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Lamamra

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first: 1994-02-15
most recent: 2019-02-27
sittings or episodes: 31
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“The prevarications of the Liberian factions in respecting and implementing their commitments compromised the credibility of the peace process and led to increased tension, bloody confrontations and the recent eruption of the situation. The most recent developments came as no surprise. Indeed, in his latest reports, the Secretary-General warned of the deterioration of the security situation in the country. Similarly, at its 63rd session, in Addis Ababa last February, the Organization of African Unity warned of the volatility of the situation and stressed the need for financial support for the ECOWAS peace-keeping mission to accomplish its task of monitoring the implementation of the Abuja Agreement.”
1996-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3667 (1996) · source
“If this critical and decisive stage in the peace process was to succeed, political will and adequate international political, financial and logistical support were needed to energize and make irreversible the peace process, which was initiated through strenuous regional and international efforts. It was therefore appropriate to work to increase confidence among the political partners who had been fighting each other for more than six years. Hence, stress was laid on the need to support the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) as an essential and determining element entrusted with monitoring the implementation of the Abuja Agreement. International support was long in coming, but this in itself cannot explain the deterioration of the situation over the past few months.”
1996-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3667 (1996) · source
“This Agreement established for the first time a real opportunity to end the devastating war and to create conditions for overcoming the political crisis that has led to a cycle of Violence and fighting, the price for which is always paid by the people. The establishment by the Council of State of the collective presidency, composed of the leaders of all the political factions representing civil society, coincided with a regional and international determination to put an end to the conflict, rebuild the country and normalize the situation within the framework of a timetable giving priority to demobilizing the factions and integrating them into civilian life.”
1996-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3667 (1996) · source
“At a time when discussions are taking place on reform of the Organization's working methods to ensure transparency and greater efficiency in its deliberations and consideration of questions relating to international peace and security, we hope that this praiseworthy initiative, which deserves to be encouraged, will open the way to other initiatives for strengthening dynamic and necessary dialogue, thus guaranteeing the legitimacy and implementation of the Council's resolutions. I also wish to thank your predecessor, Ambassador Somavia, Permanent Representative of Chile, for the efforts he made and results he obtained during his presidency of the Council last month. The international community welcomed the signing of the Abuja Agreement last August by the Liberian factions.”
1996-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3667 (1996) · source
“Mr. Lamamra (Algeria) (interpretation from Arabic): Allow me at the outset to extend to you, Sir, the sincere congratulations of the Algerian delegation on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month. We are convinced that, under your enlightened guidance, the Council will succeed in promoting peace and security throughout the world. The Algerian delegation would also like to thank you for having convened this public debate on the situation in a brotherly African country. I wish to praise this initiative, which allows Member States to express their opinions on the tragedy of Liberia and on the report of the Secretary-General, dated 21 May 1996, on recent events in Liberia, before the report is even considered by the Council.”
1996-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3667 (1996) · source
“The Council, and particularly its permanent members, must be moved by the gravity of the situation to act resolutely and effectively so that the future of peace and security to which the peoples of the region aspire is not further jeopardized.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3653 (1996) · source
“The futility of territorial bargaining chips has been proved time and again, and the human price of military actions can go no higher without imperiling the prospects for peace throughout the whole region. Since the Security Council stopped regularly taking up developments in the situation in southern Lebanon and since the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon does not involve an evaluation of efforts made in the implementation of resolution 425 (1978), an unfortunate phenomenon has arisen - that of becoming inured to recurrent outbreaks of violence and the accompanying upheavals for the civilian population. But recent events in Lebanon are of such magnitude and scope that a reaction by the international community is urgently needed to avoid a double catastrophe - humanitarian and political.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3653 (1996) · source
“Almost 20 years have elapsed since the Security Council adopted resolution 425 (1978), requiring Israel's unconditional withdrawal from southern Lebanon. In that resolution, the Council took a step in keeping with the Charter of the United Nations and with the requirements of international relations, which must be protected from unilateral faits accomplis based on relations of force. Since then, the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon, which has continued, has been a hotbed of fermenting violence, spawning an infernal logic that has thwarted regional stability and the commendable efforts of the Lebanese Government to establish State authority throughout the whole of its territory. Thus, the implementation of resolution 425 (1978), for which the Council set no preconditions, is more than ever as an absolute necessity.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3653 (1996) · source
