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1993-04-20
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1993-04-20
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  1. “I should like to underline the following position of my Goverment: if the efforts of the international community to find a negotiated solution fail, the Security Council will need to consider all the options open to it under the United Nations Charter I profoundly hope that the Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Belgrade will reflect on the consequences of rejecting the peace package and, by cooperating with the United Nations and the European Community, obviate the need for the consideration by the Security Council of enforcement measures under Chapter VII of the Charter. The suffering in Bosnia and Herzegovina must be brought to an end. The authorities in Belgrade have the power to realize this. At this critical moment, we look to the Security Council for decisive leadership and firm action to achieve this goal.”

    1993-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3203 (1993) · source

  2. “The respect for the implementation of resolution 819 (1993) in forthcoming days will demonstrate the degree to which the Bosnian Serbs are willing to abide by the decisions of the Council. The basic approach of Irish foreign policy is that international conflicts should be resolved by negotiation rather than by military means. However, having set ourselves the task of ending this appalling conflict through the instruments of negotiation and pressure, we in Ireland, and the international community at large, share a profound sense of frustration and outrage at the ongoing violence and bloodshed. What is happening in Bosnia and Herzegovina is an affront to all civilized values and is a direct challenge to the authority, of the United Nations and to the Security Council.”

    1993-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3203 (1993) · source

  3. “My Government would have wished that the Security Council could have acted earlier to present this stark choice to the Bosnian Serbs and to Belgrade. We also welcome, however, the fact that that the Security Council has, in its resolution 819 (1993) of 16 April, demanded: that Srebrenica and its surroundings be treated as a safe area which should be free from armed attack, following the murderous onslaught which its inhabitants have suffered in recent months. We welcome the fact that the Security Council has condemned the action of the Bosnian Serbs in trying to force the civilian population to evacuate the Srebrenica area and other parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1993-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3203 (1993) · source

  4. “But, most immediately, my Government very much welcomes the fact that the Security Council has acted decisively to provide for the total isolation of Serbia and Montenegro, should the Bosnian Serbs fail to sign the peace plan, begin its implementation and cease their military attacks by 26 April. The measures to isolate Serbia and Montenegro are Draconian, They have not been taken lightly. The authorities in Belgrade face a stark choice: they can ensure that the peace plan is accepted, implemented and an end brought to the fighting; or, they can decided to condemn Serbia and Montenegro to the hardship which will follow unprecedented isolation, the price of the callous pursuit of military and political objectives in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1993-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3203 (1993) · source

  5. “The International Conference, under the skilful leadership of its Co-Chairmen, has developed a viable plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has been accepted by two of the Bosnian parties. We must, at this late stage, spare no effort to secure the agreement of the Bosnian Serbs. In this regard, my Government warmly welcomes the adoption by the Security Council of resolution 820 (1993). We welcome in particular the support which it has given to the peace plan, its condemnation of "ethnic cleansing" and its reaffirmation that those who commit or direct the rape of women will be held individually responsible for their actions.”

    1993-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3203 (1993) · source

  6. “the carnage and sheer brutality which we have witnessed in recent weeks at Srebrenica and other Muslim towns in eastern Bosnia, It is almost beyond belief that whole communities of innocent people can be shelled, starved and held hostage in the pursuit of military and political objectives." The brutality and atrocities which we have witnessed serve to underline one basic fact: our objective of securing a comprehensive and durable Settlement to the conflict in former Yugoslavia, but more immediately in Bosnia and Herzegovina, will only be realized through the determined resolve and the collective efforts >>f the international community. To this end, Ireland i3 playing its part with its European Community partners, at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) and here at the United Nations.”

    1993-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3203 (1993) · source

  7. “My Government fully shares the concerns which prompted the Non-Aligned members of the Security Council to seek this debate. It would be unconscionable were this appalling human tragedy, this grave threat to international peace and security, not addressed in the Security Council by the overall membership of the United Nations. It is not necessary to describe in detail the nature of the horrors that we are witnessing in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The facts are well known to all, They stand as an affront to the international community. It is a litany of barbarism and inhumanity unequalled in Europe since the Second World War. It is, as the Tanaiste and Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland, Mr. Dick Spring, described it recently in the Irish Parliament, "...”

    1993-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3203 (1993) · source

  8. “He said as follows: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." (The Second Coming, W.B. Yeats) There have been signs in recent days that the best - that is, the international community - are about to demonstrate some conviction in relation to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Resolution 820 (1993), adopted on Saturday night, and this debate are testimony to that fact. I am grateful to the Security Council for providing me with the opportunity to put on record the views of the Government of Ireland on the situation in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1993-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3203 (1993) · source

  9. “I should like, Mr. President, to associate my delegation with the remarks made in relation to your eminent personage and well-known competence. I should like also to say the same about your predecessor, Ambassador Terence O'Brien. We are assembled here today to discuss the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I shall in a moment make a number of points on that matter on the instructions of my Government. Before doing so, however, I should like to give a thematic introduction to my remarks by quoting my fellow countryman, the poet W., B. Yeats, who wrote much on the subject of civil strife.”

    1993-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3203 (1993) · source