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  1. “However, despite those measures, there continue to be situations and practices within the Council that must be reviewed and replaced by mechanisms that promote the transparency and democratization required by the nature and functions of this United Nations organ. The informal meetings of the Security Council, the negotiating forum par excellence at which most of this body's work is done, continue to be held behind closed doors, without the participation of the general membership of the Organization, which can then only learn indirectly of the results of these meetings, through the voluntary briefings given by each month's President. The disparity between the number of formal and informal meetings is increasing.”

    1995-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3611 (1995) · source

  2. “Mr. Rodriguez Parrilla (Cuba) (interpretation from Spanish): I should like to congratulate Oman on its presidency of the Security Council, and I should like also to extend our best wishes to the Russian Federation as it presides over the Council. Recently the General Assembly devoted two days of plenary meetings to a debate on the report of the Security Council. The list of Member States that participated in the debate was a long one, and the overwhelming majority reaffirmed the principle that one of the main aspects of the overall process of reforming the Security Council was the need for transparency and democratization in the working methods and procedures of this organ. To that end, some measures and initiatives have been implemented in the last few months. My delegation acknowledges their relevance.”

    1995-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3611 (1995) · source

  3. “The future of the peace process in the Middle East, the credibility of the Council's authority in maintaining international peace and security and the realization of the international community expectations for at last achieving a just, lasting and responsible peace in the region to a large extent hang upon it.”

    1995-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption1 (1995) · source

  4. “The destruction of the Palestinian people's economic infrastructure and the hamstringing of its efforts towards peace, reconstruction and development are also an affront to the United Nations and the Security Council in their responsibility in terms of the question of Palestine. The Government of the Republic of Cuba deplores the recent actions by the Israeli Government, which are in flagrant violation of the principle of self-determination for the Palestinian people, and hopes that the Security Council will adopt the necessary measures to ensure that they are rescinded and pass the draft resolution from the Group of Arab States on this matter.”

    1995-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption1 (1995) · source

  5. “Measures such as these and any others aimed at changing the status and the demographic composition of Jerusalem are illegal - indeed, null and void - and violate the fundamental rules of international customary and humanitarian law. Moreover, the decision not only promotes a continuation of the policy of settling the occupied territories, which is one of the greatest dangers facing the peace process today, it would also seem to show that Israel, the occupying Power, has no intention of changing this policy, despite the international community's repeated condemnation of it.”

    1995-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption1 (1995) · source

  6. “The implementation of the peace process will also continue to be in permanent danger; that is, the process will be jeopardized of Israel's fulfilment of resolution 242 (1967) and its consequent withdrawal from the territories occupied since 1967, as will be its fulfilment of the Declaration of Principles, under which the parties agreed that the final-status negotiations to resolve the remaining issues, including the question of Jerusalem, would begin as soon as possible and at the latest by the beginning of the third year of the interim period. The Israeli Government's decision to confiscate 53 hectares of Palestinian land situated in the area of East Jerusalem under the pretext of using it to keep up the process of establishing Israeli settlement is a serious attack on the peace process in the Middle East and prejudges its outcome.”

    1995-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption1 (1995) · source

  7. “The repressive actions carried out in recent months and the illegal act that has compelled us to meet today seem to show little change in the hostile policy of the occupying Power against the Palestinian people, its property and its internationally recognized, inalienable rights. Continuing such practices could endanger the terms of the agreement on the Declaration of Principles, its timetable, and the peace process itself.”

    1995-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption1 (1995) · source

  8. “Despite the aforementioned Declaration of Principles and other steps that we regard as positive in Israel's relations with its neighbours, we must note that the situation in the occupied Palestinian and Arab territories, including the city of Jerusalem, has deteriorated since 1967, because of Israel's failure to comply with its legal responsibilities under, in particular, the Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, and to implement the relevant Security Council resolutions, especially resolutions 242 (1967), 465 (1980), 478 (1980) and 904 (1994), and the relevant General Assembly resolutions, such as resolution 194 (III).”

    1995-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption1 (1995) · source

  9. “The situation on the ground and the hopes that the Declaration of Principles signed by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Government of Israel would be a basis for a just and lasting peace in the area, enabling the Palestinian people to progress towards the exercise of its inalienable right to self-determination, oblige the Security Council, this time, to adopt firm and serious measures. In my delegation's opinion, failing to do that would amount to sending a wrong message, which, rather than contributing to progress in the peace process, might endanger it - perhaps irreparably.”

