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2000-03-09
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2001-06-05
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  1. “Moreover, some aspects of the proposed mandate of those teams and of the Office for Sanctions Monitoring and Coordination need further clarifications, and more details should be known to enable the relevant Governments to comment. No doubt consultations between officials of the countries concerned and the members of the Security Council prior to any decision being taken by the Council could pave the way for the smooth implementation of any final decision.”

    2001-06-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4325Resumption1 (2001) · source

  2. “Needless to say, these endeavours, which have been undertaken at high human and material costs, help to a great extent to shield the other countries of the region, and far beyond, from the effects of the lawlessness in Afghanistan. As to the recommendations made by the Committee, they are currently being considered within the Iranian Government on the basis of the assumption that monitoring is an indispensable tool for the enforcement of resolution 1333 (2000). Pending the result of the ongoing consideration, we believe that the eventual stationing of Sanctions Enforcement Support Teams in the region should, and could, be compatible with the sovereign rights of the receiving countries.”

    2001-06-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4325Resumption1 (2001) · source

  3. “Most of Afghanistan's neighbouring countries face various difficulties and troubles emanating from civil war and lawlessness in that country, and they need assistance from the international community to cope with the situation. In this context, the need for training and equipment support from the international community to modernize the border services of the countries neighbouring Afghanistan is an appropriate point referred to in the report. In that respect, it is pertinent to refer to the crusade by the Iranian Government against transnational drug mafias. Among other things, that has led to the seizure of 263 metric tons of drugs in the past year alone.”

    2001-06-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4325Resumption1 (2001) · source

  4. “Had it been driven solely and genuinely by religious considerations, the Taliban leadership should have banned illicit drugs in all their aspects and should have ordered the stockpiles destroyed. According to our information, the stockpiles of drugs in Afghanistan are huge enough to feed the market at a steady rate for about 10 years. We therefore highlight the conclusion of the report emphasizing the need to monitor the flow of drugs from Afghanistan as an integral component of the arms embargo. Effective control of the financing of the Taliban also requires control of the financial support provided to them by individuals and institutions in the region and beyond.”

    2001-06-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4325Resumption1 (2001) · source

  5. “To this end, the removal of obstacles in the way of their return to their countries of origin and the encouragement of the officials of those countries to cooperate would be of great help. In order to bring the military machine of the Taliban to a halt, it is essential to put an end to the trade in narcotics in Afghanistan. Although we welcome the ban on opium poppy cultivation ordered by the Taliban leadership, we doubt that it is driven by religious reasons, as claimed by the Taliban. The order was issued following a few years of abundant crops. Moreover, it does not cover the stockpiling, transit and processing of, and trading in opium and heroin.”

    2001-06-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4325Resumption1 (2001) · source

  6. “The report refers rightly to the continual supply of arms and ammunition to the Taliban and dismisses the claim that their military machine survives on former stocks. The Committee, among other things, correctly notes the importance of putting an end to illegal flights to and from the areas controlled by the Taliban and the need to deny the Taliban access to turbine fuel and fluids needed for use in armoured vehicles. As to the closure of terrorist camps in the Taliban-controlled areas, accurate reference is made to the reliance of the Taliban on non-Afghan elements in their efforts to defeat the United Front. In order to help to close these camps and to reverse the multiple harms arising therefrom, the international community should pay attention to the need for the repatriation of these elements, as underlined by the Committee.”

    2001-06-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4325Resumption1 (2001) · source

  7. “Therefore, it is essential that the international community do its best to prevent a breach of the resolution and thereby deprive the belligerent and intransigent party of the means it needs to further its military objectives at the cost of the continued suffering of the Afghan people and of instability in the region. We believe that the report prepared by the Committee of Experts is an important and appropriate step in the direction of attaining that objective. The authors of the report are successful, to a great extent, in exposing the ways in which the Taliban procure military means, finance their military machine and organize other unlawful activities, including turning their territory into a safe haven for terrorists.”

    2001-06-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4325Resumption1 (2001) · source

  8. “On the other hand, according to the officials of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Taliban leadership has recently embarked on increased harassment and threats against aid workers, making the provision of international assistance to war- and drought-stricken people in Afghanistan more difficult. In view of all this, the report of the Committee of Experts has been released at a time when the disregard of the Taliban for the demands of the international community - set out, inter alia, in Security Council resolution 1333 (2000) 4 has become more evident. It is needless to recall that they are trying to flout a resolution that truly expresses the sentiment of the international community and was voted for, among others, by three Islamic States members of the Council.”

    2001-06-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4325Resumption1 (2001) · source

  9. “The decision by the Taliban to interrupt the process of dialogue under the auspices of the United Nations, which they explicitly undertook last November not to abandon, is unacceptable and further testimony to the wide disparity between their words and commitment and their actions and practice. The current increase in the military activity of the Taliban comes at a time when war and drought are plunging the country into a humanitarian crisis. As the United Nations recently warned, the number of Afghans made homeless by war and drought in 2001- 2002 could more than double to over 1.6 million people.”

    2001-06-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4325Resumption1 (2001) · source

  10. “It is very unfortunate that the continual efforts of the international community in recent years have not yet brought about any practical change in the bellicose and intransigent policy pursued by the Taliban on the ground. Based on their war-oriented policy and their total contempt for international opinion and demands, the Taliban leadership, with a view to rendering Security Council resolution 1333 (2000) ineffective by conquering more ground, even broke with the pattern set over the years and continued its military activities during the past winter. Recent reports from Afghanistan are also indicative of a new round of offensives launched by the Taliban.”

