts to be more effective and efficient and to reduce its workload.”

   2023-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9502 (2023) · source

4. “Mr. Azzam (United Arab Emirates) (spoke in Arabic): I would like at the outset to thank Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, and Mr. Serge Brammertz, its Chief Prosecutor, for their valuable briefings. I also welcome the representatives of Croatia, Rwanda, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to this meeting. I want to take this opportunity to express my delegation’s appreciation to the delegation of Gabon for its efforts and successful chairing of the Informal Working Group on International Tribunals in 2022 and 2023. The United Arab Emirates reaffirms the important role that the Mechanism has played in carrying out the residual functions of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.”

   2023-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9502 (2023) · source

5. “In that context, we express our concern about the attacks that Da’esh continues to launch in north-eastern Syria, in addition to its efforts to rebuild its capabilities and networks, recruit fighters and release its elements from prisons. We stress the need to continue combating that group and to ensure that it does not acquire dangerous and deadly weapons. In conclusion, the United Arab Emirates reiterates the importance of making tangible progress on the Syrian chemical weapons file, as well as on all other files related to resolving the Syrian crisis.”

   2023-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9411 (2023) · source

6. “Maintaining dialogue between the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and Syria remains crucial to making progress on the file, but such dialogue must be conducted in a constructive manner and includes discussing all available means for holding the twenty-fifth round of consultations and overcoming related obstacles. Meanwhile, we stress that the threats of chemical terrorism are concerns that cannot be overlooked and must be given sufficient attention. That is critical as the Da’esh organization continues its terrorist attacks and does not hesitate to use any means to achieve its goals, posing a serious threat to the security and stability of Syria and the entire region.”

   2023-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9411 (2023) · source

7. “Mr. Azzam (United Arab Emirates) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I thank Mrs. Nakamitsu for her briefing today. I would like to reaffirm the United Arab Emirates’ rejection and explicit condemnation of the use of chemical weapons by anyone, anywhere and under any circumstances. Their use constitutes a flagrant violation of the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention and international law. In the absence of tangible progress on the Syrian chemical weapons file, I reiterate what my country said about this file in our previous meetings.”

   2023-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9411 (2023) · source