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  1. “We are also grateful to all the members of the Council for having allowed the holding of this important meeting on the tragic Situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina to be held. For almost two years the international community has helplessly witnessed the slow agony of the people of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who with courage, dignity and faith are facing aggression whose savagery and barbarity have reached8 proportions that never cease to shock our collective conscience and that call into guestion the fundamental values on which the Charter of our Organization is based.9 The shelling of Sarajevo on Friday, 4 February, and Saturday, 5 February, which have aroused an unprecedented wave of outrage and condemnation throughout the world, are indeed proof that, encouraged by the lethargy of the international community, the Bosnian Serbs and their allies in their ignoble cause will now stop at nothing, not even at the unbelievable horror of firing ona dense crowd of civilians.”

    1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source

  2. “Mr. CISSE (Senegal) (interpretation from French): Allow me on behalf of the Senegalese delegation to express to you, Sir, our joy and pride at seeing you assume the presidency of the Security Council for the month of February. Well aware of your virtues, your skill and your vast experience, I am confident of your ability to lead the work of the Council with wisdom and effectiveness. I should also like to express our warmest congratulations and reiterate that you have our full support in the exercise of your responsibilities. I must also express our gratitude to your predecessor, Ambassador Kovanda, Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic, for his outstanding work in the month of January.”

    1994-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption2 (1994) · source

  3. “It is from that perspective that we appeal to the Council to adopt the following measures, which it owes to the suffering people of Bosnia and Herzegovina: first, immediate implementation of the strict economic and financial sanctions put in place by resolutions 757 (1992), 787 (1992) and 820 (1993); secondly, effective implementation of the provisions of resolution 752 (1992) on placing heavy weapons under monitoring and the cutting of the Serb militias' supply lines; and thirdly, the lifting of the arms embargo imposed against Bosnia and Herzegovina, for experience has shown clearly that the effects of this measure taken against the belligerent parties harm only the Bosnian side. Lifting the embargo would enable the victim of aggression to secure the means to exercise its right of self-defence under Article 51 of the Charter.”

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

  4. “They have, after all, got us used to their flouting of the Council's resolutions. It is high time, therefore, that the Security Council got a grip on itself and took other measures - measures of the kind that will make the Council credible in the eyes of millions of human beings carefully following its deliberations.”

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

  5. “We deeply regret that the ineffectve and notoriously inadequate sanctions imposed by the Security Council and the unanimous but not very tangible condemnation by the international community should have led only to an intensification of the acts of aggression by the Serb forces and the acquisition by force of more and more territory. Today, "ethnic cleansing" is all but complete. Srebrenica resounds in our consciences as the cry signalling the end. The contemptuous reaction of Serbia-Montenegro to Security Council resolution 819 (1993) has triggered our anger as it has that of the Council and, in less than 24 hours, the Council has responded by adopting a new resolution 820 (1993) so as at last to stiffen the sanctions against the Serbs. And yet we are not thereby reassured that the Serbs will obey the Council's injunctions.”

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

  6. “That courageous decision, taken at a difficult time in the history of the people of Bosnia - who, though manifestly the victims of certain parties to the said accord, are accepting it in spirit and in letter - demonstrates how deeply committed they are to the quest for peace. The tragic irony of fate now is that circumstances are rewarding those who are refusing to sign that plan viewed by its advocates as the only recourse for restoring peace. In fact, the response of the Serbian side to the peace efforts is common knowledge. It is in fact a non-response, if not a demonstration of contempt for the international community.”

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

  7. “We have shared with you the concerns of the President of the Republic of Senegal, Mr. Abdou Diouf, the current President of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, as to what is happening in that State Member of our Organization. My purpose today, therefore, is not to offer lamentations but rather to express astonishment and make proposals - astonishment at our culpable inefficacy and proposals for the Council at long last to take steps to save what can still be saved. As we see it, what needs to be emphasized today is that nearly a month ago, on 25 March 1993, Mr. Alija Izetbegovic, President of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina, acting on behalf of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina signed the documents bearing on the Vance~Owen Peace Plan, thus accepting the plan in toto.”

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

  8. “Mr. CISSE (Senegal) (interpretation from French): You are presiding over the Security Council at a time when this body is facing a resurgence of tragedy in the world. Your well-known wisdom and reputation as an even-handed diplomat guarantee that you will guide our discussions successfully. Allow me also at this time to congratulate your predecessor, Ambassador O'Brien of New Zealand, on the brilliantly effective Manner in which he directed the work of the Security Council last month. If this were once again a matter of taking the floor to denounce the tragedy which slowly but inexorably has been wiping Bosnia-Herzegovina off the map, the Council can rest assured that the Senegalese delegation would have been glad to refrain from speaking. All that has already been said by us and by other delegations.”

