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Ka

lines on the record: 138
first: 1992-07-15
most recent: 2002-06-13
sittings or episodes: 14
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“Mr. Ka (Senegal), Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (interpretation from French): At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on the outstanding manner in which you have handled all of the important matters before the Security Council and on the excellent work you have accomplished since the beginning of your term. I should like also to congratulate your predecessor, my brother and friend Mr. Mahugu, Permanent Representative of Kenya, on his timely initiatives and on the significant achievements he recorded during his presidency of the Council last month. The Security Council is meeting once again today to consider the serious situation that has resulted from the recent actions of the Israeli Government.”
1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900Resumption1 (1998) · source
“The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People therefore hopes that, at the end of this debate, the Council will demonstrate to world public opinion its unshakable will to annul the Israeli decision to build housing for Jewish settlers in Jabal Abu Ghneim and to put an end to the policy of the Judaization of the Holy City of JeruSalem, a symbol of peaceful coexistence of peoples and religions. It is time for all the peoples of the region, who have brought such transcendental messages to the world, to learn to live together, respect one another and create the necessary conditions for peace and trust, the benefits of which will redound to the entire region.”
1997-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3745 (1997) · source
“The sooner the Israeli leaders recognize that peace and stability are based on compromise and that mutual interests and the establishment of a partnership cannot be imposed unilaterally, the better it will, be for all the peoples of the region. The policies and attitudes of the occupier and the denial of the legitimate rights and aspirations of the Palestinian people are incompatible with efforts to pursue the current peace process. In convening this meeting, the members of the Security Council have shown that the decision taken by the Israeli Government is a source of major concern for the international community as a whole.”
1997-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3745 (1997) · source
“The Committee believes that real political will is essential to relaunching the peace process and to preventing the current situation from deteriorating further, thus damaging the efforts of many persons of good will to establish an era of peace and stability in the Middle East. As has been forcefully reaffirmed by previous speakers, if we wish to achieve reconciliation, establish a commonality of interests and realize the desire to live shared by the Palestinian and Israeli parties, there is no alternative to the agreements already reached. History has often shown us over the course of the centuries that attempts to impose demands solely by force can only unleash a bloodbath and are usually doomed to failure.”
1997-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3745 (1997) · source
“Security Council 3745th meeting Fifty-second year 5 March 1997 The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, through me, would like to associate itself with this great movement in order urgently to call upon the Israeli Government to refrain from altering the physical character, the demographic composition and the institutional structure of the city of Jerusalem and the status of the Palestinian territories and other Arab territories occupied since 1967. It calls upon Israel above all to implement quickly and comprehensively the agreements already concluded betWeen Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in order to create the necessary conditions for a just and lasting settlement on the basis of Security Council resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973), 465 (1980) and 478 (1980).”
1997-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3745 (1997) · source
“' This new attempt to Judaize Jerusalem, coming after the attempt in May 1995 and the various confiscations of Palestinian land to establish or expand Israeli settlements, have all provoked the general disapproval of the international community and confounded sensibilities. The sponsors of the peace process, as well as the European Union, the League of Arab States and the Organization of the Islamic Conference, have all unanimously condemned this policy. The Organization of African Unity, whose Council of Ministers was meeting at the time, also adopted a resolution reflecting the concerns of the international community.”
1997-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3745 (1997) · source
“Moreover, this decision, along with the closing of four Palestinian offices in East Jerusalem, has come at a time when the Israeli army continues to seal off Palestinian territories and is delaying its withdrawal from some sectors in the West Bank, thereby jeopardizing the continuation of the peace process. As these measures Were taken just before the new stage of negotiations on Jerusalem, they seem to take on the character of faitaccompli. In short, this decision undermines the credibility of the entire peace process and has created undesirable tensions in the region at this crucial stage of the status negotiations on the final status of the Palestinian territories.”
