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Hallak

lines on the record: 41
first: 1995-05-15
most recent: 2018-07-27
sittings or episodes: 6
sources: un-security-council

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“I would like to inform the Council that two days ago, my delegation sent a letter to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council in response to the false and deceptive allegations regarding the nature of this Law and its ends. My delegation's letter clearly defines the Law and explains its legal nature, which is to protect properties. We reject all allegations claiming that the objective of the Law is to confiscate properties. The meeting rose at 12.30p.m.”
2018-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8320 (2018) · source
“The Syrian Government asks the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary- general to launch an investigation into the fate of the children who were kidnapped following the terrorist bombing that targeted buses meant for the evacuation of civilians leaving the villages of Fo'ah and Kafraya in the Al-Rashidin area of Aleppo province on 15 April. According to the information held by the Syrian Government, 32 ofthese kidnapped children are currently at a care refuge called DAR RAF in the Reyhanli region of southern Turkey, while the rest of the kidnapped children are in the Atma refugee camp. Finally, I want to comment on the allegations concerning Law No. 10.”
2018-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8320 (2018) · source
“Their testimony tells about injustice, exploitation and starvation inflicted on civilians and their children by those groups, whose crimes do not spare women, children or the elderly. The Syrian Government has provided the Office of the Special Representative with documented information on child recruitment by armed terrorist groups. We deny and totally reject what is stated in the report and characterized as proof of recruitment of children by the Syrian Government. If that were true, why have we not received any detailed information on that issue despite our repeated requests?”
2018-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8320 (2018) · source
“We confirm once again that the accusations made during the briefing against the Syrian Government totally and deliberately ignored the information that the Syrian Government has provided to the Secretariat, as well as the fact that the suffering of Syrian children is the result of the practices of armed terrorist groups. The briefing and the report of the Special Representative are predicated on a false premise based on incredible information provided by suspicious sources linked to the armed terrorist groups. All the allegations made are refuted by the testimony ofcivilians protected by the Syrian Arab Army after having been evacuated from the areas under the control of armed terrorist groups for many years.”
2018-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8320 (2018) · source
“However, that cannot happen if a shadow continues to be cast on the achievements of the Syrian State and its efforts to meet the needs of its people, and ifa blind eye continues to be turned to certain States that support terrorists in Syria and exploit the humanitarian situation for their narrow political agendas. My country's delegation listened carefully to the briefing of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict. My delegation had sent an official response on the annual report contained in document S/2018/465.”
2018-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8320 (2018) · source
“The White Helmets, under orders from their sponsors, fabricate insidious information and falsify evidence to mislead the international public opinion with regard to Syria's use of chemical weapons with the aim ofjustifying aggressive action against Syria by certain permanent members of the Security Council. My country stresses that the humanitarian system of the United Nations must make serious efforts to regain the confidence of the Syrian Government through a new approach to responding to the humanitarian situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, based on the principles of objectivity, transparency and impartiality.”
2018-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8320 (2018) · source
“Fifthly, the operations led by the Syrian State to liberate Syrians from terrorism in the south of the country have unveiled the true motivations of some parties and Governments that were concerned not about meeting the needs of the Syrians who were displaced to the Syrian border with Jordan, but rather about protecting the armed terrorist groups in the region, particularly members of the White Helmets terrorist organization. This terrorist organization was and continues to be the logistical and operational hand of the terrorist Al-Nusra Front and other terrorist groups, such as Al-Qaida. Those terrorist organizations carry out attacks against Syrians and destabilize Syria and the region.”
2018-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8320 (2018) · source
“This is the report of the Human Rights Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights (A/72/370) and his latest briefing to the International Syria Support Group, in which he underscored the seriousness of the continuation of such measures with regard to the humanitarian situation of Syrians, particularly in terms of health, education, electricity, water and remittances.”
2018-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8320 (2018) · source
“Fourthly, the Syrian Arab Republic stresses once again the fact that unilateral coercive economic measures imposed by the European Union, the United States and others against the Syrian Arab Republic significantly hamper our ability to meet the basic needs of the Syrian people and to improve their means of subsistence. We note the latest United Nations report on the negative effects of those measures, which hinder humanitarian efforts at the national and international levels.”
