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Kronfol

lines on the record: 55
first: 2003-10-05
most recent: 2004-05-17
sittings or episodes: 7
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“Unfortunately, the troops will not be able to complete their mandate until all of the political, diplomatic, media, humanitarian, and development bodies of the United Nations work together to resolve the pending issues. However great the sacrifices of these international peacekeeping forces, their work will not be complete until those mandates are successfully completed and until we are able to achieve peace wherever those forces are stationed.”
2004-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4970Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Every country in the world that is able to do so should contribute troops - officers and soldiers - or make other contributions. It should not just be a small number of developing countries that provide the bulk of the personnel serving in these missions. Countries that finance missions have a duty and a right to also participate in decision-making. We extend our deepest thanks and appreciation to the countries that make contributions. Today more than ever, Lebanon believes in the work of the forces on the ground in Lebanon. They must remain there until the task mandated to them by the Security Council has been completed and until a just, comprehensive and lasting peace is established in the Middle East on the basis of the resolutions, the principles and the Charter of the United Nations.”
2004-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4970Resumption1 (2004) · source
“The costs of all such efforts pale compared with the costs incurred by war in terms of both loss of life and military expenditures. We must always remember that peacekeeping forces are temporary. The international community must do its utmost to ensure that missions are as brief as possible by providing everything they need to ensure their success. Troops cannot be a replacement for permanent solutions or for international treaties and agreements. We must require all parties to a conflict to provide all necessary assistance to and respect for international forces, including protection, in order to facilitate their tasks. The broader international community too must support peacekeeping forces to ensure their credibility and indeed the credibility of the United Nations itself.”
2004-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4970Resumption1 (2004) · source
“We must strive to give peacekeeping operations every possible chance for success by providing the troops, training and material and moral resources necessary for those operations to be successful, even without the use of force. We must tirelessly and constantly support the work of international peacekeepers both politically and diplomatically with a view to finding solutions that are acceptable to all parties. That can be done through negotiations, good offices and arbitration; we also have recourse to international law and international courts. We can also undertake humanitarian efforts, promote economic, social and media development and increase public awareness of the situation - all to ensure that missions can carry out their mandates.”
2004-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4970Resumption1 (2004) · source
“As a result of the lessons, both positive and negative, that Lebanon has learned from its cooperation with international forces, we have particular interest in the subject before us today, especially given the increase in the number of missions and troops and the many different kinds of situations in which they are deployed throughout the world. The prestige of the United Nations and the success of those missions are inextricably linked to respect for principles and for the forces deployed on the ground. Any failure to comply with fundamental principles negatively affects the standing of the United Nations and the work of the troops. The only weapon that actually protects the forces and international peace is the moral authority that the United Nations still possesses in the world.”
2004-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4970Resumption1 (2004) · source
“I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Secretary-General and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations for their ongoing efforts to achieve stability in southern Lebanon along the international border. Those forces comprise soldiers and civilians who are doing their utmost - often in difficult and dangerous conditions - to achieve peace in a region that has been suffering from instability as a result of Israeli aggression and Israeli mines. We pay tribute to the memory of those who have died for the sake of peace in the region - 249 officers, soldiers and international civil servants - and to all those who have suffered personally in the service of the principles of the United Nations as they have striven to replace war and conflict with peace.”
2004-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4970Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Following the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in 1978, another international peacekeeping operation was established: the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Both missions have been doing commendable work over the long term: for 56 years in the case of UNTSO and 26 years in the case of UNIFIL. However, despite their best efforts, they have not yet attained the objectives entrusted to them. Therefore, we believe it essential that they remain in place until a just, comprehensive and lasting peace is achieved in the Middle East - that is, after Israel completes its withdrawal from Lebanon, from the Syrian Arab Golan and from the occupied Palestinian territories.”
2004-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4970Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Mr. Kronfol (Lebanon) (spoke in Arabic): Permit me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, and your country, Pakistan, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I thank you for choosing as the subject for this open debate the issue of United Nations peacekeeping operations, to which we attach great importance. Indeed, we were one of the first countries to become truly aware of the importance of peacekeeping troops when the first United Nations force - the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) - was established following the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict in Palestine. To this day, UNTSO continues to carry out its mandate on the ground.”
