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1992-01-06

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1992-04-04

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1. “Unlike previous occasions when the Security Council has met to consider similiar resolutions, in this case a means for a political dialogue between the parties to the conflict exists. Bilateral talks are scheduled to resume this week. It is there that the parties should turn to find solutions to the complicated problems of their long-suffering region. As we have stated in the past, the United States regards the phrase, "all the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem", which appears in this resolution, as being merely demographically and geographically descriptive and not indicative of sovereignty.”

   1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

2. “We have therefore voted in favour of the resolution which calls on Isracl to refrain from deporting any Palestinian civilian from the occupied territories, The United States Government also views with concern the rise of violence in the occupied territories in recent months. We condemn, and we believe all countries should condemn, the increasing attacks on Israelis and the deaths which have resulted, just as we condemn attacks on and deaths of Palestinians, Violence against Israeiis and Palestinians is wrong and can do nothing to contribute? to a resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. We have long called on all parties to avoid unilateral actions, be they words or deeds, that would raise tensions, invite retaliation or complicate the ability to pursue peace.”

   1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

3. “I hope to be both blessedly brief and firmly forthright in my remarks, to meet a standard that most of us in the Security Council find increasingly elusive. The United States Government believes that the deportation of individuals from the occupied territories is a violation of article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention as it pertains to the treatment of inhabitants of those territories. Any persons charged with wrongdoing should be brought before a court of law based on the evidence and should be given a fair trial which would afford full judicial process. If found guilty, such persons should be imprisoned. We have repeatedly urged the Government of Israel immediately and permanently to cease deportations, and to comply fully with the Fourth Geneva Convention in all of the territories it has occupied since § June 1967.”

   1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

4. “In particular, the United States does not acree with the recent practice of the Security Council that appears selectively to try to enhance the prestige of those who wish to speak in the Council through a departure from the rules of procedure. We consider this special practice te be without legal foundation and to constitute an abuse of our rules. For all those reasons the United States requests that the terms of the proposed invitation be put to the vote. Of course, the United States will vote against the proposal.”

   1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

5. “For four decades the United States has supported a generous interpretation of rule 39, and it would not have ohjected had this matter been epproprietely raised under that rule. We are, however, opposed to special, ad hoc departures from orderly procedure. The United States consequently opposes granting the Palestine Liberation Organization the same rights to participate in the proceedings of the Security Council as those that would be granted if that organization represented a State Member of the United Nations. This point is in no way contradicted by General Assembly resolution 43/177. We believe in listening to all points of view - but not in a manner that requires violating our rules of procedure.”

   1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

6. “Secondly, the United States maintains that the representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization should be granted permission to speak only if the request complies with rule 39 of the provisional rules of procedure. It is unwarranted and unwise for the Council to break with its own practice and rules in this regard. As all members of the Council are aware, it is long-established practice that Observers do not have the right to speak in the Security Council at their own request. The United States has consistently taken the position that under the Security Council's provisional rules of procedure the only legal basis on which the Council may grant a hearing to persons speaking on behalf of non-governmental entities is rule 39.”

   1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source

7. “As this is the first time I nave spoken in the Security Council under your presidency, Sir, I should like to congratulate you. I wish also to thank your predecessor, to welcome most warmly the new Secretary-General and to than his predecessor for his many contributions. I also welcome the new members of the Council - Cape Verds, Hungary, Japan, Morocco and Venezuela; and I thank the representatives of the outgoing non-permanent members - Cete d'Ivoire, Cuba, Romania, Yemen and Zaire - for their contributions. The United States, as it normally does when the quescion now before the Council is considered, will request a vote on the proposal before the Council, and the United States will vote against it on two grounds. First, we believe that the Security Council does not have before it a valid request to speak.”

   1992-01-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3026 (1992) · source