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Erdos

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first: 1992-01-21
most recent: 1998-03-31
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“It approves the Peace Plan for the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina; reaffirms the need to restore fully the territorial integrity of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina; and decides to ensure full respect for the safe areas mentioned in Security Council resolution 824 (1993), which, let us recall, declares safe areas, in addition to the areas explicitly mentioned, other threatened areas as well, We voted in favour of resolution 836 (1993) because we understand it as authorizing the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) to resort to force in response to bombardments of safe areas or armed incursions or if there are deliberate impediments in or around those areas to the freedom of movement of UNPROFOR or protected humanitarian convoys.”
1993-06-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3228 (1993) · source
“This resolution treats only the symptoms, because it does not give a fully convincing response to the key issue, at present, in the Bosnian conflict: reversing the results of the aggression which has been carried out with impunity in that country. Hungary voted in favour of resolution 836 (1993) because it reaffirms once again the illegality and inadmissibility of any acquisition of territory by force. It reaffirms that the concept of safe areas, is in mo way an end in itself, but rather represents a temporary measure, which is part and parcel of the Vance-Owen process. The resolution emphasizes, among the principles for a lasting solution to the conflict, withdrawal from territories acquired by force and the invalidation of the results of "ethnic cleansing".”
1993-06-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3228 (1993) · source
“How can one be sure that the establishment of safe areas is in no way an action that might undermine the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina or give recognition or legitimacy to the results of "ethnic cleansing"? Resolution 836 (1993) seeks to answer these very legitimate questions. It seems to us that, unfortunately, the responses are not entirely satisfactory and that the solutions set out in that resolution are far from ideal... We note, at the same time, the important positive changes made to the text in the course of the Council's prior deliberations, in response to concerns expressed by many of us, which made the resolution adopted today better suited to meeting the present challenges in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
1993-06-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3228 (1993) · source
“Mr. ERDOS (Hungary) (interpretation from French): In the context of resolution 836 (1993), which the Council has just adopted, the question, for Hungary, is not of the need for safe areas, but rather of seeking adequate responses to some of the related problems that have arisen in that connection. To what extent does the creation of such areas fit into the implementation of the Vance-Owen Plan? How can one be assured of the temporary nature of this measure so that at some point displaced persons can return home? Is the Security Council capable of guaranteeing effective protection of safe areas?”
1993-06-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3228 (1993) · source
“We note that the delimitation of the boundary resulted from the technical implementation of the 1963 agreement between Iraq and Kuwait and not from the accomplishment of any political task. We therefore welcome the impartial and objective way in which this problem has been dealt with, despite the special exacerbating circumstances: Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. In our view, this will help, on the basis of bitter historical experience, avert future conflicts in the region.”
1993-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3224 (1993) · source
“We venture to hope that the present action of the Security Council will be seen as a tangible message clearly indicating the fact that the international community rejects any propaganda that casts any doubt upon the independence or the territorial integrity of Kuwait, and also showing its readiness to guarantee the inviolability of international frontiers in the case of conflicts in which the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other States Members of the United Nations are also involved. We are convinced that resolution 833 (1993), which the Council has just adopted, will have a beneficial impact on peace and security in the entire Gulf region, and we are convinced also that it is in the interest of one and all to respect and to enforce respect for the inviolability of the frontier thus delimited.”
1993-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3224 (1993) · source
“Mr, ERDOS (Hungary) (interpretation from French): The United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Boundary Demarcation Commission, after two lengthy years of work, has now concluded its work in a very felicitous manner. The international frontier between the two countries has been finally defined. The frontier of the State of Kuwait, which had been ignored and flouted by the the aggression perpetrated by its northern neighbour, has now been formally re-established. Thus we have seen confirmed the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Kuwait as well as the will of the international community not to tolerate failure to respect the norms of international law and the resolutions of the Security Council.”
1993-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3224 (1993) · source
“We are deeply convinced that it is impossible to envisage a lasting settlement of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, including in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, without the prosecution of those who massacre and burn children, women and elderly people; who, with diabolical regularity, shell innocent civilian populations; who Practice "ethnic cleansing", the true tragic implications of which have not yet been fully appreciated; who cut off the water supplies of besieged communities; who deliberately destroy cultural or religious property, and so on, On the basis of these considerations, Hungary voted in favour of the draft resolution in the hope that its adoption and the expeditious establishment of the Tribunal will contribute effectively to bringing an end to violations of international humanitarian law and will send the right message to those at whom this resolution is aimed.”
