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David Hannay

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first: 1992-01-06
most recent: 1995-07-12
sittings or episodes: 138
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“Lord Owen and Secretary Vance have already described the work of that joint Economic Community-United Nations Conference so far. It is certainly too early to talk of breakthroughs, but it is clear that a great deal has in fact been achieved. The Conference is the best, probably the only, hope for a lasting settiement in the region. In peace-keeping, the countries of the European Community are strongly represented in UNPROFOR, with nearly 5,000 troops in Croatia and 5,500 in Bosnia. Under exceptional arrangements for a United Nations force, the Bosnia humanitarian convoy protection operation is being financed by the States of the European Community themselves, at an estimated cost of $400 million.”
1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source
“Together with UNPROFOR it brought about and is now maintaining the demilitarization of the Prevlaka peninsula. The European Community monitoring mission has recently extended its operations into Bulgaria, where it will operate close to the border with the former Yugoslavia. As President of the European Community, we are now negotiating similar European Community monitoring missions with Hungary and Albania, In peace-making, the European Community has been active since the conflict in the region began. Since August this year the European Community and the United Nations have worked together in the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, developing the earlier work of the Conference chaired by Lord Carrington.”
1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source
“I should like to take a moment to describe the role in these efforts of the European Community, of which my country is a member and currently President, It is a record that speaks for itself. Wirat, in the field of preventive diplomacy, the European Community has had its own monitoring mission deployed in the former Yugoslavia since July 1991, The mission now numbers some 400 people, including 350 monitors drawn from countries of the European Community and from Canada, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and Poland. The total cost of this mission to the European Community and the contributing states amounts to several million dollars a month. The monitoring mission works closely with UNPROFOR and performs an increasing variety of functions. It is active, for example, in the so-called pink zones outside the United Nations Protected Areas in Croatia.”
1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source
“In Bosnia and Herzegovina, appalling as the situation is, one shudders to contemplate what the suffering there might be like without the work of UNHCR and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), withont the Sarajevo airlift; and what suffering the coming winter would be bringing if UNPROFOR was not now deploying thousands of troops to ensure the delivery of humanitarian supplies. We also have to think where we would be if there was no International Conference on the Fermer Yugoslavia, if there was no political process. It is not fanciful to imagine that we might already be in the wnidst of a wider conflict throughout the Balkans. We have so far averted this nightmare, and we must continue to do so.”
1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source
“Towns such as Vukovar and Osijek were almost totally destroyed, at appalling cost in civilian lives and livelihoods. Now, a year later, there is no longer full- scale war in Croatia and the United Nations keeps the peace in the areas that were so recently in flames. The situation in Croatia is still fraught with problems, as this Council knows only too well, but it is a great deal better than it was. Much credit is owed to the United Nations peace-keeping efforts through the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR), to tha United Nations humanitarian effort led by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and to other international efforts.”
1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source
“I should like to begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your essumption of the office of President and by thanking your predecessor, Ambassador Merimee, for the remarkable work he did during the month of October. My delegation welcomes this debate and in particular the contributions already made to it by Secretary Vance, Lord Owen, Mrs. Ogata and Mr. Mazowiecki. It is important, from time to time, to stand back for a moment and take stock of what the United Nations has done over the past year in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the neighbouring regions of what was once Yugoslavia. We need occasionally to try to see the wood from the trees. When we do so we see that, serfous as things are now, the United Nations has achieved a great deal. A year ago the conflict in Croatia was at its height.”
1992-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3135 (1992) · source
“The miscalculation, the historic blunder ia to think that such a denial of the results of the elections, such a resort to force, will be accepted by the international community. It will not. It is not too late to get the peace process back on the rails. My Government sincerely hopes that the clear warning of international isolation conveyed in the present resolution will be heeded. What is needed now in Angola is a series of steps to restore confidence and to complete the electoral process. Let us hope they will now be taken.”
1992-10-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3130 (1992) · source
“Since then much progress has been made, and credit is dug to all, most particularly to the United Nations agencies and to the United Nations Angola Verification Mission (UNIVAM II), under the under the leadership of the Secretary-General''s Special Representative, Miss Anstee, which played such an important part in the organization of the elections which took place at the end of September and which have been judged generully free and fair. Now all that progress and all those hopes sre being put at risk by an unwillingness of one party to accept the results of these elections and to carry the presidential elections to their conclusion in a second round, and by a reckless willingness to threaten and even to resort to force, That is the tragedy.”