1997-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3745 (1997) · source
“The decision was particularly untimely in that on 15 January the Israeli Government and the Palestine Liberation Organization had reached agreement on redeployment in Hebron; that agreement, which was regarded as a major event by the international community, had given new impetus to the peace process. The decision of the Israeli Government runs counter to the letter and the spirit of the Declaration of Principles on the Interim Self-Govemment Arrangements, which the Israeli Government and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed on 13 September 1993, as well as to agreements reached later, particularly the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, signed in September 1995.”
1997-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3745 (1997) · source
“I should like to thank the members of the Council for giving me this opportunity, as Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, to participate in this important debate on the decision taken by the Israeli authorities to build housing for Jewish settlers in the area of Jabal Abu Ghneim in the southern part of East Jerusalem. Our Committee vehemently deplores this decision, which is a violation of international law, the Fourth Geneva Convention and many relevant Security Council and General Assembly resolutions on the situation in occupied Palestine.”
1997-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3745 (1997) · source
“Mr. Ka (Senegal) Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (interpretation from F ranch); At the outset, I wish to congratulate you warmly, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of March. I am sure that under your enlightened guidance the Council's work will be very successful. I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate your predecessor, Ambassador Mahugu, Permanent Representative of Kenya, for the exemplary manner in which he presided over the work of the Council in February 1997.”
1997-03-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3745 (1997) · source
“The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People remains convinced that many Israelis are still firmly committed to the peace process and condemn the delaying measures of their Government, which would hold back the march of history. Strengthened by this conviction and in my capacity as the Chairman of the Committee on Palestine, I would like to take the opportunity of this meeting to make an urgent appeal to the Israeli authorities to ask them to reconsider their present policy of scorn and confrontation, and to commit themselves resolutely, as the international community has constantly called for, to recreate the conditions for a climate of confidence and hope by putting the peace process back on the right track - that of a peace that is profitable to both the Palestinian and Israeli peoples.”
1996-09-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3698Resumption1 (1996) · source
“Given the Israeli attitude since June 1996, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People continues to be very much concerned, by the situation created by Israel, on behalf of its own security and to the detriment of an entire people whose legitimate aspiration is to live in peace on the soil of its homeland. The Palestinian national authorities have clearly shown their aspirations to live in peace, in dignity and justice with their neighbours by courageously embarking upon peace negotiations with the Israeli party since 1991, and by taking since then widely-known political measures. It is through this inevitable coexistence that, in the final analysis, the Middle East - a crossroads of history and of the world - will become a region of opportunities, an area of economic growth and political stability.”
1996-09-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3698Resumption1 (1996) · source
“It is therefore important for the international community to exert pressure and take the measures necessary so that the inhumane sealing off of the territories and the restrictions on the movements of Palestinians imposed by the occupying authorities are lifted; that the redeployment of Israeli troops from the city of Hebron on the West Bank should take place as called for in the interim peace accords signed by the former Israeli Government; that construction and expansion of settlements should cease; that the tunnel be closed once and for all; and that, finally, the protagonists - in order not to prove right the enemies of peace - resume the peace process that has been under way since 1993.”
1996-09-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3698Resumption1 (1996) · source
“The decision recently taken by the Israeli Government to open a tunnel in the Old City of Jerusalem - the holiest of sites - following the sealing of Palestinian territory, both within Palestine and in its relations with the exterior, for several months; the confiscation of Arab lands to build settlements or roads around areas inhabited by Palestinians; and the measures of intimidation taken against the Arab civilian population show that Israel wishes to stifle the occupied territories economically and to deny the Palestinian people their right to exercise their legitimate rights to self-determination and to establish an independent state, in keeping with international legality and the relevant resolutions adopted by the United Nations Security Council.”
1996-09-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3698Resumption1 (1996) · source
“Dreams began to become reality with the first free and democratic elections held on Palestinian land. This hope for peace finally regained between Israel and its Arab neighbours, was further nourished by the process of dialogue that had also begun between Israel and Syria and which left us hope for a peaceful political settlement to the question of the occupied Arab Golan. All of us had hoped that this much-desired peace process was finally established, and that the return to the logic of war, hatred and frustration of all kinds had been banished forever. The tragic events taking place before our eyes today in the occupied Arab territories once again highlight the precariousness of the situation in the Middle East and just how dangerous Israeli practices are for the present peace process.”
