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Rodriguez-Parrilla

lines on the record: 318
first: 1994-07-31
most recent: 2013-08-06
sittings or episodes: 37
sources: un-security-council

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“All of those who feel profound solidarity with the American people admire their opposition to unilateral war, even though the real reasons, including casualty estimates and costs, are being concealed from them. A unilateral war, the one we are promised, would have devastating consequences worldwide. It would be the end of democracy in international relations. It would cause inestimable harm to the economies of developing countries, have terrible social consequences and would totally destabilize the Middle East. The United Nations and the Security Council would be dealt a lethal blow that would annihilate their role and prerogatives as guarantors for international peace and security.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“The dream of a world ruled by certain norms and of an organization that would represent the will and the desires of all of the peoples is quickly evaporating." "We the peoples of the United Nations", as the Charter states, are today an overwhelming majority of countries, powerful and weak, developed and underdeveloped, large and small, from all latitudes and from both hemispheres. We are a powerful coalition of States and nations, of political forces and ideologies, of cultures, ethnicities and religions and of Governments and civil society, which are growing in awareness and rebelling to defend the peace, preserve the United Nations and put a timely halt to this world dictatorship which threatens us all. There has been an early mobilization against the war and its rejection by public opinion is unprecedented.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“President Fidel Castro declared on 6 March: "Never before have all the nations of the world found themselves subjugated by the power and the whims of those who lead a super-Power with seemingly unrestrained power, while no one has the slightest idea of their philosophy, their political ideas and their notions of ethics. Their decisions are practically impossible to predict or to challenge. Their strength and capacity to destroy and kill seem to permeate every statement they make. This logically leads to fear and restlessness in many State leaders, especially in view of the immense military power that accompanies the political, economic and technological power of those who cannot stand to be disobeyed.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“Mr. Rodriguez Parrilla (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): We are deeply honoured to see Guinea preside over the Security Council on this historic occasion. The significance of the United Nations is beyond any doubt. That is not what is being decided at this table. Nobody can seriously claim that humanity could do without the collective security system and international law and live under an increasingly unipolar, unjust and unsustainable world order and in the midst of a world economic crisis. Paradoxically, some of the circumstances that led to a war, in which 50 million people died, including hundreds of thousands of young men from the United States, seem to be recurring today.”
2003-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717 (2003) · source
“Cuba expects the Security Council and the Counter-Terrorism Committee to take action. Does resolution 1373 (2001) not apply to the terrorism that, on an ongoing basis and with manifest impunity, is being undertaken from United States territory against Cuba?”
2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source
“Two weeks ago, on 7 February, during the "orange" antiterrorist alert in the United States, a military vessel from the Cuban coastguard service arrived at Key West without being intercepted and docked there. The vessel was carrying four armed men wearing camouflage fatigues. Although the vessel was returned, the hijackers have not been returned to Cuba and have not been charged. With complete impunity and with the complicity of United States authorities, funds are being collected in Miami for the purpose of financing terrorist acts. Bank accounts that finance terrorism are operating openly and normally; terrorists are being recruited; weapons supplies are being produced; safe haven is being provided. The territory is being use by those who finance, plan and carry out terrorist acts.”
2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source
“Dionisio Suarez was one of the most eloquent speakers to take part in a ceremony in Miami on 15 November 2002 to pay tribute to the terrorists detained in Panama. He served a l2-year prison sentence for the murder of a Chilean diplomat, Orlando Letelier, and the American citizen Ronnie Moffit. Referring to the acts that those terrorists had planned to carry out in Panama, Dionisio Suarez said, "They deserve respect; they deserve applause". Suarez, too, was invited to the presidential ceremony that took place on 20 May 2002. On 11 November 2002, a Cuban AN-2 aircraft was hijacked and taken to United States territory. Instead of being put on trial, the eight hijackers were given asylum. Instead of being returned, the aircraft was auctioned off.”
