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Baali

lines on the record: 956
first: 1996-10-10
most recent: 2005-12-20
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“An exceptionally grave Israeli act of aggression has taken place today against a sovereign State and member of the Organization, the Syrian Arab Republic. This is a prime example of a violation of the Charter of the United Nations, international law, the relevant resolutions of the Security Council and the disengagement agreement that has linked two countries since 1974. This act of aggression is particularly serious given that it is taking place in an atmosphere of extreme tension that is affecting a region made fragile by the policy of terror and repression practised by Israel in occupied Arab territories.”
2003-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4836 (2003) · source
“Mr. Baali (Algeria) (spoke in French): I would first like to thank you, Mr. President, for having agreed so promptly to the request of the Arab Group to hold this open meeting to consider an event of extreme gravity that has imperiled international peace and security just a few days after many world leaders came to the United Nations to reaffirm their adherence to international law, the principles and objectives of the Charter of the United Nations and the system of collective security embodied by the Security Council. I should also like to take this opportunity to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of your duties as President of the Council for the month of October. I also wish to congratulate the representative of the United Kingdom for his outstanding performance as President of the Council last month.”
2003-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4836 (2003) · source
“Algeria has firmly stood by the heroic Palestinian people and its leadership and vigorously condemns Israel's decision concerning President Arafat and welcomes the international community's position, voiced through the appeals of the Security Council on 12 September and the Secretary-General, as well as by other Powers, to Israel not to carry out its threat. Lastly, Algeria believes that the Security Council must firmly support all such appeals by proceeding to adopt the draft resolution submitted by Angola on behalf of the Group of Non-Aligned States so that legality may prevail.”
2003-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4824Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Algeria, for its part, will not fall into the trap set by Israel for the international community of imposing itself on the Palestinian people in substitution for the choice of several generations of leaders who have been equally sincere concerning the aspirations of their people and who would seem most appropriate to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinian people a just, definitive and lasting settlement leading to the establishment of a viable, democratic national Palestinian State, with Jerusalem as its capital, and living in peace with all its neighbours.”
2003-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4824Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Israel thereby intends to benefit from the international situation to modify realities on the Palestinian ground by borrowing from the past a technique that has been conclusively rejected by the international community: the building of physical walls to shore up the wall of hatred and mistrust thrown up by the ongoing wave of violence between Israelis and Palestinians, whom history has condemned to live side by side. By threatening to expel the Nobel peace laureate, it is peace itself that Israel is seeking to banish and the hope of a negotiated solution to bury.”
2003-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4824Resumption1 (2003) · source
“All of the illegal and criminal actions pursued daily by the occupying Power - from its encouragement of illegal settlements and its restriction of the basic freedoms of the Palestinians and their leaders, all the way to targeted assassinations of officials and activists of various Palestinian organizations - are all part of a strategy of creating ongoing tension in exclusive service to the goal of all-out war. Israel is pursuing the illusions of a peace won by unrestrained warfare that will gain it total victory, without concern for the fallout of this policy for international peace and security. It clearly does not seek a negotiated peace guaranteed by the international community, which would of necessity entail the return of lands conquered by force.”
2003-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4824Resumption1 (2003) · source
“This decision, if implemented, will only strike the final blow to a peace process that is already foundering and pull Palestine and the entire region into a spiral of violence that nothing and no one will be able to control. It will further weaken an international order that has already been subjected to tension and challenges of all sorts. It seems clear that, since September 2000 and, even more, since the launching of the road map, the ongoing policy of the occupying Power has no other objective than to thwart the very concept of a Palestinian State and to prevent its establishment.”
2003-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4824Resumption1 (2003) · source
“- 10 years to the day after Oslo and seeks to banish, in complete illegality and with customary arrogance and contempt for law, President Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Authority, democratically elected by his people with the necessary legitimacy to negotiate on its behalf with the Israeli enemy that is occupying its land and to reach a lasting settlement leading to the implementation of its flouted national rights. Far more serious, by the admission of the Israeli Vice Prime Minister, killing Yasser Arafat is one of the options now open to the army to remove the President of the Palestinian Authority, who is seen as an obstacle to be done away with at all costs.”
