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1993-06-29

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1993-06-29

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1. “Ethical and legal duty both oblige us to keep Article 51 of the Charter intact. We have all solemnly committed ourselves to that. We therefore today shoulder our responsibility, however many other considerations may be involved, and declare ourselves, just as we did recently at the World Conference on Human Rights, clearly in favour of the sacred right to self-defence by all necessary means. The CHAIRMAN (interpretation from Spanish): I thank the representative of Costa Rica for the kind words he addressed to me. The next speaker is the representative of Slovenia. I invite him to take a place at the Council table and to make his statement.”

   1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

2. “Today, Costa Rica, which has no standing army and which rejects the use of arms aS a way to resolve d'sputes, believes that even worse than the rumble of the cannons of an aggressoz is having to succumb, defenceless, to the aggressor because one's hands are tied as a result of an unjust international agreement. My delegation therefore urges the Security Council as strongly as we can to lift the embargo on Bosnia and Herzegovina's asquiring arms to defend itself, so that we may prevent as serious a situation as the virtually total dismemberment of that State and the continuation of the monstrous violations of humanitarian law. We believe that in this case one cannot ignore the Charter and one of its fundamental Articles by virtually denying a State the right to survival and subjecting it to a slow, cruel death.”

   1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

3. “One must therefore conclude that notwithstanding its many good intentions, the international community has not managed to find a way to remedy that dreadful situation. As a result it is necessary to consider new options, and it is to them that I direct my remarks. A year ago we warned that an independent, sovereign State, Bosnia and Herzegovina, formally recognized by the United Nations, should not be deprived of access to what it needed to exercise its inherent right to self-defence, whether individual or collective, as guaranteed by Article 51 of the Charter.”

   1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

4. “Mr. TATTENBACH (Costa Rica) (interpretation from Spanish): I begin, Sir, by warmly congratulating you on having assumed the presidency of the Council, and by greeting you and the other members of the Council. I wish also to tell you how pleased I am at the way in which you are directing the affairs of the Council, which holds so much responsibility for the future of mankind. I am sincerely grateful for the opportunity to address the Council. About a year ago I had the honour to express in the General Assembly the anguish and indignation caused in my country by the serious violations of the Charter and international humanitarian law that were occurring daily in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We could not have imagined then that a year later the situation would still be the same or, if that were possible, even considerably worse.”

   1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source