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Jaafari

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“We meet here today to discuss once again the situation in the Middle East, an item that the continued Israeli occupation has caused us to remain seized of. For decades now, the Security Council has failed to find a solution to end that occupation for reasons that are known to everyone. Due to this failure, the Israeli occupation of Arab lands has been transformed over time from an Israeli military occupation and annexation by force of the territories of others to colonial, provocative and aggressive settler activity based on fait accompli and on continued acts of aggression, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, against the Palestinian people and against our citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736 (2007) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): Mr. President, allow me to begin by congratulating you on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for August 2007. I cannot but wholeheartedly thank the Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China, Ambassador Wang Guangya, and the members of his delegation for the able manner in which they led the Council in its work during July. I would also like to address Mr. Michael Williams, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, who is participating today in his last briefing to the Security Council. I truly wish that his new post will allow him to continue to make sincere efforts to activate and promote a just and comprehensive peace process in the Middle East region.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736 (2007) · source
“Israel's continuing policy of State terrorism only serves to underscore that our request made last year for an international conference to define terrorism is still very relevant. That request relates to the need to ensure that we do not confuse legitimate struggles for independence and autonomy with State terrorism. In conclusion, I would like to remind you, Mr. President, that international terrorism did not begin on 11 September 2001. International terrorism goes back much further in time, as it targeted many countries before its criminal act of 11 September against the United States and its people. For decades we have suffered various forms of Israeli terrorism. We can participate in the international efforts aimed at eradicating international terrorism in all its forms.”
2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source
“Certain Israeli politicians make their statements openly; they incite hostility and aggression against neighbouring countries so that people in those countries will be killed, as though we lived in the Middle Ages, in a pre-consensus international age. Regarding the references and sources of international law, counter- terrorism requires of Israel first of all that it join in collective international action and that it not act outside that collective framework. It requires that Israel cooperate with the counter- terrorism bodies of the Security Council. That must be done without selectivity, without prejudice or unilateral positions. Israel must also stop setting a bad example at the United Nations by its acts of State terrorism and the ongoing forcible occupation of land that does not belong to it.”
2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source
“The address is the aggressive policy of Israel, the policy of occupation, provocation and hostility that refuses to extend its hand to those among the Arab peoples who advocate peace, and that refuses to heed the call of the international community to develop peace on the basis of the Arab peace initiative and on the basis of the principle of land for peace. The ongoing Israeli occupation of Arab territories in Palestine, the Golan and southern Lebanon is the worst and most dangerous form of terrorism, especially as this terrorism is also accompanied by obvious Israeli actions declared and documented by the United Nations as violations of the relevant Security Council resolutions countering terrorism.”
2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source
“May I remind the Council, by way of example, of the actions perpetrated by the Israeli Irgun and the Stern Gang - the killing Count Bernadotte, the United Nations mediator in Palestine, in 1948. There have been repeated Israeli aggression against the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in Qana in 1996 and in 2006. Let us recall as well aggression carried out for years now against Egyptian, Jordanian, Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian school children, not forgetting the UNRWA schools in occupied Palestinian territory, which were targeted by shellings and air attacks. Was Count Bernadotte a terrorist? The UNIFIL troops, the Arab school children - are those people terrorists? The address of international terrorism is well known to many of us.”
2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source
“I wish to emphasize here today that terrorism spread through the region only after the appearance of Israeli State terrorism. Israeli State terrorism, which has targeted the infrastructure, helpless civilians and stability of the Middle East as a whole, has been going on for several decades. Since the establishment of the Security Council its files have grown to include hundreds of items having to do with Israeli terrorist operations against Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese, Egyptians and Jordanians. Israeli State terrorism has even reached Tunisia and Iraq, in a way never seen by the international community and in a way not in keeping with the objectives of the Charter.”