1996-09-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3698Resumption1 (1996) · source
“Between 1993 and September 1995, the international community welcomed with joy and relief the signing of several historic agreements between President Arafat and the late Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzak Rabin. Those agreements crowned years of negotiations that were intended to reach a just and lasting solution to the question of Palestine and - over and above the question of Palestine - to end the painful conflict that has raged in the Middle East for several decades. This same international community had hailed with optimism the effective implementation in the field of the practical arrangements of the different accords and agreements calling for the withdrawal of Israel from Gaza and Jericho, the redeployment of Israeli forces and the establishment of the Palestinian national authority.”
1996-09-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3698Resumption1 (1996) · source
“Mr. Ka, Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People: (interpretation from French): Allow me at the outset to convey to you, Sir, in my capacity as the Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, my warm congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of September. I should also like to express my gratitude to the members of the Security Council for having been kind enough to authorize me to speak at this meeting, and to share with them the Committee's appreciation for the speed with which they acceded to the request of the Arab Group to hold an emergency meeting devoted essentially to the flare-up of tensions in the land of Palestine.”
1996-09-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3698Resumption1 (1996) · source
“On behalf of my colleagues and of President Abdou Diouf, I solemnly pledge that the OAU will faithfully extend to the Secretary-General's Special Representative in South Africa its full assistance and sincere cooperation in the discharge of his important task. Finally, I should like to express the hope that this day will mark a new page in the history of South Africa, resolutely engaged, thanks to international and African solidarity, in a peaceful, democratic and irreversible transition to ensure the prompt advent of a non-racist South Africa based on law and justice.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“Mr. KA (Senegal) (interpretation from French): I should like first on behalf of the ministerial delegation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), representing President Abdou Diouf, current Chairman of the OAU, to express our sincere gratitude for the dispatch, precision and wisdom with which you, Mr. President, have led the Council's debate on a matter that is crucial for Africa. We are particularly satisfied with this long, thorough and serious debate, devoted essentially to the situation in South Africa, which is going through a decisive period in its life and history. That is why the impressive number of participants in the debate has been a comfort to us.”
1992-07-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3096 (1992) · source
“We have no doubt that the United Nations Security Council, in which the Charter has vested specific responsibilities as the guarantor of peace and security for the entire international community, will support us in this work of peace. JSM/ras S/PV.3095 17 the PRESIDENT: I thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Senegal for his kind words addressed to me. The next speaker is Mr. Nelson Mandela, to whom the Council has extended an invitation under rule 39 of its provisional rules ef procedure. I invite him to take a place at the Council table and to make his statement.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“Africa's choice is the one dictated by reason and common sense - that is to say the one which, through peaceful and responsible methods, should lead to a peaceful transition in South Africa in order to set up in South Africa a democratic political system within a State of law. The odious massacre in Boipatong, the culmination of a tragic process of violence and confrontation, however reprehensible it may be - and we did condemn it with all due firmness - should not make us deviate from this path. Those who undoubtedly were perhaps a little too optimistic have had proved to them the fact that caution is still necessary. As far as we are concerned, we remain convinced that all men and women of good will, all those who throughout the world love peace, justice and progress, will be at our side, on the side of Africa, in these difficult times.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“JSM/ras §/PV.3095 16 Our presence here today in the Council, with a large ministerial delegation from the OAU, which was dispatched by President Abdou Diouf, current Chairman of the OAU, means that he, the current Chairman of the OAU, and with him all the Heads of State or Government of our continent, have made their choice, faced with the implacable alternative: that is either to work to create the conditions for a climate of security, in which violence would be ended once and for all, or to allow South Africa to become forever bogged down in an atmosphere of violence and terror which might well jeopardize the positive achievements of our common efforts to dismantle apartheid.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“In this connection, we are encouraged that the principle of having such a presence is accepted by the Main political forces in South Africa, including the Government of South Africa. That feeling of encouragement is strengthened by the recent statement of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in which he indicated that the Organization was prepared to play role in South Africa. We invite the Council to take a decision along those lines.