1992-10-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3130 (1992) · source
“Since this is the first time I have spoken during your presidency, even though it is the last day of that, may I congratulate you, Sir, and wish you a happy move to your right at the end of the weekend. I also wish to convey my thanks to your predacessor, Ambassador Ayala Lasso of Ecuador. In recent months this Council has had to deal with only too many tragic events, and with only too many such events caused by historic blunders and miscalculations, Recent events in Angola fit that pattern all too well. Angola only finally emerged from many years of civil wer, exacerbated by several external interventions, in the summer of 1991. 'The peace agreements then signed by all parties offered a real prospect of making a successful transition to multi-party democracy and national reconciliation.”
1992-10-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3130 (1992) · source
“Let us hope it will be taken, It is vital that all che peoples of the former Yugoslavia realize that their future peace, their security and their prosperity can be achieved only at the conference table and not on the battlefield.”
1992-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3106 (1992) · source
“It is essential that the ICRC be able to monitor the condition of detainees, and that all parties fully respect the relevant provisions of international humanitarian law. Peace in what was formerly Yugoslavia can only come from a cease-fire that is respected and from a negotiated settlement. The international community cannot acquiesce in tho horrendou: alternatives now being pursued in Bosnia. The British Government - which now holes the presidency of the European Community - together with the Secretary-General, is now organizing a broacened and intensified effort to get all parties back to the conference table. The international conference being called in London on 26 August offers a real opportunity to engage a meaningful peace process.”
1992-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3106 (1992) · source
“Sanctions are already in place against Serbia and Montenegro. The authorities in Belgrade need to realize that the international political and economic penalties already imposed on Serbia and Montenegro will continue snd will be intensified unless there is decisive action by them to reverse these policies. We have all been shocked by television images of the plight. of persons detained in the camps in Bosnia. A key provision of this resolution is the demand that the ICRC and other relevant organizacions be granted access to datention camps. It is good news that the ICRC has been granted access to 21 camps in Bosnia. This access must be continued, and access must be granted also to the remaining camps and detention ceatres immediately.”
1992-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3106 (1992) · source
“The parpetrators of these criminal acts must realize that they will be brought to account. The camps themselves are only one sspect of a wholly unacceptable policy of the Serbs, both in Belcrade and in Bosnia, to extend Serb control of Bosnian territory by attacking and expelling other communities. This resolution rightly makes special reference to the odious practice of "ethnic cleansing". It is appalling that in the last decade of the twentieth century, such actions should be prevalent. The forcible removal of civilian populations is wholly contrary to the accepted tenets of international humanitarian law. Reports of an attempt by the Bosnian Serbs to expel 25,000 people forcibly from Bihac and to get the international humanitarian agencies to help them to do go have provoked the outrage and the rejection they deserve.”
1992-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3106 (1992) · source
“In deciding whether and how far military measures are needed. we will give great weight to the views of the United Nations authorities and the humanitarian agencies. As to the second resolution, our co-sponsorship reflects our desp dismay and revulsion at continuing reports of widespread violations of international humanitarian law, most recently today from the International Committee for the Rec Cross (ICRC). We are appalled at the continuing blatant disregard for humanitarian principles shown by the parties to the conflict. Mistreatment. in detention camps, enforced expulsions on the ground of ethnic origin, attacks on civilians and on United Nations and ICRC personnel are affronts to morality and are contrary to all the provisions of international humanitarian law. We deplore such actions - whoever as the perpetrator.”
1992-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3106 (1992) · source
“The international community aseds now to increase the scale and the scope of the relief operation and to make sure that it gets to all the places where it is needed, including the camps. The resolution calls upon States to use any measures necessary for the delivery of humanitarian reliaf, including military measures, but it does not prescribe the use of force. That is as it should be. The use of force is not desirable, but it may be necessary. The aim is to develop a system of protective support as necessary to supplement and expand the existing humanitarian operations. The United Kingdow has begun consulting closely with partners and allies to decide how best to follow up the resolution, and this process will now be intensified. Close coordination with the United Nations will be put in hand.”
