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1992-07-15
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  1. “Both sides, with the help of the international community, must find the determination to return to the negotiating table for the sake of a new, democratic South Africa.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  2. “Frederik De Klerk, only reflects the great importance of this. The international community and all persons of vision in the South African communities must prevent the Boipatong massacre - the bloodiest since 1990 ~ from leading to an irreconcilable confrontation between the forces of progress in the various communities of the South African people. The South African patriots, for their part, must realize that they stand to gain nothing from the prolongation of an inhuman, non-democratic, racial system, a system that has been condemned. They must put an end to the violence, conduct an inquiry and bring the guilty to justice. Those on the other side must realize that the failure inherent in not resuming the constitutional negotiations would dangerously perpetuate subjugation and the spectre of violence and ethnic hatred.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  3. “Today, the Council should carry cut that task by trying to end the endemic violence in South Africa which is inflicting great suffering on the black community and which could well drag South Africa - indeed, the whole subregion - into a terrible disaster. Congo condemns political violence in South Africa. We have been following with concern its consequences for the delicate democratic process that began two years ago. The tragic massacres in Boipatong township are fratricidal and heinous, and are to be condemned; we cannot fail therefore to wonder about the responsibility of any Government to guarantee the security of its citizens and to protect their property. The fragility of the thread of dialogue so painstakingly spun by the President of the ANC, Mr. Nelson Mandela, and by the President of South Africa, Mr.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  4. “In its 1992 report, Amnesty International has affirmed that President De Klerk's Government has continued the process of dismantling apartheid. But it also asserts that there is considerable testimony accusing the police and army special-forces units of having participated in political murders, of having abetted the perpetrators of such acts, or in certain cicumstances of having shown bias in favour of one party against the African National Congress of South Africa (ANC). The radicalization of the ANC - if we can thus describe it - was no mere chance. Its President, Mr. Nelson Mandela, in his important address at the beginning of this debate, spelled out for the Council the exact dimensions of the situation. The principal task of the Security Council under the Charter is to Maintain world peace.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  5. “This United States congressional report also found that the black majority in South Africa continues to be denied sovereignty, to be the victim of rampant discrimination as a result of the laws and practices of the dominant system. The report states that South Africa continues to be governed by a parliamentary regime elected by a smail white minority: "The whites, 13.5 per cent of the population, retain a monopoly of formal political power". There can be no doubt that the last pillars of apartheid have been dismantled, that the Security Act has been revised and that political prisoners have been released. The Government finally accepted the return of political exiles under the auspices of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  6. “Three months after the referendum supporting President De Klerk's reforms - in which only the members of the white community could vote ~- there has been a resurgence of all the fears that accompany the laborious efforts to settle South Africa's vital problems: human rights, the democratic process and constitutional negotiations. I note that the most recent annual report by the United States Congress on human rights as practised in each country states that the process of reform in South Africa continued in 1991 but that it was marred by frequent and serious incidents of political violence which, from January to November, resulted in a conservative estimate of 2,050 deaths.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  7. “A particularly awful example of this endemic violence took place on 17 June: an event of destruction among the members of the majority black community of South Africa - a majority, but completely denied the exercise of power. South Africa's townships experience this kind of tragedy nearly every day. Yet the massacres on the night of 17 to 18 June 1992 in the Boipatong shantytown served as an abrupt and painful reminder of the extreme, blind violence of past years that would be ignited as a method of government, to such an extent that some observers trustworthy to the regime did not hesitate to speak of the precariousness of the political situation in South Africa.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  8. “CODESA, the Convention for a Democratic South Africa, has thus imposed its authority in the new South African political landscape. All of this momentum for reform and the progress achieved were described in the introductory remarks which Congo strongly supports. Those remarks were very well presented to the Council on behalf of the Organization of African Unity by my colleague and friend, Mr. Djibo Ka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Senegal, For that reason I shall not dwell at great length on this subject. But I want to draw the Council's attention to the political violence, whose unfortunate virulence is a constant reminder to all that the situation in that country, and its future, remain precarious.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  9. “He has our best wishes for the discharge of his weighty responsibilities. In the last few years the process of reform in South Africa has taken on unprecedented scope, which has been marked by historic milestones, such as the release of the President of the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela, whose presence among us we warmly welcome today. Aliso, more recently, we have seen the National Peace Accord concluded on 14 September, which brought together in the same momentum for progress among its principal signatories, the Government, the African National Congress and Inkatha. Other gestures and significant political measures which have been welcomed with satisfaction by the international community then followed, in particular the constitutional negotiations between the opposition and the Government.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  10. “Mr. GANGA (Congo) (interpretation from French): The delegation of the Republic of Congo takes great pleasure, Mr. President, in seeing you presiding over the work of the Security Council. Like my colleagues who have spoken before me, I shouid like to congratulate you. The friendship, fraternity and cooperation that bind Congo to your country, Cape Verde, unquestionably contribute to the development of fruitful relations within the Organization of African Unity. My thanks go to your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of Belgium, with which we have close bonds of friendship, for the competent manner in which he presided over the work of the Security Council last month. As this is the first time that I have spoken in this Council, I wish to extend a greeting to Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary-General of the United Nations.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source