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Bataineh

lines on the record: 46
first: 1994-02-15
most recent: 1996-04-15
sittings or episodes: 4
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“The progress towards peace in our region, which we have all worked and strived for, and which we consider to constitute the guarantee of stability and growth, will not be achieved except through dialogue and a bold, correct analysis of all the manifestations of violence and tension. We must move away from emotions, reprisals, collective punishment and the unbridled use of force. History has taught us that these methods are sterile and only deepen the wounds and widen the gap between the peoples of the region. They will lead only to the opposite result.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3653 (1996) · source
“Using violence to react to violence, prompting further violence and widening the circle of tragedy, will lead to nothing but desperation and bitterness. It will return the whole region to an atmosphere of conflict, the consequences of which are unpredictable, and from which we thought we had emerged for good. Jordan shares the suffering of the Government and people of our sister country Lebanon, and affirms that we stand by their side. We call upon the Council to make every effort and use all available means to resolve the situation and help Lebanon shoulder its responsibility to deal with the consequences of successive tragedies and in rebuilding its country and institutions. We call upon the Council to support and protect the sovereignty, territorial integrity and dignity of Lebanon.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3653 (1996) · source
“It is incumbent on the Council to make the necessary guarantees to stop the cycle of action and reaction, and to resolve the situation definitively. My delegation adds its voice forcefully to all the appeals heard during the debate calling for precisely that. We believe that this is the optimum way, the right path. It is necessary to go back to the negotiating table and continue peace talks on the basis of decisions made at Madrid and of resolutions of the Council, especially resolution 425 (1978), which calls for a full Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon. The implementation of that resolution would establish the necessary security atmosphere along the Lebanese-Israeli border. Ending the occupation and negotiating peace is the only way to limit and stop the violence.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3653 (1996) · source
“It is evident that the use of force results in economic destruction and the continued exacerbation of social tragedy. Such an approach will have a negative impact on the entire peace process and on the peace and stability of the region. The Security Council must have decided to meet urgently because it realized how grave the situation had become. We believe that words such as "deplores" and "condemns" will not suffice. The situation is much graver than that. The tragic situation has resulted from the continuing Israeli military actions against Lebanon. The Council must use the means available to it under the Charter to deal with the crisis, bring the hostilities to an end, and stop the situation from deteriorating. The loss of life and the destruction of property must be stopped, wherever they take place.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3653 (1996) · source
“Jordan is greatly concerned at this escalation, which is taking place at a time when all the peoples and States of the region are looking forward to the initiation of a new stage of coexistence, security, peace, cooperation and understanding, when problems will no longer be dealt with through force and violence. The resort to violence runs counter to the principles of the Charter and resolutions of the United Nations. It runs counter to the most elementary rules of civilized international political conduct. It runs counter to the basis of the peace process laid down in the Madrid Conference. We oppose and condemn all use of military force and violence in dealing with any political dispute, especially when such force is used against innocent civilians and civilian installations.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3653 (1996) · source
“Those actions constitute a violation of Lebanon's sovereignty and national dignity. They are creating an indescribable human tragedy which cannot be allowed to pass. Regrettably, this military escalation is taking place at a time when Lebanon, which has been subjected to various kinds of violence over the past two decades, had started to experience a degree of calm and to rebuild what had been destroyed by war and violence. It had begun to rebuild its institutions and civilian facilities, and stability and security were beginning to return.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3653 (1996) · source
“Mr. Bataineh (Jordan) (interpretation from Arabic): Allow me to express my appreciation to you, Mr. President, and to the other members of the Council for urgently convening this meeting, the second held today to deal with questions relating to the Middle East. We express that appreciation in the context of the worsening situation in relations between Israel and our sister country Lebanon. This sudden deterioration has resulted from the continued and intensified acts of Israeli aggression and violence. Israeli aerial and artillery bombardment has resulted in the loss of civilian lives, the destruction of property and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people from their towns and villages. As we learned from the representative of Lebanon, the number of displaced persons has reached almost 800,000.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3653 (1996) · source
“In asking the Council to take the measures we have just indicated, we would also remind the Council that, the Contact Group had committed itself, if the Serbs rejected the Peace Plan, to tighten sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro, to strengthen the security of the safe areas and to lift the arms embargo imposed on Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the very least, since none of this has been done, and the exact opposite may well be done, the 19 measures I have just indicated should be put in place before any relaxing of sanctions on the Serbian side, takes place.”
