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1. “I would also like to underline the role that regional organizations play in conflict resolution, peacebuilding and in coordinating humanitarian assistance for those in need in areas of conflict, crises and natural disasters. We must also ensure that contacts are maintained between the President of the Security Council and the Chairpersons of the regional organizations, particularly with regard to relevant items on the Council's agenda. We must also take the lead from the heads of such organizations with regard to drawing up strategies for implementing Security Council resolutions and any reforms that are under way. The strengthening of relations with regional organizations, for example, will enable such organizations to become active partners in the maintenance of international peace and security.”

   2005-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5282 (2005) · source

2. “The League of Arab States is currently working with the African Union and the United Nations with a view to bringing about peace in Darfur. The Secretary General of the League of Arab States is also in the process of preparing an initiative with regard to the Iraqi situation. We must re-examine the relationship between the Security Council and regional organizations in order to consolidate it and to ensure that the Council is better informed of events in conflict areas, in addition to its mission in preventing such conflicts. The regional organizations must be invited to participate in activities, meetings and negotiations in the Security Council that relate to countries that are party to such organizations, with a view to strengthening their role in those conflict areas in which they are involved.”

   2005-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5282 (2005) · source

3. “The League of Arab States has taken several initiatives, in accordance with the purposes and principles set out in the Charter, with regard to the relationship between the Security Council and regional organizations with a View to the peaceful resolution of conflicts in the Middle East. In this context, I would like to refer to the Arab peace initiative launched at the Beirut summit in 2002. We had hoped that the Security Council would give serious consideration to that initiative to put an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict and achieve peace in the region. Unfortunately, the Council has not made any sincere attempt to consider it to date, and we have therefore lost an opportunity to bring peace and security to the region. I would like to remind the Council that that initiative is still on the table.”

   2005-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5282 (2005) · source

4. “That is why the Security Council must maintain stable and organized relations between itself and regional organizations and why such cooperation would be more effective. Here, I would like to highlight the tasks carried out by regional organizations and the practical role that they play in the area of peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations through the Security Council. Article 52 of the Charter sets out the traditional role of regional organizations in the management of local conflicts. The Security Council must reactivate the role of such organizations and must be seriously attentive to their opinions and initiatives in the area of conflict management and conflict resolution. This would contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security in an effective way.”

   2005-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5282 (2005) · source

5. “Over and above political considerations, there are many economic, social and human issues facing the international community today, including poverty, diseases, underdevelopment and terrorism, that require us to fine-tune Chapter VIII so as to enable regional organizations to face up to the challenges of the twenty-first century with regard to the maintenance of international peace and security. Given the new international order, cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations in the area of international peace and security is an absolute necessity, because such organizations can be effective and helpful partners with the United Nations when dealing with questions pertaining to various regions of conflict in the world.”

   2005-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5282 (2005) · source

6. “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Security Council on the one hand, and international organizations on the other, should be governed by the provisions of the Charter, and should include peacekeeping operations, general reform and development, all of which can contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security. Chapter VIII also deals with aspects of coordination and cooperation that are enshrined in many agreements between the United Nations and such organizations. Thus, there are many relationships based on cooperation that go beyond matters relating strictly to the maintenance of peace to other, broader concepts.”

   2005-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5282 (2005) · source

7. “The Council stressed the need to strengthen regional capacities for early warning and the creation of rapid reaction systems. Likewise, the Millennium Declaration also noted the need to strengthen cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations, in conformity with Chapter VIII of the Charter. Heads of State or Government also stressed that regional organizations can work in complementarity at the international and regional institutional levels for the achievement of international peace and security, given the regional organizations' knowledge of the region. This is an integral part of international peace and security.”

   2005-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5282 (2005) · source

8. “The High-level Plenary Meeting of the Assembly also reaffirmed the importance of the participation of regional organizations in the work of the Security Council and stressed the need to strengthen cooperation between the United Nations and such organizations in all areas. The Security Council, at the summit meeting held on 14 September, stressed the need to strengthen the role of the United Nations in the prevention of conflict and to establish effective partnerships between the Council and regional organizations in order to facilitate confronting conflicts and crises at an early stage. In a resolution, the Council also stressed its determination to strengthen the capacities of the United Nations in several areas through, inter alia, support for regional mediation initiatives, in close cooperation with regional organizations.”