1993-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3217 (1993) · source
“In the light of the significance of implementing the goals set for the Tribunal and in the light of their complexity, it is important that the Tribunal be made up of highly qualified persons, both in theory and in practice, in order properly to carry out under optimal conditions the tasks that are conferred on them. Hungary has firmly supported all resolutions of the Security Council concerning grave violations of international humanitarian law. Hungary is convinced that persons who commit or order the commission of grave and systematic violations of that law should not escape the hand of justice, and their acts cannot enjoy impunity.”
1993-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3217 (1993) · source
“We note also the importance of the fact that the jurisdiction of the Tribunal covers the whole range of international humanitarian law and the entire duration of the conflict throughout the territory of former Yugoslavia. The Statute of the Tribunal allows the prosecution of all persons - not communities - charged with crimes where the crime was committed in the territory of former Yugoslavia and without regara to their ethnic affiliation. We note also that the official status of the individual brought to court, whatever it might be, does not immunize him from his criminal liability.”
1993-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3217 (1993) · source
“On the basis of the information that has reached us from several sources, as well as from the Commission of Experts established by the Security Council, the Council, in resolution 808 (1993), noted that the violations of international humanitarian law, because of their gravity and their generalized character, constituted a threat to international peace and security, which, in our view, fully justifies the competence of the Security Council in this sphere. We believe that resolution 827 (1993) represents a balance between the complex political and legal requirements and, above all, creates the specific conditions necessary for the Tribunal to be set up and to begin its activity promptly.”
1993-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3217 (1993) · source
“Mr. ERDOS (Hungary) (interpretation from French): Hungary attaches the greatest importance to the unanimous adoption of resolution 827 (1993) of the Security Council. This is the first time that the United Nations establishes an international criminal jurisdiction to prosecute persons who commit grave violations of international humanitarian law. This initiative is a logical follow-up of the process begun by Security Council resolution 764 (1992) which emphasized the individual responsibilities for grave violations of the 1949 Geneva Conventions in former Yugoslavia, violations which constitute horrific crimes without precedent in Europe since the end of the Second World War.”
1993-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3217 (1993) · source
“If this is to be done, it is essential that all the Cambodian parties without exception face up to the fact that it is up to them, first and foremost, to assume responsibility for forging the destiny of their country and to take all necessary steps to safeguard the security and safety of those who have come to Cambodia from the four corners of the world to help that land - which has suffered so much bloodshed - to immediately get down to the task of constructing a peaceful, democratic and prosperous society.”
1993-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3213 (1993) · source
“such undertakings will be in a position to take an active part, in a peaceful and constructive manner, in the political process of the post-electoral period. The difficult and taxing circumstances in which UNTAC activities are now being performed have cost the international commurity a heavy toll in human life. Over and. above the terrible suffering that has been visited on the Khmer people itself in recent decades, UNTAC personnel has also recently had its own dead and wounded. The relevant reports of the Secretary-General quite properly speak of measures taken or to be taken to strengthen the safety and security of the international staff on the ground. It is our expectation that the effective implementation of these measures can prevent any addition to the already long list of gloomy statistics.”
1993-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3213 (1993) · source
“To act any differently under present circumstances would be tantamount to condoning the triumph of terror and violence and admitting the failure of one of the largest collective efforts made by the United Nations. With this resolution, the Security Council is also sending out a warning to those who expect the international community to abandon Cambodia after the elections. The resolution reminds all Cambodian parties of their obligations to fully respect the outcome of these elections and warns of the consequences flowing from the failure by any of the parties to respect these obligations. In this connection, and in the light of recent United Nations experience, it might be timely to recall that there are not just winners in any popular consultation, but that the political forces that participate in good faith in .”
