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Zarif

lines on the record: 520
first: 1992-01-21
most recent: 2019-09-25
sittings or episodes: 43
sources: un-security-council

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“Upholding the rights of States parties to international treaties is as essential as ensuring respect for their obligations. Those regimes, including the NPT, are sustained by a balance between rights and obligations. Threats will not sustain the NPT or other international regimes; ensuring that members can draw rightful benefits from membership, and that non-members are not rewarded for their intransigence, will. Yet, exactly the opposite is the trend today. Today we are witness to an extremely dangerous trend. While members of the NPT are denied their rights and are punished, those who defy the NPT, particularly the perpetrators of the current carnage in Lebanon and Palestine, are rewarded with generous nuclear cooperation agreements.”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“The Non-Aligned Movement, in its recent ministerial statement referred to earlier, stressed "the fundamental distinction between the legal obligations of States to their respective safeguards agreements and any confidence-building measures voluntarily undertaken to resolve difficult issues" and "that such voluntary undertakings are not legal safeguards obligations". The sole reason for pushing the Council to take action, as highlighted in the resolution, is that Iran decided, after over two years of negotiations, to resume the exercise of its inalienable right to nuclear technology for peaceful purposes by partially reopening its fully safeguarded facilities and ending a voluntary suspension. Iran's right to enrich uranium is recognized under the NPT.”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“Today's proposed action by the Council - which is the culmination of those efforts aimed at making the suspension of uranium enrichment mandatory - violates the fundamental principles of international law, the Treaty on the Non- Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and IAEA Board resolutions. It also runs counter to the views of the majority of Member States, which the Security Council is obliged to represent. The IAEA Board, in its November 2004 resolution, ironically drafted by the very same sponsors of today's resolution, declared that suspension "is a voluntary, non-legally binding, confidence-building measure". That was repeated as recently as 15 June 2006, in the IAEA Board Chairman's conclusion.”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“But, claiming to represent the international community itself, the European Union three (EU-3), in their so-called package of incentives last August, asked Iran to "make a binding commitment not to pursue fuel cycle activities" (IAEA information circular INFCIRC/65], attachment, para. 34). A cursory look at the chronology of events since last August indicates that Iran's rejection of that illegal and unwarranted demand has been, and continues to be, the sole reason for the imposition of resolutions and statements on the Board of the International Atomic Energy Agency and on the Security Council.”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“The Non-Aligned Movement, comprising an overwhelming majority of the Members of the Organization, in the recent statement of its ministers, meeting in Putrajaya, "stressed that there should be no undue pressure or interference in the Agency's activities, especially its verification process, which would jeopardize the efficiency and credibility of the Agency" and that "nothing should be interpreted in a way as inhibiting or restricting this right of States to develop atomic energy for peaceful purposes". They also reaffirmed that "States' choices and decisions in the field of peaceful uses of nuclear technology and its fuel-cycle policies must be respected".”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“They welcomed "the readiness of the Islamic Republic of Iran to settle all remaining outstanding issues peacefully"; recognized that "any attempt aimed at limiting the application of peaceful uses of nuclear energy would affect the sustainable development of developing countries"; rejected "discrimination and double standards in peaceful uses of nuclear energy"; and, finally, expresssed "concern over any unwanted consequences on the peace and security of the region and beyond of threats and pressures on Iran by certain circles to renounce its inalienable right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes".”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“The 57 members of the OIC, in their recent ministerial meeting in Baku, expressed their "conviction that the only way to resolve Iran's nuclear issue is to resume negotiations without preconditions" (A/60/915, annex, enclosure 2, para. 12).”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“I might add that, out of three sponsors of today's resolution, two are obviously in the privileged class, self-immunized from any scrutiny, but the third is in the same category as Iran. Iran's peaceful nuclear programme poses no threat to international peace and security, and therefore dealing with that issue in the Security Council is unwarranted and void of any legal basis or practical utility. Far from reflecting, as advertised, the concerns of the international community, the approach of the sponsors flouts the stated position of the overwhelming majority of the international community, clearly reflected in the most recent statements by the foreign ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement and of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), and partly reflected in the June 2006 IAEA Board Chairman's conclusion.”