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Farhfidi

lines on the record: 89
first: 1999-08-25
most recent: 2006-03-14
sittings or episodes: 10
sources: un-security-council

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“Our indignation at and profound concern about what has happened in Jenin, Ramallah, Bethlehem and dozens of other Palestinian towns and villages in the course of the past three months cannot prevent us from welcoming some of the promising developments of the last couple of days. The besieging of Chairman Arafat's compound has at long last been brought to an end and the President of the Palestinian Authority, strengthened rather than diminished by his ordeal, is now free to exercise his leadership. Yesterday's announcement by the "quartet" of its intention to work towards convening an international meeting on the question of Palestine is also encouraging and has been widely welcomed. Other ideas concerning the restoration of the political dialogue are also being floated.”
2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The sooner it does so the better. It would be better than going back years later, as has tragically happened in other parts of the world. This is not about assigning blame, but about justice and fairness. It is about deterring and hopefully putting an end forthwith to the brutal acts that have been perpetrated by the Government of Israel in contravention of international humanitarian law and its continuing attempts to humiliate, subdue and perhaps uproot the Palestinian people. Jenin is a glaring, yet by no means the only, example of this kind of unacceptable and morally reprehensible behaviour by the occupying Power. The Bureau of our Committee, in a statement that was issued on 5 April, expressed its strong views on recent events in the occupied Palestinian territory.”
2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source
“We also deeply regret the failure of the Council to discharge its responsibility under the Charter and to take firm steps in the face of outright contempt for its positions and decisions. As the Secretary-General has noted, the "long shadow cast by recent events in the Jenin refugee camp will remain" (S/2002/504) and will haunt us all. Although time works against an investigation and, of course, the refusal to cooperate on the part of the Israeli Government makes the exercise particularly difficult, we believe that an account of the recent horrible events - as accurate, thorough and credible an account as possible - should be made, even if the evidence is not collected directly by a United Nations fact-finding team. The Security Council or, if the Council should fail again, the General Assembly should look into the possibility of that.”
2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The Committee is greatly dismayed by the fact that the Security Council has been impeded in its ability to follow up on its own resolutions regarding the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem. We believe that it is a great disservice to the effectiveness of the Council and to the credibility of the United Nations as a whole that the fact-finding team, set up to establish the facts on recent events in Jenin, had to be disbanded because of the refusal of the Government of Israel to cooperate with the United Nations. It is indeed unacceptable that the record of Jenin cannot be set straight. The Israeli Government's decision is an affront to the United Nations and to this Council. The international community has every right to know and to be able to assess all the facts of this humanitarian tragedy.”
2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Mr. Farhfidi: First of all, I wish to warmly congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of May. I am confident that, under your able leadership, the work of the Council will be carried out in a constructive and efficient manner. I wish also to take this opportunity to congratulate your predecessor, Ambassador Lavrov, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, on the exemplary manner in which he steered the work of the Council during the month of April. I am grateful to you, Sir, as well as to the other members of the Council, for having given me this opportunity to address the Council in my capacity as Vice-Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.”
2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Afghan authorities consider that the 18 March 2002 report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Afghanistan deserves to be endorsed by this Council.”
2002-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4497Resumption1 (2002) · source
“With regard to the extension of the International Security Assistance Force -ISAF -beyond the capital, to which some delegates referred in today's meeting, we consider it imperative that the views of the Afghan Interim Administration should be sought. In conclusion, I would like to make it clear that, in any political gathering or meeting of Afghans with regard to the future political destiny of Afghanistan, including the Loya Jirga, there should be no place for the Taliban and their supporters, whatever their denomination. Those who were stooges of foreign forces and brought havoc to the Afghan nation, violated basic human rights and committed atrocities against Afghans are considered as traitors and terrorists who have harboured international terrorists. They should not be entitled to be part of any political set-up in Afghanistan.”
2002-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4497Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The formation of a national army and a police force remains a vital priority for the Interim Administration. The formation of a national army will serve as a symbol of national unity. The Interim Administration greatly appreciates the assistance of Member States in implementing that objective. I would like to reiterate that the Interim Administration remains strictly committed to the implementation of the landmark Agreement signed in Bonn on 5 December 2001. We are looking forward to convening of the Loya Jirga on 22 June 2002, which will lead to the establishment of the Transitional Authority.”