2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source
“Ruperez, whose efforts, and those of his colleagues, we highly appreciate as they assumed their functions. Since the Council began to consider international terrorism in 1999, when resolution 1267 (1999) was adopted, and on through resolutions 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004), my country has always cooperated with this Council and with the international community in combating international terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism. Syria's cooperation has always been strong within international efforts, in order to eradicate this scourge. I recall on this occasion that Syria was a member of the Counter- Terrorism Committee (CTC) for two years. Syria has suffered from terrorism itself, in particular from Israeli State terrorism.”
2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your accession to the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I see in you a very experienced diplomat, an expert who will bring the Council's work to a successful conclusion, thanks to your wisdom and your balance in decision-making. I also wish to thank Ambassador Verbeke, Chairman of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999), Ambassador Arias, Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001), and Ambassador Burian, Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). I thank the three of them for their very useful reports to the Council. I thank also the Executive Director of the Counter- Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED), Mr.”
2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source
“International peace and security will always be threatened; the principle of land for peace will be empty words, and international relations will always be marred by acute tension.”
2007-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5629 (2007) · source
“Israel's will is an issue that was discussed by most of the Member States that took the floor today. Above all else, peace is a responsibility. It requires more courage than war does. As such, the Arab-Israeli conflict has, from its earliest days, seen more than 30 Arab and international peace initiatives, all of which faced Israeli rejection, supported by the use of the veto 44 times by a super-Power. Unless Israeli Governments and their protectors assume their responsibilities, show courage and understand that promoting the logic of might in international relations and the choice of military might will not last, our region will lack peace and stability and the suffering of its peoples will continue unabated.”
2007-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5629 (2007) · source
“It is contrary to a peace based on a fait accompli that gives Israel everything, for nothing in return. Strategic peace is a responsibility and a decision. It is not manoeuvring, irresponsibility, or merely buying time. Strategic peace is built on decisions of international legitimacy, such as resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), the principle of land for peace and the Arab Peace Initiative. Israel must understand that peace requires the full withdrawal from the occupied Golan to the line of 4June 1967 and also the withdrawal from other Lebanese and occupied Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem. On this occasion, I would like to stress that a just and equitable resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict is not elusive, if the Israelis show the real political will to make peace.”
2007-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5629 (2007) · source
“From the political perspective, Israel's recent actions pose a serious threat to international efforts to revive the peace process. Among other things, those actions are aimed at aborting the possibility of holding negotiations on final status issues, especially those pertaining to Jerusalem and the return of refugees in accordance with General Assembly resolution 49/ 149. This is taking place at a time when major capitals, eminent persons and others with political influence - both from the Arab world as well as from the rest of the world - are striving to relaunch the peace process and bring the parties closer to a resolution. My country has always stressed that its strategic choice is a just and comprehensive peace. For my country, a strategic peace is one that requires a genuine commitment by both parties.”
2007-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5629 (2007) · source
“In turn, the Israeli Government committed yet another act of aggression against the Al-Aqsa mosque, in an effort to foil Arab and international efforts to relaunch the peace process, as well as to undermine all that has been achieved thus far and to impede all diplomatic efforts. I should point out that, legally speaking, Israel's act of aggression against the Al-Aqsa mosque is a flagrant violation of Israel's responsibility as an occupying Power in terms of altering the character of occupied Palestinian territory, which includes East Jerusalem, under the 1949 Geneva Conventions, the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and Security Council resolution 478 (1980).”
2007-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5629 (2007) · source
“It is also not surprising, because the entire international community has now welcomed the declaration of a Government of national unity in Palestine that will work to realize the aspirations of the Palestinian people to independence, freedom and the establishment of an independent State with East Jerusalem as its capital. Syria has been tireless in seeking to bring the various Palestinian parties to the negotiating table and to achieve a rapprochement of view points in order to ensure that the enemies of just and lasting peace will not prevail and to overcome all pretexts by Israel that there is no Palestinian partner for peace.”
