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Shalgham

lines on the record: 228
first: 2009-01-06
most recent: 2012-02-29
sittings or episodes: 28
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“Mr. Shalgham (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I wish to welcome Her Excellency Mrs. Michele Duvivier Pierre-Louis, Prime Minister of Haiti, and former President Clinton, who has just left the Council Chamber. We wish him every success as United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti and thank him for his briefing. Allow me to also thank Mr. Hedi Annabi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing and his efforts to stabilize Haiti. The situation in Haiti has been on the agenda of the Security Council for a long time, but has recently attracted increasing international attention, as shown by the convening of the donors conference in Washington, D.C., last April, as well as the two visits there by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his Special Envoy for Haiti, former President Bill Clinton.”
2009-09-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6186 (2009) · source
“This means that the international community should not fear Israel but should dare to call on it to freeze all settlement activities and to halt and remove all settlements. The Council has been silent, which has encouraged Israel to continue those policies. It has rejected any mention of a racist State, instead talking about a Jewish Israeli State, and it has failed to condemn the enactment of new laws against the Arab people. That threatens a new Nakba, lays the groundwork for the transfer and displacement of 1.5 million Palestinians from land occupied in 1948 and denies the right of Palestinian refugees to return under international law and international resolutions.”
2009-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6171 (2009) · source
“Yet, we still talk about the establishment of a Palestinian State at a time when 46 per cent of the West Bank has been taken by the Israelis and their settlers. I would like to mention the situation of Palestinian detainees and prisoners, especially women. Here, I refer to the report adopted by the United Nations Development Fund for Women, which refers to the grave and distressing situation of female Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention centres. The report says that most of them are exposed to psychological and mental pressure and torture, including insults, beatings, threats and sexual harassment. The report also states that 13 per cent of these female prisoners are under the age of 18. Any serious effort to achieve peace in the Middle East must start by putting an end to the international silence with regard to Israel.”
2009-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6171 (2009) · source
“Meanwhile, the settlers continue their crimes against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, which more often than not are committed with the help and support of the occupation forces, which protect them while ignoring the complaints of Palestinian civilians. Those measures have been intensified by the continued construction of the racist separation wall despite the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice and by blockades of ring roads and the bypass roads that cut across the West Bank. The land that has been taken from the West Bank as a result of the settlements, the ring roads and the separation wall totals 2,703 square kilometres, which constitutes 46 per cent of the whole area of the West Bank.”
2009-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6171 (2009) · source
“At this juncture, we would like to commend the role of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and the efforts made by its personnel in the face of threats and danger. We strongly condemn all aggression against its personnel and the false accusations levelled against them by the occupation forces. Conditions in the West Bank are no better than those in the Gaza Strip, which shows that, despite Israel's allegations and pretexts with regard to the Gaza Strip, Israeli officials have not ceased to declare their intention to continue expanding their settlement activities and to apply policies that seek to rapidly Judaize Jerusalem by confiscating identity cards and land.”
2009-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6171 (2009) · source
“For the third consecutive year, we see their lack of will to end the siege and the blockade, to open the border crossings closed under a policy of collective punishment that runs counter to all international and humanitarian law, and to desist from committing grave violations in the occupied Palestinian territories, some of which easily qualify as war crimes under international law and international humanitarian law. Nor do we see any sign of international will to break the world's silence and pressure the occupation authorities to put an end to the suffering of civilians in the Gaza Strip. That silence has encouraged the occupation forces to commit yet more crimes and to intensify their practices, behaving like a State that is above the law.”
2009-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6171 (2009) · source
“Mr. Shalgham (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me at the outset to express my appreciation to Mr. Oscar Fernandez-Taranco for his briefing, which clearly shows the extent of the deteriorating situation and the danger posed to the occupied Palestinian territories and to security and stability in the region. Despite the fact that more than six months have elapsed since the Israeli forces perpetrated their massacre in the Gaza Strip and the Security Council adopted resolution 1860 (2009), we still cannot see any sign that the occupying authorities intend to change their inhuman behaviour towards the civilians in the Gaza Strip.”
2009-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6171 (2009) · source
“We believe that would be the correct way to turn Bosnia into a stable country based on ethnic and cultural diversity and which would play a role in stabilizing the Balkans and achieving prosperity and sustainable development for all its citizens. In conclusion, we emphasize that continuing to pursue perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity and bringing them to justice will help heal the wounds and ease the pain of the recent past in Bosnia and Herzegovina and will help to achieve a better future.”
