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1992-11-16
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  1. “We, the peoples, cannot be seen to be parochial and selective in reading the Charter. All the provisions of Chapter VII of the Charter are as sacred as those of any other Chapter. Naive as it may seem, we cannot just watch a fellow human being on his last breath, dying slowly, while critical oxygen is being withheld, the more so when we fellow human beings around seem not yet to have succeeded, regrettably, in our collective efforts to reverse his imminent cardiac arrest. My Government therefore firmly believes the present debate in the Council will culminate in the unanimous adoption of draft resolution S/25997, which alone can not only save the Bosnians from elimination, but also deter the aggressors and persuade them to seek a negotiated political settlement.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  2. “Therefore, if we do not, even now, lift the arms embargo to enable them to fight for their survival, we shall see sadly before our eyes the demise of the Bosnians as a people and the end of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign nation. Our conscience as fellow humans and as Members of the United Nations dictates that we support the resolution to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia and Herzegovina. Inertia or inaction now would only deal a cruel and deadly blow to the international law and legitimacy; all our faith in this great institution - the United Nations, which was based on the concept of "collective security" - would suffer a fatal setback, and the soul of the United Nations, if not the United Nations itself, would wither away with the painful end of this tragic drama as we see it.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  3. “Let us decide now to adopt immediate measures to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia and Herzegovina to enable the Government and people to exercise their inherent right of self-defence. Ali of our earlier resolutions were contemptuously ignored by the Serbians in their march towards expansionism and "ethnic cleansing". Our earlier resolution 713 (1991) on the arms embargo against the former Yugoslavia was meant to deter the aggressor. We now see it has failed to do so. While the Serbians continued to be swamped by arms and ammunition, the effect of the embargo was disastrous to and bitterly felt by the Bosnians alone. They became helpless targets of elimination while we and the world sat and watched as they slowly became prisoners in their own land in so-called "safe areas".”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  4. “It was already felt by the World Conference on Human Rights held recently in Vienna, which decided to appeal to the Council to take the necessary measures to end what it termed "genocide" in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Conference therefore declared that now is the time for the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide to be implemented to the letter. At the same Conference, our Foreign Minister declared that: "Such violations go on because we apply different standards to different situations. In our opinion, if human rights values are to become universal and self-sustaining, such a dual attitude or selectivity on our part must go". Let us not fail here to see what we had already observed and accepted in Vienna. Let us make all-out efforts to save a fellow Member nation from total extinction.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  5. “We have time and again considered the consequences arising out of the lifting of the arms embargo on Bosnia and Herzegovina, though to many of us it was clear that Serbia's repugnant policy of "ethnic cleansing" was aimed at the liquidation of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a nation. To some, however, a flame of hope still burned for an end to the human carnage and culmination in a peaceful solution. We have now reached a stage where it is obvious to all that Serbia's intention is wantonly to persist in its policy of territorial acquisition until the conquest - "conquest", a word we though was left behind - of Bosnia and Herzegovina is completed.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  6. “Needless to say, we have deliberated on this tragic issue many a time before, both in the Assembly and the Council, and adopted as many resolutions - but unfortunately to no avail. Nothing seems to deter Serbia in its planned pogrom against the Bosnian people, with Muslims in Bosnia as a special target, or quench its insatiable desire to acquire Bosnian land and property and in the process cause senseless suffering to millions of innocent men, women and children across its territory. It seems our resolve or determination were not firm enough to draw the curtain on this heart-rending tragedy. It does not reflect a becoming picture of us Members of the United Nations as we watch helplessly the slow death in excruciating pain of a fellow Member.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  7. “Please allow me at the outset to join previous speakers in extending to you, Sir, my delegation's heartiest congratulations on your assumption of the office of the President of the Council for the month of June. We are confident that, under your wise leadership, the deliberations of the Council will lead to conclusions that are decisive and address the core of the issue. I also take this opportunity to convey our profound appreciation to your predecessor, Ambassador Vorontsov of the Russian Federation, for his excellent skills in guiding the work of the Council last month. Even as we debate the issue today, the agonized cry of the helpless people of Bosnia and Herzegovina continues unabated, touching the souls of all witnessing this incredible saga of pain.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  8. “It must adopt a strong and effective resolution and implement it with determination. To reinvigorate our trust in the Council, this human tragedy must be brought to a speedy end. The Council has an opportunity to do so. My delegation has every confidence that the Council will not let it pass.