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Snoussi

lines on the record: 303
first: 1992-01-21
most recent: 1999-09-30
sittings or episodes: 43
sources: un-security-council

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“In this regard, we welcome the laudable efforts the Secretary-General continues to make by quite properly encouraging the States, regional organizations and non- governmental organizations to give further thought both to this problem and to promoting sanctions when that is warranted, provided they are fair and as little damaging as possible.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source
“I appeal to all those who may speak about it or use it not to forget that the employment of this dangerous instrument deserves real reflection, and perhaps much deeper than we have been giving to the reform of the United Nations and even the restructuring of the Security Council, because it essentially calls into question our sovereignty, our cultures, our different civilizations and perhaps also our respective beliefs. Let us think about this very carefully together before taking any further steps in this direction.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source
“The Council's experience regarding sanctions as a means of pacification and maintaining peace and security has shown some immense shortcomings in this procedure and the seriousness of its impact at the humanitarian level. Sanctions as a means of persuasion or dissuasion should remain an exceptional procedure, resorted to by the Security Council when all other means of conflict resolution have been exhausted; that is, good offices, mediation, negotiation and arbitration. Therefore, sanctions should not be subjected to abstract rules and be applicable indefinitely without taking into account their impact on the civilian population, particularly without the benefit of all the necessary objective information. I would here add a word about the concept of interference which has been bandied about recently.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source
“Nevertheless, we are unfortunately witnessing a lessening of the enthusiasm that led to the creation of this African Mechanism for Conflict Resolution because only one country so far has contributed to it, as the Secretary- General emphasized in his report. Humanitarian assistance to the continent has also been particularly weak, particularly compared with the number of conflicts and the flows of refugees they provoke. Nothing can justify the international community' s providing in 1999 only 50 per cent, and sometimes less than 25 per cent, of the necessary contributions to meet the humanitarian needs of Africa. To maintain or restore peace in certain African regions, the Security Council has had to resort to sanctions regimes and peacekeeping operations.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source
“Obviously, we attempt to settle our conflicts by our own means, but the international community is not giving us enough assistance. We will never be able to overcome the aftermath of the Great Lakes conflicts and the Somalia conflict, to cite just those two examples, if the international community does not help us. The African approach to the settlement of conflicts necessarily presupposes that the donor countries support the African Mechanism for Conflict Resolution, by providing financial and material resources and training. The Secretary- General's approach to the resolution of conflicts in Africa appears to be very realistic, and Morocco gives it its full support.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source
“Furthermore, the challenge presented by small arms in Africa, in its humanitarian, security and development aspects, should encourage exporting countries to exercise stricter control over exports of such arms to countries in conflict or emerging from armed conflict. In this connection, my country appeals for the implementation of the Security Council resolutions establishing an embargo on weapons, and encourages the various moratoriums on the transfer of weapons to African countries where armed conflicts are raging. In recent years Africa has felt frustrated at not receiving the same attention and treatment as areas outside the continent, when it has experienced conflicts which were often more serious, with victims numbered in the hundreds of thousands.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source
“As for the question of arms in Africa, particularly in regions of conflict, Morocco entirely supports the recommendations addressed to the Secretary-General by the Chairman of the Group of Governmental Experts on Small Arms that an international conference be held to step up and strengthen regional and international efforts to combat, prevent and eliminate the illicit trade in small arms in all its aspects. Everyone is aware that this trade has contributed to intensifying and prolonging armed conflicts in Africa, and to further complicating peacekeeping efforts by impeding economic and social development in certain regions of the continent.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source
“Morocco is convinced that only through genuine partnership, both national and international, can Africa achieve the 7 per cent growth rate regarded as necessary to considerably reduce poverty, according to the World Summit on Social Development. The report of the Secretary-General accurately reflects the situation in our country. Democratization, liberalization, strengthening regional and subregional organizations for conflict resolution, restoring peace and security and dealing with the problems of arms and refugees are all tasks which deserve our attention and support.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source
“It has also contributed to promoting a spirit of responsibility and good governance in African public institutions by hosting on two occasions, in 1994 and 1998, the African conference of civil service Ministers, whose results were endorsed by the General Assembly of the United Nations. Faced with the magnitude of the challenges to be met in Africa, particularly with regard to restoring peace and security and reducing poverty, the international community must give its full support to African efforts. Strengthening the African mechanism for conflict resolution, reducing the external debt and opening markets to African exports could and should radically improve the landscape with respect to security, the economy and the social situation, so long as they are the subject of concrete, resolute and coordinated action.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source