2009-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6130 (2009) · source
“Based on the foregoing, we appeal to all sectors of Bosnia and Herzegovina's population to live up to their political responsibility and find ways to coexist through dialogue, respect for the institutions of State and full cooperation with the High Representative. They should also abide by the obligations imposed on everyone under the Dayton Peace Agreement, the Paris Agreement and relevant Security Council resolutions. We have no doubt that Bosnia and Herzegovina is confronting some difficult problems, and we believe that the only solution is to find agreement and a common vision for the future that is acceptable to all the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina within the framework of the Dayton Peace Agreement.”
2009-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6130 (2009) · source
“Undoubtedly, it is important at this stage to pursue the process of constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina on the basis of the principles of the Dayton Peace Agreement. Despite the positive achievements that have been made in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we still have some concerns about the ongoing extreme nationalist rhetoric that casts certain problems in the country in a maximalist light. Such nationalist ethnic attitudes could undermine the role of the State, delay progress in achieving reforms, and pose a challenge to the very foundation of the State, as defined in the Dayton Peace Agreement, and to the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina. No one, we believe, can have any doubt that such nationalist rhetoric could reignite the conflict, thereby undermining stability in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the entire region.”
2009-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6130 (2009) · source
“We also welcome the express readiness of the leaders of the political parties to agree on and move towards resolving the principal political issues, including the outstanding conditions and objectives that remain to be fulfilled before the transition from the Office of the High Representative to the European Union Special Representative can come into effect. We also salute the adoption of the constitutional amendment incorporating the Brcko District into the Bosnia and Herzegovina Constitution, the adoption of a War Crimes Strategy, and the endorsement of the implementation action plans of the National Justice Sector Reform Strategy. We hope that such positive steps will continue to be taken so that Bosnia and Herzegovina can attain lasting stability.”
2009-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6130 (2009) · source
“Mr. Shalgham (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to welcome and thank Mr. Nikola Spiric', Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. I join previous speakers in thanking Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, for his briefing, and we wish him success in his duties. Libya follows with great attention the ongoing political process in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We note that positive progress has been achieved in the recent period with the signing of a broad agreement between the leaders of the three principal political parties in the country on constitutional reform issues that have been long awaited.”
2009-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6130 (2009) · source
“In conclusion, although we do not agree with much of the content of the draft presidential statement submitted to us because it does not adequately address the issues of Israeli settlements, the occupation of the Golan Heights, the situation in Gaza and the Sheba'a Farms, in appreciation of the good intentions and positive attitude demonstrated in the preparation of the draft presidential statement, in recognition of my country's relationship with Russia and in order to preserve the unity and consensus of the Council, we will not object to the presidential statement.”
2009-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6123 (2009) · source
“My country has confidence in the ability of the international community and of noble humanity to realize that dream, just as the dream of coexistence was realized in South Africa. The White Book, written by our leader Muammar Al-Qadhafi, contains a chapter entitled "Isratine", describing a time when everybody in Palestine - Arabs and Jews 4 shall share equally in the land, water, freedom, and even the name of the State, as happened when African Tanganyika and Arab-origin Zanzibar were merged into one State called Tanzania.”
2009-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6123 (2009) · source
“We therefore say today that we need to reproduce the Al-Andalus experience, which we believe we are capable of doing. That civilization was built on coexistence, tolerance and acceptance of the other. With full appreciation for the initiatives, resolutions and plans seeking to resolve what we call the Middle East question, and based on a spirit of coexistence, our brother and leader Muammar Al-Qadhafi has published in the White Book his Vision for a true solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. That Vision includes the creation of a democratic State in Palestine where everyone lives equally, without discrimination based on religion or race. In that State, violence, confrontation and denial of the other would end.”
2009-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6123 (2009) · source
“We also look forward to the report of the independent fact-finding mission that was set up by the Human Rights Council to investigate all Israeli crimes in Gaza during the aggression. Today, we need to raise the voice of right and the voice of courage. Humanity has entered the twenty- first century. We need a voice that calls for the renunciation of violence and war and the killing of man by his fellow man. We must all confront and stand up to all forms of racism. Muslims, Jews and Christians lived together in Al-Andalus - Audalusia - for many centuries. They lived in unprecedented brotherhood, and together they produced a civilization that laid the groundwork for a historic human renaissance that helped to take humanity from the darkness of the Middle Ages to the enlightenment and progress of recent centuries.”