1992-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3106 (1992) · source
“The purpose of the first of these two resolutions, which my country is co-sponsoring, is to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian relief throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina in coordination with the United Nations. In implementing it, the aim will he to ensure that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other agencies, which are already providing humanitarian assistence, can do so more widely and effectively. We should not ove:sook the fact that some help is already getting in, by land as well as by air. The United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) and UNHCR have already been collaborating very effectively and with great courage and determination, around Sarajevo. But nothing like enough help is getting through, and it is certainly not getting through to all who need it throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
1992-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3106 (1992) · source
“So I should like to conclude by saying that if the Government of Iraq wishes this Council te accept the claim that its intentions are good, then there are three things that need to be done immediately. One is to end the economic blockade of the north of Jragz the second is to stop the forceful repression in the south of Iraq; and the third is to renew the Memorandum of Understanding.”
1992-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3105 (1992) · source
“Last year, 15 months ago, this Council concluded that the repression of the Iraqi civilian population in many parts of Iraq, including the Kurdish-populated areas but also in the south, which led to a massive exodus of refugees to Turkey and Ivan, itself threatened international peace and security. My Government and a number of others felt that the situation was so serious and Iraqi intransigence so evident that measures had to ha taken to help prevent the population from being further repressed. That situation now appears to exist in the south of Iraq, as it did last year in the north. From what we have heard, Iragi actions appear, in fact, to be threatening the very existence of large sections of the civilian population.”
1992-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3105 (1992) · source
“van der Stoel's account and other accounts that the situation in other parts of Iraq, notably in the north of the country, is very nearly as bad. Not quite as bad, because there is not, at the moment, actual military force being used, but vary bad nevertheless, because the maintenance of an economic blockade against the north is bringing great privation and suffering to the people who live there, and that too is inconsistent with resolution 688 (1991). In the south, Iraq has begun to use fixed-wing aircraft for the first time in the recent period to bumb Shia villages and to destroy human habitations and human beings throughout the marshes. That action is not tolerable.”
1992-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3105 (1992) · source
“I hope this is a sign that the Iragi Government will see the light and will renow the Memorandum of Understanding without more ado. Failing to ao that will certainly be another step down the road towards the repression and the inhumane treatment of its own population. What Mr. van der Stoel told the Council is enough to indicate to us, together with reports that we receive in the press and elsewhere, that Irag is engaged in a full-scale repression of the Shia population in the southern marshes. There is no way in which this can be other than a straightforward defiance of this Council and of Security Council resolution 688 (1991), which expressly asked Irag to end the repression of its civilian population. It is alse clear from both Mr.”
1992-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3105 (1992) · source
“We already had the Secretary-General's report of 7 August to Council members about the negotiations on the Memorandum of Understanding, and we had heard frum the Secretary-General that Iraq was trying to force United Nations humanitarian agencies and Non-Governmental Organizations to leave and was bringing pressure to bear to reduce the number of United Nations guards and, if possible, get them all out of Irag by a process of attrition. I entirely agree with Mr. van der Stoel's statement that the -umanitarian programme is desperately needed in Irag - and that includes the work of the United Nations guards, which is vital for the well-being of the Iraqi peovle in all parts of the country. So to my Government it is very welcome news that Under-Secretary-General Eliasson has now been invited to visit Baghdad.”
1992-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3105 (1992) · source
“The reality is that if that scheme had been implemented, a biliion dollars - one billion dollars ~ of value and money could have been used for buying foodstuffs and medicine for the people of Iraq. And that is not the limit of it: for the Security Council said when it adopted the scheme that it would review the figure if that proved to be necessary. We have never had to do that, alas, because we have never been able to implement the scheme, thanks to the obstruction and, finally, the rejection of the Iraqi Gover:ment. That in itself is a tragedy which contributes to the repression by the Iragi Government of its population - which is so greatly in contravention of resolution 688 (2991). Mr. van der Stoel also spoke to us about the humanitarian work of the United Nations and the way this was being hampered.”
1992-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3105 (1992) · source
“Well, I have always based myself on the assumption that the Dutch know rather a lat about large water projects, and = am not inclined to follow -he Iraqi representative's line of argument. But, in any case, it is irrelevant to the business of the Security Council. The Ambassador of Irag asked us: is it reasonable for a Government to wish to kill Jarge numbers of its population? I shall reply straightaway: no, it is not reasonable. But by that criterion the Government of Iraq must be the most unreasonable Government ia the world. Now, Mr. van der Stoel spoke to us first about the state of health in Iraq and about the failure of the Iraqi Government to implement the scheme under resolutions 706 (1991) and 712 (2991). I think tnat the Ambassador of Iraq suggested that this was irrelevant. JI do not myself believe it ia irrelevant at all.”