2003-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4824Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Ten years after the signing of the Oslo agreements, the peace process remains deadlocked, despite the somewhat measured hopes raised by the launching of the road map initiative by the Quartet with a view to reinvigorating it. It is against the yardstick of the primary objective of a just, lasting settlement of the Middle East conflict - a key element of our common goal of maintaining international peace and security - that my country intends to measure this latest incredible provocation by the occupying Power in Palestine. This provocation has taken place - by mere coincidence?”
2003-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4824Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Mr. Baali (Algeria) (spoke in French): Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your accession to the presidency of the Security Council and to thank you for having kindly acceded to the request of the Group of Arab States to convene this debate on an issue of paramount importance. I should also like to congratulate Ambassador Mekdad of Syria, whose presidency of the Council last month was both effective and eventful. My delegation is speaking before the Council today to express its deep concern over the grave deterioration of the political, security and humanitarian situation in occupied Palestine, fraught with genuine and serious threats to the existence and physical integrity of the Palestinian people and to peace and stability throughout the region.”
2003-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4824Resumption1 (2003) · source
“It faces a situation of extreme gravity that touches upon its very reason for existence and which obliges it to do all to maintain international peace and security. The Council's responsibility is today greater because this is a question of the unauthorized use of force and because the Council is expected, at the least, to call for the immediate cessation of hostilities and the return to peaceful means for the settlement of conflicts. Is that too much to ask of the Council, which remains for so many nations, large and small, despite the disappointments and frustrations, the object of our hopes and our will to create a safer, more just world and the last defence against brute force and the law of the strongest?”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“It is a unique forum in which the nations of the world come together to dream and to construct together, through dialogue, collaboration and cooperation, a safer and more just world in which the rule of law is applied to all, in all circumstances. Therefore it is our duty, the Member States, and that of the Secretary-General - as he has just demonstrated in his statement before the Council this afternoon - to ensure that this Organization, irreplaceable from any point of view, is not sidestepped, marginalized, weakened or relegated to a minor role but, rather, emerges enhanced by the trials imposed by the circumstances. Otherwise, it would lose its soul, and we would all suffer for it. Today the Council truly stands at a crossroads.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“It is, above all, a political organization comprised of nations motivated by the will to work together in taking up the many challenges facing humanity today. The global, transnational nature of those challenges obliges all States, large and small, to unite their efforts and to act collectively and in solidarity to tackle them with success. The United Nations is the institution that embodies our universal conscience, the organization to which all look when there is a threat to international peace and security. This institution is expected to ensure peace, justice and law and to protect the weakest and most destitute.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“It is understood that when the sanctions are lifted, the system in place will have lost its reason for being and that any adjustment to the programme should not prejudice the future or violate the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Iraq. Nor should it violate the principle of the Iraqi people's right to dispose freely of their resources. When the founding fathers created the United Nations, it was clearly not to create an agency for dispensing humanitarian assistance - as important and as necessary as that can be - in cases of catastrophe and armed conflict. The United Nations was, in fact, designed to realize ambitions and to embody the greatest ideals.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“While we understand the security reasons behind this measure, we would point out to the Council that the suspension of the oil for food programme is about to unleash a veritable humanitarian disaster, particularly in Basra, as the Secretary-General himself indicated two days ago. The suspension of this humanitarian programme will mean neither more nor less than stopping the delivery to Iraq of medicine, food and other humanitarian supplies at the very moment when, deprived of water and electricity and subject to the fury of combat and bombardment, Iraq's civilians need more than ever to be protected, assisted and effectively led. We therefore call for the immediate resumption of the oil for food programme, which must be administered under the authority of the Council, and only according to the terms of existing signed contracts.