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1992-01-21
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2019-09-25
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  1. “The heinous terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 created unprecedented global momentum to join forces under the umbrella of the United Nations in order to eradicate the menace of terrorism and to prevent the recurrence of similar attacks against innocent civilians. The CTC, which is an embodiment of such a United Nations-led multilateral coalition against terrorism, is doing a commendable job. Yet an opposing unilateralist trend is on the rise that runs the risk of arresting the momentum of that effort and by shattering the universal consensus, undermining the overall effective fight against terrorism.”

    2002-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618 (2002) · source

  2. “Fourthly, a thorough study of existing national laws has been carried out, with a view to ascertaining whether the terrorist acts mentioned in resolution 1373 (2001) are crimes under our domestic laws. While many existing laws make terrorist acts punishable, a comprehensive law on combating terrorism is in preparation and will be submitted to our Parliament in due course. Fifthly, bilateral arrangements have been made with a number of neighbouring countries, as well as with countries from other regions, to deal with security matters and to coordinate counter-terrorism measures.”

    2002-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618 (2002) · source

  3. “Secondly, we have augmented and intensified the practical arrangements to ensure, among other things, the safety and security of civil aviation; increased security at the borders with a view to preventing the entry of terrorists into our territory; and enhanced the anti-money-laundering mechanisms in the banking system. Thirdly, the forces at our 900- kilometre border with Afghanistan have been increased in order to identify and to arrest individuals suspected of being involved in terrorist activities. Simultaneously, several large-scale operations to locate and remove "safe houses" in the eastern provinces have been carried out. As a result, some 150 suspected individuals of many nationalities have been arrested and handed over to the authorities of their respective countries.”

    2002-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618 (2002) · source

  4. “We have all emphasized the central role of the United Nations, and we thus acknowledge the important contribution of the CTC during the first year of its work. I would like to reaffirm that my Government is fully committed to cooperate with the Committee and, in that context, is in the process of finalizing its second report to the CTC. Here, I wish to cite briefly a number of areas where we have undertaken new measures. First, a national coordination committee has been established to facilitate the implementation of Security Council resolution 1373 (2001).”

    2002-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618 (2002) · source

  5. “I should like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and also to commend your predecessor, Ambassador Tafrov of Bulgaria. I wish especially to thank the Secretary- General for his thoughtful and far-sighted remarks to the Council earlier this morning. I would also like to thank Sir Jeremy Greenstock for his excellent work as Chairman of the Counter- Terrorism Committee (CTC) and for his comprehensive briefing today. My thanks go also to the three Vice- Chairmen of the Committee and to all its members and experts for their dedicated efforts to implement the tasks assigned to the Committee. The fight against terrorism remains a priority for the international community.”

    2002-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618 (2002) · source

  6. “It is time for the Council to act more resolutely and demand full compliance with its resolutions. It is very unfortunate that those who sometimes stretch Council resolutions to advance their interests have no qualms about seeing the flouting of the letter and the spirit of clear-cut resolutions on the Palestinian question. There is no doubt that selective enforcement of Security Council resolutions has an adverse impact on the authority of the Council and thereby undermines the overall international security system. It is also time for the Council to seriously consider the establishment of an international force to provide basic protection for defenceless Palestinian civilians.”

    2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source

  7. “It should be borne in mind that the exceptional nature of the response demonstrates the exceptionally ruthless nature of the crimes committed against the Palestinian people over a very long period of time - crimes that by any measure are unprecedented even in comparison with similar instances in the colonial era. Israel continues to flout all provisions of international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention, particularly those banning indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force and the humiliating treatment of civilian populations. It is also adamant in showing contempt for the recent resolutions of the Council, which stipulate its withdrawal from the re- occupied lands. We believe that the Security Council should not stand idly by and let its authority erode.”

    2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source

  8. “The ongoing siege of President Arafat's compound and what preceded it in the past several weeks confirm once again the View that he does not believe in a negotiated settlement. Nor did his predecessors really believe in the peace process, for they ceaselessly expanded settlement activity on the very lands from which they ostensibly negotiated the withdrawal. In the midst of tragic events taking place in the course of this ongoing conflict, the international community must contemplate the reasons that prompt Palestinian teenagers and youngsters, who normally should see a bright future ahead, to sacrifice their lives.”

    2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source

  9. “Settlement building activities went on ceaselessly. In other words, the Israelis were deliberately seeking to provoke a response, thereby to find yet another excuse to derail any effort that might one day lead to the restoration of Palestinian national rights. Throughout the ongoing conflict, Mr. Sharon has demonstrated that he continues to have his longstanding agenda; he spares no effort and misses no opportunity to push ahead with it. That agenda seeks to squash the Palestinians and to conquer them completely. The basic strategy upon which the agenda is predicated is to make the Palestinians capitulate fully and to have them renounce their basic legitimate national rights.”

    2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source

  10. “The shooting and killing of several Palestinian demonstrators, the closure of the East Jerusalem offices of the president of Al-Quds University by the Israeli police, the tightening of curfews on several Palestinian towns and the raids carried out in Tulkarem and in several parts of the Gaza Strip are among other recent repressive measures that followed the raid on the compound. By launching a new round of violence and by making an issue of the Palestinians in the compound, Mr. Sharon seeks to sabotage any effort to develop a road map for establishing a Palestinian State. In the past several weeks of relative calm in the occupied territories, the Israelis never stopped their campaign. They kept up their attacks, including the bombing of a Palestinian school. Tight closures and curfew regulations continued unabated.”