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“The Agency reaffirmed once again in paragraph 53 of the same report that it "has not seen any diversion of nuclear material to nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices" (ibid.). Much has been made, including in today's resolution, of a statement by the IAEA that it is not yet in a position "to conclude that there are no undeclared nuclear materials or activities in Iran" (GOV/2005/67, para. 51). But the sponsors have conveniently ignored the repeated acknowledgment by the Director-General of the IAEA that "the process of drawing such a conclusion... is a time consuming process" (ibid.). They also ignored the addendum to the 2005 IAEA safeguards implementation report, released in June 2006, which indicates that 45 other countries are in the same category as Iran, including 14 Europeans and several members of this Council.”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“In November 2003 and in the wake of sensational media reports on the so-called 18-years of concealment by Iran, the Agency confirmed that "[t]o date, there is no evidence that the previously undeclared nuclear material and activities... were related to a nuclear weapons programme" (GOV/2003/75, para. 52). We all remember how that statement was received by the United States Under-Secretary of State of the time. The same conclusion can be found in other IAEA reports, even as recently as that of February 2006, which states that, "[a]s indicated to the Board in November 2004, and again in September 2005, all the declared nuclear material in Iran has been accounted for" (GOV/2006/15, para. 53).”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“It included more than 2,000 inspector-days of scrutiny over the past three years; the signing of the Additional Protocol on 18 December 2003 and its immediate implementation until 6 February 2006; the submission of more than 1,000 pages of declaration under the Additional Protocol; allowing over 53 instances of complementary access to different sites across the country; and permitting inspectors to investigate baseless allegations by taking the unprecedented step of providing repeated access to military sites. Consequently, all reports of the IAEA since November 2003 have been indicative of the peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear programme.”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“Iran has also clearly and continuously stressed that nuclear weapons have no place in its military doctrine. The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in his statement before the General Assembly last September, also underlined Iran's fundamental rejection of nuclear weapons, as well as the need to strengthen and revitalize the non-proliferation Treaty. He also stressed that "continued interaction and technical and legal cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency will be the centerpiece of our nuclear policy" (A/60/PV.10, 13.8). In order to dispel any doubt about our peaceful nuclear programme, we enabled the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to carry out a series of inspections that amounts to the most robust inspection of any IAEA member State.”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“Rest assured, though, we are not relying on the Security Council as the only tool in our toolbox to address this problem." The people and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran are determined to exercise their inalienable right to nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and to build on their own scientific advances in developing various peaceful aspects of that technology. At the same time, as the only victims of the use of weapons of mass destruction in recent history, they reject the development and use of all those inhuman weapons on ideological as well as strategic grounds. The leader of the Islamic Republic has issued a public and categorical religious decree against the development, production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons.”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“On the other hand, over the past few years, a few big Powers have spared no effort in turning the Security Council, or the threat of resorting to it, into a tool for attempting to prevent Iran from exercising its inalienable right to nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, recognized explicitly under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The intention to use the Council only as a tool for that or even more dangerous ends could not have been made clearer than in the statement by the permanent representative of the United States at the meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on 5 March this year: "It is critical that we use the Council to help mobilize international public opinion.”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“Over the past several weeks, this body has been prevented from moving to stop the massive aggression against the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples and the resulting terrible humanitarian crisis. Diplomatic words fail to describe the way the massacre in Qana was addressed yesterday. Nor is the Council given the slightest chance of addressing the aggressor's nuclear arsenal, despite its compulsive propensity to engage in aggression and carnage. Likewise, the Security Council has been prevented from reacting to the daily threats of resort to force against Iran, even threats of using nuclear weapons uttered at the highest levels by representatives of the United States, the United Kingdom and the lawless Israeli regime, in violation of Article 2 (4) of the Charter.”