2007-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5629 (2007) · source
“Then, as part of the Jabal Abu Ghneim project, they built 17,500 residential units. And, as part of a project announced in January 2007, another 1,000 settler units will be built in the Jabal Abu Ghneim area of Jerusalem. I felt obliged to cite those historical events in order to remind the international community, which the Security Council represents, that Israel has been aware beforehand of the likely results of its provocative acts. I am not at all surprised that Israel is determined to push events to the point of escalation, given that there are now signs of easing of tensions regarding the Palestinian issue, following the agreement arrived at by the Palestinian parties at Mecca - which was successfully brokered by Damascus.”
2007-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5629 (2007) · source
“Statistics also indicate that 15,000 residential units, which are home to 280,000 Palestinians, are classified as illegal units by the occupation authorities. Moreover, in 1967 there were no Israeli settlement units in Jerusalem. However, today, that number is more than 59,000 settler units, all of which are illegal under international law and which house 182,000 Israeli settlers from the Jewish diaspora who have come to live on the territory of others. I shall summarize Israel's establishment of settlements in Jerusalem, a lamentable step that the international community has called illegal, as follows. First, Israeli occupation forces confiscated 2,000 dunums of land in the Palestinian village of Al-Walaja to build 5,000 units for settlers. Then they built 4,600 settler units near the village of Telat Al-Tayara.”
2007-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5629 (2007) · source
“When no one budged in response to Israel's violation of international law, Israel took a second step in 1970 and confiscated 12 square kilometres of the northern part of Jerusalem and established what it called the second cordon. In its third step, in 1980, Israel set up what it referred to as the third cordon, following the confiscation of 4.4 square kilometres in the northern part of occupied Jerusalem. Those acts of confiscation, which violated United Nations resolutions and the relevant international instruments that affirm the illegality of building on occupied territory, provided the opportunity for Israel to build its settlements. Statistics indicate that the number of Palestinian residential units in 1967, prior to Israel's occupation of the city of Jerusalem, totalled 12,000 - a figure that eventually rose to 38,000 units.”
2007-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5629 (2007) · source
“In another act of aggression, on 28 September 2000, Ariel Sharon, leader of the right-wing opposition at the time, visited the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, which led to the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada and to the hampering of the peace process. A reading of historical documents since 1967 reveals Israel's deliberate steps to alter the demographic map of Jerusalem. The first of those steps occurred in 1968, just one year after the occupation of Jerusalem, when Israel laid siege to a 3.5 square kilometre area of that city and made plans to build Jewish settlements there. Within a few years, Israel established what it called the first cordon around Jerusalem.”
2007-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5629 (2007) · source
“The new chapter in the ongoing saga of terror by Israel - as defined by legal norms, the occupying Power of Arab territories - began on 6 February 2007 with its excavation activity that seeks to undermine the foundations of the Al-Aqsa mosque, which holds symbolic and sacred significance to Muslims throughout the world and to the Islamic faith itself. That new act of Israeli provocation is a continuation of the Israeli approach to which we have become accustomed. Israel's current aggression against Al-Aqsa mosque is not the first of its kind, for it also attempted to burn down the mosque in 1969 and excavated a tunnel near the mosque in 1996.”
2007-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5629 (2007) · source
“Given the fact that Israel has violated every condition of membership in the United Nations, reneged on its commitment to respect the Charter and shown its true colours as a peace-hating rather than a peace-loving country, it is legitimate from the legal perspective to question the obligation which the aforementioned resolution places on the international community and the extent of Israel's violation of the principles and purposes of the Charter. The Security Council is meeting today, for perhaps the thousandth time, to debate the agenda item entitled "The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question". Israel, the occupying Power, is wantonly violating all international laws and ethical norms.”
2007-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5629 (2007) · source
“A reading of General Assembly resolution 273 (III) of 11 May 1949, whereby the General Assembly voted to accept Israel as a Member of the United Nations, reveals that the General Assembly noted then that "Israel is a peace-loving State and is able and willing to carry out the obligations contained in the Charter" and "the declaration by the State of Israel that it 'unreservedly accepts the obligations of the United Nations Charter and undertakes to honour them from the day when it becomes a Member of the United Nations'" (General Assembly resolution 273 (111), second andfourth preambular paragraphs).”