   2005-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5282 (2005) · source

9. “I am speaking on behalf of Mr. Amre Moussa, Secretary General of the League of Arab States, in this debate on cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations in the maintenance of global peace and security. I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on presiding over the work of the Council for the month of October. We appreciate your effective and unique role and wish you every success. I would also like to thank the Foreign Minister and the delegation of the Philippines for their successful efforts last month. This meeting is a follow-up to last month's summit of heads of State or Government, who expressed support for firmer relations between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations.”

   2005-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5282 (2005) · source

10. “We hope that peace will prevail in the Middle East, and, in accordance with the resolution adopted at the Beirut summit, we call on the Security Council to revitalize the peace process on the basis of internationally binding resolutions, the principle of land for peace and the Arab peace initiative.”

    2005-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5230Resumption1 (2005) · source

11. “Because of its attempts to shirk its responsibilities under the Quartet agreement, Israel is fully responsible for the deterioration in the relations between Palestinians and Israelis. In that regard, an editorial that appeared in The New York Times of 15 July 2005 stated the following: "Sadly, most of the blame for the current paralysis lies with Mr. Sharon Mr. Sharon appears to have become so fixated on making the withdrawal appear palatable to the Israeli right that he has lost sight of the larger strategic calculus of building peace. He wants to advertise the pull-back as a unilateral Israeli measure, undertaken for Israel's own reasons, and not as part of any larger negotiated deal with the Palestinians".”

    2005-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5230Resumption1 (2005) · source

12. “The Security Council must today shoulder its responsibility to compel Israel to stop the construction of the wall, put and end to its settlement policy and sit at the negotiating table with the Palestinian Authority, with the goal of beginning implementation of the road map and the withdrawal from Gaza, as a first step towards complete withdrawal from all occupied Palestinian territories and the establishment of an independent Palestinian State within the borders of 4 June 1967. Withdrawal from Gaza cannot be an end in itself, as the Israeli side claims it to be. It is but a first step towards implementing all of the obligations of both parties to end the conflict and establishing a just and comprehensive peace in the region.”

    2005-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5230Resumption1 (2005) · source

13. “Its goal in constructing the wall and in building the settlements is to take over Palestinian territories, put an end to geographical contiguity between the Palestinian people, and prevent the establishment of a viable Palestinian State. The core of the Arab-Israeli conflict is Israel's continued occupation of Arab territories. All of Israel's attempts to impose by force a solution to the conflict have failed. The only way to achieve a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the Middle East is through negotiations between the parties concerned on the basis of internationally binding resolutions.”

    2005-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5230Resumption1 (2005) · source

14. “Israel, the occupying Power, continues to defy the will of the international community, in grave violation of international law and human rights. It continues to build the wall and to occupy the Palestinian territories, exploiting the diversion of the Security Council's attention to the withdrawal from Gaza. The footprint of the wall is designed to ensure the confiscation of even more of the occupied Palestinian territories in which to build Israeli settlements. Israel's claim that the separation wall is a temporary measure taken in response to security and military requirements is misleading and unacceptable.”

    2005-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5230Resumption1 (2005) · source

15. “It also prevents the establishment of a comprehensive and just peace in the Middle East. It has been a year since the adoption of the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, which established the illegality of the building of the Israeli separation wall on Palestinian territory and declared the settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories to be equally illegal. It has also been a year since the General Assembly, at its tenth emergency special session, adopted resolution ES- 10/15, which also reaffirmed the illegal character of the construction of the wall and its contravention of international law and international humanitarian and human rights law. It called on Israel to stop its violations of those laws, to cease forthwith its construction of the wall and to dismantle the completed sections.”

    2005-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5230Resumption1 (2005) · source

16. “I congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council. We are fully confident that your well-known diplomatic experience and skills will lead to the successful conduct of the Council's business. I also thank Ambassador Jean-Marc de la Sabliere, the Permanent Representative of France, for his successful guidance of the Council's work as its President last month. I take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Alvaro de Soto on his assumption of his new post and to thank him for his briefing this morning. The Security Council is meeting today to consider Israel's settlement policy and construction of the separation wall in the occupied Palestinian territories, which represents a threat to regional security and to international peace and security.”

    2005-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5230Resumption1 (2005) · source

17. “The Council must also compel Israel to return to the negotiating table, which is the only way of guaranteeing lasting and comprehensive justice and security for all the peoples of the region, in accordance with resolutions of international legitimacy and the peace initiative of Arab States.”