    1995-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption1 (1995) · source

  10. “Mr. Rodriguez Parrilla (Cuba)(interpretation from Spanish): We congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency, and we wish you full success. We express our thanks also to the Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic, for the efficient way in which he carried out his functions as President last month. Pursuant to document S/1995/366, the Security Council has been convened to discuss, once again, the situation in the occupied Arab territories, and particularly in the occupied Palestinian territories. This new hotbed of tension resulting from the recent orders of the Israeli Government to confiscate Palestinian land in East Jerusalem, however, should not this time give rise to a mere repetition of appeals to the occupying Power.”

    1995-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3536Resumption1 (1995) · source

  11. “We must warn of the threat to the security and sovereignty of Cuba posed by this military deployment in a theatre of operations that involves our country through the presence of the United States Military Base at Guantanamo, which usurps our territory in violation of the rights and the will of our people and Government. For all these reasons, and because of our commitment to Latin America and to the principles of non-intervention and non-use of force or threat of force, Cuba wishes to express its opposition to this draft resolution.”

    1994-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3413 (1994) · source

  12. “The mechanisms for the peaceful settlement of disputes contained in the Charter must be retained, because a world policy that is sustained by the use of force is absolutely infeasible and extremely dangerous to international peace and security. If anything might signify in and of itself a fundamental threat to peace and security, it is military action of this kind in the Caribbean region. Indeed, the actions taken prior to this one - the deployment of large- scale forces, modern means of combat and military exercises - are provoking instability in neighbouring States.”

    1994-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3413 (1994) · source

  13. “A military intervention under a different guise would be unheard-of in our Latin American and Caribbean history - which, sadly, is a lengthy history of military interventions - and could never have and does not have the consensus agreement of the States of our region, particularly in this so-called new post-cold-war era. Cuba wishes to reiterate that, in principle, it is resolutely opposed to military intervention as a means of solving internal conflicts. History has shown that military operations cannot truly resolve internal conflicts for the simple reason that they cannot resolve the causes of those conflicts. Decisions of this nature go beyond the mandate of the Security Council, in accordance with Chapter VII of the Charter, which only authorizes such powers in cases of an express threat to international peace and security.”

    1994-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3413 (1994) · source

  14. “To the question of how it is possible for the military leaders involved in the coup to remain in power, challenging the international community and rendering their sanctions ineffective, there is only one reply: those leaders are receiving mixed messages from different power centres in the country in which we now find ourselves. This resolution endorses military intervention, whether multinational or perhaps inter-American, as is mentioned in some of the documents. We wish to reiterate that Cuba considers that all avenues for finding a peaceful solution to the Haitian conflict have not been yet explored.”

    1994-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3413 (1994) · source

  15. “It is alarming to see the absolute lack of any time- limits for the operation, a fundamental omission that prevents any objective analysis of the dimensions and the true scope of the operations being sought. In fact, what has prompted me to take the floor is the need to explain the position of my country concerning this "Chronicle of an Invasion Foretold". The history of Haiti did not begin with the military coup d'etat of September 1991. What were its causes? Who are these putchists, and where do they come from? The de facto military regime is the expression of a dictatorship created, supported and financed for decades by the United States. The coup was the result of that same policy.”

    1994-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3413 (1994) · source

  16. “It is not our priority now to explain our grave concern about the actual text of the draft resolution or with the relevant reports of the Secretary-General; nor with the formulation that describes the situation in Haiti as a threat to regional peace and security, something that is new and removed from the precepts established by the Charter of the United Nations concerning the authority of the Security Council. Neither do we wish to express our opinions about the extemporaneous forms and _ the stereotypes that are used as precedents in paragraph 4 of the draft; or the misuse of Chapter VII of the Charter as contained in this draft; nor with the omission of the fact that the return of President Aristide, the constitutional President, is a prerequisite for the restoration of democratic order.”

    1994-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3413 (1994) · source

  17. “We feel that in the circumstances, the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have an enormous historical responsibility, a responsibility that they share, I think, overwhelmingly, with the members of the Security Council who come from our region. That is why we attach the utmost importance to the meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Group held only 72 hours ago, because we believe that, in its consideration of this matter, the Security Council will give real weight to the opinion of States Members of the United Nations from this continent.”

    1994-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3413 (1994) · source

  18. “Mr. Rodriguez Parrilla (Cuba) (interpretation from Spanish): I wish to thank the Council for the opportunity given to me to express the position of a State Member of the United Nations on an extremely important issue. I must acknowledge that the circumstances in which this formal meeting of the Council have been convened do not facilitate the exercise of this right. Cuba has always supported the people of Haiti in our shared history and culture because of the many points of contact between us. We understand the profound suffering of our Haitian brothers and the bitter trials undergone by their legitimate authorities, elected by popular vote. We express the complete support of our country for the constitutional President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who embodies the will of his people.”

    1994-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3413 (1994) · source