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Farhadi

lines on the record: 170
first: 1993-04-19
most recent: 2004-10-04
sittings or episodes: 17
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“Even if no decision is taken by the Security Council to lift the embargo, which runs counter to the right of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina to self- defence, there can be no Security Council resolution that validly applies to Bosnia and Herzegovina when it calls for an arms embargo against that Republic, and every Member State, including those on the Security Council, is legally entitled to proceed individually or collectively to deliver arms to Bosnia and Herzegovina. 21 Some members of the Council have spoken against the lifting of the embargo - which is unfair and illegal - and tried to convince us that to do so would have a negative impact on the peace process.”
1994-11-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3454 (1994) · source
“My delegation is certain that the Security Council never intended to extend the validity of resolution 713 (1991) to cover Bosnia and Herzegovina. No resolution of the Security Council, or of any other legal authority, could take the place of, or in any manner circumscribe, the rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the Charter, especially the provisions relating to individual or collective self-defence set forth in Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations. Therefore, no embargo is valid under international law if there is evidence that its continuation would lead to genocide.”
1994-11-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3454 (1994) · source
“The Council is meeting also for a practical purpose: to reiterate and express approval of the General Assembly resolution adopted only five days ago, on 3 November 1994, which encourages the Security Council to give all due consideration to exempting the Government of the Republic and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the embargo on deliveries of weapons and military equipment originally imposed by the Council in_ resolution 713 (1991) of 25 September 1991, as further outlined in the eighth preambular paragraph of the aforementioned General Assembly resolution. For two years now, my delegation's position, expressed both in the Security Council and in the General Assembly, has been essentially based on legality.”
1994-11-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3454 (1994) · source
“Mr. Farhadi (Afghanistan) (interpretation from French): I should like first to congratulate you, Madam President, on the very effective and dignified manner in which you are presiding over the Council's deliberations. I also wish to express great appreciation for the distinction with which the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom led the Council's work last month. We welcome the initiative taken and the worthwhile efforts made by the United States with a view to lifting the embargo that is tying the hands of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Council is not meeting here merely to respond to the appeal of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.”
1994-11-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3454 (1994) · source
“No embargo remains valid under international law if there is clear proof that maintaining the embargo in question promotes genocide. Recent events in the north of Bosnia and Herzegovina testify to this fact.”
1994-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3428 (1994) · source
“This was referred to by Ambassador Djokie as an absurdity, but, in fact, maintaining the embargo on arms supplies imposed on Bosnia and Herzegovina is a way for the Security Council to persist in something illegal, and thereby to become responsible for everything that is happening, including "ethnic cleansing", in that country. My delegation has on several occasions here expressed its view that the Security Council never intended that resolution 713 (1991) should, by extension, be applied to Bosnia and Herzegovina. No resolution emanating from the Security Council or from any other legal authority should in any way usurp or in any way restrict the rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the Charter, and specifically the provisions on legitimate individual or collective self-defence set forth in Article 51.”
1994-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3428 (1994) · source
“What is provided in this draft resolution does not seem to convince the Council that the territory is secure. It is equally important for the Security Council, and for the United Nations, once again to concern itself with what is happening in Sarajevo. It is essential to help its citizens to be able to walk on its streets in safety, to fetch water and food without fear of snipers. Obviously, there is also the question of food, electricity and other such necessities, to which our colleague from Bosnia- Herzegovina referred. There is a draft resolution that should have been before us but which is not, and that is one lifting the arms embargo - arms which the Bosnians need for their legitimate defence.”
1994-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3428 (1994) · source
“The draft resolution contained in document S/1994/1085, which calls for the relaxation of the sanctions imposed on Serbia and Montenegro, is clearly premature. It is a hasty initiative that was put together before there were adequate guarantees that earlier evils would not be repeated. This is something that did not deserve such high priority. We are not convinced of the veracity or the sincerity of the political statements we have heard from Belgrade. Border closings - effectively implemented - are clearly necessary in places where Serbia has a common frontier with areas occupied by the Bosnian Serbs. Moreover, unauthorized helicopter and plane flights should be prevented: this is also very important. Controlling the situation on the ground remains a key practical problem.”