2007-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5629 (2007) · source
“So true is this that the expressions "double standards" and "double benchmarks" were coined and insinuated themselves into diplomatic jargon with specific reference to the imbalance in the treatment of Israel that frustrates the will of the international community. Regrettably, the high and mighty continue to cover up Israel's attempts to obstruct the will of the international community, to protect Israel politically and legally from the consequences of its behaviour, and to prevent it from being held accountable for its ongoing occupation policies.”
2007-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5629 (2007) · source
“One surprising irony in the annals of the United Nations - without which Israel, created by the Organization, would not have seen the light - is the fact that, over the years, while Israel has pursued its racist, expansionist, settler occupation of Arab territories and continued to suppress and aggress the Palestinians, it has become a staunch adversary of peace and obstinately flouts the will of the international community, as represented by the resolutions of this Organization. Never before has a United Nations Member so challenged the Organization or shown the ingratitude that Israel has shown since it was created.”
2007-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5629 (2007) · source
“We also thank the Secretary-General for stressing the comprehensive nature of any solution to the Arab- Israeli conflict and the situation in the Middle East. My delegation associates itself with the statements to be made by the representatives of Kuwait on behalf of the Arab Group, of Azerbaijan on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, and of Cuba on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement.”
2007-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5629 (2007) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me at the outset, Sir, to thank you for convening this meeting today. I also thank Mr. Alvaro de Soto, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his useful briefing, although he failed to make any reference to the occupied Syrian Golan in his description of current events in the context of the situation in the Middle East. The Israeli occupation authorities continue to detain scores of Syrian nationals in their detention camps and prisons and to build settlements in the Syrian Golan, in violation of Security Council resolution 497 (1981). I would be remiss if I failed on this occasion to extend our thanks and gratitude to the delegation of the Russian Federation for its successful and distinguished conduct of the Council's deliberations last month.”
2007-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5629 (2007) · source
“Syria also believes that we must ensure that the investigation has the time needed to find and obtain real evidence that cannot be used for political purposes or be subject to unfounded interpretations. We assert here that Syria will continue its cooperation with the International Independent Investigation Commission and will provide any available information, along with the results of the investigations being carried out by the Syrian authorities on the assassination of Mr. Hariri. Finally, we reassert here today that Syria is committed to cooperating with the International Independent Investigation Commission in a professional, neutral and responsible manner. We are very keen that the truth be revealed; that will serve the interests of Syria.”
2006-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5597 (2006) · source
“We know that the assassination of the two Majdhoub brothers is an integral part of the Commission's mandate. The extensive mandate covers the provision of technical assistance to clarify the circumstances of the terrorist attacks that targeted Lebanese public figures who were influential in the political and media spheres from 2004 until the November 2006 terrorist attack against Pierre Gemayel, the Minister of Industry of Lebanon. The extension of the mandate could help to illuminate those crimes and previous crimes, as well as crimes that followed. The Syrian delegation agrees with the necessity to maintain the confidentiality of the investigation. We appreciate that and call for it to continue, because confidentiality is closely linked with the impartiality of the inquiry, in its efforts to achieve concrete and credible conclusions.”
2006-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5597 (2006) · source
“My delegation calls upon the 10 other States referred to by Mr. Serge Brammertz, who have not yet cooperated with the Commission, to do so immediately. We would have liked to have the names of those States that have not cooperated so far with the Commission, because the media in some countries have continued to make comments about Syria, despite our continued and effective cooperation with the Commission. We do not wish to discuss the details of the investigation, in order not to prejudge the investigation, which must be independent, neutral, objective and free from any political interference. 5 We believe that the International Independent Investigation Commission should also investigate the assassination of the al-Majdhoub brothers in order to explain the link between that crime and the other crimes.”
