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Jeszenszky

lines on the record: 17
first: 1992-01-31
most recent: 1992-01-31
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: un-security-council

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“In this context, the idea of convening a meaningful summit meeting on questions of social development merits our close attention. Our gathering here also gives us an opportunity to reaffirm our confidence in, and support for, Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the new Secretary~General of our Organization, whose well-known commitment to peace and international understanding is a guarantee that the effective role of the United Nations in international relations will continue to grow in the years to come. The Government of the Republic of Hungary is ready to contribute fully to the strengthenng of our world Organization and to the improvement of its functioning in accordance with the exigencies of our times. There can be no doubt that the United Nations, born in 1945, will be a major factor in the world of the twenty-first century.”
1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source
“In our view, under the changed international circumstances, due consideration should be given to the idea of the United Nations instituting a force readily and constantly available that could be mobilized on very short notice, at any given time, and deployed without delay in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter to any conflict-stricken region of the world. Today's event, unique in the history of the United Nations, and made possible by the fading away of the obsolete ideological confrontations of the past, gives us an opportunity, and creates much better conditions, to take up successfully the challenges of our era and to give the right answers to the global problems of security, democracy, economic and social development and ecology that we are faced with.”
1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source
“The world has to face the challenge of dismantling enormous war machines and related manpower. Today we are witnesses of armies with unclear orientations or with no political control. Not only should war industries be converted to civilian purposes, but a large number of scientists, experts and professional soldiers also need to be retrained or reprogrammed. The future of the newly independent States in the Balkans and in the former Soviet Union hinges largely on the success or failure of this huge endeavour of human conversion. Parallel with this demolition and recycling process, there should be some new creations as well.”
1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source
“The current involvement of the United Nations in the Yugoslav crisis can in no way replace talks between the peoples and minorities concerned, nor should it impede the conclusion of arrangements which would have to take into account the legitimate interests of all the parties concerned. We are of the view that a peaceful future for the region can be ensured only by reaffirming the inadmissibility of the forcible change of borders, recognizing the rights of peoples to self-determination and enforcing human rights. We consider that the setting up of a control mechanism for the verification of the provisions of the relevant agreements could be highly important elements of a comprehensive settlement. At this historic moment of unprecedented change we ought to consider another no less important repercussion of these transformations.”
1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source
“Hungary pledges its full support for an early dispatch of United Nations peace-keeping forces, in accordance with the plan formulated by the Secretary-General. We expect such action - together with the embargo on all deliveries of weapons and military equipment, which must be strictly observed by all Member States of the United Nations - to facilitate significantly the reaching of a comprehensive political settlement there. The admission of former Yugoslav republics to membership in the United Nations would be a further step along the way to peace and stability in the whole region.”
1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source
“The future of the Hungarians there, like that of any other minorities inhabiting the southern Slav States, could be assured by, among other things, the institution of territorial and cultural autonomies, as Proposed by Lord Carrington. In our opinion, during the political negotiations aimed at reaching a durable and satisfactory settlement of the problems it is incumbent upon the Security Council to monitor carefully, in close cooperation with the European Community, the developments in that land and to deploy United Nations monitors or peace-keeping forces in all areas where tensions or conflicts might arise. In the present situation the United Nations has a major contribution to make to the solution of the conflict between the southern Slav peoples.”
1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source
“The senseless war raging in our vicinity has affected Hungary most directly, Continuous violations of our airspace and borders and the flow of over 50,000 refugees to our country are indications of a critical situation that poses a serious threat to international peace and security and carries additional grave implications. Public opinion in Hungary and the Government are deeply concerned at the human misery and material devastation brought upon the peoples of that land, including the continuous and systematic violations of the human rights and minority rights of hundreds of thousands of Hungarians who live in the province of Vojvodina and the sufferings of those Hungarians who live along the Croatian front lines.”
1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source
“The successor States of the defunct empire are fully justified in their efforts to build the closest possible ties with the world community. This, in turn, can offer us reliable prospects for a positive settlement of the many relevant security and arms--control questions, as well as for the full observance of international standards in the fields of human rights and minority rights. Hungary is guided by these considerations when it lends support to a strong involvement of the former Soviet republics in the work of multilateral forums, primarily the United Nations and its specialized agencies, and also the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe process. The processes of rearrangement taking place in our region have led not only to potential crisis situations but also to an actual explosion in what was Yugoslavia.”
1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source
“The United Nations is faced with great tasks in ensuring, with its authority and through avenues open to it under international law, that the transition to democracy and a market economy in the countries of that region follow a peaceful course and lead to stability. One of the most urgent tasks stems from the situation emerging after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union. Following more than seven decades of rule by a totalitarian regime, which took a toll of millions of human lives, what emerges is an economy in ruins with ensuing grave social problems, no clear-cut arrangements for the control of formidable nuclear weapons and the eruption of violent ethnic discords. This situation could plunge the world into a critical state.”
