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Nejad-Hosseinian

lines on the record: 171
first: 1998-03-20
most recent: 2002-07-19
sittings or episodes: 22
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“There is no doubt, either, that the lack of funding available to the Government impairs its ability to extend its presence beyond Kabul. As I said earlier, the whole international community has an important stake in the restoration of peace and security in Afghanistan, and if it fails to shoulder its responsibility, the hard-won achievements of the past eight months could be endangered.”
2002-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4579Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Legislative and administrative work is also under way to fund a number of other reconstruction projects in Afghanistan, in keeping with the pledge my country made at the Tokyo Conference. We hope that the cultural, historical and linguistic affinities between Iran and Afghanistan will enable us effectively to contribute to the reconstruction of Afghanistan. We hope that the successful rebuilding of that country will reinforce peace and help alleviate the refugee crisis and drug trafficking in the region. The dramatic slowdown in resource flows for humanitarian and recovery activities, which the Secretary-General refers to in his latest report, is a serious cause for concern. The failure of the international community to address the most urgent needs of Afghanistan could adversely affect the security situation.”
2002-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4579Resumption1 (2002) · source
“We encourage the Transitional Authority and the international community to plan ahead for crop substitution projects for the upcoming cultivating season. The early commencement of Afghanistan's reconstruction and its steady progress could have an important impact on the security situation in various parts of the country. We believe that the successful transfer of power to the Afghan Transitional Authority should further enable members of the international community to expedite the fulfilment of pledges they have undertaken. My Government, determined to participate in the reconstruction drive, has already started a number of projects, including the construction of a road from the Iranian border to Herat, which is important given the land-locked status of Afghanistan.”
2002-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4579Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The Iranian Government has joined in the process and has undertaken, among other things, to train and equip 400 Afghan police officers. We have thus far fully cooperated with the United Nations in Afghanistan with a view to promoting peace and security in that country, and we reiterate our readiness earnestly to continue our cooperation in this crucial field. Drug trafficking in Afghanistan is also a security- related issue. It runs counter to the restoration of stability in that country and threatens neighbouring countries. We commend the determination to eliminate poppy crops shown by the Afghan Interim Administration and by those foreign countries that are assisting it in this respect.”
2002-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4579Resumption1 (2002) · source
“In the meantime, I would like to caution, as we did in the last debate in the Council, that careless military operations in which Afghan innocent people are killed could add to the sense of instability and bring about unwanted results. Moreover, we are concerned over insecurity in northern Afghanistan, which results mainly from rivalry among local commanders, as well as over reports pointing to attacks on minorities and aid workers in the north. In this respect, we are using our good offices to work with the parties in the region to help resolve the problems. While we agree that appropriate international security assistance on the ground helps maintain peace in Afghanistan, we believe that the creation of an indigenous Afghan security sector should be expedited by the Afghans and the international community.”
2002-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4579Resumption1 (2002) · source
“I would like to thank him and his colleagues for the steadfast and relentless efforts they have made thus far and congratulate them on the success thus far achieved. However, we believe that there is no room for complacency. The Afghan people and their Government are still facing a host of problems that, if unchecked, could disrupt the steadfast and smooth return of the country to peace and stability. Security remains a cause for concern. There are reports indicating that elements of Al Qaeda and the Taliban are regrouping and presenting growing threats to security in southern and eastern Afghanistan. Terrorist acts such as the one that, regrettably, resulted in the murder of Vice-President Haji Abdul Qadir may further erode the nascent security in the country.”
2002-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4579Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Despite the enormity of the task, we are pleased that the Afghan people - ably led by the Afghan Interim Administration and benefiting from assistance provided by Afghanistan's neighbours and the international community - were able to bring the process to a successful conclusion. We believe that the transfer of power from the Interim Administration to the Islamic Transitional Authority constitutes an important step in implementing the Bonn Agreement, and we hope that the other steps ahead will be taken without difficulty. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, skilfully led by Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, played an important role in terms of making the necessary preparations and a crucial role in ensuring coordination at the local and international levels.”
