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Babaa

lines on the record: 86
first: 1999-03-19
most recent: 2001-08-20
sittings or episodes: 7
sources: un-security-council

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“A super-Power is providing the deadly weapons and is defending these practices and blocking world condemnation of them by all available means within and outside the United Nations. We have said before and we reiterate today that there can be no solution to the occupation of Palestine without the return of the Palestinian people to its land and the establishment of its independent State on the entire territory of Palestine, in which peoples of all religions will coexist. What is occurring in the so- called "peace process" is merely palliative. We all aspire to peace with justice; there can be no peace without justice. The events in Palestine are links in the chain of that people's revolt against occupation, expansion and annexation for the sake of its own independence, dignity and freedom.”
2000-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption2 (2000) · source
“Many other atrocious scenes and images have not been caught on the correspondents' cameras. All this indicates one thing: there has been a premeditated design to kill, to massacre and to carry out a true holocaust ever since the Zionists planted their strange identity at the heart of the Arab world five decades ago. They have done so in order to create and perpetuate new faits accomplis. This bloody scenario recurs day in and day out in occupied Palestine. There are settlements that are heavily armed with lethal weapons. There are racist settlers who provoke the defenceless indigenous population and kill them. Massacres occur that recall Hollywood films portraying the brutal wild west. Land is confiscated. An army of occupation protects the Zionists.”
2000-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption2 (2000) · source
“The emerging revolution of that people demonstrates to those who would deny the existence of the Palestinian people that it is a living and extant people. It continues to struggle and fight, even with stones, for its survival and a dignified, free life and to maintain its rights over its land, on which it has lived for thousands of years and from which the Zionist settlers are trying to uproot it. In recent days, the entire world has watched on television the images of dozens of defenceless youngsters and children being killed in cold blood and hundreds being wounded by the bullets of snipers, grenades, cluster bombs, tank shells and helicopter rockets. The killing of a Palestinian child, Mohammed Al-Durra, shook the conscience of the world and aroused international feeling.”
2000-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption2 (2000) · source
“The occupation of Palestine by settlers from all over the world is a problem that has been before the United Nations since its inception. All organs of the United Nations have addressed this question, particularly the Security Council, without reaching a drastic solution thereto because the principal cause of the problem - the uprooting of an entire people and its exile, displacement and loss - has been ignored. Moreover, those who remained behind have been subject to the most horrendous practices - including imprisonment, torture, murder, the destruction of their homes, collective punishment and the confiscation of their land - and to daily offences by the Zionist occupation authorities and racist settlers aimed at forcing them to follow in the footsteps of their forebears.”
2000-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption2 (2000) · source
“Mr. Babaa (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (spoke in Arabic): Permit me at the outset to extend to you, Sir, our warm congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month. I wish to express my gratitude to Ambassador Ouane of Mali for his skill and experience in conducting the Council's work during the past eventful month. You, Sir, come from a country that suffered greatly under colonialism, occupation, settlement- building, racism and trusteeship. Your country fought for its independence, freedom and dignity and you are therefore in the best position to appreciate the reality of the issue before us today. We are confident that, guided by your experience and wisdom, the proceedings and work of the Council this month will be crowned with success.”
2000-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption2 (2000) · source
“We call on the Council not to resort to a policy of imposing sanctions upon people. Sanctions lead to tragedy, pain and suffering at all levels of society. Let the Security Council instead seek peaceful means to resolve disputes among States.”
2000-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4128 (2000) · source
“Indeed, the dispute was resolved through one of the peaceful means provided for in the Charter: negotiation and compromise among the parties, with the assistance of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Although a solution acceptable to all parties was reached, and although the Secretary-General has affirmed that Libya had abided by its part of the equation, the sanctions have not yet been lifted, because one State objected and imposed its opinion on the majority. Despite the fact that that State is a party to the dispute, it stopped the Security Council from lifting the sanctions. Where is international law, and where is international legitimacy? Where is the credibility of the Security Council? We again call on the Security Council to immediately lift the sanctions imposed on my country.”
2000-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4128 (2000) · source
“My country has been the victim of sanctions imposed on us in the dark - unjust sanctions, imposed without proof or evidence, because one or two Member States in the Security Council were involved in a political dispute with us. Many States have since expressed surprise at the speed with which the sanctions were imposed and at the manner of their imposition, which took place without the accusations against us being proved. The result is that my people have suffered under these unjust sanctions for seven years, and the direct damage they have caused amounts to $33 billion, as we informed the Security Council recently, in a letter contained in document S/2000/243. As other speakers have said today in the Security Council, those sanctions did not lead to a resolution of the dispute, which was the supposed reason for their imposition.”
