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Mansour

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“I also took serious note of the position that the Ambassador of France, the President of the Council, reiterated, which is shared throughout the Council, that any solution or formula that is put on the table that does not take into account the global consensus of what is known as the parameters has no chance of resolving the conflict. May I now proceed to read out the rest of my statement? Week after week, in official communications, we have alerted the Security Council to the escalation of Israeli violations against the Palestinian people, who remain captive under Israel's medieval military occupation and blockade. We have urged the Council to heed the early warnings and act to halt the deterioration of an already tense and volatile situation, which all have deemed not only unsustainable but explosive.”
2019-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8489 (2019) · source
“As articulated by my good friend the Ambassador of France, the parameters must be respected, which is why I always look to all those present, for they are defenders of those parameters - the global consensus on how to solve the problem. Many of those here often say that we all know what the solution is, and it is very simple. That solution consists of ending the occupation and upholding the independence of the State of Palestine with a view to reaching a two-State solution, living side by side, and a just solution to the refugee question, which we all know is a simple solution and acceptable to us and the Council. But there are forces, which the Council knows well, that are refusing that solution and acting every day to prevent it, even though it is a solution that emanates from the global consensus.”
2019-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8489 (2019) · source
“Members of the Council might think that my statement is accusing the other side - they can think that way - but I have to defend my people, who live a life of misery under occupation, whether in the Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank or occupied East Jerusalem. It is my duty to defend my people, who live that miserable life. History does not begin with the firing ofa rocket or doing something wrong. The history is well-known to all those present, and it is the tragedy of the Palestinian people, who live under occupation. That tragedy has to end, on the basis of ending the occupation and upholding the independence of the State of Palestine.”
2019-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8489 (2019) · source
“I beg the Council to find a way to implement its resolutions, beginning with resolution 2334 (2016), and I promise that I will not deliver a single statement, if the Council finds the political will and methods to bring to account those who are violating the provisions of resolution 2334 (2016). The Council will not see me making statements or objecting to its ruling in that regard, that is, on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016). I was not planning to respond, but then I was asked to; however, I have a statement that I need to continue reading because I have to address the issue at hand until the Council collectively finds a method of implementing its resolutions as they relate to us. There is no other option for now but to listen to more statements.”
2019-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8489 (2019) · source
“Can the Security Council get a similar commitment from the other side of the table, which is the one refusing to implement those resolutions? There is another member in the Chamber that is powerful and protecting the occupying Power from honouring and respecting the Council's resolutions. If that is the predicament we face, including the lack of agreement within the Council to send the Council to see with its own eyes the tragic reality of the Palestinian people under occupation - it cannot even reach that basic agreement to go visit - then the solution would be for me to respond to some questions.”
2019-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8489 (2019) · source
“He is a member of the Security Council and the representative of mighty Germany. I listened very carefully to the presentation delivered by my good friend the President, the representative of France, and I completely agree with him. However, if the Security Council comes to me to tell me that it does not have the political will to implement its resolutions, does it think that ifI come here and selectively respond to certain questions asked by some of those present that this is the solution the predicament that we face? I tell the Council, those here in the Chamber and all those watching us from every corner of the globe, that I am committed. I would be happy if the resolutions were implemented, and I would not deliver a statement.”
2019-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8489 (2019) · source
“I thank the French and German presidencies of the Security Council for their response to the calls for the Council to urgently address the dangerous situation unfolding in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem. I would also like to thank Mr. Mladenov for his briefing, and the Secretary-General for his written report (S/2019/251), which has been circulated, on the implementation of resolution 2234 (2016). Before I proceed to read out my written statement, let me say that I would be extremely happy to not deliver a statement and instead engage in a discussion, as my friend the Ambassador of Germany stated. But I am only a representative of Palestine - although I support the implementation of all the resolutions of the Security Council and international law, beginning with resolution 2334 (2016) - ifa way can be found.”