2002-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4579Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Mr. President, I wish to begin by thanking you for having convened this open debate on the situation in Afghanistan, in which not only the Afghan people and the countries neighbouring Afghanistan, but also the whole international community, have an enormous stake. I wish also to thank the Secretary-General for his comprehensive and valuable report on recent developments in Afghanistan. My Government, which has great interest in the timely and full implementation of the Bonn Agreement, followed closely the successful convening of the Emergency Loya Jirga in Kabul from 11 to 19 June 2002.”
2002-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4579Resumption1 (2002) · source
“In the light of what happened recently in the occupied territories, we believe that the United Nations must use all the necessary means to force Israel to comply with the demands of the world community. The Security Council should take effective measures with a view to stopping Israeli aggression completely. With that objective in mind, the establishment of an international protection force under Chapter VII of the Charter, to be deployed in the occupied territories and mandated to protect civilians from atrocities committed by Israeli troops, is now all the more necessary. It is also essential that those who ordered and actually committed war crimes against civilians in the occupied territories be brought to justice.”
2002-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4552Resumption1 (2002) · source
“It is quite unfortunate and disappointing that the Israelis blocked an official inquiry into the war crimes that its troop committed in the Jenin refugee camp and elsewhere in the West Bank in April and that the Council could not enforce the resolution it passed in this respect. Moreover, the Council's failure to uphold its resolution on the Palestinian question is another example of the double standards that paralyse it and affect its credibility. In the meantime, we look forward to the report on war crimes in Jenin by the Secretary-General, as requested by the emergency special session of the General Assembly, and we hope that those whose influence prevented the Council from taking action with regard to Jenin will not be allowed to tamper with the efforts of the Secretary-General to present an objective and frank report.”
2002-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4552Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Such a criminal practice is being employed to humiliate and to punish collectively an entire population. It is constantly adding to the desperation felt in the Palestinian territories and is feeding the Middle East conflict day by day. We share with the rest ofthe world the conviction that the occupation of the Arab lands, be they Palestinian, Syrian or Lebanese, by the Israelis lies at the heart of the crisis and conflict in the Middle East. We regret that the Security Council has not yet discharged its Charter responsibility with regard to the Palestinian question despite so many appeals to the Council over so many years. We regret the Council's failure to take firm action under the Chapter VII of the Charter to stop the Israelis' continual flouting of its resolutions.”
2002-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4552Resumption1 (2002) · source
“No doubt such endorsement plays an important role in emboldening the aggressor, thereby further endangering the lives of innocent Palestinian civilians and dashing hopes for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East. The clampdown on the movements of Palestinians within and outside the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which continues steadily, figures among the numerous criminal acts against the Palestinian people. Because of this act by the Israeli troops, so many Palestinian cities and towns in the West Bank have become isolated enclaves surrounded by troops and tanks. The Gaza Strip, with 1.3 million inhabitants, has been effectively cut in half and sometimes into thirds by checkpoints set up to protect Gaza's approximately 7,000 Jewish settlers.”
2002-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4552Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The retreat of Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles does not signal an end to aggression against Ramallah. They are taking up positions outside the city and keeping it encircled and under the constant threat of repeated invasion. This has been the case all along in most other cities and villages across the occupied territories. The latest Israeli aggression was timed to coincide with the visit of head of the Israeli regime to Washington. What is more disappointing and alarming is the almost unqualified endorsement he received there for criminal assaults launched repeatedly by the occupying army against civilian areas under foreign occupation, which flagrantly violate the norms and principles of international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention.”
2002-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4552Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Mr. President, I congratulate you on assuming the presidency of the Council for this month and thank you for convening this meeting on the Palestinian question, which continues to be the focus of attention of the international community. The repression of Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories continues unabated. The recent siege of the West Bank city of Ramallah, which lasted three days, was the latest example of the continued repressive and bloody campaign pursued by the occupying power. During the siege, invading troops kept inhabitants under curfew and entrapped them in their homes. They turned some areas of the city into piles of rubble and damaged further the headquarters of Mr. Arafat, which had been damaged earlier during the five-week siege in March and April.”