1994-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3428 (1994) · source
“In addition, he was also deliberately eclectic when he gave partial quotations from statements made by Heads of State and Government and prominent persons from countries that are members of the Security Council in a way that, clearly, is not particularly commendable. The draft resolution contained in document S/1994/1083, regarding "ethnic cleansing", has come very late in the day, and indeed there is an element of paradox here in terms of priorities. This draft resolution was, 20 undoubtedly, deserving of a certain priority. What is lacking in it is that it fails to recall the fact that the United Nations must take practical steps to ensure that an end is put to "ethnic cleansing". Otherwise, all the efforts that have been put forth by the Security Council so far would be virtually nullified.”
1994-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3428 (1994) · source
“What Ambassador Sacirbey said is important, not only with respect to the position to be taken by Council members when these draft resolutions are voted on, but also for the future. Likewise, the Ambassador of Croatia and the Ambassador of Albania have given us very important information - information that is very reliable because they are on the spot in this region. As to what the Ambassador of Albania told us about Kosovo and Sandjak, I must say that such problems have to be dealt with in a timely manner. Things should not be allowed to reach a stage where we say that yes, it is important, but it is too late. Another speaker, Ambassador Djoki¢, also expressed his desire to see an acceleration of the peace process, but he accused the Security Council of taking actions on the basis of prejudice and on erroneous premises.”
1994-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3428 (1994) · source
“Mr. Farhadi (Afghanistan) (interpretation from French): Once again, since I am, I believe, the last speaker in this part of our debate, I should like to pay a tribute to you, Sir, and to the very wise and skilful way in which you have been conducting the work of the Council over the past month. Our appreciation goes also to your predecessor, Ambassador Vorontsov, for the noteworthy work he accomplished when he was the President of the Council during the month of August. His skills are indeed well known to all of us. We believe that the Security Council must take account of, and attentively consider, in a trusting way, the statements that were made by the Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
1994-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3428 (1994) · source
“The Serb ultra-nationalists of Bosnia and Serbia are sure that they have nothing to fear, that they will not have 19 to pay for any atrocities or destruction they carry out in Bosnia. My delegation once again puts forward the idea - and this will be my conclusion - of establishing a committee to study the question of war damages. This study should be the basis of an estimate of the reparations that should be paid by the Serbs and by Belgrade. That would be an essential factor in leading the aggressor to think about having to pay, before shooting and killing.”
1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source
“The Serb ultra-nationalists think they can do anything they want to do. Today it is Gorazde, tomorrow it will be other safe areas, and the day after tomorrow it will be the non-Serb minorities in the rest of former Yugoslavia. If a high-level conference is to be held, the representatives of the United States, France and the United Kingdom must be fully aware that their countries, like Italy and Japan, signed the Treaty of Saint-German- en-Laye on 10 September 1919. It was also signed by the ex-Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The countries of former Yugoslavia are its legal heirs. The 1919 Treaty of Saint-German-en-Laye is still valid. It guarantees all rights to the minorities of Kosovo, Sandjak, and Vojvodina and to the Catholics, the Muslims, the Albanians, the Croats, the Hungarians and others.”
1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source
“It is therefore important that any summit conference should concern itself not only with present peace, but with ensuring that peace is backed with official guarantees, through international instruments if necessary, and that commitments agreed by all parties will be complied with. A summit conference must recognize and guarantee the territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina; otherwise, there can never be a guaranteed peace. Therefore, the Bosnian lands occupied by the Bosnian Serbs must be returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina. I think that we should be seriously alarmed if things continue in this way, if systematic acts of violence continue to be committed against the Albanians, the Bosnians, the Hungarians and the Croats, and still others are committed in Kosovo, in Sandjak, in Vojvodina by the Serb authorities.”