2009-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6123 (2009) · source
“In the West Bank alone, there are more than 600 Israeli checkpoints, which make the daily lives of Palestinians an ongoing, continuous torture. At the end of last year and early this year, Israel launched a comprehensive war against the Gaza Strip. The international conscience agrees that Israel's actions constituted war crimes which affected all segments of the civilian population. Thousands were killed or wounded, and internationally banned weapons were used. While we express our appreciation for the Board of Inquiry and the fact-finding mission concerning the Israeli aggression against Gaza, and specifically against United Nations facilities in Gaza, my delegation has also prepared a draft resolution to establish an impartial investigating committee to hold Israeli officials accountable and bring them to justice.”
2009-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6123 (2009) · source
“The Arab Peace Initiative, which is now six years old, has been completely ignored by the Israelis. They want to take everything: they want the land, security and peace, and they offer nothing in return. The Israelis reject the return of Palestinian refugees to their homeland; they refuse to give up weapons of mass destruction, which they continue to accumulate in their arsenals; they refuse to withdraw from the Golan; they reject a Palestinian State, which, in fact, is impossible to establish because Israel has taken the land and water sources, destroyed the infrastructure and imprisoned the Palestinian people. There are now more than 11,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails, and we hear no discussion of their suffering or of the importance of releasing them.”
2009-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6123 (2009) · source
“Since the Oslo Accords, the Palestinians, through the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, have been moving step by step in negotiations and peace talks with the Israelis. They have been moving from one international forum to another in the name of peace and in pursuit of a resolution of the Palestinian question. But what has the end result been? On the Israeli side, we have an increase in the construction of settlements and the destruction of Palestinian homes, and today, in Jerusalem alone, more than 60,000 Palestinians face the destruction of their homes and who will be rendered homeless. Excavations under the Al-Aqsa mosque continue today, with the goal of destroying and completely removing the mosque. Israel also plans to construct an underground railway near the mosque.”
2009-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6123 (2009) · source
“Today, we face a new Government in Israel, whose diplomacy is led by a man who does not even bother to hide his hatred for Arabs and who had once called for the destruction of Egypt's Aswan High Dam and for the expulsion of the Palestinians from Palestine. At a time when some people describe the Government elected by all Palestinians as an extremist Government, when some countries have put that Government on a list of terrorist governments, and when the resistance movement in Lebanon is described as terrorist, we do not hear anybody describing as extremist or terrorist Israeli Governments that launch wars, kill, destroy, uproot and raze farmlands and build a racist separation wall.”
2009-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6123 (2009) · source
“Those among the Palestinian people who remain in Palestine have seen their rights denied, their homes demolished, their identity destroyed and their farms uprooted and razed, and thousands of them are now held in Israeli prisons. And now, at a time when the resistance of the Palestinian people against this occupation, this Violence, this expulsion, this destruction and this imprisonment is being criminalized, we find on the opposite side, in Israel, an increased push towards extremism and the denial of the rights of others, as well as a growing spirit of hatred towards Palestinians and the entire Arab people.”
2009-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6123 (2009) · source
“Mr. Shalgham (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (spoke in Arabic): Mr. President, at the outset, I would like to express my gratitude to you for your initiative to hold this meeting of the Security Council at the level of Ministers for Foreign Affairs to discuss the situation in the Middle East. I also thank the Secretary-General for his presence among us and for his statement. The problem referred to as "the Middle East issue" started over 60 years ago, and yet, despite the passage of those 60 years, it has not grown old. It is still as urgent, complicated and severe as if it were only 60 months or 60 days old. At the centre of the so-called Middle East problem is the Palestinian people, who were evicted from their land, rendered homeless and scattered throughout the world.”
2009-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6123 (2009) · source
“Thus, we call on all political parties and other relevant actors to work together to establish a dialogue and respect State institutions, striving to achieve compliance with the peace agreements, to strengthen the rule of law, to improve the security situation and to address impunity, taking into account the needs of marginalized groups. We believe that those are the prerequisites for the peace process. Finally, we agree with the Secretary-General that, if the current political challenges continue, they will fray relations among various groups, to the detriment of compliance with the peace agreements and the peace process. Therefore, all political groups must work together to coordinate the peace process and to re-establish trust and a spirit of national unity and common policies.”