2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source
“According to United States Senate records, he reappeared as one of the "Contra-gate" operators, receiving a salary from both the CIA and the United States Department of State. He travelled freely to Miami in 1997 and 1998. He was responsible for the bombing campaign against Havana hotels in 1997 that killed an Italian tourist and injured 12 Cubans. He also organized an assassination attempt against the Cuban President on the occasion of the Ibero-American Summit in Margarita Island. Now he is in prison in Panama, awaiting a trial on charges of trying to blow up, using 20 kilogrammes of C-4 and 50 packets of Semtex, a university auditorium during a speech by President Fidel Castro on 16 November 2000, in the presence of thousands of professors and students from Panama, on the occasion of another Ibero-American Summit.”
2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source
“Earlier, on 31 December 2002, the El Nuevo Herald had confirmed that his group had participated in an attack allegedly undertaken in Cuba. As if that were not enough, on 29 January 2003, The Wall Street Journal referred to the alliance of that organization with Venezuelan groups resident in Miami, which organize and carry out military training with a view to confronting the constitutional Government of Venezuela. Information on that terrorist was likewise provided to the FBI. Posada Carriles, one of the perpetrators of the Cuban aeroplane bombing, was a CIA agent for many years. He escaped from a Venezuelan prison in an operation organized and financed by the Cuban American National Foundation.”
2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source
“On 5 December 2002, the Miami New Times quoted Bosch, stating "All the people on the aeroplane were henchmen", in reference to the Cuban aeroplane that was bombed. Roberto Martin Perez also appears in photographs of the 20 May ceremony. He is the head of the paramilitary group of the Cuban American National Foundation and one of the organizers of the plan to assassinate the Cuban President during the Ibero- American Summit on Margarita Island in November 1997. He was also an organizer of another, aborted, assassination attempt that was to take place during the CARIFORUM. Summit in the Dominican Republic in August 1998. The terrorist Rodolfo Frometa Caballero, head of F-4 Commandos, issued a statement on 9 January 2003 in a Miami newspaper called La Verdad, declaring, "In 2003 we are still at war".”
2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source
“On 23 January 1989, the Acting Associate Attorney General of the United States, Joe Whitley, wrote, in a confidential decision to deny asylum to and deport Orlando Bosch after his illegal entry into the United States and his imprisonment in 1988, that the United States Government had confidential information confirming that "the bombing of a Cuban airlines aeroplane on 6 October 1976 was a CORU operation under the direction of Bosch". However, the order to deport Bosch, was cancelled, despite the fact that a court had endorsed the Department of Justice decision. He was pardoned by President George Bush in 1990 and granted residency in the United States. In a radio broadcast, on 6 June 2002, and then on 16 June in Diario de las Americas, Orlando Bosch reiterated his call for the use of terrorism against Cuba.”
2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source
“A photograph taken by United States television on that occasion shows the presence, on the podium a few feet away from the President, of Sixto Aquit Manrique, who was convicted in 1995 of carrying out an act of terrorism in Miami. In 1992 he took part in a plot to assassinate the President of Cuba. In 1993, he attacked the Maltese vessel Mykonos. He is associated with an armed infiltration of Cuba on 17 October 1996. In 1998, the FBI was given a great deal of evidence relating to that individual. In another photograph taken at the same ceremony, Orlando Bosch Avila can be seen in the front row.”
2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source
“It states: "As a further special condition of supervised release the defendant is prohibited from associating with or Visiting specific places where individuals or groups such as terrorists, members of organizations advocating violence and organized crime figures are known to be or to frequent". The President of the United States has emphatically stated: "Justice demands that those who helped or harboured the terrorists be punished- and punished severely. One of the things we will do is enforce the doctrine, part of the doctrine that says, 'If you harbour a terrorist, you're just as 39? guilty as a terrorist . And he launched a war on that premise. On 20 May 2002, President Bush made an offensive anti-Cuban speech in Miami.”
