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Ghafoorzai

lines on the record: 156
first: 1992-11-16
most recent: 2019-05-23
sittings or episodes: 8
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“With the passing of time, the real nature of Taliban and their links with foreign quarters have become known to our countrymen. Even in the rank and file of Taliban themselves, this fact has been sometimes been resented and objections have been voiced. The disclosure of the facts has caused discontent and a centrifugal trend among those Taliban who are patriots and who had participated in good faith in the actions of these retrograde mercenaries. Let me now turn to the ongoing peace process in Afghanistan and the United Nations Special Mission's contribution to it. The people and the Government of Afghanistan are thankful to the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“Fourthly, complementary to the trends towards, and a certain agenda for, terrorism, a terrorist group needs to accumulate funds and weapons, with which Taliban seem to have already been well supplied. The promoters of the Taliban, both those close by and those linked at a distance, unequivocally believed that deploying this group would secure them a permanent influence in Afghanistan. Our estimation is that since the emergence of the Taliban in September 1994 a vast budget, probably exceeding $2 billion, has been channelled through and by Pakistani intelligence circles to this group. They have consequently managed to secure a tyrannical military presence in a number of provinces of Afghanistan, while hatred and resentment of their uncivilized and retrograde practices has been on the rise among civilians.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“First, bearing in mind the tendency of the Taliban to aim for the possession of power and their reluctance even to share power with the other parties, should they fail to achieve what they are promised, they will naturally resort to terrorism as a means of revenge. Secondly, the Taliban are currently in a series of close contacts with some fundamentalist groups, such as Sepah-e-Sahaba in Pakistan, that are inclined to practise armed hostilities against other sects. Thirdly, the possession of military bases, together with operational fields inside Afghanistan, would further provide them with the chance to expand throughout the region and even beyond.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“When they asked the "governor's" permission to take pictures of the city, the "governor" denied it because they were non-believers. The "governor" requested them to convert to Islam first, after which he would grant them permission to take as many pictures as they wanted. When the "governor" was asked why the administration was not banning the cultivation and trafficking of illicit drugs, his reply was "too simple": because drugs end up in Europe and the United States they are endangering only the lives of Kafirs - the unfaithful. Drug trafficking is therefore a "holy trade". Concrete experience elsewhere in today's human societies has proved that drug trafficking practised by armed groups automatically brings organized crime, banditry and terrorism; the case of the Taliban in Afghanistan, is no exception for the following reasons.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“As a result, the Taliban have an additional source of income to continue their military operations, which, according to them, are the only means of achieving their goals and objectives. It is interesting to note that in mid-February 1996 two correspondents from The Times of London visited Herat. There they met with senior Taliban officials and the "governor of the province". On returning from Herat to Kabul, the correspondents confirmed Government reports regarding the dramatic increase in the cultivation of narcotics in the province. They also added that the Turkmenistan authorities had officially admitted having arrested 500 Taliban on the charge of illicit drug-smuggling into Turkmenistan. The British journalists had "funny experiences" in Herat as well.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“In addition to the cultivation of poppies on the outskirts of Herat, hundreds of new acres of land between Gereshk and Herat are now producing poppies. It is a matter of serious concern that, according to reliable reports, the Taliban, with the support of the politico-military Mafia of the adjacent country, have been able to get their hands on advanced portable drug- processing and refining machines that even produce morphine and heroin. These machines have so far been set up in Helmand and Kandahar. Accordingly, for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, opium is now being processed into morphine and heroin inside the country, in the Taliban-controlled areas. According to the report, in the past five months more than 200 tons of narcotics have been exported outside Afghanistan from the areas controlled by the Taliban.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“This has been reported by the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights for Afghanistan (A/50/567, annex). In these areas, women are actively participating in the political, social and economic life of the country. There are 383 women officers in the Afghan army, ranging in rank from Lieutenant-General to captains and pilots. Many women diplomats are in the foreign service, enjoying co-education at the university level. It is my sad duty to draw the Council's attention to a looming catastrophe threatening our region and beyond: the cultivation, processing and trafficking of narcotics in Afghanistan, which are widening dreadfully under Taliban rule and have assumed dangerous dimensions. Poppy cultivation in the areas held by the Taliban has dramatically increased.