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Salam

lines on the record: 964
first: 2007-07-19
most recent: 2017-10-18
sittings or episodes: 144
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“My Government has also sought the good offices of the Secretary-General in the delineation of the disputed maritime border and the exclusive economic zone between Lebanon and Israel, emphasizing that the non-resolution of the issue would remain a source of conflict that threatens peace and security in our region. Let me conclude by going back to where I started in order to stress again the urgent need for the Council to put an end to the settlement activities in the occupied State of Palestine and to provide international protection to the Palestinians living under occupation.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“We would also like to point out that paragraph 10 of resolution 1701 (2006) requests the Secretary General "to develop, in liaison with relevant international actors and the concerned parties, proposals for the delineation of the international borders of Lebanon, especially in those areas where the border is disputed or uncertain". We also recall that, among the chief purposes of the United Nations, as stated in Article 1 of the Charter of the United Nations, is "to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace".”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“Five years into the conflict in Syria and after multiple donors conferences, in particular the one held in London in February, it is crucial to establish a follow- up mechanism to those conferences. In our statement before the General Assembly on 20 November 2015 (see A/70/PV.59), we detailed our proposal regarding such a mechanism to enable follow-up with donors regarding the fulfilment of their pledges. Today, we reiterate our call for such action. For Lebanon, the joint visit also provided a significant message of international support and solidarity to help it maintain stability and security. In that context, my Government has stressed the need to fully implement resolution 1701 (2006) and to put an end to Israeli violations of my country's sovereignty by land, air and sea.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“Only adequate assistance that integrates humanitarian and developmental funding can enable Lebanon to provide for the needs of the refugees and offset some of the negative impacts that the protracted humanitarian crisis has left on my country's economic growth and unemployment levels and the pressure on our infrastructure in the education, health, energy, water, sanitation and housing sectors. It was just last month that my country was privileged to welcome the joint visit by the Secretary-General, the President of the World Bank and the President of the Islamic Development Bank. It was an important occasion for them to assess such needs at first hand.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“Only such a solution could turn the present cessation of hostilities into sustainable civil peace by allowing the Syrian people to begin the long and arduous task of national reconciliation and reconstruction and paving the way for the return of Syrian refugees and displaced persons to their homes and livelihoods. Having said that, until the eventual return of the 1.2 million Syrian refugees currently residing in Lebanon, we continue to reiterate our call to the international community to meet its pledges and to provide Lebanon with the necessary means to deal with that massive responsibility.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“We also recognize the leadership of the co-Chairs of the ceasefire task force, the Russian Federation and the United States, in supporting the cessation of hostilities, which resulted in a significant reduction in the number of civilian casualties and cleared the path for the resumption of the intra-Syrian talks in Geneva, which, based on the relevant Security Council resolutions, should lead to the achievement of a lasting political solution that meets the aspirations of the Syrian people to live in peace and dignity in a sovereign and unified country.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“Last February's agreement on a cessation of hostilities has given Syria and its people a glimmer of hope that a settlement of the conflict has become a realistic possibility. We take this opportunity to commend Special Envoy De Mistura for the tremendous effort and time he has deployed to set the conditions for the achievement of the cessation of hostilities, guided by the work of the International Syria Support Group.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“After nearly five decades of daily violations of their basic fundamental rights - including, among others, countless arbitrary arrests and detentions, extrajudicial killings and torture - and after almost five decades of confiscation of their private property, the demolition of their homes and forcible displacement, the least that the Palestinians of the occupied territories, in both the West Bank and Gaza, can expect from the Council, which under the Charter of the United Nations is entrusted with the maintenance of peace and security, is that, pending successfully ending the long-standing Israeli occupation, it takes all the necessary measures to ensure their protection, both as individuals and as a people, including stopping all forms of settlement activities on their land. Let me now turn to the Syrian crisis.