1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source
“On the one hand, there are the Bosnian Serbs, led by ultranationalists who believe aggression, the expulsion of civilians and "ethnic cleansing" to be perfectly natural behaviour; on the other hand, there is the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Bosnian people, victims of that "ethnic cleansing", which has been recognized by international legal forums as genocide. That must be taken into account whenever we talk of a negotiated settlement, with the representatives of the victims sitting down at the same table as the perpetrators of genocide. Repeatedly, the Bosnian Serbs and their protectors in Belgrade have shown that they have no wish to keep their own promises.”
1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source
“The consequences of this tragedy are disastrous not only for Bosnia, but for the Balkans and for the whole of Europe. No group that practices ethnic or any other kind of "cleansing" can ever serve a democratic Europe. There can be no assurances of stability in a Europe where ultranationalism triumphs in any of its regions. That is the lesson of history. If a high-level meeting is to take place, it must be understood that flagrant aggression has taken place in Bosnia. To treat the parties to the conflict as two morally equal parties would be tantamount to equating justice with injustice.”
1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source
“To continue the arms embargo against Bosnia and Herzegovina is to be an accomplice of the aggressors. My delegation, here and in the General Assembly, has repeatedly stated that resolution 713 (1991) should not apply to Bosnia and Herzegovina; our position is perfectly clear, and those who desire details of that position can find them in the verbatim record of the 3201st meeting of the Security Council, held on 19 April 1993. Both Members of the United Nations and other members of the international community should offer all possible cooperation to the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the exercise of its inherent right to individual and collective self-defence as set out in Chapter VII, Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations. The General Assembly endorsed that view last December.”
1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source
“The great majority of the world's nations once again urge the Security Council urgently to consider no longer applying to the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina the arms embargo imposed on the former Yugoslavia in resolution 713 (1991) of 25 September 1991. The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a sovereign, independent State Member of the United Nations and is therefore entitled to all the rights set out in the Charter of the United Nations, including the right of self-defence under Article 51. So long as the arms embargo continues unjustly, illegally and dangerously against Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serb aggressors' policy of "ethnic cleansing" too will continue. The worst aggressors are those who attack civilians, even in their hospital beds, even those who are without weapons with which to defend themselves.”
1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source
“It must instruct the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) to take urgent, necessary action to protect the safe areas in conformity with Security Council resolutions on the subject. The Sarajevo exclusionary zone must be extended to other safe areas. The situation in Gorazde is a special one. Any international action against the aggressor must be recognized as effective from the standpoint of the victims. It is vital for the Security Council to force the Bosnian Serbs to remove all heavy weapons and forces from the safe areas, and to withdraw to a distance at which they will no longer pose a threat to the security of those areas. The inhabitants should be guarded by United Nations military observers. Alas, we all know that the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been deliberately deprived of any way to defend itself.”
1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source
“Hence, it is necessary that preparatory work be done not only for such a meeting but also to see to it that the situation will be such that, at the time of the meeting, we need not renegotiate points regarding dangers that are not present today but that, by that time, might be a fait accompli. The Security Council must shoulder its responsibilities under Article 24 of the Charter. It must take all action necessary to protect and fully restore the sovereignty, political independence, territorial integrity and unity of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It must demand that the Bosnian Serbs withdraw from all occupied territories. Gorazde is a city under siege. It is important for the Bosnian Serbs to lift that siege immediately, along with the siege of other safe areas and other besieged Bosnian cities.”
1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source
“Although the situation in Gorazde at this time is unclear, and while the news that reaches us is disturbing, it is important to reaffirm that the consequences of the siege or of the partial or total occupation of Gorazde must not be accepted by the Security Council. It is also important to reaffirm that the Bosnian Serbs must absolutely desist at the earliest possible moment, which obviously requires a resolute attitude on the part of the Security Council and further initiatives. We are now informed that activities are under way to hold a high-level meeting, perhaps even a summit. What worries us is that those preparations will clearly take time. The danger is that in the meantime there could be other massacres and more bloodshed.”
1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source
“We are entitled to be gravely concerned at the fact that increasingly disturbing armed hostilities and aggression continue to be directed against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and that the relevant Security Council resolutions remain a dead letter, trampled underfoot. 18 The United Nations is becoming a tool in the hands of its adversaries. The United Nations Force Commander in Bosnia, General Sir Michael Rose, has clearly accused the Serb forces of having openly used the operations of the United Nations contingents to cover up their offensive and of ignoring all the assurances that they themselves had given to the international mediators.”