2002-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4552Resumption1 (2002) · source
“A memorandum of understanding signed by the participants aims at enhancing cooperation by and among their private sectors, facilitating trade transactions and coordinating regional strategies to expand economic cooperation among the three countries. It also established a trilateral commission for coordination. We attach importance to the coordinating work that the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan is doing in that country and highly appreciate the efforts made by Mr. Brahimi and his colleagues. Our appreciation also goes to the United Nations agencies that have been doing their best to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan.”
2002-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4541 (2002) · source
“Moreover, during the visit of the Iranian Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs to Kabul in April, the two sides signed several agreements covering various areas of economic and commercial cooperation. Attaching great importance to consensus among the Afghan neighbours and their meaningful participation in the construction of Afghanistan, Tehran hosted, on 18 May, a ministerial meeting of finance ministers from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, held under the auspices of the United Nations Development Programme. The meeting was intended to pave the way for regional participation in promoting economic and commercial cooperation among the participants. It focused on the urgent needs of Afghanistan, the provision of grants and credits for its reconstruction and rebuilding the infrastructure of the country.”
2002-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4541 (2002) · source
“Therefore, while we expect that the international community will actively follow up reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, we believe that Afghan rebuilding plans should be drawn up so that all interested countries, especially those neighbouring Afghanistan, will be encouraged to cooperate in the reconstruction drive. Moreover, Afghan reconstruction and economic development should be carried out in line with the social and cultural requirements of Afghan society and help bring closer the different ethnic groups of the country. My Government, determined to participate in the reconstruction drive, has already started a number of projects, including the construction of a road from the Iranian border to Herat. A feasibility study on a railway leading to Herat is also under way. Both are important, given the land-locked status of Afghanistan.”
2002-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4541 (2002) · source
“We encourage the international community to participate in efforts to promote crop-substitution projects in Afghanistan and to create incentives for Afghan farmers to cultivate food crops instead of opium poppies. Benefiting from relative peace in the country and a favourable international and regional climate, Afghanistan's reconstruction is gradually getting off the ground. Cultural, historical and linguistic affinities between Iran and Afghanistan have been strong incentives to Iran's contribution to the reconstruction of Afghanistan. In addition, we hope that a successful rebuilding of that country will reinforce peace and help alleviate the refugee crisis and drug trafficking in the region.”
2002-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4541 (2002) · source
“In our view, the creation of an indigenous Afghan security sector should be given priority by all Afghans and by the international community. The Iranian Government has undertaken to help in that area by providing training to the Afghan police. Drugs in Afghanistan are also a security-related issue. The continued poppy cultivation in that country is incompatible with the Afghan drive for peace. It threatens Afghanistan's neighbouring countries, and it runs counter to the restoration of stability in the region. We commend the determination shown by the Afghan interim Government to eliminate poppy cultivation, and we commend the foreign countries that are assisting it in that respect.”
2002-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4541 (2002) · source
“The possible regrouping of Taliban and Al Qaeda elements inside and outside Afghanistan is still a cause for concern, and continued suspicion and hostility among some Afghan military commanders may prove destabilizing. Furthermore, I would like to caution that careless military operations, in which innocent Afghan people are killed, only add to the sense of instability. At the same time, we understand that an appropriate amount of international security assistance is necessary to help maintain peace in Afghanistan. In the light of Afghan sensitivities and of past experience, however, we believe that it is in the interest of lasting peace in Afghanistan that the foreign military presence in that country remain as minimal and as brief as possible.”
2002-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4541 (2002) · source
“My Government is following with great interest the ongoing - and thus far mostly successful - process of electing a loya jirga. Iranian officials fully assisted a delegation dispatched to the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Special Independent Commission for the Convening of the Emergency Loya Jirga, which successfully accomplished its mission of choosing the representatives of Afghan refugees living in Iran. We hope that the Commission can complete its work successfully and in a timely manner, despite any obstacles that may arise along the way. At this juncture, the maintenance of peace and security throughout Afghanistan is of great importance. Although there are signs that security has improved, we agree that the situation across the country remains fragile and unpredictable.”