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“As for ways and means of bringing about in South Africa the international presence that we have mentioned, we believe that, as is reflected in our draft resolution, that the designation by the Secretary-General of a Special Representative might well be a solution, it being understood that we hope that the Council will remain seized of the question until the establishment of a democratic, united and non-racial South Africa. The Special Representative should have a broad mandate, responding to the concern expressed by the OAU, which led it to ask for this urgent meeting of the Security Council. If he is to perform his mission with the necessary effectiveness, the Special Representative should have the open, faithful and honest cooperation of all the parties concerned.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“Finally ending violence is undoubtedly one of the ways to bring about a resumption of the negotiations, which we encourage. That is the main purpose of the draft resolutions submitted for consideration by the Council. Some time ago the United Nations made the problem of South Africa its own problem. Both in the Security Council and in the General Assembly the Organization has adopted many resolutions on the basis of its regular assessment of the situation in the country. JP/ASW S/PV.3095 14-15 Today, when the situation has developed to a crucial point, we believe that the United Nations should again take up the matter to help identify the causes of the violence and to take the necessary steps to put an end to it.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“On the basis of those conclusions the Organization of African Unity believed that the Security Council, which is the highest body responsible for maintaining international peace and security, was the best possible place to seek a solution to the crisis, which, if it continues, threatens to spill over the frontiers of South Africa and threaten peace and security in the region. More specifically, we believed that the Council could, among other things, in agreement with all the parties concerned, provide a United Nations presence in South Africa with the aim, inter alia, of helping to consolidate the measures to combat violence, to restore a climate of security and to explore and create conditions in which it would be possible to relaunch the negotiating process within CODESA.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“All those commissions reached the same conclusion, that violence is gradually eroding South African society and is causing serious security problems. Unfortunately, despite their determination to serve the cause of peace and also despite their noteworthy work, none of the commissions had the JP/ASW S/PV.3095 13 necessary authority to turn its conclusions into binding directives. Just after the Boipatong massacre, Judge Goldstone deplored the fact that his recommendations "were not followed up for if they had been it would have been possible to avoid that deplorable tragedy".”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“In his report of 27 May this jurist declared: "Although in February 1990 a climate of violent change was replaced by a climate of non-violent change in the situation in South Africa, the disturbances and the violence have since then reached a pitch unequaled in the history of South Africa." The second finding is that there have already been several commissions of inquiry on the violence in South Africa. They are the Goldstone Commission, an internal Commission; the International Commission of Jurists, which published a report last March; and the observer mission from the Organization of African Unity, which reported to the last session of the Council of Ministers of the Organization, held in Dakar two weeks ago at the end of June.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“That is why we seek the support of the United Nations to piace obstacles in the way of a Minority that yearns for a past that has gone, a minority whose main object is to stop the negotiating process leading to the dawn of a democratic, non-racial South Africa by creating a climate of terror and intolerable insecurity. Our approach to the Council is also based on two findings. The first is that of Judge Goldstone, who, because he enjoys the confidence of the main political forces in South Africa, was appointed Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry on the prevention of violence and public intimidation.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“It is the prime responsibility of any Government, however limited its representative nature, to guarantee the security of people and material, safeguard individual integrity and create a climate of civil peace, unless that Government clearly acknowledges its inability to perform that function. Therefore, the Organization of African Unity believes that the South African Government must be made to shoulder its responsibilities, which it alone must assume if it wishes to remain credible. Of course, all the parties that believe in the possibility of setting up a democratic regime in South Africa must work for the elimination of all forms of violence. JP/ASW S/PV.3095 12 The situation prevailing in South Africa is not only unacceptable, but is above all dangerous for South Africa itself and beyond its frontiers.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“What is happening is that in South Africa some citizens, feeling that they can act with impunity, something that is difficult to explain and still more difficult to justify, are almost daily massacring others as they see fit. Nothing is being done by those whose job it is to govern and administer the country to put an end to their actions and to punish with all necessary severity the perpetrators of these reprehensible acts of gratuitous violence. How can we conceive, how can we accept, that those responsible for conducting the affairs of a country can stand idly by in the face of such a state of affairs?”