1994-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3428 (1994) · source
“We also believe that there is a crying need for action to put the safe areas in a better position to defend themselves effectively and to put an end to violations and acts of aggression against those areas, especially since the number of such acts of aggression has increased while UNPROFOR takes no action against the aggressors, thus only encouraging NATO forces not to take the necessary action. The Council must also reconsider the lifting of the arms embargo imposed on Bosnia as a means of forcing the Serbs to accept the peace plan and of enabling Bosnia to face the situation of siege and occupation.”
1994-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3428 (1994) · source
“In short, any review of the sanctions regime against Serbia and Montenegro must embrace other concomitant measures that would, include effective border monitoring by the international community and aerial surveillance. The Security Council must make public all violations that occur. Serbia and Montenegro must also recognize the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina within its present borders. Failing this, Serbian acceptance of the peace plan will be no more than a tactical ploy. If the Council reconsiders the question of sanctions, it must do so in such a way as to obtain Serbia's agreement to cooperate with the International Tribunal on war crimes in bringing the accused before the Tribunal.”
1994-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3428 (1994) · source
“If the Council has made up its mind to take that measure which will reward the aggressor on the basis of mere promises that it will change its conduct in the future, we can only ask you to think of the victims and to extend to them some of the largesse you shall generously lavish on the aggressor in order, at least, to make it possible for the victims to bear the negative results of the benefits that will accrue to the aggressor. We do hope that, should the Council see fit to relax sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro, the Council may see fit also to adopt measures that would help the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina to mitigate the human suffering of its people and to address the defence difficulties it faces as a result of the continuing Serbian aggression.”
1994-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3428 (1994) · source
“Even if we choose not to believe the various international reports, especially those by UNPROFOR, which throw into doubt the closing of the borders between those two States and the halting of the flow of strategic material, we cannot ignore the physical aspects of the situation that justify such doubts, such as, inter alia, the construction of secondary and temporary roads and bridges, whose sole purpose must be the illegal transportation of weapons. We must not ignore also the press reports on sorties by Serbian helicopters over northern Bosnia over the past few weeks. We cannot disregard the possibility that those helicopters may have been transporting war material.”
1994-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3428 (1994) · source
“The reward I have just mentioned is the Council's willingness or the Council's intent to relax its sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro, the aggressor State, on the basis of promises made with regard to an alleged closing of its borders with the Serbian side in Bosnia, to prevent the flow of weapons. Jordan, however, does not see any new development that would justify the rewarding of such promises. There are dangerous elements involved here that relate to the grave imbalance in the balance of power between the Bosnian Serbs and the Bosnian Moslems.”
1994-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3428 (1994) · source
“My delegation has spoken on this matter in every meeting held by the Security Council and everyone is familiar with our point of view. What is new, and what I should like to discuss on this occasion has to do with the new and potentially dangerous tendency in the Council's handling of the dimensions of this tragedy. That tendency, as we see it, could complicate matters and push the situation to the brink. We speak here of the Council's tendency to reward the indirect aggressor, Serbia and Montenegro, and to strengthen the position of the direct aggressors the Bosnian Serbs by allowing them to tighten their grip on their victim.”
