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  1. “The mediators who salve their egos and compensate for their professional failures by inventing ethnogenetic theories on the Serbian roots of both Croats and Bosniac Muslims, by intervening in the work of the International war crimes Tribunal or by persistently equating the terrorists and the terrorized cannot contribute anything much more than complications, larger failures and more suffering by innocent people. Croatia's action in defence of its territories and its rights, and in promotion of peace and stability within its borders, has turned to ashes several of the cardinal fallacies espoused by some key factors to promote their own agendas.”

    1995-08-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3563 (1995) · source

  2. “Above all, it will be necessary and only natural after their total collapse to examine the strategy and concepts for resolving the tragedy brought upon the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Moreover, it will be absolutely logical, putting egos aside, to give critical consideration to the failure of, and serious loss of confidence in, the key mediators whom the United Nations and the European Union have entrusted with promoting and implementing established principles. Not to go into all the serious faults and misconceived premises of the current strategy in finding a resolution to the crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to retain the same plans and the same "contractors" even after their total failure, would be as illogical as it would be deadly for the prospects of peace and stability in this part of the world.”

    1995-08-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3563 (1995) · source

  3. “Of course, the highest priority right now is to alleviate human suffering and ensure safety and humanitarian assistance for the flood of refugees and their accommodation at the destinations of their choice, and not of the despotic strategists who tailor new borders and demographic changes of tectonic power. This should lead to a more serious and more far- reaching engagement by the international community - primarily the Security Council - in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and other parts of the former Yugoslavia, particularly Sandzak and Kosovo, where hundreds of thousands of Bosniac Muslims and 2 million Albanians suffer systematic deprivation and terror at the hands of the ruling regime in Belgrade.”

    1995-08-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3563 (1995) · source

  4. “Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the duties of President of the Security Council for the current month and to wish you all success. I should also like to recognize the valuable contribution of your predecessor, Mr. Martinez Blanco, and the entire delegation of Honduras in guiding the work of the Council last month. There are two draft resolutions before the Council today. These focus on the greatest consequence of the adventurism of Serbia's nationalist leadership and the international community's lack of preparedness and ability to halt aggression, terrorism and genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Croatia.”

    1995-08-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3563 (1995) · source

  5. “The Government of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina does not have the privilege of choice. This must be taken into consideration when adopting today's draft resolution and any future decisions on Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1995-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3553 (1995) · source

  6. “It is clear that the main goals of Karadzic's terrorists are to disable UNPROFOR, to pre-empt the deployment of the rapid reaction force and any action on its part to consolidate the situation, and to once again provoke a crisis within the institutions of the international community, including the Contact Group for Bosnia. By attacking Srebrenica and now threatening Zepa, Karadzic's and Milosevic's favourite general for doing their dirty work in other countries, Ratko Mladic, continues to realize their main goal: the elimination of the Contact Group plan and the strengthening of their own position with the goal of the legalization of the fair accompli. The international community has two options in Bosnia and Herzegovina, though capitulation to terrorism is no real choice for anyone who is responsible or dignified.”

    1995-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3553 (1995) · source

  7. “If the choice turns out to be different, and if it would lead to the surrender of UNPROFOR and to its retreating from its obligation to protect the safe areas and to ensure the delivery of humanitarian supplies to the population - which Karadzic's terrorists had blocked throughout the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina - then my Government will ask for a clear agreement specifying all rights and obligations during the transition period, which will enable us to alleviate the consequences of the international community's failures in our country.”

    1995-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3553 (1995) · source

  8. “"Thirdly, we also request that, in any way possible, including via air drops, in cooperation with the UNHCR, tents, food and medicine be provided for the expelled population in the direction of the safe area and the wounded and sick civilians be evacuated in the opposite direction. "Fourthly, if they cannot do this or do not want to do this, we demand that this be publicly announced." The establishment and activation of the rapid reaction forces naturally represent a circumstance that could make a crucial contribution to the rehabilitation of the UNPROFOR mandate and UNPROFOR'S capabilities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This, combined with NATO activities, could help to reverse the situation in the Republic.”