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“The first Security Council resolution calling for withdrawal came in July 1982, only after the Iranian people had already single-handedly liberated their territory against all odds. Nor was this Council allowed for several long years, and in spite of mounting evidence and United Nations reports, to deal with the use of chemical weapons by the former Iraqi dictator against Iranian civilians and military personnel because, as a former United States Defense Intelligence Agency official told the New York Times, "The Pentagon was not so horrified by Iraq's use of gas... It was just another way of killing people." Just another way. Some 20 years later, tens of thousands of Iranians continue to suffer and die from that "just another way".”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“More recently, Saddam Hussein's aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran on 22 September 1980 and his swift advance to occupy 30,000 square kilometres of Iranian territory did not trouble the same permanent members of the Security Council enough to make them consider it a threat to international peace and security or even to make the routine call for a ceasefire and withdrawal. I wonder if I can still call it a "routine call" these days. Nor did they find it necessary even to adopt a resolution for seven long days after the aggression, hoping that their generally held, utter miscalculation that Saddam could put an end to the Islamic Republic within a week would be realized. Sounds familiar these days, does it not? Even then, and for the following two long years, they did not deem fit to call for a withdrawal of the invading forces.”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“That draft resolution preceded a coup d'etat organized by the United States and the United Kingdom in a less-veiled attempt to restore their short- sighted interests. The coup, which was obviously no longer disguisable in the language of the Charter or by diplomatic subterfuge, restored the brutal dictatorship. The people of Iran nevertheless succeeded in nationalizing the oil industry, thus pioneering a courageous movement in the developing world to demand their inalienable right to exercise sovereignty over their natural resources.”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“Before I do so, however, allow me to express our profound appreciation to our neighbour Qatar for its negative vote based on its position of principle as well as its legitimate concern for the stability of our region. This is not the first time that Iran's endeavours to stand on its own feet and make technological advances have faced stiff resistance and concerted pressure from some Powers permanently represented in the Security Council. In fact, contemporary Iran has been subjected to numerous injustices and prejudicial approaches by those Powers. In a draft resolution submitted on 12 October 1951 by the United Kingdom and supported in the Council by the United States and France, the Iranian people's struggle to nationalize their oil industry was touted as a threat to international peace and security.”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“In my letter of 28 July 2006 addressed to the President of the Security Council, I requested an opportunity to speak before the Council took action so that the Council would be apprised - for the first time, I might add - of the views of the concerned party before it adopted a decision. Members may recall that my previous request to speak before the Council, when it adopted its presidential statement on 29 March, was also denied. It is indeed indicative of the degree of the Council's transparency and fairness that it has adopted a presidential statement and a resolution without even allowing the views of the concerned party to be heard. Be that as it may, I will make - for the record, I presume - the statement that was intended for presentation before action.”
2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5500 (2006) · source
“Those allegations emanate from the occupying regime and are relayed by Zionist quarters across the globe to overshadow its crimes. Iran supports the people and the Governments of Palestine and Lebanon and is prepared to provide them with political and humanitarian assistance in helping them restore their legitimate right to territorial integrity and self-determination.”
2006-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5493Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Let me just state for the record, in response to what has become a patented and, indeed, tired smokescreen for the Israeli representative and his supporters in their attempts to evade responsibility for the crimes that are being perpetrated, that my Government categorically rejects the baseless allegations against Iran that were repeated today in the Council. Those allegations are merely part and parcel of an elaborate Zionist scheme to break resistance to aggression and invasion in the region and to deflect attention from the root cause of all tensions in the Middle East, that is, the continued occupation of Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian territories and its fallout, including the illegal detention of thousands of Arabs and the violation of their rights.”
