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Helder Lucas

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2003-03-19

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2003-03-19

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1. “Our main preoccupations are with the innocent people, who will endure a huge sacrifice, and for whom it is necessary to do something. It is our belief that the international community should mobilize all its efforts and resources in order to assist the civilian populations when the conflict is over. Moreover, it is our expectation that the Security Council will remain seized of the matter and that it will play its role, together with the entire United Nations system, in facing the immense tasks of the post-conflict period for the political, social and economic reconstruction of Iraq.”

   2003-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4721 (2003) · source

2. “This position was based on our awareness that we derived from our long experience of four decades of conflict in Angola and of war's extremely negative impact on society and populations. Angola also has advocated the principle of safeguarding the Security Council's primacy as the most appropriate mechanism for regulating crisis situations and for imposing international law through compliance with its resolutions. For this to happen, we always have defended the necessity of the Council's unity so that the final settlement of the Iraqi crisis could count on the full support of the international community. The main concern of the Angolan Government at this moment when a diplomatic solution seems definitely excluded, and war an inevitability, concerns the immediate humanitarian consequences that war will surely engender.”

   2003-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4721 (2003) · source

3. “Angola made repeated pleas to Iraq to cooperate fully and honestly with the United Nations in complying with the Council resolutions relating to its unconditional disarmament - particularly resolution 1441 (2002) - and to convince the international community as a whole that it was making genuine and determined efforts to disarm. In the diplomatic process of trying to find a peaceful settlement to the Iraqi crisis in the Security Council, Angola consistently defended a peaceful solution to the conflict and reiterated that the use of force should always be a last resort. We also expressed the position that the decision to be adopted should be within the United Nations framework in order to count on the international community's full support.”

   2003-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4721 (2003) · source

4. “At the outset, on behalf of the Angolan delegation, I should like to express our thanks and our recognition to the Executive Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), Mr. Hans Blix; to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei; and to their personnel, who have been working on the Iraq disarmament inspections. Indeed, the commitment that they have shown in fulfilling the task entrusted to them by the Security Council, their competence and their dedication deserve our recognition. We deplore the fact that the inspectors were unable to complete their task of disarming Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction, and we also deplore the fact that Iraq was unable to seize the last opportunity afforded it by the Security Council.”

   2003-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4721 (2003) · source