    2004-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5049 (2004) · source

18. “The military option and policy of creating faits accompli being pursued by the current Israeli Government in order to settle the Arab-Israeli conflict have proven to be totally useless, and serve only to bring about further deterioration of the situation in the region, further civilian deaths and more destruction. Israel's choice of the logic of force and violence over negotiation and dialogue has failed. Such a policy only brings killing and destruction to the Palestinian people, without bringing peace and security to the Israeli people. The Security Council is called upon today to adopt the necessary measures to prevail upon Israel to renounce its policy of occupation, settlement-building, killings and destruction.”

    2004-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5049 (2004) · source

19. “The Security Council is called upon to intervene promptly to put an end to Israeli military operations and to provide the necessary international protection to the Palestinian people, in accordance with the Geneva Convention and international law. The core of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the ongoing Israeli occupation of Arab and Palestinian territories. Attempts by Israel to divert attention from that fact by placing the conflict in the context of fighting terrorism is a failed and naive attempt that does not deceive anyone. Occupation breeds legitimate resistance. Israeli occupation is the cause of the Arab- Israeli conflict.”

    2004-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5049 (2004) · source

20. “How can the Security Council, which is entrusted with the maintenance of international peace and security, remain a silent observer in the face of the daily war crimes perpetrated by Israel's occupation forces against the Palestinian people? We also call upon the members of the Quartet to refrain from remaining silent with regard to Israel's crimes in the Gaza Strip. Fifty years of war and violence have not yet convinced Israel that the policy of war and military might will not settle the Arab-Israeli conflict, nor the fact that negotiations and the implementation of resolutions of international legitimacy continue to be the only way to guarantee that all the countries of the region, including the States of Israel and Palestine, will be able to live in peace and security.”

    2004-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5049 (2004) · source

21. “Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people, which continue as we speak, can only lead to further bloodshed and instability in the region. Events have already shown that the policy of military escalation against civilians will not cow the Arab and Palestinian will into accepting a settlement based on the Israeli point of view. Israeli violations of international humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention have become daily and commonplace. The murder of women and children, the demolition of homes, the expulsion of populations, the collective punishment of civilians and the construction of the separation wall, in contravention of the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, all continue as if they are nobody's business.”

    2004-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5049 (2004) · source

22. “Mr. Mahmassani (League of Arab States) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. We have every confidence in your wisdom and wish you success in your tasks. I should also like to take this opportunity to express our thanks to the Ambassador of Spain for his skilful and wise guidance of the Security Council. The grave and deteriorating situation in the occupied Gaza Strip, the result of Israel's escalating military operations and pursuit of a policy of deliberate and systematic extrajudicial killing of Palestinian citizens, is threatening international peace and security and calls for urgent action by the Security Council.”

    2004-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5049 (2004) · source

23. “This requires a just solution to the problem of Palestinian refugees in accordance with General Assembly resolution 194 (III) and the establishment of a Palestinian State in the Palestinian territories occupied since 4 June 1967 in the West Bank and Gaza, with Jerusalem as its capital.”

    2004-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4945 (2004) · source

24. “These policies are leading to further damage, killings and deaths. The Security Council today must force Israel to cease its settlements and its policy of extrajudicial executions. Israel must return to the negotiating table. That, and that alone, will allow us to bring lasting peace and security to all countries of the region, a peace that is in accordance with the relevant international resolutions, as well as with the Madrid agreements and the principle of land for peace. We stress here that we believe in the Arab Peace Initiative consecrated during the Beirut summit, which was an attempt to put an end to the occupation through the withdrawal of Israel from all occupied Arab Palestinian territories to the borders of 1967.”

    2004-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4945 (2004) · source

25. “It is also continuing to build a separation wall, including in East Jerusalem, a policy of fait accompli that is threatening peace and security, undermining the peace process, and leading us towards a very dangerous crisis with extremely serious consequences for the entire Middle East. At the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict is Israel's ongoing occupation of Arab and Palestinian territories. Its attempts to distract and convince us that the conflict persists solely because of its efforts to combat terrorism are naive and self-evident. The occupation, I reiterate, is at the heart of the Arab-Israeli problem. The use of force and the policy of fait accompli, a policy carried out by the present Israeli Government, are clearly, today, getting nowhere. They only worsen the situation in the region.”

    2004-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4945 (2004) · source

26. “I should like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and to express my appreciation of your wise and outstanding guidance of the Council's work. I should also like to thank your predecessor, the Ambassador of France, for his leadership as President of the Council. Israel is pursuing with impunity its policy of killing and assassinating Palestinians, most recently through the execution by the occupying forces of the leader of Hamas on 17 April. That represents yet another act of State terrorism carried out by Israel. We firmly condemn that heinous Israeli crime and believe that the Israeli authorities must be held legally and politically accountable. Israel is pursuing its policy of targeting Palestinian leaders and of carrying out extrajudicial executions.”