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  9. “Even as we debate this issue here and now, the Bosnians' miseries continue, not just from the cold and bitter winter but from the tightening of the Serbian strangiehold as well. The events in Bosnia are not merely a sad commentary on our times. The situation there may become an unhappy reflection of the Security Council's capabilities at a time when the world community is putting increasing confidence in its ability to be more effective in the cause of peace and security. When in the recent past we saw the Council act in unison to uphold order with justice, our hope in the system was raised. We cannot and must not allow it to dissipate. Our faith will surely wither with the mounting sorrows of Bounia. The Council has no option but to act resolutely and to act now.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  10. “That would enable the Bosnians to defend themselves and deter the Serbi.ns from pursuing a policy of exparcionism, and it would also induce the latter to sit down at the negotiating table to find a political settlement. At the same time, if che Serbs continue their blatant violation of Security Council resolutions and the London Peace Accords my delegation feels that the Council should consider, sooner rather than later, the inevitability of taking collective enforcement measures to ensure compliance with the Council's decisions. Agreement to take such a decision may be a difficult one to achieve, but once reached, it would be a giant forward step towards deterring expansionism by bigger nations at the expense of weaker and smaller neighbours.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  11. “Although the resolution on an arms embargo against former Yugoslavia was meant for the aggressor, its effect on the victims of aggression has been disastrous. In the face of the heavily equipped Serbs and their organized means of obtaining arms and ammunition supplies, the Bosnian minorities have remained helpless targets of extermination. To prevent their total extinction they must be permitted to exercise their inherent right of self-defence against their enemy in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. We therefore share the views of other delegations that have espoused partial and selective lifting of the arms embargo in resolution 713 (1991).”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  12. “My delegation, like other delegations, strongly advocates that the Security Council seriously consider and create safety zones, land corridors and no-fire zones under United Nations protection in Bosnia and Herzegovina where refugees would be supported with relief assistance and food. The Security Council should also consider expansion of the mandate of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) and an increase in its strength to enable it to protect the personnel of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and other relief agencies in the fulfilment of their numanitarian responsibilities, Successive resolutions by the Council have failed to contain Serbian expansionist designs and its policy of "ethnic cleansing".”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  13. “in a resolution the Parliament urged the Security Council to adopt appropriate measures to end Serbian atrocities against the men, women and children of bosnia. The sanctions already impoged must, of course, be strictly enforced so that a clear message is sent to Serbia that the international community wishes to see an end to its abominable policies. The loopholes in the sanctions regime must be closed, A strong signal should be conveyed to the Serbians from this debate that they must release all prisoners and detainees from the concentration camps and abolish all such camps immediately. Serbia must be made to realize that by pursuing the policy cf "ethnic cleansing" it has violated the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and that it will therefore be held responsible for its crimes against humanity.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  14. “Bangladesh firmly believes that the Council must @isplay political determination to enforce its decision to reverse Serbian aggression by taking appropriate measures under Chapter VII of the Charter. Bangiadesh cannot accept any seizure of territory by force. The solution to the crisis must ensure the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. So great has been the anguish and disappointment in the worsening tragic situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, that the people of Bangladesh have expressed profound indignation at the unacceptable turn of events in that tragic country. In view of the sensitivity of public opinion in my country on the issue, the Bangladesh Parliament discussed it at length recently and condemned the aggression against Bosnia.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  15. “According to Lord Owen, some vested interests were using the "gaping holes" in the present embargo to supply Serbia with petroleum products down the Danube, across the Romanian, Bulgarian and Macedonian border, or from the Adriatic Coast. We are now facing a situation whereby, through the brutal use of force and the despicable policy of "ethnic cleansing" and other atrocities, Serbia has acquired over 70 per cent of the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It would be regrettable if the Security Council remained a silent spectator while Serbia continued to flout the Council's decision by persisting in its policies of aggrandizement and genocide.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  16. “In his letter of 4 November 1992 to the President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzeyovina pointed out that the Serbian violation of their commitments, their intensification of "ethnic cleansing", particularly of Muslims, their maintenance of concentration camps, the retention and application of heavy weapons for inflicting civilian casualties on civilian townships, the increasing number of air attacks, the deliberate disruptions of heating, gas, electricity, and supply lines, and the intersification of efforts for the conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a view to completing their abhorrent plan of "ethnic cleansing" before ao negotiated and constitutional arrangement is concluded under international pressure.