“Mr. Lamamra (Algeria) (interpretation from French): For five days now, the territory of Lebanon has been overwhelmed by an onslaught of Israeli aggressive violence, which has caused the death of many innocent civilians as well as considerable material damage. The Government of Algeria has strongly condemned these recent acts of Israeli aggression, perpetrated in violation of the basic rules of international law and of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Lebanon. It also believes that by resorting to force in this way, Israel has done grave damage to the necessary conditions for the establishment of a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East, which is a legitimate aspiration of all peoples in the region.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3653 (1996) · source
“Given the disquieting deterioration of the situation in the territories under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian National Authority, and its incalculable potential consequences, the Council has responsibilities to shoulder and prerogatives to exercise at a time when Israel's deadly acts of aggression against Lebanon threaten the whole region with a dangerous resurgence of the spirit of confrontation to the detriment of the peace process which all parties have agreed to promote, and which the international community is duty-bound to protect. With your permission, Mr. President, I shall return to Israel's acts of aggression against Lebanon in the debate on Lebanon which the Security Council will hold later today.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3652Resumption1 (1996) · source
“Further dangers are inherent in Israel's questioning of key commitments, such as withdrawal from the town of Al-Khalil Hebron, which should have been completed by 28 March, and the beginning of negotiations on the definitive status of the Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, which it clearly appears will be deferred. This has created a serious situation, which has the potential to erode the hope that we felt justified in feeling in the peace process, despite the many difficulties. Until now it had seemed possible to overcome such difficulties. The Group of Arab States called for this formal meeting of the Security Council because it believed in the Council's ability to use its authority to promote respect for international law as the natural support for and prerequisite to a continued peace process in the Middle East.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3652Resumption1 (1996) · source
“As early as 21 March the Algerian Government condemned the repressive measures and practices which in nature and scope amounted to a collective punishment imposed by Israel in violation of international humanitarian law and of Israeli-Palestinian agreements. The gravely negative developments since the striking success of the democratic elections to establish the institutions of the Palestinian National Authority have added to the economic and social distress of the Palestinian people caused by cordoning off of the Palestinian territory.”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3652Resumption1 (1996) · source
“Mr. Lamamra (Algeria) (interpretation from French): First I wish to congratulate you, warmly, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. I am convinced that the personal and professional qualities that you have demonstrated in carrying out several successful economic and social initiatives in the United Nations will be equally beneficial to the Council in performing its tasks. I also congratulate your predecessor, Ambassador Legwaila of Botswana, for the wise and effective way he conducted the work of the Council during March. On 2 April the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine brought to the Council's attention grave facts relating to what that mission rightly referred to as Israel's "siege and strangulation of the Palestinian territory, the Palestinian people and their economy" (S/1996/235).”
1996-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3652Resumption1 (1996) · source
“All the parties, whether States or individuals, capable of exerting influence on the leaders of the rival factions should use their full influence to convince them to give up short-sighted calculations and fulfil their responsibilities to the State and people of Somalia. We hope, in the light of the crisis in Somalia, that today's debate will have concrete results, even if they are modest, and that the debate will not remain a dead letter.”
1996-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3641 (1996) · source
“It is high time the Security Council rose above the political repercussions of its failure in Somalia and resumed the initiative in order to create or take opportunities to make progress towards genuine peace. The Organization of African Unity, the League of Arab States and the Organization of the Islamic Conference have already suggested ideas worthy of support. The United Nations political and moral support for these efforts could ensure their success. The proposal to create a contact group for Somalia deserves support and encouragement from the international community. A combination of efforts by all parties and intensified action with regard to the factions in conflict have become urgently necessary for the promotion of national reconciliation.”
1996-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3641 (1996) · source
“The humanitarian assistance efforts made in very precarious security conditions by the United Nations and other international and non-governmental organizations to relieve the suffering of the Somali people deserve our full appreciation and tribute. However, the effectiveness of humanitarian assistance continues to depend on a political settlement of the crisis. Humanitarian efforts to address the political problem cannot replace political action vis-a-vis the Somali factions. The situation requires consistent political action by the United Nations, in addition to the pursuit of humanitarian assistance, in a way that responds to the ever- growing needs, including the need for medicine, in the light of the deteriorating health situation in Somalia.”