1994-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3428 (1994) · source
“Regrettably, this tragic situation is affecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of that Member State and has inflicted many violations of human rights on its people, the victims of waves of ethnic cleansing with their attendant atrocities of mass murder, rape and trampling of human dignity. The Security Council, the international body trusted with the maintenance of international peace and security, has failed completely to discharge its responsibilities with regard to the problem of Bosnia and Herzegovina, despite its powers and competence under the Charter in all matters pertaining to international peace and security and in situations that far exceed in complexity the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
1994-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3428 (1994) · source
“Mr. Bataineh (Jordan) (interpretation from Arabic): I should like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council this month. We are quite sure that, thanks to your competence and wisdom, you will conduct the Council's proceedings successfully. Our thanks go also to your predecessor for the successful manner in which he conducted the Council's work last month. The Security Council has held several meetings and adopted numerous resolutions in an attempt to address the tragic situation of one United Nations Member State, the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
1994-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3428 (1994) · source
“If we can do all that, we shall create a climate that will enable us to continue the peace process, so that we may finally have a just and honourable settlement of the question based on the withdrawal of Israel from all the occupied Arab and Palestinian territories and on the safeguarding of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including the right to self-determination and to the establishment of a national State on their homeland.”
1994-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3340 (1994) · source
“I wish to call attention to article 1 of that Convention, in which "The High Contracting Parties undertake to respect and to ensure respect for the present Convention in all circumstances." There are many measures which the Security Council could take, but what is urgently required is only this: to provide effective and constant protection to the Palestinian people so long as they are suffering under occupation - protection that will ensure their safety and security and their basic rights, that will ensure the sanctity of their Holy Places and the discontinuance of all desecration and that will ensure the stability and security of the entire region. The Israeli settlements must be dismantled; indeed, the Security Council itself has stated that they are illegal and should be dismantled.”
1994-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3340 (1994) · source
“Therefore, the Security Council is called upon now more than ever before to shoulder its responsibilities and, in accordance with its previous resolutions, to provide an appropriate mechanism for implementing the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention.”
1994-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3340 (1994) · source
“In my view, having failed to force Israel, the occupying Power, to abide by the provisions of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and to apply that Convention to the Civilians in the occupied territories, and having failed also to implement its own resolutions on this issue the Council has not lived up to its responsibility to protect the people who are now suffering under the yoke of occupation. The Council is aware that these people are unarmed and face the armed Israeli occupation forces and the armed settlers. The settlers armed themselves for the purpose of terrorizing people and killing civilians, when the Israeli military forces want to hide behind the settlers in committing these disgraceful, cowardly acts.”
1994-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3340 (1994) · source
“Indeed, in several unanimous resolutions, the Council has called for the protection of the Palestinian people. Those resolutions - 605 (1987), 681 (1990) and 726 (1992) - are still in force. The question now is whether the Council is to be held responsible, even indirectly, for what has just taken place and for previous massacres that have been perpetrated against civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories.”
1994-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3340 (1994) · source
“However, the issue of disarming all the settlers and safeguarding Palestinian lives should in no way be linked or be subjected to any criteria: the right to life must be protected, legally and morally, at all times, including under occupation, and it is the duty of the Council to safeguard this right without delay. Secondly, Israel has not abided by the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and does not apply it in the occupied territories. As members are aware, this Convention is the basis of international humanitarian law and is the legal and international guarantee under which the rights and lives of the people in the occupied territories must be safeguarded. It is incumbent on the Council to uphold the application of the Geneva Convention to the territory of Palestine.”
1994-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3340 (1994) · source
“It should be guided by the resolutions that it has adopted over the years concerning the illegality of the Israeli settlements, and particularly by resolution 465 (1980), wherein it determined that Israel's settlement policy constitutes a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East. This issue of the settlements now falls within the purview of the declaration of principles between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization; it is to be discussed directly by those involved in the negotiations.”
1994-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3340 (1994) · source
“We cannot, therefore, afford to bury our heads in the sand: the success of the Palestinian-Israel negotiations cannot be achieved if we turn a blind eye to massacres and crimes, or if we condone violations of human rights and international law. What we must do is remove the root causes of these crimes and atrocities, in accordance with international norms and international law, and in the spirit of the moral and human values in which our modern world believes. To achieve this, the Council must provide protection for Palestinian civilians.”