“As the Secretary-General properly emphasized, democratic elections are becoming more common and good governance and the rule of law are gradually becoming an established fact, while judicial and legislative reforms are being actively undertaken in order to improve the competitiveness of African economies, reforms such as trade liberalization, privatization of State enterprises and the setting up of adequate infrastructures. Morocco is contributing to this common endeavour for the development of Africa by devoting 95 per cent of its cooperation budget to finance projects and programmes in friendly African countries.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source
“At the same time, official development assistance has fallen by 40 per cent since 1992 and now represents a mere 0.2 per cent of the gross national product of the developed countries, whereas the internationally agreed target is 0.7 per cent. Thus, Africa's prospects are by no means promising, since the economic growth rate foreseen for 1999 will probably not rise above 3 per cent, which, because of the rapid growth of our populations, is equivalent to zero growth in terms of gross national product per capita. This picture should not, however, overshadow the praiseworthy efforts of many African countries - ours among them - to emerge from instability and crisis.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source
“96) It is very difficult, unfortunately, to ignore the excessive arms purchases, the bad governance, the AIDS epidemic, the corruption, the impediments to trade and the foreign debt burden that continue to hinder the development process of many African countries. Thus, 44 per cent of Africans, and 51 per cent of those who live south of the Sahara, are in a state of abject poverty. Of the 30 million people around the world infected with HIV/AIDS, 23 million live in sub-Saharan Africa. How can we ignore the fact that Africa's foreign debt burden rose to $350 billion in 1998, amounting to 30 per cent of the value of exported goods and services, whereas African exports declined by 15 per cent in 1998 and direct foreign investment amounted to a mere 3 per cent of world trade.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source
“Indeed, the general situation on the continent is extremely disturbing, despite the various attempts of the international community to relaunch economic growth and development. We refer, inter alia, to the United Nations System-wide Special Initiative for Africa, the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa and the Tokyo Conference, whose promoters we commend. As the Secretary-General properly emphasizes in his report before the Council, "There are... places where the widely held View of Africa as a region in perpetual crisis is not just an image but an all-too-grim and painful reality". (S/I999/1008, para.”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source
“Mr. Snoussi (Morocco) (spoke in French): It is a real pleasure for us to participate in this special meeting of the Security Council to address the implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary-General on the causes of conflict in Africa. My delegation takes this opportunity to welcome the efforts of the United Nations, led by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, to ensure that the international community is ever mindful of the serious situation and tragedies of the African continent. What can we add to what was said last year, since peace remains precarious and economic and social development in Africa is encountering increasingly insurmountable obstacles?”
1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source
“At this point, when contempt, hatred, disillusionment and a feeling of frustration have taken over, only a miracle could restore confidence and allow for the re-establishment of genuine peace. Are we going to wait until it is too late to act? Those who are engaging in these acts, these provocations, are not aware of the terrible risks to which they are subjecting the communities that live in this region. Nor are they aware of the dangers to which they are exposing Israel itself and its neighbours. If more time is lost, tomorrow no one will want peace any more, even those who have fought for it. Are we going to stand by with our arms folded? Let us do something while there is still time, because tomorrow it will already be too late.”
1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900 (1998) · source
“The Muslim community believes that the questions of Palestine and Al-Quds are priority questions and, faithful to this position of principle, wishes to emphasize the need for the return of the Holy City to Palestinian sovereignty in order to help bring about a just and lasting settlement to the Palestinian problem. The Muslim community has reaffirmed on numerous occasions that this Holy City was an integral part of the territories occupied in 1967 and has recalled in this connection the relevant resolutions demanding that its geographic and demographic nature remain unchanged. There is no room for any interpretation or evaluation. We hope that the Security Council will see fit to launch an appeal, and we hope that this will be the last time, calling to order the Israeli officials by reminding them of their international obligations.”
1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900 (1998) · source
“The international community has launched numerous appeals for Israel to put an end to its acts of provocation, but in vain. The innumerable resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly continue to be treated with utter contempt by Israel. Some see here the confirmation of a policy that no one wished publicly to acknowledge, and we are still among those who believe that the Security Council will not allow its impartiality or sense of justice to become suspect. Israel's impunity up to now, regrettably, has certainly encouraged it along that path.”