1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source
“Mr. Farhadi (Afghanistan) (interpretation from French): I should like first to express my congratulations to you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. Your great skill, which is beyond question, will serve you well in conducting the work of the Council. I should also like to congratulate Ambassador Merimee, Permanent Representative of France, on his outstanding guidance of the Council's work during the month of March. Once again the Security Council, the United Nations and the international community are, tragically, faced with a fait accompli; and once again it is the Bosnian Serbs showing them utter defiance and inflicting historic humiliation on them.”
1994-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3367 (1994) · source
“This international protection would be a positive factor, militating in favour of satisfactory progress in the peace process. In conclusion, an overwhelming consequence for the prospects for peace would seem to be the need to revise fundamentally the agenda for the ongoing peace negotiations - particularly to reorder the priorities radically. The most urgent priority now is clearly the need to afford protection to the Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories. All the parties involved, including the United Nations, must deal with this. It is a new chapter in the book concerning respect for the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people - first and foremost their right to live and to survive, and then their right to independence.”
1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source
“Secondly, the rest of the settlers must be disarmed immediately thereafter. Thirdly - that is, in a subsequent stage - there must be an accelerated dismantling of the Israeli settlements in all the occupied Palestinian territories, including Al-Quds (Jerusalem). This might, of course, require the building of housing within Israel to which these settlers can be transferred. The ways and means of carrying out such a plan would be part of the peace negotiations. At the same time, international protection of the Palestinian civilian population is clearly necessary. The duration of such protection will be a function of the success of the peace process - the quicker that process is completed, the shorter will be the time needed for such protection.”
1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source
“The acts of these settlers in particular and the occupation security forces in general are contrary to the principles clearly enunciated by the current Government of Israel, and hence to the Oslo negotiations of August 1993 and the Washington Declaration of Principles of 13 September 1993. The need to protect the Palestinian civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories, including Al-Quds (Jerusalem), not only is based on international law but is also required and made imperative by a practical and concrete situation which the Government of Israel should recognize as being of prime importance. What is the solution to all this? Three consecutive stages can be clearly envisaged. First, the extremists, the fundamentalists, among the settlers must be disarmed immediately.”
1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source
“In paragraph 4 of resolution 681 (1990), of 20 December 1990, the Israeli Government is called upon to accept the de jure applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 to all the territories occupied by Israel since 1967 and to abide scrupulously by the provisions of that Convention. Furthermore, it is an actual fact that the settlers, armed not only with automatic weapons but also with certain political plans, are working under the benevolent and complaisant gaze of the occupying army. I say "political plans" because among these settlers there are certain centres of hatred. Consequently, there is a potential for sabotage of the entire Palestinian-Israeli peace process.”
1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source
“In our century, in this age of automatic weapons, instruments that make it possible to kill a whole crowd of human beings in a few seconds, it is important to start by disarming these settlers, whether or not they be psychopaths or lunatics. For the moment, the massacre at dawn on Friday has profoundly harmed not only the Palestinians but also the credibility of the peace process. For the future, these settlements are centres for terrorists and have been rightly called time bombs that could destroy the entire peace effort. The massacre of 25 February has demonstrated irrefutably that the peace process is totally incompatible with the actions of the armed occupation forces of armed settlers, whether or not they wear the uniform of Israeli reservists. Let us recall that this point has already been made.”
1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source
“It is therefore important, first and foremost, for anyone trying to promote the continuation of the peace process to disarm ideologically the fundamentalist extremists in these settlements and to convince them that the land on which they have been installing themselves since 1967 is occupied temporarily and unjustly. It belongs, in fact, to the Palestinians, who have been living there for many centuries. Anyone who strives for peace while insisting on maintaining settlements in territory occupied militarily, and who supports the settlers and their actions by means of armed force will never achieve his goals of peace. This is the lesson that we learned from the end of colonialism in the twentieth century, and it is also the lesson of thousands of years of the history of nations.”
