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  1. “We believe that the United States statement contributed towards preserving the importance ofthe Security Council by not turning it into a forum for endless rhetoric in which the perpetrators of war and massacres can give lectures on morality. The issues raised this morning by Carl Bildt are part of a profound analysis that explains the conflict situation in the Balkans, a situation that is first and foremost a consequence of a traditional Balkan policy depending on outmoded e'tatiste concepts, with a mentality and philosophy influenced by the lengthy Byzantine and Ottoman dominations, and encouraged by undefined and irresolute action on the part of the international community in the early 19905 to find a long-term solution in favour of international peace and security.”

    2000-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4164Resumption1 (2000) · source

  2. “Allow me to thank you, Mr. President, for your excellent work in leading the Security Council and for the opportunity today to speak on a very important issue: peace, security and development in the Balkans. We would like to warmly welcome the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Balkans, Mr. Carl Bildt, and the High Representative for the European Union Common Foreign and Security Policy, Mr. Javier Solana. They delivered important statements, full of ideas for the present situation and the future of the Balkans. Furthermore, I would like to express my Government's gratitude to Mr. Solana for his great contribution during the conflict in Kosovo. From the outset, I should like strongly to support and thank the United States of America and its representative, Ambassador Holbrooke, for their principled and far-sighted position.”

    2000-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4164Resumption1 (2000) · source

  3. “Albania welcomes any initiative of the international community that could solve the crisis of Kosovo, that could stop the humanitarian catastrophe and that respects the freedom of the people who believe so much in the principles of this Organization.”

    1999-05-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4003 (1999) · source

  4. “We do not know where some of the members have gotten this information, but to this day no refugee - I repeat, not one refugee - has returned to Kosovo. It may be that some Albanians have been killed by mistake; however, Albanians are deeply convinced that this tragedy and plague cannot be stopped without the assistance of the civilized world, which is protecting human values. The Albanian people strongly believe in the value of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) mission and actions. NATO is today saving exactly the same values that the United Nations was created to defend, and the Albanian people regret that the United Nations is not able to deliver the same message due to the hypocrisy and the obstacles created by some of its Members.”

    1999-05-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4003 (1999) · source

  5. “To the humanitarian catastrophe in Bosnia, where hundreds of thousands lost their lives and more than 2 million refugees left their homes, is now being added an additional chapter of Albanian suffering, with 1 million deportees and thousands of deaths. At the same time as the Security Council was adopting resolutions 1160 (1998), 1199 (1998) and 1203 (1998), a country that pretends to be a member of the United Nations was responding with ethnic cleansing and genocide and requesting that its sovereignty be respected by the United Nations. As if the expulsion of Albanians were not enough, artillery shells are being fired from Serbia towards the territory of another sovereign country. We heard today that some returning refugees have been killed.”

    1999-05-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4003 (1999) · source

  6. “My Government reiterates its willingness to cooperate with all the United Nations agencies in order to accomplish the enormous work that lies ahead. As of now the Albanian people in Albania have shown great support for the plight of their brothers and sisters from Kosovo. More than 70 per cent of the deportees are being taken care of by simple Albanian families, and we believe that they deserve great recognition and support. It is quite unfortunate that the international community and the United Nations are now having to make an enormous effort to heal a new wound that stems from an old crime that started 10 years ago in the Balkans.”

    1999-05-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4003 (1999) · source

  7. “Their only hope is that the international community will stop their endless suffering. The Albanian Government has already received the Albanian deportees and is giving them continuous assistance. Albania is currently cooperating with all those who are providing assistance and highly appreciates their help. We would like to particularly thank the United States Government; the Governments of all the member States of the European Union, as well as the European Union itself; the Australian, Turkish, Pakistani, Norwegian and Japanese Governments; and the Governments of Arab countries for their great assistance to the efforts to relieve the suffering of the deportees. We attach great importance to the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as the lead agency in the relief efforts.”

    1999-05-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4003 (1999) · source

  8. “These people were pushed to leave Kosovo as a result of the monstrous crimes of the Serbian criminal regime of Belgrade, which is following a systematic policy of torture, killing, massacre, mutilation, rape, deliberate destruction of property and livestock, and other despicable crimes against humanity. We do not know about the fate of more than 100,000 Albanians, while thousands and thousands are separated from their families or are being used as human shields or blood pools for the Serbian war thugs. Endless trains full of hopeless deportees are emptying the Albanian territories, which are now literarily burnt and full of mass graves. This is the fate of the hundreds of thousands of Albanians from Kosovo, deported by force to Albania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia.”

    1999-05-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4003 (1999) · source

  9. “Albania strongly supports the resolution before the Security Council today. We would like to express special thanks to the delegations of Bahrain and Malaysia as the initiators of this resolution, as well as to the other sponsors. Albanians take a great interest in this resolution, as we greatly appreciate all the efforts of the international community to stop a humanitarian catastrophe in the making. This catastrophe is the largest in Europe since the Second World War. Approximately 500,000 deportees have entered Albania up to this point, after their hopeless effort to remain in their ethnic lands and home. Thus the number of deportees has been increased to 1 million people since the beginning of the ethnic-cleansing policy and the genocide in Kosovo.”