2006-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5597 (2006) · source
“Syria notes that the Commission has set out new hypotheses with regard to the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and the circumstances and motives surrounding that assassination. We wish to reiterate the need to examine all of the existing evidence in a very careful manner, in line with international criteria for a criminal investigation. We must also reveal the truth regarding those who organized the crime. In this regard, we call upon all States - in particular those who are requesting, through the media, that the entire truth be revealed - to assume their own responsibilities through complete cooperation with the International Independent Investigation Commission, and we ask them not to give safe refuge to suspects or witnesses who have lost their credibility.”
2006-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5597 (2006) · source
“Hariri's assassination. Syria hopes that the investigation will continue and that, on the basis of the three previous reports, it will lead to identifying those who perpetrated that crime. In that context, we reiterate our repeated affirmation that the greatest threat to the investigation lies in the fact that certain parties in and beyond our region are exploiting it in order to politicize conclusions that are entirely unrelated to the investigation and that are not based on firm evidence. There is also a danger that certain parties may provide uncorroborated information, prevent some witnesses from being investigated, and draw conclusions that have no bearing on the rationale and objective of the Commission's establishment. The report points out that much remains to be done to uncover the truth before we can achieve the desired outcome.”
2006-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5597 (2006) · source
“I wish once again to reaffirm before the Council that the Syrian Arab Republic's cooperation with the International Independent Investigation Commission stems from our desire to uncover the truth about the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and to identify the perpetrators and the masterminds of the crime. In that regard, we note that our cooperation with the Commission has extended to all areas of its inquiry. Mr. Brammertz's fourth report shows that Syria has cooperated on several fronts and has responded to the investigators' many requests to reveal the desired truth. The Syrian judicial commission has provided the International Independent Investigation Commission with all the information that it has extracted from the inquiries being carried out by the appropriate Syrian authorities with regard to Mr.”
2006-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5597 (2006) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, and your brotherly country for the skilful way in which you are guiding the Security Council's work this month. I should also like to welcome Mr. Serge Brammertz, head of the International Independent Investigation Commission, who has submitted his fourth periodic report. We have studied the report and taken note of the positive information it contains concerning Syria's ongoing efforts to meet its commitments and cooperate with the Commission. The report clearly indicates that Syrian cooperation with the Commission has been satisfactory, effective and timely, reflecting again my country's concern, from day one until today, to ensure that the Commission can complete its work.”
2006-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5597 (2006) · source
“We appeal to all members of the Council to adopt the draft resolution as quickly as possible in order to maintain peace, so that the Council does not send the wrong message to our peoples under occupation that laws are worthless and that violence is the only way to bring about the liberation of occupied lands. The time has come to send this clear message to Israel: that the continuation of its occupation of the occupied Arab territories will lead to tension in international relations and that it will seriously threaten international peace and security. The time has come for the Council to take action.”
2006-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5564Resumption1 (2006) · source
“The Arab Group has submitted an emergency draft resolution to be adopted by the Security Council in order to put an end to Israeli massacres in the occupied Palestinian territories. The draft resolution enjoys the direct support of the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization of the Islamic Conference and most delegations that have spoken today. We would prefer that endorsement of the draft resolution not be limited to those groups. We would like to see other States, from the North, join those that called for and prepared the draft resolution. The issue of justice is not geographic; it is political.”
2006-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5564Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Everyone knows the sincere wish of my country to bring about peace - but a just and comprehensive peace. Everyone knows the will of my country, Syria, to bring about this peace as a strategic option. The problem for those who have any doubts about Syria's role is that they do not want to understand the facts, or even to recognize their own shortcomings and responsibilities, or their short- sightedness in the way they deal with the question of a just peace in the region. My country is making every possible effort to support the formation of a government of national unity in Palestine. Some might make the error of thinking that the problem lies in this aspect of the Palestinian question. The problem lies in the continued Israeli occupation and aggression against the Palestinian people. That is the core of the problem.”