    1995-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3553 (1995) · source

  9. “UNPROFOR must defend safe areas since this defence has, among other things, been used as a basis for the argument in favor of the maintenance of the arms embargo against Bosnia and Herzegovina. I would like to inform the Council of the following statement made by the President of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alija Izetbegovic, today in Sarajevo: "First, we demand that the United Nations and NATO re-establish by force the violated safe zone of Srebenica within the borders it occupied before the attack, namely, of May 1993. "Secondly, if they cannot or do not want to do this, we demand that this be publicly announced.”

    1995-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3553 (1995) · source

  10. “This neutrality, as the difficulties of UNPROFOR in Bosnia and Herzegovina have proved for three years and are now proving again, this time in Srebrenica, makes the murderer neither more noble nor more cooperative, and guarantees nothing less than the triumph of evil. This is the reality which the international community must face, the turning point from which it must decide when and where to move. The Government of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina prefers the full rehabilitation of the mandate of UNPROFOR, and the strengthening of UNPROFOR to the point where it will become a respectable force which cannot be humiliated, degraded and mocked by every gang of road bandits.”

    1995-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3553 (1995) · source

  11. “Those who not only advocate but brutally carry out the policy of "ethnic cleansing", national and religious superiority and the physical elimination of a people combined with the destruction of the traces of their centuries-old existence and the expropriation of their land and all other belongings, must not be treated in the same way as those who fight for religious equality, tolerance, coexistence, human rights and freedom. The terrorist and the terrorized cannot be treated in the same way. Such neutrality and impartiality lead to the development of this perverse tendency to blame the victim for the perversion and crimes of the butcher.”

    1995-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3553 (1995) · source

  12. “Today, the Security Council is deciding not only whether Bosnia and Herzegovina will suffer yet another blow and further heavy losses, but also whether this body and the international community as a whole will take the road of rehabilitation or agree to a new defeat, and by no means the last one, a defeat that will for a long time to come marginalize the world Organization in its most important function: the maintenance of world peace and security. Should this happen, the world Organization will disappoint and embitter a large number of its Members, which, in the fate of Bosnia and Herzegovina, can recognize a dark possibility for their own plight, abandonment and deprivation. The United Nations should give up once and for all the distorted concept of neutrality and impartiality in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1995-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3553 (1995) · source

  13. “The United Nations must never again permit itself to be reduced to a passive observer or, even worse, an obedient assistant to the Pale regime in their final act of "ethnic cleansing". We believe that the United Nations cannot afford any further humiliation and degradation of its mission - for which the world sent tens of thousands of its sons and daughters under the United Nations flag and spent billions of dollars for the establishment of just and lasting peace. The United Nations should not allow any new hostages to be taken as a blackmail device in the hands of Karadzic and his terrorists.”

    1995-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3553 (1995) · source

  14. “Despite all this, some even blame the Government of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina for so-called provocations and for Violation of United Nations resolutions, thus providing a spurious semblance of an excuse or justification for the brutalities, atrocities and crimes that have paralysed the conscience of the world, which unsuccessfully attempts to grasp why and how this is still going on, how and why an internationally recognized sovereign State has been deprived of the means to defend itself, while at the same time the international community refuses, under the pretext of neutrality and impartiality, to defend it. Has the moment come when the long and detrimental retreat before Karadzic's hordes will finally cease? Many a chance was missed in the past. This present chance should not for any price be gambled away.”

    1995-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3553 (1995) · source

  15. “New hostages have been taken, United Nations observation posts manned by brave put poorly armed Dutch peace-keepers have been stampeded over, dozens of civilians have been murdered and hundreds have been wounded in the unprotected city, some of them while they were actually in the hospital: the inevitable and, as always, the favorite target of Karadzic's artillery. An ultimatum was again issued to the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR), and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was blackmailed. The world has been brazenly mocked once again by those who have continued to practise these abhorrent methods for the past 40 months.”