2019-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8489 (2019) · source
“We urge all States to step up their efforts to uphold their commitments and obligations to bring a peaceful end to the Palestinian- Israeli tragedy. Peace cannot be achieved by dismissing international law and human rights; rather, upholding the law is the only path to peace.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“Moreover, despite the dismal situation on the ground and severe political deadlock, we remain committed to non-violence, dialogue and the objective of peace, including through negotiations based on the terms of reference enshrined in the relevant United Nations resolutions, the Madrid principles, the Arab Peace Initiative and the Quartet road map. It is on that basis that all final-status issues must be resolved and that a just, lasting and comprehensive peace can be guaranteed. We call for the mobilization of regional and international efforts to help overcome the impasse and contribute to the realization of a just solution as a matter of urgency, in line with the Security Council's calls in resolution 2334 (2016).”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“Such steps would be in full conformity with the relevant resolutions, the Palestinian people's right to self-determination and independence and the two-State solution, which the international community has insisted upon, yet neglected, for decades. It would also be significant in restoring hope and rebuilding trust, which is so vital in creating peace. We will also remain insistent in our pursuit of Palestinian reconciliation and unity, and once more, we especially recognize Egypt's valuable efforts in that regard and pledge our cooperation.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“On our part, we will remain resolute in calling for the application of international law and calling on the international community to uphold its political, legal and moral responsibilities to bring an end to the Israeli occupation and achieve a just solution to the Palestine question in all its aspects, including the fulfilment of our people's inalienable rights, including to self- determination and to return. We reiterate our appeal to countries that have not yet done so to recognize the State of Palestine and, moreover, call for support for Palestine's request for admission to United Nations membership, which has been pending since 2011, to allow us our rightful place among the community of nations.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“The longer the international community tolerates this deplorable man-made crisis - whereby 2 million people are being forced to live in an open-air prison, in total isolation and desperation - the closer it will come to losing its sense of humanity. We urge the Security Council to heed the cautions and appeals presented to it over and over and to give that matter urgent attention. We call for serious action, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the Council's own resolutions, to bring to a halt Israel's impunity, with a view to not only saving the possibility of a just peace, but actually promoting its achievement. Each State also has a responsibility to respect and ensure respect for the law by not rendering aid or assistance to illegal Israeli actions, including in Jerusalem, and by advancing accountability and peace.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“We will not relent in our calls for the perpetrators of those crimes against our people to be held accountable and forjustice for the victims. Human misery is also intensifying, with the poverty and dependence on aid borne of that injustice mounting daily. The situation is especially grave in the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, where the depth of the humanitarian crisis defies description. Hearing the shocking figures reported monthly by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UNRWA, the Office of the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and others may seem to have become the norm after all this time, but there is nothing normal about the calculated infliction of such human deprivation and indignity.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“Incited by a barrage of inflammatory rhetoric, even from the highest levels of the Israeli Government and military, violent raids and lethal attacks by occupying forces, including against unarmed civilian protesters in the Great March of Return in Gaza, continue to cause harm to civilians, take innocent lives and devastate Palestinian families, and Palestinian civilians continue to be arrested, detained and imprisoned by the occupying Power, which is fiercely targeting our male youth. We will not forget the 295 Palestinians killed by the occupying forces in 2018, among them many children, or the 29,000 injured - the highest casualty toll since Israel's war on Gaza in 2014 - among them hundreds left disabled, including many amputees.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“Such provocations must be explicitly condemned, and Israel must be demanded to comply with all relevant resolutions, including for the protection and preservation of the city's historic, cultural and religious heritage. The human toll also continues to mount as Palestinian civilians continue to be denied their fundamental human rights and the international protection that the Security Council and General Assembly have periodically called for across the five decades of this illegal occupation. Acts of violence and hatred against Palestinian children, women and men continue unabated, including by extremist settlers.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“The obvious aim is to alter the demography, character and status of the occupied territory and de facto annex it, in grave breach of international law, and to obstruct the contiguity of our State and thereby the Viability of the two-State solution. Israeli Government officials and extremist settlers have also persisted with provocations and incitement against Palestinian Muslim and Christian communities and against our holy sites, particularly Al-Haram Al-Sharif, undermining the historic status quo, Jordan's custodianship and inflaming religious tensions. Most recently, that has involved dangerous rhetoric by an Israeli politician who called for the demolition of parts of the historic wall of the Old City of Jerusalem.