2004-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4970Resumption1 (2004) · source
“In order to make the draft resolution more precise and truly practicable, the Council should provide definitions for some of the terms used in the text, which have been referred to by many other States - including NAM. member States - or use more precise terms. Lebanon believes that the very important step to be taken by the international community in adopting a resolution based on the draft before us will prevent States from avoiding their international responsibilities to implement the relevant Security Council resolutions. We should like to pay tribute to the Council's efforts to attain that objective.”
2004-04-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4950Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Lebanon, like other Arab States, is a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and is gravely concerned that Israel is the only State in the region that does not participate in international efforts aimed at establishing a nuclear- weapon-free zone in the Middle East, while it possesses a complete arsenal of nuclear weapons and the means of their delivery that are not subject to any form of monitoring or inspection by the international agency specializing in that area, as well as advanced chemical and biological weapons. Lebanon would like to ensure that the draft resolution emphasizes that non-proliferation of WMD begins with strict and rigorous inspection of their manufacture and with the continuation of international disarmament efforts.”
2004-04-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4950Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Lebanon - which, like other Arab States, shares the views expressed very clearly a short while ago by the representative of Malaysia on behalf of the Non- Aligned Movement (NAM) - wishes to emphasize that the draft resolution should take into account all the points of view expressed at this meeting so that we can achieve the total elimination of WMD and avert the threat of the proliferation of such weapons, particularly in the Middle East region.”
2004-04-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4950Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Mr. Kronfol (Lebanon) (spoke in Arabic): I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting, which provides States non-members of the Security Council with an opportunity to make their views known regarding the Council's efforts to adopt a universal, binding draft resolution aimed at preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) - a draft resolution that Council members will adopt after lengthy consultations to reach a consensus among its members and after taking into account the viewpoints of other United Nations Member States interested in international peace and security, such as Lebanon.”
2004-04-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4950Resumption1 (2004) · source
“The peoples and countries of the world are looking to the Security Council to see whether the Council will adopt the necessary measures to curb the acts of the State of Israel and whether the international community will protect itself from the reckless acts of criminals.”
2004-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4945 (2004) · source
“The price for the so-called Israeli withdrawal from Gaza would simply mean preserving its right to interfere in Gaza at will and to usurp the rights of the Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland, including the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Such policies are also part of an attempt to legitimize the establishment of settlements, to completely usurp the city of Jerusalem. Such policies are also seen as an attempt to make the international community accept the establishment of the separation wall in the Palestinian territories, to accept the annexation of part of those territories and to accept Israel's failure to enter into negotiations for a final status.”
2004-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4945 (2004) · source
“The Israeli Government has simply asked for the impossible - withdrawal from Gaza - a situation that would literally kill the road map endorsed by the Security Council. Such actions would also hold hostage the work of the Quartet, if, indeed, it did not paralyse such work, and kill other peace efforts, probably preventing a return to the negotiating table. The fact is that the Israeli Government is simply taking further steps towards trying to absolve itself of its responsibilities before the international community, in spite of its rejection of United Nations resolutions relevant to the occupied Palestinian territories and its ignoring of the Arab peace initiative. All this demonstrates that the Israeli Government has been mainly a Government of occupation and expansion at the expense of the Palestinian people.”
2004-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4945 (2004) · source
“In that regard, its withdrawal from Gaza would be a pretext for killing more Palestinians there, besieging them, depriving them of their sovereignty over their waters and airspace, and stripping them of their natural right to friendly relations with neighbouring countries. Israel's so-called abandonment of its occupation of Gaza would thus give it a pretext to demolish Gaza homes, with their residents inside, to assassinate its people, to kill their leaders one after the other, and to obstruct any attempt at negotiation or to establish an autonomous leadership, authority or a Palestinian State there. What is strange is that some would accept such tricks by Israel, while they are entrusted with peace in the Middle East. It is normal that people who resist occupation would now do so more enthusiastically.”
