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first: 1998-08-27
most recent: 2002-10-16
sittings or episodes: 15
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“The Security Council's work and resolutions cannot be respected or complied with by Member States unless they reflect the will of the majority of Member States. This is embodied in Article 25 of the Charter, which states that Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the present Charter. The starting point is the reform of the Security Council itself - in particular, and in a speedy fashion,its working procedures. Its procedures and methods of work must ensure that the Council's decisions reflect the will of the majority of the Member States represented in the General Assembly. It is perhaps useful here to recall that many speakers today, as well as the Secretary-General, emphasized this point.”
1999-11-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4072 (1999) · source
“The Security Council's deviation from its mandate or non-compliance with the principles set forth in the Charter could, indeed, undermine the credibility of the Council if a larger United Nations membership felt that the Security Council was not acting on its behalf, nor in its collective interest, but rather was acting in the interest of a few Member States or a single State. In addition, the preservation - indeed, the enhancement - of the credibility of the Council depends on total compliance with international law as well as with international treaties and conventions. International understandings established by consensus or in the form of international instruments of a universal character are the true expression of the will of the international community.”
1999-11-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4072 (1999) · source
“The Security Council fulfils its responsibility on behalf of all Member States and in their collective interest, and not on behalf of or in the interest of one or some of the members of the Council. I feel the need to state and to clarify the terms of reference of the Security Council as a primary organ of the United Nations system: compliance with the mandate delineated by the United Nations Member States in the Charter and adherence to the purposes and principles set forth in the Charter are the only admissible legal basis accepted by Member States for the functions of the Council.”
1999-11-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4072 (1999) · source
“Under Article 24 of the Charter, Members of the United Nations have entrusted the Security Council with the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, and Member States agree that the Council, in carrying out its duties under this responsibility, act on their behalf. In discharging these duties, the Security Council shall act in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Nations and the powers vested in the Security Council. Hence, the mandate for maintenance of international peace and security is a joint responsibility of the General Assembly and the Security Council. Thus, the primary responsibility for maintenance of international peace and security is not an exclusive function of the Security Council.”
1999-11-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4072 (1999) · source
“The principles governing the work of the United Nations and its organs are set forth in Article 2 of the Charter, which provides for, inter alia, the sovereign equality of all its Members, settlement of disputes by peaceful means, Members' refraining from the threat or use of force in their international relations and non- interference in the internal affairs of States. The Charter entrusts the maintenance of international peace and security to both the General Assembly and the Security Council. Under Article 11, paragraph 1, the General Assembly may consider the general principles of cooperation in the maintenance of international peace and security, and it may make recommendations with regard to such principles to its Members, to the Security Council or to both.”
1999-11-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4072 (1999) · source
“One of the main purposes of the United Nations as a whole, as defined in Article 1, paragraph 1, of the Charter, is the maintenance of international peace and security. That paragraph also provides that to that end, a purpose of the United Nations is "to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace".”
1999-11-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4072 (1999) · source
“Mr. Dorda (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)(spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to express my congratulations to you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month and on your wise leadership of the Council. I would also like to express our gratitude to your predecessor, Ambassador Lavrov, and the members of his delegation for his able and successful stewardship of the Council during the past month. An extremely important matter is before the Council today - namely, the role and contribution of the Security Council in achieving a fundamental objective of the United Nations: the prevention of armed conflicts. Like any other organ of the United Nations system, the Security Council is governed and guided by the purposes and principles of the United Nations, as set out in Articles 1 and 2 of the Charter.”
