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  1. “Mr. Grauls (Belgium) (spoke in French): First of all, my delegation would like to welcome the presence of His Excellency Mr. Hoshyar Zebari, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq. We would like also to thank Special Adviser Ibrahim Gambari and Assistant Secretary-General Warren Sach for their respective presentations. Our thanks also go to you, Mr. President, for your briefing on behalf of the Multinational Force (MNF). During the past few months, several meetings have permitted Iraq's neighbours and the international community as a whole to welcome two positive developments. First, there is the significant improvement of the security situation in Iraq and, secondly, the intensification of efforts by Iraq, beginning with its Government, to construct the stable, democratic, united and prosperous country to which all Iraqis aspire.”

    2008-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5910 (2008) · source

  2. “By a letter dated 18 April 2008, the IAEA informed the Committee that no projects had been added to its technical cooperation programme with Iran since the issuance of its report and provided an update on technical cooperation and technical assistance activities since 22 August 2007. Three requests for technical cooperation had been considered to be covered and had proceeded; two others had not. Forty- four requests for participation in technical assistance activities had been deemed to be in conformity with resolution 1737 (2006), whereas a further eight requests had not. Lastly, the Committee has pending before it three written queries from Member States concerning the implementation of various provisions of resolution 1737 (2006) and resolution 1803 (2008).”

    2008-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5909 (2008) · source

  3. “Paragraph 18 (b) of resolution 1737 (2006) tasks the Committee with seeking from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) secretariat information regarding the actions taken by the Agency to implement effectively the measures imposed by paragraph 16 of the same resolution, which defines the scope of the technical cooperation provided by the IAEA to Iran, and whatever further information it might consider in that regard. On 27 March, given that more than seven months had passed since the receipt of the initial update, on 22 August 2007, to the report of the IAEA of 9 February 2007, the Committee invited the Agency to provide a further update to that report.”

    2008-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5909 (2008) · source

  4. “08-3802] Paragraph 13 (b) of resolution 1737 (2006) provides an exemption to the assets freeze for extraordinary expenses, as determined by the relevant States and subject to a Committee decision. The Committee granted two requests for exemption under that paragraph. Paragraph 15 of resolution 1737 (2006) provides for notifications by the relevant States to the Committee of the intention to make or receive payments or to authorize the unfreezing of funds in connection with contracts entered into prior to the listing of persons and entities in the annexes to resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007) and 1803 (2008). The Committee received one such notification.”

    2008-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5909 (2008) · source

  5. “As members will recall, paragraph 14 of resolution 1803 (2008) broadened the scope of the Committee's mandate as set out in resolution 1737 (2006) to also include measures imposed in resolutions 1747 (2007) and 1803 (2008). In informal consultations on 28 April, it was brought to the Committee's attention that, as reported in the media, one Government had made a public statement that there had been a contravention of resolutions 1747 (2007) and 1803 (2008) on its territory, with respect to the export ban on arms and related material from Iran. Subsequently, the Committee approved the dispatch of letters to the concerned States seeking clarifications and additional information. I shall now turn to action taken by the Committee under resolution 1737 (2006).”

    2008-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5909 (2008) · source

  6. “To date, the reporting figures are: 89 reports under resolution 1737 (2006), 76 reports under resolution 1747 (2007) and 51 reports under resolution 1803 (2008). Unless a State requests that its report be kept confidential, the report is published and posted on the Committee's website. I wish to add here that, in response to the suggestion made by the Ambassador of Burkina Faso during the last briefing to the Security Council, as well as to requests received from other Member States, members of the Committee agreed to post an informal guidance paper on the Committee's website in order to assist Member States in writing their national reports. The informal paper has been reviewed by the members of the Committee but has not been endorsed by the Committee. The use of the informal paper is entirely optional.”

    2008-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5909 (2008) · source

  7. “ln paragraph 13 of resolution 1803 (2008), the Council called upon all States to report to the Committee within 60 days of the adoption of the resolution, that is to say, by 2 May, on the steps they had taken with a view to implementing effectively paragraphs 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the resolution. On 27 March, my predecessor, in his capacity as Chairman of the Committee, transmitted a note verbale to all Member States drawing their attention to paragraph 13 of the resolution. The note verbale also served as a reminder to States that had not yet reported under paragraph 19 of resolution 1737 (2006) and/or paragraph 8 of resolution 1747 (2007) to do so. Those States have the option to submit a combined report under two or all three resolutions, if they so desire.”