2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source
“A civil court in Miami sentenced them to the maximum penalty, without the safeguards of due process, on false charges - including charges that the District Attorney asked to be withdrawn due to lack of evidence - and with a jury that was subjected to threats by terrorist groups and exposed to the intolerance of radical organizations and the anti-Cuban press. A number of known terrorists, called by the defence to testify, were protected by the Fifth Amendment. At the request of the United States Attorney General, the sentences of two of those men, who are United States citizens, include the following unusual paragraph, which insults the memory of the victims of 11 September, only three months after that crime was committed.”
2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source
“Interviews with detained terrorists were allowed, and access was given to a Cuban agent who had infiltrated the Cuban American National Foundation and was living under cover. The only response from the FBI was to detain, on 12 September 1998, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labafiino, Fernando Gonzalez, Rene Gonzalez and Antonio Guerrero. As has been clearly shown, they were, with lofty altruism and courage, trying only to obtain information about terrorist groups based in Miami with a View to preventing their violent acts and saving the lives of Cuban and United States citizens.”
2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source
“For ethical reasons, the use of the veto to block international action to protect the Palestinian people from Israeli State terrorism must end. There must also be an end to the American supplies of aircraft, helicopters and other means whereby that terrorism is carried out. Terrorism against Cuba continues to be carried out with absolute impunity from United States territory. In Havana on 16 June 1998, Cuba officially handed over to two high-ranking FBI officers incontestable, abundant and detailed evidence of those activities, which included 331 pages, record sheets of 64 known terrorists, 4 hours and 38 minutes of secret filming and 21 telephone interceptions. On 12 August, in Havana, The New York Times was exclusively provided, at its request, essentially the same information provided to the FBI two months earlier.”
2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source
“The second is a cooperation agreement to combat illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. The third is an agreement on illegal trafficking in persons. Although the United States, on the slightest pretext, has refused even to consider them, Cuba still hopes that there will be a change in that policy. In the midst of the anthrax crisis, in October 2001, the United States Government was offered 100 million tablets of ciprofloxacin, and in November it was offered a supply of equipment for rapid low-cost typing of strains and spores. In August 2002, Cuba proposed joint investigation and research into the West Nile virus. It is impossible to eliminate terrorism if some terrorist acts are condemned while others are concealed, tolerated or justified.”
2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source
“Robert Mueller, before the Senate Intelligence Committee on 11 February 2003, which sought to present Cuba as a threat to the United States, and I challenge him to present the slightest evidence in this regard. On the contrary, on 29 November 2001 Cuba proposed to the United States Government, without any condition and in keeping with Security Council resolution 1373 (2001) of 28 September 2001, three draft bilateral agreements. The first is a programme of bilateral cooperation to combat terrorism, with measures to prevent and suppress the planning, organization, execution, support for or collaboration in, and financing of any terrorist act against the other party; and proposals concerning exchange of information and investigative and judicial cooperation.”
2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source
“Unilateral acts or pre-emptive war by a State or a group of States however powerful they may be, on the pretext of combating terrorism are totally unacceptable. For several decades Cuba has struggled in an exemplary fashion and taken effective measures against international terrorism. It has never carried out, financed, tolerated or permitted a terrorist act, not even in legitimate defence against the direct perpetrators or the masterminds of heinous crimes committed against our people. It has never allowed its territory to be used for terrorist acts against any State, without exception, and it has declared that it will do everything in its power to prevent this in the future. I categorically reject the slander by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director, Mr.”
2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source
“Mr. Rodriguez Parrilla (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): In order to save time I will read a condensed version, and I wish to place on record the full version of my statement. The series of terrorist attacks in the most diverse parts of the world that followed the criminal acts of 11 September, the State terrorism against the Palestinian people and the spiral of violence that this generates, and the terrorism against Cuba, inter alia, demonstrate that a comprehensive and collective solution can be found to this ancient and terrible scourge only through harmonious cooperation and consensus, and not by means of war. Hegemonic unilateralism and double standards have prevented the United Nations from recovering its prerogatives and discharging its peace functions.”