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“To put those figures into context, let me also recall that, since September 2000, Israel has been responsible for the killing of more than 9,300 Palestinian civilians, including 2,100 children, and for the injury of more than 87,000 persons. Moreover, since 1967, Israel has been responsible for the demolition of 28,000 Palestinian homes. Those facts are a clear reminder that Israel, the occupying Power, has not only failed to meet its primary responsibility under the Fourth Geneva Convention to protect Palestinian civilians, but, on the contrary, has been pursuing a deliberate and continuous policy of strangulation against Palestinian civilians in total disrespect for their lives and basic rights, with the aim of perpetuating and consolidating its illegal occupation of their territory.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“Since the beginning of2016, according to official United Nations statistics - let me underline that those are official United Nations statistics, not drawn from any Palestinian or Arab source - the Israeli authorities have demolished 539 so-called structures in Area C of the occupied Palestinian territory, as compared to a total of 453 for all of 2015. Similarly, since the beginning of this year, 805 Palestinians have been displaced as a result of the demolition of their homes, as compared to a total of 580 for all of 2015. In fact, statistics from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs show that from 50 demolitions per month in the period from 2012 to 2015, the average has risen to 165 per month since January 2016, with 235 demolitions in February alone.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“Conversely, pending the end of the Israeli occupation, the Council can and must move now to provide international protection for the Palestinian people, the sooner the better, for the relevance of the Council and, above all, for the just cause ofpeace in our part of the world.”
2015-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7540Resumption1 (2015) · source
“Obviously, we do not have the same lexicon as Mr. Netanyahu, because, in our lexicon, racism and xenophobia, let alone acts of burning people alive and lynching, are examples of barbarism and not of civilization. In conclusion, let me reiterate that the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories is very alarming. Not only can the Council prevent the situation from deteriorating, it can also unlock the path to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, provided that it resolves to act on the basis of the principles and rules of international law and international humanitarian law. Here, to seek balance, where no balance exists or can exist between the occupier and the occupied, is not justice. It is not even a travesty ofjustice, it is injustice, plain and simple.”
2015-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7540Resumption1 (2015) · source
“In fact, blaming the victim is so odious that it was rightly depicted by one of the great twentieth century thinkers as "one of the most sinister features of the fascist character". In Israel, like elsewhere, racism is not only blind, it is also deadly. We only have to consider how on Monday, Haftom Zarhum, an innocent Eritrean asylum seeker fleeing the scene of acts of violence, was shot, then lynched. That dismaying attack is documented in videos in which an angry Israeli mob is shown hurling benches and chairs and kicking him in the head, assuming he was an Arab terrorist just because he was dark-skinned, all the while screaming things like "Death to Arabs!" It is worth asking Mr. Netanyahu whether that is another example of Israel as "civilization's front line in the battle against barbarism".”
2015-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7540Resumption1 (2015) · source
“Moreover, instead of facing the reality of the occupation and its inherently oppressive structure and repressive methods, Israeli officials and their propaganda endeavour to represent the mounting violence in the West Bank and Gaza as an eruption of so-called terrorist hatred, motivated by nothing else but pure anti-Semitism and bloodthirsty Islamic fanaticism. I am sure that we all recognize a familiar situation here - that of blaming the victim. We are reminded of William Ryan's famous book, Blaming the Victim, a 1971 classic that shows how victim-blaming functions as an ideology that is used to divert responsibility and to justify racism and social injustice.”
2015-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7540Resumption1 (2015) · source
“And how can one omit to mention the case of the two Palestinian children who were recently burned to death by extremist Israeli settlers - 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh, who was killed in July in an arson attack in Douma, and Mohammed Abu Khdeir, a 16-year-old Palestinian, who was kidnapped, beaten and burned alive by Israeli settlers in East Jerusalem in August 2014. Notwithstanding such acts of appalling savagery, Benjamin Netanyahu, in total contempt for our intelligence, dared to claim in his latest speech before the General Assembly that "Israel is civilization's front line in the battle against barbarism" (A/70/PV22).”