2009-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6119 (2009) · source
“We welcome the resumption of the work of the Special Committee aimed at the reintegration and rehabilitation of Maoist army personnel, as well as the steps taken by the Government to demobilize them at various cantonment sites. We hope that those efforts will result in demobilization, especially for minors, and will help to bring about successful rehabilitation and reintegration within the desired time frame. Despite all that has been accomplished, we remain concerned at the differences existing among the various political parties with regard to the current crisis, the murders, the abductions and the security problems, as well as the refusal of a number of groups to participate in dialogue.”
2009-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6119 (2009) · source
“We hope that recent events will not undermine the peace process in that country, especially since the peace process has been going through a critical phase requiring the cooperation of all parties to achieve reconciliation, unification and the implementation of the peace agreements and all other agreements reached, so that the people of Nepal can enjoy peace, stability and prosperity. We were pleased to note Nepal's progress in the peace process, particularly with regard to a constitution and the future of the Nepal Army and the Maoist army. We hope that that progress will continue, so that the people of Nepal can draft a constitution guaranteeing the rights of all citizens, including those who have traditionally been marginalized. That would lend momentum to the peace process and help to bring about lasting stability in the country.”
2009-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6119 (2009) · source
“Mr. Shalgham (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (spoke in Arabic): I should like to join preceding speakers in congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of May. You can be assured of the cooperation of my delegation. I also wish to commend Ambassador Heller of Mexico and the entire Mexican delegation for the excellent leadership shown during their presidency in April. In addition, we welcome Ms. Landgren and thank her for her briefing and for the efforts of the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) and a group of countries on behalf of Nepal. We are closely following the situation in Nepal.”
2009-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6119 (2009) · source
“Libya calls on international institutions and donors to help implement those programmes and hopes that the appeal launched by the Secretary-General will receive a positive response from the international community, including the World Bank and other influential actors. They must set aside long-term resources for use by United Nations agencies, non-governmental organizations, national organizations and civil society to promote child protection activities. It must not be forgotten that the best way to protect children in armed conflict is to prevent the outbreak of such conflicts by addressing the motivations and root causes of conflicts.”
2009-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6114 (2009) · source
“The state of abject poverty and degradation of an area, the widening of an area of conflict, the absence of development, the inability to obtain basic services and lack of social and economic opportunity are all factors that increase the risk of child recruitment and underline the necessity of far-reaching development and recovery programmes aligned with disarmament, demobilization and reintegration guidelines and programmes. Such programmes must be based on the needs of local civil society with a view to achieving the successful and sustainable reintegration of former child soldiers into society.”
2009-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6114 (2009) · source
“The actions undertaken by the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict in attempting to protect children and remove them from hotbeds of tension and conflict deserve our appreciation. However, my delegation appeals to the Working Group to avoid selectivity and double standards in the course of formulating its recommendations and its actions as those should not be politicized. Given the regional dimension of some conflicts, my country appreciates the recommendation of the Secretary-General that United Nations country teams, political missions and peacekeeping missions allocate necessary resources to mechanisms for information exchange and cooperation on cross-border child protection concerns such as recruitment, release and reintegration of children.”
2009-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6114 (2009) · source
“Here, we would like to strongly condemn the Israeli military operations that have recently led to the killing and displacement of thousands of Palestinian children, caused by the demolition of their homes and the killing of their families. In addition, thousands of children suffer daily while going to school because of the racist separation wall erected on Palestinian land and the hundreds of checkpoints that separate Palestinian villages. The unique nature, duration and extent of their suffering, as well as its continuation, constitute an established policy pursued by the occupier, and affect tens of thousands of children. These practices and policies should be prosecuted.”
2009-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6114 (2009) · source
“By the same token, Libya shares the view that the protection of children in armed conflict should be considered an important facet of the strategy to prevent and resolve armed conflict. Children continue to be the main victims of grave violations of human rights in conflicts throughout the world. The report of the Secretary-General bears sad testimony to that fact. My delegation shares the View of the Secretary-General that the detention of children in various conflict areas, based on their alleged association with armed groups, constitutes an express violation of human rights standards. In particular, my delegation wishes to focus on the abuse, torture and coercive interrogation of Palestinian children in Israeli prisons.”
2009-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6114 (2009) · source
“However, there is still much that the international community must do to implement that resolution. We would like to emphasize that the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict are still taking place. Children are forced to participate in combat and the killing of people. They are often more subjected to abduction and sexual violence. Libya expresses its concern and condemnation of the crimes committed against children involved in armed conflict. In that regard, we support the appeal of the Secretary-General to Member States to take stringent measures, within the framework of their national legislation and in accordance with international humanitarian law, to hold the perpetrators of those crimes accountable and to impose the harshest penalties in order to eliminate impunity.”