1999-11-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4072 (1999) · source
“Eighth, the Security Council must not be subjected to pressure from some countries to adopt resolutions imposing sanctions, and it must end such sanctions, as in the case of my country, which has been unjustly treated. Africa needs concrete actions to be taken to help it heal its wounds and achieve economic, political and social progress. We hope that this discussion will lead to that outcome without any delay.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source
“Fifth, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) must finance infrastructure projects in Africa, such as railroads and highways, and also develop port systems and electrical grids. Sixth, support should be given to the present economic groupings and the economic institutions that the special African summit in Sirte has decided to establish. Seventh, abandonment of the market economy system. Most of the countries on the continent do not have an economy or a market that conforms to current economic concepts. We must also abandon the cliched policies of the IMF, which were created and distributed to all countries without taking into account differences.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source
“Fourth, with respect to development, the following steps should be taken. First, Africa's debts should be cancelled. Second, an international technical training programme should be set up. Third, the United Nations Development Programme must prepare studies on agricultural projects that would maximize food and agricultural production. Africa would contribute to these projects through its natural and human resources, and international investment firms would provide financing and technical know-how. Fourth, the United Nations Development Programme must prepare studies on industrial projects for manufacturing basic commodities - agricultural and mineral - where Africa again would contribute raw materials and human resources, and the international investment firms would provide financing and technical know-how in a fair manner applied to all.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source
“Therefore, if the United Nations wishes to help Africa with respect to democracy, it can do the following: first, refrain from imposing a particular model of democracy and respect the choice of peoples, their history, their particularities and their level of development; second, affirm that any formula to be followed must guarantee freedom, the rule of law, rights and rotation by free popular choice at the local and central level; and, third, invite all Member States to respect these fundamentals and deal with African and other countries economically and politically without the imposition of any formulas or conditions. In addition, international financial institutions and others must not impose any conditions that would prejudice the choice of peoples in governing themselves.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source
“Only recently generals ruled Portugal, Spain, Greece and other countries in the European Continent. The attempts to impose multiparty systems or parliamentary democracies were among the reasons for the many conflicts that have taken place in African countries. In Africa, belonging to a tribe or a religious sect is much stronger than belonging to a political party or having any intellectual or political affiliation. Political parties in Africa are made up of tribes, religious sects or geographic groups - in Somalia, Rwanda and other countries where there are internal or regional conflicts.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source
“There is absolutely no question about the importance and necessity of democracy, but where disagreements arise is when we try to impose a particular model on societies, no matter how alien such a model is to them from the perspective of history or practicality. To ignore the level and degree of cultural and historical development of societies is to ignore reality and the objective considerations that have formed the particularities of these societies. To try to make reality fit a prefabricated formula is akin to forcing someone into a suit made for someone else. If we were to recall what happened in most industrial societies or so-called democracies only a few decades ago, we would realize that those generations that survived two of the largest wars in this century had not known or even expected the freedoms and rights that exist now.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source
“In addition to the United Nations, all countries and international organizations, governmental and non-governmental, foundations, companies and individuals should provide contributions, financial and in kind, to this humanitarian work. Third, turning to democracy, I would like to note that the meaning of that word, according to its Greek origin, is government by the people. Peoples have the right to govern themselves. Indeed, it is their duty. This means that no one has the right to impose on Africa their own formula for democracy. To achieve democracy, we must take into consideration many objective considerations: political, economic, social, educational and cultural. Some of these considerations are historical and others are still relevant today.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source
“This should be done in accordance with the formula adopted by the OAU without any fundamental or substantive changes, as has happened in regional conflicts where the Council adopted draft resolutions submitted to it by the geographical groups where these conflicts took place. The United Nations should also finance what is needed for the implementation of these resolutions. Second, with respect to health, an urgent international programme should be set up under the auspices of the United Nations and the OAU, supervised by the World Health Organization, to deal with AIDS treatment, prevention and awareness. This disease threatens the entire continent and must be swiftly dealt with through an international plan of action. It should also adopt a similar international programme against malaria and other endemic diseases.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source
“Angola also is abandoned, except for the provision of weapons and ammunition to the intransigent warring parties. Where is the United Nations when it comes to the Great Lakes, the Horn of Africa and West Africa, except, of course, for the representatives of the United Nations and their reports? The Council has never adopted any resolutions that had any practical effect on them. Africa's wounds cannot be healed by good intentions, statements, public debates or even closed sessions. Africa looks to the United Nations to take concrete action on the urgent and persistent issues. Let me briefly address these. First, with respect to conflicts, it should endorse the studies or decisions that the Organization of African Unity (OAU) has arrived at through the efforts or mediation by African countries.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source