    2004-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4945 (2004) · source

27. “It has only led to the deterioration of the situation and to further killing and destruction. Continuation of this policy would only exacerbate the situation in the region and definitely result in dire consequences for international peace and security. We call upon the Security Council to adopt a decisive position in keeping with the Charter which will compel Israel to agree to retreat from its policy of occupation, the establishment of settlements and the bringing in of more settlers, and to give up the military option and extrajudicial killing. It should force Israel to resume participation in the negotiation process, which will lead to the realization of just peace and security in the Middle East, in accordance with resolutions of international legitimacy, the Arab Peace Initiative and the principle of land for peace.”

    2004-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4929 (2004) · source

28. “The Security Council, which is entrusted with the maintenance of international peace and security, is called upon to assume its responsibility today, in accordance with the Charter, to protect the Palestinian people, to put an end to the hostile Israeli policy in the region and to establish the independent State of Palestine. The core of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the continued occupation by Israel of Arab and Palestinian territories. Attempts by Israel to divert attention by framing this conflict in the context of fighting terrorism is a failed, naive and ridiculous attempt that will not be believed by anyone. The occupation is the core of the problem and the logic of the military option, pursued by the Government of Israel to impose the logic of force on the Arab-Israeli conflict, has already proven futile.”

    2004-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4929 (2004) · source

29. “How can the Security Council remain silent about these crimes? Israel's ongoing targeting of Palestinian leaders, the illegal extrajudicial killings and the continued establishment of the separation wall and settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, are aimed at aborting the entire peace process. They are aimed at creating a fait accompli that will bring the Arab-Israeli conflict to a grave turning point, the consequences of which could affect the entire Middle East region as well as international and regional peace and security at large.”

    2004-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4929 (2004) · source

30. “The development of events since September 2000 in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, shows us that every time we begin to discern signs of understanding or that attempts are made to reach an understanding to enforce and realize peace in the Middle East, we find that Israel commits an act of aggression that totally erodes any glimpse of hope and undermines any attempt to achieve peace and security in the region. The daily crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian people, the killing, the destruction and the oppression perpetrated by the Israeli forces in violation of the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and the Council's failure to put an end to such acts are totally unjustifiable.”

    2004-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4929 (2004) · source

31. “Mr. Mahmassani (League of Arab States) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me, Mr. President, to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and on your wise and competent guidance of its deliberations, which has become your hallmark. I also wish to pay a tribute to your predecessor's conduct of the Council's affairs last month. Israel continues to violate international law and international humanitarian law. This is evident in the series of acts of aggression against and killing of the Palestinian people, without accountability or deterrence. This has been confirmed by the criminal act committed by the Israeli occupation authorities in Gaza on the morning of 22 March, which led to the killing of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin and his comrades. We strongly condemn that heinous crime.”

    2004-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4929 (2004) · source

32. “Israel's current military option of imposing the logic of force on the Arab- Israeli conflict has proven the futility of its policy and has led only to further deterioration and to more death and destruction. The pursuit of that policy, including the opening of new fronts, will push the region to the very brink of war, with all its perilous consequences for international peace and security. We call on the Security Council today to take a firm stand by compelling Israel to dismantle the wall, end its policies of occupation, renounce the military option and resume negotiations, which alone can lead to the establishment of a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East, in conformity with the resolutions of international legitimacy, the Arab peace initiative and the principle of land for peace.”

    2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source

33. “Despite all the international protestations against and objections to the construction of the wall, Israel pursues its policies of occupation and the building of settlements by force in Arab territories. This expansionist wall is a bypass road that extends towards Arab villages and cities and is intended to strangle and eradicate the Palestinian people politically, economically and socially and to transform the rest of the Palestinian territories into a non-viable Palestinian ghetto. This will simply increase poverty and despair. The essence of the Israeli-Arab conflict is the ongoing Israeli occupation of Arab territories. Israel's attempt to divert attention by placing the conflict in the context of the fight against terrorism is naive, ridiculous, futile and will fool no one. Israeli occupation is the problem.”