2004-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4945 (2004) · source
“This is a serious step, since the Council is entrusted with the maintenance of international peace and security, and thereby with the task of ending occupation, colonialism and settler colonialism, protecting the welfare of peoples under occupation and enforcing respect for international law, in particular the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Times of War. As it kills Palestinians, Israel is creating conditions for a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and demanding guarantees and even a reward for its withdrawal. Israel is simply pursuing yet another series of violations of international law and the resolutions of the Security Council.”
2004-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4945 (2004) · source
“This long and eloquent list of crimes represents terrorism - State terrorism perpetrated by the Israeli military machine. The resistance of the Palestinian people to such terror is normal, legitimate and the right of a nation that has long been enslaved and whose territories have long been occupied. The consideration by certain Israeli leaders of the ongoing pursuit of that criminal policy requires the Security Council to shoulder its cultural and ethical responsibilities.”
2004-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4945 (2004) · source
“The extrajudicial murder by Israel two days ago of the Palestinian freedom fighter Abdel Aziz Al-Rantisi, killed with several companions in the Gaza Strip when his car was targeted by an airborne missile, was yet another in a series of assassinations by the Israeli occupation authorities of the leaders of the Palestinian people, who have been demanding independence and freedom from occupation. Those assassinations, in addition to other Israeli practices - including the collective punishment of civilians, the demolition of homes, the shelling of heavily populated areas, detention and extradition, to name but a few - are war crimes ordered by the leaders of the Government of Israel in order to perpetuate their power and allow them to subjugate the entire Palestinian people.”
2004-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4945 (2004) · source
“Mr. Kronfol (Lebanon) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on the assumption by your friendly country, the Federal Republic of Germany, of the presidency of the Security Council this month. I thank your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of France, for his responsible and successful leadership of the Council last month. I also thank the Security Council for speedily convening this meeting at the request of the Group of Arab States, to which my country has the honour to belong, to discuss the grave deterioration of the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.”
2004-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4945 (2004) · source
“The Council's assumption of all its responsibilities would allow for the creation of an atmosphere conducive to ending the violence and to resuming the settlement process in a peaceful manner, whereby Israel would withdraw from all the occupied Arab territories in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the Council and on the basis of the decisions of the Madrid conference and the principle of land for peace, referenced in the Arab peace initiative adopted in Beirut in 2002. Israel's policies are aimed at the assassination of Palestinian leaders and at the destruction of its symbols. But the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin will give rise to a new generation of resistance fighters struggling for freedom and independence.”
2004-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4929 (2004) · source
“We call for a condemnation of the extrajudicial killing and acts of aggression against the population of the occupied territories; for an expression of support for the legitimate demands of the Palestinian people, which aspires to establish its independent State on its national territories, including East Jerusalem; for a request to Israel to end all forms of violence to suppress the desire of the entire Palestinian people for freedom; for a demand that Israel respect international humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949; and for respect for the efforts made towards peace in various international forums, in particular those stipulated in the road map developed by the United Nations and other members of the Quartet.”
2004-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4929 (2004) · source
“What is strange, however, is the fact that, following such international denunciation of the crime, the head of the Israeli Government, the occupying Power, appeared on the world's television screens to take open responsibility for ordering the criminal assassination. Absurdly, his conscience has not been affected by the gravity of the crime. My Government expects the Security Council to rise to the challenge posed by the situation to international humanitarian law. The Council should express its solidarity with the Palestinian people, which for decades has struggled for its freedom, independence and the withdrawal of the Israeli army from its lands.”
2004-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4929 (2004) · source
“The gravity of the situation also lies in the fact that, as of early yesterday morning, the peoples and Governments of the world denounced the crime, which contravenes the law - international law in particular - and the Israeli authorities who perpetrated it. Those who expressed their anger over the crime included the European Union and the States of Africa, Asia, America and the Caribbean. Not a single State Member of the United Nations failed to express in one way or another its regret, concern and anger over the crime. The Secretary-General personally denounced such assassinations.”
2004-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4929 (2004) · source
“The gravity of the situation lies in the fact that this was a premeditated, deliberate crime undertaken by various apparatuses of the occupying State employing intelligence, fighter planes and missiles pooled for the perpetration of yet another criminal act. While some may wish to mask it under a mantle of legitimacy and present it as a natural and permissible act, it remains an extrajudicial killing. The gravity of the situation lies in the fact that, only hours after it was reported, the Palestinian people rose up as one like someone whose very conscience, beliefs and humanity had been assaulted.”