1996-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3641 (1996) · source
“It is true that the problems of Somalia are the responsibility of the Somali people themselves, but the international community should not use the lack of cooperation by some parties in Somalia as an excuse to shirk its duties in the face of such a tragedy. The United Nations, we feel, has not exhausted all the ideas or energy that could encourage the Somali factions and party leaders to honour their commitments under the Nairobi Declaration of 24 March 1994, which provides a basis for the settlement of the Somali crisis, to fostering national reconciliation and establishing a central Government with authority over the Somali State and people in the spheres of security, economy and the country's territorial integrity.”
1996-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3641 (1996) · source
“We appreciate the substantive difficulties and problems that have been encountered by the United Nations in Somalia, as presented by the Secretary-General in his most recent report to the Security Council on the situation in that country. We also recognize that inadmissible acts of aggression and sabotage have been directed against United Nations personnel and property. However, in our view, such difficulties and acts should not be used as a pretext for abandoning that country. Given its responsibilities towards Somalia, a State Member of the United Nations, and its people, the Security Council enjoys the political and moral authority and the power to influence events there.”
1996-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3641 (1996) · source
“We hope that this discussion will convey a firm and clear political message to all parties directly concerned with Somalia as a result of their position and responsibility, be they individuals or organizations - the message that the United Nations, the Organization of African Unity, the League of Arab States and the Organization of the Islamic Conference will henceforth dedicate their efforts to helping the people of Somalia establish the conditions necessary for national reconciliation and the formation of a broad-based Government. At the end of this month, it will be one year since the withdrawal of the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM. II). Since then, the United Nations presence has gradually declined, to the point where the Organization was compelled to transfer its office from Somalia.”
1996-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3641 (1996) · source
“I wish to express our gratitude and thanks to you personally, Sir, and to the Ambassadors of Egypt and Guinea-Bissau for this most welcome and significant initiative. We would like it to be seen as an expression of solidarity with the brotherly people of Somalia, who have suffered and continue to suffer so much from the war and its miseries. They are the victims of short-sighted political machinations and irresponsible ambitions.”
1996-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3641 (1996) · source
“Mr. Lamamra (Algeria) (interpretation from Arabic): We are convinced, Mr. President, that given your broad knowledge of the issues, great experience and diplomatic skills, you will certainly accomplish your tasks in the service of international peace and security in a manner that does honour to your country, the sister nation of Botswana, linked to Algeria by deep friendship, and to all Africa. I also wish to express our esteem and appreciation to the Permanent Representative of the United States, Ambassador Albright, for her efforts and achievements as President of the Security Council in the month of February. The Security Council's discussion of the situation in Somalia is a timely event.”
1996-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3641 (1996) · source
“The presidential statement of 4 November 1994 opened up the prospect of concerted action by Member States of the United Nations in peace-keeping operations through arrangements for the exchange of information and opinions between the Security Council, the Secretariat and the troop-contributing countries. The time has now come to take this to a qualitatively new stage. In so doing, the Council would be meeting the need for transparency and democratization in its decision-making process, which are essential in the search for efficiency. The Council would also thus enhance the authority of its decisions and would give peace-keeping operations in the field the best possible chance of success.”
1995-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3611 (1995) · source
“In that context, it is clear that, along with a core of members of the Council and troop-contributing countries, the countries of the region concerned and competent regional organizations have an irreplaceable role to play in the interest of collective action by the United Nations. Similarly, Secretariat reports whose information and guidelines impact on the deliberations of the Council, and serve as a reference point for the troop-contributing countries, have a key function. In so far as these reports deal with situations exhaustively, lucidly and impartially, the contributing States can feel encouraged to accept complex solutions, when the problems are also complex, and therefore can make the necessary efforts.”
1995-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3611 (1995) · source
“Therefore, acts of the Council acquire additional legitimacy when they flow from expanded consultations carried out in a spirit of partnership and aimed at optimal efficiency. From that point of view, the informal practice of "groups of friends" - some of which, I must emphasize, have done more useful work than others in the recent experience of the Security Council - would stand to gain in terms of both usefulness and credibility if the objective of such groups were rigorous and in-depth follow-up of situations concerning which the Security Council is shouldering responsibilities, and also if the membership of those groups formed a genuinely representative and receptive framework for the contributions most likely to fully assist in the formal decisions of the Council.”