2006-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5564Resumption1 (2006) · source
“The walls of the Council Chamber reverberate with those terms of reference because they have been echoed here many times before. The pretexts offered for the continuation of Israeli's occupation and aggression are no longer acceptable. It is as if some were trying to push the region towards despair, towards the unknown and towards an explosion as the only solution. Injustice has long prevailed among the peoples of the region. It is neither morally nor politically acceptable that, for some, memory should be so short concerning the Israeli-Arab conflict and the suffering of our people under Israeli occupation. Nor is it acceptable that some speakers should call upon Syria to exercise what they call its influence or to play a positive role. Syria's positive role is well known; Syria is part of the solution, not part of the problem.”
2006-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5564Resumption1 (2006) · source
“The climax of this absurdity is that some have taken to saying that the massacre at Beit Hanoun occurred because of an error, as Israel claims. In fact, we have heard such claims many times before in this Council; we have heard the same pretext used as Israeli justification for killing women, children, members of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and even United Nations staff members. This Israeli justification, which has been totally rejected, demonstrates that Israel is an irresponsible State, not qualified to deal with the international community. Most speakers have referred to the terms of reference of a just and comprehensive peace: Security Council resolutions, the Madrid terms of reference and the Arab Peace Initiative.”
2006-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5564Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Is it rational that such a falsification should occur within the walls of the Council Chamber? In July, the delegation of the United States prevented the Security Council from adopting a draft resolution condemning an Israeli massacre similar to the one perpetrated yesterday in Beit Hanoun, namely, the Gaza massacre, even though the draft resolution enjoyed otherwise unanimous support. If the Council had succeeded in condemning Israel's criminal behaviour at that time in July, yesterday's massacre would not have occurred. Those who impede justice and accountability for Israeli war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory bear a large part of the responsibility for the present shedding of innocent blood there.”
2006-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5564Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Many people, whether they be politicians, diplomats or political analysts, believe that the answer is that some influential Powers in the Security Council have paralysed its capacity to punish Israel for its previous crimes and to hold it accountable to the Council for the State terrorism that has been its foundation since its inception. Our astonishment increases when some speakers make every effort to turn the facts upside down in asserting that the right of Palestinians to defend themselves, in the face of a brutal and barbaric occupation that has no precedent in history, is itself a form of terrorism, while depicting Israel's terrorism against unarmed Palestinians as legitimate self- defence. Is there a falsification of facts more painful than this?”
2006-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5564Resumption1 (2006) · source
“As long as we ignore the need to impose a just and comprehensive political solution to this problem, Israel will feel that it is not subject to accountability, that it is allowed to do what nobody else can do and that it is exempt from legal principles. This has led Israel to escalate its aggression against the unarmed Palestinian people under the yoke of occupation and against its immediate neighbours. It is axiomatic that we must call upon the Council today to put an end to the bleeding of our people, our tragedies, our pain and suffering. It is as though such a call had become a matter of routine for the Security Council and the United Nations. We wonder very seriously about the real reason why Israel dares to continue blindly to kill Palestinians.”
2006-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5564Resumption1 (2006) · source
“The collective consciousness of the Security Council is full of innumerable memories of hundreds of long meetings devoted to considering the massacres and the crimes perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians, the Lebanese, the Syrians, the Jordanians and the Egyptians. How many times has the Council considered draft resolutions condemning Israeli massacres? How many times has a well-known State used its veto power to block a collective and otherwise unanimous trend within the Council to condemn Israel for its crimes and hold it responsible for its criminal acts? The Palestinian question is not a humanitarian issue; it is first and foremost a political issue.”
2006-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5564Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): We are very happy to see a Peruvian friend, well versed in diplomacy, returning to preside over today's emergency Security Council meeting to consider the current Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the occupied territory, particularly in the Gaza Strip. I would like at the outset to align myself with the statements made by the representative of Qatar on behalf of the Arab Group, by the representative of Cuba on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement and by the representative of Azerbaijan on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Over the decades, a great deal has been said before the Council about the crimes perpetrated by Israel's Government, army and terrorist gangs in the occupied Arab territories.”