1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source
“The limitation of the armaments and the number of troops of an aggressor State or, for that matter, of an aggressor army out of political control, as well as their disarmament under an international verification system, should be a new, important dimension of the activities of the Security Council. Central and Eastern Europe is the scene of major, crucial changes. The peoples of that region, after long decades, are again free to decide their own destiny. At the same time, the communist-dictatorial system has bequeathed a grave legacy. This may be a source of tensions jeopardizing and weakening the hoped for stability in the region.”
1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source
“For the Republic of Hungary, respect for human rights and the rights of national minorities is not merely a legal and humanitarian question: it is also an integral part of international collective security. Therefore, it is indispensable for the Security Council to take resolute action to defend and protect these rights. The presence, wherever needed, of United Nations personnel to guarantee the enforcement of those rights should be seen as an integral part of United Nations peace-building activities. The decisions of the Security Council regarding the military arsenal of a United Nations Member State having committed aggression are, in our judgement, a precedent deserving unreserved support.”
1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source
“It was exactly a year ago that, under the authority of the Security Council, the multinational coalition of countries took action to liberate Kuwait. The operation against the Iraqi aggression was a landmark in the history of the United Nations. On the one hand, it provided evidence of the capacity of the international community, through the Security Council, to undertake peacemaking actions and to deal with local conflicts in the interest of collective security, as set forth in the Charter. On the other hand, it highlighted another, exemplary Security Council action: launching a large-scale humanitarian operation to save the Kurds of Iraq. We view those steps taken by the Security Council as a manifestation of the peace-building activity to safeguard human rights and the rights of minorities.”
1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source
“We hold that the peace-keeping missions of the United Nations should no longer be seen as some kind of an external force designed merely to confine conflicts and to preserve status quos, but as factors contributing creatively to removing hotbeds of crisis by upholding democratic values and enforcing respect for human rights. As a member of the Security Council, Hungary wishes to take its share in ensuring that this new philosophy of preventive diplomacy, peacemaking and peace-keeping is translated into concrete and effective measures. In this phase of profound transformations, a review of the activities and the efficiency of the United Nations has become necessary. What the world needs is a renewed and reformed United Nations capable of meeting the challenges of the present and the future.”
1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source
“to self-determination, and to do its utmost to ensure free and democratic development and the exercise of human rights in each and every country of the world. The favourable changes of recent years have created proper conditions for the United Nations to put into practice the principles and purposes enshrined in its Charter as long ago as 1945. The world Organization has now escaped the paralysing effect of great-Power confrontation, and is now able to respond more effectively to the challenges to peace and security. It is our firm belief that, along with its peace-keeping activities and by its involvement in making and building peace, the United Nations is becoming an irreplaceable factor of international relations.”
1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source
“We did so particularly in the dramatic days of 1956, when we believed that the United Nations would be able to stop the Soviet tanks from suppressing the democratic revolution and the freedom fight of the Hungarian people and could prevent bloody reprisals. Today, we are pleased that after 35 years the leaders in Moscow openly dissociate themselves from those past Soviet actions. For well-known reasons, however, no active assistance was forthcoming at that time, but the moral and political support of the United Nations still meant a lot to us. The experience of that period should encourage us to urge the United Nations, with its increased capacity for. action, not to leave peoples alone in their struggle for the realization of their right.”
1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source
“At the present juncture, all the democratic Governments are being called upon to play an active role in shaping the course of world history for the coming decades. Mr. President, the Republic of Hungary welcomes and highly appreciates your initiative of inviting the States members of the United Nations Security Council to meet in New York. The very fact that the States represented in this body are meeting at the highest level for the first time in the history of the world Organization is a telling indication of the increased role and importance of this forum, bearing as it does primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. My country, as well as the region I come from, has always looked to this body with great expectations and hopes.”
1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source
“Mr, JESZENSZKY (Hungary): At this meeting of historic significance, I have the honour to deliver my statement also on behalf of the Prime Minister of Hungary, who regrets that he is not able to be present amongst us. I have just spoken to him on the telephone. The world order that appeared unshakeable for decades is now passing through a period of stormy and radical change. Following the end of the cold war, the world is witnessing the growing advance of freedom, democracy and the rule of law. A striking manifestation of this progress was the announcement made this morning by President Yeltsin about the release of the very last political prisoners in Russia. However, this transformation is accompanied by tremendous difficulties and tensions which are especially manifest in the former Communist countries.”
1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source