1993-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3213 (1993) · source
“It must be admitted that one of the parties involved, the Party of Democratic Kampuchea, has progressively been giving up the entire peace process, has decided to boycott the elections and is currently doing everything it can, through violence, to prevent their being held. The international community is sure not to bow to the blackmail which is being practised by Cambodian parties, whichever they may be. The message sent by resolution 826 (1993) is unambiguous: in this crucial period, the Security Council gives its unreserved support to the decision of the Secretary-General to organize elections on the date planned, Therefore, there can be no question of any other alternative, even if we are aware of the fact that because of deliberate acts of sabotage the conditions in which these elections are being organized are not the best.”
1993-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3213 (1993) · source
“Mr. ERDOS (Hungary) (interpretation from French): Resolution 826 (1993), which the Security Council has just adopted, underscores an undertaking which is to be decisive in the modern history of Cambodia: the preparation for and organization of the election of a constituent assembly in that country, the intention of which is to pave the way for the rebirth and democratic development of Cambodia. The United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) has made tremendous efforts, which are indeed praiseworthy, to create conditions conducive to building a better future for the Khmer people. As the elections draw nearer, act of violence and intimidation, assassinations and the practice of "ethnic cleansing" are becoming more and more frequent, are spreading and, unfortunately, are increasing in scope.”
1993-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3213 (1993) · source
“Recently, great efforts have been undertaken by the United Nations and by individual Governments to make the Democratic People's Republic of Korea reconsider the announcement contained in its letter of 12 March 1993. The present meeting of the Security Council and the resolution we have just adopted on the matter are integral elements of the efforts aimed at further facilitating improved cooperation between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the IAEA, and at seeking a positive solution to the issue. Hungary's co-sponsorship and vote in favour of resolution 825 (1993) signify our unreserved support for the efforts of the Director General of the IAEA and for the activities undertaken by States Members of the United Nations intended to encourage the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to respond positively to the resolution,”
1993-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3212 (1993) · source
“Throughout that period of time, the relevant organs of the jnternational community - the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Security Council - and a great number of States have expressed their views on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's decision and their hope that it would reverse its decision and respect its obligations under its safequards agreement with IAEA. Hungary, for its part, also found it necessary to declare that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's decision was worrisome in that it could undermine the effectiveness of the non-proliferation regime, *eopardize international security and have unfavourable effects on inter-Korean dialogue, and that the decison would thus work against the fundamental interests of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea itself.”
1993-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3212 (1993) · source
“Mr. ERDOS (Hungary) (interpretation from French): Yesterday, in a room adjacent to this Chamber, delegations of the States parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) began a lengthy process of preparation for the 1995 Conference at which the functioning of the Treaty will be subjected to a detailed review. The work accomplished there in recent days has shown the crucial importance the signatory countries attach to the Treaty and its future in our world full of uncertainties. One must note that those signatory countries are today faced with an extraordinary situation. Two months have passed since the Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea announced its intention to withdraw from the Treaty.”
1993-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3212 (1993) · source
“In the light of the alarming news coming to us from the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and especially from Zepa, the Council must constantly remain on guard and must remain prepared, if need be, to consider immediately the necessary steps to ensure implementation of resolution 824 (1993).”
1993-05-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3208 (1993) · source
“Hungary believes that the resolution we have just adopted can be seen, on the one hand, as part of the process of implementation of the Vance-Owen plan, a plan whose implementation is still our basic objective, and, on the other, as a follow-up on the preventive diplomacy efforts which are of crucial importance in today's world, We hope that the towns and villages mentioned in the resolution - Sarajevo, Tuzla, Zepa, Gorazde and other areas - will not meet the same fate as so many other cities and villages in Bosnia and Herzegovina and will be saved from destruction and "ethnic cleansing".”
1993-05-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3208 (1993) · source
“Mr. ERDOS (Hungary) (interpretation from French): I should like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council, and I should also like to thank Ambassador Marker for the outstanding work he did during the previous month. Hungary voted in favour of resolution 824 (1993) on safe areas because this resolution underlines, with a force that everyone can see, the concern of the Security Council and the international community with regard to the fate of the towns and areas that have been threatened and besieged in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This resolution also reaffirms the inadmissibility of any acquisition of territory by force.”