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“Television owners are sometimes seen in the streets with their smashed televisions and cassettes hanging from their necks. This act has been called "TV execution". The report on television also covered the scene of protest of as many as 30 veiled Afghan women on a street, demanding the opening of the girls' schools. In the wake of these extreme attitudes, the United Nations Children's Fund and many non-governmental organizations have lately discontinued their operations in the areas under the military occupation of the Taliban. The attention of the Council is hereby drawn to the fact that, contrary to the negative and ruthless conduct of the Taliban with regard to human rights, especially those of women, the situation is completely different in the areas under the administration of the Government.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“Since the young girls are to be wives and mothers, they will not be able to provide adequate Islamic teaching to their children in the framework of their families, and that is a very important concept in an Islamic society. This obviously leads an Islamic society to degradation and cultural downfall. The Taliban, however, do not understand these facts and claim to monopolize the absolute truth and righteousness of Islam. Christiane Amanpour of CNN reported on 3 April 1995 from Herat that a group of armed Taliban had broken into homes in Herat province and smashed tape- recorders and VCRs, arguing that religion forbids these devices. According to the report, armed Taliban in the streets of Herat stop vehicles and search for stereos.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“Many of these female instructors were also teaching in boys' primary schools. Many boys' primary schools have even been closed under Taliban rule because of the absence of the female teachers. Women are not allowed to work anywhere outside their homes. Herat - one of the most famous cities of Islam since the second century of Hijra, where schools for girls existed for many centuries - and other towns in the provinces of Kandahar, Nimroz and Farah are now deprived of women's education. These cities are condemned by Taliban rule to maintain their female populations in darkness and ignorance and even to be deprived of the Islamic knowledge taught in women's schools throughout Afghanistan.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“The Taliban claim that they want to implement "Islamic teachings". Unfortunately, their conception of Islamic precepts is far from the genuine principles of Islam. They believe that cutting off a hand and a foot of a man or woman accused of being a thief is imperative, without adequate investigation or proof and without the right of the accused to be defended in a fair trial. They do not want to recognize that the application of these punitive norms, known as hadd in genuine Islamic jurisprudence, requires that appropriate and strict conditions be met. The main and most dangerous precept of the Taliban is to forbid girls and women to come out of their houses. According to the Taliban, for a female, going to school is un-Islamic. Women teachers are ordered to refrain from teaching in schools.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“There can be no in-depth consideration of the situation in Afghanistan without a realistic analysis of the newly emerged group called the Taliban, whose name means students of religious schools, and its political and social agenda. In all Islamic countries there are many religious schools known as madrassas, as well as other educational institutions, where various subjects related to the Islamic religion are taught. The purpose of these schools and institutions is to prepare Muslim youth to work for religious services on behalf of their countrymen. In no madrassa in the Islamic world are taught the arts of modern warfare, such as the usage of artillery and rockets and the flying of helicopter gunships and jet fighters. This type of education is the work of military academies.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“Some officials, including the powerful Interior Minister, Nasirullah Babar, still strongly support the Afghan fundamentalist group, Taliban, while others, including officials in Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's office, condemn the fundamentalists for their hard-line policies towards women and their brutal law-and-order policies." The article also says that "Senior Pakistani officials have acknowledged that there have been second thoughts about the consequences for Pakistan of a Taliban government in Kabul, which might foment Muslim fundamentalism, and possibly even secessionism, in Pakistani-ruled tribal areas bordering Afghanistan." The Pakistani newspaper Nation, on 3 December 1995, published an article entitled "Punjab wants Lahore Rule in Afghanistan", which reads "Quetta - Mahmood Khan Achakzai, Member of the Pakistan National Assembly and the Chairman of the Pakhtoon Khawa Milli Awami Party (PMAP), while accusing the Punjab and Inter-Service Intelligence of the destruction of Afghanistan, claimed 'Both want to impose the rule of Lahore over Kabul through the Taliban"'.