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David Hannay

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first: 1992-01-06
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“Of course, we recognize that the situation between the election of the constituent assembly and the formation of a new Government will be particularly uncertain and fragile, and that this is of course accentuated by the fact that the Khmer Rouge have chosen to exclude themselves from this part of the Paris process. We therefore look forward to the Secretary-General's recommendations on how best to get through this period while preserving intact the whole process agreed at Paris.”
1993-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3181 (1993) · source
“All parties are obliged under the Paris Agreements to respect the holding of free and fair elections and to respect their outcome. We are delighted that the Council is thus stating that it will itself do its best not only to make those elections a success, but the process that comes out of them successful, too. Ultimately it is for the Cambodians themselves to bring about reconciliation and prepare the ground for the future of their country. It is crucially important that the constituent assembly, once elected, completes its task of drafting a new constitution and creating a new Government in the time allocated for it - three months.”
1993-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3181 (1993) · source
“It is essential that every step be taken to prevent intimidation of political parties in the electoral process. We rely very much on UNTAC's redoubling its efforts in that sense. It is important that all the parties should work for a successful outcome of the elections, and should not disrupt UNTAC's work in the next few months. In that respect, the detention of a number of UNTAC military and civilian personnel by the Khmer Rouge has been particularly reprehensible. We hope it will not be. repeated in the next few weeks before the elections. In the same context, we were extremely disturbed by the evidence of Vietnamese personnel - small in numbers, admittedly - remaining in the State of Cambodia's armed forces.”
1993-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3181 (1993) · source
“This will be the first election ever entirely organized by the United Nations, and it is very good that it is being held on time as planned under the Paris Agreements, despite all the difficulties there have been in implementing those Agreements. My delegation would also like to congratulate the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) on the work it has done up to now. There has been a major success in electoral registration, as the Secretary-General's report reminds us, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has also done a remarkable job in repatriating a very large number of the refugees who have spent so many years on the Thai-~Cambodian border. But, of course, much remains to be done if the Paris Agreements are to be implemented as fully as possible.”
1993-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3181 (1993) · source
“I should like to take this opportunity, Sir, slightly belatedly, to congratulate you on having assumed the presidency of the Security Council, and to thank your predecessor, Ambassador Snoussi, for the remarkable way in which he chaired the Council in an extremely busy month - even if it was the shortest month of the year. My delegation very warmly welcomes the draft resolution before us. In particular, it welcomes the Council's endorsement of the dates set for the constituent assembly election by the Supreme National Council (SNC). This is an absolutely key element in the implementation of the Paris Agreements, and we were particularly pleased that it was possible to reach this agreement in the SNC and that it will now be endorsed by the Security Council.”
1993-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3181 (1993) · source
“Finally, I should say that my Government strongly supports the proposal py the Secretary-General to put the financing of all United Nations peace-keeping operations in the former Yugoslavia on a full United Nations basis of assessed contributions. In our view, peace-keeping is a responsibility of the whole international community, and it should be financed by the whole membership of the United Nations.”
1993-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3174 (1993) · source
“Vance and Lord Owen are now undertaking will lead to progress on the implementation of the Vance plan, and within that to the definition of the status of Krajina within the Republic of Croatia - and I shall repeat that phrase, because I heard from one of the participants in this debate words that seemed to imply something different - within the Republic of Croatia. Increasingly, links between what is going on in Bosnia and Herzegovina and what is going on in Croatia are becoming evident. It is as urgent to make progress in the peace process for Bosnia and Herzegovina as in implementing the Vance plan in Croatia. I feel that the next mandate renewal, which we have foreseen for the end of March, will be a crucial moment in that respect.”
1993-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3174 (1993) · source
“We strongly support also the new political remit that the Secretary-General has suggested, and that the Council has endorsed, giving to the two Co-Chairmen of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia. It is essential that we get full compliance with Security Council resolution 802 (1993), so far as concerns both the withdrawal of Croatian forces and the re~placing under United Nations control of the heavy weapons. We hope that the talks that Mr.”