2002-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4541 (2002) · source
“There is a consensus inside as well as outside Afghanistan that, after two decades of war, the country needs peace and stability. All Afghan ethnic groups agree on the need for understanding and for maintaining the peace. Moreover, the international community has unanimously pronounced itself ready to follow up on the peace process and on the reconstruction of Afghanistan. We are delighted that such a consensus exists at all levels and that steps have already been taken towards implementing the decisions made last December in Bonn. We are also delighted that the Islamic Republic of Iran has been able all along to actively help the Afghan people further their cause and has been able to contribute, from the outset, to the United-Nations-led Afghan peace process and drive for reconstruction.”
2002-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4541 (2002) · source
“In our view, it is essential that the Israelis, who ordered and actually committed war crimes against civilians in the Palestinian occupied territories, be brought to justice. It is also essential that the international community take a fresh look at the question of whether a regime inclined readily to commit crimes against innocent people and flout the Council's resolutions and the principles of international law can still claim a place in the world's multilateral organizations.”
2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source
“We share with the rest of the world the conviction that the occupation by the Israelis of Arab lands, whether Palestinian, Syrian or Lebanese, lies at the heart of the crisis and conflict in the Middle East. It is hypocritical and deceitful to ignore such a root cause of the crisis and, instead, to try to draw attention to this or that particular tactic that this or that group may employ. We are deeply concerned about the decision to abort the fact-finding mission. We also deplore the Council's failure to take firm action under Chapter VII of the Charter to stop the Israelis from continually flouting its resolutions. We believe that the United Nations must use all necessary means to force Israel to comply with the demands of the world community.”
2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source
“How can any effort on the part of the Council to compel implementation of its resolutions look legitimate in the eyes of peoples across the globe? How can the United Nations hope to enforce any future inspections or investigations when it has willingly backed down on the one mandated for Jenin? While appreciating the efforts made by the Secretary-General and his representatives to alleviate the impact of the Israeli atrocities against the Palestinians, we believe that the dissolution of the fact- finding team was premature and that efforts with a View to having it fulfil its mandate were yet to be exhausted. The team might have been able to fulfil its mandate by employing means other than visiting the scene of the crimes.”
2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The acquiescence of the United Nations to Israel's refusal to cooperate with the panel will unfortunately cast a long shadow over the activity of the Security Council for a long time to come and will affect its efficiency and credibility in dealing with other current and future crises. It is unfortunate that the Security Council and, to some extent, the whole United Nations system, has once again proved powerless in the face of the protection accorded to the Israeli regime. It would not be an exaggeration for me to suggest that what happened to the Jenin fact-finding team was a blow to the credibility and authority of the Security Council. Henceforth, there are several relevant questions that should be asked.”
2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source
“By doing so, they are seeking, in vain, to conceal their hands, which are stained with the blood of innocent Palestinian refugees. And ultimately they are trying to continue to act with the impunity from which they benefit, in complicity with those who rely merely on force in conducting their foreign policy. World public opinion is reflecting dismay at the circumstances that led to the decision to disband the fact-finding mission to the Jenin refugee camp. It is being seen as another example of the double standards which have paralysed the United Nations for quite a long time.”
2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source
“They have brought to light evidence which clearly points to the resort by the Israelis to indiscriminate and excessive force: firing from helicopters, razing houses with bulldozers, the wilful and unlawful killing of Palestinian civilians and the use of such civilians as human shields - measures clearly outlawed by international humanitarian law. These actions constitute highly visible war crimes that have been widely reported by the international media and could be documented with relative ease. It is quite obvious that the Israelis blocked an official inquiry into their aggression with a view to averting the uncovering of evidence on massacres that their forces committed in Jenin and elsewhere in the occupied territories.”
2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source
“I congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month and thank you for having convened this timely meeting on an important issue which continues to be the focus of the attention of the entire international community. I would also like to thank Ambassador Lavrov of the Russian Federation for the excellent manner in which he conducted the work of the Council in April. The international humanitarian and human rights organizations are reaching consensus on the fact that the Israeli army perpetrated war crimes in the course of its latest incursion into the occupied territories, especially in the Jenin refugee camp. Having visited the war-stricken areas, these organizations have documented the atrocities committed by the Israelis.”