2004-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4929 (2004) · source
“(spoke in Arabic) The gravity of the situation that necessitated a request for the convening of the Security Council today lies in the outcries and unprecedented suffering caused throughout the Arab world, the Islamic nation and every corner of the globe by the heinous criminal assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and six other Palestinians as they were leaving a mosque after early morning prayers in Gaza City, which has been languishing since 1967 under occupation and other illegal Israeli measures. The gravity of the situation lies in the fact that the martyr was a spiritual leader - an old man, disabled and wheelchair-bound, visually and hearing impaired, and able to communicate only through gestures and a weak voice.”
2004-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4929 (2004) · source
“Mr. Kronfol (Lebanon) (spoke in French): Allow me at the outset, Sir, to congratulate you on your assumption of your high post at the helm of the Security Council. We offer you our trust that your guidance will lead to the success of the Council's work. I take this opportunity also to thank the Permanent Representative of China, who presided over the Council last month in such an effective manner.”
2004-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4929 (2004) · source
“Lebanon's counter-terrorism steps are included in the three reports it has submitted to the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001), contained in documents S/2001/1201, S/2002/728 and S/2003/451; and in its report submitted under resolution 1455 (2003), contained in document S/AC.37/2003/(1455)/60. Lebanon looks forward to continuing its cooperation with you, Mr. President, and with the international effort to help to find just and comprehensive solutions to address the scourge of terrorism from which the international community is suffering.”
2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Clearly, the effectiveness and success of the CTC depend ultimately on the degree of Member States' compliance with their obligations under resolution 1373 (2001) and other relevant Security Council resolutions, and on support on the part of all Member States and international organizations that play an important role in this area. Lebanon is acting at the regional and international levels and through its national institutions to carry out its obligations under the provisions of the relevant resolutions and the protocols, agreements and conventions to which it is a party, which take precedence over the provisions of Lebanon's domestic laws.”
2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Any violation of the Charter, any disregard for or circumvention of the United Nations and its legitimacy, any selectivity in implementing its resolutions, or any attempt to impose external solutions to conflicts represents a grave setback to the credibility of the Organization - including its agencies and, in particular, the Security Council - and a serious blow to the very foundations of the international order. Therefore, Lebanon believes that approaches based on security alone and on partial and phased solutions can never succeed in eradicating the scourge of terrorism, for it is difficult for human societies to achieve security without social, political and economic justice.”
2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Such a definition would undoubtedly enhance international cooperation to fight the scourge of terrorism. Supporting the Security Council's essential role in maintaining international peace and security can be strengthened only by honouring our commitment, as Member States of the Organization, to address the challenges and crises facing the international community by resorting to agreed collective solutions, in conformity with the basic principles of the Charter and of international law. This would help avoid using the international counter-terrorism campaign as a pretext for trampling upon and violating the rights of peoples and jeopardizing the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Member States.”
2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Lebanon strongly condemns and denounces all terrorist acts, including acts of premeditated violence such as murder, assassination, hostage-taking, the hijacking of aircraft, bombings and all other acts targeting civilians. I reiterate that Lebanon stands ready to cooperate with any just and impartial international effort to fight terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. Lebanon continues to believe that any international effort to suppress terrorism must be based on an understanding of terrorism's root causes and origins in order to diagnose, contain and consequently eradicate the disease - hence the need for a definition of terrorist acts and for the adoption of objective criteria for defining terrorism that are in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, international legal norms and human rights principles.”
2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source
“We appreciate his detailed briefing on the Committee's programme of work for the coming period, in which he emphasized the importance of the practical steps the Committee has taken to increase the available resources and develop the capacities of all Member States for the fight against terrorism and his intention to submit a report on the obstacles and difficulties encountered by Member States in honouring their commitments under resolution 1373 (2001). In that context, I should like to stress that Lebanon continues to strongly support the CTC in combating terrorism and to cooperate with it in the implementation of its mandate.”
