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  1. “No natter what today's deliberations yield, Turkey shall continue to pursue actively the course of justice and legitimacy to support the beleaguered and brave people of Bosnia and Herzegovina in their struggle for survival.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  2. “With what faith remains in us, we earnestly hope that wisdom will prevail, that the Bosnian Muslims will be granted rightful protection by the international community and that their inherent right to self-defence will be recognized. Thereafter we shall draw the necessary conclusions on whether the Security Council is truly ~vepresentative of the will of the international Community or whether it will legitimize the rule of might over right. Turkey is convinced that at this critical juncture the international community bears not only the responsibility for what has happened so far in Bosnia and Herzegovina but also the responsibility for shaping Europe and the world of the twenty-first century.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  3. “Those opposed to lifting the arms embargo must accept the fact that the Bosnian nation is now being slowly exterminated by its neighbours seeking to legitimize territorial acquisitions made through the use of brutal force and the genocidal practice of "ethnic cleansing". The Vance-Owen plan has now been mutilated and killed, leaving the Security Council face to face with the eventual outcome of acknow..edging defeat by surrogate thugs and warlords. The carving up of Bosnia has been brought closer. We believe it would be fair to ask under what authority the Co-Chairmen appear to be involved in an exercise designed to dismember the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. We are awaiting a strong reaction from the Council to this deviation.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  4. “If the Serbs are allowed to shell these "safe areas", impede the delivery of humanitarian assistance to them, block the flow of vital water supplies and continue to face no consequences for their crimes, what credibility will the Council have as the protector of the Muslim population "imprisoned" in these areas? Why should the Muslim population confined as refugees in "safe areas" -- together with those living in "non-safe areas" ~ be denied the right to defend themselves, while their aggressors move freely about and prepare for the final kill? What logic is there in declaring safe enclaves if they continue to be attacked?”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  5. “While the Council has reaffirmed on several occasions, in words if not in deeds, the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and rejected the acquisition of territory through the use of force and the practice of "ethnic cleansing", it cannot remain indifferent to the right of that country, whose very existence is at stake, to procure defensive weaponry. My Government cannot accept such inconsistencies. The concept of "safe areas" was based on the expectation that resolutions establishing them would be effectively and immediately implemented.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  6. “The will of a large majority of members of the United Nations to lift the arms embargo was reflected in General Assembly resolution 47/121 and, most recently, in the Declaration adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights. The Security Council must act accordingly and no longer deny the Bosnian Government its right to defend itself . In practical terms, the arms embargo imposed on the former Yugoslavia by resolution 713 (1991) has affected only the Bosnian Government. We all know that the other parties to the conflict have vast means to arm themselves.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  7. “Along with many others, including two resolutions of the General Assembly, this appeal would not have been necessary had the Security Council taken up the chalienge and responded adequately to the Serbian aggression. It is precisely the lack of such decisive action that has encouraged the aggressors to drive the imperilled Bosnian Muslims into practical extinction. The Security Council must now fulfil its moral and legal obligations under the Charter and heed the united appeal made by the international community in Vienna. Abandoning the Bosnian Muslims to the mercy of the aggressors would be acting against the will of the membership of the United Nations, which the Security Council, under article 24 of the Charter, represents.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  8. “The Council is finally considering, at a crucial moment, whether it will acknowledge the inherent right of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a State Member of the United Nations, to self-defence under Article 51 of the Charter, and allow the Bosnian Muslims to meet their legitimate defence needs. We commend the members of the non-aligned caucus for submitting the draft resolution contained in document S/25997 on the exemption of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the arms embargo. We strongly support the draft resolution, which we have also decided zo co-sponsor. The World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna just recently made a consensus appeal to the Security Council to take the necessary measures to end the genocide taking place in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  9. “On several occasions in the past year, and most recently on 4 June, we voiced, before this body, our deep anguish over the inability of the Security Council to protect the Bosnian Muslims from genocide and to act effectively against Serbian defiance of Security Council resolutions. We called for the use of force to stop Serbian aggression if resolutions adopted by the Council under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter were incapable of doing so, and we stressed that Bosnia and Herzegovina should be exempted without delay from the arms embargo so long as the ruthless attacks on the defenceless Muslims continued unabated.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  10. “If the international community and the Security Council shirk their responsibilities at this critical moment, history will judge and condemn us all most severely.”