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“In blatant contempt of the Council's authority and global demands, Israel has persisted in confiscating and colonizing our land with settlements, the wall, checkpoints, Israeli-only roads and other occupation infrastructure, as well as demolishing Palestinian homes and forcibly transferring Palestinians, including vulnerable Bedouins, with nearly 500 people, among them 216 children and 127 women, displaced and made homeless in 2018. Israel has deliberately advanced the illegal construction of more than 5,600 settlement units in the past year, thereby facilitating the illegal transfer of thousands more Israeli settlers to our land. The majority of those settlement activities are taking place in areas deep inside the West Bank, and in particular in and around East Jerusalem.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“That reality has been confirmed in briefing after briefing, including in the context of the Secretary- General's quarterly reports on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016), which should be presented in written format, as we and the majority of Council members have repeatedly called for. Israel, the occupying Power, is flagrantly carrying on with its illegal settlement campaign, making a mockery of international law and of the Security Council's credibility.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“The reality remains one of recurrent crises, cycles of violence and imminent dangers, as Israel, the occupying Power, exploiting the international paralysis, persists with its illegal policies and practices, inflicting more suffering on our people and relentlessly colonizing our land, pushing peace prospects further and further away. Day by day, the occupation is destroying the two-State solution and sowing deep despair among our people. That despair is especially acute among our youth, who have known only the oppression and dehumanization of foreign occupation and blockade all their lives and who are losing hope for a better future and losing trust in the promises of peace and justice made to them by their leadership and the international community.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“A final recent, positive event was the endorsement of the State of Palestine as Chair of the Group of 77 for the year 2019, tasking us with leading the Group's efforts to address issues of universal concern towards ensuring development, stability and prosperity for all humankind. We are humbled at being conferred that responsibility and pledge to uphold our collective principles and goals, in the true spirit of multilateralism, on behalf ofthe Group's 134 member States and with the rest of our partners and the international community. Those have been the more hopeful developments. Unfortunately, as Special Coordinator Mladenov pointed out, the situation on the ground has been far less positive.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“The international community must continue to reject attempts to erode this consensus and must match words and commitments with practical measures to ensure accountability for all violations. Only that can make impunity costly, bring it to a halt and truly make a difference in our collective search for peace. That must include serious efforts to implement the relevant resolutions, including resolution 2334 (2016) and the clear obligations therein, including of non-recognition and distinction. As often stressed by the Secretary- General, there is no viable plan B to the two-State solution. I repeat, there is no plan B to the two-State solution, as he often tells us. Immediate action to advance its realization is required before it is too late.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“At repeated junctures - whether in this Chamber by nearly every Security Council member month after month or by other Member States at every debate or in the 18 December joint statement by present and outgoing European Union Council members and/or in the vast support for General Assembly resolutions on the Palestine question, including the 6 December resolution 73/89, entitled "Comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East" - important efforts have been made to reinforce the long-standing terms of parameters for a just solution, based on two-States, Palestine and Israel, living side by side in peace and security along the pre-l967 borders, and for all final status issues, including Jerusalem, in accordance with the relevant United Nations resolutions, the Madrid principles, the Arab Peace Initiative and the Quartet road map.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“And it has served as a model of multilateralism at work and of tangible respect for humanitarian principles and political and legal responsibilities - all decisive factors in our collective ability to address the crises we face at a time when multilateralism is under such intense pressure. The year 2018 also served to highlight a shared determination by the Palestinian people and their leadership, as well as by the international community, to preserve the foundations of a just and peaceful solution and protect Palestinian rights. That has included a near-consensus rejection of actions aimed at legitimizing illegal Israeli measures in occupied East Jerusalem, deeming such actions null and void and flagrant violations of resolutions 478 (1980) and 2334 (2016).”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“Led by the Secretary-General and the Commissioner General, and supported by many traditional and new donor countries, those efforts helped ensure the continuity of operations for the provision of crucial humanitarian, development and emergency assistance to 5.4 million Palestinian refugees across the region, pursuant to UNRWA's General Assembly mandate pending ajust solution. The meaning of that collective mobilization cannot be underestimated. It has helped alleviate the refugees' plight amid widespread worries, fears and rising needs. It has ensured relative stability in their communities and host countries against a backdrop of volatility and conflict in the region.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“Alongside inspiring stories of Palestinian resilience and achievement, the following international events and trends have been critical to preserving our faith in international law and the international system, and even in the inevitability ofjustice. Despite the unprecedented funding crisis faced by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the international community rallied, with generosity and compassion, to close an immense shortfall.