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

  9. “In the circumstances, our hope is that the Special Representative of the Secretary-General will be able, after an objective evaluation of the situation on the ground, to make recommendations along these lines, particularly as regards holding free and democratic elections in Liberia. We are sure that 'the Council, which is responsible for the maincenance of peace and security for the whole international community, will suppert us in our work for peace.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  10. “But the remarkable job done by this West African force over the past two years is now being systematically undermined by a faction that seems to think it is strong enough to make the peace process a hostage to its whims, The success of the complemertary efforts of ECOWAS and the United Nations in Liberia will largely determine the viability of the cooperation, so ardently desired, between the United Nations and regional arrangements in the quest to restore peace wherever it has been breached. That is the true raison d@'Stre of Chapter VIII of the Charter and of the appeal rightly made by the Secretary-General in Chapter VII of his repert "An Agenda for Peace" {A/47/277). ECOMOG therefore needs the support of the United Nations more than ever before.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  11. “The Special Representative whom we hope the Secretary-~General will appoint will be able to help inform the Council on the exact situation prevailing in Liberia so that it may consider suitable measures to settle the conflict. I said earlier that Africans were making major efforts to take charge of the destiny of their continent. The intervention force of ECOMOG is a perfect example. Its establishment was unprecedented; the countries of a region, despite chronic difficulties and pressing domestic tasks, mobilized their scant resources to mount a peace-keeping operation in order to save lives and promote the peaceful settlement of a fratrisidal conflict.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  12. “In this regard, the Council said in its statement of 7 May 1992 that "the Yamoussoukro Accord of 30 October 1991 offers the best possible framework for & peaceful resolution of the Liberian conflict by creating . the necessary conditions for free and fair elections in Liberia." (S/PV, 3071. p. 3) Therefore, in the sbsence of a military settlement, which we do not hope for, it is unly uatural that economic weapons and an arms embargo should bea used against those who trample under foot agreements they have freely entered into. It was in order to receive the Council''s help that we asked for this meeting, convinced that at the present stage that is the best way to contribute to a future of peace in Liberia.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  13. “Perhaps tomorrow it will spread to other countries of the region. Fortunately, however, the threat has been clearly perceived by the international community. The European Community. the Security Couneil and tha Secretary-General of the United Nations have ail tackled it, in a way that shows they understand the problem clearly. Our hope today is that the international community will help ECOWAS, and thus the OAU, to find a solution to this disturbing problem, This should be made easier by the fact that the framework for a peaceful settlement ~ in the form of a peace plan - has already been prepared by the countries of the subregion, with, I would stress, the support of all the parties to the conflict. Better still, consensus was reached even on the arrangements for implementing the plan.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  14. “It is also a genuine threat to the peace and security of the 16 countries of ECOWAS. All the harm that this crisis has done to Liberia is well kaown. But in addition it has many destabilizing factors for the countries of the region. Pirst, a huge quantity of weapons is now circulating in that part of Africa. Moreover, they are accompanied by a wliole range of military experts of all types vho are, wore than ever before, selling themselves openly to the highest bidder in the international market. In addition. there are hundreds of thousands of refugees ~ more than a third of the population of Liberia - acattered about the various neighbouring countries, putting an increasingly intolerable burdes on those countries, which have limited resources. Purthermore, the war has crossed the borders of Liberia, spreading to Sierra Leone.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  15. “However, since 1989 the Liberian crisis has slowed the momencum gained by ECOWAS by significantly hampering the Cummunity''s ability to carry out its task of integration smovthly. Much time, much energy and many resources that should have been devoted to other pressing tasks have besn diverted by this crisis. The longer the crisis lasts, the longer there will be harmful delays in economic integration, without which there can be no viable future for our continent. That is one of the reasons why we have called for the support of the Council and its cuntributioa to settling the erisis in Liberia. I said that that was one of the reasons, but it is not the only one. The crisis in Liberia is doing more than just to delay our progress 'cowards economic integration.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  16. “Particularly determined efforts have been made to promote genuire African economic integration, which is vital to the future of our continent. ECOWAS, which the 16 countries of the region established 17 years ago in 1975, expresses Africa's unshakeable determination to set up viable economic groupings to overcome the underdevelopment of our continent. Together with other African regional groups, ECOWAS has siowly but surely been tackling a task that is long and difficult but vital for our continent's progress and prosperity. The Treaty establishing the African Economic Community, which the OAU coucluded in Abuja, Nigeria, a little more than a year ago, in July 1991, makes these regional groupings the foundations of a future community embracing the whole continent.