2018-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8320 (2018) · source
“The authors of the report have been trying to promote these entities in an unprofessional way, and make up allegations on their important humanitarian role in the delivery of humanitarian aid. Thirdly, contrary to what certain people have advocated, the successful military operations carried out by the Syrian Arab Army and its allies against armed terrorist groups that controlled certain regions classified by the United Nations as besieged or hard- to-reach, in addition to achieving compromises or reconciliation agreements in other regions, have alleviated the suffering of civilians and lowered the number of such regions, while to a great extent facilitating the delivery of humanitarian aid to them.”
2018-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8320 (2018) · source
“Those achievements and significant efforts of the Syrian national institutions have ensured support for the Syrian people and the delivery of United Nations humanitarian aid to them. Secondly, the counter-terrorism operations carried out by the Syrian State are in line with its constitutional mandate and consistent with the principles of international humanitarian law and the relevant United Nations resolutions. For its part, the United Nations should step up its support to the Syrians, in accordance with humanitarian principles, especially in coordinating with the Syrian national institutions, rather than with the so-called local councils, which are in fact unreal entities affiliated with terrorist organizations and secession bodies.”
2018-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8320 (2018) · source
“The day before yesterday, we sent out an official letter responding to the content of the fifty-third report of the Secretary-General on the humanitarian situation in Syria, and I should like to make the following comments in that regard. First, day after day, the Syrian State - thanks to its institutions and the support of the Syrian people and with international support from Syria's real friends, who believe in the principles of international law - is making important progress on the ground in liberating Syrian territory from the armed terrorist organizations that were spread among civilians while using them as human shields. They exploited and recruited their children and seized the humanitarian assistance that was sent to them.”
2018-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8320 (2018) · source
“The resolution also calls for respect for the sovereignty and independence of States and underlines the role of the State involved to supervise the distribution of humanitarian aid on its territories and the need to respect the principles of neutrality, integrity and non-politicization. The constitutional and legal duties enshrined in all international instruments, including the relevant Security Council resolutions on combating terrorism, require the Syrian Government to carry out military operations in order to liberate civilians from the armed terrorist groups that were besieging them and had used them for many years as human shields.”
2018-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8320 (2018) · source
“We had hoped to hear a collective reaction from the Security Council to the bloody massacre perpetrated by the terrorist organization Da'esh in the Al-Suwayda city two days ago. As we are discussing the fifty-third report of the Secretary-General (S/2018/724) on the humanitarian situation in Syria, I should like to assure members of the Council once again that the Syrian Government is eager to provide all kinds of humanitarian assistance to all its citizens throughout Syrian territory. That is a duty to which it remains committed. It is also keen on cooperating and coordinating with its humanitarian partners and the United Nations, in compliance with the guiding principles of General Assembly resolution 46/182, on coordinating and strengthening humanitarian aid.”
2018-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8320 (2018) · source
“Mr. Hallak (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I am surprised by the logic of representatives of some delegations who have described the liberation of Syrian territories from terrorist groups by saying that the Syrian Government is continuing to seize territories. The Syrian Army and its allies are liberating territories that were under the control of armed terrorist groups, which for many years had used children, women and the elderly as human shields. I should like to underscore from this seat that the day will come when all the aggressive military forces, without exception, will leave Syrian territory. There will be no one to carry illegal arms against the Syrian people and the Syrian State.”
2018-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8320 (2018) · source
“The relevant reports on counter-terrorism, including those of the 1540 Committee, are replete with facts that underscore the hypocrisy of the Turkish regime and the support and assistance it provides to terrorists when it comes to using chemical weapons on Syrian territory, originating on the Turkish border. The allegations made by the representative of the Turkish regime that his country has no weapons of mass destruction are completely false: tactical nuclear weapons of a nuclear Power are based on Turkish territory. The meeting rose at 5.25 pm.”
2016-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7758 (2016) · source
“Turning to the statement made by the representative of the Turkish regime, everyone knows, and reports of the Council themselves note, that sarin gas was trafficked from Lybia into Turkey on a commercial aeroplane and that terrorists supported by the regime used those weapons in the city of Gaziantep, a Turkish town now known as Turkish Tora Bora. We demand that the Turkish regime repudiate those facts instead of hurling accuations against the Syrian Government, which has demonstrated to the entire world what the former has done in terms of arming, training, supplying and providing other assistance and access to international terrorism - Islamist terrorism coming from Turkish territory.”