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“While there are many serious challenges before us, as humans tend to have, we begin the year with high hopes - hopeful that the better sides of humankind will prevail, that our common values will be upheld, that our obligations under the Charter of the United Nations and international law will be respected and that our commitments will be fulfilled so as to ensure a more just, peaceful and secure world for all, including the people of Palestine. Although the past year tragically witnessed deep human suffering and loss as Israel's illegal occupation became more entrenched, brutal and extreme, and as the political process remained deadlocked - not only without prospects on the horizon, but with marked setbacks - there were some glimmers of hope.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“In that connection, I would like to convey to my friend, Ambassador Matjila, the Permanent Representative of South Africa, and through him to the people and the Government of South Africa, my deepest condolences for the death of a dear friend, the late Permanent Representative of South Africa, Ambassador Kumalo. May his soul rest in peace. We also welcome among us today Mrs. Marsudi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Indonesia, and thank her for her presence and for Indonesia's strong support for and solidarity with Palestine. Ofcourse, we must also renew our deep appreciation to the countries and delegations of Bolivia, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands and Sweden upon completion of their terms, during which they served with consummate commitment, skill and wisdom.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“Mr. Mansour (Palestine) (spoke in English): I extend our warmest congratulations to the Dominican Republic on its able presidency of the Security Council from the very outset of its tenure. I also thank United Nations Special Coordinator Nickolay Mladenov for his briefing on the current situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem. Today, we extend sincere congratulations to the other Security Council members that also began their terms on 1 January - Belgium, Germany, Indonesia and South Africa. We wish them all success, along with the rest of Council members, in upholding their lofty responsibilities for the maintenance of international peace and security.”
2019-01-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8449 (2019) · source
“The fact that the illegal occupation should last for more than a half- century, with no concrete action to bring it to an end, risks not only the future of our people and region, but also destroying the credibility of the international system and its laws, which the world has gone through wars and colossal human and material sacrifices to build, assert and defend. What we demand - an end to the occupation and historic injustice - is not only a call for respect and the realization of the Palestinian people' inalienable human rights and national aspirations, but also a call on the international community to respect and defend the universal principles and moral standards that it has itself developed and accepted as basic canons, all of which are in grave jeopardy at this critical moment.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“They must not condone or excuse religious extremism, incitement and hatred; pitting one religion against another threatening the sanctity of holy sites, including Al-Haram Al-Sharif; or the legislation of racism, discrimination and segregation, with racist laws that deem one people superior to another and grant them exclusive rights to the land, including to self- determination and return, while simultaneously denying those rights to the indigenous Palestinian people in a situation that can only be classified as apartheid. The fact that an occupying Power should feel immune from accountability, even as it kills innocent civilians and violates all norms and principles of international law, only deepens cynicism about the potential for a just peace, especially among our young people, whose hopes are evaporating.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“They must not condone or excuse the imprisonment of2 million Palestinians in Gaza under the occupation's illegal blockade, by which Israel has caused humanitarian and socioeconomic devastation and exploited and deepened the Palestinian division, which regrettably remains a dark stain on our national history that has not been expunged despite many attempts at reconciliation, including the important effort of our brothers from Egypt, which we appreciate immensely. Nor must they condone or excuse the imprisonment, detention and abuse of thousands of Palestinians, including hundreds of children, by the occupying Power, or its deceitful distortions of social welfare to the families of prisoners and martyrs as it persists in its attempts to undermine and weaken all of our institutions.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“They must not condone, excuse or in any way support the colonization of a people's ancestral lands, as is being committed flagrantly in occupied Palestine, including East Jerusalem, where the Israeli Government not only persists with illegal settlement activities in all their manifestations - in flagrant breach of resolution 2334 (2016) and countless other resolutions - but openly declares its intent to annex our land, with officials, including the so-called Justice Minister, leading the charge in flat-out contempt of international law and the international community.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“The forced transfer of people, as is happening in the Bedouin village othan Al-Ahmar and witnessed so many times before in occupied Palestine over the years, constitutes ethnic cleansing. This is not a mere decision by Israel's so-called judiciary, which has proven to serve and subsidize the occupation and where the chances for minimal justice for Palestinians are nil; this is a war crime.