1993-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3174 (1993) · source
“My Government has been deeply concerned at the continuation of fighting in various parts of the former Yugoslavia and in particular at the flare-up recently in Croatia. I would also like to express the deep distress my Government felt at the losses that. the United Nations forces have sustained, and in particular those sustained hy the French contingent, which have been of a very serious nature. In our view, it is absolutely essential that we establish respect and protection for United Nations forces in the field. That, in our view, fully justifies the changes contained in this draft resolution. These, as the French Ambassador says, are designed for self-defence only and in our view are entirely justified.”
1993-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3174 (1993) · source
“The international community wants, before all else, to see an end to war in Angola and the reconstruction of the country. There is an immense amount of potential assistance ready to be offered, but help can be given only if the two sides in the present conflict themselves create the right conditions. That is their responsibility. Only they can give the Angolan people the peace and the prosperity they so desperately need and deserve.”
1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source
“We are of course deeply disturbed by reports that UNITA is now taking foreign prisoners, and these include three of my countrymen who are being held in Soyo. This is a totally unacceptable practice; all such prisoners must be released immediately. A further sad aspect to the situation in Angola is the deterioration, of a general kind, in human rights. The indiscriminate killing of civilians simply has to stop. The priority now is for dialogue between the Government and UNITA, to restore the cease-fire and to prepare for the resumption of the peace process on the basis of the Bicesse Accords and in the light of the September elections. It is really essential that both parties approach the talks in Addis Ababa in good faith: this is an opportunity that must not be lost.”
1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source
“We agree that until the diplomatic route - the negotiating route - produces results, the Council has to give a great deal of weight to the issue of the security of UNAVEM II personnel and their ability actually to do their work on the ground. The view of my delegation is very clear: the present tragic situation is a direct result of UNITA's repudiation of the result of the election of 29 and 30 September. A matter of gravest concern has been that UNITA is now attempting to take control of a country's main economic resources, and to win by force what was denied to them at the ballot box in elections that were declared by the representative of the United Nations as generally free and fair.”
1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source
“First I offer you, Mr. President, congratulations on your tenure of the presidency, which has certainly been a busy and demanding one. We have greatly appreciated the way you have acquitted yourself during this period, as we did the way Ambassador Gharekhan, your predecessor, did during the month of December. The view of my delegation and my Government is that it is crucial that the United Nations remain actively engaged in Angola while there is any prospect of achieving a peaceful solution. The emphasis now will, of course, be on the diplomatic' role of the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Representative rather than on the earlier functions of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission (UNAVEM II), which have so tragically proved incapable of being fulfilled.”
1993-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3168 (1993) · source
“It is important that the message go out to the Somali representatives attending that conference that the international community bas no wish to intervene in the internal affairs of their country, but that it cannot stand by and permit a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude to continue, This is indeed a unique set of circumstances which requires special measures. To sum up, we strongly support and will continue to support the efforts to improve security, to step up the delivery of relief supplies, to strengthen the coordination of the relief operation and to tackle the underlying political causes of the humanitarian tragedy in Somalia. The resolution just adopted represents, in the view of sy delegation, a vital step towards achieving those objectives.”
1992-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3145 (1992) · source
“The resolution we have just adopted also gives encouragement to the Secretary-General and his Special Representative to continue their efforts to achleve political reconciliation in Somalia end to help the Somali people rebuild the civil administration of their country, We continue to see wisdom in the strategy set out in the Secretary-General's report of 22 July, with its focus on re-establishing Somali society at the local and regional levels so as to produce a sound framework for aational reconciliation and rehabilitation. The United Nations donor relief conference has begun today in Addis Ababa.”
1992-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3145 (1992) · source
“We applaud the efforts and bravery of the ataff of the United Hations agencies and of non-governmental organizations, which have been operating in extremely difficult circumstances. It will be essential that the United Nations and the unified comand deal effectively and forcefully <<with the elements that have hitherto obstructed the United Nations relief effort. We must not forget, however, those parts of the country which have not been 80 affected by leoting and anarchy but where the need for international assistance is still very real. They also require the sustained attention ane support of the international comunity. We attach importance to the continuing mandate for the United Nations Operation in Somalia to operate in those regions where security conditions permit and the consent of the parties has been obtained.”
