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1994-11-09
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1998-06-29
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  1. “Likewise, considering the need for adjusting the legal framework to the specific situation of children in warfare, Romania strongly supports the finalization and adoption of the draft optional protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict. In conclusion, we reaffirm that our action and cooperation should be guided by the commitment to give a high priority to the essential needs of children at both the national and international levels, in time of peace as well as in time of armed conflict. We believe that today's public debate and the presidential statement to be adopted at the end of the debate are an important step forward in this direction.”

    1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source

  2. “In our opinion, particular care should be taken by Governments, with the support of the international community, to ensure the physical and psychic recovery of children suffering from war traumas and their reintegration into society. Romania shares the view that the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child offers a comprehensive legal framework for protecting children, for providing for their needs and well-being, and for allowing them to grow and develop with dignity. Thus we urge the United Nations Member States to achieve its universal ratification and to fully implement its provisions. We should not forget that these provisions apply equally in time of peace and in time of armed conflict.”

    1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source

  3. “Accordingly, it should be given enhanced consideration, in a coordinated manner and from multiple perspectives, by all the United Nations entities which deal with these issues. I have in mind in particular, in addition to the indispensable political approach by the General Assembly and the Security Council, the most valuable expertise of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office of the Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations. We welcome in this respect the initiative of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict to bring together, in an informal advisory group, senior officers from several United Nations structures.”

    1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source

  4. “We appreciate his endeavours to collect information and render it visible and, through international cooperation in this field, to promote national and international measures in order to improve the situation of those children and ensure respect for their human rights. I should like also to pay homage to Ms. Graca Machel, who, by her challenging report on the impact of armed conflict on children, presented in 1996, and by her valuable recommendations, practically unleashed the international campaign on this painful issue. The situation of children in armed conflict is closely related to the question of the status and well-being of refugee and displaced children as well as to that of juvenile exploitation.”

    1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source

  5. “Many suffer serious injuries resulting in permanent disability and are prey to random assaults, rape, mutilation or slaughter. At the same time, we deplore the trend of increasing participation, direct or indirect, of children in armed conflict. We unreservedly endorse the principle that children must have no part in warfare and that all parties to armed conflicts should refrain from recruiting and involving children in hostilities. Therefore my delegation takes this opportunity to commend the important work carried out by Mr. Olara Otunnu, in his capacity as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, in raising the awareness of Governments, civil society and the international community alike on unacceptable violations of the rights of the child.”

    1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source

  6. “This meeting acquires enhanced significance during this current international year of human rights, when we are commemorating two outstanding events: the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the mid-term review of the implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. Romania is profoundly concerned with the devastating impact of war or armed conflict on children. We see it as a failure of the Member States to fulfil the commitment they assumed, in the opening words of the United Nations Charter, to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war". The basic living conditions of these children are diminished and destroyed; they can be driven from their homes and separated from their families.”

    1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source

  7. “Allow me at the outset to join previous speakers in congratulating you, Mr. President, on your excellent performance in the exercise of this function. Since my country has subscribed to the statement delivered by the representative of the United Kingdom on behalf of the European Union, I will briefly focus on some points of particular importance to my Government. My delegation appreciates as highly significant the convening for the first time in this forum of this public debate on the issue of children in armed conflict. This marks the recognition by the international community of the tremendous importance of children and the urgent need to ensure respect for their rights.”

    1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source

  8. “We consider that the Security Council draft resolution, together with the declarations by the five nuclear-weapon States circulated as official documents of the Council, bear significant political weight. Such collective security assurances, offered for the first time by all five nuclear- weapon States permanent members of the Security Council, are an important step in the right direction that cannot be underestimated. By adopting the draft resolution before it, the Security Council will offer additional incentives for universal adherence to and compliance with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and for a decision in favour of an indefinite and unconditional extension of the NPT. Allow me to express our appreciation to the nuclear- weapon States members of the Security Council for their initiative.”

