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Hajihosseini

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2001-08-21
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2003-10-14
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  1. “The only way out is for the Council to compel Israel to stop its brutal and bloody military campaign against the Palestinian people, to stop its colonial settlement policies and to return to the conference table, as envisaged in the peace process in order to end Israel's occupation of the Palestinian and Arab territories and to ensure that the process is pursued and concluded in ajudicious and constructive manner.”

    2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source

  2. “In history, the Council will bear the responsibility for further immeasurable bloodshed and destruction if it fails to act, thus allowing Israel to continue its construction of the wall, its settlement policies and the perpetuation of its illegal occupation of Palestinian and Arab territories. We reiterate that the root cause of the present conflict in the region is the continuing illegal Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem, and of Arab territories since 1967.”

    2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source

  3. “This situation has prevailed for the last 36 years, but has become particularly acute since September 2000. The impunity being granted to Israel also serves to encourage further violations, including grave breaches, of the Geneva Conventions and the Hague Regulations. We have consistently called for an international protection force as an enforcement mechanism and first step towards the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces from the occupied Palestinian territories, and the dismantlement of the occupation. We reiterate that demand. In the light of the escalating violence perpetrated against Palestinian civilians by the Israeli military throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, such a protection measure has become ever more necessary.”

    2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source

  4. “Visits of pilgrims will be further discouraged." They also said: "the separation wall constitutes a grave obstacle For both nations the Wall will result in a feeling of isolation." In their final communique issued at their annual coordination meeting held in New York on 30 September, the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the OIC member States condemned the building of the expansion wall, involving the confiscation of thousands more dunums of Palestinian land, the isolation of dozens of Palestinian villages, towns and cities and the destruction of property and the livelihood of thousands of Palestinians. Clearly, Israel, as the occupying Power, has unequivocally and consistently failed to adhere to its obligations vis-a-vis the Palestinian civilian population in accordance with international law and international humanitarian law.”

    2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source

  5. “It went on: "It is reasonable to assume that, as in the case of the settlements, the separation barrier will become a permanent fact to support Israel's future claim to annex territories." The heads of Christian churches in Jerusalem on 26 August 2003 issued a statement affirming their belief that the consequences of the proposed separation wall around Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, "will be devastating to the Christian community; not least because of the psychological impact on daily life. The community will be isolated following the deprivation of access to land and the freedom of movement.”

    2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source

  6. “The wall furthers the "bantustanization" of the West Bank into hundreds of small, dependent entities that cannot sustain themselves and that are more akin to small, disconnected open-air prisons surrounded by Israeli military checkpoints and settlements. The form of apartheid Israel practises against Palestinians meets all the criteria of the crime of apartheid as defined in the 1976 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. In a position paper dated April 2003, the Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B'Tselem, stated that past experience indicated that Israel took advantage of its ability to restrict Palestinian movement in the occupied territories to accomplish forbidden objectives and was driven by considerations unrelated to its security.”

    2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source

  7. “While the illegal construction of Israeli settlements on Palestinian lands remains a clear manifestation of Israel's colonial policies, in 2003 the processes of territorial expansion have taken a different form. Israel's so-called security fence in the West Bank is its most recent - and one of the most blatant - manifestations of its policy of continuing its territorial expansion. The construction of the wall itself constitutes a flagrant violation of international law and international humanitarian law, as it seeks to effectively alter the territorial integrity of the West Bank and accomplish the de facto annexation of the occupied Palestinian territory.”

    2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source

  8. “At the outset, I would like to express to you, Mr. President, our profound thanks for convening this important meeting at the request of the Arab Group, supported by the Non-Aligned Movement and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). As this is the first time this month that we have addressed the Council, we congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of its presidency for the current month, and wish you every success in your stewardship of this body. We also extend our thanks and appreciation to Sir Emyr Jones Parry, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, for his leadership in steering the work of the Council so well last month.”

    2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source

  9. “In doing so, the Council will move towards restoring its own prestige and authority, which is needed in maintaining international peace and security.”

    2001-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption2 (2001) · source

  10. “It has become crystal clear to any observer of the question of Palestine and the Middle East as a whole that there will be no peace as long as the occupied territories have not been liberated and as long as Israel continues to reject the spirit and letter of the decisions of international legitimacy, thus preventing the Council and the United Nations from discharging their basic and legitimate role in the settlement of the Middle East conflict. I thank you again, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting and express the hope that the Council' 5 deliberations will prevail in relieving the Palestinian people and the populations of the occupied Arab territories of the suffering and injustices being imposed upon them by the Israeli occupation forces.”

    2001-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption2 (2001) · source

  11. “Violence can only beget violence, and the excessive inhuman subjugation and suffering to which the Palestinian people have been subjected since 1967 are driving them to despair. It leaves them with no other option but to undertake a legitimate and just resistance to the Israeli occupation, which is one internationally recognized right of self-defence. The protection we seek should restrain Israel from continuing its illegal and inhuman practices targeting the Palestinian people and clear the air for the resumption of the peace process, which has been deadlocked for years as a result of the procrastination and delaying tactics of successive Israeli Governments in implementing the resolutions and decisions of international legitimacy based on relevant Security Council resolutions and the land-for-peace principle.”