“We see them take boisterous action when other regions are concerned while they spend without limit. Even worse, African countries are forced to pay for this spending lest they be deprived of the right to vote. There are many well-known examples, and the Secretary-General mentioned some of them at yesterday's meeting. The Secretary-General has done his duty according to his terms of reference. He has sent emissaries and representatives and has established ad hoc groups. He has submitted reports and made suggestions and even demands. But he does not have competence to issue resolutions. The United Nations withdrew from Somalia and let it drown in its conflicts and fade into oblivion. The Somali people are being killed and displaced and their territory is being divided.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source
“These actions are for us daily acts and are an integral part of our shared responsibility. At these sorts of meetings, some see an opportunity to continue, to a boring degree, to remind Africa of what they have offered to and spent on the continent. We Africans are not very happy about being constantly reminded that we owe those countries a debt of gratitude, and we are not very happy that those countries have no objective other than winning African votes. We would be happier if an end could be put to recalling this debt of gratitude, which so provokes our feelings and our dignity - in particular as we have not forgotten the fact that what has been taken from us is almost impossible to compensate for. It is unnerving for Africa that the United Nations and the rich and powerful States do not give it anything other than words.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source
“We also thank the Secretary-General, who single- handedly performed his duties on behalf of Africa in the best possible way and within his competence and terms of reference. We have heard many things from those who have taken the floor at this meeting. We will therefore be very brief and not repeat what has already been said. The Libyan Arab Jamahiriya will not go into the details of what it has done for the continent of which it is a part. My country feels that what it has done in Africa - whether during the struggles for liberation from occupation, in the area of reconstruction and development, in stopping bloodshed in all areas of conflict or in preparing Africa to enter the next century unified and on the road to recovery - has been nothing more than its duty.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source
“Mr. Dorda (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me first of all, Mr. President, to extend my thanks to you and to your delegation for your efforts in presiding over the Council this month, which has seen so much activity. We have twice seen the Council hold public meetings this month and we hope that it will not go back to holding meetings behind closed doors as if it were hatching something unacceptable to the international community. The Council works on behalf of the international community, at least in theory. We would also like to pay tribute to the representative of Namibia, Ambassador Andjaba, for his successful presidency over the Council last month.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source
“The fact that some members of the delegation have been in touch with New York should not be a substitute for the mission's collective report, and it seems that they are optimistic that the report would be positive and they would reach some solution with the central authorities in Jakarta that would consolidate peace and security in the region. We should all be careful not to consider peace in East Timor only, but throughout the archipelago of Indonesia, and indeed across the whole globe.”
1999-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4043Resumption1 (1999) · source
“How could I address this issue in humanitarian terms when I address a certain problem and yet I do not act the same when dealing with others. Provocation of Indonesia would not be useful. Threats and coercion against Indonesia, including this very meeting which is, to our mind, a form of pressure, will not prove useful. Rather, this Council should address all acts of Violence, no matter where they might occur, and we should support the Government in transition in Indonesia. Rather than intimidate it, we should cooperate with that Government in order to achieve a result that would endorse the overwhelming result of the ballot there. Therefore, we expect the Council to wait until its mission comes back.”
1999-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4043Resumption1 (1999) · source
“To our mind, that would cast aspersions on the true intentions behind this zeal in addressing the issue. If the intentions of those calls were humanitarian, we would have all supported, indeed strongly supported, all those calls. However, I cannot be acting as a humanitarian in dealing with one issue and not act with the same spirit in dealing with other issues, bloody issues, that are unfolding in other countries. I respect fully the sentiments that were expressed here on humanitarian grounds regarding the political anarchy, or economic chaos - we do not support killing, looting or any acts of this kind. But why do not we demonstrate the same zeal and fervent sentiments, for instance, in dealing with the problems facing the people of Somalia. And the repeated killings - tens, hundreds of thousands of people are killed every day in Iraq.”
1999-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4043Resumption1 (1999) · source
“Those who sincerely and in good faith would like to address this problem must try to help Indonesia and its central Government so that it will reach the final, logical outcome according to its constitution as a sovereign country that will not compromise its sovereignty. But pouring fuel on hot, burning flash points will not achieve positive results and will not lead to a peaceful settlement of the events that are taking place there. In addition, we should not look at any issue without its historic context. Indonesia apparently is quite serious and did not object to anything: the threats of boycotting, or imposing some sanctions - indeed some threats have been waved around even before the Security Council took up this matter. That would be a futile exercise.”