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“John Burns, who in The New York Times of 27 March 1996 says that "after 18 months of covert military and financial backing for a guerrilla group that has imposed Muslim fundamentalist rule on more than half of Afghanistan, Pakistan appears to have shifted towards a policy that aims to bring an end to the civil war". The article continues, "for years Pakistan's involvement in the Afghan conflict has been managed by an assortment of civilian and military agencies that have often worked at cross purposes, so the change has not been clear-cut.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“Here, on the record, I should like to mention a few examples, from among many, of the Pakistani newspapers' and politicians' views about Pakistan's intervention in Afghanistan. As early as 20 October 1995, a prominent Pakistani newspaper, Dawn, featured an editorial written by a senior Pakistani political analyst and writer, Mr. M. Baqir Naqvi. Analysing the root causes of the conflict, the editorial says, "politicians in Islamabad would do well to pause and ponder that the Taliban's umbilical cord to Pakistan has been visible to all". The ideas expressed by Mr. Naqvi were confirmed after thorough study by the well-known American journalist and analyst Mr.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“Consequently, initial agreement among the three members of the opposition coalition was secured. To sabotage Kabul's efforts, the Pakistani authorities, on 7 February 1996, convened a special three-day gathering of the Afghan opposition in Islamabad. Red-carpet treatment was given to the leaders of the opposition groups. By this notorious manoeuvre, Pakistani authorities managed to foil the initial understandings reached between the Government and the opposition. The correspondents of renowned newspapers around the world have recorded the statements of their eyewitnesses concerning the direct involvement of Pakistani conspirators and saboteurs in the internal affairs of our country.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“He had been received by President Rabbani and had presented his credentials to him. Fifthly, on 5 November 1995, Mr. Sardar Aseff Ahmad Ali, Pakistani Minister for Foreign Affairs, accompanied by Ambassador Qazi Homayun, paid a sudden visit to Mazar-i-Sharif in the northern province of Balkh of Afghanistan, for "negotiations" with Mr. Abdul-Rashid Dostum, a military leader of the opposition. The visit took place without prior information being communicated to the Afghan Government, in violation of all recognized international norms. Sixthly, as a result of the recent endeavours of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, sustained dialogue for further broadening the base of the Government, as well as consolidation of the political process in the country, has taken place.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“T hirdly, on 28 September 1995, the Pakistani state-run Telecommunication Corporation, without the agreement of the Afghan Central Government, laid new telephone cables for military occupation purposes in southern and western Afghanistan. Fourthly, on 9 December 1995, when the Government of Pakistan decided to site its Embassy in Jalalabad, the administrative centre of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, that decision was taken, like others before it, unilaterally and without consultation with the Afghan Government. The Pakistani Government also decided to send Ambassador Qazi Homayun and staff members of the Embassy to Jalalabad. It is ironic to note that Mr. Qazi Homayun had been accredited as Pakistani Ambassador to the Government of Afghanistan in the capital city, Kabul.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“This group was trained in Quetta, Pakistan, and sent into Afghanistan along with Pakistani intelligence officers and Pakistani frontier militia. The evidence and facts proving the Taliban to be a creation of the Inter-Service Intelligence (151) and the Pakistani Ministry of the Interior can be found in the statement made by the Afghan delegation on 19 December 1995 before the 95th plenary meeting of the General Assembly (A/SO/PV.95), and also in international news media reports. Secondly, during 1995 and early 1996, Pakistani aeroplanes transporting arms and ammunition violated on numerous occasions the airspace of Afghanistan and landed in Kandahar, Shindand and Herat airports. Some instances of these violations were identified before the General Assembly, as contained in document A/50/PV.95.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“Furthermore, on different occasions, including during recent weeks, as a gesture of good will on the part of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, a considerable number of captured Pakistani saboteurs and spies have been released. As related in our statement before the General Assembly at its fiftieth session, some still remain in our custody: their names and descriptions appear in document A/50/PV.95. I should like to draw the attention of the members of the Security Council very briefly to some hard evidence of the interventions of Pakistani intelligence circles in Afghanistan. First, Pakistani military intelligence, coupled with the Pakistani Ministry of the Interior, created in September 1994 a group of mercenaries called Taliban.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“During the coup, more than 3,000 rockets were showered on the innocent inhabitants of Kabul and on residential targets in the city. These acts of aggression took over 4,000 innocent lives and wounded approximately 8,000 people, mostly women and children. Pakistani military and intelligence elements were physically involved in that abortive coup attempt and brutal attack on Kabul. The Government captured 25 heavily armed Pakistani militiamen; they were later released to His Highness Prince Turki Al Faisal, Minister of National Security of Saudi Arabia, who, in a goodwill mission, visited Kabul to secure their release.