2009-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6114 (2009) · source
“Mr. Shalgham (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to express our gratitude to you, Madam President, for being here today to preside personally over this important debate. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing, as well as to commend Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, and the Executive Director of UNICEF for their efforts to protect children, both in situations of armed conflict and elsewhere. The report (S/2009/158) of the Secretary-General before us focuses on the progress made in the implementation of resolution 1612 (2005) and its monitoring and reporting mechanism, as well as on the recruitment and use of children by parties to conflict in a number of countries.”
2009-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6114 (2009) · source
“There are still a number of speakers remaining on my list for this meeting. I intend, with the concurrence of the members of the Council, to suspend the meeting until 3 pm. The meeting was suspended at 1.35 pm.”
2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100 (2009) · source
“These practices show that those who rule Israel are no more than a gang of criminals and that the organizations and States of the international community must make their position clear on the crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinian people. If they fail to do so, they should be considered accomplices to these crimes and co-conspirators against the occupied Palestinian people. I now resume my duties as President of the Council. I give the floor to the representative of Egypt.”
2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100 (2009) · source
“That runs counter to the claims of the Israeli authorities, which seek to portray what is happening in Jerusalem as an isolated act committed by extremist groupings while the truth is that the Israeli Government is responsible for the targeting and Judaization of the Old City of Jerusalem in violation of international law, Security Council resolutions and its obligations under the Road Map. The Israeli Government's practices affirm that Israel's only policy and only firm position for the past six decades have been that it does not seek peace and continues to expand settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories and attempts to terrorize and humiliate the Palestinian people and bring them to their knees.”
2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100 (2009) · source
“Moreover, the Israeli Peace Now movement, which monitors settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories, has stated that Israeli authorities plan to build more than 733,000 housing units in the West Bank. Of those, 15,000 have already been approved. If the remaining units are also approved, the total number of settlers would be double what it is now. In addition, Israeli authorities have announced that 1,700 homes were demolished in East Jerusalem this year alone. That means the deliberate displacement of 17,000 civilians. In addition, 35 outposts have been established in other areas. Several houses have also been demolished in the historic Selwan district of East Jerusalem to build a city park, displacing 500 Palestinian civilians.”
2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100 (2009) · source
“That vicious campaign is focused in particular on the city of Jerusalem, as has been confirmed by a special report by the head of the European Union mission in East Jerusalem that was published in The Guardian. It describes the process by which Israel demolishes Arab homes and prevents their inhabitants from rebuilding or even gaining access to their property. That serves not only to hamper the peace process; it also obliterates any chance for the establishment of an independent Palestinian State. We reiterate that the unbalanced and biased view of some of the Council's members has only served to encourage Israel's settlement activities.”
2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100 (2009) · source
“The perpetuation of the siege constitutes an act of blackmail of the besieged that prevents them from receiving food, medicine and shelter. The Israeli authorities must also assume responsibility for the rebuilding of Gaza, without using that as an instrument of political blackmail to the detriment of those affected and whose homes have been destroyed. The situation in the West Bank is no less grave than that which prevails in the Gaza Strip. A different type of crime is being committed there, namely, that of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians through a systematic campaign to demolish their homes and prevent them from rebuilding and to confiscate land through the building of settlements.”
2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100 (2009) · source
“In addition, Israeli soldiers have admitted to killing hundreds of women and children who waved white flags, knowing full well that they were civilians and posed no threat to them. They too confirmed that their actions were carried out on the basis of higher orders. Haaretz also published that confirmed information. The international community must put an end to the suffering of the besieged Palestinian people in Gaza. It must not allow the occupying Power to continue to hold the residents of Gaza hostage. The lifting of the siege must not be linked to any other issue, as it constitutes a violation of international law, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the international humanitarian law, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention and numerous other instruments.”
2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100 (2009) · source
“The paper also included statements of how, despite claims made by the Israeli army, pilots deliberately and without warning targeted civilian houses. It is clear from the testimony of Israeli soldiers that the orders they received essentially told them to show no concern for the lives of Palestinian civilians. An Israeli officer also stated that such orders could not have been issued by a junior field commander; instead they had to come from the highest level of the Israeli army command. One Israeli soldier is quoted as saying, "the staff command is responsible for issuing these orders and is trying to manipulate the facts and depict matters as isolated incidents. In fact, they go much deeper than that".”