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“This is a pressing and solemn appeal that can be ignored neither by the Council nor by the coalition that is waging war against Iraq. It is for these reasons, too, that we reiterate the obligation of strict respect for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Iraq; reaffirm our full solidarity with the brotherly people of Iraq in their current terrible ordeal; and call for strict compliance with the Geneva Conventions relative to prisoners of war and to the protection of civilian persons in times of war. It was likewise with regret and dismay that my country learned of the Secretary-General's decision on 17 March to put a halt to the activities of all United Nations bodies present in Iraq.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“In fact, a precedent of exceptional gravity has been set in international relations, against which the Secretary- General issued a warning on 11 March when he stated that those who would decide to act outside the Security Council would be doing so in violation of the United Nations Charter. Moreover, it is obvious today that the objectives of this war go well beyond those of Security Council resolution 1441 (2002) and that this is not merely a question of destroying the weapons of mass destruction that Iraq claims not to possess. For all these reasons, my country fully endorses the resolution adopted on 24 March by the Council of Ministers of the League of Arab States, calling for the immediate cessation of acts of war and the total and unconditional withdrawal of foreign forces.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“We say this with the conviction of those who know from experience that war is always the worst of solutions and that civilians always pay the highest price, as borne out by the unbearable images of hundreds of civilians, including women and children, who have been killed or wounded by the bombing. In spite of censorship, self-censorship and worse, such images have forced themselves willy-nilly onto our television screens. Algeria profoundly regrets that the inspection missions were abruptly cut short just as they were beginning to bear fruit thanks to Iraq's active cooperation. Algeria wishes to recall that the force to which Iraq is today subject has not been duly authorized and that it does not therefore meet the required conditions of legality and legitimacy.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“These children will undoubtedly bear permanent scars and their hearts, like those of anyone whose hopes have been robbed, will be heavy with sorrow, bitterness and frustration. Since the onset of the crisis, Algeria has called for a peaceful settlement of the conflict based on Iraq's full implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions. Only a few days ago, we warned of the dangers and perils that a conflict in Iraq would entail for Iraq itself, the countries of the region and world peace. We wish today to express our immense sadness and grave concern before this terrible ordeal being imposed on the brotherly Iraqi people, who, besieged and bloodied, is meeting adversity with a courage and a dignity that compel our admiration and respect.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“While we rightly worry about the effects of televised violence on our children, who can predict the serious trauma and immense suffering of these millions of children who have been robbed of their childhood and their innocence, who have been forever branded by the mark of horror, and who will never forget the unbearable ordeal that, in a split second, turned their lives forever inside out? Neither they, nor all those who have been demonstrating against this war for months - including here in New York, where we have seen the families of the victims of 11 September leading the peace march because, having experienced it in their souls and in their flesh, they know what man's folly can be - can resign themselves to believing that freedom and security can be bought at such a price.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“How can we characterize the irreparable damage inflicted on millions of children who had already been made sickly and famished by the sanctions that the Council imposed on them? They have been rudely awakened in the middle of the night and kept awake for days, terrorized, stupefied and plunged into a permanent nightmare by explosions of such unbelievable power that they have made us flinch even in front of our television screens and shaken us to our deepest foundations?”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“I am sure you will agree with me, Sir, that it was high time for it to do so. The situation we face today is so serious and fraught with peril for a people and a country whose very existence is threatened; for a region that is already heavily battered and bruised; and for humanity challenged in terms of its very humanity that to do nothing would be tantamount to complicity in failing to help a nation in jeopardy. How can the use of such extreme, disproportionate and definitive measures be justified when no present and immediate danger was threatening international peace and security and when the inspections instituted by the Security Council for the peaceful disarmament of Iraq were proceeding in the right direction?”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“Mr. Baali (Algeria) (spoke in French): It has taken so much loss of human life; such unspeakable horror and terrible destruction; the bloodcurdling terror of millions of innocent people subjected to a horrible campaign of shock and fright, coldly conceived and planned; and hundreds of millions of people crying tears of blood before the fury of a war broadcast live for the Council - to which the nations of the world have given the responsibility of forever protecting us from war - to realize that there is a nation in danger of death and that, if it should turn away, it would have to assume an onerous responsibility before God, humankind and history. The Council has therefore decided to meet today following the joint request of the Group of Arab States and the Non-Aligned Movement.”