2002-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4525Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The Council has already done so in the cases of the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Why should not it be done in the case of Palestine? Thirdly, a multinational force to be stationed on Palestinian territory is long overdue. Such a force, if mandated and deployed beforehand, could have averted recent violence and saved many human lives. Given the circumstances, an armed multinational force mandated to enforce the Council's decisions is a must, and any hesitation on the part of the Council on this issue will lead to more bloodshed on the ground. Given the intransigency and contempt increasingly shown by the Israelis, we believe that resolute action by the Council under Chapter VII the Charter is now more necessary than ever.”
2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source
“In light of what happened recently in the occupied territories, it is all the more incumbent upon the international community, represented by the Council, to take effective measures with a view to stopping for good Israeli atrocities. With this objective in mind, the Council should, first of all, put an end to the contempt shown by the Israeli regime for Security Council resolutions, thereby eroding their authority. Now, weeks after the adoption of resolutions 1402 (2002) and 1403 (2002), the Israelis continue to flout them. Secondly, an international commission of inquiry should be established and mandated to look into what happened in Jenin and elsewhere. It is essential that those who ordered and actually committed war crimes against civilians be brought to justice.”
2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source
“What is happening in Jenin and elsewhere in Palestine is part of a well-planned scheme by the Israelis. Having dropped the empty pretence of seeking peace that they had maintained for several years, they are now engaged in systematically tearing down Palestinian institutional capacity. They are destroying Palestinian political and economic institutions with a view to taking them back to square one and undoing the process of empowerment they had embarked on. It is cynical that they reduce the Palestinian security agencies to ruins and place their architect, Mr. Arafat, under house arrest, on the one hand, and expect them to stop violence, on the other.”
2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source
“In Afghanistan, the international community had to deal with just two groups, namely the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, which had virtually occupied Afghanistan, repressing the Afghan people and turning Afghan territory into a launching pad for terrorist acts. They had nothing to do with the Afghan people and were resolutely opposed by them from the beginning. However, in Palestine a whole nation has either been forced to live in exile or has been taken hostage by the Israelis and systematically brutalized for decades. Those Afghans who fought the occupation in the 1980s were dubbed freedom fighters and assisted by the international community. Similarly, those who now continue to fight an inherently comparable occupation in the Middle East are freedom fighters and obviously not terrorists, and should be assisted by the international community too.”
2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source
“There can be no justification at all for subjecting a whole civilian and defenceless population to a collective punishment in the severest possible form. The victims of the barbaric crimes in the Jenin refugee camp and elsewhere were already scarred and ravaged by decades-old humiliation and occupation of their lands by the Israelis. Their only guilt was to resist the will of the occupying and aggressive Power, as all other peoples throughout history have done. The pictures depicting atrocities committed by the Israelis in the occupied Palestinian land, which have been beamed into the living-rooms of people across the globe, have outraged world public opinion. Those vested interests that advocate and relay, here and there, official Israeli propaganda will only influence a few like-minded, malevolent persons or deceive some naive people.”
2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source
“It is now becoming more and more clear that, as an independent forensic expert with Amnesty International has said, a massacre took place in Jenin. In this context, it is morally repugnant to call the main criminal figure behind these crimes a man of peace and still boast about conducting a value-based foreign policy. Based on the information that has emerged thus far, there is no doubt that the code of conduct in war and international humanitarian law are being blatantly violated. There should be no doubt either that those who are behind the devastation and massacre in Jenin are war criminals and should not be allowed to go unpunished. Those who may stand in the way of bringing the criminals to justice obstruct justice, and history will remember them as accomplices in the aggression.”