1995-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3611 (1995) · source
“The consideration of these issues in advance would allow the Security Council to take decisions regarding mandates with the certainty that potential troop-contributing countries are in favour of the planned operation and commit themselves to it in full agreement with the guidelines and conditions for its conduct. In the same spirit, the establishment of a framework in which the troop-contributing countries could exchange their views and experiences regarding operational aspects common to various peace-keeping operations would be useful and beneficial and would positively supplement the work of the General Assembly's Committee of 34. Under Article 24 of the Charter, the Security Council acts on behalf of all the Member States of the United Nations.”
1995-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3611 (1995) · source
“It would be appropriate to form a special committee of countries contributing to any United Nations peace-keeping operation, charged with officially making known to the Secretary-General and the Security Council national sensitivities affecting primarily operational issues - indeed, political ones - regarding the mission. Such committees could be established at the time of the definition of mandates and the identification of potential participants, but before the taking of a decision by the Security Council, to ensure that the plan and proposals formulated by the Secretary-General - in particular, regarding the conduct of the operation and the rules of engagement - receive broad backing.”
1995-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3611 (1995) · source
“It is an established fact that the success of operations depends on the organizational capabilities of the United Nations Secretariat, but it is also - and above all - subject to the political will of Member States to shoulder their peace-keeping responsibilities. That will can only be encouraged by improving arrangements allowing for significant consultations and exchanges of broad information with the troop-contributing countries. If it is indeed desirable that the countries contributing personnel to peace-keeping operations, or assuming other responsibilities in regard to such operations, should remain convinced of the need for and usefulness of their support, there should be a way to organize more systematically and formally the taking into account of their views and suggestions.”
1995-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3611 (1995) · source
“The combination of resistance to change in the functioning of the Security Council and some inexplicable apprehensions led to the adoption of the presidential statement of 4 November 1994. Its implementation was reflected by the organization of a modest series of meetings, often held in a purely technical format, to improve information flows, without, however, allowing the troop-contributing countries and other interested countries to be effectively involved in actions taken by the Council and the Secretariat in the political and operational management of peace-keeping operations.”
1995-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3611 (1995) · source
“Member States would be all the more willing to do so if they were allowed to play a more important role in the outline of these operations - that is, to participate in the definition of general objectives, the follow-up of various activities and the assessment of performance in carrying out clear mandates which have the backing of the international community as a whole. New Zealand and the Argentine Republic made efforts last year to obtain from the Security Council an enhancement of the role of Member States participating in peace-keeping operations through the establishment of a Committee of the Council for purposes of consultations on the basis of Article 29 of the Charter, which provides for the creation of subsidiary organs.”
1995-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3611 (1995) · source
“While it is true that the Security Council is often required to react rapidly, and that the establishment of an operation sometimes in itself is a clear political signal of the will to take purposeful action, the effectiveness of such intervention by the Council is often, in the last analysis, subject to the overall adherence of Member States to the objectives and terms of reference of a given operation. A rapid and effective reaction by the United Nations ultimately depends on the will of Member States fully to support peace-keeping operations, including by providing personnel and by granting other facilities.”
1995-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3611 (1995) · source
“At the core of the political problems raised are those inherent in the decision-making process within the Security Council, the encouragement of contributions of Member States to missions in the field, and the mandates entrusted to the Secretary-General to plan, guide and evaluate peace- keeping operations in conformity with the political environment in which they are deployed, as well as with all other factors which impact on their conduct.”
1995-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3611 (1995) · source
“This commendable attitude accords precisely with the objective of today's debate, which, on the initiative of a large number of countries - including Algeria - is raising the issue of improving procedures and arrangements for the exchange of information and consultations among the Security Council, the Secretariat and the countries participating, in one form or another, in peace-keeping operations. In this context, I should like to hail in particular the role of Ambassador Cerdenas of Argentina and to associate myself with the views and suggestions contained in his statement. The important question under consideration is not a new one. But it has become far more pressing in the light of the lessons learned from the unfortunate experiences and the limits of existing consultation mechanisms.”