2006-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5493Resumption1 (2006) · source
“An immediate and unconditional ceasefire and an end to the siege of Lebanon is what the peoples of the United Nations demand and what the Security Council should try to achieve. While many lives are being shattered, families broken apart, civilian infrastructure devastated and the stability of the wider region threatened, it is cynical to place the plans and interests of the occupying regime ahead of those of others and refrain from even calling for an immediate ceasefire. We support a comprehensive solution to the crisis that takes the legitimate demands of the aggrieved people into account, including the release of the Lebanese and Palestinian detainees, and holds the aggressors accountable for the lives lost and the infrastructure devastated.”
2006-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5493Resumption1 (2006) · source
“More importantly, it is regrettable that the Security Council, long after such grave breaches of international peace and security and the threat of their spillover into adjacent areas, has been rendered incapable of addressing the crisis, utterly failing to live up to its responsibility under the United Nations Charter. That failure has been taken as a licence by the aggressors to kill and wreak havoc across Gaza and Lebanon. It would be a travesty of justice and grossly against the interest of peace and stability in the region if the Council, after 10 days of inaction, was forced to simply relay the Israeli conditions and help to impose them on the Lebanese and Palestinian people.”
2006-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5493Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Wide-ranging operations aiming at, among other things, imposing sea, air and land blockades on a whole country in a sensitive region could not have been carried out without prior planning and prior coordination with the supporting Power and the receipt of the necessary green light. The joint rejection of all calls for ceasefire is further proof. The current position of the United States Government is not only the culmination but pushing to the extremes of decades of unswerving support for Israeli aggressions against the Muslim and Arab people in the region, leading, inter alia, to 31 vetoes and supporting the flouting of those resolutions that, under special circumstances, escaped the United States veto.”
2006-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5493Resumption1 (2006) · source
“The new round is more alarming as it occurs at a sensitive time when various Lebanese communities and parties are engaged in a national endeavour to reach a comprehensive understanding through an all-inclusive national dialogue, an effort that the aggressors aim to defeat as well. It is important to note that this Israeli onslaught is part of their designs on Lebanon, exemplified in their repeated violations of Lebanese borders and airspace, holding on to the Shaba'a farms and keeping Lebanese detainees. Those designs have continued in the years since their retreat from that country. In fact, the blanket air strikes and artillery and missile attacks against targets across Lebanon immediately after the border incident on 12 July are indicative of a pre-existing plan.”
2006-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5493Resumption1 (2006) · source
“And while the massive propaganda machine may try to reverse the truth and spread smokescreens to hide the ugly face of aggression, millions of the peoples of the United Nations who have turned out in the streets across the globe know exactly where the blame should lie and which regimes rightly belong in the axis of evil and terror. They know who are the culprits and their supporters who have destabilized the region, frustrated the aspirations for peace and justice, punished entire populations for their democratic choice and plunged the Middle East into chaos and who are actively provoking a wider conflict. The brutal collective punishment that the Lebanese and Palestinian people are now enduring is the Israeli signature brand of aggression, which the peoples in the region have experienced time and again in the past several decades.”
2006-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5493Resumption1 (2006) · source
“The latest United States veto in the Council further emboldened the aggressors to continue and widen their crimes with apparent impunity. Yet if history is any guide, while the war machine of the aggressor may be able to lay waste to buildings and infrastructures, kill and maim civilians and take their elected representatives hostage, it is impossible to intimidate the people of Palestine and Lebanon into submission, quash their desire to live free from occupation and terror and crush the hope of refugees to one day return home. In fact, experience indicates that such onslaughts strengthen, not weaken, the resolve of the people to resist aggression, occupation, intimidation and terror.”
2006-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5493Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Still more daunting, with the increasing lack of food and medicine, attacks on humanitarian convoys and disrupted water and electricity supplies, a serious humanitarian crisis is in the making. No stretching of international law or of the principles of the Charter - even by the most highly paid lawyers, pundits or politicians - can logically sell such unbridled, disproportionate and indiscriminate barbarism and collective punishment against civilians as self-defence. The aggression against Lebanon followed similar aggression against the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian people were and continue to be subjected to the same collective punishment by the same perpetrators. In Gaza too, the civilian infrastructure is devastated and the civilian population terrorized.”
