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Nieto

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1995-06-16
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  1. “It only remains for us to hope that, unlike what has taken place on other occasions, our capacity to act will not be overtaken by events.”

    1995-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3543 (1995) · source

  2. “Obviously, it is necessary to guarantee the protection of those areas and to guarantee their humanitarian needs. Here, the Council's concern is clearly expressed in operative paragraphs 6 and 7; we hope that their provisions will lead to concrete actions by the parties. The other concept to which we want to refer relates to the use of force, especially through the rapid-reaction capability established by this resolution. We believe that the use of force should be restricted to self-defence and should be engaged in with great care, lest the delicate line between peace-keeping and peace-enforcement is crossed. The situation that would be created by crossing that line would be very difficult to reverse, and we hope that this will be taken into account by the contingents operating in the framework of the rapid-reaction capability.”

    1995-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3543 (1995) · source

  3. “These recent experiences also indicate that UNPROFOR's action in fulfilment of its mandate must be based on the following premises. The will of the parties for conciliation can come only from those parties, as reflected in paragraph 3 of the resolution. We must take the greatest care to preserve a precise relationship between the mandate of our peace-keeping forces and the tasks entrusted to them. In that context we attach particular importance to the resolution's reference to UNPROFOR's impartiality. Among the matters addressed by the resolution, my delegation attaches particular importance to the reference to safe areas. We recall that for some time the Secretary- General has been making proposals with reference to this concept, and has submitted two reports which we have not yet studied.”

    1995-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3543 (1995) · source

  4. “Contradictions resulting from the conduct of the parties underlie every conflict, but the Security Council must not become involved in those contradictions, lest it lose its capacity to act and its credibility. We fully agree with the Secretary-General's view, stated in his most recent report on UNPROFOR, that the process should be relaunched and intensified through new political initiatives, through which the work of the peace- keeping force could be affirmed. To attempt the opposite by seeking political results as a result of the activities of the peace-keeping forces would not reflect a correct perception of the mandate of those forces. That is why we attach particular importance to paragraph 2 of the resolution.”

    1995-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3543 (1995) · source

  5. “We are confident that, after an evaluation of all the factors at issue, this decision was taken on the basis of the recent lessons learned by the Security Council in its experience with this conflict. In our view, the first lesson is that the contradictions between the mandate of a peace-keeping force and what that force may be asked to do on the ground can be very costly. In most instances, such contradictions arise from the actions of the parties to the conflict, who ask or demand that peace-keepers take action beyond, or even contrary to, their agreed mandate, and who, if their demands are not met, direct their displeasure at what they call the Council's lack of effectiveness - causing damage to the image of this body.”

    1995-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3543 (1995) · source

  6. “We are also concerned about recent reports of military preparations by the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina which can be understood as tending towards renewed, and heightened, confrontation. One might also ask whether the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) has any real chance to fulfil its mandate if the fears aroused by those facts turn out to be justified. We are grateful to the Member States and Secretariat staff who designed and formulated the option set out in this resolution. They had to evaluate innumerable factors in deciding to create a rapid-reaction capability. We understand that this is a compromise between the requirements imposed by the realities of the conflict and the functional limits inherent in peace-keeping operations.”

    1995-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3543 (1995) · source

  7. “Mr. Nieto (Argentina) (interpretation from Spanish): The resolution we have just adopted resulted from an arduous process of consultations and negotiations, in the course of which the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina has not improved. On the contrary, the parties have steadily distanced themselves from the options presented to them for a peaceful settlement of the conflict between them. We say this because it is clear that one of the parties in Bosnia has done more than to withdraw its consent for a United Nations presence; it has in fact gone much further, having described the United Nations as an enemy and having regarded the hostages it took as prisoners of war. We regret that long after the beginning of this deplorable episode we are still obliged to address it in paragraph 1 of tonight's resolution.”

    1995-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3543 (1995) · source