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“These circles sponsor meetings, gatherings and ventures, with the hope of forging an anti-Government coalition, to attempt to assault Kabul and to sabotage an inter-Afghan dialogue which would be conducive to national reconciliation and reconstruction. Since the establishment in April 1992 of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, Pakistani military intelligence circles have covertly been working towards their goal by supporting, provoking and stirring up their stooges to seize power in Kabul. This malicious conspiracy has caused vast devastation and human losses. The inter-Afghan dialogues were once sabotaged outright. The world witnessed the abortive coup attempt of 1 January 1994 against the Islamic State of Afghanistan by armed groups, some of them quartered on Pakistani soil.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“However, since identifying the root causes of the conflict is an indispensable prerequisite for a genuine search for a lasting, credible and comprehensive solution, we must elaborate on and analyse the factors shaping the conflict. I cannot but underscore briefly the unfriendly, and indeed hostile, behaviour of those Pakistani intelligence circles, acting against the most sincere will of the Pakistani nation and their valued historical and moral capital - namely, the fraternity of the Afghan people. Pakistani circles, led by the Inter-Service Intelligence (151), the military intelligence service, jeopardize peace through hypocritical attempts masquerading as efforts for peace, and supplement the tension by fanning the flame of ethnic hatred among our people.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“Ironically, we note with anguish that, over the last four years, conspirators and interventionists linked to Pakistani military intelligence circles, sometimes in connivance with other outside supporters, have been attempting to overthrow the Government of the Islamic State of Afghanistan and to enthrone a Pakistani-approved regime in Kabul. This hostile and unjust scheme has given rise to a renewed, widespread Afghan resistance, while creating legitimate concern for the countries of the region. It is common knowledge that the motive behind convening this meeting is not to make allegations, but, rather, to seek a trusted and credible way out of the ongoing conflict in my country, Afghanistan.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“Yes, the Afghan nation, after enduring the sacrifice of 1.7 million human lives, contributed to, among the most important factors, the diminishing of the threat of a nuclear confrontation, the end of the cold war, the preservation of human values and the further strengthening of the framework of a world order based on democracy and human rights. This nation deserves sympathy from the world community. It should have been supported in its national endeavours aimed at overcoming the problems left by 17 years of war, as well as in the serious challenges it faces in its reconstruction.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“The Afghan delegation would like to ask the Council why the people of Afghanistan, who have been the victims of aggression and foreign interference since 1978, have once again been exposed to a conspiracy and foreign military intervention. Why has the civilian population - including women, children and the elderly, especially in the capital, Kabul - which has long undergone hardships, bereavement, deprivation, hunger and homelessness, come constantly under inhuman rocket attacks and sometimes aerial bombardment, by the mercenaries called "Taliban", causing deaths, injuries and destruction?”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“The nations that are determined to live independently and free from alignment, as positive elements of world peace and tranquillity, have placed their trust and hope in the United Nations Organization. This trust is placed in particular in the obligations under the Charter of the Security Council, which bears the crucial task of the maintenance of global and regional peace and stability. Quite naturally, it is primarily the Security Council that sovereign nations look to whenever there is a threat to the peace or a breach of the peace with an act of aggression. Therefore, the delegation of Afghanistan has been looking for such an opportunity to have the voice of the Afghans heard by this Council.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“I should like to begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of April. We all know the outstanding contributions you have made to the work of the United Nations, especially during the many United Nations gatherings over which you have presided, at which your wisdom and patience have been recognized. I should also like to pay a special tribute to your predecessor, Ambassador Legwaila of Botswana, who presided with ability and wisdom over the Security Council meetings held during the month of March. Allow me to extend to you, Sir, and to each member of the Council, my delegation's appreciation for the convening of this orientation debate on Afghanistan, as well as for the opportunity provided to the delegation of the Islamic State of Afghanistan to address the Council.”