2016-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7758 (2016) · source
“The Committee established pursuant to resolution Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) works to ensure that biological, chemical and nuclear weapons do not fall into the hands of non-State actors. However, Israel has offered all kinds of assistance in the form of weapons, munitions and intelligence to terrorist groups in Syria, especially to Da'esh and Jabhat Al-Nusra and affiliated groups. In doing so, as usual, it is in violation of all of the Council's resolutions concerning counter-terrorism. Israel is not party to any treaty on weapons of mass destruction. If that proves anything, it is Israel's hypocrisy in its possession of many types of weapons of mass destruction. The Council must assume its responsibility to prevail upon Israel to put an end to all its military, chemical and biological weapons programmes.”
2016-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7758 (2016) · source
“Mr. Hallak (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): We are entirely bewildered by the hypocrisy of the representative of Israel's accusations. The Arabic proverb is quite apt: if you are guilty of vices, you should hide. Everyone knows that Israel introduced terrorism into our region. Israel has introduced its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons into the Arab region. Without its support and that of certain countries with great influence in the Security Council, Israel's nuclear-weapons programme would have disappeared long ago. During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel threatened to use nuclear weapons against Egypt and Syria. And Israel has used various types of weapons of mass destruction in its aggression against the peoples of the region.”
2016-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7758 (2016) · source
“He said, "We are going to say to the Americans, 'Do not compete with us in South Africa; do not compete with us in the Caribbean or in any other country where you cannot operate in the open. Let us do it. You sell the ammunition and equipment by a" proxy. Israel will be your proxy . It is absolutely clear that the Israeli representative's statement during this Council meeting was not consistent with Israel's actions. Israel has been illegally trading in arms worldwide. That in fact fuels international terrorism; it protects drug traffickers and secessionist movements and saps all international efforts in those areas.”
2008-04-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5881Resumption1 (2008) · source
“The Israeli occupation of Arab territories is directly supported by certain major States that are exporters of conventional weapons. Those very States, indeed, are engaged in joint projects with the Israeli military industry to perfect technologies for the manufacture of Israeli weapons and to open export markets for Israel. That is enough to encourage Israel to reject the hand of peace that the Arab States are extending. It also encourages Israel to continue to occupy Arab territories and to escalate tension and violence in the region. For decades, Israel has practiced what it calls weapons diplomacy. That was stated explicitly in 1981 by Israel's then economic affairs minister, Yaakov Meridor.”
2008-04-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5881Resumption1 (2008) · source
“It is to be noted that the 2006 report of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which deals with issues of armament and disarmament, refers to the fact that the four major arms manufacturers of Israel exported weapons worth some $3.5 billion in 2006. While the credibility of confidence-building measures in the field of conventional arms and adequate arms control must be ensured, it is unfortunate that Israel has not respected the deadline for a just and comprehensive peace in our region by withdrawing from all occupied territories to the 4 June 1967 lines in conformity with the terms of reference for peace known to the Security Council. The situation in the Middle East could be the best possible example in this context.”
2008-04-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5881Resumption1 (2008) · source
“We thereby affirmed our support for and cooperation with the international community through Governments, non-governmental organizations and civil society in combating the scourge of the uncontrolled proliferation, illicit trade and brokering of small arms and light weapons. The danger posed by those weapons in the hands of gangsters and terrorists threatens societies at every level. My country, Syria, does not produce such weapons, yet it enjoys the right to maintain them for its own defence and for liberating its occupied land in the Golan, and for all the reasons previously cited. The Secretary-General's report insists on the fact that, while only about 30 countries produce small arms and light weapons, they manufacture approximately 8 million such weapons every year.”
2008-04-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5881Resumption1 (2008) · source
“In that respect, my delegation appeals to all to make a firm commitment fully and optimally to implement the Programme of Action in order to curb the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons. My delegation believes that we must commit ourselves to that important instrument, which must enjoy international support. Such support will make the third Biennial Meeting, to be held in July, a success. My country submitted its report on the Programme of Action at the United Nations Conference to Review the implementation of the Programme of Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons, held in new York in June and July 2006.”
2008-04-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5881Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Mr. Hallak (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your outstanding presidency of the Security Council this month. We also thank you for convening this important debate on small arms. The Secretary-General has submitted a report on small arms that contains important information on the various aspects of the problem throughout the world. The report also identifies the different international instruments that allow us to stem the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, including the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects.”