2002-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4497Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Those are the reasons why we consider that this report reflects the optimism and hope of the Afghan people. I would like to take this opportunity to highlight the importance of the recent changes regarding the activities of the United Nations in Afghanistan. We are convinced that this new structure comes at a time when the consolidation of peace and reconstruction is of the utmost importance, given the current situation in Afghanistan. In this context, it is relevant to stress the tireless and persistent efforts of Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, as well as the two newly appointed deputies, Mr. Nigel Fisher and Mr. Jean Arnault. We know both of them, and we value their experience and ability to perform their challenging assignments.”
2002-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4497Resumption1 (2002) · source
“We consider this report as reflecting the series of positive developments that have taken place since the demise of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Fortunately, in the recent report we do not see any accounts indicating gross violation of human rights, systematic massacre and deportation of the civilian population based on ethnic origin. Rather, the recent report sets out positive developments characterized by the restoration of human rights, in particular the rights of women, the reopening of educational institutions for boys and girls, the return of women to the civil service, and the continued efforts by the Afghan people, in coordination with the international community, to recover and to reconstruct Afghanistan's economic, political and cultural infrastructure.”
2002-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4497Resumption1 (2002) · source
“At the outset, I would like to thank you, Mr. Minister, for coming here from Oslo to preside over this meeting on Afghanistan. We appreciate Norway's important humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan during these difficult times. I would like to thank you, Mr. President, and the members of the Council, for having convened this timely meeting on the situation in Afghanistan. In addition, I express sincere thanks to those representatives who expressed their sympathies for the devastating earthquake that took place in the village of Nahrin, located east of Baghlan and south of Kunduz. I would also like to express my profound appreciation to Secretary-General Kofi Annan for his comprehensive report on Afghanistan dated 18 March 2002.”
2002-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4497Resumption1 (2002) · source
“For justice to prevail, the real instigator of and key figure in the instability, the centre of indoctrination and regimentation of terrorists and the cause of tension in the region - Pakistan - must be the object of future sanctions by the Security Council. That would constitute the real effective solution to the Afghan problem. This draft resolution clearly shows that foreign elements, coming basically from Pakistan and in alliance with terrorists from different countries, are those really responsible for the terrorist activities. The Afghan people themselves have never made use of terrorism. The Taliban have given an inaccurate picture of Afghanistan - an inaccurate image of the Afghan people to the world at large.”
2000-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4251 (2000) · source
“The Pakistani military intelligence service, the ISI, must be recognized as a criminal organization responsible for the war of aggression, for crimes against humanity and for war crimes. The Pakistani army must no longer think it is safe from being identified as responsible. We demand that the Council appoint a commission of inquiry to investigate the issue of military aggression in Afghanistan and to present its conclusions to the Council. In addition to noting Pakistan's aggression in Afghanistan, the Council could decide to compensate Afghanistan, through those bearing responsibility, for the material damage, the loss of human life and the plundering of Afghan cultural property caused by Pakistan's war of S/PVAZSI aggression, which Pakistan has been waging since April 1992.”
2000-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4251 (2000) · source
“Pakistan will bear sole responsibility for possible retaliation against Afghanistan, which could involve loss of life and the destruction of property. We stress that the Islamic State of Afghanistan is convinced that the acts just described constitute flagrant violations of the Charter of the United Nations. The Security Council should immediately be seized of the question of armed aggression against Afghanistan, which falls under Chapter VII, Articles 39 to 42, of the Charter. Pakistan's aggression and the terrorism and other activities sponsored by Pakistan pose a threat to regional security and hamper development and cooperation in the region; they should be denounced, condemned and combated through appropriate measures.”
2000-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4251 (2000) · source
“First, the population of Afghanistan has undergone genuine persecution by the terrorists and by elements affiliated with a whole range of international terrorist organizations from South-East Asia, South Asia and the Middle East, whom the Pakistani army continues to recruit through its military intelligence service, the ISI. Pakistan remains the sole provider of weapons and materiel to the terrorists who, in ever greater numbers, come to Pakistan from all over the world. Secondly, the Islamic State of Afghanistan affirms that it is inadmissible for Afghan soil to continue to be used to wage war and commit hostile acts that jeopardize the security and stability of third States in the region and beyond.”
2000-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4251 (2000) · source
“Thus, in July 1999, following the withdrawal of soldiers and extremist fighters from the Kargil region of Kashmir, some of those fighters were taken, in Pakistani military trucks, north of Kabul to the Afghan provinces of Parwan and Kapisa to reinforce the Taliban armed forces in their acts of repression based on ethnic segregation. Pakistani prisoners held by our side have made unambiguous confessions to that effect. The Islamic State of Afghanistan continues to be gravely concerned at the recent deterioration of the situation in Afghanistan and in neighbouring countries, which is a direct consequence of the policy of military occupation and the training of terrorists endorsed by the Pakistani army; we therefore wish to make the following comments.”