1999-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4043Resumption1 (1999) · source
“Secondly, due attention has not been payed to the social conditions in East Timor, namely that there are two parties who are for independence and another party which is for remaining within a united Indonesia. Of course, we have to look at the problem in its objective framework as an extraordinary and indeed an historic state of affairs and not project the events that are unfolding in East Timor, despite their harshness and despite the fact that no sane person would approve of what has been going on there. I say we must project them in the proper context and as they actually unfolded at the place where the ballot was conducted and where some people supported independence while others did not, and therefore the picture that would emerge would be more realistic than as depicted by some speakers, though not all of them, thank God.”
1999-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4043Resumption1 (1999) · source
“The country is undergoing political and economic restructuring with certain social implications. To be specific, in this transitional stage, the question of East Timor has acquired special dimensions. In accepting the Agreement that was drafted, Indonesia agreed to the holding of a popular consultation and to honour its outcome. That popular consultation was conducted a few days ago, and constitutionally the Indonesian Government and all its authorities must act under that Government's constitutional framework. Unfortunately, we note that there is disregard for a number of factors. First, some have not payed due attention to the fact Indonesia has been undergoing a transition in the full sense of the word.”
1999-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4043Resumption1 (1999) · source
“The first took place under President Sukarno, who relied on the theories of the well-known German economist Hjalmar Schacht; the second took place under President Suharto. I said then that the features of the failure of the second programme seemed to echo those of the first. I hoped at that time that those features of economic collapse would not entail political problems. I also expressed the hope that any such political fallout would not lead to severe social problems with more serious implications. Unfortunately, only four months later, in April 1998, the outcome was very clear to everybody. Demonstrations erupted in the streets of Jakarta and other Indonesian cities, resulting, inter alia, in President Suharto's resignation. In effect, this took Indonesia into a transitional stage that has yet to end.”
1999-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4043Resumption1 (1999) · source
“Mr. Dorda (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your wise leadership of the Council, which we wish full success under your presidency this month. I should also like to convey our thanks and appreciation to the representative of Namibia for his successful stewardship of the Council last month. In January 1998, as Indonesia assumed the presidency of the Group of 77 from Tanzania here at United Nations Headquarters, I had the privilege and honour to be Chairman of the African Group of States, on whose behalf I made a statement on that occasion. I mentioned the fact that Indonesia had launched two economic reform programmes, both of which unfortunately failed.”
1999-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4043Resumption1 (1999) · source
“President, and the members of the Security Council for this opportunity to convey our position and concerns before the Council. In particular, we thank and salute the members of the Security Council that stood by my country in its legitimate stance against injustice and offer them our wholehearted gratitude. We cannot fail to convey our thanks and appreciation to Secretary-General Kofi Annan for his continuing efforts to find a solution to this issue. We reaffirm the importance of his role and reiterate our readiness to cooperate with him in seeking appropriate and practical means to close the file under consideration.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“In conclusion, my country reaffirms its seriousness and eagerness to close this file and open a new page in its relations with the United States and the United Kingdom, based on mutual respect, non-interference in internal affairs, and dialogue and mutual benefit, instead of embargo. We hope that the other party will now show the same eagerness, desire and earnest. We salute the international community and thank it for its consistent and ongoing support. In particular, we thank the international and regional organizations, especially the League of Arab States, the Organization of African Unity, the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the Non- Aligned Movement and all its members, as well as all the States and organizations that supported us within and outside the Security Council. We thank you, Mr.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“Paragraph 7 does not mention Libya or any arrangements with the Netherlands on transferring the two accused; it does not mention their safety or residence or provide any guarantees to them. Paragraph 8 refers to the appearance of the two accused before an appropriate court in the United Kingdom or the United States at any time. While the United States is not party to the agreement with the Netherlands, article 16 (2) of the agreement does provide for the possibility of extraditing the two accused to the United Kingdom. Paragraph 9 pertains to additional measures that may be undertaken; this is particularly worrying, as no dialogue or consultations have taken place with Libya to date.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“Paragraph 4 decides that Libya shall ensure the appearance in the Netherlands of the two accused for the purpose of trial and that it shall present any evidence or witnesses; but it does not provide for any assurances or special arrangements with regard to the two accused or the witnesses. Paragraph 5 requests the Secretary-General to assist Libya with transferring the two accused from Libya to the Netherlands. However, there are no guarantees or arrangements pertaining to the period of the trial itself. Paragraph 6 does not set out the tasks of the international observers, state how many of them there should be or mention the effect that their views may have on the trial.