2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source
“The Security Council, so often held hostage to the anti-democratic and arbitrary exercise of the veto, now has an opportunity to restore, to a degree, its diminished credibility by building a solid and insurmountable majority in defence of peace. In that event, it would act with broad international backing and with the support of public opinion. Moreover, the United Nations could rely on the enormous political, moral and legal force of the General Assembly.”
2003-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709 (2003) · source
“It would follow up on elements of resolution 1441 (2002) related to the supposed ceasefire of 1991 - the concepts of "material breach" and "serious consequences" - which, as we warned at the time, were intended to support the interpretation of the hawks that the resolution authorizes the use of force in the event of alleged Iraqi non-compliance. The facts have increasingly confirmed the rightness of our warnings. Despite the building of opposition to war around the world and within the United States and the United Kingdom, the risk of unilateral attack is growing. Cuba strongly hopes that, among the members of the Security Council, adherence to their countries' legitimate national interests and to fundamentally democratic respect for the will of their peoples will prevail.”
2003-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709 (2003) · source
“Cuba, which for four decades has been a victim of the nuclear super-Power's aggression and hostility and which has never developed, and has the firm resolve never to develop, weapons of mass destruction - whether nuclear or of any other kind - reaffirms that general and complete disarmament, particularly nuclear disarmament, is the only possible path to peace. We reaffirm that the use of such weapons under any circumstances, the further development of such arsenals, their proliferation or the attempt to secure such capabilities would be madness, with unpredictable consequences. Apparently, the United States is now promoting a draft resolution in the Security Council designed to make a war against Iraq inevitable.”
2003-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709 (2003) · source
“The new doctrine of pre-emptive attack that some seek to impose advocates the right to use or threaten to use force in international relations and the right to take unilateral military action against other States, in advance and in the face of indeterminate and vague threats. That is a flagrant violation of the spirit and the letter of the Charter of the United Nations and seeks to turn the inherent right of legitimate self-defence into a blank check. It is very dangerous to attempt to resolve national security concerns through unilateral action or unfounded accusations rather than through cooperation among States parties to treaties and through the use of the procedures defined in them for that purpose.”
2003-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709 (2003) · source
“The Non- Aligned Movement Summit Countries will surely make a decisive contribution to peace. Cuba defends international law, because we consider it to be the only viable guarantee of international peace and security. We believe that the world should be regulated by a system of collective security, based on cooperation, that provides guarantees for all. Such a system cannot be replaced by "the law of the jungle" for the benefit of the powerful and, ultimately, of the only super-Power. The unipolar, unsustainable, unjust and profoundly inequitable international order cannot be succeeded by an even more primitive, unstable, unpredictable and dangerous one.”
2003-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709 (2003) · source
“Recently, it accepted additional inspection components and adopted new legislative and executive measures; this has been favourably received by the international community, with the sole exception of those who appear to have made up their minds in advance to carry out military action at any cost and with economic objectives based on control of energy resources and on domestic policy concerns. The resolutions must be implemented in good faith by all parties in order to move forward towards a comprehensive solution to the question of Iraq that guarantees peace and stability in the region and includes the lifting of the sanctions regime, which is causing so much suffering for the Iraqi people. The sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of Iraq, of Kuwait and of all the other countries in the region must be respected.”
2003-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709 (2003) · source
“As has been foreseen, the humanitarian catastrophe could be massive and terrible. The deaths and destruction would be unpredictable. No one could calculate its duration. The economic and political effects on a world in recession would be enormous, especially in developing countries, which are already paying unsustainable increases in oil prices that are disastrous for their economies and that, with the launching of the first missile, would rise to even more exorbitant levels. Unquestionably, Iraq has cooperated with the inspectors and has confirmed its resolve to complete its compliance with all relevant Security Council resolutions, in order to eliminate any doubt with respect to the possibility that it still possesses weapons of mass destruction.”