2000-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4128 (2000) · source
“Seventh, the Security Council should not use sanctions to force people to abandon their political choices or values, or to impose a particular pattern of behaviour. This is completely contrary to the letter and spirit of the Charter. Eighth, the use of economic and political pressures and strong-arm tactics in adopting sanctions resolutions by unanimity, whereby a resolution wanted by one State is pushed through the Council, cannot really be called international legitimacy. Furthermore, dictating instructions to capitals to agree a priori to a particular measure desired by one Member State cannot be termed international legitimacy.”
2000-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4128 (2000) · source
“Fifth, the international community should provide assistance to the State that is the victim of sanctions so as to help it to rebuild its economy, and the States responsible for imposing sanctions must pay compensation for any harm done to that State if it is proved that it was innocent of the accusations that had led to the imposition of sanctions. Sixth, the Security Council should not apply double standards by imposing sanctions against some States while completely ignoring other, similar, situations. The history of the United Nations is replete with examples and situations of certain States violating United Nations resolutions and threatening international peace and security. Yet for one reason or another, international legitimacy is apparently upheld in a clearly discriminatory fashion.”
2000-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4128 (2000) · source
“Third, if any State believes that it is being harmed by the imposition of sanctions or by any other measure adopted by the Security Council, or by a Security Council resolution in that regard, it should have the right to seek redress at the International Court of Justice, which should consider the legitimacy of such a resolution. The Security Council should respect the judgment of the Court. Fourth, no single State or minority of States in the Security Council should prevent the Council from lifting the sanctions imposed against any other State. The Security Council must review its resolutions and must take responsibility for lifting sanctions without being subject to the will of one State alone.”
2000-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4128 (2000) · source
“This is in accordance with paragraph 3 of Article 27 of the Charter, which provides that "a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting". Second, when the Security Council debates the possibility of imposing sanctions on any State, adequate, irrefutable evidence proving that that State has threatened international peace and security or that it has perpetrated aggression against another State must be presented, in accordance with the rules of international law. The Security Council must lift sanctions if it is proved that such evidence runs counter to international law and to the Charter of the United Nations.”
2000-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4128 (2000) · source
“First, if a member of the Security Council lodges a complaint in the Council against a non- member, or is involved in a conflict with that State, the issue must be dealt with transparently and debated in an open meeting so that all its aspects can be explored, together with all the ways and means of finding a peaceful settlement to the problem. The State concerned must be invited to participate in the discussion and must be allowed to fully express its point of view. Naturally, if any member of the Security Council is party to a dispute with a non-member of the Security Council, it must remain neutral when the issue is debated in the Security Council with the objective of imposing sanctions against that State.”
2000-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4128 (2000) · source
“Sanctions so imposed must be lifted when such a threat or breach of the peace ceases to exist. Does the Security Council follow that Article? In most cases, the reply to most of these questions is in the negative. The Security Council has ignored threats to the peace and acts of aggression perpetrated by a number of States while at the same time imposing the severest sanctions when there was no threat to international peace and security, in order to achieve the specific political objectives of particular States, utterly unrelated to international peace and security. Our bitter experience with sanctions compels us to make several demands.”
2000-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4128 (2000) · source
“Secondly, are sanctions imposed by the international community as a whole? Is there a consensus on sanctions? Is there unanimity on their imposition? Or are sanctions a decision taken in the capital of a particular State, which is then ramrodded by that State into the Security Council in order to serve its own interests and objectives? Thirdly, were such sanctions imposed after all means were exhausted, as provided by Article 33 of the Charter - "The parties to any dispute shall, first of all, seek a solution by negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement" - or not? Fourthly, as is clear in the title of Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, sanctions are actions and procedures taken with respect to threats to the peace, breaches of the peace and acts of aggression against other States.”
2000-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4128 (2000) · source
“Mr. Babaa (Libyan Arab Jamihiriya) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me at the outset to express our congratulations to you, Sir, and our hopes for full success in your presidency of the Security Council this month. I should also like to express our appreciation to Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, representative of Bangladesh, for the wisdom and skill with which he conducted the work of the Security Council last month. Debating the issue of sanctions in a frank and serious manner in this Council raises a number of questions. First, is the objective behind imposing sanctions to punish a particular State? Is it to implement Security Council or United Nations resolutions? Is it to promote international law? Or is it merely an attempt to implement the specific political objectives of a major State, or even a specific lobby within that State?”
2000-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4128 (2000) · source
“If the Council does so, it will help Africa emerge from its dilemma and give the best gift to the peoples of that continent: hope for the next century. I thank you once again, Sir, for convening this meeting. The contribution of the United Nations and the Security Council to settling African conflicts and solving African problems requires a change in perceptions of Africa, an improvement in the traditional methods and the adoption of new ones.”