    1995-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3553 (1995) · source

  16. “This method was used by Goebbels in 1939 in the Polish border city of Gliwic as a pretext for aggression on Poland. Karadzic and his new Goebbels arranged a repeat performance, which was as successful as their previous repeat performances of the Nazi concentration camps, and the rape, pillage, murder and extermination of non-Serbs in order to "cleanse" the territory for the Milosevic and Karadzic Aryan tribes. To those familiar with the Karadzic methods, it was clear even then that Srebrenica had yet to experience its moment of greatest despair, the final strike in the three- year siege of humiliation, deprivation and sniper and artillery terror by Karadzic's forces. Karadzic's infamous scenario is being carried out to the letter to this very moment.”

    1995-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3553 (1995) · source

  17. “As an introduction to this latest blow to the United Nations mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and particularly to the safe area of Srebrenica, the strategists of the Pale regime, as they had done already in Gorazde last year, first staged an attack on an ostensibly Serbian Village, and installed on this stage several actors who played survivors terrorized by alleged Muslim special forces. Naturally, the television crews and reporters were on the spot immediately, almost as in the best-organized tourist arrangements, to report it all: the ruins and the smell of smoke from the burning houses. Of course, none of the foreign press could know that this was a Bosnian village which Karadzic's hordes had "ethnically cleansed" at the beginning of the war.”

    1995-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3553 (1995) · source

  18. “In this way, 1,177 days after the beginning of the Serbian aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina, later disguised by the formation of the Pale fifth column, we are faced with the debacle of the international community's policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The failure of that policy is evinced by these figures: 200,000 dead, more than 1,200,000 expelled from their homes, and the incredibly effective "ethnic cleansing" of 70 per cent of Bosnian territory. Today, the final act of this "ethnic cleansing" is being played in Srebrenica: the brutal elimination of more than 40,000 Bosnians from the territories where they have lived for centuries, where they have been born and have died - modestly, yet proudly, not destroying, not cultivating hatred, but building and cherishing a friendly coexistence among peoples.”

    1995-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3553 (1995) · source

  19. “Allow me, at the outset, to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and to wish you every success. I should also like to congratulate your predecessor, Mr. Graf zu Rantzau on his able performance during Germany's presidency of the Council. The international community finds itself once again at yet another in the series of tragic turning points it has come to since the beginning of the unabated aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the previous cases, the choice was to go neither to the left nor to the right, and above all not to go forward.”

    1995-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3553 (1995) · source

  20. “As we prepare for the fiftieth anniversary of the great victory of mankind over fascism, it is not excessive to suggest that the best way to commemorate that victory and pay tribute to the millions of victims of fascism would be to defeat these new practitioners of the revived fascism and disable them for ever.”

    1995-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3521 (1995) · source

  21. “The strangulation of Sarajevo has tightened, denying to officials of Bosnia and Herzegovina and even to the United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina the right to travel on United Nations planes. The murder and wounding of civilians continue as well. In another wave of "ethnic cleansing", more than 150 Muslims from Bijeljina and 400 Muslims and Croats from the Banja Luka region have recently been expelled. Karadzic's followers persist in this practice, which all of us had believed had vanished with the defeat of fascism in Europe. Unfortunately, fascism was long ago revived, and it has now advanced in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, in particular the part under the control of Karadzic's Serbs.”

    1995-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3521 (1995) · source

  22. “Does this all possibly mean a gradual introduction of a new variant of a peace settlement? If that is what is envisaged, the message of my Government should be clear: there will be no more concessions from our side. In making concessions and sacrifices for the sake of peace, we have reached the edge of the abyss; any further step would mean a definite fall into that abyss for the victim and a cynical reward for the aggressor. Any step or intention in this direction would be terminal and would only encourage the aggression to continue. We strongly believe that no one has a right to do this. With the death of the brave soldiers of the French peace contingent, attacks on the Bihac region continue, as does the terrorizing of the safe area of Tuzla and its surroundings.”

    1995-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3521 (1995) · source

  23. “We understand the calls for an extension of the cease-fire, but we cannot take on such an obligation without guarantees that it will not become a time frame from which only the aggressor can benefit. We agree that it is high time the peace process moved forward. For our part, we have made the contributions that were expected of us. We accepted, almost 10 months ago, the Contact Group plan that Karadzic continues to reject up to the present moment. The fact of our acceptance seems to be neglected, more often than not, and the fact of Karadzic's refusal seems to be veiled by some countries. In this game, the decision of the Contact Group to give support to the party that does accept the plan and punish the one that rejects it seems finally to have been totally forgotten.”