2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source
“That credibility and authority will obviously be better safeguarded and enhanced if the Security Council finally undertakes, with the same determination and rigour, to see that its resolutions are respected everywhere and in all circumstances, beginning in that part of the world where Israel, a serial aggressor of its neighbours, flouts international legality and is quietly amassing in complete impunity the most deadly weapons of mass destruction and regularly threatens the States in the region. By demonstrating firmness with regard to that country and by endeavouring resolutely to achieve a just and final settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The Security Council will demonstrate to all that it is truly an irreplaceable tool in the service of peace, justice and security throughout the world.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“Also at stake is the credibility and authority of the Security Council, which remains for us all, both large and small nations, the keystone of the system of collective security to which we have all freely adhered by becoming Members of the United Nations - credibility and authority that must be safeguarded at all costs. For there are other dangers and challenges, undoubtedly more imminent and more urgent, that threaten us. Who better than the Council can face them with the necessary legitimacy and wished-for success?”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“In other words, disarmament should be carried out through inspections, no doubt enhanced, of targeted objectives, a more precise timetable, and the establishment by the head of UNMOVIC of a list of disarmament tasks that remain to be fulfilled. Disarmament also requires the effective cooperation of Iraq, which Algeria urges once more to comply scrupulously with the relevant Security Council resolutions. What is at stake is the stability and security of the entire Middle East and, beyond that, international peace and security.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“There are proposals on the table here in the Security Council that can enable the Council to solve this crisis threatening the very future of our Organization - if only the political will exists and if those who disagree with the manner of disarming Iraq make the effort to talk among themselves to understand one another. This can happen in rediscovered unity and in accordance with the provisions of the United Nations Charter, which are incumbent upon us all and which no one has the right to disregard. In the face of such perils, Algeria once again expresses its deep concern at the threat of war now emerging. It hopes and prays for a peaceful settlement of the crisis and for respect by all for international legality. Algeria supports without reservation the efforts to achieve the disarmament of Iraq by peaceful means.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“The burning question that arises today is: Now that the inspections are beginning to bear fruit and that Iraq has entered into a phase of proactive cooperation with the inspectors, as required by resolution 1441 (2002), is it reasonable that the inspections should be abruptly cut short and that Iraq should be disarmed by force, at the risk of sacrificing hundreds of thousands of human lives; causing the ruin and destruction of the country; jeopardizing its unity and territorial integrity, and thus the stability and security of an entire region that is already highly unstable; and perhaps unleashing evil forces that may promote or provoke extreme actions by which we shall all suffer? We feel that the answer is self-evident: Everything should be done to avoid the use of force.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“Pressure must therefore be maintained and the inspectors should be given more human and material resources and, above all, be able to count on increased cooperation from the Iraqi authorities. Paradoxically, however, at the very moment when the hope is growing that Iraq will commit itself decisively to disarmament, the threat of an armed conflict has suddenly imposed itself and we now fear the worst.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“To be sure, such progress has been achieved only because the international community demonstrated its unity and resolve in unanimously adopting resolution 1441 (2002) and, through direct and ongoing supervision of the inspections, by keeping the pressure on all those who must cooperate with the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency. To be sure, Iraq must do more to convince the inspectors that it has indeed eliminated the weapons of mass destruction that it had in the past. It must do so promptly and unambiguously in the interest of the Iraqi people, the peoples of the region and international peace and security.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“These include the destruction of Al Samoud 2 missiles; the handing over of fragments of R-4OO aerial bombs; the opportunity to analyse soil samples in areas where, according to the Iraqi authorities, VX gas and anthrax cultures have been destroyed; the remission of dozens of new documents; interviews with scientists without the presence of minders; and the overflight of Iraqi territory by United Nations aircraft. Moreover, Mr. Blix and Mr. ElBaradei have given clear denials of accusations and allegations made against Iraq, which only enhance the conviction of Member States, which have no choice but to trust the United Nations, that only impartial inspections, outside the play of power, can establish the facts beyond any doubt and lead, with clarity and respect for the law, to the disarmament of Iraq.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“ElBaradei - to whom we pay a well- deserved tribute for their courage, selflessness and professionalism - asking for if not for just a few more months - not a few weeks, nor yet a few years - in which to conclude their work by obtaining Iraq's peaceful disarmament? "After a period of somewhat reluctant cooperation, there has been an acceleration of initiatives from the Iraqi side" (S/PV.47I4, p. 5), Mr. Blix has said before this Council. This assessment was made by a man in whom we have placed our confidence and of whom we should therefore be proud. In fact, important developments have taken place in recent days, all of which testify to a healthy change of attitude in Iraq.