1995-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3611 (1995) · source
“Mr. Lamamra (Algeria) (interpretation from French): It is a great pleasure for me to congratulate you, Sir, on the way in which you have been presiding over the Security Council during the month of December. I am convinced that under your skilled guidance, the Council, which has been engaged in intense activity during this month, will find, as a result of its present deliberations, new ways of functioning and interacting with the Member States of the United Nations. I should like also, Sir, to thank your predecessor, Ambassador Al-Khussaiby, for the efficiency with which he discharged the duties of the presidency during the month of November. Finally, I must express here, to those members of the Council whose mandate is coming to a close, our deep appreciation for their availability and for the dialogue that they have maintained with us.”
1995-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3611 (1995) · source
“Deeply concerned at these policies and practices of Israeli settlement, Algeria wishes to reaffirm that a settlement in the Middle East should be based on Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973) and Israel's withdrawal from occupied Palestinian and Arab territories, including Jerusalem, and the exercise by the Palestinian people of its inalienable national rights, especially its right to self-determination. Algeria also wishes to underline the continued responsibility of the United Nations for the question of Palestine until a comprehensive, lasting and just solution is reached. That is why the Council is today called upon firmly to reflect international legality through a clear text that responds to the legitimate demands of the Arab and Islamic groups.”
1995-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536 (1995) · source
“Algeria strongly condemns this latest decision by the Israeli Government and calls on the international community represented in the Security Council and the two sponsors of the peace process, to take all the necessary measures based on Security Council resolution 478 (1980) to force Israel to rescind this serious decision and stop all practices that are aimed at changing the features and characteristics of the Holy City.”
1995-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536 (1995) · source
“The latest decision of the Israeli Government to confiscate new Palestinian land in east Jerusalem on which to build additional settlements, a decision mainly aimed at uprooting the existence and rights of Arabs and Palestinians in this holy city is a flagrant violation of the relevant Security Council resolutions and the norms of international law, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949. The decision also runs counter to the basis and principles of the ongoing peace process. The decision constitutes a grave threat to the peace process which has so far overcome many obstacles. The new decision again emphasizes the continued expansionist intentions of Israel aimed at changing the legal status, the geographical features and demographic composition of the Holy City of Jerusalem.”
1995-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536 (1995) · source
“Despite the broad hopes accompanying the positive developments that the region witnessed as a result of the declared commitment of both parties to continue negotiations notwithstanding repeated acts of violence aimed at frustrating the peace process, the international community has always realized that the road to peace is long and risky. Today we are debating the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories at the request of the Arab and Islamic groups. The most serious of these obstacles are those faced by holy Jerusalem as a result of the continued settlement policy of Israel.”
1995-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536 (1995) · source
“Mr. Lamamra (Algeria) (interpretation from Arabic): It gives me pleasure to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We are confident that with your experience, skill and wisdom and under your leadership the Council's consideration of the question before us will have the desired results. It also gives me pleasure to congratulate your predecessor the Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic on his skilled conduct of the affairs of the Council last month. More than 18 months have passed since the mutual recognition of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Government of Israel and the signing of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements which were the first steps towards the establishment of peace in the Middle East.”
1995-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536 (1995) · source
“That would be the best way to keep the Charter promise to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war and to protect those generations from the madness that made mankind strive to acquire the means to guarantee its own destruction.”
1995-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3514 (1995) · source
“While the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons has undeniably played a stabilizing role in respect of horizontal proliferation, vertical proliferation - which has developed in its shadow and which devours colossal sums of money - is fuelled by doctrines of deterrence and other balance-of-terror theories, all of them based on a logic of confrontation. The post-cold-war period should be able to free political will of past inhibition and sluggishness, to encourage a profound renewal of strategic thinking, establishing the obsolescence of the military uses of the atom, giving a decisive impetus to nuclear disarmament in the foreseeable future to achieve the complete elimination of nuclear weapons, and ensuring the promotion of a new concept of human security based on economic prosperity and social well-being.”
1995-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3514 (1995) · source
“In this context, the Security Council's awakening to a pressing issue that is part of the adaptation of international relations to the circumstances of the next century will not, unfortunately, bring about the healthy break with the restrictive and weak approaches to controlling the course of history which have too often been characteristic of the political management of the atomic age. Just as history proves that every weapon invented by man has come to be used, it is very widely held that the mere existence of nuclear weapons is a factor for insecurity.”