2015-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7540Resumption1 (2015) · source
“The events of the past month are only the tip of the iceberg of the occupation, which has now lasted almost 50 years. In fact, the need to provide international protection for the Palestinians who are under Israeli occupation is self-evident when we recall the fate of the most vulnerable Palestinians, the children living under occupation. We have only to note that, between 2000 and 2013, one Palestinian child was killed by the Israeli occupying forces every three days, and that 62 per cent of the 95,000 Palestinian children detained by the Israelis since 1967 have probably been subjected to some form of physical violence.”
2015-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7540Resumption1 (2015) · source
“Israeli provocations and assaults at the Haram Al-Sharif have continued, in an obvious attempt to change the agreed status quo by establishing a temporal if not geographical division of the holy site, contrary to the claims of Mr. Netanyahu. Israel, the occupying Power, is once again acting in total disregard of its obligations under international law and international humanitarian law to protect civilian Palestinians. That is why we are once again calling on the Council to use all possible ways and means at its disposal to ensure the protection of the endangered lives and property of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation, pending its assumption of its full duty and responsibility to end the Israeli occupation and help the Palestinian State to achieve its independence.”
2015-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7540Resumption1 (2015) · source
“The situation in the occupied Palestinian territories is indeed alarming. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the past two weeks have witnessed the highest number of fatalities and injuries in the West Bank since 2005. That in itself not only justifies the call for this high-level debate, which we would like to thank Spain for organizing, it also calls for swift action by the Security Council. Since the beginning of this month, on average two Palestinians have been killed every day, and more than 1,000 have been injured, not to mention the increasing number of attacks by settlers on Palestinian property.”
2015-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7540Resumption1 (2015) · source
“We hope that, after our deliberations today and in the remaining days of Jordan's presidency, you, Madam, will succeed in convincing your colleagues of the need for and timeliness of such a visit, in the hope that in addition to their political interests, they will see with their heart and listen with their humanity.”
2015-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7433 (2015) · source
“They want an international system that is just, promotes equality, champions the vulnerable and oppressed, protects human rights and holds its members to account. In the modern world, with the complexity of the challenges facing us, this is becoming harder and harder. But it is possible. It is a challenge, but one that, with determination and commitment, we can overcome". Finally, the call on the Council to visit the region was powerfully articulated and reiterated today. Jordan was a pioneer in calling for such a visit long ago. Lebanon and Turkey supported that call then.”
2015-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7433 (2015) · source
“It is our belief that, unfortunately, tackling humanitarian crises through the narrow channel of humanitarian assistance has proven to be insufficient; hence, there is a need to tap the wider purse of development funds, and we call on donors, international financial institutions and United Nations agencies to provide neighbouring countries, including middle-income countries like Lebanon and Jordan, with adequate development assistance that would meet their needs, strengthen their resilience and alleviate the impact of the crisis. I conclude my statement by quoting from a recent op-ed essay by Baroness Amos in the Washington Post: "Countries look to the United Nations to exercise moral authority. Time after time, they are disappointed.”
2015-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7433 (2015) · source
“In this regard, I call one more time on the donor community to meet Lebanon's humanitarian and development needs, which that have been identified in the Lebanon Crisis Response Plan 2015-2016, which was crafted by my Government in coordination with the relevant United Nations agencies and other partners and adopted in December 2014. While we welcome Kuwait's leadership in hosting a third international pledging conference for Syrian refugees last month, and the generosity shown by the donor community, we note that out of the $8.4 billion identified by the relevant United Nations agencies to implement the regional and national response plans, only $3.6 billion were pledged. And, as Council members know, not all pledged money is always actually dispensed.”
2015-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7433 (2015) · source
“UNHCR Lebanon registered more than 1 million, ten-fold the number for a country 400 times smaller." In Lebanon, the crisis has had a devastating impact on the security, development, economic activity, social progress and the environment, overstretching the capacity of our social services, health-care and education systems, housing, water and sanitation facilities, and the energy infrastructure. Poverty has increased by 61 per cent, unemployment has doubled and the average personal income of the local population has significantly decreased.”