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  17. “Mr. CISSE (Senegal) (interpretation from French): On behalf of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and its acting Chairman, President Abdou Diouf, I wish first to express our sincerest thanks to all the members of the Security Council for their swift response in acceding once again to a request by Africa for a meeting on the continuing conflict in Liberia. We are very grateful to you, Mr. President, and to the entire membership of the Council, for this demonstration of understanding of, and interest in, one of our most pressing concerns. It is clear that Africa is a continent in difficulty, a continent whose situation, compared with that of the rest of the world, is hardly enviable. But, notwithstanding the difficulties of all kinds besetting our continent, Africa is continuing to do its utmost to take charge of its own destiny.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  18. “At the same time I wish to thank UNPROFOR, the specialized agencies of the United Nations and Mr. Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen for their total commitment to the restoration of peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Peace will come only when all the prisoners and refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina can return to their homes and see their rights restored, when "ethnic cleansing" and its consequences have disappeared, and when a Constitution recognizing the territorial integrity of that country has been established. The Security Council has a complex task before it. That is why we feel such anguish.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  19. “To deprive the Bosnian people of equal opportunity is tantamount to letting it be annihilated. I am of the opinion that lifting the embargo is a factor that could discourage the aggressors or contain their destructive zeal. I understand those who oppose such a measure. None the less, between the risk of conflicts spinning ou.: of control and getting worse and the risk of witnessing the physical disappearance of a country and its people, my preference is for the lesser evil: safeguarding the Bosnian people and seeking tho means of preventing the lifting of the embargo from broadening the scope of the conflict. In conclusion I would reiterate my delegation's appreciation of the consistent attention the Security Council and the Secretary-General are giving the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  20. “For all these reasons, and given that the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina continues in utter contempt for resolutions 752 (1992) and 757 (1992), it is the view of the Senegal delegation that the Security Council shovld urgently take the necessary measures, first, to reaffirm the need tor all States strictly to respect the territorial integrity and full sovereignty of the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina; and, secondly, to authorize the Bosnian people to exercise, in accordance with Article 51 of the Charter, its iuherent right to self-defence and enable it, through lifting the arms embargo now in effect, to obtain the necessary means to ensure its survival. It is recognized that the Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina are receiving all the weaponry they need from outside.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  21. “For its part the European Economic Community has been making important efforts on behalf of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but we are unfortunately forced to acknowledge that the results achieved are not yet commensurate with the gravity of the situation.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  22. “In this connection it is regrettable that, despite the relevant provisions of Security Council resolution 781 (1992), the city of Jajce, besieged on 26 and 27 October 1992, has now been occupied, its inhabitants compelled to abandon thoir homes and possessions and forced to swell] the ranks of Bosnian refugees now exposed to hunger, cold, disease and misfortune. In addition, eccording to the most recent estimates of the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international observers, some 400,000 Bosnians could die because of harsh winter weather. As things are going, that estimate could well prove to be optimistic.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  23. “Furthermore, the people of Bosnia cannot understand - nor can the delegation of Senegal - how the Security Council, the guarantor of international peace and security, can fail to provide them with the means to exercise, in accordance with Article 51 of the Charter, their right to self-defence when the aggressor, generously and regularly supplied with weapons in violation of the embargo to which it is, in principle, subject, is daily stepping up the destruction of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its defenceless populations.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  24. “while they continue to be the victims of collective killings, of detention in the conditions we know prevail in the persecution camps and of forced expulsions from their territory. Those sufferings have been compounded by the unacceptable practices of "ethnic cleansing", reminiscent of one of the most calamitous periods in human history.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  25. “For more than six months that country, a Member of the Organization, has been a victim of outright and unpunished aggression, of all kinds of violations of its sovereignty and of the most fundamental human rights. Today, we are witnessing the gradual annihilation of the Bosnian people by killings, imprisonment and the dispersal of refugees wherever they can gain entry. In the name of human solidarity, respect for international morality and the Charter of our Organization, the Senegalese delegation expresses its complete solidarity with that abused and battered country. The Bosnian people can no longer be satisfied with our coudolences and expressions of compassior.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  26. “Mr. CISSE (Senegal) (interpretation from French): Sir, your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council is a real source of satisfaction to my delegation, both because of your personal qualities and because of the excellent relations that exist between Hungary and Senegal. I should like to begin, therefore, by extending to you my warmest congratulations and by expressing my appreciation to your predecessor, Ambassador Jean-Bernard Merimee, Permanent Representative of France, for the 4mportant work accomplished during the past month. The considerable efforts exerted by the international community and the numerous resolutions adopted by the Security Council on the tragic situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina have not prevented it from deteriorating and verging on the intolerable and the unacceptabie.