    2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source

  11. “I am pleased, Sir, to see you presiding over the Council this month and would like to thank you for having convened this public meeting on the grave situation in the Palestinian territories. While the broad repression of the Palestinians in the occupied territories has continued unabated, the recent onslaught by the Israelis against President Arafat's compound in Ramallah is deliberately designed to further deteriorate the situation. Flattening all the buildings in the compound with the sole exception of a wing of an office building, digging a deep trench, running coils of barbed wire and placing explosives, tanks and bulldozers around the main building attest to the expansionist designs of the Israelis.”

    2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source

  12. “The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran wishes to reiterate that it has categorically condemned and continues to condemn all forms of international terrorism. In our view, all acts constituting unlawful interference with international civil aviation must be suppressed irrespective of the situation or the motives of the offender. To achieve this end, however, other laws are not to be violated; such practice becomes the fruit of the poisonous tree and thus unacceptable to men of reason.”

    1992-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3033 (1992) · source

  13. “Paragraph 1 of article 14 reads in part as follows; "Any dispute between two or more Contracting States concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention which cannot be settled through negotiation Shall, at the request of one of them, be submitted to arbitration," My delegation believes that the Libyan offer to submit the case to international arbitration is a prudent course of action which deserves the Support of the international community. Such a course of action is consistent with both the letter and the spirit of international law and affords a greater degree of independent inquiry. Above all, it will preserve the integrity of the United Nations in general and the Security Council in particular.”

    1992-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3033 (1992) · source

  14. “In light of the above, and for the sake of the integrity of the Organization, we call upon the parties concerned to heed the principle of peaceful settlement of disputes in accordance with Paragraph 1 of Article 33 of the United Nations Charter, which reads in part as follows; "The parties to any dispute, the continuance of which is likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and security, shall, first of all, seek a solution by negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement ...". Within the broad context of this principle of the United Nations Charter, article 14 of the Montreal Convention of 1971 presents the solution in terms of arbitration.”

    1992-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3033 (1992) · source

  15. “Therefore, the Government of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya has taken the necessary measures in accordance with article 5 of the Montreal Convention to establish jurisdiction in this case, and it has also gone out of its way to accommodate the sponsors of the draft resolution by inviting them and representatives of the international community to monitor its inquiry. In this context, my Government endorses and subscribes to resolution No. 5158 of the Council of the League of Arab States, issued on 16 January 1992 and circulated as Security Council document 8/23436.”

    1992-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3033 (1992) · source

  16. “Libya has welcomed the possibility of a commission of Arab and international jurists following the course of the investigation which the Libyan authorities have initiated upon the requests of the States that have now sponsored the draft resolution. The Libyan Foreign Minister has announced, in his letter to the Secretary-General of the United . woe io Nations circulated as document S/23416, that the United States Administration and the British Government have been requested to nominate lawyers to monitor the fairness and propriety of the inquiries it initiated in that respect.”

    1992-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3033 (1992) · source

  17. “In this context, the applicable rule of international law is not ambiguous. The 23 September 1971 Montreal Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation does not obligate the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to extradite or surrender the alleged offenders to any other State that may also have jurisdiction to try them, provided that Libya, as a Contracting State, undertakes to make the offence mentioned in article 1 of the Convention punishable by severe penalties. Regrettably, the draft resolution before the Security Council goes beyond this explicit rule of international law. This departure from the established rule of law is augmented when the cooperative approach of the Government of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya is taken into account.”

    1992-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3033 (1992) · source

  18. “Thus, Council members are engaged in an endeavour to preserve this right and to make sure that tragedies of this sort do not occur again. This endeavour is most praiseworthy when it is initiated, deliberated and decided upon in accordance only with the rule of law. Assuming that these tragedies are the result of terrorist acts, one Cannot but lend full support to the attempts to establish responsibility for the acts that led to the deaths of so many innocent people. The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran holds the view that all acts constituting an unlawful interference with international civil aviation affect the interests of the international community and must therefore be suppressed, whatever the Situation or the motives of the offenders. As such, the offender or offenders in the present cases must be brought to justice.”

    1992-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3033 (1992) · source

  19. “Boutros Ghali, a distinguished diplomat of high calibre, for his very well-deserved election as Secretary-General of the United Nations, I wish also to congratule the new members of the Security Council and wish them all success. The Security Council is meeting today to decide upon the circumstances o14 two tragic events: the crash of Pan Am flight 103 on 21 December 1988 and of UTA flight 772 on 19 September 1989. The first tragedy took the lives of 270 unsuspecting innocent people and the second resulted in 171 deaths, The issue before the Security Council is, therefore, one which involves a considerable measure of humanity. It is a question of human life; specifically, it is an attempt to preserve the most basic of human rights: the right to one's life.”

    1992-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3033 (1992) · source

  20. “Mr. President, my delegatio and I are pleased to see you presiding over today's important proceedings, @ well as over other crucial issues which the Security Council faces this month. We are confident that under your wise leadership and skilled diploma: the Security Council will do its utmost to uphold the authority of the rules of international law and to cause fairness and justice to prevail. Felicitations and thanks are also due to Ambassador Vorontsov, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, for the excellent manner in which h guided the deliberations of the Council during the preceding month. May I also take this opportunity to congratulate His Excellency Mr.”

    1992-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3033 (1992) · source