    1995-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3514 (1995) · source

  9. “That is why we particularly appreciated and encouraged last year's initiative by the United States and other nuclear Powers to review their policies on providing security assurances to non- nuclear-weapon States for the purpose of reaching a coordinated and common position on this important topic. The draft resolution presented today to the Council for adoption addresses concerns in the security assurances area in terms of both negative and positive assurances for the NPT's non-nuclear-weapon member States. It is an effort towards a comprehensive and effective approach to a very complex issue that deserves appropriate acknowledgement and appreciation.”

    1995-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3514 (1995) · source

  10. “During the course of the negotiations and consultations in the Conference on Disarmament and other forums, Romania came out in favour of the idea of the Security Council's confirming, on a broader basis, the commitments originally undertaken by three nuclear-weapon States in Security Council resolution 255 (1968). The new geopolitical realities prevailing in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in terms of what could now be called the absence of a "nuclear umbrella", make us, like other Central and Eastern European nations, particularly sensitive to the idea of enlarged and consolidated security assurances for non-nuclear-weapon States.”

    1995-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3514 (1995) · source

  11. “Indeed, progress in the direction of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons will facilitate the further strengthening of the non-proliferation regime, paving the way for an indefinite extension of the NPT and thus contributing to international peace and security. It is a matter of satisfaction that the search for a solution to the problem of security assurances, which were basically negotiated in the Conference on Disarmament, did not set the United Nations, with its considerably enhanced role and credibility in maintaining international peace and security to one side.”

    1995-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3514 (1995) · source

  12. “Allow me first to congratulate you warmly, Sir, on your assumption of the high responsibility of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of April. Your well-known diplomatic skills give us full confidence for the success of the Council's work this month. I should also like to express our appreciation for the way in which the Permanent Representative of China conducted the work of the Council last month. The draft resolution on security assurances to be adopted today by the Security Council is an important political initiative of particular relevance to the Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.”

    1995-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3514 (1995) · source

  13. “Full respect for arms embargo regimes is particularly relevant in this context. In our opinion, one remarkable merit of the Supplement to "An Agenda for Peace" is the frank and realistic presentation of a special section on problems that arise with regard to enforcement action against those responsible for threats to the peace, breaches of the peace or acts of aggression.”

    1995-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3492Resumption2 (1995) · source

  14. “The establishment of a strategy calling for a supple and coherent approach in relationships of partnership between NATO, the European Union, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the United Nations, where each has its own responsibilities, powers and ways of operating, is of Vital importance to the entire matter of Euro-Atlantic security, with beneficial effects for the entire collective security system based on the United Nations Charter. I should like, before concluding, to make two more comments. It is necessary to emphasize the importance of placing arms control and disarmament in the context of international stability and security. We pay tribute especially to the attention that the Secretary-General has given in his report to micro-disarmament.”

    1995-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3492Resumption2 (1995) · source

  15. “We consider that the suggestions put forward by the Secretary-General in paragraphs 75 and 76 of his report deserve the full attention of the Security Council and of the United Nations in general. The Supplement to "An Agenda for Peace" rightly emphasizes the relevance - the increasingly decisive relevance - of coordination and effective interaction between the United Nations and regional organizations to ensure international stability and security. For Romania, as for other countries in the central and eastern European region, the hopes for real stability and security are essentially linked to integration into the political, security and economic structures of the European-Atlantic community - the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union and the Western European Union.”

    1995-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3492Resumption2 (1995) · source

  16. “In the report which is the subject of our debate, emphasis is placed on the legitimacy and the importance of sharing the costs of sanctions, so that they are not borne solely by a limited number of States that have the misfortune of being neighbours or principal economic partners of the State subjected to sanctions. We must find the necessary ways and modalities to bring about, in the case of sanctions, the kind of solidarity that exists in the sharing of other costs resulting from United Nations peace-keeping and peacemaking operations. Ensuring that the political impact of sanctions is maximized while minimizing the collateral unintended damage seems to us a particularly relevant idea in this context.”

