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  1. “Timely conclusion of this phase is essential both to the credibility of the peace process and to the viability of the coming elections. We support the efforts of ECOWAS, and we very much hope that all the parties will abide by the timetable established in the Abuja Agreement. I also underline the importance we attach to the establishment of electoral law and regulations by the end of this March, to the registration of voters in April and to the election campaign in May. Like other delegations, we very much favour the strengthening of ECOMOG, and we also would like to pay tribute to the very important role of ECOMOG'S Force Commander in the area of the demobilization of the ex- combatants of all Liberian factions. Organizing elections is not an easy task, especially in countries which have experienced civil war.”

    1997-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3757 (1997) · source

  2. “My delegation strongly believes that the maintenance and strengthening of UNOMIL's presence are essential to this phase of the peace process, as underlined in the report of the Secretary-General. In this context, enhanced cooperation between UNOMIL and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) will be an essential element in the success of the peace process. Let me also welcome the agreement between the Council of State and the Economic Community of West African States on a basic framework for the holding of elections in Liberia. We call on both the Liberian Council of State and ECOWAS member States to work jointly, with renewed energy, towards the full implementation of that agreement. The peace process is now entering a new and crucial phase.”

    1997-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3757 (1997) · source

  3. “The representative of the presidency of the European Union has just expressed our common vision of the Liberian peace process and our support for the draft resolution before the Security Council. Portugal notes with deep satisfaction the recent progress made towards the consolidation of peace and national reconciliation in Liberia. We particulary welcome the significant progress in the political and military situation, as described in the report of the Secretary-General dated 19 March 1997. We hope that the present extension of the mandate of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia (UNOMIL) and the Mission's new and important role in the electoral process will constitute positive contributions towards the holding of free and fair elections in that country.”

    1997-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3757 (1997) · source

  4. “All parties concerned must realize that, ultimately, there is no alternative to the peace process. Each party must live up to its commitments. Each one is liable for its actions.”

    1997-03-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3756 (1997) · source

  5. “Unfortunately, we have not been able to reach this stage, despite the efforts of many delegations to achieve a consensus on this subject. We condemn and regret the bombing attack that took place today in Israel. Targeting innocent people is not the right way to apply pressure or to solve disputes. The current lack of confidence in the Middle East peace process is being utilized by those who want to jeopardize the achievements reached to date by the interested parties. We urge Israel to reconsider and stop all actions that create mistrust among the Palestinian and Arab peoples and thereby risk alienating them from the negotiations. On the other hand, we exhort the Palestinian people and their leaders to continue to show restraint and not to resort to violence. Violence serves only the interests of the enemies of peace.”

    1997-03-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3756 (1997) · source

  6. “Portugal voted in favour of the draft resolution submitted by Egypt and Qatar. I do not need to elaborate on the Portuguese position on the decision of the Government of Israel to build a new settlement in the J abal Abu Ghneim/Har Homa area of East Jerusalem. My country co-sponsored the draft resolution considered by the Security Council at its 3747th meeting and the resolution adopted by the General Assembly. We consider the Israeli decision to be illegal under international law and a violation of the agreements reached so far by the interested parties. Its overall effect on the peace process is harmful. We had hoped that this time the Council would have been able to agree on a formula that would permit it to assume its responsibilities and firmly to express its support for the Middle East peace process.”

    1997-03-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3756 (1997) · source

  7. “We thank also the three Observer States and the other Member States that have been contributing to the cause of peace in Angola.”

    1997-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3743 (1997) · source

  8. “It is essential, if we are to avoid the worst at either the humanitarian or the security level, that international efforts to finance scheduled activities be maintained. To that end, the response to the comprehensive inter-agency appeal that is being planned must be such as to meet this challenge. In conclusion, we thank the Secretary-General for his persistent and consistent efforts, as can be seen in his report of 7 February, which clearly shows the changes to be made in the United Nations presence on the ground in Angola during the next phase, which is one of observation. This presence will focus more on promoting national reconciliation and on consolidating the newfound peace. We join the Government of Angola in once again expressing our thanks for the untiring efforts of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General.”