1992-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3105 (1992) · source
“'This afternoon, at the opening of our debate, we heard two contributions, the first of which I found horrific and the second, disturbing. The report to the Security Council by Mr. van der Stoel, for which I greatly thank him and which related principally to resolution 688 (1991) and is therefore very much a matter for the Council, is deeply disturbing. But I am afraid I found the comment by the Iraqi Permanent Representative on that report - no doubt on instructions from his Government - if anything, even more disturbing. For all that could be found to be said in the face of these horrific facts were some rather cynical and legalistic arguments and a long analysis about whether or not Mr. van der Stoel's engineering experience was sufficient to analyse the Third River Project.”
1992-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3105 (1992) · source
“UNTAC, we believe, must maintain its efferts to ensure that the comprehensive political settlement is implemented and, above all, to ensure that free and fair elections are held as planned, in either April or May of 1993.”
1992-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3099 (1992) · source
“We also call on ''ic international community to ensure the successful implementation of the comprehensive political settlement, and in particular we urge those States which are bordering on Camhodia to fullfil their obligatiors under article 7 of annex II of the first Paris Agreement - and we are very pleased to see that there is a reference made to the responsibility of neighbouring States in the draft resolution. The rehabilitation of Cambodia can only be achieved once progress has been made towards the implementation of the comprehensive political settlement. No party which obstructs the peace process can reasonably expect to benefit from the flow of international funds which were pledged at the conference in Tokyo, which was so successfully chaired by the Japanese Government and had such promising and encouraging results.”
1992-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3099 (1992) · source
“So far they have failed to respond to these efforts and the actions that the Party of Democratic Kampuchea have taken now threaten the whole peace process and the chances for the Cambodian people to enjoy peace, stability and self-determination. That is why my Government urges the Party of Democratic Kampuchea to work fully and unconditionally with UNTAC to allow phase Ii of the cease-fire to be implemented throughout Cambodia as soon as possible. It is really essential that all parties work together for that common future because without that working together of all four parties, it will not be achieved.”
1992-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3099 (1992) · source
“UNTAC and the international community have made major efforts to meet the concerns of the Party of Democratic Kampuches, in so far as these can be legitimately related to the implementation of the Paris Agreements. UNT/C is now assuming control of administrative agencies, bodies and offices witnin Cambodia to ensure a neutral political environment conducive to free und fair elections. We hope that this process can be accelerated - and that is what this draft resolution calls for - and that this process will also persuade the Party of Democratic Kampuchea that it is in their interest, as well as in the interest of everyone else, to apply the totality of the Paris Agreements without more ado.”
1992-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3099 (1992) · source
“We, too, welcome the Secretary-General's report and strongly support the terms of the draft resolution. For some time it has indeed been clear, as the report brings out, that the Party of Democratic Kampuchea has not extended the cooperation necessary to allow the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) to carry out its tasks. It has failed to allow UNTAC access to territory under its control, it has refused to move to phase II of the cease-fire, it has so far failed to produce evidence to support its claims that foreign forces remain in Cambodia, and we are concerned aiso at the continuing cease-fire violations and the dangers which UNTAC personnel face as a consequence of those.”
1992-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3099 (1992) · source
“"The Security Council will remain seized of the matter." This statement will be issued as a document of the Security Council under the symbol S/26118. The Security Council has thus concluded the present Stage of its consideration of the item on the agenda. The meeting rose at 4.45 p.m.”
1992-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3256 (1992) · source
“The Security Council recalls that in the Treaty between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, signed at Kiev on 19 November 1990, the High Contracting Parties committed themselves to respect each other's territorial integrity within their currently existing frontiers. The Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation is incompatible with this commitment as well as with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and without effect. "The Security Council welcomes the efforts of the Presidents and the Governments of the Russian Federation and Ukraine to settle any differences between them by peaceful means and urges that they take all steps to ensure the avoidance of tension.”
1992-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3256 (1992) · source
“"The Security Council has also considered the letter dated 19 July 1993 from the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation (S/26109), circulating a statement by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation concerning the aforementioned Decree. "The Security Council shares the deep concern, and welcomes the position, expressed by the President and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine concerning the Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation. In this context, it also welcomes the position taken by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs on behalf of the Government of the Russian Federation. "The Security Council reaffirms in this connection its commitment to the territorial integrity of Ukraine, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
1992-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3256 (1992) · source
“I thank the representative of Pakistan for his kind words addressed to me. been Following consultations among members of the Security Council, I have authorized to make the following statement on behalf of the Council: "The Security Council has considered the letters dated 13 and 16 July 1993 from the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the President of the Council (S/26075 and S/26100), transmitting a statement by the President of Ukraine on the Decree adopted by the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation on 9 July 1993 concerning Sevastopol and a letter from the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine on the same matter.”