1994-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3340 (1994) · source
“In short, we believe that the Council, if it seriously wants to examine this massacre and its repercussions, must examine what has occurred in the light of the following considerations. Firstly, Israel's settlement policy is illegal, as is its policy of arming the settlers. Indeed, should those policies continue, they would not only endanger the safety of the unarmed Palestinians languishing under the yoke of occupation, but would cause chaos and give rise to even greater extremism and fanaticism. There would be no stability anywhere in the region, which, in turn, would lead to the collapse of the peace process.”
1994-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3340 (1994) · source
“For this - belated - meeting, and for the Council's discussions to be serious, productive and effective, the Council should not content itself with well-deserved condemnations or condolences; rather, it should go further and meet its responsibilities face on: it should put a final end to massacres of this sort and to all of Israel's oppressive practices and continued violations of human rights against Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories. First of all, it behoves the Council, as a matter of urgency, to despatch a commission of inquiry to investigate this most serious massacre and to take the necessary steps to ensure the commission's ability to carry out its work successfully and report back to the Council.”
1994-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3340 (1994) · source
“The crime was committed by extremist settlers implanted by the Israeli authorities, which provided them with land and weapons so that they might serve as a cordon sanitaire around civilian Palestinian communities; they were then given freedom of movement so that all the elements could come together for such a massacre to be perpetrated. The Israeli authorities are also determined to deny the Palestinian people not only the right to security and safety but the right to freedom of worship; and even the right to exist within its own homeland. We are determined to put this terrorist massacre in its true context, for it was inevitable: the result of the "arrangements" that have been perpetrated by Israel in violation of international law and the decisions of this Council.”
1994-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3340 (1994) · source
“Mr. BATAINEH (Jordan) (interpretation from Arabic): Allow me, Sir, to congratulate you once more on your successful presidency of the Security Council this month. On behalf of my delegation, I thank you for your efforts at all levels to resolve the issues that have been discussed this month, particularly the issue before us today. My delegation's thanks go also to Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali for the sincere and continuing efforts he has made in this regard. This incident was a serious and unforeseen one that could have political repercussions: it was a terrorist massacre, perpetrated in a shrine that should have been kept safe for all the civilians praying there during this, their holy month.”
1994-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3340 (1994) · source
“We also hope that the Council will escape from the circle of inaction in which it has been caught and will shoulder its responsibilities under the Charter so that it can work to put an end to the aggression and the atrocities committed against the people and Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina and bring hope back to that small country which is trying to free itself of the shackles of the cold war.7”
1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source
“The Tuzla airport must also be opened, and this must not be subject to any political bargaining. Fourthly, effective steps must be taken immediately to put an end to the policy of "ethnic cleansing" and to pursue and bring to justice those who have committed these crimes. The inadmissibility of the acquisition of territories by force must be acknowledged and anything gained thereby must be regarded as null and void. The right of all Bosnian refugees to return to their homes must be guaranteed. Furthermore, all detention camps must be shut down. Finally, we hope that NATO will insist on implementing all the provisions of its ultimatum. A small window of hope for the peace process in Bosnia has opened, and NATO should not allow such an opportunity to be lost.”
1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source
“Secondly, while expressing our condolences to the Government and people of Bosnia and to the families of the victims of the marketplace carnage, we would like to reiterate the need to identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice. Whoever they were, they must be tried as terrorists and war criminals.6 This is a moral and legal obligation that the international community must meet. Thirdly, serious measures must be taken immediately to lift the siege on Sarajevo and other besieged areas and to provide protection to UNPROFOR personnel in that region, in the other "safe areas" and in all parts of Bosnia. Security Council resolution 770 (1992) must be implemented so that the flow of humanitarian and relief assistance to the various areas is guaranteed.”
