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Pedro De Castro Van-Dunem

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1992-07-15
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1992-07-15
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  1. “We appeal to President De Klerk to order the immediate cessation of all acts of violence that are victimizing defenceless South African citizens, and we reiterate the need to resume dialogue - open, frank and constructive dialogue where the principles of flexibility, of give and take and of seriousness are applied in the interests of all the peoples of South Africa. We reiterate the need to appoint a United Nations representative to monitor, step by step, the implementation of the measures aimed at the final solution of the conflict and at the establishment of a democratic, non-racial South Africa.”

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

  2. “Considering the potentials and capabilities of all kinds that southern Africa has, we cannot remain indifferent to what is happening in South Africa, not only because that country does not make itself eligible to participate in the effort towards the economic integration of the region, but also because it continues to constitute the major focus of tension, with direct consequences for the country and the other countries of the region. In this context, we reiterate our full support for the declaration made at the emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress of South Africa on 23 June last; this has already been presented at the Dakar summit, with great effectiveness, during its consideration of this problem.”

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

  3. “I reiterate in this Chamber the need for the Security Council to take the strongest steps possible towards the immediate disbanding of those forces before they commit any more atrocities, not only in South Africa, but also in Mozambique, Angola or any other country in our region. Today, with the end of the cold war, the world is generally living in a dynamic of peace and a perspective of democratization unparalleled in recent times. The African continent, with some exceptions which we still deplore, has not escaped that trend. We understand that these factors are fundamental, even essential to the creation of the conditions for economic revival.”

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

  4. “In this regard, I must state here my Geepest concern regarding the flagrant violations of the New York Agreements concerning implementation of Security Council resolution 435 (1978) on Namibia by the South African Government. Thanks to the passivity of the international community, that Government steadfastly refuses to disband its forces - namely, Battalions 31 and 32, also known as the "Buffalos", "Crowbars" and "Bushmen" - as provided for in those Agreements. As an Angolan, I must declare my deepest abhorrence of the fact that citizens of my country participated in the massacre of defenceless civilians in South Africa - namely, in Boipatong.”

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

  5. “In that perspective, it has studied and implemented measures aimed at normalizing relations of all types between our two countries. President De Klerk's victory in the April referendum brought to the peoples of South Africa the hope and confidence that the solution to the conflict, which was sought for so long, was in sight. Unfortunately, this enthusiasm was short-lived, since the country was immediately plunged into a wave of violence in which the protagonists were mainly the black peoples with the participation of the South African police and mercenary troops remaining in South Africa and specially created and developed to stifle the peoples of the southern region of the continent, with particular attention to Namibia, Angola and Mozambique, and to promote general destabilization in order to permit the survival of apartheid.”

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

  6. “The gravity of the situation and the lack of prospects for a rapid solution of the conflict, which has a potential for unforseeable and hard to control developments, are of great concern to us and darken the optimism with which everyone has been imbued - the peoples of South Africa, Africa and the international community. My country, together with all other countries of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), has strongly and unequivocally supported the efforts and steps being taken by President De Klerk towards the abolition of apartheid in South Africa and has supported the measures for the gradual lifting of sanctions against that country as a form of stimulating all actions aimed at the eradication of apartheid.”

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

  7. “it is a great honour for me and for my delegation to be able to participate in this most important debate dealing with the complex situation prevailing in South Africa. We hope to make our modest contribution to the solution of the problems for which its martyred and suffering peoples have been struggling for long decades. We have listened with particular attention to the statements made by Nelson Mandela and Clarence Makwetu, Presidents of the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, respectively, on the developments taking place.”

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

  8. “Sir, I should like first of all to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council, in the certainty that your well known and proven capabilities will be made available in directing the work of this extremely important organ of the world Organization. In your capacity as a native of a country of the family of African countries of Portuguese official language your exercise in itself of the presidency of this organ constitutes for me a great honour and satisfaction. I should also like to extend to Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali my most cordial congratulations on his well deserved election to the high position of Secretary-General of the United Nations. I have found in him a great friend and distinguished African.”

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