    1999-05-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4003 (1999) · source

  10. “The incident that happened yesterday may not respect or be in conformity with international agreements, but those agreements have been completely and constantly violated by the Belgrade regime through crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Albanians of Kosovo and other peoples, about whose suffering not much has been said in this debate by some of the speakers. Any action that serves peace, stability and security in the world and saves humanity cannot be limited, but should be supported by all the countries that respect human values and democracy. We believe that NATO, through its action, is trying to preserve the same principles as those of the United Nations Charter, including the maintenance of peace and international security.”

    1999-05-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4000 (1999) · source

  11. “Albania would not like for this incident to be used as a pushing force for not punishing the medieval regime in Belgrade and for allowing the wave of crime and conflict to spread in Europe and throughout the world. On the contrary, we must make every effort to prevent our civilization from facing a tragic new history. After 300,000 people were massacred in Bosnia and Herzegovina and millions were deported, we face today the same reality of 1 million Albanians being deported in the same way - homeless, hopeless and massacred together with their children. The only hope for all of them is the action of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to stop their catastrophe and to ensure their safe return to their land.”

    1999-05-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4000 (1999) · source

  12. “Allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your convening of this meeting of the Security Council. We are present here at this emergency meeting of the Security Council to discuss the damage caused to the Chinese Embassy as a result of bombardments in Belgrade against criminal and brutal regime that is killing, massacring, torturing, raping and is committing genocide against the entire Albanian population of Kosovo. The Albanian Government expressed its regrets and condolences to the Chinese Government over this unfortunate incident, believing that that friendly country, China, has always shown maturity and wisdom on the basis of its foreign policy principles and that it is among the countries promoting progress and development in the world.”

    1999-05-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4000 (1999) · source

  13. “But the international community did achieve the first step towards peace, security in the region and the re- establishment of human values and of the principles that are so well expressed in the Charter of the United Nations - principles in which we all believe. No country that tried to bury the basic Charter principles of peace, security and cooperation, and that committed genocide and crimes against humanity, can expect to receive the protection of the United Nations and the Security Council.”

    1999-03-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3988 (1999) · source

  14. “The previous inaction was made possible by prolonged discussion as well as by claiming respect for principles - while in reality Europe at the end of the twentieth century witnessed the massacre of Bosnia, of Racak and other places, and more than 300,000 killings and the creation of millions of refugees. The Republic of Albania totally supports the military action by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and we consider it an action in support of peace and stability in the region. My country strongly supports today's action, just as we were in favour of a peaceful solution, which did not seem to come. Today the international community did not declare war on Serbia, because war had existed there for a long time.”

    1999-03-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3988 (1999) · source

  15. “The moment that we are going through is a historic moment for the future of the Balkans, as the international community is intervening in order to stop the humanitarian catastrophe and the tragedy of a nation whose people have been tortured, killed and buried in common graves, a nation that is justly demanding its legitimate rights to freedom and to its very existence - undeniable rights for all peoples. The Albanians of Kosovo, despite all this, made an exemplary decision by respecting the will of the international community and signing the Rambouillet agreement. For more than 10 years the international community did not succeed in organizing a common action such as the one undertaken today in order to stop the Belgrade regime from creating a new and dangerous crisis in the heart of Europe.”

    1999-03-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3988 (1999) · source

  16. “It is now time for the international community to be more united and determined to stop the "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo and to find a peaceful and workable solution to calm the situation and to resolve the conflict in Kosovo. This action will strengthen the peace process in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the implementation of the Dayton Agreement, as well as peace and stability in the Balkan region.”

    1998-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3892 (1998) · source

  17. “The extension of the mandate of SFOR in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a necessary step in the light of today's situation in the Balkan area and the deepening of the crisis in the Kosovo region. The policy of conflict and "ethnic cleansing", the deterioration of the situation in Kosovo and the massive flow of ethnic Albanian refuges from Kosovo into Albania as a result of violence and genocide used against them show that the Dayton process was an imposed victory of the international community over uncivilized nationalism and the policy of force. This is why we are in favour not only of the extension of the mandate of SFOR, but also of energetic action by the international community to prevent a second tragedy like Bosnia from taking place in the Balkans.”

    1998-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3892 (1998) · source

  18. “4] In our View, the question of the return of refugees and cooperation with the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia are essential for advancing the process of reconciliation and integration between all parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina. With 1.8 million refugees yet to go home and with unpunished war criminals at large, the peace process remains unsecured and threatened, and justice is not done. It is vital for the international community, in cooperation with the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the countries of the region, to ensure the safe return of refugees to their homes and properties and the surrender of war criminals to the Hague Tribunal.”

    1998-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3892 (1998) · source

  19. “Two and half years after the Dayton Agreement, it is evident that the goal of restoring peace and building a multi-ethnic society in Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot be reached without the continuous and strong support of the international community, although the final responsibility for achieving this goal remains in the hands of the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In his last report, the High Representative for Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina pointed out, "Substantial progress has been made in enhancing the climate of reconciliation and tolerance, ensuring freedom of movement and minority returns", but that "the peace process has not yet become irreversible." [5/1998/314, appendix, para.”

