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Ba-Jammal

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1999-09-29
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1999-09-29
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  1. “We hope that these deliberations on peacekeeping in Africa will achieve the desired objectives and that the ideas put forward will be transformed into operational measures and effective mechanisms to safeguard the freedoms of the African peoples, their natural rights and their security and their stability.”

    1999-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption1 (1999) · source

  2. “We must learn from each other and make use of the lessons we have learned. Reason and logic must prevail, as must peace, for the sake of humanity at large. Once again we reiterate our confidence in the Security Council and we look to it to assume a more effective and diversified role by facing up to the situation in Africa and by helping its countries and peoples ensure peace and stability, in the full realization that all the African bodies and parties concerned must be aware of the active role they must play and the enormous responsibility they bear. This should be in the forefront of all international and regional endeavours.”

    1999-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption1 (1999) · source

  3. “Yemen feels that peace can be consolidated only through international legitimacy and respect for the values and principles of civilized people, as an appropriate contribution to the cause of peace and stability in the region. This is a grave responsibility that should be appreciated by all and should be used as a model for emulation. Let us imagine a war breaking out between Yemen and its neighbour Eritrea: the effects of such a war would engulf the whole area and would affect the interests of other nations, especially since every 45 minutes a ship passes the island of Hanish loaded with fuel or tourists or cargo or is involved in fishing or research. Let us image then the catastrophe that would occur if war broke out in the Red Sea. But we decided to be prudent regarding this question.”

    1999-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption1 (1999) · source

  4. “However, it calls on the international community to assist it in coping with the burdens the situation places on its economy and on its available resources, and on the health of the human environment and its natural assets. We stress that should the situation remain unchanged it will further endanger the maintenance of peace, threaten the safety of international and regional shipping and result in environmental pollution. Consequently, no one can deny that leaving the situation in these regions as it is will lead only to a more extensive and far-reaching catastrophe. The Republic of Yemen has contained the crisis over the question of Yemeni Hanish with its African neighbour Eritrea in a peaceful and legal manner by resorting to international arbitration.”

    1999-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption1 (1999) · source

  5. “It calls on the Council to alleviate, on an ongoing basis, the harmful human and environmental effects that translate into hunger, poverty, epidemics and increases in the numbers of the displaced and the oppressed. The Council must endeavour to eliminate the causes of these conditions so as to halt their progression because this situation is a blot on the face of humanity. Despite the negative effects and economic and environmental problems it faces, Yemen is fully prepared to participate with international and regional bodies and with active local forces in efforts to establish peace in the Horn of Africa and East Africa.”

    1999-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption1 (1999) · source

  6. “These countries are presently experiencing further political and social fragmentation, the collapse of their institutions, economic and environmental backwardness, loss of human rights and the spread of hostile and poisonous relations in a most repugnant manner. This is the result of the chain of havoc wreaked by the will to dominate on the part of some States and groups. The Government of the Republic of Yemen calls on the Security Council to assume responsibility for saving a situation where silence is no longer an option. It calls on the Council to support the efforts by the Organization of African Unity. It calls on the Council to expand the scope of its participation in order to find solutions that will safeguard the sovereignty of States and the unity and social concord of peoples.”

    1999-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption1 (1999) · source

  7. “We in Yemen must face the effects of these conflicts daily since our country's shores receive thousands of people fleeing these hotbeds of war and dissension and from repugnant states of anarchy in search of safe haven. Their only hope is Yemen, which provides a sanctuary from this unremitting hell. The burdens this puts on the Yemeni people and State are very great. The weak Yemeni economy cannot sustain the ever-increasing load. The tragedy is becoming ever greater, and so far there is not a single ray of hope that peace and stability will be established in the region - especially in Somalia. Regrettably, the major complications arising out of blatant external interventions are no secret any longer.”

    1999-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption1 (1999) · source

  8. “Thus, the Yemeni and African coasts, which are clearly visible the one for the other, form a unity based on proximity and on a territorial complementarity imposed by the nature of life and by historical and geographical factors, even though the relationship has lost its regional political and economic framework. The Yemeni political leadership has made intensive efforts to achieve cooperation with a number of countries and with regional and international bodies with a view to finding solutions for the deteriorating situations in the Horn of Africa and East and Central Africa. The tragic spectacle of African life is daily aggravated by internecine wars between States, races and tribes.”

    1999-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption1 (1999) · source

  9. “Yemen is thus an authentic participant in all aspects of the historical process unfolding in these countries because it is affected negatively or positively by all the political, economic and social changes and developments which those countries undergo. The coastline of the Republic of Yemen extends over more than 2,500 kilometres on the Red Sea, and its maritime area contains no less than 133 islands, the nearest to the African coast being those in the Gulf of Aden - they are no more than about 22 kilometres from the opposite coast.”

    1999-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption1 (1999) · source

  10. “Mr. Ba-Jammal (Yemen) (spoke in Arabic): I am highly honoured to be afforded the opportunity to speak at this special meeting of the Security Council devoted to the issue of promoting Africa's capacity to transcend its state of instability, increase the chance of peace and establish peace in practical terms. I am most gratified to see you preside over this meeting, Sir, since your country, the friendly Kingdom of the Netherlands, is linked to Yemen by close and firm bonds. The motivation of the Republic of Yemen in participating in these deliberations should be viewed against the background of Yemeni-African relations, which have historical, geographical, human, economic, cultural and social dimensions, particularly with our neighbours in East, Central and Southern Africa.”

    1999-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption1 (1999) · source