    2001-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption2 (2001) · source

  12. “This unwarranted action is a grave development and a new Israeli provocation of Muslims worldwide, who have a deep-rooted attachment to Al-Quds Al-Sharif and have religious and spiritual ties to it dating back thousands of years. Based upon what has been stated thus far, the Organization of the Islamic Conference urges the Security Council to take the necessary measures to provide protection to the Palestinian people and to compel Israel to put an end to its bloody military campaign against them, to restore Palestinian institutions in East Jerusalem and to lift the restrictions imposed upon entry to Al-Aqsa Mosque and other Muslim and Christian places of worship in the city.”

    2001-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption2 (2001) · source

  13. “In fact, as several speakers have pointed out, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres actually wrote to his Norwegian counterpart when signing the Oslo Agreement in 1993, "The Palestinian institutions of East Jerusalem and the interests and well-being of the Palestinians of East Jerusalem are of great importance and will be preserved." The Israeli Government' s recent illegal measures show only one thing: that Israel is reneging on the guarantees and commitments it made. Instead, it is snatching away and depriving East Jerusalem of its special status, which served also to protect Palestinian institutions in the city.”

    2001-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption2 (2001) · source

  14. “As a continuation of the practices I just spoke of, the Israeli authorities recently came out with a very dangerous precedent in the city of Al-Quds Al-Sharif when they resorted to the closure of Orient House, the institution and headquarters of the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks and of Palestinian institutions that extended social and humanitarian services to the Palestinians in the city of Al-Quds. It is noteworthy that these Palestinian institutions, recognized by Israel, had been regularly engaged in handling Palestinian affairs in occupied East Jerusalem since 1967. East Jerusalem is considered in the resolutions of this Council as part and parcel of the occupied Palestinian territory, to which all international provisions regulating the affairs of occupied territories should apply.”

    2001-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption2 (2001) · source

  15. “By doing so, Israel is luring new Jewish immigrants from all over the world to the land usurped from its Palestinian owners, to live in illegal colonial settlements. Israel keeps on building these settlements despite the denunciation of such actions by the international community. Most of the illegal and inhuman Israeli practices I have just referred to, which can be corroborated by millions of television viewers all over the world, can certainly be regarded under international law as war crimes whose perpetrators should be liable and accountable for these crimes.”

    2001-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption2 (2001) · source

  16. “There are countless other such Israeli practices, which I need not elaborate and describe further but which tear apart the Palestinian territories. They include the siege and starvation of the Palestinian people and depriving them of their most fundamental right to dignity, for no other reason than because they seek an end to the Israeli occupation of their land. We know that Israel, the occupying Power, has practically shrunk the Palestinian presence to a small portion of the Palestinian territory - no more than some 20 per cent of it. Israel is attempting to further shrink that portion to forcibly disperse more Palestinians from their lands and ancestral homes in which they have lived for thousands of years, thus joining the waves of Palestinian refugees that have been in exile and in diaspora over the past fifty years.”

    2001-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption2 (2001) · source

  17. “We are seeing young children wandering and roaming around amid the rubble of what used to be their homes, now blown up or demolished and removed by Israeli bulldozers. We are watching funeral processions of martyrs, including children and infants, day after day throughout Palestine. We are also witnessing the assassination of civil society leaders by Israeli forces. We are hearing about Israel using the most destructive military warplanes to level to the ground houses and civilian installations in the occupied Palestinian territory, and we are seeing land being confiscated by force and without any legal basis and being turned into construction sites of illegal colonial settlements. Furthermore, we are hearing about the use of "excessive force", to borrow the now familiar expression, against the Palestinian people.”

    2001-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption2 (2001) · source

  18. “Anyone following the ongoing events in Palestine would conclude that the present Israeli Government is indulging in the worst draconian practices ever undertaken by an occupying Power in the present era, an era which we thought would be the epoch of self- determination, human rights and the preservation of human dignity and livelihood, even in occupied territories. A glance at television newscasts these days will give a clear picture of the tragedies that are befalling the Palestinians in the occupied territories at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces. We are constantly witnessing through the media all those scenes of horror, terror, indiscriminate devastation, persecution and repression of Palestinians at the hands of those forces.”

    2001-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption2 (2001) · source

  19. “We share the views of many previous speakers, especially our member States, on the grave and deteriorating situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem, as a result of the unwarranted escalation of the Israeli military campaign against the Palestinian people, Israel's illegal seizure of Orient House and other Palestinian institutions in occupied East Jerusalem, and the illegal and inhumane Israeli practices against the Palestinian population, which continue unabated.”

    2001-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption2 (2001) · source

  20. “Mr. Hajihosseini: It is my pleasure at the outset, Mr. President, to extend to you greetings from the Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), His Excellency Mr. Abdelouahed Belkeziz, and to express our sincere thanks for the promptness with which you have convened this important meeting at the request of the OIC. I should like also to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency for the month of August. We are confident that under your able leadership the work of the Council will be carried out in a constructive manner. I am speaking on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.”

    2001-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4357Resumption2 (2001) · source