1993-05-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3208 (1993) · source
“The resolution reaffirms that the United Nations will not accept a policy of faits accomplis, threats to regional stability, the use of force for the acquisition of territory, and the violation of international borders. We welcome the resolution, which demands the immediate cessation of all hostilities, the immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces, and a guarantee of unimpeded access for international humanitarian assistance in the region. In that connection, cooperation between the United Nations and the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) must play an essential role. We are convinced that the peace process launched in the Minsk Group of the CSCE offers the best chance for a peaceful settlement of this problem.”
1993-04-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3205 (1993) · source
“We know full well that that principle can never settle such problems; rather, it can cause the destruction of whole towns and villages and the annihilation of peoples and ethnic communities. We note with increasing dismay that, given the lack of effective international action against arbitrary violence and genocide, some are drawing the conclusion that they can achieve their goals through aggression, driving hundreds of thousands of men, women and children from their homes and enjoying their booty with impunity. The way in which the international community reacts to such developments is critical for the future of mankind. Hungary thinks that today's resolution 822 (1993) is very important indeed.”
1993-04-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3205 (1993) · source
“Mr. ERDOS (Hungary) (interpretation from French): Today, unfortunately, it is not at all uncommon to see nationalist passions trigger armed conflict, which derails the stabilization of democracy in recently independent countries. As we see in other parts of the world as well, this tragic phenomenon only causes human tragedy and the destruction of property and creates a psychological barrier between peoples and ethnic communities that bolsters the position of those who will not admit that those with different religious and ethnic origins can live in harmony and good-neighbourliness. We are deeply concerned to see the use of force proliferating on the principle that brute force can settle admittedly difficult and complex problems that have been building up over decades or even centuries.”
1993-04-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3205 (1993) · source
“This also means that the Security Council, over and above the implementation of sanctions, will have to continue to remain vigilant and continue indefinitely to follow developments in the situation. It will also have to take appropriate decisions on the use of whatever other means may be deemed the most effective in bringing the conflict to a close, establishing peace, and achieving a fair and lasting settlement. Allow me to close my statement by citing the words of a twentieth-century Hungarian writer, Sandor Marai, who, in considering our era, asked this Crucial question: "Will the force of reason and solidarity prove more powerful than the terror of instincts?" We wholeheartedly hope that the international community will be able promptly, through acts of commitment, to give an appropriate response to this disturbing question.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“We voted in its favour, convinced that with the strengthening of the sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), the losses suffered by the legitimate trade of neighbouring countries, including my own, can and must be minimized. We also voted in favour because of the resolution's stipulations reaffirming the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the illegality and positively unacceptable nature of any acquisition of territory by force and of any practice of "ethnic cleansing", as well as the international community's readiness to take all necessary measures to help implement the peace.plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“In one of those Protected Areas, for example, along the Hungarian border, there has been an arbitrary closing on the Serbian side of a vitally important border post intended to guarantee movement to the civilian populations of the region. On the basis of this Security Council resolution, we also expect that effective monitoring of navigation will be established throughout the Yugoslav section of the Danube, which can promote the assistance of the international community to such activities of the riparian States. In conclusion, Hungary believes Security Council resolution 820 (1993) te be an important step towards a settlement of the crisis in the former Yugoslavia.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“Telecommunications, postal services and humanitarian services will not become more difficult. It will be unnecessary to reduce the number of border crossings serving passenger traffic, and funds belonging to individuals will not be affected by the new measures either. Another element to be welcomed in the resolution is that, by virtue of an earlier Council resolution, the United Nations Protection Force will finally have to exercise effectively the tasks assigned to it of controlling immigration and customs along the international borders of the United Nations . Protected Areas in Croatia, which are supposed be controlled by United Nations forces but are currently under Serb dominion.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“In a word, we must do everything to ensure that.an end is put to the activity between the territory of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and the zones controlled by the Serbs in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, activity carried out in violation of the relevant Council resolutions, and that, thereby, the military machine of the Serbs in Bosnia is immobilized. Hungary's vote in favour of today's resolution is further explained by the fact that the sanctions measures, despite their comprehensive nature, will mot lead in the final analysis to building a new Berlin wall between the civilian populations living on the two sides of the border between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and its neighbours.