2006-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5493Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Ten long days of blanket and indiscriminate air, missile and artillery strikes against civilians and civilian infrastructure across Lebanon have gone by while this Council has been prevented from even calling for a ceasefire. Meanwhile, more than 350 innocent civilians have been murdered, over a thousand maimed and hundreds of thousands rendered homeless in a proclaimed response to the capture of two soldiers. Terrorism in the truest sense of the word is on display, as the aggressor gives short notice before beginning to bomb entire neighbourhoods and regions. With bridges, roads, tunnels, seaports and airports already hit and a complete blockade imposed, terrorized civilians are left to wonder how to flee and where to seek refuge.”
2006-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5493Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Allow me to begin, Mr. President, by congratulating your delegation on assuming the Council presidency, as well as your predecessor for her able stewardship of the Council last month. I also wish to thank you for convening this open meeting on an issue that is truly threatening international peace and security. The international community is witnessing with horror and indignation the daily exacerbation of two cases of blatant and premeditated aggression and multiple war crimes perpetrated by the Israeli regime against the people of Palestine and Lebanon under absurd and all too familiar pretexts. Meanwhile this Council, entrusted with the responsibility of preserving international peace and security and suppressing acts of aggression, is forced into inaction and appeasement by the patrons of the aggressor.”
2006-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5493Resumption1 (2006) · source
“I should only like to point out that the Islamic Republic of Iran has officially declared its commitment to the fundamental principle of the Charter to refrain from the threat or use of force against any Member of the United Nations. On the other hand, the daily barrage of illegal threats relating to the resort to force by officials of the Israeli regime, recent instances of which started in December 2003 and continue to date, requires urgent and serious attention by the Council. At the very least, the Council should demand that the Israeli regime abandon its policy of flouting international law and the Charter of the United Nations and cease and desist immediately from resorting to the threat of the use of force.”
2006-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5411 (2006) · source
“We are convinced that a durable peace in Palestine will be possible through justice, an end to discrimination, an end to the occupation of Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese territories, the return of all Palestinian refugees, a democratic mechanism through which all inhabitants of Palestine as well as the Palestinians driven out of their homeland would have the possibility to determine their future in a democratic and peaceful fashion, and the establishment of a democratic Palestinian State with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital. Finally, I do not wish to take the time of the Council to respond to the irresponsible claims of the Israeli representative.”
2006-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5411 (2006) · source
“The Council cannot and should not turn a blind eye to such a critical situation. Those who prevent the Council from addressing the situation should be held accountable for the escalation of the crisis and instability. It is evident that achieving a peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine is imperative for the attainment of a comprehensive and lasting peace and stability in the Middle East. Peace in the Middle East cannot be achieved through aggression, State terrorism, intimidation and occupation.”
2006-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5411 (2006) · source
“Nuclear weapons in the hands of a regime with an unprecedented record of State terrorism and resort to aggression and the threat of force against other countries present a real threat to regional and global peace and security and to the non-proliferation regime. That threat needs to be urgently and decisively addressed by the international community, and the initiative for the creation of a zone free from weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East should be actively pursued. The question of Palestine lies at the core of the Middle East issue. Deterioration of the situation in Palestine not only threatens the wider region, but also adversely impacts global peace and security. The recent Israeli war crimes in Gaza have led to more instability and inflame tensions and threaten to further destabilize the situation in the region.”
2006-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5411 (2006) · source
“The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has done its share in financially assisting the Palestinian Authority in order to alleviate the humanitarian suffering of the Palestinian people, which has deepened as a result of the restrictions on aid applied by certain countries. In the context of Israel's defiance of the international community, particular reference should be made to the infamous Israeli nuclear weapons programme, which is a showcase of five decades of concealment and deception and total disregard for the demands of the international community, as echoed in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) 2000 Review Conference, which specifically called upon Israel to accede to the NPT immediately and without any condition.”