    1993-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3201 (1993) · source

  11. “It must demonstrate the same determination that has been shown in other regions where the United Nations has intervened. We hope that the present debate will help the Council finally to take decisive measures. Turkey remains ready to support any concerted international action designed to put an end to the Bosnian tragedy. To follow up on this question, Turkey is considering, with the Contact Group of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, requesting the convening of an emergency session of the General Assembly. The use of brute force must not be rewarded, and crimes committed must not remain unpunished. Otherwise, the reputation of the Organization and the credibility of the Security Council will suffer greatly, and this will in turn jeopardize the very foundations of the system of international peace and security.”

    1993-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3201 (1993) · source

  12. “For more than a year now, war has been raging in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the conflagration is still likely to extend to other parts of the region. At this critical moment the Security Council's credibility is being sorely tested. We all know that mere condemnations, half-measures and ineffective resolutions are useless. The Council's action must be commensurate with its task. It must explicitly say to Belgrade and to the Bosnian Serbs that the patience of the international community has run out. It must finally act forcefully, for its timidity will encourage other possible aggressors - indeed, examples of this are already emerging. The Council must authorize the use of force against the aggressor before it is too late.”

    1993-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3201 (1993) · source

  13. “We firmly believe that, in the light of the continued horrors experienced by the Muslim population and the continued inability of the United Nations to remedy this situation, the Security Council must. allow the Bosnian Government, which is in a position of total inferiority concerning arms, to exercise its inalienable right to. self-defence against an aggressor threatening the very existence of its people. So long as the Serbian party continues to impose its will through the use of superior weapons, it will not be inclined to accept the peace plan. If the Bosnian Government had the means to defend itself, that would deter the aggressor from pursuing a policy based on the use of force and would make it opt for peace.”

    1993-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3201 (1993) · source

  14. “What we expect from the Council is the adoption of a resolution containing the following elements: first, measures, including aerial attacks, aimed at the interdiction of the supply lines of the Bosnian Serb paramilitary units; secondly, measures designed to place the heavy weapons of all parties under the control of the United Nations; thirdly, if the preceding measures are not implemented, the lifting of the arms embaro imposed on Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Security Council has so far been unable to stop Serbian aggression. It is in this context that Turkey has backed the uonditional lifting of the arms embargo imposed by resolution 713 (1991).”

    1993-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3201 (1993) · source

  15. “Despite its good points, it is very far from responding to the urgency of the situation since putting it into effect will necessarily require time and there will always be risks of violations. It is high time that the international community and the Security Council Shouldered their obligation to implement the Vance-Owen plan and make of it a lasting solution, To put an end to Serbian aggression and to persuade the aggressor to sign the peace plan, more decisive action by the Security Council is required.”

    1993-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3201 (1993) · source

  16. “My delegation welcomes resolution 816 (1993) on strengthening the no-fly zone. Although it considers it a step in the right direction, it finds it to be too late and too little to deter the Serbian aggressors. Resolution 819 (1993), on Srebrenica, fits within the same context ~ that is, it has good intentions and is useful but does not have binding specific measures to ensure its application. We attach great importance to the report of the Mission of the Council that will be visiting Bosnia and Herzegovina under paragaraph 12 of that resolution. Resolution 820 (1993), concerning the strengthening of the sanctions against Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), which the Council just adopted - on 17 April - is another important step. We regret the delay in its implementation.”

    1993-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3201 (1993) · source

  17. “We welcome the opinion of 8 April delivered by the International Court of Justice, which unanimously, on a provisional basis, indicates that the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) must immediately, in accordance with the undertaking it had given under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, take all measures in its power to prevent the perpetration of the crime of genocide. I should like to recall, in this context, that the recommendations of the Organization of the Islamic Conference that an international tribunal should be established to pass judgement on those held to be responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the former Yugoslavia since 1991 have been issued as document §/25512.”

    1993-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3201 (1993) · source

  18. “It is a paradox that this setback should be occurring just when methods of strengthening and developing preventive diplomacy, restoring peace and peace-keeping are being studied as part of the debate on "An Agenda for Peace". We should also like to emphasi'ze our deep concern in view of a number of harmful initiatives that, under the cover of mediation or good offices, are playing into the hands of the Serbian aggressors, of Messrs. Milosevic and Karadzic.”

