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Dorani

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1993-03-12
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1995-05-16
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  1. “I should simply like to say that Israel must take advantage of its enormous power and not put it at the service of a policy based on expropriation, annexation and humiliation, but, rather, use it for tolerance, acceptance and good-neighbourliness. When one is strong and, above all, when one considers the future, one must comfort, assist and share with one's neighbour. The example of Europe after the Second World War is a good lesson. The prophets of Israel also taught us that lesson, and let us recall that they are our own prophets as well. Finally, the Government of Israel must recognize one thing: without a just and lasting peace with the Palestinian people and its leadership, there will never be peace in the Middle East.”

    1995-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption2 (1995) · source

  2. “To judge by facts, the Palestinian leaders - first and foremost, Chairman Arafat - unlike the Israeli leadership, have a burning desire for that peace, as they have demonstrated on many occasions. To be sure, the people of Palestine is today weak, but it has held out its hand to the people of Israel, which is very strong and powerful. To be sure, Mr. Ambassador, you have won almost all the wars. To be sure, you are a regional Power. To be sure, you are a great force on the international stage. But allow me to remind you of what has become of peoples just as strong and civilizations just as powerful in the past. We do not know what the future might hold for us. How many weak peoples later became powerful - and vice versa? In saying this, I should like to be perfectly clear: I wish no ill to anyone - in this case, the people of Israel.”

    1995-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption2 (1995) · source

  3. “The Council must not ignore that feeling and must respond appropriately. The Council has before it a moderate and balanced draft resolution that will no doubt contribute to calming nerves and relaunching negotiations - but this time in a spirit of sincerity. Djibouti expects that at the end of this debate the Council will adopt that draft resolution. I should like to conclude my statement with the following very sincere remarks directed to the Ambassador of Israel. The sons of Ishmael - one may sometimes lose sight of the fact that they are your cousins - genuinely want peace, but not just any kind of peace. They want a just and lasting peace - the peace of the brave, as General de Gaulle called it. I am sure that the sons of Isaac also want peace.”

    1995-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption2 (1995) · source

  4. “No land has been or will be confiscated to establish new settlements." (S/PV.3505, p- 8) I leave it to the Council to judge what happened afterwards. Israel cannot have it both ways, both peace and land. The pursuit of the establishment of new settlements and acts of confiscation and expropriation of Arab land, especially in East Jerusalem and its environs, can only serve to block the peace process. Such a policy and such actions contravene international law, the resolutions of the General Assembly and the Security Council, the Fourth Geneva Convention, of 1949, and the Declaration of Principles signed in Washington. Members of the Council are aware that a widespread, generalized feeling of disenchantment, disapproval and condemnation has come over the Islamic Arab and Christian Arab world.”

    1995-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption2 (1995) · source

  5. “The historical irony is that this principle, contained in resolution 242 (1967) and still cherished by Israel until a short time ago, has recently been rejected by that country, to the detriment of the Palestinians living in the West Bank and in Gaza. On Sunday the Israeli Cabinet decided not to confiscate any more Arab land. In this respect I should like to cite the statement made to the Council by the Ambassador of Israel, Mr. Yaacobi, on 28 February 1995. On the subject of settlements, he stated, "Immediately after the present Government of Israel was formed in July 1992, it substantially changed Israel's settlement policy The Government stopped allocating public resources to support the extension of existing settlements.”

    1995-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption2 (1995) · source

  6. “On the other hand, we have the Israeli Government - although we are sometimes told that it is not the Government but rather a very powerful and influential part of the Israeli political class - and not the people of Israel, because, fortunately, certainly not the whole population of Israel shares the points of view of its Government on problems such as expropriation and annexation, and therefore on expansion. To judge by the facts, it would seem today that the Government of Israel has gone back on its acceptance of General Assembly resolution 181 (II), and by so doing it denies the Palestinian people the right to live in peace within its future boundaries, implicitly recognized in that resolution.”

    1995-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption2 (1995) · source

  7. “On the one hand, we have a people that is utterly exhausted, that has not yet come to the end of a long and painful road punctuated with destruction and massacres such as those of Deir Yassin and Sabra and Shatila, to cite but two examples; a people that, even before it had created its own State, had already recognized the State that was occupying it, and the principles of peaceful coexistence and good- neighbourliness, by accepting resolution 242 (1967); a people whose only fault, if I may so describe it, is that it aspires to live in peace in its own independent State, that is to be.”

    1995-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption2 (1995) · source

  8. “It is now Israel's turn to wake up to existing facts and realities - facts and realities that can never now be got around. It is now Israel's turn to think hard about all the lessons of the past by formally and unambiguously accepting the division that it accepted in 1948 - to accept that same division, in other words, to accept, to the east of its own 1967 frontiers, its future neighbouring State, the State of Palestine. One has the impression that today we are reliving the same scenario as 47 years ago, but with the important difference that there has been a kind of switch or role reversal.”

