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1992-05-21
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1993-01-29
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  1. “The leaders participating in the current transition in South Africa bring to the process impressive skill, experience and, in many cases, the wisdom brought by suffering. At this critical point, statesmanship is another necessary ingredient. Our purpose in being here today is to take those steps which increase the ability of South Africans to overcome the violence and get on with the important task of negotiations. We have full confidence in the Commission chaired by Justice Richard Goldstone to investigate the violence, and we support the fullest implementation of the Commission's findings by ali parties. We also support the efforts of the National Peace Accord Forum. The United Nations stands ready to help these efforts, but they will only bear fruit if the parties themselves resolve to control the violence.”

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

  2. “on the future of South Africa and thank the Organization of African Unity (OAU) for helping recently at its annual summit meeting to focus world attention on this very important matter. The presence here today of so many distinguished representatives from the OAU, other African nations, opposition movements within South Africa, and from the Government of South Africa, gives us a unique opportunity to reach consensus on what must be done to suggest means of bringing all South African parties together to continue their negotiations. - Momentous change bears inevitable costs, but the violence that has wracked South Africa is too great a price and must be brought under control. The world is watching, as is history.”

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

  3. “We salute the black majority in South Africa for the skill and patience with which they and their leaders have persevered on this matter; we commend the authorities in South Africa for actions taken to abolish institutionalized apartheid; and we laud all the parties who have entered into negotiations about the country's future, creating what I hope will be an irreversible process which will lead to the establishment of a democratic, non-racial government. Of that I am certain. It is the policy of my Government to do all it can to further the negotiating process, and I believe that that must also be the goal of the Security Council. We welcome the present Security Council debate.”

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

  4. “My congratulations to you, Sir, on continuing your presidency during a very dynamic month and once again I should like to extend my praise and congratulations to our colleague from Belgium for the work he did last month. The United States has watched with admiration the impressive efforts over the past year of all parties in South Africa to bring an end to apartheid and to- negotiate a new constitution that has as its goal a democratic, non-racial government for all the people of South Africa.”

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

  5. “We further doubt that they want to shoulder the increasing economic and political costs of this brutal aggression or of the increasing international isolation it brings. This is not simply because these policies so clearly run counter to legitimate Serbian interests, but also because they run counter to the historical character of the Serbian people. Down the road of continued conflict lies ruin. The people of the former Yugoslavia have suffered enough. We look forward to the restoration of peace and stability and reason, and to the time when peoples that had lived together peacefully in the past do so again, Reason, compromise and respect for international principles embodied in the accords of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) and the United Nations Charter must supplant aggression, hatred and intolerance.”

    1992-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3082 (1992) · source

  6. “The United States will not have normal relations with Belgrade until it ends its occupation of neighbouring States and implements guarantees of rights for members of all national minorities within Serbia and Montenegro, as stipulated by the European Community Conference on Yugoslavia. We regret the inevitable impact that the measures we are taking today will have on the people of Serbia and Montenegro. The American and Serbian peoples have a long tradition of friendship. The Serbian people have a long and proud history as fighters for freedom ~ not as aggressors. We doubt very much that the Serbian people, whether in Serbia or in Bosnia and Herzegovina or Croatia, favour the brutally aggressive and repressive policies of the Serbian regime and the Serbian leaders it has sponsored in Bosnia and Croatia.”

    1992-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3082 (1992) · source

  7. “Beigrade and Serbian hardline leaders in Bosnia must instead cooperate in good faith with international humanitarian relief to those two States, Belgrade must clearly and unequivocally demonstrate respect for the independence, borders, territorial integrity and legitimate sovereign Governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and other former Yugoslav Republics. Belgrade must fulfil its solemn commitments to cooperate with the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR). And it must join with all of the parties concerned in continuing negotiations to achieve a political settlement.”

    1992-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3082 (1992) · source

  8. “The United States is determined to see them through and if necessary to seek further measures, until the Serbian regime changes course. It must reverse its brutal aggression. It must cease and desist from the campaign of terror it is conducting against the civilian populations of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. The Serbian and Montenegrin leadership must disband, disarm and withdraw the former units of the Yugoslav National Army and armed militias from Bosnia and Herzegovina and from Croatia immediately. The Serbian regime and its armed surrogates must cease inflicting suffering on the civilian populations of those two States, creating a humanitarian crisis of nightmare proportions, and applying force to biock international humanitarian relief to its victims.”