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“While they may be seen as statistics by some, the Palestinian men, women and children who have been killed - including over 200 peaceful protesters, among them at least 45 children, since the Great March of Return in Gaza began, and including the mother of eight children, Aisha Mohammed Rabi, who was killed last week in the West Bank by Israeli settlers, as well as the tens of thousands who have been injured by the Israeli occupying forces - are not just numbers to us, but our sisters and brothers whose pain and losses we grieve for and weigh heavily on us, not least on our collective belief that justice and peace are possible. They must not condone or excuse attempts to clear away people - human beings - like rubbish, with no regard for rights and dignity, or the demolition of their homes and lives.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“We have also continually affirmed our commitment to the two-State solution as the path to peace, insisting, however, that it be a just peace - not one stripping our people of their land and rights. We do so again today. How can those seeking to make peace condone, support or excuse the violations being perpetrated every single day against the Palestinian people by Israel and its destruction of the prospects for peace? They must not condone or excuse the savage killing of innocent civilians who have been cruelly denied protection for decades by an international community that has appeased and armed the occupation to the maximum with little remorse.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“Any fresh approach to peacemaking must be welcome in principle Yet, ifit does not address the root causes of the conflict, including historic dispossession, illegal settlement expansion, the status of Jerusalem as a shared capital and the rights of Palestinian refugees, the deal will be doomed to failure." Those words ring alarmingly today. We have continually called on the international community to uphold its collective responsibility to bring an end to the Israeli occupation and this 70-year injustice. We do so again today, urging the Security Council to uphold its duties under the Charter of the United Nations and to act in conformity with its own resolutions, including resolution 2334 (2016), to address the root causes and tangibly contribute to a solution that will be just, comprehensive and lasting.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“These are not preconditions; they are the foundation and guarantees of a just peace, which would inherently mean addressing the legitimate rights and concerns of both sides. Trying to accommodate illegitimate asks, claims and actions will never solve the problem; it will only create new ones, as we have seen over the 25 exhausting and futile years of the Oslo process. As affirmed by the late former Secretary-General Kofi Annan in one of the last pieces he penned on behalf of The Elders, regarding the conflict: "[A] people deprived of liberty and dignity will never be pacified. Nor will they meekly accept a settlement imposed by outsiders that redraws borders and redefines sovereignty without popular consent.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“We cannot accept continued lip service to the peace process while Israel keeps proving how empty its commitment to negotiations and the two-State solution actually is, all the while entrenching its occupation, mocking the international community and still demanding privileged treatment. Israel should not be permitted to continue thwarting credible negotiations aimed at achieving just solutions to the final status issues - Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, borders, security, water and prisoners - solutions which we all know to be vital to establishing lasting peace and security between the two peoples. All who call for negotiations should make it clear that these must be based on the long-standing parameters and terms of reference set forth by the relevant resolutions, the Madrid principles and the Arab Peace Initiative.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“We refuse to accept such policies and rhetoric and respectfully stand up for our rights, as enshrined in universal covenants and countless United Nations resolutions, including those of the Security Council. We do so peacefully and unwaveringly, committed to all political, diplomatic, legal and civil means to secure our rights. We reject the pretexts used to continue denying those rights and exempting Israel from its violations. We cannot accept continued appeasement and hesitance to hold Israel accountable for its crimes, even as it flagrantly breaches all obligations as an occupying Power, threatening the very existence of our people in their homeland and even boasting of this in the most sinister of ways.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“Moreover, such policies prejudge and undermine just solutions to the core issues, prolonging the conflict and ensuring only more instability, insecurity and hardship. We categorically reject these policies and the distorted, punitive, negative narratives accompanying them, which demean the legitimacy of Palestinian national aspirations and dismiss our rights, including those of our refugees. We also refute attempts to discredit the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, which operates on the basis of a strong General Assembly mandate and has been consistently lauded by host countries and the international community - including the United States - for its exemplary humanitarian and development programmes and proven contribution to regional stability over the decades.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“What we are witnessing, however, are precisely such short-sighted, inhumane policies as Israel, the occupying Power, always chooses violence, brutalizing the Palestinian civilian population and colonizing its land, with zero consequence, supplemented by the recent United States decisions contravening United Nations resolutions, pressuring and vilifying the Palestinian leadership, and politicizing desperately needed humanitarian aid, including for more than 5.4 million Palestine refugees. As part of an attempt to impose a so-called peace deal, such policies do nothing to help overcome the political impasse but rather harden it and cause more mistrust, which is already at an all-time high.