1999-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4081 (1999) · source
“Why has the United Nations allowed Somalia to burn and tear itself apart without any intervention other than the issuance of occasional statements? It is very important to send peacekeeping operations to Africa, but the Security Council's members should occasionally go to Africa themselves and hold their meetings in proximity to the conflict regions in order to gain a clearer understanding of the various dimensions and aspects of the problems of the African continent. The peoples of Africa look up to the Council in the hope that it will now adopt decisive resolutions that eschew limited national interests and that can truly solve the continent's problems, maintain its peace and security and foster its economic development and prosperity.”
1999-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4081 (1999) · source
“The United Nations, the international community in general and donor countries should be willing to accept a minimum level of risk. The United Nations cannot wait for peace to be achieved in any given region before it participates through missions and forces. A United Nations intervention at that stage would be meaningless. Why are we still waiting for forces to be deployed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo? Is the Security Council waiting for peace to reign there before approving the deployment of United Nations forces, or for the re- emergence of conflict there? Sixthly, in addressing African conflicts, it must employ the same means and standards it uses to settle disputes in other continents, such as Europe and Asia.”
1999-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4081 (1999) · source
“Secondly, it must provide financial and human support for African peacekeeping operations, which should, in fact, be fully financed. As regional and international peacekeeping operations, they should be the responsibility of the United Nations, the Security Council in particular. Thirdly, it must provide and finance peacekeeping training for African States so as to strengthen their capacities in that field. Such training should not be relegated to bilateral relations. Fourthly, it must support the OAU Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution, pursue consultations with the OAU on settling conflicts in Africa and support its initiatives and efforts to settle disputes, both physically and morally. Fifthly, it must be prepared to face many risks and obstacles.”
1999-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4081 (1999) · source
“Africa is also entitled to have an increase in the rates of its raw materials equivalent to the price rates for imported manufactured goods. I turn now to the role of the Security Council. The Council can play an important role in establishing stability and peace in Africa by supporting efforts and implementing resolutions agreed upon by Africans themselves in order to achieve peace, settle current conflicts and prevent their resumption. Such measures include the following: First, it must provide political support by adopting resolutions promoting the initiatives of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and subregional organizations. The Council has assumed this role but with unnecessary hesitation and caution.”
1999-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4081 (1999) · source
“It has therefore become important to establish a United Nations fund for financing African development and reconstruction, and to promote effective coordination between all the various international and regional agencies, United Nations specialized agencies and financial institutions working in Africa. In this context, I wish to stress the special responsibility of the countries that colonized and exploited the continent for many decades. They are obligated to pay compensation for their lengthy exploitation of the peoples of the continent and must contribute generously to the proposed fund. We must also enable Africa to obtain fair prices for its raw materials, imported very cheaply by the industrialized countries.”
1999-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4081 (1999) · source
“What the continent and its peoples and countries really need is the mobilization of the material resources necessary to solve these problems. African problems are common to all African countries. Among the most significant of these are the foreign-debt crisis, poverty, illiteracy and disease, in particular HIV/AIDS. If poverty is a consequence of war, war is also a consequence of poverty. Hence, the eradication of poverty is one of the best ways to eliminate one of the major causes of conflict in Africa. If these problems are to be solved, vast financial and human resources must be made available. Without such resources, statements about the United Nations partnership with Africa will remain empty rhetoric that cannot be implemented, regardless of any resolutions or initiatives the Council may adopt.”
1999-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4081 (1999) · source
“Mr. Babaa (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (spoke in Arabic): I thank you, Sir, for presiding over the work of the Security Council and for this excellent and well-timed initiative, which we hope will prompt the Security Council to give serious attention to the problems of the African continent. I must also express my appreciation to the Secretary-General for his practical proposals, which have provided a framework for this interactive debate. The partnership between the United Nations and the international community in Africa must be an effective one based on equality, not on hegemony and exploitation. The causes of the problems of Africa are well known and documented in United Nations reports, prominent among which are those of the Secretary-General.”