2015-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7433 (2015) · source
“Lebanon, the smallest country in the region, is alone hosting more than 1.2 million registered Syrian refugees - not to mention the unregistered, whom we cannot count - and 350,000 Palestinian refugees, including 45,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria, representing about one-third of my country's total population. To illustrate the magnitude of this unprecedented demographic impact, I shall quote a tweet posted a few days ago by Ambassador Angelina Eichhorst, Head of the European Union Delegation to Lebanon. She said: "In 2013-2014 the EU admitted 116,263 refugees from Syria.”
2015-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7433 (2015) · source
“Two months later, we are back in the same Chamber discussing the same issue, without any realistic prospects for ending the crisis, which seems to be escalating rather than winding down, spreading to new areas inside the country and affecting the lives of more civilians, including Palestinian refugees in Yarmouk. Moreover, the crisis in Syria is contributing directly and/or indirectly to increasing sectarian and extremist rhetoric and violence in the region, adding an unwelcome complication to the multiple political and socioeconomic problems fueling many other crises. The humanitarian impact of the crisis continues to grow. Today, more than 7.6 million Syrians are internally displaced; 3.9 million are refugees in neighbouring countries.”
2015-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7433 (2015) · source
“Last February, as we approached the fourth anniversary of the eruption of the crisis in Syria, I addressed the Council (see S/PV.7394) and expressed our disappointment at its continuing failure to facilitate the realization of a political solution that would put an end to the tragic cycle of violence that has engulfed the country for four consecutive years, leaving more than 250,000 people dead and many more wounded, leading to the destruction of many of the most ancient urban centres in the history of humankind, and scarring the fabric of its society for generations to come.”
2015-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7433 (2015) · source
“Mr. Salam (Lebanon) (spoke in Arabic): As the subject of this meeting is the humanitarian situation and the consequences of the Syrian crisis, I would like to extend my condolences to the victims and to the bereaved families, in particular the victims of the capsized boat in the Mediterranean who were seeking a better life for their children. (spoke in English) We, like Ms. Angelina Jolie Pitt, wished that the refugees she spoke to in the region could have been with us today to tell their stories. But let me thank all the briefers for having spoken so genuinely and convincingly on their behalf. Let us hope that the resonance of their messages in the Chamber will be acted on expeditiously.”
2015-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7433 (2015) · source
“The situation in our part of the world is indeed becoming more and more difficult, but this is no excuse for inaction. On the contrary, the more difficult a conflict situation becomes, the greater the Council's responsibility. As a matter of fact, to be meaningful, any resumption of negotiations on the Middle East conflict should be based on well-defined parametres. A new comprehensive international framework and clear and agreed-upon deadlines are also needed for the success of such negotiations. Accordingly, the Council is called upon to shoulder its responsibilities in maintaining peace and security by addressing these critical issues sooner rather than later. Mr. President, do not let the situation deteriorate any further. It is time for action.”
2015-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7430 (2015) · source
“Moreover, he vowed to increase settlement construction in East Jerusalem by adding "thousands of housing units". On election day, in a notorious racist statement, he warned Arab citizens of Israel against voting "in droves". Naftali Bennett, Minister of Economy in Netanyahu's Government, was in turn loud and clear on rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian State by saying that "the notion of injecting a State, dividing Jerusalem, dividing up the country and splitting and slicing it, is not sustainable". In the same racist vein as Netanyahu, in one of his infamous speeches, he also suggested that Arabs were simply "thieves". Let us not forget that for Avigdor Liberman, Israel's Foreign Minister, the solution to "disloyal" Israeli Arabs was simple: "We need to pick up an ax" and behead them.”