2000-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4251 (2000) · source
“We convey our gratitude to the Secretary- General, who in paragraphs 23 and 81 of his 20 November 2000 report on the situation in Afghanistan indicated that a there are a significant number of non- Afghan combatants, essentially from Pakistan, fighting alongside the Taliban; most are from Pakistani madrassahs. In his report, the Secretary-General adds that there is outside involvement in the planning and logistical support of Taliban military operations. On the basis of what the Secretary-General has reported, we are in a position to affirm that there are very close ideological, organizational, political and military links between the international terrorist network and Pakistan's ISI. Pakistani religious schools, or madrassahs, are centres for indoctrination and regimentation, used by the Pakistani army to train armed personnel.”
2000-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4251 (2000) · source
“It is our fear that the Pakistan-Taliban-bin-Laden axis could interpret the draft resolution before the Council to mean that they can continue their atrocities and their violence against the Afghan people, so long as they simply put an end to their activities outside Afghan territory. We note with regret that the Security Council is not considering the active role of the Pakistani military junta and Pakistan's well-known military intelligence service, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and the close links between that organization and international terrorist networks. In fact, the ISI constantly recruits, among "Islamic" extremist groups, people whom it trains, arms and sends to Afghanistan accompanied by Pakistani military personnel.”
2000-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4251 (2000) · source
“The draft resolution on which the Council will take action today does not deal with a peaceful settlement of the present conflict in Afghanistan, and it is silent on Pakistan's well-known aggression in Afghanistan. The draft resolution addresses one specific issue: the terrorism originating from that part of Afghan territory that is under military occupation by the diabolical Pakistan-Taliban-bin-Laden alliance. The Islamic State of Afghanistan condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. We affirm that the suppression of international terrorism is S/PV.4251 essential for the maintenance of international peace and security. We consider that terrorism is but one of the many effects of the military aggression against Afghanistan. The Security Council should therefore address the problem of Afghanistan in its entirety.”
2000-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4251 (2000) · source
“Here, we are grateful to Council members for having included clear and explicit provisions for the implementation of sanctions in such a way that they will not hamper the provision of humanitarian assistance to the Afghan population. Cautious use will thus be made of sanctions, in order to spare innocent people. By the terms of the draft resolution, we look forward to the Security Council employing all possible monitoring mechanisms to put a halt to transfers of weapons and ammunition and to the continued dispatch from Pakistan of the armed Pakistanis and military personnel who are helping the terrorists in Afghanistan, and so that all Pakistani military personnel and so- called volunteers will immediately leave Afghan soil.”
2000-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4251 (2000) · source
“The Pakistan/Taliban/bin Laden alliance has categorically refused to cooperate with the international community or to put an end to the training and haven it provides to international terrorists. In addition, that alliance has given new dimensions to terrorist activities and to extremists from all corners of the Earth. This fact was mentioned by the Secretary- General in his report of 20 November 2000: "There have also been persistent reports of the involvement of a substantial number of Arabs, Chechens, Pakistanis, Uighurs and other outsiders fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan". (8/2000/1106, para. 37) In response to that intransigence, the Security Council is considering the imposition of new measures. The Council is studying a new draft resolution in keeping with its responsibilities under the Charter.”
2000-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4251 (2000) · source
“Mr. Farhfidi (Afghanistan) (spoke in French): First of all, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of December 2000. May I also congratulate your predecessor on the skill with which he presided over the Council last month. In resolution 1267 (1999) of 15 October 1999, the Security Council made it clear that the suppression of international terrorism is essential for the maintenance of international peace and security. In the same resolution, the Council forcefully condemned the fact that terrorists continue to be made welcome and trained in the areas controlled by the Taliban, and that acts of terrorism take place there.”
2000-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4251 (2000) · source
“I have here a list of their names, which I will forward to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. In addition, the International Committee of the Red Cross has been informed of this matter.”
1999-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4037Resumption1 (1999) · source
“The child must not be raised in the spirit of bigotry, extremism and intolerance, as practised by the ISI and its affiliated organizations, including the Pakistani-backed Taliban. Allow me in conclusion to share with the members of the Security Council information with regard to the forced enrolment and recruiting of children by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Our defence forces have captured 63 children, aged 13 to 16, who have been treated in a special way by being separated from the adults. Some of these children were recruited, but others were forced to participate in combat in the first row of the front lines as cannon fodder. Our side has contacted the senior family members and relatives of these children, and the captured fighters have been sent back to their families.”