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“Indeed, in a world where borders are falling and humanity is coming in the face of adversity to see that it is both a single entity and highly vulnerable, this glass house in which we meet today has become the crucible of our common hopes and aspirations and cannot ignore the outcry of the outside world, but contrarily is duty-bound to legitimize its actions and enhance its authority by paying heed to world opinion. Yes, finally and above all, the Security Council cannot reject with a mere wave of the hand the reports of the inspection missions that it itself created, dispatched and instructed to oversee the implementation of its resolutions. Indeed, what are Mr. Blix and Mr.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“It is all the more duty-bound to listen to do so because close cooperation between the Security Council and regional organizations is desirable, encouraged and clearly provided for by the very Charter of our Organization and, just this once, because all these bodies and regional groupings, the importance of which is hardly negligible, are calling on the Security Council in a remarkable outburst of unanimity to ensure that the logic of peace prevails over that of war. Yes, the Security Council must lend an ear to international public opinion and civil society, which, in recent months, have tirelessly expressed, with force and conviction, their rejection of war and their devotion to peace. This message has been sent with fervour by all religious leaders throughout the world, including His Holiness the Pope.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“Yes, the Council must also hear the regional organizations and other groupings that have spoken out in recent weeks with remarkable unity at the level of their heads of State and Government - be it the European Union, the African Union, the Non-Aligned Movement, the League of Arab States or the Organization of the Islamic Conference - for a peaceful settlement to the crisis, the primacy of the role of the United Nations and respect for international legality.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“This is even more true now that doubt has gripped some of its non-permanent members, who are being subjected to unbearable pressure and who, faced with an impossible choice and caught up in a relentless machine, are seeking to find their bearings and to take a decision that would best serve the interests of the international community and the cause of peace and security throughout the world.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“In these circumstances, it would have been improper, to say the very least, if not contrary to the spirit and the letter of the Charter, for this Council to take its decision alone and in a veiled manner, without hearing the voices of those who do not sit in this Chamber but who still have something to say on an issue of the gravest concern to them. Yes, the Council must hear us - we the States Members of the United Nations above all - and, we hope, listen to us, because, in carrying out its duties with respect to international peace and security, it does so, ultimately and by the very provisions of the Charter that endows it with its daunting responsibility, on behalf of us all. Its decisions therefore commit us collectively and in solidarity, for better or for worse.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“Mr. Baali (Algeria) (spoke in French): Tension is now at its height and the international community is holding its breath as the Security Council prepares to take a painful and wrenching decision, fraught with consequences both for international peace and security - since the issue at hand is nothing less than the authorization of the use of force against a country whose people have for the past 25 years suffered the horrors of war and all types of privation - and for the Organization itself, which was committed at birth by its founding Charter to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war".”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“And during the last session of the Council of Ministers of the League of Arab States, the Arab States said that they were firmly opposed to any military operation against any Arab State. It is therefore our most fervent hope that this position will be duly taken into account during the Council's deliberations and that for a logic of war which is developing today we substitute a momentum for peace in the obvious interest of all people of the Middle East, and for peace and security in the region and throughout the world.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source
“It is Algeria's hope that the Security Council - which has a daunting mandate of watching over the preservation of international peace and security and which is thus the central pillar of the collective security system established at the end of the second world war and therefore the only body authorized to decide on recourse to force - will be able to assume its responsibilities in keeping with the provisions of the Charter and international legality, so that Iraq and the entire Middle East will be spared the scourge of war. At the Beirut Summit, which cemented reconciliation between Kuwait and Iraq, we called on the parties to work to resolve their outstanding disputes.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source
“Iraq has made a clear and unambiguous commitment to cooperate fully with the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), and the international community should give them a chance to do so. At the same time, we would expect that Iraq would scrupulously respect its commitments and all of its obligations. If it turns out that UMMOVIC inspectors have been prevented from doing their job and if their chief or the Executive Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency can establish that in a sure and irrefutable way and so notify the Security Council, only then should the Council decide on a position to adopt in the face of such a situation.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source