2015-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7430 (2015) · source
“Moreover, in 2014, the Israeli Government set a 10-year record for the number of tenders issued for settlement construction in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and construction starts increased in 2014 by 40 per cent over the previous year. We cannot fail to mention that 2014 witnessed the collapse of the United States-sponsored peace efforts, mainly due to Israel's political intransigence, its refusal to honour its commitment to release Palestinian prisoners and its aggressive policy of settlement expansion. Mr. Hmoud look the Chair. In 2015, however, worse was to come when the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, said loud and clear during his electoral campaign that if he were to be re-elected, a Palestinian State would not be established "on his watch".”
2015-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7430 (2015) · source
“In 2014, Gaza also witnessed the highest rate of internal displacement since 1967. Some 28 per cent of its population was internally displaced at the height of the hostilities. It is true that since the ceasefire was announced on 26 August the majority of internally displaced persons returned home, but shelter needs remain enormous, as up to 18,000 families no longer have homes to return to. Also in 2014, the number of people displaced in the West Bank and East Jerusalem due to the demolition of homes and property was the highest recorded in a single year since the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs began tracking this indicator in 2008.”
2015-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7430 (2015) · source
“Mr. Salam (Lebanon) (spoke in Arabic): I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for coming to New York to preside over today's meeting. I would also like to congratulate your Mission, Sir, for assuming the presidency of the Security Council this month and to thank you for all your suggestions on our work. (spoke in English) Let us first admit that the main facts pertaining to the Middle East conflict have all become increasingly alarming and that the situation is now deteriorating in an unprecedented manner. Suffice it here to recall the following. With 2,314 Palestinians and 97 Israelis killed, the year 2014 witnessed the highest civilian death toll since 1967, due to the July/August hostilities in Gaza and a significant increase in Palestinian fatalities in the West Bank.”
2015-04-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7430 (2015) · source
“However, more - and in reality, much more - still needs to be done. In fact, only 52 per cent of the $1.7 billion estimated as needed under the regional response plan for Lebanon in 2014 was met. It is of utmost urgency that the international community increase its humanitarian support to the Syrian refugees and to their host communities in neighbouring countries. But more importantly, there remains a need for the Council to live up to its duties in helping to bring about a political solution to the Syrian conflict. The reality is that, beyond the responsibilities of the Security Council as enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, what is at stake today in Syria is our humanity.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“Allow me to reiterate today what we have stressed on several previous occasions. Lebanon cannot cope by itself with the humanitarian rights and needs of Syrian refugees on its soil and continues therefore to call for real burden-sharing and greater assistance to host communities through official delivery channels. Under the able leadership of Mr. Guterres, Ms. Amos and Ms. Kang, the United Nations agencies have done an excellent job of seeking to alleviate the suffering of the refugees. Once again, I would like to commend their work and that of all the members of their respective teams. The international community has also shown tremendous generosity in response to the humanitarian crisis. In particular, Kuwait ought to be commended for continuing to host the donors conferences.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“The World Bank estimated the total losses to Lebanon's economy as a result of the crisis at about $7.5 billion, and that was in the summer of 2013. The total economic loss today is almost double that amount. Eighty-six per cent of Syrian refugees live in local communities, in regions that are home to 68 per cent of the poorest Lebanese. Poverty in the country has risen by 61 per cent, Lebanese unemployment levels have doubled, economic growth stumbled, and the national infrastructure for education, health, energy and water is stretched beyond its capacity. In response to the growing challenge of the refugee crisis, my Government, in coordination with the relevant United Nations agencies and other partners, adopted in December 2014 the Lebanon Crisis Response Plan 2015-2016, with an estimated cost of $2.1 billion.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“Lebanon today is home to more than 1.1 million registered Syrian refugees and 350,000 Palestinian refugees, including 45,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria. That is about a third of my country's total population. Lebanon is the smallest country of the region in terms of both geographic size and population, but it hosts the largest number of refugees. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Lebanon is the country hosting the highest number of refugees per capita. It ranks second in the total number of refugees, behind only Pakistan, whose geographical size and population are respectively approximately 80 and 50 times that of my country. The economic impact of the Syrian crisis on Lebanon has been detrimental.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“By failing to assume its role, the Security Council has not only failed in its mission and indeed failed Syria, but it has also failed its neighbours and allowed for a dangerous increase in regional instability, a situation well illustrated by the fact that the conflict has produced a massive humanitarian crisis and one of biggest waves of human displacement since the Second World War. That has pushed the societies, economies and infrastructure ofneighbouring counties to the brink, not to mention the negative impact it has had on the security environment throughout the region and beyond. As members know, terrorism, fanaticism and sectarianism are on the rise, threatening the stability of neighbouring countries and international peace and security.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“Four years into the conflict in Syria, the international community remains unable to stop the collapse into bloodshed and chaos of a country with one of the most ancient societies and rich civilizations on our planet. That tragic cycle of violence has left more than 200,000 people dead, many more wounded, 6.5 million- if not more - internally displaced persons and over 3 million refugees in neighbouring countries, not to mention the magnitude of physical destruction. For four years, the Council, which is the organ entrusted by the Charter of the United Nations with maintaining international peace and security, has failed to facilitate the realization of a political solution that would put an end to the protracted conflict.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“It is a collective, unanimous, strategic and constant approach. It has become the approach adopted by 57 Islamic States. However, that approach, which is based on the land-for-peace principle, has not had a partner on the Israeli side. Such a peace would be a real peace, and not merely a slogan used by Israel to prevaricate and impose a new reality on the ground. Indeed, that might explain the failure of all the peace negotiations over the years. The question is: when will the Israelis realize that occupation is the antithesis of peace?”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“Following the Riyadh summit of 2007, two Arab Ministers for Foreign Affairs, specifically those ongypt and Jordan, visited Israel and met with Israeli officials with a view to implementing the Arab Peace Initiative and facilitating the start of direct negotiations. After the adoption by the Beirut summit in 2002 of the Arab Peace Initiative, the States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation have held five regular and extraordinary summits: in Putrajaya, Malaysia, in 2003; in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in 2005; in Dakar in 2008; in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in 2012; and in Cairo in 2013. All of those summits underscored the importance of the Arab Peace Initiative as the basis on which the peace process should be built. All of those facts clearly demonstrate that, since the Beirut summit of 2002, the Arab approach has been the path ofpeace.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“It is important to underscore that the Arab States have reiterated their commitment to the Arab Peace Initiative at all the Arab summits that have taken place since the Beirut summit, including the summits held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in 2003; Tunis in 2004; Algiers in 2005; Khartoum in 2006; Riyadh in 2007; Damascus in 2008; Doha in 2009; Sirte, Libya, in 2010; Baghdad in 2012; Doha in 2013; and Kuwait in 2014. Furthermore, the Arab Ministers for Foreign Affairs have reiterated their commitment to the Initiative in every meeting that has been held here in New York and in Cairo and in their extraordinary meetings.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“In exchange, the Arab States would then consider the Arab/Israeli conflict as having come to an end, conclude a peace agreement with Israel that would offer a path to peace for all countries of the region and establish normal relations with Israel within the framework of that comprehensive peace. The Initiative also stipulated, with respect to refugees, that it was essential to refuse any plan to integrate Palestinians that was contrary to their special status in the Arab host countries. Furthermore, the Chair of the Arab Ministerial Committee for the Arab Peace Initiative, who visited Washington, D. C., in April 2013, stated, after his meeting with the American authorities that the 1967 borders, if adopted as the basis for a two-State solution, could include certain agreed exchanges of similar territories.