    2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source

34. “Israel may build walls on its own territory, but has no right to build them inside Palestinian territory. That is simply unacceptable. The ongoing construction of the wall is a direct threat to the future establishment of an independent Palestinian entity and to the vision of a Palestinian State living side by side with Israel. It also destroys any hope for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East. There is a consensus within the international community, including in the declared positions of the members of the Security Council and the Secretary- General, that the wall obstructs and undermines the peace process and that it should be dismantled immediately.”

    2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source

35. “The economic repercussions of the construction of the wall include the almost total destruction of the Palestinian economy; the isolation of the Palestinian people in encircled islands; the blockade of 210,000 Palestinians within the Green Line; and the creation of a new generation of refugees and of further suffering for the Palestinian people. The real purpose of the wall is expansion, the establishment of new settlements and the entrenchment of 230,000 Israeli settlers on Palestinian territory. The building of this Israeli expansionist wall within Palestinian territory is a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter, the Fourth Geneva Convention and international humanitarian law, and a perpetuation of the Israeli Government's immoral actions.”

    2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source

36. “The danger in all this is that the expansionist wall does not follow the Green Line that has separated Israel and the Palestinian territories since 1967, but cuts deep into Palestinian territories, annexing - according to a World Bank study - approximately 12 per cent of the West Bank. Other studies assess the area at 23.4 per cent of the West Bank. The erection of this wall near the western borders of the West Bank is just the beginning. Another wall will go up in the East to encompass the Jordan Valley area, constituting 21.9 per cent of the West Bank. This means that Israel's plans currently include the annexation of 45.3 per cent of the West Bank.”

    2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source

37. “Mr. Mahmassani (League of Arab States) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me to commend the excellent manner and wisdom with which you, Sir, are leading the work of the Security Council. The Security Council is meeting today to consider Israel's settler policies and construction of the separation wall in the occupied Palestinian territories, which threaten regional and international peace and security and hinder the establishment of a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East. Israel is building an electrified, electronically monitored separation wall - a system that is more than 500 kilometres long, averages 60 metres wide and is as high as eight metres in some places - under the pretext of the security situation. This is one further link in Israel's chain of systematically devouring, confiscating and annexing Palestinian territories.”

    2003-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4841 (2003) · source

38. “It will remain unsolved until Israel abides by international legality and leaves those occupied Arab territories. Measures and punishments exacted by Israel against the Palestinian people do not bring peace to the region; they lead to violence and continuing deterioration of the situation. That situation can be solved only by sitting around the negotiating table, and Israel must implement the Security Council resolutions, the 2002 proposal from Beirut and the principle of land for peace.”

    2003-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4836 (2003) · source

39. “I call on the Security Council to discharge its duty and see what can be done now, because Israel works beyond the range of legality as enshrined in all international resolutions. The Security Council's double standards are enabling Israel to continue to act outside international law, as if it enjoys total impunity. The Security Council has adopted 37 resolutions that Israel has not implemented. Israel has not implemented any of those resolutions. At the very heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict we find Israel's occupation of Arab territories. Israel is trying to distract people from this truth. Israel is presenting its acts as if they are a way to eliminate terrorism. That is naive. Israeli occupation of Arab territories is at the very heart of this problem.”

    2003-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4836 (2003) · source

40. “We call for the cessation of State terrorism and Israeli measures against the Palestinian people, Syrian and Lebanon in order to ensure that the entire region does not become inflamed and experience even greater insecurity. This attack reaffirms the aggressive nature of Israel and the fact that the Israeli Government rejects any peace initiative. Israeli aggression against Syria is part and parcel of Israeli policy to continue the occupation of the Syrian Golan and the other occupied Arab territories. It confirms that Israel is not devoted to a just and lasting peace throughout the Middle East. It is Israeli politics and its policy in continuing settlements and annexation of Arab territories. This attack acerbates the situation. It will have a serious fallout that will make any peaceful settlement of the conflict impossible.”

    2003-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4836 (2003) · source

41. “It calls upon the United Nations to discharge its responsibilities to preserve international peace and security and to consider this question under Chapter VII of the Charter. The Council of the Arab League denounces this attack and considers that it is yet another flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and of the principles of international law. Israel is fully responsible for all consequences that may result from such aggression. The Council reaffirms its support for and solidarity with the Syrian Arab Republic and any measures that it may adopt in self-defence against such aggression. The Council calls upon the Security Council to prevent Israel from continuing such provocative acts.”

