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1992-07-15
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1992-07-15
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  1. “New Zealand is pleased that the South African Government is willing to listen to the views of the United Nations. The step of accepting outside counsel is always a particularly sensitive one, but it can bring helpfui, new perspectives. What is usually required is compromise from all parties. In this connection, it is the view of my Government that any resolution adopted by the Security Council should reflect this quality of compromise and the need for moderation. It should stand against the politics of confrontation and brinkmanship. We salute the remarkable progress which the South African leaders have achieved so far in their negotiations, It will take great courage and determination to move further towards democracy for all of that country's people.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  2. “But it can, in South Africa's case, help create the essential confidence and trust which the parties themselves need to preserve the gains of the CODESA process and to go forward. It is our hope, then, that this Council's decisions will be specific, practical, directed to early implementation, and acceptable to all in South Africa. To this end, New Zealand supports the prompt dispatch of a United Nations Special Representative to South Africa, to undertake consultations and to report back to the Council. Over many years, New Zealand has given firm support to Commonwealth action against apartheid. Our Prime Minister confirmed to the Commonwealth Secretary-General, when they met in our capital recently, that New zealand would consider participating in further Commonwealth initiatives agreed by the major parties in South Africa.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  3. “This tragic legacy of apartheid is wrecking the trust needed to build a new South Africa. It is growing in scale and in ferocity. Those perpetrating violence, or acquiescing in it, must be made to answer. Its containment will require concerted action and discipline. All parties in South Africa, and particularly those in authority, must intensify efforts to bring bloodshed to an end and those responsible to justice. As the Council considers a possible role for the United Nations, we believe that certain principles should guide it. As the tragic decades of apartheid showed, solutions cannot be imposed from outside. International action cannot itself take the piace of national resolve and negotiation.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  4. “It is important that these representatives and others in the CODESA negotiations are attending this session. It is New Zealand's hope that the Council's good will and constructive approach will encourage a determination both to return to the negotiating table as soon as possible and to bring the violence to an end. So much has already been achieved to consign the iniquities of apartheid to history. Those efforts must not be allowed to falter now. There is much still to be done. We see in the politics of drift ana recrimination the greatest danger to hopes for creating a truly democratic and mon-racial South Africa. The aim of all of us must be to put the negotiations in South Africa back on the rails. For negotiations to succeed, the problem of violence must be tackled.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source

  5. “New Zealand congratulates you, Sir, on your assumption of the office of the presidency for the month. We also thank the Security Council for this opportunity to speak here today. I want first to register both our deep concern at the impasse in negotiations in South Africa and our support for their earliest resumption. We are deeply concerned too by the recent violent events in South Africa exemplified so tragically at Boipatong. We welcome the convening of this special meeting. It follows the initiative of South African leaders to approach the United Nations. Initial discussions at the time of the recent OAU Summit in Dakar were held between the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the South African Foreign Minister and the leaders of the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party.”

    1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source