1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source
“However, for a quarter of a century now, Israeli propaganda has generally tried to suggest to the inhabitants of settlements that they were living in territory that belonged to them. This unofficial attitude of the Israeli authorities prepared the ground for ideological indoctrination that runs counter to the whole purpose of the peace process now under way. Since the Palestinian civil population has been living in the same territories for centuries, those preaching hate for the peace process were able to gain tremendous influence, particularly in the settlements, which were set up under military occupation.”
1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source
“Historically speaking, this is not the first time we have condemned such an occurrence. Indeed, three and a half years ago, on 8 October 1990, in the Haram al-Sharif, this holy sanctuary of the city of Al-Quds, or Jerusalem, violence committed by the Israeli security forces left more than 20 dead and more than 150 wounded among Palestinian civilians who were in the act of praying. Security Council resolution 672 (1990) called upon Israel, the occupying Power, to abide scrupulously by its legal obligations and responsibilities upon under the Fourth Geneva Convention, applicable to all the territories occupied by Israel since 1967 - including, clearly, Jerusalem.”
1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source
“This is why the haram - the precinct of this place of Islamic pilgrimage in the city of Al-Khalil, the precinct that was desecrated at dawn on Friday by a terrorist with the infidel's heart in a massacre of believers who had already begun their fast and were prostrating themselves before the Lord of Abraham, who is also their Lord - is the most sacred site in Palestinian territory, after, obviously, the Haram al-Sharif, which is the holy precinct of the city of Al-Quds, or Jerusalem. It might be said that the points I have just made are religious points. But even lay people, whose way of life is prevalent here at the United Nations, will find in them certain socio-political facts of great importance. Numerically speaking, the abominable massacre of 25 February set a record.”
1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source
“Consulting the Koran, we find that Sura 4, verse 125 - which I wish to quote in English, as well as in French, and also in Arabic, which is now an official language of the United Nations - says: "For God did take Abraham for a friend." The same verse states that every believer should follow the religion of Abraham - "millat Ibrahim" - the religion of a hanif, that is, of an upright person. For Muslims, Abraham is the spiritual patriarch of all the sincere believers of mankind - "al-nas" - as is stated in the last verse of Sura 22 of the Holy Book of Islam, a Book where the name of Abraham is mentioned 70 times.”
1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source
“It should be clearly understood that in occupied Palestinian territory those armed by the occupier are shooting not only adolescents who throw stones at the jeeps of the occupying army, but also those who fast, as Abraham and Moses fasted, and those who prostrate themselves before God, the common God of the three Abrahamic religions. Hebron is called Al-Khalil by Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims throughout the world, and Al-Khalil means "close friend". Why "close friend"? Because that is where the tomb of Abraham is found.”
1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source
“Mr. Farhadi (Afghanistan) (interpretation from French): As the first speaker as you begin your presidency of the Security Council on this first day of March, I should also like, Sir, to be the first to congratulate you. The Council now has to decide on some most serious and complex issues, and we have every confidence in your abilities as an experienced diplomat and in your wealth of knowledge of these issues to enable you to guide the work of the Council to a successful conclusion. With the deepest pain and great indignation, the entire world has condemned the massacre committed in Al-Khalil, or Hebron, before sunrise on Friday, 25 February, the fifteenth day of Ramadan, the month of fasting. We are here first and foremost to raise our voices in echo of the voices of vast numbers of human beings.”
1994-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3341 (1994) · source
“Fascism is not dead in Europe, and hegemonistic nationalism is increasingly becoming a perilous disaster for Eastern Europe. History, in this dawn of 1994, will consider responsible not only the States signatories of the 1919 Treaty but also all of us. We must take all the preventive actions we can. In conclusion, my delegation is launching the idea of establishing a United Nations committee on the assessment of the war destruction in Bosnia. I hope other delegations will submit a draft resolution along this line. Such a committee's findings and continuous assessments would remind the Serbian authorities that Belgrade will have to pay for war reparations. This will serve as a major deterrent to further acts of aggression and destruction in this tragic case and also constitute a major legal precedent.7”
1994-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption1 (1994) · source
“Europe must be deeply alarmed by the continuing systematic abuses committed by the authorities of Serbia and Montenegro, notably in Kosovo, Sandjak and Vojvodina, against Catholics, Muslims, Albanians, Bosnians, Croats, Hungarians and others. They are all covered by international minority protection guarantees stipulated by the Treaty of St. Germain-en-Laye of 10 September 1919, signed by the former Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and by France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Signatories or their successors bear the legal responsibility of6 implementing the 73-year-old Treaty in order to avert tragedies of a larger magnitude and scale. A dreadful danger is threatening the Balkans and Europe.”