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“Such action has become even more necessary as'a result of the decisions taken by the so-called Bosnian Serbian parliament to reject the peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and as a result of the most recent tragic developments on the ground, We must do everything to ensure that in the territories controlled by the Serbs the heavy weapons fall silent, the snipers have no more ammunition with which to kill, and the military transport vehicles are unable to move because they have no gasoline.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“All this lends even greater and more depressing dimensions to the revolting violations of the most elementary norms of international law, international humanitarian law and human rights being committed in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Despite all that, Hungary, as in the past, will continue to carry out all the obligations stemming from the relevant Council resolutions. Our delegation's affirmative vote on resolution 820 (1993) has been motivated above all by the fundamental importance we attach to sending a sufficiently firm message to the representatives of greater-Serbian nationalism, in Serbia and outside it, who bear a basic responsibility for the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“It is because of the absence of such solutions that we must at present face the challenge of the new situation resulting from the strengthening of sanctions against the former Yugoslavia. It is tragic to note that the nationalist forces aspiring to ethnic exclusivity and homogeneity are endangering and destroying material goods not only of the peoples living in Bosnia and Herzegovina, that they are inflicting suffering and privation not only on civilians in Serbia and Montenegro, but that, at the same time, they are causing incalculable damage and, through the presence of hundreds of thousands of refugees forced to move to the territory of the neighbouring States, are imposing an additional burden on third countries that are not parties to the conflict.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“Because of the tightening of the sanction measures, we expect that the transport by land of products and commodities between the Middle East and Western Europe, which is known to be very intense, will move to the border between Hungary and Romania - a border whose limited capacity of absorption is not our fault - where lamentable conditions already exist and where we can foresee new complex situations, whose scope it is still difficult to predict. These problems raise once again, and with the force of timeliness, the question of the international consequences of the sanctions regimes which have recently been proliferating, as well as the question of the equitable and appropriate treatment of these consequences.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“Because of the sanctions regime instituted against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), the Hungarian economy has suffered losses amounting to almost half a billion United States dollars. The implementation of the resolution adopted today by the Security Council, the strengthening of the sanctions, are going to engender further economic difficulties for our country, as well as for the other neighbouring countries, The stricter conditions that have just been established for transit on the Danube will cause Hungarian industries even more serious problems than those they are facing at present. The interdiction from now on of practically all transit through the land borders of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) will, in turn, have similar effects on other sectors of our economy.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“In this opinion it has also quite naturally been motivated by the fact that Hungary is a State bordering on the former Yugoslavia and that our country and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) are linked by the Danube, which is one of the most important communication routes in Europe, and, last but not least, by the fact that there is in Vojvodina - a territory that is part of Serbia - an ethnic Hungarian community of almost half a million persons who are still suffering the tragic consequences of the conflict launched by greater-Serbian nationalism. We can hardly underestimate the economic losses the crisis has already caused the States neighbouring the former Yugoslavia, including Hungary.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“'The reasons for this are, inter alia, the specific conditions in the former Yugoslavia, the particular features resulting from the geographic situation of the country, the establishment of domestic mitigating arrangements, and the nature of any sanctions regime, which, a priori, is porous. Because of what I have just said, the Hungarian party has had occasion several times in the past to mention the problems and reservations it has had with regard to the strengthening of sanctions.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“For us, the resolution that the Security Council has just adopted today has been and remains a dilemma for another reason as well. For, as experience has shown in several other crises, sanctions are not necessarily and exclusively the salutary solution which can meet the challenge. From all the successive events in the crisis in the former Yugolsavia, it has become increasingly clear that the general arms embargo decreed in the autumn of 1991, as well as the economic-sanctions regime instituted in the spring of 1992 and then extended last autumn, are not producing the results that the international community had legitimately expected.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“We would simply note that, over and above the untiring, praiseworthy international efforts which have been exerted in various bodies and which we duly appreciate, the way in which our world, at the end of the twentieth century, has reacted to the crisis in the former Yugoslavia, the steps that it has taken in this context, will not, in our opinion, become brilliant pages of contemporary history. 'Rather, they will leave a heavy heritage of lessons for future generations. These pages of history will be pages of grief, destruction, complacency and impotence. And it seems to us that it is still much too early to reply to the question whether we are entitled to hope that the international community will manage to draw the conclusions required by this lesson of history.