1992-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3145 (1992) · source
“But we have te accept that we have not so far succeeded, that a turning-point bas now been reacred and that an entirely new approach is needed. We fully share the Secretary-General's analysis that action under Chapter VII of the Charter has to be taken to establish a secure environment for the distribution of humanitarian relief. We believe that, having tried everything olse over the past year, we have no other option if we are to feed the starving in Somalia. We warmly welcome the generosity of the Government of the United States, which has offered to make available very substantiai resources to achieve this objective. The overriding concern must be for thoge Somalis most at risk in the centre and south of the country.”
1992-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3145 (1992) · source
“In his letter of 24 November (5/24659) the Secretary-Goneral reports increased hijackings of aid vehicles, luotings of warehouses and detention of expatriate relief personnel. He says that the leoting of humanitarian supplies has become the basis for an otherwise non-existent Somali economy. The juxtaposition of such behaviour with the starvation of many thousands of people is quite intolerable. Food and security have thus become inextricably linked in the present situation in Somalia, and increased security is the key to dealing effectively with the husaniterian crisis. This Council has tried since the beginning of this year to do just that. Five Security Council resolutions bear testimony to those efforts.”
1992-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3145 (1992) · source
“The European Community has thus contributed substantially more than any other donor to Somalia, and that is not counting the large amounts of asaistance additionally provided by its member States. The United Kingdom itself has now pledged £27 million in humanitarian assistance to Somalia. But the problem has been the lack of security within Somalia, which has prevented food reaching those who are starving. Only last week, s British-owned vessel carrying 10,000 tone of food aid was fired on by one of the local militias as it tried to enter Mogadishu harbour and was forced as a result to return to Mombasa with an unexploded shell lodged in the hold among its cargo of food.”
1992-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3145 (1992) · source
“I should like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of this Council and to thank your predecessor, Ambassador Erdes, for the great work he ¢id last month. The world has followed with dismay tha appalling human tragedy of Somalia, where the lives of millions of people are threatened and over 700,000 refugees have fled the country. People are dying of famine in horrifying numbers daily, often within a short distance of supplies of food and humanitarian assistance. The problem in Somalia has not been a lack of generosity on the part of the international community in providing humanitarian relief. The European Community has committed over 200,000 tons of food aid to Somalia this year, worth over 56 million ECU, and has also contributed non-food assistance to the value of 38 million ECU.”
1992-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3145 (1992) · source
“By the middle of next year there will be a new constitution in Cambedia and a democratically elected Government, recognized by the world and receiving aid from the world. It is up to the Khmer Rouge whether it wants to be part of that or not.”
1992-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3143 (1992) · source
“What must not happen, and what will not happen, is the postponement of the elections. The rasolution is clear about that. The Cambodian people have waited long enough for the opportunity to frame their own constitution and to choose their own Government. The great success of the electoral registration process, with 2 million voters registered already, shows beyond any doubt that they want to take that opportunity now. The international community has gone to enormous lengths to make it possible. We must not be deflected or delayed by the intransigence of one party that has choson to put itself in breach of its treaty obligations. The Khmer Rouge would do weil to consider that position very carefully.”
1992-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3143 (1992) · source
“It refuses to disarm and to flemobilize its forces, and it refuses to allow UNTAC to enter the territories it controis to carry out any of the tasks agreed upon in Paris - in particular, to prepare the elections, which will open a new future for the whole country. This Council has been very patient, and it will remain so. But it also has to be determined. Even now, in the resolution we have just adopted, we are not saying that the Khmer Rouge can no longer be a part of the settlement process. On the contrary, we make it clear that we want. it to join in that process. I£ it decides after all to honour its commitments, it will be able to take part in the eliesctions for a constituent assembly leading te the formation of a new Government. But if it decides to exlude itself, that is the Khmer Rouge's responsibility.”