2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100 (2009) · source
“All that has been borne out by eyewitness reports and the dramatic articles published in The New York Times and Haaretz on 22 March 2009, which included witness accounts, documents and information about war crimes and other acts committed in Gaza by Israeli soldiers acting on orders from high in the chain of command calling for the use of phosphorous bombs, the targeting of ambulances and defenceless civilians and the ransacking of houses. The reports also included a statement by a unit leader who deliberately killed a Palestinian woman and her two sons with an automatic rifle, as well as an account of the killing of an old woman crossing a street who posed no threat to Israel's occupying forces.”
2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100 (2009) · source
“Many of those violations rise to the level of war crimes and genocide under international law and international humanitarian law. That has been confirmed by numerous distinguished international personalities, including the 16 who addressed a joint letter to the Secretary-General and the members of the Security Council. Reports by Mr. Richard Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Territories, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have all called for investigations into the crimes committed in Gaza. In addition, the Red Cross has condemned the targeting of medical teams and the fact that they have been prevented from reaching the wounded.”
2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100 (2009) · source
“Palestinians live under very depressing circumstances, which has been met with a very embarrassing silence on the part of the international community. Israel unleashed a war against the residents of Gaza after they had become weary as a result of hunger and the blockade. Despite everything that has transpired, the Israeli authorities are continuing their blockade, placing obstacles in the way of mediation efforts, reneging on their obligations and changing conditions. All of that is part of an effort to perpetuate the siege despite the adoption of resolution 1860 (2009) and calls by the Secretary-General and many international, regional and civil society organizations. The occupying Power has committed grave atrocities in the occupied Palestinian territories, in particular in the Gaza Strip.”
2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100 (2009) · source
“I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the representative of the Libyan Arab J amahiriya. At the outset, I would like to thank Under- Secretary-General Pascoe for his briefing. I wish to note that the peace process in the Middle East is experiencing continual reversal. Peace is impossible as a result of Israel's illegal and inhuman practices on several levels. They include its blockades, killings, construction of settlements, land confiscations, home demolitions, erection of barriers and detention of 11,000 Palestinians, including women and children, who have been held not for thousands of days but for thousands of months. Since mid-2007, Israeli occupying authorities have imposed a suffocating blockade on the Gaza Strip.”
2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100 (2009) · source
“If I hear no objection, I shall take it that the Security Council agrees to extend an invitation under rule 39 of its provisional rules of procedure to Mr. Paul Badj i. There being no objection, it is so decided. I invite Mr. Badji to take the seat reserved for him at the side of the Council Chamber. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. The Security Council is meeting in accordance with the understanding reached in its prior consultations. At this meeting, the Security Council will hear a briefing by Mr. B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to whom I give the floor.”
2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100 (2009) · source
“There being no objection, it is so decided. At the invitation of the President, Mr. Mansour (Palestine) took a seat at the Council table. The President (spoke in Arabic): In accordance with the understanding reached in the Council's prior consultations, I shall take it that the Security Council agrees to extend an invitation under rule 39 of its provisional rules of procedure to Mr. B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs. There being no objection, it is so decided. I should like to inform the Council that I have received a letter dated 20 March 2009 from His Excellency Mr. Paul Badji, in which he requests to be invited, in his capacity as Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, to participate in the consideration of the item on the Council's agenda.”
2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100 (2009) · source
“The President (spoke in Arabic): I should like to inform the Council that I have received a letter dated 23 March 2009 from the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations, which will be issued as document S/2009/153 and which reads as follows: "I have the honour to request that, in accordance with its previous practice, the Security Council invite the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations to participate in the meeting of the Security Council that will be held on Wednesday, 25 March 2009, regarding the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question." I propose, with the consent of the Council, to invite the Permanent Observer of Palestine to participate in the meeting, in accordance with the 2 provisional rules of procedure and previous practice in this regard.”
2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100 (2009) · source
“There being no objection, it is so decided. At the invitation of the President, Ms. Shalev (Israel) took a seat at the Council table; the representatives of the other aforementioned countries took the seats reserved for them at the side of the Council Chamber.”
2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100 (2009) · source
“I should like to inform the Council that I have received letters from the representatives of Afghanistan, Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Israel, Jordan, the Republic of Korea, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mali, Morocco, Norway, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Qatar, South Africa, the Syrian Arab Republic and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in which they request to be invited to participate in the consideration of the item on the Council's agenda. In conformity with the usual practice, I propose, with the consent of the Council, to invite those representatives to participate in the consideration of the item, without the right to vote, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Charter and rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure.”
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