    2003-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4836 (2003) · source

42. “I would like at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I am convinced that you will guide the work of the Council with wisdom and skill. I would also like to thank your predecessor, Sir Emyr Jones Parry, for his work at the helm of the Council last month. The Council of the Arab League held an emergency meeting today at the level of permanent representative to consider the consequences of the repugnant Israeli attack against Syrian territory. The League considers that this attack constitutes an escalation that threatens international peace and security, as well as representing a deterioration in the situation such that it could spin out of control and involve the entire region in a cycle of violence.”

    2003-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4836 (2003) · source

43. “We call upon the Council to take a clear stand that will put an end to Israel's flouting of moral values and of international laws and that will compel it to return to the path of peace by implementing the road map and withdrawing from all occupied Arab territories, including the Syrian Golan and the Sheba'a Farms in Lebanon, according to the Arab peace initiative and in order to achieve a just and lasting solution in the region.”

    2003-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4824Resumption1 (2003) · source

44. “Israel's violation of international humanitarian law and of the Geneva Conventions has become routine, as if it were of no concern to anyone in the international community. Israel has even gone so far as to adopt an official decision in principle to expel President Arafat, the elected President of the Palestinian people, to threaten his safety and his life. That is an illegal and immoral decision, and any attack on the Palestinian President is an attack on the Palestinian people as a whole. Israel knows that attacking him will not lead to peace or security, but rather will fan the flames of violence and will increase the wrath of the Palestinian people. How can the Security Council stand idly by, in full view of Israel's flagrant defiance of the international community?”

    2003-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4824Resumption1 (2003) · source

45. “The Palestinian people are the victims of Israel's arbitrary practices. The crux of the conflict is Israel's continued occupation of the Palestinian territories. Mr. Roed-Larsen has painted a bleak picture of the situation of the Palestinian people as a result of the occupation and the practices of the Israeli forces. He once again portrayed the bleak future of the prospects of peace in the region, owing to Israeli intransigence. Israel has put up all kinds of obstacles to the implementation of the road map. Now it continues to establish settlements and construct an expansionist wall, which will not provide security for the Israelis. Rather, it puts the Palestinian people in an enormous jail. Ending the Israeli occupation and establishing a just peace is the only way to provide security for the Palestinian and Israeli peoples alike.”

    2003-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4824Resumption1 (2003) · source

46. “Israel continues to pursue that policy despite the calls of the international community, the resolutions of the Security Council and the Arab peace initiative adopted at the 2002 Beirut Summit, which was unanimously welcomed by the Security Council but rejected by Israel. After 50 years of war and violence, when will the Government of Israel be persuaded that a policy of war, violence and force will not solve the question of the Middle East? When will it be persuaded that peace negotiations and the implementation of the resolutions of international legality are the only way for Israel, the State of Palestine and all other States of the region to live in peace, security and stability? Israel's attempt to recast the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the optic of the war against terrorism is a failed and ridiculous effort deceiving no one.”

    2003-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4824Resumption1 (2003) · source

47. “Mr. Mahmassani (League of Arab States) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me to extend my congratulations to you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month and wish you every success in your endeavour. I would also like to express our thanks to the delegation of Syria for its effective and able presidency of the Council last month. I also take this opportunity to congratulate Ambassador Fayssal Mekdad on his appointment as Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations. The crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict is Israel's continued occupation of Arab territories and its blocking of all efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.”

    2003-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4824Resumption1 (2003) · source

48. “That is the Council's responsibility, upon which depends its credibility and, indeed, the credibility of the entire international system, which is collapsing under the multifaceted bombing of Basra and Baghdad.”

    2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source

49. “The imposition of the logic of force and domination and the flouting of the United Nations Charter and international law will plunge the world anew into its pre-l939 condition and foment wars that will bring nothing to humanity but tragedy, pain and sadness. We call upon the Security Council today to shoulder its obligations as the organ responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security. How can the Security Council remain silent while this violent war is being waged before its very eyes? How can the Council turn a blind eye to the devastation, the aggression and the hundreds - nay, thousands - of civilian victims of this war? We call upon the Council to put an end to this war and to urge the immediate withdrawal of the invading forces.”

    2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source

50. “Unfortunately, all we see in that connection is negative, biased and not objective. The real threat to the safety and security of the Arab nation is Israel's possession of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery. Another threat is Israel's ongoing occupation of the Arab territories, its policy of killing and destruction against the Palestinian people and its refusal to comply with Security Council resolutions. The current international system, established in 1945 after the Second World War, is in grave danger. The world is fast moving into an arena of frustration and international chaos. The security and safety of weak States are in serious jeopardy.”

    2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source