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“Operative paragraph 2 welcomes the letter from the representatives of the United Kingdom and the United States, and also refers to arrangements that took place between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, in which Libya did not participate. Paragraph 3 calls on the Governments of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom to undertake the necessary measures to implement the initiative, without mentioning the United States of America, which might therefore consider that it has not committed itself to any agreement between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“Operative paragraph 1 of the resolution demands once again that the Libyan Government immediately comply with resolutions 731 (1992), 748 (1992) and 883 (1993) and makes no mention at all of Libya's actions in the field of terrorism: its cooperation with the United Kingdom on relations with the Irish Republican Army; the denunciation and condemnation of terrorism; the demand for the dispatch of an international commission to ascertain that Libyan territory does not have any terrorist training camps; the call for the convening of an international conference on terrorism; and judicial cooperation with France to bring to a close an international issue through an investigative judge who expressed his satisfaction for this cooperation in a letter to the Foreign Minister of his country.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“By referring to Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, the fifth preambular paragraph again places the issue outside its proper context, especially since the intervention of the Security Council in this matter may be considered procedural, taking into account the judgment of the International Court of Justice.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“We look forward to closing the entire file on this matter. Libya has proved its seriousness and flexibility throughout every stage. We reaffirm to the Council that we shall remain serious and practical during the next stage. I should like to make several cements about the draft resolution before the Security Council, in order to underline our seriousness and our legitimate concerns. The language of the draft resolution gives legitimacy to our concerns. By recalling previous Security Council resolutions, the first preambular paragraph gives the impression that the resolutions have been implemented neither in part nor in their entirety, although my country has fully responded to those resolutions.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“From today, the issue will return to its original status as a strictly legal matter. The judicial authorities in the two other countries considered the legal aspect of all the documents accompanying the letter from the two States to the Secretary-General, and this was reaffirmed in the statements made by various officials, particularly the statement made a few weeks ago by Ms. Reno, the Attorney-General of the United States of America. Likewise, the Libyan judicial authorities now have the duty and right to consider the different procedural and legal issues pertaining to the different arrangements and judicial aspects. For our part, we are prepared to undertake such considerations either directly with the judicial authorities of the States concerned or through the Secretary-General.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“We believe that this acceptance is a positive step likely to result in a satisfactory and just solution for all to this long- standing dispute - a dispute from which our people, as well as the families of the victims, have suffered. Secondly, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya accepts that the two suspects should be tried in a Scottish court in the Netherlands by Scottish judges, according to Scots law. We reaffirm this position today; we have already stated it, as has been officially recorded in the Security Council. This is a serious, irreversible position. We hope that the other party is also serious in its position. There is still an important issue that must be formally reaffirmed before the Security Council - an issue we have taken up with the Council and with the Secretary-General many times.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“The other party suspended consideration in the Security Council of the two judgments made by the International Court of Justice under the pretext that it required sufficient time for experts to look into the two judgments. The same argument applies today. In the light of what I have said, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya would like to make several comments before the Security Council. First, we welcome the acceptance by the United States of America and the United Kingdom of the proposals already made by the League of Arab States and the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and supported by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Non-Aligned Movement more than four years ago.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“That is what we said last month before expressing our formal position. When expressing those concerns, and before the other party in the dispute had expressed its formal position, it was the intention of my country, as we repeatedly said at the time to the presidency and members of the Security Council and to the Secretary-General, to avoid any difficulties or obstacles that would complicate the issue and return it to the starting point. Our concerns were serious and legitimate. To insist on placing all the parties in a difficult situation, and to impose a requirement for acceptance within hours - despite the fact that there is surely a need for all to have adequate time to examine all the legal documents, which are very complicated - merely adds to both our past and present doubts.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“In the case of acquittal or conviction, what are the responsibilities of the two parties? There are yet other technical issues, and all the judicial authorities in the countries concerned need to come to agreement about these matters. Further, the sanctions must be lifted or suspended at least. No text of any Security Council resolution mentions extraditing suspects to judicial authorities. Who is responsible for such an extradition, and what are the judicial procedures for it? Regional organizations, particularly the Organization of African Unity and the League of Arab States - the originators of various proposals - must play an essential role in the subsequent steps as well as witness all procedures. Finally, the organizations concerned must maintain their positions in order for the two suspects to be tried and sanctions to be lifted.