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1992-07-15
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1992-07-15
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  1. “The African National Congress (ANC) has given its conditions for its return to the negotiations. Those conditions are reasonable. International observers should be brought in to monitor the policing of the townships. Perhaps outsiders will not bring immediate peace, but they could give policemen cause to hesitate before using violence, and at the same time expose the truth about the situation in the townships. Suriname therefore believes that the request contained in draft resolution §/24288 that the Secretary-General appoint a Special Representative is appropriate. This renewed United Nations involvement could help the peace process, and the Special Representative could play an important and constructive role in the interests of the Majority of the people of South Africa. We sincerely hope that reason and good sense will prevail.”

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

  2. “Hope and desire, certainly among the members of the united front for a new and better South Africa, were alive until CODESA collapsed. Hatred and frustration are mounting, especially among those generations whose relative discipline and patience are becoming less. South Africa is at a crossroads. The violence has seriously jeopardized the process of peaceful negotiations and the transition towards a democratic, non-racial and united South Africa. The South African regime has the obligation to create the climate necessary for meaningful negotiations. This means that immediate measures must be taken to bring an effective end to the ongoing violence. President De Klerk must unify and heal his country by admitting the fundamental wrong of apartheid. A mea culpa, a public renunciation, would be an enormous symbolic act.”

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

  3. “AS sO many speakers have stressed, the escalating violence in South Africa continues to demonstrate the inability, or even the unwillingness, of the South African authorities to put an end to it. The massacre at Boitapong township, on the night of 17 June 1992, and the subsequent shooting of unarmed protesters by the army and police of the South African regime are the latest blatant violations of human rights. According to the latest report of Amnesty International, hundreds of opponents of the minority Government of South Africa are victims of politically motivated killings carried out by the security forces with the acquiescence of the Government. The same report informs us that though the South African authorities have announced various inquiries into such killings, those responsible have rarely been brought to justice.”

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

  4. “Positive steps have been the repeal and amendment of some of the legislative pillars of apartheid and the Convention for a Democratic South Africa. The contribution of President De Klerk to these achievements should be recognized. However, on many occasions many responsible leaders have stated that the South. African Government should stop the violence and protect the life and property of all its citizens. It has been stated time and again that the Government of South Africa can no longer repackage with impunity the tenets of apartheid by promising the future end of white domination while allowing its security forces to suppress the anti-apartheid opposition.”

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

  5. “I congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. You bring to this high office a wealth of experience, and I am confident that you will guide the Council's work to success. I should also like to thank your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of Belgium, and to express my deep appreciation for the outstanding manner in which he presided over the Council's work.last month. In December 1989 our Organization attained a major objective in its global campaign against apartheid by adopting the historic Declaration on Apartheid and Its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa. That Declaration delineates the common objective of the international community to establish, through peaceful means, a united, non-racial, democratic South Africa.”

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