2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source
“I thank you, Sir, for having convened another public meeting on the grave situation in the Palestinian territories. "Horrendous" and "horrific" are common adjectives used by emergency workers and media representatives to describe the situation in Jenin and some other towns in the West Bank in the wake of atrocities committed by the Israeli army. Mr. Roed- Larsen, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process described the devastation left by Israelis in Jenin as being "horrific beyond belief". Given the extent of the devastation they caused, it was all the more criminal and indicative of criminal intent to deny rescue and emergency teams full access to the area for 11 full days.”
2002-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4515 (2002) · source
“Under such circumstances not only do the Israelis show contempt for resolution 1402 (2002) ten days after its adoption, and resolution 1403 (2002), but there are also indications that they plan to continue their invasion for many weeks, if not months, to come. We believe the Security Council should not stand idly by and let its authority erode. It is time for the Council to act more resolutely and demand, under Chapter VII of the Charter, compliance with its resolutions, and the establishment of an international force to provide basic protection for the defenceless Palestinian citizens.”
2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source
“It is not necessary to recall that the partial Israeli pullout from southern Lebanon took place only after years of heroic resistance by the Lebanese people. I hereby reject the allegations by the Israeli representative in this Council and assert that my Government has nothing to do with the situation along the Blue Line. Not only does the Israeli army continue with the massacre of the Palestinians, but in the process it also flouts all provisions of international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention, and particularly those that ban indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force, as well as humiliating treatment of civilians and attacks on holy places.”
2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source
“This especially serves the ideological goal of the faction currently in power in Israel. Moreover, by invading the Palestinian areas and restoring ruthless tactics the Israelis create more hate, thereby setting the stage for more Palestinian resistance and more violence. The aggressive Israeli policy applies to Lebanon as well. The Lebanese Government has brought to the attention of the Secretary-General the almost daily violations of its border by Israeli armed forces over the past two years. Israeli aircraft breaking the sound barrier over Lebanese towns and villages is just one routine example of such cross-border violations, which amount to bullying tactics, threatening adjacent countries. Both regional Governments concerned stress that resolution 425 (1978) has not been implemented in full.”
2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source
“While they have ostensibly committed themselves to the so- called land for peace agreement, they have not stopped building Jewish settlements in the West Bank and in Gaza since 1993. The significant increase in the population and in lands under unlawful Jewish settlement in those areas over the past nine years, including 34 new Jewish settlements last year, attests to the fact that the Israelis have never been serious about the agreements they signed with the Palestinians. In other words, the Israeli regime has continued to colonize the territory from which they had ostensibly negotiated to withdraw. Similarly, the Israeli regime, after years of foot- dragging, has now come to drop the empty pretence of seeking peace. The Israeli army is out to wipe out all Palestinian institutions and destroy the nine-year-old process.”
2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source
“They are engaging a people who have no tanks, no helicopters, no F-16s, not even anti-tank rockets. Those who arm to the teeth and unleash an army against civilians are war criminals, and those who have armed and equipped such a reckless army cannot shun responsibility. We believe that the international community should begin to take necessary steps with a View to bringing war criminals to justice. The International Criminal Court, which is to take effect soon, is an appropriate mechanism to consider taking up this issue. The policy of the Israeli regime has always consisted of driving the Palestinian people into desperation and hopelessness. Along this line, the Israelis never meant to abide by the terms of the agreements they signed with the Palestinians.”
2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Mr. President, I thank you for having convened another public meeting on the grave situation in the Palestinian territories. Israel continues with its ruthless military campaign throughout the West Bank. By so doing it reveals once again its unlawful and aggressive nature, exposing it to the entire world. As has always been its practice, it is in flagrant breach of two more resolutions of the Security Council, which represents the will of the international community. Moreover, it defies international public opinion, which has widely expressed outrage at the atrocities committed recently by heavily armed Israeli troops against defenceless civilians. Those Israelis who have orchestrated the ongoing carnage against the Palestinians must understand that they are engaged in a disgraceful war.”
2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source
“There is no doubt that selective enforcement of the Council's resolutions has an adverse impact on the authority of the Council, thereby undermining the entire international security system. We urge the Council to heed the call of the international community, to live up to its Charter responsibility and to take further effective action to halt the ongoing bloody action against the Palestinian people. The Israeli act of taking advantage of the defencelessness of the Palestinians is repugnant and, if the Council does not act to put an end to it, more bloodshed may lie ahead.”