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“Our major fears and concerns in connection with this issue have to do with the Ouagadougou proposals that were put aside, the Non-Aligned Movement summit in South Africa, maintaining sanctions and alienating the international community and regional organizations from Libya. The acceptance of a trial in a neutral country means that judicial authorities in that country are empowered to hold the trial because it is on a pure, technical legal issue. In addition to the law and judges, there are many other very complicated, detailed issues that must be taken up from a strictly judicial point of view. The rights of the two suspects must be maintained and defended at all times. The two States concerned must arrange for extradition. Investigation and trial procedures and judicial background must be set forth.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“We said the same thing to Secretary- General Kofi Annan during a meeting held for that purpose alone. We also expressed this position in our letter to the members of the Security Council and the members of the five-, six- and seven-member committees created by the Organization of African Unity, the Non- Aligned Movement and the Arab League on the subject. That letter expressed our major fears and concerns pertaining to the Lockerbie issue. The United States and the United Kingdom have expressed their official position pertaining to the trial of the two suspects in The Hague; however, the following comments are very important in judging the seriousness of their commitment to justice.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“When the other side finally agreed to our proposal last Monday, it added a number of legal documents to it and expected my country, the Security Council and the international community to agree within hours to what had been delayed for many years. Tenth, on the basis of our experience with the other side - experience going back well before this dispute - we have had substantive fears ever since the declaration made in The Guardian on 21 July 1998, which was followed by formal declarations on the issue. We do not say this today only. We said it that same week to the President of the Security Council for July, Ambassador Lavrov, and we said it to all the members of the Security Council, with whom we requested a meeting and did meet during that period.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“Seventh, after all that time, in View of those developments, the other side finally stated that it would agree to a trial being held in a third country. Three days ago, on Monday, 24 August, a draft resolution was placed before the Security Council. On Wednesday, the draft was formally introduced in the Council, and a vote was requested for today. Eighth, Libya received the text of the letter to the Secretary-General from the other parties and the accompanying documents on the evening of Monday, 24 August, three days ago. It was asked to express its agreement even before those documents were translated into Arabic. Ninth, Libya and the international community had been waiting for years for responses to their proposals.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“On 27 February 1998 the International Court of Justice issued a judgment against the United States of America and Great Britain, reasserting its jurisdiction over the case on the basis of the 1971 Montreal Convention arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie, and rejecting the appeal put forward by the two other States contesting that jurisdiction. Strong support for the Libyan position was expressed by the international community during the plenary meeting of the Security Council on 20 March 1998. Despite the complete disregard of all the proposals, initiatives and appeals it had made over the past few years, the Organization of African Unity issued a declaration in Ouagadougou. The ministerial summit of the Non-Aligned Movement held in Cartagena made a recommendation on the issue.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“Fifth, as the international community sees the justice of Libya's case, and since it cares enough about the United Nations to prevent the Security Council from being used for political purposes, particularly given the absence of a balance within the Organization during this decade - regional organizations put forward a number of proposals and undertook a number of initiatives during the past seven years. Those proposals and initiatives, however, were completely disregarded by the other two parties to the dispute. Sixth, in the face of that disregard, regional and international organizations have been compelled to develop their positions, urging the Security Council - which under the Charter acts on behalf of the international community - to impose its will.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“Second, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya immediately lodged a protest with the International Court of Justice in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations. Third, the Security Council thereafter adopted resolution 748 (1992) and then resolution 883 (1993), which imposed an embargo on Libya, under Chapter VII of the Charter, but in contravention of the Charter, and on the basis of resolution 731 (1992), which is also in contravention of the Charter. Fourth, there have been many developments regarding this matter over the past seven years. Libya has continued to suffer from an embargo based on the law of the jungle instead of on legitimate legal authority.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source
“Mr. Dorda (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (interpretation from Arabic): At the outset, it is my pleasure to extend my congratulations to you, Sir, on your presidency of the Security Council for this month. I must also express our appreciation to Ambassador Lavrov of the Russian Federation for his successful leadership of the Council's deliberations last month. First, merely because two persons were suspected, without any evidence, in connection with an incident that took place many years ago and that did not threaten international peace and security, the Security Council adopted resolution 731 (1992) in clear contravention of paragraph 3 of Article 27 of the Charter, as well as of Articles 32, 33 and 36.”
1998-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3920 (1998) · source