    2001-06-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4325Resumption1 (2001) · source

  11. “I wish to begin by expressing my thanks to you, Sir, for convening this meeting on the important issue of Afghanistan. My delegation is pleased to participate, under your presidency, in a debate of the Council on this issue. I thank Mr. Haile Menkerios, Chairman of the Committee of Experts, and his colleagues for the commendable, accurate and comprehensive report they have presented on how to monitor the arms embargo and the closure of training terrorist camps in the Taliban-held areas of Afghanistan. This report reflects, among other things, the dedicated efforts of the Chairman and the members of the Committee to contribute to a viable and lasting political settlement of the Afghan crisis. I also thank Ambassador Alfonso Valdivieso for his introduction of the report and for his commendable leadership of the sanctions Committee.”

    2001-06-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4325Resumption1 (2001) · source

  12. “The current situation - in which developing countries do not have an adequate and appropriate level of representation on the body charged by United Nations Members with the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security - should not be allowed to continue. In this context, more efforts are needed to streamline the decision-making process in the Council, so as to avoid the paralysis that often results from differences among the permanent members.”

    2000-03-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4109Resumption1 (2000) · source

  13. “The threat of allowing financial considerations to influence decision-making on whether and how to respond to clear threats to international peace and security is a matter of great and growing concern. Such a practice can weaken the Council's authority and that of the Secretary-General in the planning and implementation of peacekeeping operations. There is a general perception that a uniform standard for responding to the outbreak of conflicts in all parts of the world is lacking. A more credible and representative Security Council will be better equipped to fulfil its tremendous responsibility. The Council should be more transparent, more democratic and more accountable to the broader membership.”

    2000-03-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4109Resumption1 (2000) · source

  14. “Yet we must keep in mind that the Council must perform its tasks within the framework of its Charter obligations; that is to say, it must intervene in cases where international peace and security are threatened. In this connection, I would like to reaffirm the need to rid ourselves of double standards in upholding international humanitarian law. The international community must give equal attention to all conflict situations that lead to loss of life or humanitarian catastrophes, regardless of where they take place or the political considerations of one country or another. It is disturbing that the Security Council has at times been too slow in responding to the conflicts in Africa and some other areas and too inadequate in committing itself in terms of the measures and resources it has authorized to address these problems.”

    2000-03-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4109Resumption1 (2000) · source

  15. “We believe that enforcement actions without Security Council authorization and in contempt of the Charter tend to undermine the current international security system. The experience of Kosovo - where the Council failed to agree on the necessary course of action and stood by watching the unsanctioned action by a regional organization - was detrimental to very basic principles of international relations, and the international community should strive to prevent a recurrence. On the basis of this perspective, we note the readiness of the Security Council to consider, within the parameters of the Charter and given its own obligations, situations in which civilians are targeted or in which access to humanitarian assistance is deliberately impeded.”

    2000-03-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4109Resumption1 (2000) · source

  16. “Here, I would like to emphasize that we should not be driven to destroy the legal basis of what we know of as the state in the process of furthering humanitarian causes. Hence, we must remain vigilant against a growing trend towards undermining the principle of national sovereignty - one of the principles on which the United Nations itself was founded. The Charter of the United Nations provides the basic criteria and mechanisms for responding to threats to international peace and security. As a last resort, the international community may employ coercive measures, including the use of military force, but this can be done only in strict conformity with the Charter and pursuant to a decision by the Security Council.”

    2000-03-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4109Resumption1 (2000) · source

  17. “A key factor in this regard is prompt and early preventive action to ensure that most potential or actual crises are dealt with by peaceful means. The United Nations should opt for resolving conflicts before the necessity arises to resort to forceful actions. It is clear that violations of international humanitarian law can be stopped only by taking action that is in accordance with the Charter. Lawlessness can be suppressed only by lawful methods. If we accept interventions outside the United Nations framework, we may be opening a Pandora's box, for there will always be some tendencies to cover the sinister designs for expansion through the use of force under the pretext of humanitarianism and the protection of minorities and ethnic groups.”

    2000-03-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4109Resumption1 (2000) · source

  18. “Having already pronounced ourselves in favour of resolute action against the perpetrators of crimes in humanitarian crises, we believe that any international action, especially the use of force, must emanate from the Security Council as the organ primarily responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security, provided that it acts strictly in accordance with the letter and spirit of the United Nations Charter. Undoubtedly, the international community has no other universally accepted legal basis for responding to unjustifiable acts of violence threatening international peace and security than the United Nations. It is within this Organization that we must overcome political limitations to be able to take action within the framework of the Charter.”

    2000-03-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4109Resumption1 (2000) · source

  19. “I am pleased to see you, Sir, presiding over our debate as the Foreign Minister of a country friendly to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Allow me also to express my appreciation and thanks to Mr. Chowdhury and his colleagues for organizing this open debate on the very important issue of humanitarian aspects of issues before the Security Council. Several humanitarian crises in 1999, especially those in Kosovo and East Timor, helped intensify the discussion of how the international community should deal with humanitarian catastrophes. In the face of most such crises, there is a consensus on the need for immediate action to stop grave crimes, such as ethnic cleansing. We also believe that the international community cannot stand by and let thousands of people suffer gross and systematic violations of their fundamental rights.”

    2000-03-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4109Resumption1 (2000) · source