1996-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3648 (1996) · source
“While we appreciate t:he peace-keeping efforts of the world body. we believe that, ia view of the fact that the embargo has increased the imbalance to the advantage of the aggressors, a unilateral lifting of the embarge is necessary for the Bosnians to exercise their right to self-defence.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source
“The draft resolution should clearly and unequivocally warn the Serbian aggressors and their backers that the world will not sit still and that their crimes will not go unpunished. What we need today is not more resolutions similar to those already adopted but, rather, a resolution for positive action, one that will not put the people of Bosnia to further strain and at greater disadvantage. My delegation, while supporting the idea of creating safe havens for the refugees within the territory of Bosnia and advocating a tougher no-fly zone for military aircraft over Bosnian airspace, also supports the efforts of the United Nations, its various agencies and the non-governmental organizations currently assisting the Bosnian people. However, we feel that there is more to be done to defend the Bosnians and to help then to defend themselves.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source
“It is really unfortunate to see the principles of respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity and non-interference in the internal affairs of States, which are the cornerstone of the Organization and of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, constantly being violated by Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), which once, as one of the founders of the Movement, helped to install them as one uf its basic elements. Serbia and Montenegro could revive the spirit of the former Yugoslavia by submitting to justice and to the call of the international community. We believe that the draft resolution to be adopted after the present debate should do more than echo the previous resolutions adopted by the Council] on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and that it should set out an action-oriented policy aimed at ending the calamity in that country.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source
“We have denounced aggression and have taken a united stand in the face of its use against sovereiga States. Europe long ago pledged its determination to safeguard and promote peace. The horrifying memories of the holocaust are still with us but, surprisingly, the world community has yet to take resolute action in the face of naked aggression against a sovereign State - at the least to remove the unjustifiable arms embargo, thus enabling this victimized nation to defend itself.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source
“that 70 per cent of the territory of that small, sovereign and indep dent member of the world family is illegally occupied and held captive and hunureds of thousands of the country's innocent Muslims and Croats have been ezpelied from their homes and subjected to the abhorrent policy of "ethnic cleansing", which has subjected the Muslim population of the country to untold suffering and threatens them with extermination. We hear some express fears that the lifting of the arms embargo could further escalate the conflict. We would have preferred their suggesting an effective and action-oriented alternative to prevent the extermination and annihilation of a nation and the total destruction of a young Member of this Organization. We have entered into a new phase in world relations.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source
“Acceptance of the notion that the sovereign State of Bosnia and Herzegovina is subject to political dictates that affect the former Yugoslavia may contradict our own announcement of recognition of Sosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign State. It is even more painful to note that the embargo on arms shipments benefits the Serbian side, which has the active support of the former Yugoslav armed forces, while placing the Bosnian side at a great disadvantage. Moreover, the sanctions are not being decisively implemented. The Ambassador of the United States has cited some of the violations in the course of this debate. In our view, every one of the principles set forth on the first page of the Charter of the Orvanization have been violated with regard to Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the resul'.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source
“One thing ia obvious, and that is that in November of 1992 the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina is not the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia of 1991. From the legal standpoint it seems senseless to contend that the sovereign State of Bosnia and Herzegovina should be subject to an arms embargo and sanctions because it was once part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Furtharmore, the Republic of Bosnia nd Herzegovina, after democratically electing its Government in early 1992, declared its independence in February 1992 and was subsequently recognized by the international community as a sovereign State, being admitted to the United Nations upon recognition of the legitimacy of its Government.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source