1992-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3143 (1992) · source
“The United Nations operation in Cambodia is the most ambitious ever undertaken by this Organization. Its purpose is to bring peace and freedom to a population that has not known peace in decades. I pay tribute to the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), to the Secretary-General and to the Secretary-General''s Special Representative for the superb work they have been doing. All this is now at risk because one party, the Khmer Rouge, is refusing to honour the conmitments it freely entered into in the Paris Agreements. Every effort. has been made by the United Nations and by Member States such as Japan and Thailand to address the concerns that it has expressed. But it has remained intransigent, contrary to its commitments under the Paris Agreements.”
1992-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3143 (1992) · source
“Throughout this period, the Iraqi Government has consistently ignored the demand in Security Council resolution 688 (1991) that it cease the repression of its owm people. For over a year it has maintained an internal blocade against the North. It has carried out military operations against the civilian population in the South, particularly in the southern marshes, and the reports by Mr. van der Stoel on human rights abuses in Irag are a horrifying tale of inhumanity. It gives no pleasure to go through this litany of prevarication, concealment, defiance, repression, and non-compliance with the resolutions of this Council. But it has to be done - because it is only when the leaders of Iraq heed what is being said here and take decisive steps to remedy these shortcomings that we shall be able to get off on a new foot.”
1992-11-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3139 (1992) · source
“It refused to grant visas to the humanitarian personnel and United Nations Guards, and forced the United Nations out of the south of the country completely. Only in October did Iraq agree to renew the Memorandum of Understanding and enable the winterization programme in the North, and a limited United Nations programme elsewhere, to go ahead. As the Secretary-General himself noted in his letter of 20 October to the President of the Council, the renewed Memorandum of Understanding did not meet all United Nations aspirations, particularly in the South. Concern remains sbout the security of humanitarian personnel in northern Iraq. It is, I am afraid, pretty clear that the Iraqi Government is responsible for a number of mine and grenade attacks against United Nations and non-governmental-organization personnel.”
1992-11-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3139 (1992) · source
“Fourthly, there is the matter of Iraq's treatment of its own citizens. Throughout this crisis our quarrel has been with the Iraqi Government, not with the Iraqi people. For this reason, the Council adopted Security Council resolutions 706 (1991) and 712 (1991), which would have created an exemption from the sanctions regime to permit Iraq to export oil to pay for humanitarian imports. Irag has persistently refused to operate this fair and equitable scheme, in blatant disregard of the needs of its own people. But the offer remains on the table. Perhaps one day it will be taken up. Then for four months in the summer Iraq prevaricated over renewal of its Memorandum of Understanding with the United Nations, the basis for the United Nations humanitarian programmes in Iraq.”
1992-11-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3139 (1992) · source
“Two British nationals have been sentenced to outrageously long prison sentences for inadvertently crossing into Irag. Since the submission on 10 March of the Kuwaiti list of 850 prisoners of war and detainees, only 20 individuals have been returned to Kuwait. Sixty-one other individuals have returned to Kuwait under family reunification arrangements. Kuwait has submitted 70 individual case files co Irag through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Irag has responded to only 13 of those, stating that there is no information on the individuals concerned. And Irag has still not agreed to ICRC standard procedures for visits to places of detention in Iraq. This is a serious humanitarian issue where Iraqi behaviour is clearly at variance with its obligations under international law and Security Council resolutions.”
1992-11-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3139 (1992) · source
“Either explanation is equally ceprehensibie Thea there have been hostile and inaccurate statements by Iragi leaders about United Natious inspection teams and serious harassment of inspectors - foc example, Presidsut Saddam Hussein's reference to "stray dogs" in his 6 October speech, and Foreign Minister Al~Sahaf's comparison of inspections with "mediseyal inguisition" in his 28 October leter, Lreg remains fully responsible for ensuring the safety and security of inspectors who are working on behalf of the United Nations. They must be allowed to go about their work unhindered and in safety. And they must be allowed accass to wherever their work takes them, without limits. Thirdly, there is the question of detainees. The detention of Kuwaiti and third-country nationals in Iraq continues.”