2006-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5411 (2006) · source
“Similarly, the withholding of aid to the Palestinian Authority by certain countries amounts to punishment of the Palestinians for exercising their basic right in choosing their own representatives. In fact, by taking such inadmissible punitive measures against a nation, the principles of democracy and democratic choice of the people are breached by those who often pretend to preach them. Israel should disburse to the Palestinian Authority, without further delay, the full amount of the monthly tax and custom revenues which rightfully belong to the Palestinian people. Besides, the international community should continue to provide financial and economic grants and assistance to the Palestinian Authority so as to avoid any dangerous repercussions in the day-to-day lives of the Palestinian people.”
2006-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5411 (2006) · source
“In fact, the Council cannot retain its credibility and authority when its work is labeled an exercise in group therapy and while it has been ineffective and inactive in addressing the Israeli crimes in Palestine as the gravest situation of international concern. The Palestinian Legislative Council elections, which reflected the free will of the Palestinian people in exercising their democratic rights, were, a democratic accomplishment for which the Palestinian people should be congratulated and admired. The democratic choice of the Palestinian people deserves to receive the respect and support of the international community. The Israeli decision to halt the transfer of taxes due the Palestinians is nothing but the blackmailing of the Palestinian people for exercising their democratic rights.”
2006-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5411 (2006) · source
“Regrettably, the Council has thus far failed to take any serious and tangible action, or even to attempt to implement its own modest and limited decisions on the Palestinian question, due to the unconditional support extended to Israel by a permanent member of the Council. It is regrettable that such a failure has become a commonplace feature of the Council, even in the wake of the most atrocious crimes committed by Israel. The recent opposition of the same permanent member to the adoption of two presidential statements on the Palestinian issue in the course of the past five weeks cannot but be regarded as explicit support for the unlawful activities persistently pursued by Israel.”
2006-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5411 (2006) · source
“It is therefore high time for the international community to take effective measures to protect and enforce the basic rights of the Palestinian people and to help put an end to their suffering caused by the illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories by Israel. The Security Council, which has the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security, should live up to that immense duty by preventing Israel from continuing to commit atrocities and flout the will of the international community, as incorporated in numerous United Nations resolutions.”
2006-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5411 (2006) · source
“At the same time, settlement construction and land confiscation in the West Bank and other parts of the Palestinian territories are continuing unabated. As eloquently stated by the Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People in last month's meeting of the Council (S/PV.5404), Israel has continued its unlawful activities in the occupied territories with the intention of undermining the prospects for establishing the Palestinian State, and approximately 12,000 Israelis have established themselves in the West Bank colonies in recent months, while only 9,000 have been evacuated from Gaza and the northern West Bank. The impunity with which Israel has been allowed to carry out its war crimes has emboldened it to continue such policies and practices.”
2006-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5411 (2006) · source
“Increased military operations in densely populated areas, especially in Gaza, indiscriminate use of force by the Israeli army, the practice of collective punishment, extrajudicial killings, targeted assassinations, expansion of settlements and the attack by Israeli forces on the Jericho prison - which happened only a few minutes after American and British observers left the prison - are but a few examples of Israeli breaches of basic international standards and law. Moreover, in defiance of the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice and the unambiguous calls of the international community, the Israeli regime not only continues the construction of the illegal wall in the occupied Palestinian territories, but has even accelerated plans for its completion.”
2006-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5411 (2006) · source
“Recent military operations against Palestinian civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, have only added to the misery and suffering that the Palestinian people have long endured. As a consequence of that military aggression, the casualties and destruction inflicted on the Palestinian people continue to mount. In fact, Israel's deadly air strikes and shelling of Gaza are part of a larger policy characterized by State terrorism, expansionism, aggression and oppression.”