“With regard to the specific question of Iraq, Algeria holds out the hope that the issue of weapons of mass destruction will be resolved in a responsible and peaceful way and in accordance with the principles of international law and the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. The earliest possible return of inspectors and the resumption of the inspections mission seem to us to be sufficient to meet the requirements of the Council and of the international community with regard to the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and, we hope, in every country of this very volatile part of the world.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source
“In this connection, the international community expects that the Council, if it wishes to maintain its authority and credibility - which have been severely tested by repeated Israeli intransigence - will first assume all of its responsibilities vis-a-vis the Palestinian people and demonstrate its determination and firmness with regard to all those who reject and show contempt for its resolutions. Contempt is unfortunately exactly what Israel had shown when the Council adopted resolution 1435 (2002), regarding the situation in the occupied territories. The Security Council must, in short, be consistent and fair. It should meticulously ensure compliance with its resolutions in every instance.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source
“In addition to its catastrophic impact on the people of Iraq - who for over 10 years have been subjected to largely inhumane sanctions - and the impact it would have on the unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country, a military operation against Iraq - let there be no doubt - would also have very grave consequences on the peace process in the Middle East, which is already moribund, as well as on the Israeli-Arab conflict itself. This already battered region of the world could well experience paroxysms of unpredictable gravity and magnitude.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source
“That threat is also causing major fears about the very grave consequences that such a conflict would have in Iraq itself, as well as in other countries of the region. Those fears are especially legitimate and justified given the fact that, in that same part of the world, Israel, intoxicated with its military might and, unfortunately, guaranteed impunity, is launching an all- out war against the Palestinian civilian population and on the infrastructure and symbols of the Palestinian Authority. Israel is continuing to occupy and colonize Palestinian and Arab territories, to threaten to bring down its wrath upon neighbouring countries and to violate the most basic rules of international humanitarian law.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source
“We had hoped that these decisions by Iraq, which have been the culmination of friendly and timely efforts by a number of peace-loving and justice-loving countries - particularly Arab countries - as well as by countries committed to the incontrovertible role of the United Nations in the settlement of international disputes, would have led to the prompt return of inspectors, a speedy resumption of inspections and, within a reasonable time frame, the much-hoped-for lifting of sanctions, which have taken a heavy toll on the people of Iraq. We had also hoped that that they would have helped to bring about peace and security in Iraq, in strict compliance with its sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity. Despite those positive developments, the threat of armed conflict nevertheless continues to weigh on the region.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source
“The same holds true for the agreement it reached with the Organization at Vienna in early October concerning the conditions for the return, work and stay of the inspectors. All of us were therefore pleased with this important development, which appeared to make it possible to close the book on the subject of weapons of mass destruction once and for all. The total elimination of those weapons is what the Security Council has been calling for. We also thought that these developments would have made it possible for us to avoid the spectre of war.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source
“The war against terrorism is a fight on all fronts that requires continuous and unfailing vigilance and mobilization. Today more than ever before, the United Nations must continue to devote all its attention and energy to it. Like the rest of the international community, Algeria has followed with great concern the developments of the last few months regarding Iraq. We can therefore only be concerned at the grave dangers that a new conflict in Iraq would pose to regional and international peace and security. Iraq demonstrated realism, wisdom and a sense of responsibility when, on 16 September, it accepted the unconditional return of United Nations inspectors to its territory.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source
“1 would also like to express my support for the approach he has suggested and for the role he would like to see the Security Council play in resolving the issue under consideration. Before commenting on the subject of our meeting today, I would like, on behalf of the Government of Algeria, to express my profound grief to those in Indonesia and elsewhere who have been cruelly struck in body and soul by the cowardly and horrific terrorist attack in Bali. I convey to them my condolences and my sympathy. This attack has brutally reminded us that terrorism is indeed a global challenge and that it must be confronted collectively and in solidarity. Terrorism is a very real and formidable threat that can materialize at any time. No one is totally immune from it, and no one can act alone to combat it.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source
“Mr. Baali (Algeria) (spoke in French): First of all, I would like to express my pleasure and confidence at seeing you, Mr. President, presiding over the work of the Council at this very delicate moment in international relations. I know that your experience, abilities and fine human qualities will be severely tested during the next two weeks. I am convinced, however, that the Council will make the best use of your capabilities in order to carry its work in the interests of peace, security and justice throughout the world. I would also like to pay well-deserved tribute to Ambassador Stefan Tafrov of Bulgaria, who very competently presided over the Council's work last month. Lastly, I would like to convey my appreciation to the Secretary-General for the clear message delivered by Ms. Frechette on his behalf.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625 (2002) · source