1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900 (1998) · source
“Morocco, whose sovereign, as you know, is the Chairman of the Al-Quds Committee, solemnly affirms that there can be no genuine peace without Al-Quds. The Muslim community throughout the world will allow neither the occupation nor the encirclement of that city, which is the symbol and the centre of our revealed religions. Morocco strongly reaffirms its opposition to this new act of aggression, which, unfortunately, strengthens all of those who had thought that no genuine peace with Israel was possible. Israel has succeeded in reviving an atmosphere of suspicion that we thought had been buried for ever. As everyone knows, including Israel, we were among those who had contributed to recreating the climate of confidence. But, unfortunately, all of that has been buried.”
1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900 (1998) · source
“As the Council can see, the latest Israeli decision is not an isolated action but rather the result of a long-term strategy aimed at totally changing this Holy City, whose heritage includes the Al Aqsa Mosque, the first of the two kiblahs and the third holiest place for Muslims and the cradle of all the revealed religions. The Council can easily imagine the perverse effects the latest Israeli decision will have on what we call the peace process, a process that, unfortunately, now exists in name only. Morocco, which has always advocated a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, can only condemn most severely the Israeli decision regarding the extension of the municipal authority of Al-Quds.”
1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900 (1998) · source
“The Israeli plan aimed at establishing an irreversible situation in Al-Quds and at surrounding the Arab populations is a flagrant contradiction of the relevant Security Council resolutions and of international legality, which forbid changes in the legal status and demographic and geographic composition of Al-Quds. The intransigence of the present Israeli Government has led to a halt in the peace process on all of its tracks. It has thus encouraged the establishment of new settlements in the occupied Arab territories, and particularly in Al-Quds, and the decision to dig a tunnel under Haram al-Sharif, an action which, as the Council will recall, gave rise to very painful events. However, the cruelties and humiliations continue.”
1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900 (1998) · source
“Indeed, what the Israeli officials have not wanted to understand is that by signing the Oslo agreements, their country in fact had acted for the first time as a State recognized by the Arab States. And in signing these agreements sponsored by two super-Powers, the country was building a bridge of confidence and respect with the international community. What the Israeli officials did not want to understand either is that what has been destroyed can, unfortunately, be reconstructed only with a thousand times the effort and a thousand times the sacrifices. But the question that everyone is asking is whether we can still do that.”
1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900 (1998) · source
“Reiterating its contempt for United Nations resolutions that consider the establishment of settlements in Al-Quds and in the other occupied territories as an illegal act and that emphasize that all measures aimed at changing the geographic and demographic nature of this Holy City are null and void, the Israeli Government is yet again, unfortunately, providing us with proof of its arrogance and its obvious intention not to respect the official commitments it has undertaken. As His Majesty King Hassan II has emphasized, the Israeli Government wishes to create a new school of international law by which any new Government can purely and simply renounce the commitments undertaken by the preceding Government. That school would unfortunately be a school of annihilation rather than one of existence.”
1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900 (1998) · source
“Mr. Snoussi (Morocco) (interpretation from French): Mr. President, allow me once again to express my great pleasure at seeing you presiding over the work of our Council. Today we are meeting once again here in the Security Council to discuss a highly sensitive and highly painful issue, that of the destiny of the city of Al-Quds. Indeed, the recent decision of the Israeli Government to expand the municipal authority of Al-Quds is yet another step in a series of challenges that Israeli officials have placed before the international community. The "umbrella authority" measure is the latest in this series.”