2003-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709 (2003) · source
“Above all, it does not accept the adoption of a unilateral decision by the United States Government, in complete disregard for international rules and for the power and authority of the United Nations, limited as they already are. This is an unnecessary war, on pretexts that are neither credible nor proven. "Completely debilitated by the last war against the United States in 1991, Iraq utterly lacks the capacity to counteract the offensive and defensive weaponry at the disposal of the United States, which is fully capable of annihilating any threat." We have the absolute conviction that there is not the slightest risk for that country or for its friends in the region, and that it would be an unnecessary war. The consequences of an unnecessary and unjustified military action in Iraq would be extremely grave.”
2003-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709 (2003) · source
“On the one side would be a hegemonistic super-Power, with all of its overwhelming military might and technology, backed by a main ally, another country with nuclear capability and a member of the United Nations Security Council. On the other side would be a country whose people have suffered more than 10 years of daily bombings and the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, mainly those of children, through hunger and disease, following an unequal war provoked by Iraq's illegal occupation of Kuwait, which was an independent State recognized by the international community. The vast majority of world public opinion is unanimously opposed to a new war.”
2003-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709 (2003) · source
“A blue canvas over Picasso's "Guernica" cannot disguise the fact that it is a warning to the Security Council - a warning that cannot be ignored - concerning the exceptional nature of the prerogative of the use of force, exercised on behalf of the States Members of the United Nations and for which history will demand accountability. Nor does it diminish our memory of the horrors that gave rise to the United Nations. Only 72 hours ago, President Fidel Castro stated: "These are not days of hope and glory for peace in the world. A war is on the verge of breaking out. This would not be a confrontation between comparable forces.”
2003-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709 (2003) · source
“Mr. Rodriguez Parrilla (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): The impressive anti-war demonstrations that took place all around the world on Saturday, 15 February; the opinion polls; the productive and substantial ministerial debate held on 14 February in the Council; the prudence and objectivity of the presentations given by the Executive Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); and the almost unanimous support for the courageous, measured and constructive statement of the French Foreign Minister, all of these express a powerful consensus: peace must be preserved as the ideal and the very reason for the existence of the United Nations and in order to ensure that it can exercise its inalienable and exclusive rights and duties under the Charter.”
2003-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709 (2003) · source
“Were the Council to fail to do so, the damage to the international order, the collective security of States and the United Nations would be irreparable, and the historic responsibility overwhelming.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625Resumption1 (2002) · source
“We all are aware that for several weeks secret meetings have been taking place among some of the permanent members of this body on the question of Iraq, disregarding the rest of the Members of this Organization whose well-known views are being ignored, yet on whose behalf the Council is supposed to act. It is humiliating for all of us when the non- permanent members of the Security Council, despite their credibility as members elected by the overwhelming majority of Member States, are publicly excluded from the decision-making process. Cuba hopes that dialogue and negotiation will prevail and that appeals for a war against Iraq will not continue. Cuba hopes that the Security Council will act in accordance with its responsibilities and that it will reassume the role that is incumbent on it in these exceptional circumstances.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Cuba, which has never developed weapons of mass destruction - neither nuclear nor of any other kind - and has the firm determination never to do so, reiterates that general and complete disarmament is the only possible path to peace. It has been said that the credibility of the United Nations would be at risk if it does not support a military attack against Iraq. On the contrary, if the Security Council does not act to maintain international peace and security, as it is mandated to do, and if instead it supports a war that has not been shown thus far to be the only possible option, the question will arise as to whether the United Nations can survive a situation that will destroy its already damaged credibility.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Cuba is a defender of international law, which we consider to be the only viable guarantee of international peace and security. We believe that the world must be governed by a collective security system based on cooperation that will provide guarantees to us all. Such a system cannot be replaced by the law of the jungle or by doctrines that constitute a violation of the spirit and letter of the Charter of the United Nations and that distort the inherent right of legitimate self- defence, as recognized by Article 51 of the Charter. The current unsustainable, unjust and deeply inequitable international order cannot be allowed to evolve into an even more primitive one.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Recent discussions in Vienna concluded with the achievement of important progress as regards practical arrangements for the resumption of the inspections, including guarantees for unrestricted access, which shows that dialogue and cooperation between the parties is the only avenue to success. The relevant resolutions must be implemented in good faith by all the parties in order to advance towards a comprehensive settlement of the question of Iraq that will ensure peace and stability for the region and that includes the lifting of the sanctions regime that has caused so much suffering to the Iraqi people. The sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of Iraq, Kuwait and all the countries of the region must be respected.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625Resumption1 (2002) · source