1994-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption1 (1994) · source
“not satisfied that all that might have been done has been done to prevent commission of the crime of genocide in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina ... ." (ibid.) Since the Court's Order of 8 April 1993, and in accordance with the opinion of one of the Judges, Security Council resolution 713 (1991), concerning an arms embargo against Yugoslavia cannot be "valid and binding in its operation against Bosnia and Herzegovina" least it "make Members of the United Nations accessories to genocide". The war criminals, who are well-known figures, must be brought to justice. Their prosecution would be a deterrent against further genocide. Many delegations are increasingly worried about the future of the former Yugoslavia, including territories outside Bosnia.”
1994-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption1 (1994) · source
“Let me recall the Order of 8 April 1993 of the International Court of Justice, in which it directed the Government of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) to take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of the crime of genocide, whether directed against the Muslim population of Bosnia and Herzegovina or against any other national, ethnic, racial or religious group. In the case of the genocide practised by the Serbs, we note that the International Court of Justice, in its Order of 13 September 1993, also observed that5 all parties to the Convention have thus undertaken to prevent and to punish the crime of genocide" (Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Provisional Measures, Order of 13 September 1993, I1.C.J. Reports 1993, p. 348) whereas the Court declared itself "...”
1994-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption1 (1994) · source
“The siege of Sarajevo and that of other Bosnian towns are the most important contributors to human suffering and are the most Significant deterrent to constructive peace talks. Allowing the siege is morally and legally reprehensible and strategically fatal. The strangulation of Bosnian cities continues, and the United Nations, especially the Security Council, is historically responsible for this unbearable and perilous situation. Such a policy of strangulation of the cities, basically genocidal, has to be resisted, punished and defeated by Europe, by the United Nations and by all of humanity.”
1994-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption1 (1994) · source
“There is no Security Council resolution or any other legal authority superseding, or in any way limiting, the membership rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the United Nations Charter, including,4 in particular, those related to individual and collective self-defence, as set forth in Article 51. No embargo remains valid in international law in the presence of evidence that maintaining the embargo in guestion favours or contributes to the commission of genocide. Attention should be paid to the aggressive intentions of the Bosnian Serb forces in other cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina recognized as "safe areas", such as Bihac in the northwest and Gorazde, Zepa, Srebrenica and Tuzla in the east.”
1994-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption1 (1994) · source
“The delegation of Afghanistan, in the aforementioned statements before the Security Council, has maintained that Security Council resolution 713 (1991), which imposed an arms embargo against the former "Yugoslavia", cannot be applied in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This view was supported by an independent legal organization, the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, based in Geneva, the statements of which are recorded in a document of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, Commission on Human Rights, of 7 September 1993. The delegation of Afghanistan is certain that the Security Council never intended or extended its resolution 713 (1991) to be validly applicable with regard to Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
1994-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption1 (1994) · source
“No further approval is therefore to be sought from the Security Council. Those who have no other argument and means of action but force recognize only force. That is why, shortly after the firm announcement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Bosnian Serbs' attitude underwent a basic change. This confirms our assessment that the attitude of indecision, in the eyes of the aggressors, was a sign not only of indifference but of the very lack of credibility of NATO. The new situation also constitutes a major lesson for the future. Only a firm and decisive stand by the Security Council and by NATO can have a real impact on the attitude of the aggressors.”