    1992-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3082 (1992) · source

  9. “By its aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, and by its repression within Serbia, the Serbian regime can only condemn itself to increasingly severe treatment by a world united in its opposition to Serbian aggression. My Government has already informed both the Security Council and the General Assembly that it does not believe that the authorities in Belgrade represent the continuation of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. I note that many other countries have reserved their position on the continuity issue, and quite a few have adopted the same view as we have on this matter. It is further my Government's strong belief that the Security Council and then the General Assembly should act in the near future to confirm this position. The Chapter VII measures we are taking today are serious and comprehensive.”

    1992-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3082 (1992) · source

  10. “The aggression of the Serbian regime and the armed forces it has unleashed against Bosnia and Herzegovina represent a clear threat to international peace and security and a grave challenge to the values and principles which underlie the Helsinki Final Act, the Charter of Paris, and the United Nations Charter. The United States, the European Community, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) community, and the Security Council - by the action it is taking today - are sending a clear message to the Serbian regime and to the forces it sponsors in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. We hope they will fully understand that message. The international community will not tolerate the use of force and terror to settle political or territorial disputes.”

    1992-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3082 (1992) · source

  11. “My delegation has today conveyed to the President of the Council a brief statement - and we have asked that it be circulated as a document of the Security Council - that refers to Cuban allegations in greater detail. I have nothing further to add to that statement.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  12. “Finally, I should like to touch briefly on the issue of United States economic policy measures towards Cuba raised in Ambassador Alarcon de Quesada's letter to the Security Council. The position of my Government on this question is well known and need not be repeated here. Suffice it to say that we categorically reject any assertion that those measures are inconsistent with international law. Every Government is possessed of the right to choose with whom it wishes to have relations. We have chosen to have neither full diplomatic nor commercial relations with Cuba. We made this choice because of the lack of democracy in Cuba, and because of its Government's flagrant abuse of human rights. I do wish to note that United States policy does allow for humanitarian donations of goods and medicine to be made to non-governmental entities in Cuba.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  13. “The United States Supports peaceful democratic change in Cuba. We have Relations that "the United States poses no threat to Cuba", My Government neither supports nor condones preparations in the United States for the violent overthrow of the Government of Cuba, nor efforts from the United States to foment violence in Cuba. Any suggestions that the United States Government sponsors such activities are untruthful and unacceptable. The Government of the United States will uphold the law with regard to those who attempt to violate its statutes. United States legislation, including the Neutrality Act, expressly forbids the participation in any military or naval expedition or enterprise to be carried out against a foreign nation from United States territory.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  14. “The opposite is true. In 1968 Bosch was tried and convicted in United States courts of firing a large-gauge rifle at a Polish freighter in the port of Miami. At the same time he was tried and convicted of sending cables to the leaders of Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom in which he threatened to destroy those countries' planes and ships. He received a 10-year sentence for those crimes. He was paroled in 1972 and then fled the Unitea States in violation of the terms of his parole. Therefore, is it rational to assert that a man who is tried and convicted in the United States, is imprisoned in the United States, and who then feels compelled to flee the United States, is being Supported by the United States? I should like to take this opportunity to restate the position of my Government with regard to Cuba.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  15. “My Government, and indeed all men and women of good will, condemn this dastardly, senseless act. But Cuba's attempt to portray the United States as a supporter of international terrorism and a harborer of terrorists is absurd. So much so, in fact, that I regret that Cuba would misuse the valuable time of the Security Council to make these baseless allegations against the United States. But inasmuch as Cuba has done so, I would ask the Council's indulgence to refer briefly to the fatuous assertions that my Government is hiding Luis Posada Carriles and that it has supported Orlando Bosch's terrorist activities. To the best of our knowledge Luis Posada Carriles is not in the United States; we believe he is somewhere in Latin America. As for Orlando Bosch, the facts belie the canard that my Government has Supported his illegal activities.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  16. “As I begin my statement, my first in this Council, I frankly cannot help but wonder why we are here. By meeting today to consider events that occurred 15 years ago and to discuss obviously baseless allegations that were invented to serve transparent political objectives, we lose our most valuable commodity: time. And time is running out in areas of the world that urgently need our attention and our action. But I also realize that one of the fundamental principles of this Organization is that all countries, members or non-members of the Security Council, have the right to be heard. Let no one here think that my Government is insensitive to the sorrow of those whose relatives or friends died in the cowardly in-flight bombing of a Cubana de Aviacion passenger aircraft near Barbados on 6 October 1976.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source