    1995-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption2 (1995) · source

  9. “However, the descendants of the Canaanites, who had inhabited that land for thousands of years, namely, the indigenous populations of those regions - the Palestinians - supported by other Arab States, rejected the resolution, and rightly so: they felt wronged and usurped, and therefore refused to be content with a part of the territory. We know what happened next: destruction and misery for all the peoples of the region, in particular for the Palestinian people who, with the signing in Washington of the Declaration of Principles to some extent went back on their original decision by accepting the division of their country, which would beyond doubt enable them, sooner or later, to establish at last their own independent and democratic State, with East Jerusalem as its capital.”

    1995-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption2 (1995) · source

  10. “For the peace that is so ardently desired in that part of the world has unfortunately just been cast back into the balance by the regrettable behaviour of one party, namely, Israel, the occupying Power. Forty-seven years ago, the General Assembly took a decision through its resolution 181 (II) to establish two States in Palestine under British mandate: the State of Israel and the Arab State of Palestine. The Jews living under that mandate accepted the resolution and established their own State on 14 May 1948.”

    1995-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption2 (1995) · source

  11. “Mr. Dorani (Djibouti) (interpretation from French): I should like first of all, Sir, to congratulate you on your accession to the presidency of the Security Council for the month of May. Having worked with you and your delegation during the last two years in the Council, we know you to be a skilled and experienced diplomat whose upstanding nature, loyalty and human warmth will ensure the Council's success. I should also like to thank your predecessor, Ambassador Kovanda, for the outstanding way in which he guided the work of the Council last month. I should like to say that my brief statement is intended to be frank and direct and will in no way try to shock anyone's sensibilities. That said, yet again the Council has before it the question of Palestine, which shows how serious the matter is.”

    1995-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption2 (1995) · source

  12. “Thank you for everything that you intend to do and that you are still endeavouring to do to restore civil peace and stability in Somalia." Without wishing to shock anyone, I will say that the consideration of the Somali question by the Security Council was due in part to the Secretary-General; thanks to the Secretary-General, an entire people was saved from disaster, and we are very happy that the image of an emaciated child will no longer appear on the CNN television screens.”

    1994-11-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3447 (1994) · source

  13. “We wish to express our sincere condolences to the Governments and the families of those who have lost their lives in Somalia; their sacrifice will be for ever in our memories. I wish to thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Boutros- Ghali, in these terms. As a person with Somali blood in his veins, I say to him very humbly: "Thank you, thank you, thank you for everything you have done for this people.”

    1994-11-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3447 (1994) · source

  14. “Considerable progress has been made in this field, even in such sectors of production as agriculture and livestock, when we consider the state of the country two years ago. At a time when Arabs and Israelis are sitting down together, when South Africans, black and white, are building a new nation together, it is sad for us to see the only nation in the true sense of the term, in sub-Saharan Africa being destroyed by its sons. In conclusion, I wish to pay tribute to the efforts undertaken by the Unified Task Force (UNITAF), by all of the civilian and military personnel of UNOSOM and by the non-governmental organizations, which continue to work in difficult circumstances.”

    1994-11-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3447 (1994) · source

  15. “The Somali people, well known for their proud character and hospitality, do not deserve to be dragged down and reduced to a state of begging and to be made an object of endless pity, as you have done to them." We wish to address their conscience, if they still have one, to say to them: "Forget the deadly errors of the past and take advantage of lessons learned. Put aside your constricting nationalism and tribalism, and think now about the future, about the common interest and the general good of the Somali people, toward whom the international community in general and the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM) in particular have carried out such noble and praiseworthy work." All the information coming from Somalia is in agreement on one point: the humanitarian situation is quite satisfactory.”

    1994-11-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3447 (1994) · source

  16. “In adopting the draft resolution before it, the Security Council will be addressing to all parties, all movements and all factions in Somalia the clearest and strongest possible message, making it clear to them that the time has come for them to abide by Council decisions and to seize the opportunity of this last chance being offered them. We wish to warn those who claim, rightly or wrongly, to be the leaders of these factions against mistakes and horrors fatal to this long-awaited peace. We say to them: "You have held an entire population hostage to your madness and your animal instincts long enough. You have humiliated your women and your children long enough.”

    1994-11-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3447 (1994) · source

  17. “Mr. Dorani (Djibouti) (interpretation from French): My delegation is pleased to have this opportunity to congratulate you, Madam President, on your election to the presidency of the Security Council. We are certain that all members of the Council share the trust we have in you and in your experience. We also wish to pay a well-deserved tribute to the delegation of the United Kingdom, led by its Permanent Representative, Sir David Hannay, for the remarkable work it accomplished last month. Without going into detail, I wish to extend warm thanks to the Security Council mission to Somalia and to state in this connection that my delegation fully shares the views expressed in the oral report.”