1992-11-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3139 (1992) · source
“This was a clear breach of Security Council 707 (1991) and a further material breach of Security Council resolution 687 (1991) eztablishing a ceasefire. What was the puzpose of this? If there was material releted to weapona of mass destruction in that building, it. must have Feen to enable it to he removed, but if there was not, then i must have been to confront and defy the United Nations.”
1992-11-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3139 (1992) · source
“How can this Council or Irag's neighbours feel any security if the necessary provisions for maintaining Irag's ooservance of the obligations it previously broke are not in full operation? The hard fact is that without long-term monitoring and verification we can have no certainty that Irag wili wot start the whole process over again. Since we lsst met, in March, Irag has had a very mize' track record over inspections. In March it was indicated that Iraq was prepared te cooperate with UNSCOM and the IABA in the fulfilment of their mandates. Some cooperation at the field level there has been. But it has been markedly different at the political level. First there was Iraq's refusal to permit United Nations inspectors to enter the Ministry of Agriculture building in Baghdad on 4 July 1992.”
1992-11-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3139 (1992) · source
“Iu particular, Iraq has failed to provide details of its supplier and procurement networks. If Iraq has genuinely forsworn its ambitions to construct weapens of mass destruction in defiance of its international obligations, why is it still concealing parts of its programmes, and why wiil it not reveal it suppliers? Just as significantly, Iraq has failed either to recognize or to accept its obligations under Security Council resolution 715 (1991), which provides for long-term monitoring and verification by inspection, Now the Iraqi Foreign Minister, in his letter of 28 October, calls for a review of Security Council resolutions 707 (1991) and 715 (1991), which sounds singularly like an attempt to escape from these obligations altogether. That will not be acceptable.”
1992-11-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3139 (1992) · source
“Now, this all strikes at the very heart of the cease-fire resolutions, and it calls into question Irag's commitment to Security Council resolution 687 (1991). How can Iraq expect its protestations of compliance with Security Council resolution 687 (1991) to be believed so long as this pattern of behaviour continues? The second area I would mention is that of weapons of mass destruction. Iraq has still not complied with its obligations under Security Council resolution 707 (1991) to provide a full, final ard complete declaration of its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programmes. Although some more information has now been made available to the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), gaps remain.”
1992-11-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3139 (1992) · source
“In an incident on 7 November an American worker was abducted and beaten up but managed to escape. Most serious of ali is the reassertion by Irag of its claim to Kuwait. The President has already referred to the Council statement of 17 June, which expressed our dismay at the way the Iraqi Foreign Minister's letter of 21 May had recalled past 'traqi claims to Kuwait. Even more disturbing is the repeated reassertion of the Iraqi claim to Kuwait by Iraqi officials and in the Government-controlled media in Iraq. Such statements have been made by the Speaker of the Iragi Parliament, and Iraqi school textbooks and maps continue to depict Kuwait as part of Iraq. In the last few weeks broadcasts have been made by Iraqi radio describing Kuwait as a part of Iraq.”
1992-11-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3139 (1992) · source
“In recent months there has been a pattern of Iragi actions and behaviour which completely invalidates Iraq's formal acceptance of Kuwait's existence within boundaries to be demarcated under an objective United Nations process. Iraq failed to attend the July and October sessions of the Boundary Demarcation Commission. More seriously, in October Irag refused to allow Swedish and New Zealand survey teams and their subcontractors to carry cut preparatory work for putting in boundary markers, and this matter was only resolved efter intervention by the Commander of United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observer Mission (UNZKOM). Iraq has failed to prevent armed Iraqi civilians provoking incidents in the demilitarized zone. In other incidents, foreign workers have been abducted in the demilitarized zone.”