    1993-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3201 (1993) · source

  19. “The inadequate and ineffective response by the Security Council has beyond a doubt encouraged the Serbs to pursue their policy of aggression, "ethnic cleansing" and genocide. Since the Council has so far been unable to take up the challenge hurled at the international community, the number of victims is still growing and the towns of Bosnia are falling one after another. The failure of the United Nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina is also apparent in the heart-wrenching appeals for help from the officials in the United Nations Protection Force, United Nations staff members and members of the humanitarian organizations working in the field.”

    1993-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3201 (1993) · source

  20. “Since the beginning of the Bosnian tragedy, Turkey has been asking the Security Council and the international community to demonstrate political will, to take decisive measures and to make it quite clear to Belgrade and its agents in Bosnia and Herzegovina that the Council and the international community will shoulder their responsibilities and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the victims of the aggression. Unfortunately, our appeals have not had the impact that we hoped for with the Security Council. In fact, the Council has taken only piecemeal, timid steps that lacked conviction. Not only that, the measures and the sanctions that have been imposed, instead of being applied thoroughly, have been systematically ignored or violated.”

    1993-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3201 (1993) · source

  21. “During that time, the Serbian aggressors have, on several occasions, shown that they have no intention of signing the plan and putting an end to their chauvinistic ambitions to create a Greater Serbia, Despite innumerable appeals by the Security Council end the international community, they have continued their aggression, their revolting practice of "ethnic cleansing" and their policy of genocide. What is happening in Srebrenica is the most glaring example of this.”

    1993-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3201 (1993) · source

  22. “By accepting the plan in conditions of aggression and genocide, President Izetbegovic displayed remarkable courage and showed his sincere dedication to the search for a peaceful solution. My delegation subscribes to the following points so rightly put forward by the President of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in signing the plan. Firstly, the Serbian aggressor should sign the plan within a reasonable time; secondly, the international community should take effective steps to make sure it is implemented; and, thirdly, the aggression should cease immediately. Almost four weeks have passed since the peace plan was signed by two of the three parties, and the Serbian side is thus the only one left that has not accepted it.”

    1993-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3201 (1993) · source

  23. “The Muslim population is in effect being threatened with extermination, and the Serbian aggression, the daily round of massacres and deliberate pillage of the civilian populations, the forced relocations and the massive violations of human rights and international humanitarian law continue. The monstrous Serbian campaign of "ethnic cleansing" and genocide is in full swing. Despite the indescribable horrors his people have experience, on 25 March President Alija Izetbegovic, on behalf of the Bosnian Government, signed the documents of the peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina drawn up by the Co-Chairmen of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia.”

    1993-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3201 (1993) · source

  24. “We pay a tribute to Mr. Vance and Lord Owen, Co-Chairmen of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, for the tireless efforts they have made. My delegation also wishes to commend the United Nations Protection Force, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the humanitarian organizations for their efforts, in extremely difficult conditions, to help millions of people. A State Member of the United Nations where all ethnic and religious communities have lived for centuries in exemplary tolerance and harmony has, for more than a year now, continued to be dismembered before the eyes of the international community.”

    1993-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3201 (1993) · source

  25. “Your expressions of sympathy have been brought to the attention of the Turkish Government and of the bereaved family of the late President. I should like to express to you our gratitude and our most sincere thanks for sharing the grief that has so painfully struck the Turkish Government and people. We owe this open debate first and foremost to you, Mr. President, to the non-aligned members of the Council and to the Contact Group on Bosnia and Herzegovina of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. In its letter addressed to the President of the Security Council of 15 April 1993, issued as document S/25607, the Contact Group requested an urgent formal meeting of the Security Council with an open debate so that all non-members could voice their concern and their indignation at what is going on in martyred Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1993-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3201 (1993) · source

  26. “Mr. BURCUOSLU (Turkey) (interpretation from French): It is a great pleasure for me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of April. You are a seasoned expert in multilateral diplomacy with a record of achievements in that field. We are certain that under your guidance the Council will discharge its responsibilities successfully. I must also pay a tribute to Ambassador O'Brien of New Zealand for the outstanding way in which he guided the work of the Council in March. My delegation is deeply touched by the statement you made, Mr. President, on behalf of the Council at its meeting on 17 April after the sudden death of Mr. Turgut Ozal, President 2f the Republic of Turkey. We have experienced an enormous loss.”

    1993-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3201 (1993) · source