2008-04-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5881Resumption1 (2008) · source
“In the face of continuing Israeli aggression against Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic condemns the flagrant Israeli aggression against our brother, Lebanon. We support the demand of the Permanent Representative of Lebanon that Israeli aggression be condemned, that Israel be forced immediately to cease its aggression, and that the Council remain seized of this grave situation.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3653 (1996) · source
“Syria has made the strategic choice of working towards the achievement of a just and comprehensive peace. We have made a serious contribution to overcoming all the political and practical obstacles Israel has put in the way of the peace process. Syria continues to believe that the establishment of genuine peace in the region is incompatible with continuing occupation and acts of aggression. Peace can be achieved through a commitment to implement the relevant Security Council resolutions - and if Israel erects no further obstacles to the peace process. We call upon the Security Council to intervene immediately to put an end to Israeli aggression against Lebanon and to make Israel heed the will of the international community, to guarantee Lebanon's sovereignty, territorial integrity and unity.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3653 (1996) · source
“The members of the Security Council, particularly its permanent members, must therefore shoulder their responsibilities immediately in order to put an end to Israeli aggression against Lebanon and to avoid a further grave deterioration of the situation in the region. We should also like to affirm here that the aggression against Lebanon, the continued Israeli intransigence, would not have taken place or continued had the Security Council been firm in adopting the measures necessary to make Israel implement resolution 425 (1978), which unambiguously called upon Israel to withdraw immediately and unconditionally from all Lebanese territories. It is unacceptable for legitimate international resolutions, particularly those of the Security Council, to be held hostage to Israel's aggressive instincts or expansionist ambitions.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3653 (1996) · source
“Genuine security will be achieved through the withdrawal from all occupied territories and through the implementation of a just and comprehensive peace; it will not be achieved through further aggression against the Lebanese people. It must be remembered that occupation is not conducive to peace and security. Force has not succeeded in the past, and will not succeed now or in the future and it will not achieve security for Israel. The extremism exemplified in the aggression against Lebanon proves that Israel is attempting to back away from the peace process, from the achievement of a just and comprehensive peace.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3653 (1996) · source
“However, Lebanese efforts have come up against Israeli intransigence, and Israel's continuing challenge of international legitimacy through its failure to implement resolution 425 (1978) and through waging a new, wide-ranging act of aggression. In the face of these grave developments proceeding from the Israeli aggression against Lebanon and of the tragic situation of the Lebanese people today, the Security Council is duty-bound not to ignore the failure to respect and to implement its own resolutions. That would jeopardize its role and its duty to maintain international peace and security. Israel's security has been the pretext invoked by Israel for waging all its wars of aggression, even though it must realize that genuine security cannot be achieved through continuing occupation.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3653 (1996) · source
“In this context, I must mention that the world will never forget the frightful sight transmitted on television stations everywhere of four children killed by Israeli aircraft while in an ambulance on their way to hospital. Lebanon accepted the peace process that began at the Madrid conference on the basis of the conference goal of establishing a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East based on the implementation of resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973) and 425 (1978), and on the principle of land for peace. Lebanon has also cooperated with the efforts of the two co-sponsors of the peace process towards that end.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3653 (1996) · source
“Mr. Hallak (Syrian Arab Republic) (interpretation from Arabic): The Security Council is meeting for the second time today to take up Israeli practices in occupied lands and blatant aggression against Lebanon. The extensive military aggression that Israel has been waging against Lebanon for the past five days marks a serious escalation of tension and poses a threat to peace and stability in the region. This aggression has targeted population centres in many towns and villages - all the way up to the capital, Beirut. It has caused the death of dozens; it has wounded hundreds of innocent Lebanese civilians; more than half a million Lebanese have been forcibly displaced from their towns and villages. Furthermore, infrastructure has been destroyed; vital installations, including shelters and power stations, have been destroyed.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3653 (1996) · source
“It is high time that the Council shouldered its responsibilities in the face of Israel's persistent refusal to withdraw from the occupied territories. The Council is called upon now more than ever to take a strict and categorical position in order to impose respect for international legality and halt Israel's attempts to sabotage the prospects for a comprehensive, just peace based on Security Council resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973) and 425 (1978) and the principle of land for peace, as well as to enable the Palestinian people to exercise its legitimate rights to return to its homeland, to self-determination, and to establish its own independent State on its national soil with its capital at Al-Quds.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3652Resumption1 (1996) · source