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“In so doing, Hungary was acting as one of the countries most affected - because of its geographical proximity - by the crisis in the former Yugoslavia, In the absence of an appropriate international response to the crisis, Hungary was not really surprised to see the repetition, mutatis mutandis, in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina of open aggression aiming it the conquest of territory. Much has been said recently in the press, and even within these walls, about these events.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“Long before the siege of Sarajevo started, Hungary had drawn the Security Council's attention to the explosive nature of the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina - a situation it had then described as a source of potential danger not only to the region but also to international peace and security. That is why Hungary had advocated at the appropriate time the introduction of adequate preventive measures with a view to containing the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, in particular through the deployment of United Nations observers in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“The history of this conflict proves that the international community has missed several unique and precious opportunities to mobilize right from the outset, even before the carnage degenerated into a diabolical escalation, and make it understood, by the positions it took and beyond possibility of doubt, that the world is not prepared to tolerate having the United Nations Charter, the binding resolutions of the Security Council and the agreements and documents of high-level international conferences constantly and systematically ignored and flouted.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“believe that the attitude Hungary has shown and the positions it has taken on the matter since the crisis in the former Yugoslavia erupted speak for themselves. It is regrettable that in the blood-stained period just past we were obliged to observe, time after time, that the world Organization, regional institutions and individual countries were not capable of judging properly and in time the scale, the possible outcomes, the consequences and the broader repercussions of the processes that had been embarked upon in the former Yugoslavia.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“Mr, ERDOS (Hungary) (interpretation from French): Hungary found itself in a rather difficult position when the draft resolution the Security Council has just adopted today as resolution 820 (1993) was put to the vote. Let there be no misunderstanding: for my country, there was no question of an attitude of reluctance or of appeasement in the face of the aggression that has been sweeping the former Yugoslavia for almost two years now, nor is there any question of wanting to stand idly by while we watch the constant and Cynical violations of the Security Council's resolutions, or in any way of preventing the international community from being able, in accordance with the principles and purposes of the United Nations Charter, to give a firm and unambiguous response to the challenges that have been hurled against it. We.”
1993-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3200 (1993) · source
“This is the moment of truth. We sincerely hope that this time the acts of defiance, manoeuvring and blackmail will come to an end and that reason will prevail.”
1993-03-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3191 (1993) · source
“Thus, we feel that if aggression continues, and if that party refuses to join with the other signatories of the peace plan, today's resolution should be followed up with other equally firm and committed measures to prevent future acts of provocation or belligerency, inter alia, with respect to the prohibition of the use of heavy weapons, which are the source of great destruction and suffering, and effective international control of such weapons, and with respect to more effective and rigorous control of sanctions already in place against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. If that party is prepared to give up its expansionist and aggressive intentions and put an end to this cruel war, and to sign the settlement plan, the measures set out in today's resolution would form part of the process of implementing the settlement plan.”
1993-03-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3191 (1993) · source
“We note that the resolution depends on acceptance by all the Bosnian parties of the settlement plan proposed by the Co-Chairmen of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia. It is therefore clear that whether or not enforcement measures are carried out depends on the position of one of the parties to the conflict: the Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
1993-03-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3191 (1993) · source
“They urged a political settlement of the crisis respecting the principles of the inviolability of borders, territorial integrity and sovereignty and quaranteeing full protection of human rights and the rights of minorities. The Ministers for Foreign Affairs considered that military action in the framework of United Nations resolutions was the last resort for ending the war and ensuring, by the use of enforcement measures, the implementation of relevant United Nations resolutions. Hungary believes that the resolution we have adopted today can be effective in putting to an end a process that threatens a nation with extermination and an independent country with liquidation.”
1993-03-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3191 (1993) · source
“In a statement issued on 23 March following their Budapest meeting, the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia - countries taking part in the Central European initiative - expressed their horror at the war that continues to beset Bosnia and Herzegovina. They firmly condemned the bombings, which are in flagrant violation of Security Council resolution 781 (1992), and the prevention by Bosnian Serb forces of the delivery of humanitarian aid to those for whom it was destined. The Ministers for Foreign Affairs of those eight countries of the region also stated their deep concern at the fact that the conflict could spread beyond its present limits to other areas.”
1993-03-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3191 (1993) · source