1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source
“We see no need for the Security Council to adopt a new resolution to implement this task, which we hope will be the first step to ending the tragedy and to forcing the Serbian side to5 accept a peaceful, just settlement. Air strikes by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are compatible with paragraph 10 of that resolution, which enables Member States to undertake air strikes through regional organizations or arrangements should safe areas be bombarded. NATO might also have to fulfil obligations delegated to it by the United Nations on behalf of the international community. We welcome and encourage the efforts of the United Nations Secretary-General, and support the contents of his letter of 6 February 1994 to the Secretary- General of NATO, and the positive response by NATO to that letter.”
1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source
“In this case, military intervention has become imperative, especially when the people of Bosnia are deprived of their right to acquire the means for self-defence, in order to force the Serbian aggressors seriously to address the peace process in good faith, to force them to view it as the only way to settle the problem. The situation in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the circumstances facing the Muslim people, including the recent carnage and the bombardment on 4 February 1994 of a safe area in Bosnia, make it incumbent upon the international community to act immediately, particularly in the light of paragraphs 9 and 10 of resolution 836 (1993), which provide a legal framework for air strikes.”
1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source
“It believes that permanent and just solutions leading to the establishment of peace in any conflict, whether regional or international, can be implemented by negotiated political settlements that guarantee the legitimate rights of all sides, and not by resorting to military force. However, diplomacy alone cannot always achieve this goal, especially if miscalculations or wrongful intentions take hold in the minds of some parties to the conflict. This has been the situation as far as the Serbian side is concerned for the last two years.”
1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source
“Perhaps Member States should undertake consultations with the Security Council about the obstacles that prevented it from implementing its own resolutions and carrying out the duties entrusted to it to protect the security, sovereignty and territorial integrity of a small Member State. That State relied upon it and had nothing but the will of its people, whose human rights, including their right to life, have been violated by a4 neighbouring aggressor State which has acquired supremacy by all military means, at a time when the ideals of freedom, democracy and human rights take priority on the agenda of the international community. In the light of what I have already said, I would like to emphasize the following. First, my Government does not believe in imposed settlements.”
1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source
“Fourthly, paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 24 of the Charter make us feel entitled to say that the failure of the Security Council, which should act as an agent of the international community, to address the humanitarian, political, security and military Situations that have prevailed for the last two years in Bosnia and Herzegovina throws into serious question entire Chapters of the Charter, particularly Chapters VI, VII, VIII and XII. They are the ones that define, among other things, the conduct of the Security Council in discharging its duties in the name of the United Nations and its principles.”
1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source
“This has widened the military imbalance between the two parties and enabled the Serbian side, which has remained in contact with the heirs to the military might of the six Republics, to achieve success against the territories and people of Bosnia, who, alone under siege, were in effect the only subjects of the arms embargo. Reports indicate that parties in Serbia are still providing their agents and militia in Bosnia with all types of weapons. This has motivated the international community to call on the Security Council by General Assembly resolution 48/88, to exclude the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the unjust and unbalanced embargo to enable it to defend itself.”
1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source
“Thirdly, resolution 713 (1991) of 25 September 1991, which deprived the Muslim people of Bosnia and Herzegovina of the means of self-defence, becomes in this context a biased and unjust resolution. It also runs counter to the provisions of Article 51 of the Charter, since the embargo provided for in the resolution, which deprives the Bosnian people of the inalienable right to self-defence, has not gone hand in hand with the international3 community's defence and protection of the weak Bosnian side. Nor has any legal explanation been demanded.”
1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source
“That side unilaterally rejects the solutions accepted, albeit hesitantly, by the Bosnian Muslims and all other participants, or accepts and then rejects them, since it Sincerely believes that its atrocities against the Bosnian Muslims have been met with silence, and interprets this silence as encouragement of its policy. It seems to feel that the Council is determined to maintain the military imbalance between the Serbs and their victims, and that it will fail to provide protection for the victims. How can political negotiations succeed in such a situation? And if they do succeed, how can the Muslim people of Bosnia and Herzegovina be guaranteed that the settlement will be just? How can they believe that peace will be guaranteed in the region afterwards?”