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“Haley, before the Council on Foreign Relations, that "peace and security cannot be achieved in isolation from human rights Desperate people subject to humiliation and abuse will inevitably resort to violence." It is true that such a situation can never be a path to peace, and a peace so imposed will never be viable. The situation of Palestine is no exception. Yet, despite the extreme human rights crisis being endured, our people continue, more often than not, to choose non-violence and peaceful protest.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“Why, after all these years, considering humankind's progress and the understandings reached on the universal desire and right to freedom, why would the Palestinian people be expected to be any different? Why would they be expected to forever submit to foreign occupation and colonial domination? Also affirmed in these Halls, year after year, is the fact that peace can never be realized in the absence of human rights and can never be built on the dehumanization of others. That has been proven repeatedly throughout history. We therefore agree with a statement made in the recent past by the United States Permanent Representative, Mrs.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“The Charter of the United Nations has affirmed that right of all peoples to self-determination. As Palestinians continue to be deprived of this right, it has been affirmed and called for in countless resolutions and declarations endorsed by a vast majority of States and peoples worldwide. Our right to self-determination and to live freely is a legitimate and inalienable right - a right we will never forsake; a right that we will not negotiate with anyone, nor will we ask permission to exercise it from anyone. It is the right of the Palestinian people to exercise it and they will exercise it alone, as has been the case with all peoples who have exercised the right to self-determination.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“Against that backdrop and in view of the many regrettable developments since our last debate (see S/PV.8316), including escalating punitive measures against the Palestinian people and leadership, it is necessary to clarify certain matters. Standing up for oneself and one's rights should never be equated with disrespect of anyone or misconstrued as a provocation. It is in fact an utmost expression of respect for one's rights and dignity, regardless of the consequences. When the American patriot Patrick Henry declared "give me liberty or give me death", he was not disrespecting or provoking anyone, but rather insisting on his right to live freely. It was considered an act of heroism, moral courage, and reverence for the liberty due to all humankind.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“We warmly congratulate the Plurinational State of Bolivia on acceding to the presidency of the Security Council and express our appreciation to you, Madam, for your skilled leadership of the Council. I thank Special Coordinator Nikolay Mladenov for his briefing to the Council today. I also extend our thanks to Mr. Hagai El-Ad, Executive Director of B'Tselem, for his presentation, further exposing the dismal realities of the situation and sharing the concerns of civil society as they witness the distress ofa people whose human rights are being so grossly violated and the destruction of the chances for peace and stability for Palestinians and Israelis alike.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“Peace is not for the parties alone to achieve, nor can the freedom of the oppressed be subject to the good will of the oppressor. Peace requires that each and every one of us do our part. We want peace and look forward to a collective process that can yield peace. We stand ready to be held accountable for our words and actions on the basis of international law. Can the other side commit to the same?”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“We reaffirm our gratitude to Egypt for its efforts to achieve that aim, and we hope that we will see progress on that front in the coming days. The Security Council has repeatedly affirmed, as a general principle, that ending impunity is indispensable to achieving peace. By contrast, we are living proof of how accurate that statement is, especially when the Council does not adopt the necessary measures to ensure the implementation of its own resolutions. Every single State has the power and the duty to help advance peace by upholding its own responsibilities. We call on all States to respect and ensure respect for international law. We commend the Irish Parliament on its decision to ban settlement products that come from stolen Palestinian land and resources.”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“What works is apeace plan centred on the established international terms of reference for a peaceful solution, in line with the relevant United Nations resolutions, the Madrid principles, the Arab Peace Initiative and the Quartet road map, advanced through a collective process that secures international mobilization and holds the parties accountable. The Palestinian leadership pledges its commitment to peace, its commitment to international law, its commitment to the two-State solution and its commitment to non-violence. We also reaffirm our readiness to cooperate with all international and regional efforts to advance a just peace, as called for by resolution 2334 (2016). The reunification of our people, land and political system is among our highest national priorities. We will spare no effort to achieve unity.”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“The only question that remains is when will the world's patience, which has been tested repeatedly, finally be exhausted, and will it be before it is too late to salvage peace? Some say that old ways no longer work. They state that the path we took to achieve peace was flawed, and therefore they want to bring plans that ignore the terms of reference of the peace process and its declared objectives. We agree that old ways no longer work, but let us determine what else does not work. Interim solutions do not work. Postponing the consideration of core issues does not work. Ignoring international law does not work. The lack of accountability for violations does not work. The lack of a binding time frame does not work. The absence of international guarantees does not work.”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source