“New procedures are being proposed that are already known to be unworkable, such as having United Nations security forces accompany the inspectors; having representatives of the permanent members of the Security Council participate in the inspection teams, with the same rights accorded other members of the team; the establishment of no-fly/no-drive zones; and an obligation on Iraq to allow inspectors to take out of the country Iraqi nationals they wish to interview, along with their families. A new resolution is not needed. What is needed is for the inspectors to resume their work in Iraq without any further delay.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625Resumption1 (2002) · source
“As a result of important contributions by the Arab League and the Secretary-General, Iraq announced that it was willing to allow the unconditional return of inspectors and expressed its desire to comply with all of the relevant Security Council resolutions, so as to dispel any doubt about the possibility of its continued possession of weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's decision was welcomed by the international community and by all those who believe that it is possible, and necessary, to avert a conflict that would have unpredictable consequences. Nevertheless, a draft resolution is being promoted in the Security Council that would make war with Iraq unavoidable. The text includes an automatic mechanism that would trigger the use of force.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Mr. Rodriguez-Parrilla (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): We are deeply gratified, Sir, to see Cameroon, a brotherly country of Africa, at the helm of the Security Council, and we wish you every success. Cuba, as does almost every other country, opposes further military action against Iraq. The Non-Aligned Movement has taken a clear stance in favour of peace. The Arab countries oppose military action. The majority ofthe European and other developed countries do not support it, and the international community is witnessing, with astonishment and feelings of powerlessness, grave accusations being levelled with no proof whatsoever, as well as the seemingly inexorable way in which this "pre-announced war" is being organized.”
2002-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4625Resumption1 (2002) · source
“We demand that the Government of Israel withdraw its troops immediately from the facilities of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and that it immediately cease the encirclement of President Arafat and his men. We demand also a halt to the repression of the Palestinian population, which has come out in the streets in several cities to protest these new actions of the Israeli Government. Cuba will not waiver in denouncing the crimes committed against the Arab peoples, in particular the Palestinian people.”
2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source
“We reiterate that the United States must immediately suspend its financial support for military purposes and its military supplies for Israel, including tanks, helicopters, missiles and aircraft that are being used against civilians. State terrorism unleashed by Israel must come to an end. The flagrant, systematic and massive violation of the human rights, including the right to life, of the Palestinian people, must be halted. The repression, torture and demolition of homes must come to and end. The illegal occupation of Palestinian territory must end. Innocent Israeli civilians are also unfortunate victims of the spiral of violence and terror unleashed by the policies of their Government.”
2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source
“When they do not veto, they only permit the adoption of timid resolutions that say little and are implemented even less. In Conference Room 4 of this building, the International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People is taking place, bringing together 159 non-governmental organizations and 26 experts from all the world, including Israel. They have not shown special interest in what is happening here. They know that nothing will be done and that the Security Council will not listen to them. There, the Security Council simply lacks credibility. In the meantime, the Palestinian people continue to be completely unprotected. This organ has not even been able to seriously consider the Secretary-General's proposal to establish a multinational force in the occupied territories.”
2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source
“It would seem essential for the Security Council, in the days to come, to convene a debate like this one on the question of Iraq and to cease its usual secret gatherings on a topic that is on the front pages of every newspaper. If the United States is truly worried about the supposed presence of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, why does it not demand of Israel that it immediately destroy those it possesses? Now they are attempting to explain that the credibility of the United Nations is at stake if the Organization does not support the new doctrine of preventive war. But by what moral right does a country speak of credibility when that country, using the anachronistic, undemocratic privilege of the veto has, for many years- 25 times - prevented this body from fulfilling its mandate on the question of Palestine?”