1999-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4037Resumption1 (1999) · source
“Afghan children are entitled to adequate health care, a decent education, nutritious food, a secure and loving family and a life of friendship and opportunity. We endorse the idea of a new peace and security agenda for children and women, ending the use of children as soldiers and providing better protection for children and women in conflict situations. The Islamic State of Afghanistan, as signatory to the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, reaffirms the fundamental place of the family in society and recognizes that the child should be brought up in the spirit of the ideals of the United Nations Charter, in particular peace, dignity, tolerance, freedom and equality. Gender equality must be maintained in all aspects, including the right to schooling.”
1999-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4037Resumption1 (1999) · source
“On the basis of these documents, Pakistani responsibility for waging an aggressive war against Afghanistan and the dispatch of young madrassa students are well established. The determination of this aggression and the threat which it poses to the region and to international peace and security falls to the Security Council, along with its adoption of strong measures against aggression. The Islamic State of Afghanistan firmly believes that wars have a tragic impact on civilians, especially children and women. We are of the view that the foreign-imposed Afghan crisis does not have a military solution. The foreign military and so-called "volunteers" and fighters should immediately leave Afghanistan. The Afghans should resolve their problems through peaceful dialogue and negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations.”
1999-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4037Resumption1 (1999) · source
“This fact has been increasingly and amply reported, even by Pakistani newspapers. The Security Council and General Assembly resolutions on Afghanistan - including Security Council resolution 1214 (1998) of 8 December 1998 - have called on all States to take resolute measures to prohibit their military personnel from planning and participating in military operations in Afghanistan. Furthermore, in accordance with the definition of aggression set out in article 3 (g) of General Assembly resolution 3314 (XXIX) of 14 December 1974, the sending by or on behalf of a State of armed bands, groups, irregulars or mercenaries, which carry out acts of armed force against another State is considered aggression.”
1999-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4037Resumption1 (1999) · source
“A holy struggle of Muslims against other Muslims has nothing holy in it and is a crime according to Islamic standards. The modus operandi of Pakistan also goes against the recognized principles of international law, the United Nations Charter, General Assembly and Security Council resolutions and even conventions signed and ratified by Pakistan. The Convention on the Rights of the Child, in article 38, stipulates that States Parties shall refrain from recruiting children into the army and that children shall not take part in hostilities. Thousands of young students from Punjab and Sindh in Pakistan have been recruited publicly and their religious schools have been officially closed. Before entering Afghanistan, they have received cursory military training in Pakistan. They have then been sent to the front lines of Afghanistan.”
1999-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4037Resumption1 (1999) · source
“The recruitment of young students from religious schools is being pursued by the 151, along with the dispatch of regular armed Pakistani personnel, to fight against the armed forces of the Islamic State of Afghanistan. This practice is advocated by some extremist religious organizations in Pakistan and, with the practical organization by the ISI of an effort of regimentation and indoctrination, is being deployed to justify and qualify this recruitment under the name of jihad or holy war. Fanaticism and bigotry are being inculcated in the fresh minds of these youngsters by the Pakistani military intelligence authorities to turn them into zealot fighters. Such acts are not in conformity with Islamic tenets. All this is done under the name of Islam.”
1999-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4037Resumption1 (1999) · source
“On 20 August 1999, the United Nations Information Centre reported from Islamabad how young students, some as young as 14, are being recruited for war in Afghanistan. Mr. Arsenault, the representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said that the Taliban delegation in Pakistan over the last two weeks appears to have recruited and sent between 2,000 and 2,500 fresh Taliban in expectation of a new offensive. The report adds that "a Taliban official recently told reporters that these students would be sent directly to the front lines". The Taliban have already admitted to the presence of Pakistanis in their ranks.”
1999-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4037Resumption1 (1999) · source
“In spite of the abundant evidence of the Pakistani military presence in Afghanistan, including captured Pakistani fighters in our custody - I repeat, including captured Pakistani fighters in our custody - about which we will elaborate further in the forthcoming open debate of the Security Council, Pakistan continues to deny its well- known involvement in Afghanistan. However, due to the multiplicity of evidence, recently, after five years of war, Pakistani officials finally admitted to the presence of so-called "volunteers" from Pakistani religious schools in the fighting in Afghanistan. We have some of these "volunteers" in our custody, who have confessed to how they were recruited, trained and sent to Afghanistan in vehicles provided by the Pakistani ISI.”