2006-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5411 (2006) · source
“Mr. President, allow me to join those who preceded me in congratulating you and your predecessor on ably leading the work of the Council. The Council has been convened to debate yet another in a series of repeated and grave crimes perpetrated by the Israeli regime against the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories. Indeed, in the course of the past six decades, Palestinians have been subjected to daily brutality by the Israeli regime. The systematic pattern of violations of the most basic human rights of the Palestinian people and massive breaches of international law and international humanitarian law by Israel have continued unabated, resulting in the killing of nearly 4,000 Palestinians just since September 2000.”
2006-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5411 (2006) · source
“In addition, the continuation of the United Nations central role in Afghanistan is indispensable if the country is to gain from the new Compact and to build upon the accomplishments of the Bonn process. As mentioned in the report of the Secretary-General, UNAMA has completed its task with respect to the Bonn Agreement, but its role does not end there. We therefore support the Secretary-General's proposal to extend the mandate of UNAMA as outlined in the report. Before concluding, I wish to reiterate that my Government will continue with its unwavering resolve to help the Afghan Government and people in their endeavour for peace, stability and development.”
2006-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5385 (2006) · source
“We hope that the new conditions in Afghanistan will facilitate the voluntary repatriation of Afghan refugees to their home country in a more timely and promising manner. Furthermore, the Islamic Republic of Iran, in line with its long-established policy of supporting the Afghan people and Government, attended the recent London Conference and the conferences in Kabul and Doha at a very high level. The international community, with the United Nations at the forefront, should continue its support for the Government and the people of Afghanistan in a coordinated manner as they implement the Afghanistan Compact. We are of the view that the leadership role of the Afghan Government and its ownership of the political, security and economic fields in their entirety, should be given the highest priority.”
2006-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5385 (2006) · source
“By pledging $560 million for the reconstruction of Afghanistan at the Tokyo Conference - the highest pledge in terms of the per capita income of the donor countries - the Islamic Republic of Iran is earnestly endeavouring to contribute to Afghanistan's reconstruction and development process. In fulfilment of its pledge, Iran has been engaged in various infrastructural, educational and technical activities in Afghanistan, including road construction, manpower training, electricity projects, the building of schools and vocational centres, the provision of humanitarian services and many other projects. In general, Iran's contribution to the reconstruction of Afghanistan has so far amounted to more than $210 million. Furthermore, Iran has incurred huge costs during the past three decades by hosting almost 3 million Afghan refugees.”
2006-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5385 (2006) · source
“The Islamic Republic of Iran, located on the smuggling route from Afghanistan to Europe in the north and west and to the Persian Gulf and beyond in the south has endured much more than its share in fighting a costly and deadly war against heavily armed drug traffickers in the course of the past 25 years, losing more than 3,400 law enforcement personnel and sustaining huge material losses. We have cooperated with the international community in fighting opium cultivation in Afghanistan and have helped to promote and implement crop-substitution projects in different parts of the country. For my country, which stands at the forefront of the worldwide war against drugs, international support, especially the cooperation of Afghanistan and other neighbouring countries, is essential.”
2006-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5385 (2006) · source
“Moreover, while certain efforts by the Government of Afghanistan have resulted in the reduction of opium cultivation in some regions traditionally known for producing opium, unfortunately opium production has increased throughout the whole country and particularly in the regions bordering Iran. Notwithstanding our extensive and costly campaign against that menace, we have, unfortunately, witnessed over the past year an increase in drug trafficking emanating from Afghanistan.”
2006-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5385 (2006) · source
“This pervasive and thriving economy has provided fertile ground for criminal networks, corruption, insecurity and terrorism in Afghanistan and beyond. We support the sincere steps that the Afghan Government has taken thus far to contain the threat of narcotic drugs. Nevertheless, we believe that much more needs to be done. The magnitude of the drug trade and the immense wealth that it generates, as well as the multifaceted threat that it poses, suggest that combating it will require more concerted and resolute efforts on the part of the Government of Afghanistan and a more responsible approach by the international community, particularly by those with a broad-based military presence in Afghanistan.”
2006-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5385 (2006) · source