    1995-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3492Resumption2 (1995) · source

  17. “The opinions expressed regarding command and control, dialogue between permanent members of the Security Council, the Secretariat and the troop- contributing countries, and a coherent approach to the tasks entrusted to United Nations missions offer additional elements for future developments. Romania is prepared to make its contribution to the conceptual debate and is also prepared to participate effectively in the field. The increasingly frequent resort to sanctions regimes as an instrument of security raises problems related to their impact and their unintended effects.”

    1995-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3492Resumption2 (1995) · source

  18. “The document presented by the Secretary-General is a laudable effort to make conceptual clarifications and to find the means to bridge the gap which continues to exist between the concrete operational capacity of the United Nations and the ambitious goals pursued. In my delegation's View, the increase in United Nations responsibility requires not only a clear determination by Member States to use already existing means but also the exploration of new means. To be sure, all the possible options have to be in keeping with the spirit of the Charter and must respect the criteria and the principles of time-tested United Nations operations.”

    1995-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3492Resumption2 (1995) · source

  19. “Conceptually, this implies the beneficial coexistence of the peace-keeping efforts, the functioning of the operations begun to that end, and the pursuit of sustained political action for the settlement of disputes and conflicts and the full restoration of peace. We have studied with special attention the detailed analysis in the Supplement to An Agenda for Peace of United Nations peace-keeping operations. We find arguments there for the need for the international community to adopt a new attitude towards this increasingly complex dynamic field. Romania has fully supported in the last five years the realistic and innovative ideas put before the Security Council and the General Assembly and its subsidiary bodies.”

    1995-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3492Resumption2 (1995) · source

  20. “We fully share the view presented here by Ambassador Merimee on behalf of the European Union. I propose now to set forth some of our views on, in particular, such salient topics such as peace-keeping operations and sanctions. Instruments such as preventive diplomacy and peacemaking have a dominant political component. It seems to us very important that this political component maintain its central place, even in those instances where efforts at prevention have not succeeded and resort to other peace- keeping instruments has become necessary. Experience has shown the importance of the political component during the mandate of a peace-keeping operation. From this point of View, material resources and personnel must be well calibrated.”

    1995-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3492Resumption2 (1995) · source

  21. “The quantitative and qualitative developments in the world with regard to stability and security which are referred to in chapter II of the report evoke analyses and possible conclusions, both conceptual and practical. Preventive diplomacy and peacemaking, peace- keeping, peace-building and peace enforcement - designated by the Secretary-General as instruments of peace and security - have become standard terminology for collective efforts to achieve international peace and security. Developing those instruments is only logical given the state of affairs. The wide participation in this discussion and the preceding statements have demonstrated the importance attached to the subject and the readiness of Member States to contribute to the dialogue in this context.”

    1995-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3492Resumption2 (1995) · source

  22. “Mr. Gorita (Romania) (interpretation from French): Allow me first of all, Sir, to express to you our congratulations on your accession to the presidency of the Security Council for January. Under your competent direction the Council has already carried out substantial work. I should also like to congratulate your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of Rwanda, on his performance as President of the Council for December. This discussion of the Secretary-General's report "Supplement to An Agenda for Peace" has given rise to a whole series of activities, exchanges of View and possible recommendations, decisions and measures in connection with the long-term prospects for the United Nations in the light of the fiftieth anniversary of the world Organization.”

    1995-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3492Resumption2 (1995) · source

  23. “It is important now more than ever before to stress those elements that can bring the parties closer together, to encourage those who are showing a real, positive political will, in order to ensure that the logic of peace and of political settlement between the parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina will prevail.”

    1994-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3454Resumption2 (1994) · source

  24. “As we also emphasized at the time of the debate in the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, every effort must be made by the parties directly concerned, as well as by those who are called upon to make a contribution to a peaceful settlement, to define and establish a global approach where there will be a convergence of views designed to get the Bosnian Serbs to accept the territorial settlement proposed by the Contact Group and to bring the three parties back to the negotiating table. In the same dynamic context, we should look at the parallel process initiated by Security Council resolution 943 (1994) designed to achieve a gradual lifting of economic sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.”

