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De Araujo Castro

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60
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1993-02-22
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1994-02-04
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un-security-council

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  1. “We share the hope that the remaining party may soon agree to that package so that work can start on its full implementation. With the resolution we have just adopted, which extends the mandate of UNPROFOR until 30 June 1993, the Security Council takes a limited but important step forward in demonstrating the continued commitment of the international community to the achievement of a lasting peace in all of the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Brazil contributes personnel to UNPROFOR and attaches special importance to the fact that in the resolution adopted today the Security Council reiterates its determination to ensure the security of UNPROFOR and its freedom of movement. Under most trying and dangerous circumstances, UNPROFOR personnel have given inspiring examples of courage and dedication.”

    1993-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3189 (1993) · source

  2. “Brazil welcomes the adoption by the Security Council of resolution 815 (1993). The situation in many parts of the territory of the former Yugoslavia, where the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) is currently deployed, is still critical, and much remains to be done in the context of the peace talks and by the United Nations, and mainly by the peoples directly involved, before peace can be restored in that region. My delegation takes this opportunity to pay tribute to the Co-Chairmen of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, Mr. Vance and Lord Owen, whose untiring dedication and diplomatic skills led to the assembly of a broad and well-crafted peace package, which constitutes the best hope for attaining a negotiated solution to the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1993-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3189 (1993) · source

  3. “In this rapidly changing world, we consider it increasingly important to promote the rule of law in international relations by acting to ensure strict respect for the provisions of our Charter and other norms of international law.”

    1993-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3175 (1993) · source

  4. “Especially when the Council is being increasingly called upon to fully exercise the considerable powers entrusted to it, the definition of such powers must be construed strictly on the basis of the text of the relevant Charter provisions. To go beyond that would be legally inconsistent and politically unwise. The Security Council can and should play a strong and positive role in promoting the implementation of the various elements that would contribute to the peace efforts developed by the Conference on the Former Yugoslavia. That role, however, can and should remain within the scope of the powers expressly granted to the Security Council in accordance with the United Nations Charter.”

    1993-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3175 (1993) · source

  5. “Just as the authority of the Council does not spring from the Council itself but derives from the fact that certain responsibilities have been conferred upon it by all the Members of the United Nations, the powers of the Council cannot be created, recreated or reinterpreted creatively by decisions of the Council itself, but must be based invariably on specific Charter provisions. It is precisely because the Council exercises a delegated responsibility in a field as politically sensitive as the maintenance of international peace and security that the task of interpreting its competences calls for extreme caution, in particular when invoking language of Chapter VII of the Charter.”

    1993-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3175 (1993) · source

  6. “As regards the definition of the best method for the establishment of an ad-hoc international criminal tribunal, it should be borne in mind that the authority of the Security Council is not self-constituted but originates from a delegation of powers by the whole membership of the Organization. It is never too much to recall that the Security Council, in the exercise of its responsibilities, acts on behalf of the States Members of the United Nations, in accordance with Article 24, paragraph 1, of the Charter.”

    1993-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3175 (1993) · source

  7. “It is in that spirit that we will vote in favour of the draft resolution before the Security Council. We will support, and we stand ready to contribute to, the work to be carried out by the Secretary-General in elaborating specific proposals and options for the implementation of the decision to be taken today. It is of particular importance that the international tribunal to be established rest on a solid legal foundation, which will ensure the effectiveness of its actions. To that end, we believe that in dealing with many of the issues at hand, it should prove useful to draw on the studies and discussions that over the years have been undertaken within the United Nations on the exceedingly complex legal question of an international criminal jurisdiction.”

    1993-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3175 (1993) · source

  8. “These grave breaches of the most elementary norms of humanity must be treated as what in fact they are: criminal acts, crimes against women and children and other defenceless victims, but also, in the most proper sense of the expression, crimes against humanity. A cry for justice breaks from every heart, and that cry cannot go unheeded. Brazil favours strong action to ensure the full ascertainment of the truth about each of the cases of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Convinced that effective prosecution and punishment of the perpetrators of these crimes is a matter of high moral duty, Brazil supports the establishment of an international criminal tribunal to bring to justice the individuals found to be responsible for such abominable acts.”

    1993-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3175 (1993) · source

  9. “It is with deep sorrow and concern that the Brazilian Government, and Brazilian society at large, have received the repeated news of unspeakable atrocities committed within the context of this senseless conflict on European soil, which must be brought to an end. The information gathered by the Commission of Experts established pursuant to Security Council resolution 780 (1992) and by the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights have provided substantial evidence of grave breaches of humanitarian law being committed on a massive scale and in a systematic fashion. These include reports of mass killings, torture, rape and the unacceptable practices that are referred to by the egually unacceptable expression "ethnic cleansing". The international community cannot allow this to continue or to go unpunished.”

    1993-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3175 (1993) · source

  10. “Mr. President, allow me to begin by congratulating you on the able and effective manner in which you have been conducting the work of the Security Council. Allow me, also, to express our recognition to Ambassador Yoshio Hatano of Japan for his accomplishments as President of the Council for the month of January. I have been instructed to make the following statement in connection with the draft resolution we are about to adopt. The serious violations of international humanitarian law which have been taking piace in the territory of the former Yugoslavia have outraged the conscience of humanity.”

    1993-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3175 (1993) · source