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“Henceforth, we cannot rule out - even if we do not want to face up to it - the possibility of a setback the consequences of which would be tragic for South Africa itself, for all the countries of the African continent and indeed for the entire international community. JP/ASW 8/PV.3095 11 What is happening in South Africa? What is happening is that the system of apartheid - which is the denial of everything that goes to make up human dignity, the negation of everything that can enable men to exercise their attributes as citizens - has spawned a situation of structural violence, including the Boipatong massacre, which is the culmination of a process that started long ago and is the saddest, most tragic and most reprehensible illustration of that process.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“But today, to our great regret, the country has been plunged into an atmosphere of unacceptable violence, which the Boipatong tragedy has significantly worsened. The Boipatong massacre, which occurred three months to the day after the 17 March referendum, has provided a very clear illustration of the precariousness of the political situation as well as of the grave dangers still threatening South Africa's future. The massacre of innocent people and physical violence have become the daily lot of millions of South Africans, who live in fear of their homes being broken into and of their family and individual integrity being attacked. KP/5 S/PV.3095 9-10 (Mr. Ka, Senegal} Under these circumstances, it is clearly impossible to go on with any kind of credible negotiating process. That is why South Africa has reached a dangerous impasse.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“We did so because we believed, and indeed continue to believe, that one of the most effective ways of rescuing South Africa from its lengthy period of sectarian strife and exclusion was and remains negotiation among all of the country's political forces, particularly those that are firmly resolved to dismantle the odious system of apartheid. We did so because we considered the results of the 17 March referendum to be a clear indication of the white minority's determination to continue to the end the beneficial undertaking begun under CODESA which, we feel, remains the appropriate framework for peacefully organizing a democratic transition in South Africa, bearing in mind that the final goal is the creation of a democratic, non-racial and egalitarian democracy.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“As recently as four months ago, the white South African minority gave President De Klerk a mandate to continue his efforts to put an end once and for all to apartheid by negotiating with all South African political parties and movements the framework towards a peaceful transition to a democratic and non-racial South Africa. KP/5 8/PV.3095 8 At that time, we quite naturally welcomed this stance, which we felt heralded the advent of a new era that would lead South Africa to a reconciliation with itself and with other nations of the world, particularly African nations.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“A few days ago, the Heads of State or Government of the countries members of the OAU, at a summit meeting in Dakar, deemed it essential to request the Council to convene an urgent meeting on the situation in South Africa. More specifically, the GAU called on the Security Council to examine the issue of violence in South Africa and to take all appropriate action to put an end to it. At the same time, the OAU expressed the ardent wish for the United Nations to become involved in exploring and creating conditions conducive to the resumption of negotiations, once the climate of violence and uncertainty had been removed, to secure South Africa's commitment to a peaceful political transition. Africa as a whole is deeply concerned by the turn of events in South Africa.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“Ka, Seneqal) OAU's request, after President Nelson Mandela's request, to hold an urgent meeting of the Security Council to take up in particular the violence currently besetting South Africa. In so doing, the Security Council is providing eloquent testimony, which we fully appreciate, to its interest in and the importance it attaches to one of our most pressing concerns. To the Secretary-General of our Organization, our brother and friend, Mr. Boutros-Ghali, whose skill and moral qualities are recognized by one and all, we should like to reiterate our heartfelt congratulations and our support in the performance of his iofty and noble mission.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“Mr. KA (Senegal) (interpretation from French): Mr. President, because of the age-old ties of friendship and cooperation that bind your country, Cape Verde, with Senegal, we are particularly pleased to see you presiding over this meeting of the Security Council. We are all the more pleased that, as an eminent son of Africa, you are especially aware of the singular dedication of the peoples and leaders of our continent, Africa, to the cause of justice in South Africa. On behalf of President Abdou Diouf, current Chairman of the Organization of African Unity, and on behalf of the ministerial delegation of the OAU, which I have the honour to lead, I should like to convey to all members of the Council our sincere thanks for the promptness with which they acceded to the KP/5 S/PV.3095 7 (Mr.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source