“The nearest that Security Council resolution comes to being applicable to the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina is its operative paragraph 6, which states that the Security Council "Decides, under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, that al1 States shall, for the purposes of establishing peace and stability in Yugoslavia, immediately implement a general and complete embargo on all deliveries of weapons and military equipment to Yugoslavia until the Security Council decides otherwise following consultations between the Secretary-General and the Government of Yugosiavia." It may be clear from that text that the Security Council resolution imposed sanctions on what was called Yugoslavia in September 1991, when Serbia and Montenegro was at war with Croatia.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source
“Let us examine the rationale of such a claim. Security Council resolution 713 (1991) provides ample, sufficient and conclusive proof that the Council has not imposed an embargo on Bosnia and Herzegovina. In fact, resolution 713 (1991) dealt with the conflict batween two parties, Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro, at a time when Bosnia and Herzegovina was not even an issue, Indeed, in no legal or technics] sense does Security Council resolution 713 (1991) pertain to Hosnia and Herzegovina, for the resolution was adopted in September 1991, whiie the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina arose in April of 1992.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source
“That is why we consider it our moral duty to stand firm for the principles for which the Organization has fought for decades. Certainly, the United Nations, through the Council, has made Commendable contributions to the maintenance of international peace and security and has indeed prevented thousands of innocent people from perishing in hotbeds of tension around the globe. In the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, however, the Organization has been the source of some Gisappointment for all those who believe in international justice and those who have placer their hope and trust in the Organization. This may be particularly true for those who question the validity and justifiability of the arms embargo against the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina. which seriously hamper their just and inherent right to self-defence.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source
“We know how it feels when a foreign aggressor, equipped with modern weapons of death and destruction, invades one's territory and subjects an innocent nation to untold sufferings and inhuman atrocities. Our opposition to the aggression against national sovereignty, territorial integrity, fundamental human rights and the national unity of Bosnia and Herzegovina is not only on the basis of Islamic Solidarity. To the Islamic State of Afghanistan it is a matter of principle to stand in defence of the oppressed against the oppressor and aggressor. It matters not whether the cppressed is a Muslim or non-Muslim nation. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a clear case of confiict between justice and injustice, between right and wrong, and between respact for and @isregard of fundamental human rights.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source
“As indicated in the first report, the Muslim population are the principal victims and are virtually threatened with extermination." (S/24766, para, 5) While my delegation welcomes the heroic and exhausting work of the United Nations Protection Force, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the aforementioned individuals, we strongly believe that more and immediate action must be taken before it is too late for the people of Bosnia. Afghanistan, having itself experienced a terrible war of aggression not too long ago, shares and understands the pain, frustration and suffering of the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source
“Ogata, it is obvious that a clear line divides the oppressor from the oppressed. Bosnia has lost three quarters of its territory to the Serbian aggression, and its population is being systematically "cleansed" on the basis of their ethnicity. As is evident from Mr. Mazowiecki's report contained in document &/24766, widespread human rights violations are taking place in Bosnia and Herzegovina concurrently with the negotiations and commitments taking place in Geneva. The report specifies: "As a result of those violations, a great number of people are suffering and have lost their lives. Thousands more find their lives threatened and their human dignity violated. Unless immediate action is taken, many of them will not survive the coming winter.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source
“At the outset, Sir, may I congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of November. We wish you @ successful presidency. especially when a very important matter, namely the grave situation in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is under consideration. We also commend the outstanding leadership the Permanent Representative of France provided the Council during the month of October. Having listened carefully to the presentations of the Co-Chairmen of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, Mr. Cyrus Vance and Lord David Owen, as well as the insightful remarks of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, Mr. Mazowiecki, and the information provided by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Mrs.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source