    2008-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5909 (2008) · source

  8. “In those same consultations, given that the names of individuals and entities subject to the travel ban, travel notification requirement and/or assets freeze were available to Member States in the annexes to three separate resolutions and not in any one place, the members of the Committee discussed consolidating those annexes into a single list. The Committee approved the consolidated document on 24 April. Both the revised guidelines and the consolidated list of individuals and entities have been transmitted to all Member States; they are also available on the Committee's website.”

    2008-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5909 (2008) · source

  9. “Mr. Grauls: This is the sixth 90-day report to the Security Council in accordance with paragraph 18 of resolution 1737 (2006). The report covers the period 18 March to 13 June 2008, during which the Committee held three sessions of informal consultations. The Committee also carried out its work outside the meeting room, using the silence procedure. As members will recall, by its resolution 1803 (2008) of 3 March, the Security Council adopted additional measures relating to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Subsequently, in informal consultations on 18 March and 15 April, the members of the Committee discussed a revised text of the guidelines of the Committee for the conduct of its work, with a view to incorporating the relevant provisions of resolution 1803 (2008). On 24 April, the Committee approved the revised guidelines.”

    2008-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5909 (2008) · source

  10. “The first indications from the Security Council mission that is currently in the Sudan do not make it possible to detect any change in the position of the Sudanese authorities. Whatever the future decisions of the Court, and without prejudging such decisions, Belgium will continue to robustly urge the Security Council, consistent with its own decisions, do everything in its power to ensure that the decisions of the Court are implemented.”

    2008-06-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5905 (2008) · source

  11. “My delegation urges the Sudanese authorities to cooperate fully with the Prosecutor and the Court, as they are obliged to do under resolution 1593 (2005), by apprehending and transferring to The Hague the two individuals who are subjects of arrest warrants. More than a year after those arrest warrants were issued, it is time for the Security Council to remind the Sudanese Government of its obligation, under resolution 1593 (2005), to cooperate with the Court. I recall too that this is also the position of the entire European Union, which, in its 31 March 2008 declaration, called on the Government of the Sudan to cooperate unconditionally with the Court. Belgium thus fully supports the draft presidential statement submitted by Costa Rica to that end.”

    2008-06-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5905 (2008) · source

  12. “People are undergoing unspeakable suffering, including displacements, killings, rapes and other violence. It is at this difficult juncture that, for the reasons I have enumerated, the judicial path must be followed with determination. Crimes must not be denied: they must be identified through a rigorous, authorized judicial process. The Prosecutor's conclusion that a criminal plan, involving the entire State apparatus, exists is particularly alarming. If the existence of such a plan is established, those responsible must be brought to justice. My delegation has taken note of the Prosecutor's intention to submit his evidence to the judges of the International Criminal Court soon.”

    2008-06-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5905 (2008) · source

  13. “I need hardly recall that resolution 1593 (2005), by which the situation in Darfur was referred to the International Criminal Court, was adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter. On the basis of the evidence presented by the Prosecutor, the Court decided - in full independence and based on the criteria set out in the Rome Statute - that the Sudan had undertaken no proceedings with respect to Mr. Harun or Mr. Kushayb in relation to crimes that are the subject of proceedings under way at the International Criminal Court. The overall context in Darfur is of great concern. The prospects for the political process remain discouraging, and the recent escalation of violence, both by the rebels and by Government forces with the support of Janjaweed militias, targeting civilian populations, is particularly disturbing.”

    2008-06-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5905 (2008) · source

  14. “The fight against impunity is undoubtedly an end in and of itself, but it is not just that. The condemnation of those responsible for the most serious crimes - war crimes and crimes against humanity - may contribute directly or indirectly by promoting progress with respect to the other pillars of the comprehensive approach. It can do so directly by ensuring that no more harm can be done by those who, for example, impede the distribution of humanitarian assistance, the deployment of UNAMID or the political process. It can do so indirectly through the deterrence effect. We must once again deplore not merely the lack of cooperation from the Government of the Sudan but even outright support for individuals who are the subjects of arrest warrants, in particular Mr. Ahmad Harun.”

    2008-06-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5905 (2008) · source

  15. “Mr. Grauls (Belgium) (spoke in French): Allow me at the outset to thank you, Sir, for your words of welcome and to express my pleasure at taking my place at the Security Council table. You can rely on my full support and that of my delegation. I should also like to thank Mr. Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, for his briefing. Belgium is particularly alarmed by the information it contains, as conveyed to us by the Prosecutor. Belgium's position on the issue of Darfur is well known. The search for a comprehensive solution entails an approach comprised of four dimensions: the political, the military, as represented by the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), the humanitarian and the legal. We view the elements of that four-fold approach as being complementary to one another.”

    2008-06-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5905 (2008) · source