2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source
“It is the result of the arbitrary use of the powers and prerogatives of a permanent member which, with its vetoes and threats of a veto has prevented the Security Council from fulfilling its mandate. The world super-Power is determined to unleash a war against Iraq, whether by imposing it on the Security Council or acting unilaterally, as was reiterated by President Bush in Trenton, New Jersey, a few hours ago; it is preparing a dossier of that country's violations of Security Council resolutions, with which it seeks to attempt to justify its plans for military action. Why does the United States not prepare a dossier of Israel's many flagrant violations of Security Council and General Assembly resolutions? Why does it act so different in one case than in the other?”
2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Mr. Rodriguez Parrilla (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): We are gratified, Sir, to see you presiding over the Security Council, and we wish you the greatest success. For the third time in less than six months Israeli tanks and bulldozers have once again broken into the facilities of the Palestinian National Authority in Ramallah. This time, they have virtually destroyed everything, toppling buildings, cutting off water and electricity and keeping President Arafat and a group of his men under siege and in danger of losing their lives. It is no secret to anyone that the Government of Israel's open defiance of Security Council and General Assembly resolutions the rules of international law is in good measure the result of the Security Council's passivity and failure to act.”
2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source
“This is the result of one permanent member's arbitrary use of its power and prerogatives. With its vetoes and threats of veto, it prevents the Council from discharging its mandate. The Security Council, through its inaction and passivity before the daily events in the occupied territories, bears a significant part of the responsibility for the tragic events in Gaza. If the Council continues to play this sorry and dangerous role, it will have to accept the consequences of its acts. The countries of the Arab Group have prepared for this occasion a draft resolution which in our opinion reflects the minimum that the Security Council should say in the current circumstances. It is simply unacceptable that the Council should continue to turn its back on the suffering of the Palestinian people.”
2002-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4588 (2002) · source
“In spite of everything, while the United States and Israel are attempting to ignore the President of the Palestinian Authority, Sharon is still regarded as a valid partner in dialogue and is called "a man of peace", as President Bush described him to the astonishment of the world during the J enin atrocities. We reiterate that the United States must immediately suspend financial support for military purposes and supplies to Israel, which includes tanks, missiles and aircraft used against civilians, such as the F-16 that bombed Gaza. It is a secret to no one that the Government of Israel's open defiance of the norms of international law and of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations is to a large extent a result of the indifference with which the Security Council continues to regard the question of Palestine.”
2002-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4588 (2002) · source
“Mr. Rodriguez Parrilla (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): A moment ago, I spoke in this debate as Acting Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. But given the seriousness of the issue that prompted the convening of this emergency meeting, Cuba cannot fail to state its national position. The massacre by Israel of at least 15 innocent civilians, most of them children, in the Gaza Strip cannot be justified under any pretext and deserves the strongest condemnation. Ariel Sharon's reaction to the tragic events, which he described as one of his greatest successes, needs no comment.”
2002-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4588 (2002) · source
“Our Committee can only warn of the dire consequences, in the hope that this time, there will be a prompt and adequate response.”
2002-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4588 (2002) · source
“At the same time, there must be a concrete plan to realize the vision of two States within the borders drawn in 1967. The need for a solution that would restore to the Palestinian people their rights - primarily the right to self-determination and sovereignty - while respecting the interests of the Israeli people is known to us all. The Arab States clearly supported that solution through the balanced peace initiative that they adopted at the Arab League Summit, held in Beirut in March. It is up to Israel to respond in good faith if it really wants peace. History will judge us severely if we continue to shy away from our responsibilities and do not prevent the loss of more innocent lives and the increase in devastation and suffering, as well as the possibility of a much larger outburst of violence in the entire region.”
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