1998-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3900 (1998) · source
“All these children, these girls, these women, who have been mutilated and tortured, and who are the victims of armed conflict are waiting for us to rise to the occasion and take action. What are we waiting for?”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“It is unthinkable that we should stand by as the rights of children are so obviously and systematically violated. Local and national strategies must bolster the action of the international community and vice versa. Childhood is sacred, and all children must be protected from the twisted, inhuman effects of armed conflict. Children are the future of mankind. Let us follow our instincts and protect those who are unable to protect themselves. By protecting children in armed conflicts we gain fresh opportunities to tackle the problems that cause their suffering. Children have the right to life, to peace and to respect. Let us work together to help them. The moving cases related earlier by the representative of Canada highlighted the terrible slowness with which the international community is shouldering its responsibilities.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“The recommendations in that report, contained in documents A/51/306 and A/51/306/Add.1, remain timely and must be implemented promptly. As the Secretary-General stressed in his note of 26 August 1996 [A/51/306], we must find new and innovative solutions to protect children in conflict situations and prevent those conflicts from occurring. States are committed to guaranteeing a broad range of rights for children and to ensure that children will enjoy their rights to health, to education and to grow up among their families and communities. The report of the expert of the Secretary- General showed how the legitimate rights of children are systematically violated during times of armed conflict. Exposing such violations will without doubt help to eliminate them, or at least to attenuate them. The international community must take action.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“That Convention, now near universal, gives priority to the survival of children and to their protection in time of war and peace. Unfortunately, several generations of children are still being sacrificed and maimed, physically and emotionally, during conflicts between adults, in defiance of the legal instruments adopted by the international community. My delegation therefore urges compliance with commitments that have been made, so that the suffering of the children can end as soon as possible. The report of Ms. Graca Machel, welcomed by the General Assembly in its resolution 51/77, was an impartial and moving document that described the scope of the tragedy experienced by children who are helpless in the face of armed conflict.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“Statistics compiled by the United Nations Children's Fund show clearly that before 1945, most Victims of war were soldiers. However, in the 150 armed conflicts that have erupted throughout the world since that time, 80 per cent of the 20 million people who died and 80 per cent of the 60 million who were maimed or traumatized have been civilians, the overwhelming majority of whom have been women and children. Today the suffering of those children reminds us that it is our duty under all circumstances to ensure respect for all of our commitments, including the principle of "Children First", which was proclaimed at the 1990 World Summit for Children in connection with the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“Otunnu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, in his capacity as defender of and spokesman for children affected by conflict, for the work he has done in making the international community more aware of the cruelty and the chaos that characterize today's conflicts and in mobilizing Council members to take action with respect to the tragic fate of children who are Victims of conflict, particularly those in Sierra Leone. Morocco was truly devastated to hear the terrible accounts of the maiming of children in Sierra Leone and joins in the urgent appeal by Mr. Otunnu for the international community to help the children threatened by the horrible conflict in that fraternal country. The United Nations has since its creation always tried to focus attention on the suffering of children in armed conflict.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“I believe that your sense of a job well done, your ability to listen and to discern what is important and your vast experience all have enabled the Council to do its work extremely well throughout this month. I should like also to extend my congratulations to your predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Njuguna Mahugu, for having conducted the work of this body so very ably. My delegation would like to extend its sincere thanks to Mr.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“Mr. Snoussi (Morocco) (interpretation from French): Allow me at the outset, on my own behalf and on behalf of the African Group, which I have the honour of chairing this month, to extend my sincere condolences to the United Nations, the Government of Mali and the family of the late Alioune Blondin Beye, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Angola and former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mali. The tragic death of Mr. Blondin Beye and his colleagues is indeed a great loss to the United Nations and to the African continent. As the representative of the Kingdom of Morocco, I should like sincerely to congratulate you, Sir, on your presidency of the Council for this month, and to recall the excellent, even exemplary, relations between Portugal and Morocco.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“Our very tangible progress towards democracy makes us highly optimistic; increased solidarity and a stronger desire to succeed will be the best guarantees for our triumph.”
1998-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3875Resumption1 (1998) · source
“As the Secretary-General emphasized, Africa needs realistic and achievable recommendations for reducing or even ending conflicts in the long run. We certainly do not need to keep rehashing the misdeeds of colonialism, but in order to advance we must remember them. We must remember that colonialism, even in its simplest form, bequeathed us a fragile economy and, sometimes, structures and systems that, undeniably, long hindered our efforts towards development. A clear understanding of the challenge, the political will to respond to it and the resources necessary to an appropriate response are the three bases for any improvement in Africa's situation. The will exists and Africa has made enormous efforts to prepare the social and political environment necessary to development.”
1998-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3875Resumption1 (1998) · source
“Africa certainly did not choose, moreover, to be underdeveloped, nor did it choose to be stricken by waves of epidemics and natural disasters. Africa needs to be helped to avoid the temptation of soliciting help from the rich and so that its children might no longer be siphoned off by humiliating and futile emigrations. In convening this special meeting devoted to Africa, the Security Council is sending our continent a reassuring signal full of hope. May that signal be followed by concrete action to make up the delays and bring us in step with the twenty-first century. Allow me to conclude by saying that a comprehensive effort should be made to give impetus to Africa's renewed quest for peace and greater prosperity.”