1992-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3256 (1992) · source
“The first speaker inscribed on my list is the Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine, His Excellency Mr. Boris Tarasyuk, on whom I now call.”
1992-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3256 (1992) · source
“On behalf of the Council, I welcome the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affaiss of Ukraine. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on the agenda. The Security Council is meeting in response to the request contained in a letter dated 16 July 1993 from the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council, document S/26100. I should like to draw the attention of the members of the Council to the following documents: S/26075, letter dated 13 July 1993 from the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council; and S/26109, letter dated 19 July 1993 from the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council.”
1992-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3256 (1992) · source
“I should like to inform the Council that I have received a letter from the representative of Ukraine in which he requests to be invited to participate in the discussion of the item on the Council's agenda. In accordance with the usual practice, I propose, with the consent of the Council, to invite that representative to participate in the discussion without the right to vote, in conformity with the relevant provisions of the Charter and rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure. There being no objection, it is so decided. At the invitation of the President, Mr. Tarasyuk (Ukraine) took a place at the Council table.”
1992-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3256 (1992) · source
“The Special Representative's contacts with all parties in South Africa should enable the Secretary-General and the Security Council to discuss what useful and constructive role the United Nations could play in the period ahead. The Special Representative will need to work in the closest cooperation with other organizations which, as I have said, are working for the same objectives - the Commonwealth, the Organization of African Unity, the European Community. To conclude, it was right that the Security Council should have had this opportunity to hear directly from the parties involved about the violence which threatens to derail their search for peaceful political change. We wish to see that process of negotiation resume as soon as possible. It is the only way forward.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“A prolonged hiatus can be in no one's interest because the situation, both political and economic, is bound to deteriorate. There too, if there is any way the outside world can assist, we should do so, but we should seek to help, not to prescribe. In this spirit the troika of European Community Foreign Ministers will visit South Africa later this year to explore with all the parties ways to restore momentum to the negotiating process and to combat political violence. My Government strongly supports the continuing use by the Secretary~General of his good offices, and we believe that the dispatch to South Africa of a Special Representative of high political standing is the best first step to take.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“The South African Government is adopting a constructive approach to these various offers of external assistance. For the first time it has invited the participation of non-South Africans in its own internal investigations. Britain responded by providing the services of three police experts to assist Justice Goldstone's investigation of the Boipatong massacre. We hope that the international community will be ready to respond positively to any requests for further help that have the support of all the main parties. We would expect such help to be aimed at reinforcing the peace structures that South Africans themselves have already built. As to the process of negotiation, in the view of my Government the sooner it can be resumed the better.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“In addition to the consensus resolutions which we have adopted here at the last two sessions of the General Assembly, I would point to the encouragement given by the Commonwealth, and to the European Community's close interest in South Africa's progress. Most recently the European Community's Lisbon European Council meeting expressed its deep concern at the deaths at Boipatong, its hope that the significant achievements of CODESA would not be lost, and that the negotiations would therefore resume. As a further indication of the European Community's enduring concern, its Special Programme of Assistance to the Victims of Apartheid has grown to the point where it is the Community's single largest aid programme in Africa, or anywhere else.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“Together they have already taken the first steps towards a solution, by signing the National Peace Accord in September 1991, which provides a structure - on national, regional and local levels - for South Africans to confront violence and build confidence. The South African Government took another important step last year in appointing Judge Goldstone's Standing Commission of Enquiry into Violence and Intimidation. We applaud the work of this Commission, which enjoys the confidence of all South Africans. We hope the South African Government will fina every possible way quickly to implement the Commission's recommendations and we look to all South Africans to cooperate in this. The international community has long sought to promote change in South Africa by peaceful means.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“Everything this Council does or says must be tested against that criterion: does it help the process of negotiation to resume; does it help create an environment in South Africa propitious to an early and successful conclusion of those negotiations? The violence which has ruined the lives of so Many South Africans is clearly a major factor cutting across and undermining the progress we wish to encourage. The responsibility for mastering it and for offering all South Africans security and protection is obviously a task for South Africans themselves, primarily for the Government and the police, but also for all those whose position in South African society gives them influence and authority.