    1997-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3743 (1997) · source

  9. “We hope that the report will note positive developments and thereby spare the Council the need to impose measures, including those provided for in paragraph 26 of resolution 864 (1993) of 15 September 1993. Nonetheless, the Council is prepared to do so if necessary, as stipulated in resolution 1098 (1997), which it has just adopted. In the forthcoming phase of the United Nations mission in Angola, apart from support for national reconciliation as such, special emphasis will be placed on humanitarian issues in view of the way they are considered in this context. The issues of relief and rehabilitation, quartering and demobilization will be included. Significant resources will be required. The figures speak for themselves: almost half a million former combatants and their families, a million displaced persons, tens of thousands of refugees.”

    1997-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3743 (1997) · source

  10. “We are confident that this will be the case and that the Angolan political scene will soon see decisive action. In the report I mentioned earlier, the Secretary- General, while issuing recommendations concerning a United Nations presence throughout 1997, is making a more immediate proposal to extend UNAVEM's mandate for one month, indicating that a closer follow-up of the commitments that are in abeyance is considered good policy. The next report of the Secretary-General, which will come out before the end of the period in question, will be reporting to the Council on the expected establishment of the Government. The Council will be deliberating on this basis.”

    1997-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3743 (1997) · source

  11. “The two successive deferrals of the dates agreed for these events fully justify the prevailing sense of concern and urgency. My delegation fully endorses the recommendations contained in the Secretary-General's report of 7 February on this matter. Indeed, given that the establishment of the Government of National Unity and Reconciliation has been stalled, it would be unreasonable for us to expect to be able to implement the upcoming complementary agreements, or others that the parties might enter into in the near future, with a view further to hone this common endeavour. Quite the contrary: the political will must be mustered to follow the course that has been charted and thus build on the accrued capital of goodwill and understanding.”

    1997-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3743 (1997) · source

  12. “Likewise, we note improvements in certain significant areas of economic management, such as lower inflation and a stabilization of the exchange rate, as well as other measures adopted as regards prices and budgetary activities. We congratulate the Government on these accomplishments and express the hope that this initial success will gain strength and become part of a broader process of reversing the economic and social situation in Angola. All eyes are now focused on the completion of the establishment of the Angolan Parliament and the setting up of the Government of National Unity and Reconciliation. This is as it should be. These two issues are indeed the keystone of the Lusaka accords. To a certain extent, they represent the final test of confidence - the point of no return.”

    1997-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3743 (1997) · source

  13. “III) have been withdrawn; further withdrawals are soon to take place, in keeping with the agreed time-tables; and the ceasefire continues to be very broadly respected. These are positive aspects in the field of military activities. However, these cannot mask the slowness and inadequacies in other areas of activity, such as in the essential area of the selection and integration of soldiers and officers of UNITA into the Angolan Armed Forces and the National Police. However, reconstruction and the demining of roads seem to be proceeding satisfactorily; they are being carried out as part of a planned institutional framework. These activities will have a positive and immediate impact on the lives of the people and will restore their confidence.”

    1997-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3743 (1997) · source

  14. “Subsequently, the prevailing lack of confidence became a major, multifaceted constraint that led to many uncertainties and setbacks. Throughout this entire process, the Angolan conflict has received extraordinary attention from the United Nations and the international community, and in particular from some of its member States. This has provided consistent and increasingly effective support for the cause of peace in the country. We have now reached a stage that can be described only as a decisive turning-point, a stage at which two must become one: one Government, one army, one police force, and, lastly, one country. The first military units of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission (UNAVEM.”

    1997-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3743 (1997) · source

  15. “Mr. Monteiro (Cape Verde) (interpretation from French): I congratulate you, Sir, on the highly competent manner in which you have guided the work of the Security Council during the month of February. I also thank your predecessor, Ambassador Owada of Japan, for his very successful work during the course of the last month. I am grateful for the opportunity my delegation has been given to speak before the Council at this formal meeting on the question of Angola, which is a topic of the utmost importance to us. Looking back, we note the extent to which the Government and UNITA have progressed in their quest for peaceful national reconciliation. That path has been an extremely long and difficult one. Lusaka came about only after several missed opportunities.”