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  17. “Haris Silajdzie, in Germany that: "Bosnia and Herzegovina is the beginning of the end of peace and order in post-war Europe". The need has become even more imperative in the face of Serbia's brazen violation of the resolutions of the security Council and the London Peace Accords on the former Yugoslavia.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  18. “The report of the Special Rapporteur reveals that a peaceful resolution of the crisis does not seem imminent and, in his words, the principal objective of the military conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina is the establishment of ethnically homogenous regions. "Ethnic cleansing" appears to be not the consequence of the war but rather its goal. This goal, to a large extent, hag already been achieved thrvugh killing, torture, rape and other forms of atrocities. Conservative estimates indicate that over 100,000 people have been killed in Serbian attacks and that nearly half a million are likely to perish from exposure and starvation during the coming winter. If this were to happen, we need to ponder seriously over the recent comment of the Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  19. “Prom the time of the brutal aggreasion of Serbia against Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, we have witnessed the Security Council initiate measures to restore peace in the region and ameliorate the sufferings of the victims of the conflict. We shall be remiss if we do not acknowledge the selfless devotion of the personnel of the United Nations Protection Force and the dedicated humanitarian service rendered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Committee of the Red Cross. It is obvious, however, that much more needs to be done to bring an end to this cruel conflict.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  20. “I have pleasure in expressing warm felicitations to you, Sir, on your assumption of the office of President of the Security Council for the month of November. I also take this opportunity to express our appreciation to Ambassador Jean~Hernard Merimee of France for his commendable conduct of the work of the Security Council in October. We appreciate the endeavours of Mr. Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen, co-Chairmen of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia in discharging so well their onerous responsibility. We alee welcome the report of Mr. Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, which affords us a clear picture of the factual state of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3137 (1992) · source

  21. “It must adopt a strong and effective resolution and implement it with determination. To reinvigorate our trust in the Council, this human tragedy must be brought to a speedy end. The Council has an opportunity to do so. My delegation has every confidence that the Council will not let it pass.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  22. “Even as we debate this issue here and now, the Bosnians' miseries continue, not just from the cold and bitter winter but from the tightening of the Serbian stranglehold as well. The events in Bosnia are not merely a sad commentary on our times. The situation there may become an unhappy reflection of the Security Council's capabilities at a time when the world community is putting increasing confidence in its ability to be more effective in the cause of peace and security. When in the recent past we saw the Councii act in unison to uphold order with justice, our hope in the system was raised. We cannot and must not allow it to dissipate. Our faith will surely wither with the mounting sorrows of Bounia. The Council has no option but to act resolutely and to act now.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  23. “That would enable the Bosnians to defend themselves and deter the Serbi.ns from pursuing a policy of exparsionism, and it would also induce the latter to sit down at the negotiating table to find a political settlement. At the same time, if che Serbs continue their blatant violation of Security Council resolutions and the London Peace Accords my delegation feels that the Council should consider, sooner rather than later, the inevitability of taking collective enforcement measures to ensure compliance with the Council's decisions. Agreement to take such a decision may be a difficult one to achieve, but once reached, it would be a giant forward step towards deterring expansionism by bigger nations at the expense of weaker and smaller neighbours.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  24. “Although the resolution on an arms embargo against former Yugoslavia was meant for the aggressor, its effect on the victims of aggression has been disastrous. In the face of the heavily equipped Serbs and their organized means of obtaining arms and ammunition supplies, the Bosnian minorities have remained helpless targets of extermination. To prevent their total extinction they must be permitted to exercise their inherent right of self-defence against their enemy in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. We therefore share the views of other delegations that have espoused partial and selective lifting of the arms embargo in resolution 713 (1991).”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  25. “My delegation, like other delegations, strongly advocates that the Security Council seriously consider and create safety zones, land corridors and no-fire zones under United Nations protection ia Bosnia and Herzegovina where refugees would be supported with relief assistance and food. The Security Council should also consider expansion of the mandate of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) and an increase in its strength to enable it to protect the personnel] of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and other relief agencies in the fulfilment of their numanitarian responsibilities, Successive resolutions by the Council have failed to contain Serbian expansionist designs and its policy of "ethnic cleansing".”