1992-11-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3139 (1992) · source
“Mr. President, your clear and comprehensive introduction to this meeting sets out very well how much remains to be dune before Iraq's compliance with Security Council resolutions, in particular Security Council 687 (1991), can be considered complete and satisfactory. Your statement deals effectively with such areas as the return of property, the handling of performance bonds, and the failure to submit figures of Iraq's gold end foreign currency reserves, areas where Iraqi performance remains lamentably short of what is requirad. I intend therefore to concentrate on four areas of major political significance. The first of these is the Iraq-Kuwait boundary. This is a crucial issue because it is where the whole story of Traq's defiance of international law and the United Nations began.”
1992-11-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3139 (1992) · source
“In particular, we welcome the proposal that a special representative of the Secretary-General be appointed to evaluate the situation and to report back to the Council. We cail on all parties to the conflict to recognize the futility of continued violence and to cooperate fully with the ECOWAS peace-keeping force and with the special representative of the Secretary-General when he is appointed so as to ensure & peaceful solution to this tragic conflict.”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source
“The United Kingdom condemns the actions of those parties which have consistently failed to honour agreements reached or tc implement the repeated calls for a cease-fire. It is those factions in Liberia - and there is one, of course, that is most prominent amongst them - which refuse to accept that they cannot obtain power through military means that alone bear the responsibility for the present crisis. The challenge is a grim one. We have been encouraged by the renewed determination and unity of the States members of ECOWAS in facing it reflected in the decisions of the Abuja summit. We welcome the position adopted by ECOWAS and outlined by the visiting delegation of Ministers. My delegation supports the draft resolution before the Council.”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source
“We havs consistently welcomed and supported the initiatives of the countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to try to resolve, through regional efforts, the crisis in Liberia. We hope that they will be able to sustain those efforts, which are an example to all of us. It is worth recalling the appalling situation which existed in Monrovia in the summes of 1990 before the intervention of the ECOWAS peace-keeping force. We ace very conscious of the lengths te which the ECOWAS States have gone over the past two years to obtain a just solution to the conflict. Woe fully support the ECOWAS peace plan and the Yamoussoukro IV Agreement, which represent the basis for a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in Liberia.”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source
“I should like to begin by welcoming the presence in this Chamber of so many Ministers from West African councrivs. It in very notable that they have come to tho Security Council for this debate, and I think it is right that we should nark the occasion by thanking them extremely warmly for the efforts they have made to bring peace to a very troubled State in West Africa, and for the sacrifices, both financial and in human terms, they have undertaken. I really do think they deserve the thanks of the Council for that. The United Kingdom remains deeply concerned at the continuing conflict and indiscrimizate slaughter in Liberia and at the failure of all recent attempts to bring about a cease-fire. A particular cause for concern at present is the plight of the refugees in Monrovia, now thought to number over 100,000.”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source
“But, difficult as the situation is in the former Yugoslavia, wo have to persevere. The alternative - to abandon peace-making, to lift the arms embargo and let the parties get on with the slaying and the destruction, to abandon the tormented civilian population to its fate - is an alternative we should not even contemplate.”
1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source
“But, if it is not to become a disaster for Serbia, the Serbs should grant Kosovo autonomy within Serbia, and should encourage the international community to help through the stationing of monitors or observers, under the auspices of the CSCE, which has already sent a resident mission to Kosovo. The Kosovars, for their part, should accept that demands for independence are not the best way to secure their rights and their future. Macedonia also deserves our attention, and I know that this is fully recognizud by Lord Owen, Secretary Vance and their tean. It is a massive task that lies ahead. It comes on top of a formidable amount of work done so far by the United Nations and its agencies, the ICRC, the European Community and others. It is not easy to be optimistic.”
1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source
“Detention camps must be emptied. We fully support the work of the ICRC, which has to date supervised the release of 2,200 Bosnian detainees. Western countries have offered nearly 2,700 places for former detainees, and offers by countries of the European Community alone amount to some 45 per cent of this figure. Finally, we must all do more in the area of preventive diplomacy. Kosovo deserves special attention, and here the efforts of Lord Owen and Secretary Vance and of the CSCE to develop more dialogue between the Yugoslavs and the Kosovars deserve our full support. Dialogue is the only way in which an explosion in Kosovo will be avoided, an explosion that could destabilize other countries in the area. Kosovo is a special case. It is a part of Serbia and a sensitive question for all Serbs.”