1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source
“Secondly, in that light, there can logically be no balance or serious progress in the political negotiations on the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina if the militarily superior Serb party feels it can achieve its political and military objectives and demands unilaterally, through military force, with impunity.2 Thus the Council and all the States concerned, if they truly want the peace process to be successful, must act accordingly, sending the correct message to the Serbian party, one that will serve this purpose and not the contrary one. Suffice it to say, to prove my point, that the Bosnian Muslims' responsiveness in the face of this grim international scenario, and their acceptance on the negotiating table of various ideas and difficult solutions, was not enough to curb the appetite and greed of the Serbian side.”
1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source
“That1 explanation would be the lesser of two evils, for the other interpretation is that the aggressor is fully convinced that the Security Council adopted its resolutions on Bosnia and Herzegovina and on the safe areas not with a view to implementing them, but with a view only to marketing them. If that is true, the failure to redress the situation will involve moral, legal and political repercussions for the political and peace process in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and will have dire consequences for the credibility of the United Nations and the collective security system in general.”
1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source
“As proof, I note that the carnage took place in a locality the Council, in resolution 824 (1993), had declared a safe area. The Council, indeed, went on in a subsequent resolution - resolution 836 (1993) - to specify the machinery by which its safety would be guaranteed. That resolution also laid down a clear framework for using all necessary means, including air strikes, to guarantee the safety and security of the area and the security of the personnel of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) stationed there. What is the significance of the choice of that area for the carnage, and of the earlier bombardments of the same area as attested to by UNPROFOR? I would have liked to think that the answer was connected to the short-sightedness of the aggressor and to its past flouting of Security Council resolutions.”
1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source
“In the context of the events that led to this meeting, my delegation wishes to state, first, that the barbaric attack on the market-place in Sarajevo and the resulting carnage cannot be isolated from the other chapters of the tragedy of the Bosnian Muslims. Nor can it be isolated from the shortcomings of the international system. In terms of the norms of conduct governing international relations, this terrorist act is a black mark. It occurred in the framework of systematic Serb activities that would have been impossible had the aggressor felt that the international community was serious about shouldering its responsibilities under the Charter and with respect to the implementation of even one of the resolutions the Security Council has adopted on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina under Chapter VII.”
1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source
“President, and thanks you for convening the meeting, which comes in the aftermath of the heinous carnage perpetrated on 5 February 1994 against besieged innocent civilians in Sarajevo - a city the Security Council has declared a safe area. We might have wished for the Council to meet on its own initiative to put an end to the reasons for and consequences of the moral, political and humanitarian tragedy of the Bosnian Muslims, which has nearly reached the point of absurdity. We still hope for this, and my country, Jordan, continues to wish it. My country is the second largest troop-contributing State in the former Yugoslavia. We call upon the Security Council to work0 seriously to take all measures authorized by the Charter of the United Nations to implement Security Council resolutions adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter.”
1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source
“Unfortunately, this meeting was not convened on the initiative of the Council itself in reaction to the deterioration of the Situation and the ongoing tragedy in Bosnia and Herzegovina. That deterioration, which can be charted as a descending curve, is the result of a lack of determination by the Security Council to implement its resolutions - perhaps because, as the situation becomes commonplace, so too does living with it. This meeting will not culminate in the normal practice of adopting a resolution reflecting the thinking expressed throughout the deliberations. None the less, my delegation appreciates your efforts, Mr.”
1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source
“Mr. BATAINEH (Jordan) (interpretation from Arabic): Let me begin, Sir, by congratulating you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We are9 confident that you will skilfully guide the Council's deliberations to the desired success through your wisdom, experience and ability. I wish also to thank your predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Karel Kovanda of the Czech Republic, for the skill with which he guided the Council's work last month. It is striking that the Security Council's current discussion of the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is taking place ina framework guite different from that surrounding previous debates.”
1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source