2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Mr. Kronfol (Lebanon) (spoke in Arabic): There is no doubt that giving Member States the opportunity to participate in the deliberations of the Security Council on the threats to international peace and security as a result of terrorist activities enhances the principle of cooperation, transparency and equality that inspires and guides the work and activities of the Counter-Terrorism Committee. Allow me, on my country's behalf, to congratulate Ambassador Inocencio Arias on his great skill and his valuable role in ensuring the continued success of the work of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC).”
2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Until the establishment of a comprehensive and just peace leading to the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian State that would include all national Palestinian territory - according to the 4 June 1967 borders - with Jerusalem as the capital, we hope that the Council's resolutions will uphold the status of the United Nations and its central role in bringing about justice and building peace.”
2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source
“Lebanon, which has been directly affected by the displacement of the Palestinian people since 1948 and continues to live side by side with this valiant people and to resist this tragedy, does not accept that these people continue to live in isolation as prisoners of the occupation within a new, large Israeli prison. Therefore Lebanon appeals to the Security Council to adopt the draft resolution, submitted by the Arab group, which considers the construction by Israel, the occupying Power, of this wall in the occupied Palestinian territories as a violation of the 1949 armistice line. The draft resolution also states that this construction is illegal on the basis of international law and requires the end of construction on the wall, the demolition of those portions that have already been built and the restoration of the status quo ante.”
2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source
“The near future will prove that Israel, instead of forcing the Palestinian people to live in isolation, is actually creating a much greater isolation for itself, an isolation in a ghetto similar to those horrendous ones known in European history. The Government of Israel will thus destroy all prospects for the revival of the peace process, especially the peace offered in the Arab peace initiative, adopted at the Beirut summit in 2002. If the Government of Israel continues to brush aside the advice offered by the friends of peace and the international community, and persists in the construction of the wall, that construction will be yet another testimony to the continued injustices committed by the Government of Israel against the Palestinian people and proof of the selfishness and inhumane attitude of the Israeli people.”
2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source
“The Palestinian people endure nothing but tragedy as a result of this overt plunder of its territories and assets and of the standard accusation against the Palestinians of being terrorists. Palestinians are pressured and executed because they demand their legitimate rights not to have their homeland torn apart and to prevent the pillaging of their natural resources by Israeli settlers under the protection of the Israeli occupation army. The continuation, by Israel, of the construction of the wall will isolate Israel itself from the whole world and from its natural physical environment - politically, humanely and economically.”
2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source
“Why has Israel waited for 22 years - and waged three wars and hundreds of air raids until it was forced to withdraw from southern Lebanon - to build this wall? That withdrawal took place because we upheld our rights and because the international community also upheld those rights. Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon came under pressure from the resistance in southern Lebanon. Despite Israel's construction of the wall, Israel continues to occupy the Shab'a farms. The construction of the wall along the Blue Line did not prevent Israel from committing acts of aggression against Lebanon and waging air raids and other deliberate strikes against Lebanese territory.”
2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source
“The Israeli representative said this morning before the Council that after his country withdrew from southern Lebanon in May 2000 it had built a wall similar to that now under construction in the occupied Palestinian territories and that Israel had moved part of that wall 95 centimetres, at the cost of millions of dollars, in deference to the Secretary-General's wishes. If those words are true, and if that is Israel's logic, then the question that arises today is: why has Israel not withdrawn in response to the calls by the international community and world public opinion? Why does Israel not respond to the call by the Secretary-General and the international community to stop the construction of the wall on Palestinian territory? Those calls have been made for more than two years now.”
2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source
“Israel has continued to build colonial settlements in the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied by it since 1967, despite United Nations opposition to the Israeli settlement policy, which is in open defiance of the will of the international community and the relevant resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly, which consider the construction of Israeli settlements in the occupied Arab territories to be a violation of the norms of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949. The construction of this wall is the culmination of a security scheme covering all settlements illegally built by Israel on the occupied Palestinian territories since 1967 and consolidating those settlements as a prelude to devouring the territories and annexing them to the Zionist entity.”
2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source
“The expansionist policy pursued by Israel since its creation in 1948 and practised for more than half a century has created a huge humanitarian crisis for the Palestinian people. That has resulted in the displacement of some 4 million Palestinians, who have been uprooted by Israel from their land and turned into refugees. Among that population, an entire generation knows almost nothing beyond life in refugee camps in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and several other countries and whose members are prevented by Israel from returning to their homes.”