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  26. “in a resolution the Parliament urged the Security Council to adopt appropriate measures to end Serbian atrocities against the men, women and chiidren of Bosnia. The sanctions already imposed must, of course, be strictly enforccd so that a clear message is sent to Serbia that the international community wishes to see an end to its abominable policies. The loopholes in the sanctions regime must be closed. A strong signal should be conveyed to the Serbians from this debate that they must release all prisoners and detainees from the concentration camps and abolish all such camps immediately. Serbia must be made to realize that by pursuing the policy cf "ethnic cleansing" it has violated the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and that it will therefore be held responsible for its crimes against humanity.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  27. “Bangladesh firmly believes that the Council must @isplay political determination to enforce its decision to reverse Serbian aggression by taking appropriate measures under Chapter VII of the Charter. Bangiadesh cannot accept any seizure of territory by force. The solution to the crisis must ensure the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. So great has been the anguish and disappointment in the worsening tragic situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, that the people of Bangladesh have expressed profound indignation at the unacceptable turn of events in that tragic country. In view of the sensitivity of public opinion in my country on the issue, the Bangladesh Parliament discussed it at length recently and condemned the aggression against Bosnia.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  28. “According to Lord Owen, some vested interests were using the "gaping holes" in the present embargo to supply Serbia with petroleum products down the Danube, across the Romanian, Bulgarian and Macedonian border, or from the Adriatic Coast. We are now facing a situation whereby, through the brutal use of force and the despicable policy of "ethnic cleansing" and other atrocities, Serbia has acquired over 70 per cent of the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It would be regrettable if the Security Council remained a silent spectator while Serbia continued to flout the Council's decision by persisting in its policies of aqgrandizement and genocide.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  29. “In his letter of 4 November 1992 to the President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzeyovina pointed out that the Serbian violation of their commitments, their intensification of "ethnic cleansing", particularly of Muslims, their maintenance of concentration comps, the retention and application of heavy weapons for inflicting civilian casualties on civilian townships, the increasing number of air attacks, the deliberate disruptions of heating, gas, electricity, and supply lines, and the intersification of efforts for the conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a view to completing their abhorrent plan of "ethnic cleansing" before a negotiated and constitutional arrangement is concluded under international pressure.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  30. “If this were to happen, we need to ponder seriously over the recent comment of the Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Haris Silajdzie, in Germany that: "Bosnia and Herzegovina is the beginning of the end of peace and order in post-war Europe". The need has become even more imperative in the face of Serbia's brazen violation of the resolutions of the security Council and the London Peace Accords on the former Yugoslavia.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  31. “It is obvious, however, that much more needs to be done to bring an end to this cruel conflict, The report of the Special Rapporteur reveals that a peaceful resolution of the crisis does not seem imminent and, in his words, the principal objective of the military conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina is the establishment of ethnically homogenous regions. "Ethnic cleansing" appears to be not the consequence of the war but rather its goal. This goal, to a large extent, has already been achieved thrvugh killing, torture, rape and other forms of atrocities. Conservative estimates indicate that over 100,000 people have been killed in Serbian attacks and that nearly half a million are likely to perish from exposure and starvation during the coming winter.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  32. “Prom the time of the brutal aggression of Serbia against Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, we have witnessed the Security Council initiate measures to restore peace in the region and ameliorate the sufferings of the victims of the conflict. We shall be remiss if we do not acknowledge the selfless devotion of the personnel of the United Nations Protection Force and the dedicated humanitarian service rendered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Committee of the Red Cross.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source

  33. “I have pleasure in expressing warm felicitations to you, Sir, on your assumption of the office of President of the Security Council for the month of November. I also take this opportunity to express our appreciation to Ambassador Jean-Bernard Merimee of France for his commendable conduct of the work of the Security Council in October. We appreciate the endeavours of Mr. Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen, co-Chairmen of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia in discharging so well their onerous responsibility. We alee welcome the report of Mr. Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, which affords us a clear picture of the factual state of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1992-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3136 (1992) · source