1999-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4037Resumption1 (1999) · source
“Despite the subsequent Pakistani-Taliban defeat, they barbarously pursued their planned widespread, systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing, genocide and a scorched-earth policy. The widespread use of cluster bombs; the levelling and torching of villages; the killing of hundreds of civilians, including women and children; the forced displacement of 40,000 women, elderly and children, in addition to 300,000 internally displaced persons; the separation of children from their families and the imprisonment of all male refugees in Kabul all present a new level of heinous crimes against humanity committed by the Pakistani-Taliban aggressors.”
1999-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4037Resumption1 (1999) · source
“The Islamic State of Afghanistan, in its previous statements before the Security Council over the past three years, has signalled the danger of the adventurous policy of Pakistan and the involvement in Afghanistan of its military personnel and members of its extremist organizations. This is a major threat to the peace and security of Central and South Asia. Despite the commitment given by Pakistan at the Tashkent meeting of the six-plus-two group on 19 July 1999, in which the participant countries agreed to put a halt to military support to any Afghan party and to prevent the use of their territories for such purposes, the Pakistani ISI directed and launched on 28 July a well-prepared all-out offensive attacking the civilian population of the Shamali Plains.”
1999-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4037Resumption1 (1999) · source
“The emergence of Taliban in 1994 and their military campaign, organized and financed by Pakistani military intelligence, known as the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and the involvement of Pakistani military personnel coupled with hundreds of Arabs and thousands of Pakistani extremists and so-called religious students from Pakistani schools, all of them armed, have created a new dimension in the conflict. Ethnic discrimination, religious intolerance and extremism are the main characteristics of the present conflict, which is abusively called a jihad, whereas a jihad of Muslims against Muslims is unheard of.”
1999-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4037Resumption1 (1999) · source
“One of the disastrous dimensions of the conflict is the victimization of children. Various categories of children have been and continue to be affected by the armed conflict, such as child soldiers, displaced children, refugee children, unaccompanied minors, child Victims of trafficking and sale, child victims of sexual exploitation and abuse, children affected by ethnic cleansing policies, child survivors of massacres, orphaned children abandoned or separated from their families, children traumatized due to war, child beggars, child victims of landmines, and many others. Those categories of children are the legacy of war and conflict in Afghanistan.”
1999-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4037Resumption1 (1999) · source
“As is now well known to the international community and to the States members of the Security Council, Afghanistan once again, since its establishment in 1992 as the Islamic State of Afghanistan, has been the victim of undeclared conflicts imposed by neighbouring countries, in this case Pakistan. The Pakistani objective remains to secure space - or, as characterized by its officials, "strategic depth" - through ensuring a subservient regime in Afghanistan. This design reminds us of the Nazi policy of Lebensranm in the 1940s, in which ethnic cleansing and genocide were widely practised. This continued conflict in our country, involving children, has inflicted on already war-stricken Afghanistan huge suffering for the Afghan people, widespread destruction, impoverishment and distress.”
1999-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4037Resumption1 (1999) · source
“The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has urged avoiding the recruitment of children under 18 years of age and getting them involved in warfare, as Louis- Georges Arsenault, the UNICEF representative in Afghanistan, told a news conference. The United Nations Coordinator for Afghanistan, Mr. Broneck Szynolsky, has said there are some 30,000 to 40,000 displaced persons in Kabul. In addition, there are over 200,000 persons in northern Afghanistan newly displaced as a result of the latest massive offensive launched by the Taliban. Mr. Arsenault also said that over the past two weeks, the Taliban had visited madrassas - religious schools - in Pakistan and had succeeded in recruiting and sending away thousands of students.”
1999-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4037Resumption1 (1999) · source
“I take this opportunity to extend my thanks to the members of the Security Council and to His Excellency Mr. Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General, who strongly condemned on Tuesday last week the forced displacement of civilians in Afghanistan as a result of the latest offensive by Pakistani-Taliban troops north of Kabul. He said he was concerned about reports that youngsters had been involved in the fighting. The Secretary-General also expressed deep concern over reports of the involvement of students, some as young as 14, and called for respect for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which bars the use of child soldiers.”
1999-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4037Resumption1 (1999) · source
“I congratulate you, Sir, on the manner in which you are presiding over the Security Council today. We are happy to see this meeting chaired by an eminent diplomat such as you. I congratulate your country, where I personally witnessed during a visit to Windhoek the efforts of your countrymen to work for the progress of Namibia, but with full awareness of belonging to the United Nations. We also thank Ambassador Andjaba for his very valuable efforts in the United Nations. We were greatly impressed by the words of Ambassador Olara Otunnu, which reflected his highly credible work. He has performed his mission not only by Visiting so many countries and travelling widely in many continents, but also by translating into action all of his heartfelt devotion to humanity.”
1999-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4037Resumption1 (1999) · source