2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source
“The scheme is now being implemented in graphic detail in the Gaza Strip, one of the most densely populated regions in the world, which Israel is tearing apart by force into four segments, with a View to attaining the political and economic subjection of the Palestinian population to Israeli control and to severing its only outlet to the world: the Arab Republic of Egypt. What is called a wall is in fact an integrated system of large projects, including highways, bypass roads, observation towers, electronically operated bunkers for automatic weapons, lighting systems on both sides of the wall and military barracks. The wall is three times that of the Berlin wall. Construction costs are so astronomically high that the Israeli State has been unable to finance the wall on its own and thus has had to make use of foreign credit guarantees.”
2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source
“One of the threats arising today is Israel's ongoing construction of a huge racist wall, designed, inter alia, to seize large tracts of Palestinian land and annex them to the Zionist entity; to lay siege to the Palestinian people, increase their isolation and cut them off from their natural physical environment; and to turn Palestinian territory into isolated pieces of land subject to oversight and control by the colonial military settlements, which continue their creeping expansion, undermining the territorial integrity of the would-be Palestinian State and preventing the population of the territories from travelling to their capital in East Jerusalem and gaining access to their holy places of worship. The construction of this wall falls within a larger scheme that is plain to see.”
2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source
“Mr. Kronfol (Lebanon) (spoke in Arabic): The extremely grave situation prevailing in the occupied Palestinian territories has already had such serious negative implications for the entire Middle East region that it has become a cause of great concern for all countries and peoples of the world.”
2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source
“Given the current practices of the Israeli Government, which can only be described as reckless, and given its blind violence, the Security Council should not compromise all its peace efforts. More than ever before, the Council has a clear responsibility today to rein in Israel's wholly illegitimate acts of aggression.”
2003-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4836 (2003) · source
“But if the Government of Israel wants to send a message of terrorism and intimidation to Lebanon and Syria, it has missed the mark. These actions by Israel will further fuel the cycle of violence in which that country will itself become trapped. Lebanon hopes that the international community will lay bare the true nature of these Israeli practices, bring them to an end and strongly condemn them, just as it should condemn those who order them and implement them. Lebanon also hopes and expects that the Security Council will condemn Israel's aggression against another peaceful Syrian village, just as it condemned the Israeli air force's attacks against many peaceful villages and towns in Lebanon.”
2003-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4836 (2003) · source
“Israel is doing all those things without any real grounds or reasons, except to mislead Israeli public opinion by fleeing to the front and exporting its domestic crisis outside Israel and to give world public opinion the false impression that it is a victim of aggression. The letters that my Government has repeatedly addressed in the past to the Secretariat and to the Security Council constitute clear proof of the fact that Israel's intentions are aggressive and not defensive. Israel's violations of the relevant resolutions of the United Nations and of international agreements are the cause of pain, anguish, misery, evil and turbulence throughout the Middle East. The tactics pursued by Israel to justify its presence in neighbouring countries are known to all.”
2003-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4836 (2003) · source
“The danger of these violations and the disregard for the United Nations remarks constitute flagrant acts of aggression against peace and stability along the Blue Line, which is a strategic line that represents the strategic position of Lebanon, Syria and the Arab Group to reach a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the region, as reflected in the Arab peace initiative adopted at the Beirut Arab summit. Lebanon requests the Security Council to fully meet its responsibilities and take the proper measures to condemn Israel and deter it from committing acts of aggression, violations and the constant threats that have become a daily routine against Lebanon.”
2003-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4836 (2003) · source
“The Government of Israel has no right to exploit the international campaign against terrorism as a stalking horse to implement its policy against the people whose lands it occupies. Mixing up the Haifa bombing with an action against Syria or linking it with the State terrorism practised by Israel is a contravention of the norms of international law. No crime can be justified by the commission of an even more serious crime. Israel has all along rejected all forms of international advice. It has also completely disregarded the advice and warnings of the Secretary-General and of his Representative in southern Lebanon.”
2003-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4836 (2003) · source