2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source
“Each time the Israelis bulldoze more Arab homes and each time they kill Palestinians and their hopes, they create more militants. This may go on and on forever. What is now unfolding in the Palestinian territories is a struggle for national liberation and the right of self-determination stolen from the Palestinian people for so long. By refusing to withdraw from Palestinian towns, as stipulated in Security Council resolution 1402 (2002), and, contrarily, by strengthening its occupation, the Israeli regime is bluntly defying the will of the international community, represented by this Council. It is very unfortunate that those who stretch and baselessly interpret Council resolutions just to advance their narrow interests are now grasping at straws in flouting the letter and spirit of a clear-cut resolution.”
2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source
“In the midst of the tragic events taking place in the course of the ongoing conflict, the international community must contemplate the reasons that prompt Palestinian teenagers and youngsters, who normally should be seeing a bright future ahead, to sacrifice their lives. It should be borne in mind that the exceptionality of the response demonstrates the exceptionally ruthless crimes committed against the Palestinian people over a very long period of time - crimes that, by any measure, are unprecedented, even in comparison to similar instances in the colonial era. Undoubtedly, approaching the issue simplistically, playing the blame game and restoring repetitious and superficial rhetoric by evoking terrorism will, in this case, lead nowhere.”
2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source
“In so doing, Israeli troops curb and even deliberately fire upon reporters with a View to intimidating and dissuading them from carrying on their work. Moreover, hundreds of peace activists, mainly Europeans, as well as medical teams, are abused and fired upon. Decades of struggle by the Palestinian people for their right to self-determination have clearly demonstrated that the repressive policy atrociously employed by the Zionists has thus far only hardened the resolve of the Palestinians. The intensity of resistance that the people under Israeli occupation are currently exhibiting is truly unprecedented in the past half-century. Evidently, it puts the occupiers on notice that, unless the aspirations of the Palestinians are realized and their rights restored, they should expect graver consequences by the day.”
2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source
“All-out repression, excessive use of force, collective punishment against an entire people - a people that has been enclosed and humiliated - have thus far fuelled the endless cycle of violence and could engulf the entire Middle East region. Media reports indicating that food supplies and medicine are rapidly running out in the besieged towns are further cause for concern. At a time when the plight of the Palestinians is the focus of the entire international community and when public opinion throughout the world finds the atrocities committed by the Israeli troops to be increasingly appalling, the Israeli regime, in order to conceal its crimes in the Palestinian territories, is increasingly taking on journalists who are struggling to cover the aggression and its serious impact on civilians.”
2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source
“Mr. President, we are very pleased to see you presiding over the Council this month, and we thank you for having convened this timely public meeting on the grave situation in the Palestinian territories. My gratitude goes also to Ambassador Kolby of Norway for the praiseworthy manner in which he conducted the work of the Council last month. The situation in the occupied Palestinian territories has continued to deteriorate since the Council last met on this issue. The bloody campaign against defenceless civilians in the occupied territories goes on unabated. Palestinians are trapped and besieged by Israeli tanks and other state-of-the-art weapons generously made available to the Israeli regime.”
2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source
“Therefore, there should be no doubt that the international community earnestly expects the Security Council seriously to live up to its Charter responsibility, effectively address the root causes of the conflict and deal appropriately with the crimes perpetrated by the Israeli regime.”
2002-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4503 (2002) · source
“Moreover, while the Security Council has thus far failed, for obvious reasons, to take any action to protect the defenceless Palestinians against Israeli State terrorism and the armed-to-the-teeth Israeli army, the question is also how and by what means they should defend themselves. International public opinion is outraged at the atrocious ongoing military operations by Israeli troops against the Palestinians. Moreover, Israel's acts have already taken the Middle East region to the brink of all- out war and disaster, and there is a real fear that the flames of war will spread to the whole region.”
2002-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4503 (2002) · source