1998-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3875Resumption1 (1998) · source
“But an undertaking of such scope can succeed only if the international community, in a massive show of solidarity, agrees to make an enormous contribution in order to allow the African continent to become a true partner and to contribute, in its turn, to overall development. The United States certainly did so following the Second World War. Our community, comprising all the developed national entities, is undoubtedly more prosperous and stronger. It, too, could do so, but will it agree to make such a sacrifice to save Africa? That would require a new spirit, a new philosophy on the part of the industrialized countries, and the will to leave old notions and outmoded strategies behind. Africa did not choose to solve its problems by incessant wars.”
1998-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3875Resumption1 (1998) · source
“Furthermore, Morocco fully endorses the idea that the creditors should consider entirely forgiving the debt of the poorest countries of Africa and that the most industrialized countries entertain the possibility of eliminating trade barriers against African products and ensure that the larger part of the resources provided for assistance are effectively spent in Africa. On the subject of development assistance, Morocco, as was noted by its sovereign, His Majesty King Hassan II, was the first, at the Ministerial Meeting of the Uruguay Round held in Marrakesh in 1994, to call for the launching of a "Marshall Plan" for Africa and for an intensification of international efforts to help the African States to develop their economies and strengthen their integration into the world economy.”
1998-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3875Resumption1 (1998) · source
“This initiative reflects the European Union's growing awareness of Africa. In this respect, Morocco has proposed a ministerial meeting to prepare for the summit. Moreover, we welcome the United Nations initiative for Africa and believe it imperative that the appropriate conditions for its success be ensured through the provision of the necessary financial and technical support by the United Nations and the international community. Morocco can only support the Secretary-General's principal recommendations on Africa, particularly those that call for establishing structural adjustment programmes that are fully compatible with peace, in order to ensure that the assistance is structured to focus on the areas where it will be most effective and to reduce the dependence of the African countries.”
1998-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3875Resumption1 (1998) · source
“In doing so, they have yet again demonstrated and strengthened the notion that negotiation is superior to sanctions and other coercive measures. The precarious economic situation in Africa continues to preoccupy the international community. This situation is particularly evident in the continent's feeble participation in international trade, its increased debt burden, a chronic deficit in its infrastructures, the highly advanced degeneration of its social and health conditions, and the paucity of foreign investment despite the massive structural reforms undertaken by these countries. In this regard, Morocco welcomed with great pleasure Portugal's initiative to convene a Euro-African summit to consider and seek appropriate solutions to the situation on our continent.”
1998-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3875Resumption1 (1998) · source
“With regard to security and stability, Morocco has followed with real concern the emergence and longevity of hotbeds of tension in certain African regions and reaffirms its determination to join and support the efforts of the international community, and the United Nations in particular, to find adequate and lasting solutions to these crises. With respect to North Africa, it seems undeniable to us that a situation such as that brought about by the Lockerbie affair cannot be passed over in silence while we speak today about peace, security and stability in Africa. The regional organizations - Arab, Islamic, African and non-aligned - have all taken a position in favour of a settlement that we feel is truly just and truly fair.”
1998-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3875Resumption1 (1998) · source
“These standards would undoubtedly help us to avoid characterizing as genocide a conflict that claims 300 victims in one region, while, in another part of the world - in this case, Africa - we allow 300,000 Victims to fall before crying genocide. Morocco, as a part of Africa and through its age-old and diverse links to the other countries of the continent, is aware of the responsibilities arising from that connection and expresses its deep concern over the degeneration of the political and socio-economic situation in several regions of the continent.”
1998-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3875Resumption1 (1998) · source
“The tragic state of affairs on the African continent is certainly the foremost among those questions calling on the international community to pool its efforts in the search for effective and practical solutions for improving the grave economic, social and humanitarian situation on our continent, which has been exacerbated by such tragedies as civil wars, rampant epidemics and disease, and desertification, not to mention the refugee problem and its related difficulties. With your permission, Mr. President, a question comes to mind: Is it not time for us to establish, together, clear and realistic standards for defining the meaning of the word "genocide"?”
1998-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3875Resumption1 (1998) · source
“As everyone knows, despite notable progress achieved by some African countries in the economic and political areas, the scope and intensity of armed conflicts in the continent remain the subject of deep concern to the international community. The 30 wars which have ravaged Africa since 1970 have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of refugees and displaced persons and have compromised all the efforts made by Africa to ensure peace, stability and prosperity.”