2006-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5564Resumption1 (2006) · source
“My country did not kill any elements of the UNIFIL forces, nor did it commit war crimes or crimes against humanity in Palestine or Lebanon. My country did not carry out the first and second massacres in Qana; my country did not detain democratically elected ministers and parliamentarians; my country does not establish a racist separation wall on occupied land; my country does not impose a criminal blockade on defenseless people. State terrorism with regard to Israel is well known to any fledgling diplomat. Nobody should have any second thoughts about writing that expression.”
2006-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5552 (2006) · source
“This Council knows that my country requested European technical devices and equipment to monitor the long border with Lebanon, a border 351 kilometres-long, two months after adoption of resolution 1701 (2006). We still wait for the delivery of the equipment to us. My country is participating in reconstructing many Lebanese villages destroyed by Israeli military machinery. We provide Lebanon with electricity and we help hundreds of thousands of Lebanese refugees who fled Israeli attacks. We also have enabled many Lebanese students whose universities were destroyed in Lebanon to come to our universities. We placed our ports and airports at the service of Lebanon when it was surrounded by Israel, when Israel destroyed its infrastructure and polluted its coasts and our coasts, when Israel bombarded the oil station in Lebanon.”
2006-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5552 (2006) · source
“Alvaro de Soto, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, stated that Syria is for peace, and the President of Syria has called for peace many times. The Israeli response to those initiatives was in the form of provocations, intransigence, rejection of peace and unsound declarations. My country moved part of our border guards from our border with Iraq to the borders with Lebanon, in implementation of our commitment to resolution 1701 (2006), despite our reservations over some of its items. The Secretary-General repeatedly referred to Syria's fulfilment of its obligations and that it has not reneged on any of its pledges.”
2006-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5552 (2006) · source
“Many British nationals fell victim to the explosion of the King David Hotel in Al-Quds and other Israeli explosions and killings that included many United Nations special envoys, such as Count Bernadotte and others. Given its long experience in the Security Council, Britain knows that United Nations records are replete with official reports that talk about Israeli terrorism in the region. When it comes to the appeal that we support the peace process, this runs counter to the fact of Syria's abiding by the peace process as a strategic option and its numerous calls for resuming it. The irrational questioning of our deep belief in peace affirms the validity of our position that some do not possess real political will for a just and comprehensive peace. Numerous speakers today, particularly Mr.”
2006-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5552 (2006) · source
“He said that we should support the peace process instead of supporting terrorism, as terrorism endangers the stability of the Middle East. That is a distorted reading of the facts on the ground and does not reflect the numerous reports presented by the United Nations itself, including reports from the Security Council and by Secretariat representatives and envoys, about the positive political role played by Syria with regard to events in the region. Britain shoulders the bulk of the moral and political responsibility for sowing the seeds of the Arab-Israeli conflict, given its unilateral actions. Those actions determined the fate of Palestine, which it occupied until 1948. Britain knows full well the identity of the real terrorism from which the region is suffering.”
2006-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5552 (2006) · source
“His statement made no sense; many Israeli statesmen and many in the Israeli media strongly criticized him for his lack of political realism, for his disregard for the reality of the situation and for ignoring the importance of Syria in establishing peace in the region. Without the restoration of the occupied Golan to Syria in accordance with the borders of 4 June 1967, Israel will not enjoy peace. Nobody can impose an imaginary peace - one that enables Israel to continue its occupation of our usurped land. Indeed, the continuation of the occupation simply means the absence of peace. The Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom expressed his country's concern about what he called Syria's role in financing and arming groups inside Lebanon.”
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“President Bashar Al-Assad has consistently talked about a peace based on principles, not on manoeuvres, because only a peace based on principles is founded on law and on the well-known terms of reference. Thus, a peace based on principles is the only kind of peace that can endure. The President of the Syrian Arab Republic has made many statements about the need for peace in the region, and the international community has taken a keen interest in his position and has appreciated it. Indeed, some distinguished colleagues, including Mr. De Soto himself, have referred to that position during this meeting. What has the Israeli response been to Syria's peaceful intentions? The Israeli Prime Minister told the Israeli Knesset that Israel will not withdraw from the occupied Syrian Golan and that the Golan is part and parcel of Israel.”
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