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“It also removed South Africa from the agenda of the Security Council, perhaps one of the most hopeful signs of all, because it meant that the problems and the future of South Africa were being addressed by South Africans themselves and not just through a process of coercion by the outside world. Now South Africa is back on our agenda and that is no cause for rejoicing anywhere. It is there because the hopeful progress towards a new South Africa has faltered in the past few weeks. In the view of my Government, the objective of this debate and of the draft resolution we will adopt must be to help that progress to resume and to come to a negotiated conclusion.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“Not the least momentous of the fundamental changes reshaping the world in the last few years was the decision by the rulers of South Africa to turn away from the morally unacceptable and politically bankrupt dead end of apartheid and to seek a new future for their country through negotiations involving all its peoples. That process began with the release of Mr. Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners, for which all our Governments had striven for so long. It continued through the progressive legislative dismantling of apartheid and it gathered momentum in this year's negotiations in the Convention for a Democratic South Africa. CODESA brought hope not only to the peoples of South Africa but to all those outside who had wanted to see a peaceful transition to a non-racial democracy.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“We hope that this resolution will be the turning of a corner, that all will now come back to the conference table and that we can settle down there and work out the successor arrangements to a very complex crisis, but a crisis from which the United Nations, as an essential part of the solution, cannot walk away. We will support its efforts ona continuing basis.”
1992-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3082 (1992) · source
“These Sanctions, as the resolution says, are designed purely and simply to try to bring about a peaceful solution; to bring the parties back to the negotiating table: to get them off the battlefield; to bring home to them that this is a bankrupt policy, that it will lead nowhere. My Government has no quarrel with the people of Serbia. They have been our allies in war: we have worked with them in peace; and we have nothing but respect for them. But the path on which their leaders are embarked now is a path that offers no solutions. And there is no way in which the future of the Serbian populations of Croatia, of Bosnia and Herzegovina and of Serbia itself is going to be assured by policies like these.”
1992-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3082 (1992) · source
“And that cannot be ducked; it is simply no good suggesting that they have nothing to do with the events that are going on in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Multiple-rocket launchers are not found in Serbian peasants' barns. They are provided from the supplies of the Yugoslav national army. They are munitioned from their supplies of ammunition. They are fuelled; they are paid for. That is where they come from. If the authorities in Belgrade really wanted us to believe their protestations of innocence, I doubt if they would be bombarding Dubrovnik today. They must think we are very stupid people indeed. That is what has brought this Council to the matter of sanctions.”
1992-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3082 (1992) · source
“It is facing many difficult tasks now, but heaven knows what the carnage would be like if it were not there. So we wish all those involved in that thankless task the best, and we hope that UNPROFOR will continue and pursue its efforts. Several speakers in the Council have mentioned that the responsibility for these events in Yugoslavia is shared among Many. That is indeed the case, and I think it is extremely important and very good that the Council in its resolution today has underlined the fact that it intends to ensure that there is compliance by all with the principles set out in resolution 752 (1992). It is extremely important to maintain that. But having said that, there is really no doubt at all where the principal responsibility now lies: with the authorities, civil and military, in Belgrade.”
1992-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3082 (1992) · source
“It is a matter for the greatest regret that so far those efforts have been to no avail. It is sometimes fashionable to decry those efforts. Personally, I render tribute to those who put so much time and effort into them: to the European Community monitors, some of whom have died in their performance of the task, which is an ungrateful one. I think it really bears out a truth: that just as the peace-keepers find difficulty in keeping the peace if there is no peace to keep, the peacemakers find difficulty in making peace if there is not the minimum of cooperation with their efforts. And there has not, unfortunately, been that minimum of cooperation with their efforts so far. The United Nations has had the same experience, and the deployment of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) is something we support very firmly.”
1992-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3082 (1992) · source
“Mr. President, it is not, I think, entirely fair that you had to wait until the second-to-last day of the month before we congratulated you and your two predecessors on your performance, but the nature of this debate, and its preparation, are, I think, a sign of your skill. The debate we are having today is not the first time we have discussed the matter of Yugoslavia. My country has been involved from the very beginning - since the crisis began very nearly a year ago - in the efforts to achieve a peaceful settlement to the problems that have arisen in that country. We have not spared our efforts, through the European Community, through the peace conference under Lord Carrington, through the monitoring missions, through the constitutional conference in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
1992-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3082 (1992) · source