    1994-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3454Resumption2 (1994) · source

  25. “The conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the decisions and actions of the Security Council in this connection have also led to important actions with regard to questions of more general scope, such as those of the actual mandate and the conduct of peace-keeping operations or the particularly important issue of the application of the provisions of Article 50 of the United Nations Charter with a view to resolving the economic difficulties of States resulting from the implementation of sanctions measures adopted by the Security Council. The period up to 31 March 1995 C the deadline for the extension of the current mandate of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR)C_ should not be considered as any kind of respite.”

    1994-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3454Resumption2 (1994) · source

  26. “We welcome the indication in the report of the co-Chairmen of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, submitted to the Security Council in document S/1994/1246 of 3November 1994, that the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia "is meeting its commitment to close the border between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and the areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the control of the Bosnian Serb forces". (S/1994/1246, para. 3) We share the view of the many delegations that, in the recent debate in the plenary General Assembly and in this very Chamber, emphasized how essential the presence of the United Nations Protection Force is to guaranteeing that humanitarian aid continues to be furnished to Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1994-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3454Resumption2 (1994) · source

  27. “We are very concerned at the intensification of fighting in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and we appeal to all the parties to cease all military activities. Moreover, there can be no talks or political negotiations so long as Bosnian Serbs continue to reject the plan proposed by the Contact Group. The sanctions regime has been an important element in the quest for a peaceful solution to the Yugoslav crisis. Recently the Security Council decided, in resolution 942 (1994), to strengthen the sanctions against the Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina following their rejection of the peace plan. At the same time, by resolution 943 (1994), the Council decided to ease the sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.”

    1994-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3454Resumption2 (1994) · source

  28. “We are doing our best to use our good relations with all the States that emerged from the former Yugoslavia to encourage and bring about a lasting political settlement, with the participation of all the parties and the joint contribution of all those who have committed themselves to facilitating this process. Furthermore, Romania has supported the plan of the Contact Group as the only realistic and pragmatic basis for a settlement of the Bosnian conflict. This is a particularly critical time. We are faced with an alternative: either to quickly unfreeze the process designed to bring about a political settlement, or to wait and run the risk of a worsening of confrontations and tensions. Every effort must be exerted to put an end to this war and defuse tensions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1994-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3454Resumption2 (1994) · source

  29. “As a country neighbouring the former Yugoslavia, Romania has always spoken out and acted C including in its capacity as a member of the Security Council until the end of 1991C in favour of an exclusively political settlement of the problems involving the Yugoslav crisis in general and the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina in particular. We have firmly condemned all practices of "ethnic cleansing" as well as the policy of fait accompli. The economic sacrifices that my country has faithfully made in the implementation of the sanctions regime imposed on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia are well known.”

    1994-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3454Resumption2 (1994) · source

  30. “The debate that preceded the adoption of this resolution revealed the situation's <<treme gravity, urgency and complexity and the difficulties in the way of achieving a peaceful settlement. Sharing the deep concerns at the chronic and particularly dangerous persistence of the state of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and for reasons that determined the similar attitude of 60 other delegations, particularly with respect to the scope of operative paragraph 22, on the lifting of the embargo on arms deliveries, the Romanian delegation abstained in the voting on draft resolution A/49/L.14/Rev.1.”

    1994-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3454Resumption2 (1994) · source

  31. “Mr. Gorita (Romania) (interpretation from French), Madam President, allow me to begin by congratulating you most warmly on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. Your personal qualities, which have been unanimously recognized, guarantee the success of the Council's work. We should like also to express appreciation for the manner in which Ambassador David Hannay of the United Kingdom discharged his duties as President of the Council for the month of October. For more than two years now, the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been one of the priority concerns of the international community. Very recently, on 3 November 1994, the General Assembly adopted resolution 49/10, entitled "The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina".”

    1994-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3454Resumption2 (1994) · source