1994-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption1 (1994) · source
“In the General Assembly, the delegation of Afghanistan said: "The Serbs are now redeploying troops, tanks and other heavy weaponry to new positions around the city and are preparing for more aggressive acts." (Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session, Plenary Meetings, 83rd meeting, p. 16) In the same plenary meeting of the General Assembly, the Afghanistan delegation expressed its view that "An ultimatum should be issued to the Serbs, before the air strikes, once and for all to cease their shelling, remove their heavy weapons from the vicinity and lift the siege." (Ibid.) In its resolutions 824 (1993) and 836 (1993), the Security Council recognized the full authority of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to authorize air strikes on the Serbian3 positions around Sarajevo or other Bosnian cities.”
1994-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption1 (1994) · source
“Let me first of all, Sir, express my delegation's felicitations on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We are sure that your qualities as an experienced diplomat will contribute to satisfactorily conducting the work of the Council on this and other important issues. I should not fail also to convey my delegation's gratitude also to His Excellency Ambassador Kovanda, Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic, for ably discharging his responsibilities as President of the Council for the month of January. In the earlier stages of the deplorable Bosnian tragedy the delegation of Afghanistan took part in the debates of the Security Council and expressed its views in the meetings of 16 November 1992, 19 April 1993 and 26 June 1993 and in the plenary meeting of the General Assembly on 17 December 1993.”
1994-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3336Resumption1 (1994) · source
“The injustice committed and tolerated in the case of some peoples of Europe and the Middle East was the source of tragic events a few decades later, events which exacted a heavy cost on Europe and the world. It is important that we draw a lesson from history. What is happening in Bosnia can happen, as has just been stated by the representative of Albania, in neighbouring territories. Europe and the international community will suffer the consequences. Let us therefore stop allowing the Serb aggressor to make dead letters of all the decisions of the United Nations. Let us stop allowing free rein to the aggressor. Let us allow Bosnia to live. Let us allow Bosnia the means to defend itself and, in defending itself, Bosnia will defend our most sincere ideals.”
1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source
“On 19 April, my delegation, in reference to the arms embargo, told the Security Council: "It must be made possible for Bosnian Muslims to untie their hands, to receive arms in order to defend their lives and the honour of humanity." (S/PV.3201, p. 72) On that day, my delegation also said that the sanctions of resolution 820 (1993), of 7 April, are inadequate and insufficient. We said that the text hinted at certain timid, hesitant measures which some powerful countries call "realism" - a realism that does nothing but allow the Bosnian Serbs a free hand. The Security Council is shouldering a great responsibility. Let us recall what happened at Versailles in the aftermath of the First World War.”
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“Thus, legally, operative paragraph 3 of the draft resolution (S/25997) before us today, of which we are a co-sponsor, simply clarifies the fact that the resolution of September 1991 does not concern Bosnia and Herzegovina. History will show with sadness and astonishment that while, in a historic capital of Europe, Vienna, the representatives of European countries and the great Powers were preaching about human rights, in the Security Council in New York not one important country dared to say that the Muslims of Bosnia have a right to live and hence the right to possess the means of defending their lives against these over-armed aggressors.”
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“It is up to the great Powers to bring this about.-70 As long ago as 16 November 1992, the delegation of Afghanistan stated to the Security Council that resolution 713 (1991), adopted in September 1991 - the resolution at the basis of the problem - did not pertain to Bosnia and Herzegovina at that time and continued not to pertain to Bosnia because the question of the war in Bosnia emerged in April 1992. In September 1991 it was a question of an armed conflict between Croatia and Serbia. The resolution of September 1991 specifically refers to a certain Yugoslavia, which legally no longer exists. The text of resolution 713 (1991) is therefore null and void. The only priority of the jurists of these countries, on this and other points as well, is the policies of their Governments.”
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“But in regard to formerly occupied Afghanistan, in regard to Bosnia, the victim of ethnic - or, actually, religious - aggression, the Security Council has been an instrument for depriving the victim of the possiblity of obtaining the means to defend itself. If that is indeed the role of this principal organ of the United Nations, the conscience of mankind will have to quote the following Arab proverb to the Organization: "You are certainly in a valley, but I am in quite another one". But the conscience of mankind and the conscience of this Organization should be together, in the same valley.”
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