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“I would recall that the Initiative called on Israel to do the following: first, to withdraw from all occupied Arab territories, including the Syrian Golan, to the lines of 4 June 1967, and the territories occupied in south Lebanon; secondly, to find a just solution to the problem of Palestinian refugees that is agreed upon and in accordance with General Assembly resolution 194 (III); thirdly, to accept the emergence of an independent and sovereign Palestinian State within the Palestinian territories occupied since 4 June 1967 in the West Bank and Gaza, with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“All of that should be enough to encourage the Council to shake off its lethargy, finally decide to adopt clear guidelines for the peace process and establish a mechanism that would make it possible to put an end to the occupation. For our part, we as the Arab parties would like to inform the Council that the Council of Foreign Ministers of the League of Arab States met in Cairo today and reiterated their attachment to the Arab Peace Initiative, initially proposed by the former Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, and endorsed by the Beirut summit of 2002.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“The reasons for terrorism are many, complex and overlapping. They include the frustration, alienation, humiliation and despair that arise from oppression, marginalization, poverty and persecution. They are the same feelings engendered in our own region by the continuing Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, with all that it entails in terms of ongoing oppression and shattered dreams. They are also due to the failure of all attempts at a settlement, one after another, including the most recent American efforts, which have all come up against the political intransigence of the Israeli authorities, who continue to build settlements, defying the resolutions of the Organization and the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“How can we forget that Paris, over the past decades, has once again become a haven of peace for Arab politicians, writers andjournalists, including Lebanesejournalists, who went there in search of the freedom of expression and safety they did not find in their own countries. We once again pay tribute to Paris, city of lights, city of freedom. There is no doubt that success in combating terrorist acts, the most recent of which took place in Paris, requires us to deal with their deep-rooted causes. Purely military or security measures, while essential and possibly inevitable, will alone not be enough to put an end to that threat, contrary to popular opinion. This is in no way a justification for terrorism, quite the contrary. It is the most certain - and possibly only - way to deal with the root causes ofthat scourge.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“Arabs will also recall that it was in Paris that what has since been called the first Arab conference took place in 1913, because of the freedom and security that unique city offered to the conference's participants. Lebanese, for their part, who were pioneers of the modern Arab renaissance, will also recall that the first Arabic newspaper, Birgys-Barys, was published from Paris in 1859 by a Lebanese national, Rochaid Ed- Dahdah. How can we forget that the neighbourhoods, the streets, the squares and the universities of Paris throughout the past century have been the forum for meetings, protests and conferences that called for the granting of freedom to colonized people, including those colonized by France, in particular Algeria.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“Mr. Salam (Lebanon) (spoke in Arabic): I wish to welcome Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and Venezuela. I would like to focus on the heinous terrorist attacks that took place in Paris last week. I wish to pay a triple tribute, a Lebanese, Arab and Muslim tribute, to that glorious city, which has proven the extent to which it deserves its title as the capitol of freedom and of light. Muslims will recall that it was in Paris that the two pioneers of Islamic reform - the two great sheiks Jamal Al-Din Al-Afghani and Mohammed Abduh ~ took refuge during their fight against oppression and colonization. It was from Paris that they published, in 1884, their famous journal, The Firmest Bond, in order to spread their thought on renewal.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“In that context, and on the eve of the Berlin conference on Syrian refugees, let me underline how important it is to include a greater number of those refugees currently in Lebanon in any resettlement programmes. Finally, the dire humanitarian situation of Syrians, whether displaced in their own country or now refugees in Lebanon, Jordan or Turkey, should be enough in itself for the international community to redouble its efforts to help reach a political settlement to the Syrian crisis.”
2014-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7281 (2014) · source
“The staff of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees register an average of 2,500 new refugees every day. Indeed, with more than 1,145,000 refugees now registered, the impact is affecting every aspect of life in my country. For example, the number of student refugees is expected to exceed 140,000 this year, amounting to 57 per cent of public-school students in Lebanon. Clearly, the stability of my country is being threatened by the fallout from the Syrian conflict. As the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said, preserving Lebanon's stability is everybody's business. Burden-sharing is a fundamental prerequisite for the success of our collective endeavours to address the dire humanitarian situation of Syrian refugees and their host communities.”
2014-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7281 (2014) · source