    1994-11-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3447 (1994) · source

  18. “Finally, we draw the attention of the international community to the humanitarian aspect of this tragedy and urge it to redouble its efforts to provide the necessary assistance. I cannot conclude my statement without expressing my delegation's gratitude for the efforts being made by the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the facilitator country Tanzania, the countries of the region and by France, whose initiative in March last year in bringing before the Security Council the question of the situation in Rwanda, may bring about an effective political settlement of this tragedy.”

    1994-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3358 (1994) · source

  19. “It is also necessary, according to the Secretary- General's report, for 45 additional police officers to be deployed in the nine provinces as soon as possible, to assist the national police force, which is short of manpower and materiel, in maintaining law and order, and at the same time to restore confidence on the part of the civilian population, the more since the cost is negligible, there is every reason to carry out this operation. My delegation is concerned that the Arusha Peace Agreement be rapidly implemented, given the six-week period which the Security Council has established for reviewing the situation in the country. It is our hope that in implementing this agreement, which we hope will be implemented without hindrance, the Republic of Rwanda will find civil peace in accordance with the wish of its people and Government.”

    1994-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3358 (1994) · source

  20. “Boutros-Ghali, and his staff in their ceaseless attempts to reconcile the positions of the parties concerned in order to achieve lasting peace in Rwanda. Djibouti will vote for the draft resolution, although we would have wished to see the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) extended for six months; we consider such an extension necessary - vital even - given the situation in the country, for all the transitional institutions to be established. Nevertheless, we hope that the process under way, which is in itself positive - the cease-fire has held, dialogue has not been broken off and the preparations for disengagement, demobilization and integration of the armed forces are at an advanced stage - will have a positive outcome.”

    1994-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3358 (1994) · source

  21. “Mr. Dorani (Djibouti) (interpretation from French): I should like to congratulate you most sincerely, Sir, on behalf of the delegation of Djibouti, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of April. I am convinced that under your leadership, thanks to your great diplomatic experience and talents, the work of the Council will be fruitful. I am also pleased to be able to pay a well-deserved tribute to the French delegation, and first and foremost to Ambassador Merimee, for the wise, competent and genial manner in which he led the Council last month in its work, which was successful. I convey to him my delegation's gratitude. The delegation of Djibouti notes with great appreciation the constructive role being played by the Secretary-General, Mr.”

    1994-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3358 (1994) · source

  22. “We express the wish that, in the implementation of this agreement - without, we hope, any obstacles - the Republic of Rwanda will regain the civil peace desired so much by its people and its Government. I cannot conclude my statement without expressing my delegation's gratitude to France, which, through its initiative, contributed - in close cooperation with the Organization of African Unity, the African members of the Security Council, and indeed the caucus of non-alagned countries in the Council - to the preparation of a balanced text, which has gained the support of all the members of the Council.”

    1993-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3183 (1993) · source

  23. “When national sentiment degenerates into nationalism - that is, into a form of collective selfishness -- and liberates a devastating force, as history and the events of the present day in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina have so well and so tragically demonstrated, I am deeply convinced that we Africans, like the Europeans or the European Community, could not only transcend national sentiments but. also exorcise nationalistic demons thanks to a policy of integration in many areas." The delegation of my country welcomes the dispatch by the Secretary-General of a good-offices mission to Rwanda. We also welcome the role played by the Organization of African Unity in the settlement of conflicts in Africa, particularly in Rwanda, through the dispatch of observers.”

    1993-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3183 (1993) · source

  24. “The agreement recently concluded in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, between the Government of Rwanda and the Patriotic Front, followed today by the adoption of the draft resolution before us, which seeks the strengthening of peace in Rwanda through the dispatch of an international force, demonstrates to the international community that the African States want no more of these wars - these wars that too often are imposed by internecine quarrels emanating above all from persons motivated by selfishness and cheuvinism. As the President of our Republic, El Hadj Hassan Ghouled Aptidon, said so rightly in September last before the African Group in New York: "It is true that the large amount of energy - whether in Africa or elsewhere - generated from national sentiments can be the best or the worst of things.”

    1993-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3183 (1993) · source

  25. “Each time a conflict ends in Africa and achieves its initial solution through the beginning of dialogue, and therefore through understanding and tolerance, the delegation of Djibouti cannot but rejoice at this triumph: the triumph of frank, sincere and wise words over aggression and hatred ~ indeed, the triumph over weapons and, so to speak, the animal instinct.”

    1993-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3183 (1993) · source

  26. “Mr. DORANI (Djibouti) (interpretation from French): I should like first to join preceding speakers in congratulating you, Sir, on your accession to the presidency of the Security Council. I wish to thank your predecessor, Ambassador Snoussi of Morocco on the excellent work he did in the Security Council last month and the remarkable way in which he presided over our meetings. The deterioration of the situation in Rwanda is a threat to the peace and security of the region. That is why we supported the various requests for an immediate meeting of the Security Council to examine the means that could ensure, first and foremost, the cessation of fighting, thereby sparing that fraternal country further sorrow and suffering. The spectre of Somalia still haunts our minds.”

    1993-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3183 (1993) · source