    1998-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3892 (1998) · source

  20. “I am honoured to speak today at this formal meeting of Security Council on the renewal of the mandate of the Stabilization Force (SFOR) and the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH). On this occasion, I would like to congratulate the Portuguese presidency and you, Mr. President, for conducting in a very skilful manner the work of the Security Council, as well as this debate. We believe that today's draft resolution is an important and needed step for further consolidating peace and stability in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. SFOR and UNMIBH, along with the International Police Task Force (IPTF), will together continue to provide a secure environment for another year for the work of reforming the judicial system and establishing a democratic police force in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1998-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3892 (1998) · source

  21. “We believe that the spirit of responsibility and understanding that accompany the adoption of this Security Council resolution will guide its member States in their future actions on this very important issue.”

    1998-03-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3868 (1998) · source

  22. “We do believe that the great responsibility of the Member States of the Security Council to preserve peace and security in the area, in order to avoid a new tragedy, will guide them to take the necessary decisions without delay. The logic of normal diplomatic action and the logic of historical precedent, as well as the observance of traditional balances, cannot be successful in the face of a new impending tragedy. Allow me to express on this occasion my country's gratitude for the swift action and long-term approach of the United States of America, the European Union and the members of the Contact Group towards the resolution of the crisis.”

    1998-03-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3868 (1998) · source

  23. “It calls for the immediate withdrawal of the Serbian military, paramilitary and police forces and for serious talks, declaring that borders will not change and that the Kosovo problem must be considered as were those of other Yugoslav republics, always by applying the European model. The adoption of this resolution by the Security Council along with all initiatives and actions of various countries and international organizations will guarantee the establishment of the necessary balance in the region. Given the dimensions of the Kosovo crisis and the danger of it spilling over to the south of the Balkan Peninsula, which might have unforeseeable dimensions, the crisis goes far beyond the limits of "some implications for the regional security".”

    1998-03-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3868 (1998) · source

  24. “The summit of Crete held last year was an expression of our good will to this end. The Albanian Government has repeatedly appealed to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) to respect the national identity of the Albanian population not only in accordance with the standards of the former Yugoslavia, but also with the standards of the nations and citizens of the free world, and to legalize political, administrative, cultural, media and religious institutions in Kosovo. The Republic of Albania believes that there will be no peace in the region as long as there no political and economic balance between the forces, the States and the nations involved. My Government favours a peaceful resolution of the conflict, does not support the use of violence and is firm in demanding a harsh condemnation of Serbia.”

    1998-03-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3868 (1998) · source

  25. “There is no historic medieval symbol to justify or legitimize the criminal killings of the innocent Albanian civilian population. The Albanian people are resilient, thanks to their philosophy of survival, which is a philosophy of freedom and democracy, based on the right to education and self-government and on their resolve to gain their legitimate rights in a peaceful way, as was testified once more in the last parliamentary elections of 22 March 1998 in Kosovo, which reconfirmed the peaceful approach of Dr. Rugova. The Government of the Republic of Albania has long been elaborating the concept of cooperation among the Balkan States, of mutual understanding among nations as a precondition for the integration of the Balkans into democratic European civilization.”

    1998-03-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3868 (1998) · source

  26. “We all hoped that the achievement of peace in Bosnia and the success of the Dayton process, as well as the tragic loss of the lives of hundreds of thousand of innocent citizens in the former Yugoslavia, would be a great historic lesson in the way of understanding the value of coexistence among nations and States, of bringing an end to the instincts of hate and domination, thus enabling people to cooperate and integrate with each other. It is quite to the contrary in Kosovo, where, the ethnic Albanians constituting over 90 per cent of the population, the violence and terror exercised by the Serbian authorities not only suppress the rights and the freedom of the citizens, but above all deny the Albanian people the right to life.”

    1998-03-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3868 (1998) · source

  27. “The Republic of Albania hails and supports every initiative or action offered by the Contact Group, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and other countries and international organizations which have assumed the responsibility of offering their invaluable contribution to bring an end to the crisis in Kosovo and to its peaceful resolution. The Albanian Government commends the statements of the Contact Group in London and Bonn, and the Security Council's statement to the press on the situation in Kosovo, and it appreciates all the efforts of the members of the Coordinating and Consultative Process of the Contact Group in New York (CCP) and the Security Council in searching for the most acceptable position for the parties involved with the goal of assuring stability and peace in the region.”

    1998-03-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3868 (1998) · source

  28. “First of all I would like to commend Ambassador Abdoulie Momodou Sallah of Gambia for his excellent job conducting the work of the Security Council during this month. The adoption of this resolution by the Security Council attests to the immediate reaction of the international community in order to reach a swift and peaceful solution, thus avoiding a new tragedy which may have larger and more frightening dimensions than the tragedy of Bosnia. This action reaffirms the primary and important role of the United Nations and its organs, which, working in close cooperation through preventive diplomacy with the democratic States, are striving to apply the new philosophy of the end of this century: the new world order, the order of democracy and freedom for citizens.”

    1998-03-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3868 (1998) · source