“This has led to a serious deterioration of the situation and to the expansion and escalation of Israeli aggression in southern Lebanon, targeting civilians in scores of villages and towns as well as Beirut, the capital. As a result of this flagrant aggression, hundreds of thousands of civilians have been displaced and dozens of innocent civilians have been killed or wounded. Security cannot be achieved unless Israel withdraws from all the occupied territories, and a just and comprehensive peace cannot be achieved by further aggression, by starving the population, by massacres such as that at Al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, by further aggression against the Lebanese people, by the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people or by the killing of dozens of innocent civilians.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3652Resumption1 (1996) · source
“There is cause for concern in the deterioration of the situation, with Israel's escalation of acts of detention and oppression, confiscation of land, the establishment of settlements, the demolition of houses, the imposition of a siege on the West Bank and Gaza and the total isolation of Jerusalem to persuade the Palestinian population through starvation to accept a fait accompli, thus enabling Israel to continue its de facto occupation of the Palestinian territories and its denial of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people. Silence on Israel's refusal to implement resolutions of international legality and the deflection of the peace process from its objectives has encouraged Israel to be arrogant and intransigent.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3652Resumption1 (1996) · source
“Mr. Hallak (Syrian Arab Republic) (interpretation from Arabic): Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month. I am confident that your well-known wisdom and efficiency will enable the Council to make headway. I should like also to express appreciation to your predecessor, His Excellency Ambassador Legwaila J. Legwaila, for the exemplary manner in which he steered the deliberations of the Council last month. The Security Council is meeting today, at the request of the Arab Group, to consider the tragic situation facing the Palestinian population in the occupied Arab territories.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3652Resumption1 (1996) · source
“We call upon the Council to condemn Israel for its attempt to change the demographic structure and the geographic make-up of Jerusalem. We call upon the Council to demand that Israel stop its settlement programmes and plans, rescind the closure of the city and halt all excavations threatening the structure of the Al- Aqsa mosque. We also call on it to stress the need to adopt measures to protect the Arab population in the occupied Arab territories, for the changes introduced represent a grave threat to security and stability in the area.”
1995-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption1 (1995) · source
“Many resolutions have been adopted by the United Nations, notably Security Council resolutions 465 (1980) and 476 (1980), which declared all Israeli administrative measures, including settlement, void and in contravention of international law. The expropriation of Arab land is another piece of evidence that Israeli intentions are not directed towards peace. In consequence, the Security Council must shoulder it responsibility and move swiftly to stop these acts by adopting a resolution that would invalidate expropriations of Arab and Palestinian territory, both inside and outside of Jerusalem, and any other measures in contravention of international law, including violations of the relevant Security Council resolutions or the Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949.”
1995-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption1 (1995) · source
“These are all aimed at expropriating more and more land and expanding the settlement cycle: expansion and settlement are at the core of the Israeli policy. Present Israeli measures, which include confiscation and the building of settlements in Jerusalem and elsewhere, are in fact a challenge to the international community, to United Nations resolutions and to international law. Since 1967 and in the wake of individual Israeli settlement projects in the occupied Arab territories, the United Nations has reaffirmed the need to halt measures affecting the demographic and geographic makeup of the occupied Arab territories.”
1995-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption1 (1995) · source
“This situation threatens the destiny of the Arabs by isolating them in closed, unviable concentrations of population that depend wholly on the Israeli economy, a process aimed at uprooting the Arab presence from - and usurping Arab rights in - Jerusalem. The expropriation of Arab land has been one of the mainstays of successive Israeli Governments. It takes various forms through various projects, including the Allon settler project - under which large parts of the West Bank were expropriated - the Greater Jerusalem project, the Galilee project and others that link settlement to security. Israel has intensified its settlement campaigns in occupied Arab territories using emergency laws, laws for confiscating the property of absentees, laws for land development and others.”
1995-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption1 (1995) · source
“Mr. Hallak (Syrian Arab Republic) (interpretation from Arabic): Allow me at the outset to express to you, Sir, my congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month and to wish you every success. I should also like to pay tribute to your predecessor, Ambassador Kovanda of the Czech Republic, for the exemplary manner in which he conducted the work of the Council last month. The Security Council is meeting again today to discuss the dangers faced by occupied Jerusalem as a result of the continued settlement policy and practices of Israel, in particular the recent decision by the Israeli Cabinet to expropriate Arab land. This is part of a far-reaching plan aimed at determining in advance the fate of the occupied Arab territories through a policy of imposing a geographic and demographic fait accompli.”
1995-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption1 (1995) · source