    1995-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3521 (1995) · source

  24. “That is why we believe that this body will, in the time frame and the manner envisaged by Security Council resolution 982 (1995), give its full attention to this question, which is essential to the future of the peace mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as to the peace process as a whole. Departures from and self- serving interpretations of Security Council resolutions on the ground have not been followed up by adequate and timely reactions from this Chamber. There is not much time left to correct this situation and to make the necessary shift. The President of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, His Excellency Mr. Alija Izetbegovic, has recently stated the position of our Government.”

    1995-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3521 (1995) · source

  25. “We support the intention to establish new measures, on an urgent basis, that would prevent further attacks against UNPROFOR troops and contribute to the improvement of their security. The Government of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina will sincerely cooperate in these efforts and will offer its assistance and support. We would also like to believe that they will logically lead to a review of the current state of the UNPROFOR mandate, which appears reduced and deformed in comparison to its definition and to the provisions envisaged in the resolutions of the Security Council.”

    1995-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3521 (1995) · source

  26. “This sounds really absurd and it is very discouraging; but, beyond all that, it is totally damaging to the credibility of UNPROFOR and especially to its effectiveness, as well as to the prospects of the peace process. The death of two innocent soldiers who were trying to prevent deadly sniper fire by erecting sniper barricades testifies to the continuing terrorization of Sarajevo; and to the fact that resolutions on safe areas continue to be routinely violated and that there are those who continue to violate the cease-fire and the cessation of hostilities. The soldiers' deaths will not be in vain if they contribute to a change in the situation. This draft resolution is a first step in that direction.”

    1995-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3521 (1995) · source

  27. “Too high a price has already been paid, because for too long high-ranking officials, both within and outside the United Nations, denied the existence of concentration camps; because mass rapes and "ethnic cleansing" were not recognized and denounced in time; because the appeasers went so far as to use libel in spreading the morally corrupt fallacy that the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina could possibly have staged the massacres in the bread line or in the marketplace in Sarajevo. Each time, after such suspicions had been expressed loudly and clearly, the issue was resolved, as a rule, by a magic formula stating that it was not possible to determine who had fired the deadly grenades or shots.”

    1995-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3521 (1995) · source

  28. “Bosnia and Herzegovina believes that this tragic incident must not be used for ethically unacceptable and inappropriate political manipulations that espouse the myth that all the sides in Bosnia and Herzegovina should be seen in the same criminal light and as having the same responsibility for the evil that has engulfed my country for more than three years. Instead, this tragic occasion should be utilized as a turning point. Continuing to appease the aggressor side for the purpose of obtaining its cooperation and achieving even meagre success in a paralysed peace process can only pull us away from peace - a fact that has been confirmed many times throughout these years. The truth, no matter what it could be and what its price might be, must be given priority over half-truths or complete lies. The truth must finally be faced.”

    1995-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3521 (1995) · source

  29. “My Government strongly rejects all the methods that the murderers of innocent members of UNPROFOR and of Bosnian civilians - men, women, children and the elderly - have been using for more than three years. In this situation - which could potentially uncover the nature of the war in Bosnia and clearly draw a line between the aggressor and the victim - my Government is exposed to an unacceptable formula that recently has been widely employed in delicate situations. It gives its assurance that there is no basis to believe that any Bosnian soldier was involved in the recent tragic events.”

    1995-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3521 (1995) · source

  30. “Allow me, Mr. President, to extend to you my sincere congratulations on the able manner in which you have been conducting the work of the Security Council this month. I should also like to congratulate your predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Li Zhaoxing, Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China, on his able stewardship of the Council last month. At the outset of this statement, I should like to express our deepest sympathy to the delegation and Government of France and to the families of the two valiant and honourable members of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) whose valuable lives were cut short at such an early age by the merciless and cold-blooded actions of professional killers, whoever they may be.”

    1995-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3521 (1995) · source