1998-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3875Resumption1 (1998) · source
“The meeting of the Security Council at the level of Ministers for Foreign Affairs on 25 September 1997, convened on the initiative of the United States and Japan to examine the issue of joint international action to promote peace and security in Africa, was a welcome and necessary initiative. Indeed, it allowed us finally to draw the attention of the international community to the ills and the tragic situation currently being experienced by our continent. The report of the Secretary-General, which we welcome, outlines and presents the true problems, principal causes and realistic and achievable remedies for meeting the numerous problems faced by African countries and promoting peace and sustainable development in Africa.”
1998-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3875Resumption1 (1998) · source
“Mr. Snoussi (Morocco) (interpretation from French): Allow me, first of all, to express to you Sir, my country's deep satisfaction upon seeing you preside over the Security Council, and to extend our congratulations to your predecessor, Mr. Abdoulie Sallah, for the very efficient manner in which he conducted the work of the Council. The Kingdom of Morocco cannot but welcome the holding of today's meeting concerning a continent of which we are a part. My country wishes to take this opportunity to applaud the tireless efforts made by the current President of the Security Council, Japan, with regard to the development and prosperity of the African economies, particularly through the Tokyo International Conference on African Development.”
1998-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3875Resumption1 (1998) · source
“Let us, therefore, put an end to the sufferings a people and assuage the grief of all those families who all want to know and want to see justice - real justice - done.”
1998-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3864 (1998) · source
“These decisions are, above all, an opportunity for the international community to find an equitable and legally respectable solution to a conflict in which the Libyan people have been, as we have said, unjustly punished. In the meantime, the greater part of the international community will deem it completely logical, wise and justified that the sanctions be suspended, if not outright lifted. It has been 10 years that relatives have been waiting and six years now that the sanctions have inflicted great suffering upon an entire people. And if this situation continues while we overlook what happened at the International Court of Justice, the very prestige of this Organization may well be called into question. Let us not lose any more time.”
1998-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3864 (1998) · source
“The Judgments of the International Court of Justice should be regarded as a success indeed for the United Nations and all of its organs, because those decisions are strengthening in a timely manner our credibility and our ability to remain objective and impartial. For these reasons, it would seem highly desirable for us, having heard the views of numerous countries from all corners of the globe, to take a moment to reflect on how inhuman and inequitable is the systematic procedure of simply renewing the sanctions every 120 days. We should also realize that, given the various proposals that have been made, both before and after the decisions of the International Court of Justice, a solution is within our grasp.”
1998-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3864 (1998) · source
“In voicing the hope that this debate will take place, the various players involved, such as my country, are motivated by the desire to see the Council consider new approaches and new procedures. The initiative taken recently by the Secretary-General in the matter of the inspections in Iraq undoubtedly is a good omen. The assistance, the openness and the understanding that has been displayed by the parties to the conflict we are dealing with today should be emphasized and should inspire us with fresh hope. The decisions taken by the International Court of Justice in connection with this matter are not intended as either a challenge or an act of hostility towards the Security Council or its prestige.”
1998-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3864 (1998) · source
“They all proposed these options: to hold the trial of suspects in a third and neutral country to be determined by the Security Council; to have the suspects tried by Scottish judges at the seat of the International Court of Justice at The Hague, in accordance with Scottish law; or to establish a special criminal tribunal within the International Court of Justice to try the suspects. We are convinced that the recent decisions of the International Court of Justice, in contributing to the culmination of the efforts made by the international community, will afford the Security Council a better grasp of the true dimensions of this conflict in which an entire people continues to suffer and to be punished.”
1998-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3864 (1998) · source
“Libya also suggested that the Secretary-General be charged with setting up a collegial body, composed of judges well known for their neutrality and their integrity, to determine the truth of the charges levelled against the two suspects, and that if their guilt were to be established, they would be handed over to a third country under the supervision of the Secretary-General. Lastly, Libya proposed that the matter be brought to the League of Arab States, the Organization of African Unity, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, or the Non-Aligned Movement, in accordance with Article 33 of the Charter. The various regional groups, for their part, proposed options aimed at finding a solution that would put an end to the dispute and to the sufferings that have been imposed on the innocent Libyan people.”
1998-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3864 (1998) · source