    1997-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3743 (1997) · source

  16. “On this occasion of profound grief for the Chinese people, Portugal sincerely regrets the death of China's Paramount Leader, Mr. Deng Xiaoping, a central and historic figure in the construction of modern China. Mr. Deng Xiaoping was instrumental in the deepening of relations between China and Portugal. It was under his able leadership that China and Portugal initiated the ongoing negotiations for the hand-over of the administration of the Territory of Macao in 1999. His constructive and cooperative spirit is clearly reflected in the smooth progress of those negotiations. The President of the Republic of Portugal, who is currently in China on a state visit, was able to express personally to China and its people the heartfelt condolences of Portugal and its people on the passing of Mr. Deng Xiaoping.”

    1997-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3742 (1997) · source

  17. “The adoption of the draft resolution before us, which Portugal has co-sponsored, would be an essential contribution to peace and to national reconciliation and would be a follow-on to the recommendations in the report of the Secretary-General. One cannot overestimate the primary responsibility and the fundamental role which either the Government or the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca must continue to discharge in order to honour the mutual commitments they made to pursue the long-term consolidation of peace, democracy and stability in the country. Portugal firmly believes that the peace process in Guatemala is an example to be followed by peoples and countries in similar situations throughout the world. We are certain that the two parties and the people of Guatemala will both be up to this challenge.”

    1997-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3730 (1997) · source

  18. “MINUGUA has played an indispensable and exemplary role in the restoration of law and order and respect for human rights in this country. We hope that henceforth all the national minorities will be able to participate fully in building a free and democratic society in Guatemala where social justice becomes a reality. Portugal feels that the international community has the duty to respond positively to the requests of the two Guatemalan parties, by providing adequate means to verify the ceasefire, the separation of forces and the disarmament and demobilization of the forces of the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca. It is therefore a matter of helping and encouraging the parties to respect their commitments under the agreements they have signed.”

    1997-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3730 (1997) · source

  19. “Portugal is gratified by these developments and also wishes to convey its special thanks to the men and women whom make up the United Nations Mission for the Verification of Human Rights and of Compliance with the Commitments of the Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights in Guatemala (MINUGUA). Since November 1994, when the Mission was established as part of the framework of the peace negotiations, they have verified the respect for the overall Agreement on Human Rights in Guatemala which was signed by the parties, as well as some aspects of the agreement on the identity and rights of indigenous peoples, which is of fundamental importance. The presence of MINUGUA was essential in putting in place a peace process whose purpose was to put an end to a conflict that had beset the people of Guatemala for the past 35 years.”

    1997-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3730 (1997) · source

  20. “They have a particular meaning in the context of the overall process underway in Central America, and they can become an important contribution to the cause of peace, democracy, stability and economic development in the region. In recent years, the United Nations has played a very important role in Guatemala. I would also like to pay tribute today to the patient and constructive efforts of the Secretary-General, the Group of Friends of the Guatemalan Peace Process, the United Nations system as a whole, and to all other international agencies which have supported and continue to support the peace process. It is our hope that democracy and respect for human rights will continue to be consolidated in Guatemala.”

    1997-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3730 (1997) · source

  21. “Mr. Monteiro (Portugal) (interpretation from French): Portugal has for centuries had very strong ties to Central America. It is therefore with particular satisfaction that my country welcomed the signing in Guatemala City on 29 December of the final peace Agreement between the representatives of the Government and the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca. We believe that peace, national reconciliation and economic development are now within the grasp of the Guatemalan people. This final Agreement, in conjunction with the agreements signed in Madrid, Mexico, Oslo and Stockholm, will lead to the end of the domestic conflict in Guatemala, which has been the longest in Central America. The consequences of this Agreement are not limited to Guatemala.”

    1997-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3730 (1997) · source