1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source
“If this does not happen, far from lifting sanctions this winter, we may have to consider further measures. While on the matter of sanctions, I would like to say that it is the firm view of >>y Government that the arms embargo should not be lifted from eny part of the former Yugoslavia. That would be a solution of despair. The very last thing that the suffering civilian populations of all the countries in that region need is the introduction of more arms. This could only lead to more killing, more suffering and the jeopardizing of efforts to deliver humanitarian supplies to those in need. A massive joint effort is needed now to avert a humanitarian disaster this winter in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Following the Special European Council meeting at Birmingham last nonth, the European Community has set up a task force to support UNHCR efforts.”
1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source
“And all parties must fulfil their commitments to work in that Group in continuous and uninterrupted session, to consolidate a complete cessation of hostilities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to try to achieve the demilitarization of Sarajevo and other cities. Sanctions, too, must be strengthened. We must ensure that they are not breached by way of the Danube or the Adriatic, and that goods in transit through Serbia and Montenegro are not diverted. The authorities in Belgrade and the Bosnian Serbs must be made to realize that the cost of their present policies is economic ruin and the status of a partah in world affairs. Federal President Cosie and Prime Minister Panie have. expressed good intentions, but they must be matched by policy changes and by effective action on the ground, of which there has been all too little so far.”
1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source
“The international community will not accept the partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina into unilaterally declared so-called republics or other political entities. The constitutional proposals put forward by Secretary Vance and Lord Owen as a basis for negotiation deserve the full support of this Council. In peace-keeping also we must press on. Earlier this week the Council authorized the deployment of observers to airfields in the region. In the draft resolution that we are now discussing we raise the question of deploying observers along the borders of Bosnia. The Mixed Military Working Group formed by the three parties in Bosnia is of crucial importance.”
1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source
“The parties to the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia must be biought to realize that the international community expects them to settle their differences within the framework of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia. They must be brought to realize that no other mechanism, no other solution, is on offer, They must be brought to realize, above all, that force is not the answer; that any territorial gains they may make through force of arms, and any demographic changes they may try to bring about in these areas by the use of force, cannot and will not be accepted by the international community; and that, within those internationally recognized frontiers, minorities are entitled to proper protection and full respect for their civil rights.”
1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source
“Further sanctions assistance missions will follow to other countries of the region, All of that represents a massive effort by the United Nations and a massive effort by the European Community and its member States in terms of manpower and in terms of money, It has been costly, too, in terms of lives, for UNPROFOR, for the European Community monitors and for those operating the Sarajevo airlift. But those efforts are clearly not enough. The situation on the ground is, if anything, still deteriorating, and more - much more - must be done. In peace-making, Lord Owen and Seczetary Vance, and the Conference over which they preside, deserve the full support of this Council and of ali Members of the United Nations.”
1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source
“The Sarajevo airlift, in which several member States are participating, has cost my country $2.5 million so far. Over 320,000 refugees from the former Yugoslavia have been given refuge by States members of the European Community. The United Kingdom and other countries of the European Community are also active in helping to enforce the arms embargo on the former Yugoslavia and the economic sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro. The Western European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are patrolling the Adriatic. Jointly, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) and the European Community have sent three sanctions assistance missions to Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary, which are already proving effective in helping those countries enforce the sanctions.”
1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source
“And the European Community is, of course, paying its usual assessed contribution of 32.15 per cent of the cost of ail the other United Nations operations in the former Yugoslavia. To date, given the way the cash-flow system works, the States members of the European Community have paid over $80 million, or 42 per cent of total contributions, to work in Yugoslavia on peace-keeping in 1992. Ian the humanitarian area, the European Community has again been prominent. The member States' contributions, to the UNHCR effort in former Yugoslavia amount so far to over $150 million, of which the British contribution has been nearly $30 million. The countries of the European Community have contributed another $22 million to the work of the ICRC and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).”
1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source