1995-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3514 (1995) · source
“It is in particular a question of placing the draft resolution firmly in the framework of Chapter VII of the Charter and of drawing the legal implications from this, with a view to establishing a system of positive security assurances organized around the three principles of deterrence, assistance and compensation, which would be set under way by the automatic and unconditional action of the Security Council. Since it does not reflect factors which are unassailably true, since it does not incorporate elements which determine the very effectiveness of the assurances envisaged, this draft resolution objectively falls far short of the coherence required by this undertaking and of the expectations of the international community in this respect.”
1995-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3514 (1995) · source
“Many of the additions and improvements that the non- aligned countries suggested to the sponsors of the draft resolution under consideration were inspired by the twofold legitimate hope of making this exercise a successful example of partnership in identifying the needs and designing the appropriate responses, and of ensuring that the text to be adopted will constitute a solid base of effective and irrevocable commitments undertaken in solidarity by the nuclear-weapon States, with the full adherence of the States that are the beneficiaries of those commitments.”
1995-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3514 (1995) · source
“From this standpoint, the initiative of the five nuclear-weapon Powers, which is moving in a promising direction as regards positive guarantees, contains - because of the deliberately modest status given to the initiative proposed to the Council and because of its scope, which is limited to an updating of resolution 255 (1968) of 19 June 1968, which Algeria was not able to support when the Council adopted it - shortcomings which have significantly reduced its historic role at a time which is conducive to conceptual and operational breakthroughs in this field.”
1995-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3514 (1995) · source
“The question of security assurances for the non- nuclear-weapon States is part of the overall problem of the maintenance of international peace and security in relation to nuclear disarmament. That is why this question has always been at the very heart of the concerns and proposals of the Movement of Non-aligned Countries, whose member States have consistently affirmed the need for negative security assurances, enshrined in a binding international legal instrument, while rightly emphasizing that the true assurance against the threat or use of nuclear weapons is the complete elimination of this type of weapon.”
1995-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3514 (1995) · source
“The current debate is undoubtedly timely, and we are grateful to those who initiated it for having seen the need for the Security Council resolutely to heed the aspirations of the peoples of the United Nations and to try to make its contribution to dealing with the global challenges that affect mankind's future because of the threats they pose to international peace and security. This debate is all the more timely since it is taking place after the international community has fully entered into a qualitatively new stage born of the disappearance of the bipolar and conflictual structure of the world, and on the eve of the Review and Extension Conference of States parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.”
1995-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3514 (1995) · source
“These references, drawn from the key legal instrument that establishes the order of contemporary international relations, are particularly relevant when the threat or use of force and acts of aggression may involve nuclear weapons whose destructive capacity threatens the very existence of the human race. These references are also relevant in explaining the nature and the scope of the security assurances which, on the initiative of the permanent members of the Security Council, in their capacity of nuclear-weapon Powers, it is envisaged are to be granted to the non-nuclear-weapon States parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.”
1995-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3514 (1995) · source
“Lastly, I should like to express the Algerian delegation's support for the statement that will be made by the Permanent Representative of Indonesia on behalf of the non-aligned countries parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. We have taken note of the contents of that statement with satisfaction. The Charter of the United Nations affirmed forcefully, among its cardinal principles, the commitment of the States Members of the Organization to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force. The Charter also stipulated, as the primary purpose of the United Nations, the maintenance of international peace and security through "effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace".”
1995-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3514 (1995) · source
“Mr. Lamamra (Algeria) (interpretation from French): It is a great pleasure for me to express to you, Sir, the Algerian delegation's and my own warmest congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. I am delighted that the important deliberations today are being led by a distinguished diplomat who is quite naturally attentive to all the dimensions of the question under consideration. I would also like to express to your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of China, our deep appreciation for the manner in which he conducted the Council's proceedings last month.”
1995-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3514 (1995) · source
“Since the same settlements are currently impeding the peace process, the Security Council should consider this question very seriously and utilize its mandate to serve peace in this very delicate period.”
1995-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3505Resumption1 (1995) · source