1999-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4081 (1999) · source
“We welcome President Kabila's declared readiness to engage in a national dialogue, with the participation of all concerned parties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, aimed at achieving national reconciliation as a necessary step towards the restoration of comprehensive, lasting peace and security in the region.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“African meetings should continue - at any time, in any place and at any level - to follow up on previous efforts and to continue the dialogue among the parties to the conflict. Liaison committees should be set up to work on ways to involve the parties concerned in the peace process with a view to agreeing on an immediate ceasefire and on a just and lasting solution to this conflict, which has been tearing the African continent apart. Such a solution must stop the deterioration of the humanitarian situation of the peoples of the region.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“Fourth, an African solution to this conflict is required in the context of the OAU so as to prevent foreign intervention in Africa's affairs. Fifth, an African force must be established to serve as a peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to guarantee its borders, to prevent massacres among the inhabitants of the region, and to provide security guarantees to neighbouring States. Sixth, a peace conference among all States concerned should be convened to conclude agreements on good-neighbourliness and friendship. Seventh, the United Nations together with the OAU should play a major role in finding solutions to the humanitarian problem of refugees and displaced persons. Eighth, the United Nations should lend its support to solutions agreed upon by the OAU by, inter alia, providing material support of all kinds.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“Several regional African meetings have been held in good faith, with the participation of all parties, in order to find a solution to this problem and to stop the bloodshed in the Great Lakes region. These meetings, however, although they demonstrated the readiness of all parties to halt the bloody conflict, did not achieve the necessary ceasefire. My country's position and endeavours to find a peaceful solution to this conflict can be summarized as follows. First, the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of the Democratic Republic of the Congo must be respected. Second, all conflicts between African States must be solved through dialogue, negotiation, arbitration and the non-resort to force in the settlement of disputes. Third, all African States must refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of other States.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“The most important achievement of the meeting was breaking the deadlock and opening a direct dialogue between the parties concerned. In pursuit of these efforts, the leader of the Libyan Revolution recently initiated intensive contacts with the current Chairman of the OAU and a number of other African Presidents in an attempt to call an emergency African summit to take up the problem of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other armed conflicts in Africa. Had this emergency summit met, it would have allowed this problem to be considered at the highest African level in an attempt to find effective solutions thereto. We are confident that the coming regular African summit, scheduled to be held in Algeria in July, will redouble the efforts to achieve this objective.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“One of these encounters was a mini-summit held in the city of Surt in late September, attended by the Presidents of Uganda, Chad, Niger and Eritrea, which issued a statement calling for the formation of African forces to replace foreign forces present in the Congolese territories and designating brother Colonel Muammar Al-Qadhafi, in his capacity as Chairman of the group of Sahel and Saharan States, as coordinator of the peace process in the Great Lakes region. As a result of these Libyan initiatives, brother Qadhafi, with the cooperation of the parties concerned, managed to overcome one of the largest obstacles to achieving a final solution by convening a direct meeting between the Congolese parties in Libya. This encounter was an essential turning point in the search for a solution to this problem.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“Such a solution must be achieved within the context of the OAU and free from any foreign influences, which seek only to impose hegemony in Africa, monopolize its wealth and markets in order to serve their interests for as long as possible, and to foment further regional and domestic problems. In pursuit of this objective, brother Colonel Muammar Al-Qadhafi, leader of the Revolution, has convened numerous bilateral and multilateral meetings in Libya. Many summits and conferences have been held for numerous African leaders in the Jamahiriya, enjoying the participation in particular of those African leaders of the States most directly concerned, in full coordination with the chairmanship of the OAU.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“Politics are but one expression of such factors, since Africa's recent history is one of foreign occupation and domination and because Africa's political geography was invented by foreign occupiers and embodied in conventions that they concluded among themselves, defining the borders of States to conform with their own interests. Africa's regional and domestic conflicts are but the natural and inevitable results of these events. The Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, deeply cognizant of this, has devoted its full attention to this problem in order to achieve a fair, equitable and just solution that would restore political stability to the Democratic Republic of the Congo based on consensus and social harmony.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“On this occasion, we cannot but applaud the efforts of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and especially those of the President of Zambia, to achieve a peaceful settlement of this conflict, which threatens stability, peace and security in the region and has had terrible humanitarian consequences. My country is convinced that the social, political and cultural problems that we Africans suffer are but the normal outcome of the factors and facts of history and geography.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“My delegation feels that this debate on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is of special importance because it gives the opportunity to members of the Council, the States Members of the United Nations and the international community to play a decisive role in support of African efforts to find a settlement to the regrettable and painful conflict, that has long raged on that continent and to affirm the need to step up efforts to end it and to achieve national reconciliation with the participation of all parties.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“I also Wish to convey our gratitude to the Council for convening this open meeting so that its deliberations may be known to all, not held behind closed doors. We would wish and request that all the Council's activities be as open as they were in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, before the international balance was disrupted earlier in this decade. To Secretary-General Kofi Annan, we convey our greetings and appreciation for his strenuous and serious efforts, despite all the obstacles and difficulties he has encountered, in the service of the causes of peace and security in the world in general, and in Africa in particular.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“Mr. Babaa (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (interpretation from Arabic): At the outset, I should like, on behalf of my delegation, to extend congratulations to you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. As has been your custom whenever your country has presided over the Council, you have given ample evidence of your experience, competence and effectiveness. I also wish to express our appreciation for your laudable initiative of concentrating, during your tenure of the presidency of the Council this month, on the discussion of African conflicts and on attempts to find solutions thereto. I cannot but thank you and all the members of the Security Council for affording my delegation the opportunity to speak on the conflict plaguing the sister African State of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source