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Mujica Cantelar

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1992-07-15
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1992-07-15
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  1. “We hope that with the appointment of a special representative of the Secretary-General and the report that this person will prepare, the international community as a whole will be given access to detailed information about the true causes of violence in the country in question, the forces that promote it and the unspoken objectives that they pursue; and we hope to be able to take effective measures leading to the eradication of violence in South Africa and the real, definitive elimination of the practice of apartheid, in all its forms and manifestations, and to the emergence of that united, democratic and non-racist South Africa to which most of the Members of the Organization aspire.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  2. “The fact that more than 50 States Members of this Organization have requested this meeting of the Security Council, and the solid response that this request has elicited among the States Members of the United Nations, as seen in the number and the quality of the statements made in this Chamber today, shows that there is a widespread interest in knowing, in fullest detail, how the Council will approach each facet of this issue and what subsequent delibrations it will engage in.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  3. “The Security Council has the inescapable duty under the Charter to address not only threats to peace and security that arise in proximity to the Sources of strength of the great Powers or in areas that provide resources for the industrialized world. The Council has the duty to address, and act upon, all issues that threaten peace and security in the world, irrespective of where they may occur, of the forces that may be involved in them and of the great Powers' strategic interests in them.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  4. “We agree too that it is necessary to stress the responsibility of the Government of South Africa to guarantee the safety of all its citizens, to take the measures necessary to end the violence in that country and to protect the lives and property of all South Africans, and to create a climate of confidence that will enable the negotiating process to proceed. We firmly believe that the Declaration on Apartheid and Its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa, adopted less than three years ago at the sixteenth special session of the General Assembly, and the measures it contains are and will remain fully applicable so long as apartheid persists and so long as its effects continue to be felt by the people of South Africa and by neighbouring States, posing a threat to international peace and security in the region.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  5. “We hope the question of South Africa and the violence besetting that country will now get the attention and consideration it deserves, following the commendable and timely action taken by the Organization of African Unity in requesting this meeting of the Security Council on a subject which, of course, has been on the Council's agenda for many years. We agree that, on the basis of the draft resolution that has been submitted and that has been considered in private for several days, the Council should condemn the massacre perpetrated in the town of Boipatong on 17 June and other similar acts.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  6. “Today's situation is largely the result of that policy of indulgence towards one of the most hateful practices on Earth and, it must be said, of the inertia - to put it mildly - of those powerful Governments that worked and, paradoxically, continue to work to diminish the role and the contribution of the various United Nations organs with respect to the struggle towards the final eradication of apartheid. In this very Security Council we have seen time and again how action has been taken to prevent "sending the wrong signai" to one or another party on the international scene, while, when dealing with apartheid South Africa, nothing was done to prevent a "wrong signal" being sent, through indulgence and inertia, to those who oppose urgent change in that part of southern Africa.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  7. “We had also been watching with concern how, despite the slow pace of the measures that had been taken and the still uncertain direction of the process, certain members of the international community were taking premature and, in our view, still unjustified decisions which, by relaxing international, pressure on the apartheid regime, encouraged the sectors most resistant to change, even giving them the leeway to try to halt the emergence of a just society in South Africa.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  8. “, We believe that the convening cf this Security Council meeting had become a pressing necessity. We had been witnessing with concern how the process that began in South Africa in 1990, aimed at eliminating the hateful policy of apartheid, risked being thwarted by the resurgence of various forms of violence: violence resulting from the activities of the most retrograde forces in that country and threatening a rising toll of victims.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  9. “Mr. MUJICA CANTELAR (Cuba) (interpretation from Spanish): I wish at the outset, Sir, to greet you and to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of July. That a representative of the Republic of Cape Verde, an African country that has demonstrated its commitment to devote all necessary efforts to the eradication of apartheid, is presiding over this meeting augurs well for the success of the Council's deliberations and for the Council taking action that will make an effective contribution to the emergence of a united, democratic, non-racial South Africa. I wish also to congratulate the representative of Belgium, Ambassador Paul Noterdaeme, on the distinguished and effective way in which he guided the work of the Council in June.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source