“While we appreciate the peace-keeping efforts of the world body, we believe that, in view of the fact that the embargo has increased the imbalance to the advantage of the aggressors, a unilateral] lifting of the embargo is necessary for the Bosnians to exercise their right to self-defence.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“The Graft resolution should clearly and uneguivocally warn the Serbian aggressors and their backers that the world will not sit still and that their crimes will not go unpunished. What we need today is not more resolutions similar to those already adopted but, rather, a resolution for positive action, one that will not put the people of Bosnia to further strain and at greater disadvantage. My delegation, while supporting the idea of creating ssfe havens for the refugees within the territory of Bosnia and advocating a tougher no-fly zone for military aircraft over Bosnian airspace, also supports the efforts of the United Nations, its various agencies and the non-governmental organizations currently assisting the Bosnian people. However, we feel that there isa more to be done to defend the Bosnians and to help them to defend themselves.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“It is really unfortunate to see the principles of respect for sovereigaty, territorial integrity and non-interference in the internal affairs of States, which are the cornerstone of the Organization and of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, constantly being violated by Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), which once, as one of the founders of the Movement, heiped to install them ag one of its basic elements. Serbia and Montenegro could revive the spirit of the former Yugoslavia by submitting to justice and to the call of the international community. We believe that the draft resolution to be adopted after the present Gebate should do more than echo the previous resolutions adopted by the Council on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and that it should set out an action-oriented policy aimed at ending the calamity in that country.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“We have denounced aggression and have taken a united stand in the face of its use against sovereign States. Europe long ago pledged its determination to safeguard and Promote peace. The horrifying memories of the holocaust are still with us but, surprisingly, the world community has yet to take resolute action in the face of naked aggression against a sovereign State - at the least to remove the unjustifiable arms embargo, thus enabling this victimized nation to defend itself.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“that 70 per cent of the territory of that small, sovereign and indep 'dent member of the world family is illegally occupied and held captive and hundreds of thousands of the country's innocent Muslims and Croats have been expelled from their homes and subjected to the abhorrent policy of "ethnic cleansing", which has subjected the Musiim population of the country to untold suffering and threatens them with extermination, We hear some express fears that the lifting of the arms embargo could further escalate the conflict. We would have preferred their suggesting an effective and action-oriented alternative to prevent the extermination and annihilation of a nation and the total destruction of a young Member of this Organization. We have entered into a new phase in world relations.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“Acceptance of the notion that the sovereign State of Bosnia and Herzegovina is subject to political dictates that affect the former Yugoslavia may contradict our own announcement of recognition of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign State. It is even more painful to note that the embargo on arms shipments benefits the Serbian side, which has the active support of the former Yugoslav armed forces, while placing the Bosnian side at a great disadvantage. Moreover, the sanctions are not being decisively implemented. The Ambassador of the United States has cited some of the violations in the course of this debate. In our view, every one of the principles set forth on the first page of the Charter of the Orvanization have been violated with regard to Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the resul'.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“One thing is obvious, and that is that in November of 1992 the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina is not the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia of 1991. From the legal standpuint it seems senseiess to coltend that tie sovereign State of Bosnia and Herzegovina should be subject to an arms embargo and sanctions because it was once part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Furthermore, the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, after democratically electing its Government in early 1992, declared its independence in February 1992 and was subsequently recognized by the international community as a sovereign State, being admitted to the United Nations upon recognition of the legitimacy of its Government.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source
“The nearest that Security Council resolution comes to being applicable to the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina is its operative paragraph 6, whicu states that the Security Council "Decides, under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, that all States shall, for ths purposes of establishing peace and stability in Yugoslavia, immediately implement a general and complete embargo on ail deliveries of weapous and military equipment to Yugoslavia until the Security Council decides otherwise following consultations between the Secretary-General and the Government of Yugoslavia." It may be clear from that text that the Security Council resolution imposed sanctions on what was called Yugoslavia in September 1991, when Serbia and Montenegro was at war with Croatia.”
1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source