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  27. “At the same time I wish to thank UNPROTOR, the specialized agencies of the United Nations and Mr. Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen for their total commitment. to the restoration of peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Peace will come only when all the prisonerg and refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina can return to their homes and see their rights restored, when "ethnic cleansing" and its consequences have disappeared, and when a Constitution recognizing the territorial integrity of that country has been established. The Security Council has a complex task before it. That is why we feel such anguish.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  28. “To deprive the Bosnian people of equal opportunity is tantamount to letting it be annihilated. I am of the opinion that lifting the embargo is a factor that could discourage the aggressors or contain their destructive seal. I understand those who oppose such a measure. None the less, between the risk of conflicts spinning ou.: of control and getting worse and the risk of witnessing the physical disappearance of a country and its people, my preference is for the lesser evil: safeguarding the Bosnian people and seeking tho means of preventing the lifting of the embargo from broadening the scope of the conflict. In conclusion I would reiterate my delegation's appreciation of the consistent attention the Security Council and the Secretary-General are giving the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  29. “For all these reasons, and given that the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina continues in utter contempt for resolutions 752 (1992) and 757 (1992), it is the view of the Senegal delegation that the Security Council shovld urgently take the necessary measures, first, to reaffirm the need for all States strictly to respect the territorial integrity and full sovereignty of the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina; and, secondly, to authorize the Bosnian people to exercise, in accordance with Article 51 of the Charter, its inherent right to self-defence and enable it, through lifting the arms embargo now in effect, to obtain the necessary means to ensure its survival. It is recognized that the Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina are receiving all the weaponry they need from outside.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  30. “For its part the European Economic Community has been making important efforts on behalf of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but we are unfortunately forced to acknowledge that the results achieved are not yet commensurate with the gravity of the situation.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  31. “In this connection it is regrettable that, despite the relevant provisions of Security Council resolution 781 (1992), the city of Jajce, besieged on 26 and 27 October 1992, has now been occupied, its inhabitants compelled to abandon thoir homes and possessions and forced to aswell the ranks of Bosnian refugees now exposed to hunger, cold, disease and misfortune. In addition, eccording to the most recent estimates of the International Committees of the Red Cross and other international observers, some 400,000 Bosnians could die because of harsh winter weather. As things are going, that estimate could well prove to be optimistic.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  32. “Furthermore, the people of Bosnia cannot understand - nor can the delegation of Senegal - how the Security Covncil, the guarantor of international peace and security, can fail to provide them with the means to exercise, in accordance with Article 51 of the Charter, their right to self-defence when the aggressor, generously and regularly supplied with weapons in violation of the embargo to which it is, in principle, subject, is daily stepping up the destruction of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its defenceless populations.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  33. “The Bosnian people can no longer be satisfied with our coudolences and expressions of compassior. while they continue to be the victims of collective killings, of detention in the conditions we know prevail in the persecution camps and of forced expulsions from their territory. Those sufferings have been compounded by the unacceptable practices of "ethnic cleansing", reminiscent of one of the most calamitous periods in human history.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  34. “The considerable efforts exerted by the international community and the numerous resolutions adopted by the Security Council on the tragic situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina have not prevented it from deteriorating and verging on the intolerable and the unacceptabie, For more than six months that country, a Member of the Organization, has been a victim of outright and unpunished aggression, of all kinds of violations of its sovereignty and of the mest fundamental human rights. Today, we are witnessing the gradual annihilation of the Bosnian people by killings, imprisonment and the dispersal of refugees wherever they can gain entry. In the namc of human solidarity, respect for international morality and the Charter of our Organization, the Senegalese delegation expresses its complete solidarity with that abused and battered country.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  35. “Mr. CISSE (Senegal) (interpretacion from French): Sir, your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council is a real source of satisfaction to my delegation, both because of your personal qualities and because of the excellent relations that exist between Hungary and Senegal. I should like to begin, therefore, by extending to you my warmest congratulations and by expressing my appreciation to your predecessor, Ambassador Jean-Bernard Merimee, Permanent Representative of France, for the important work accomplished during the past month.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source