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Ziade

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first: 2006-03-30
most recent: 2017-07-25
sittings or episodes: 40
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“Lebanon has repeatedly, and in the person of every one of its officials, expressed its full confidence in the Commission's work and ability to attain the truth. The diverse political scene in my country represents an amalgam of disparate ways of identifying the truth - the whole truth - surrounding the assassination of the martyr leader Rafik Hariri and his companions and the crimes that preceded and followed It. Believing in the role of the International Independent Investigation Commission and its noble objectives, the Government of Lebanon continues to offer all necessary assistance to the Commission and to follow the progress achieved in the investigation as it reaches the important milestone of unmasking the perpetrators of the crimes and bringing them to justice before an international court.”
2006-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5597 (2006) · source
“Ms. Ziade (Lebanon) (spoke in Arabic): The Security Council is meeting today to discuss the report of the International Independent Investigation Commission on the assassination of the martyr leader Rafik Hariri and his companions. This is an occasion to reaffirm the importance of the United Nations follow- up to that fundamental and vital issue in Lebanon. The professional and solid work of Mr. Brammertz and his team is further consolidated by the current report, as it was by previous ones. The report provides additional evidence of the painstaking methodology being used to pursue the investigation and to achieve the progress reflected in the sure and firm advances towards the universally desired objective.”
2006-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5597 (2006) · source
“In order to prevent similar events in the future, whether in the region or in other parts of the world, the forthcoming report concerning the protection of civilians in armed conflict should include a clear and extensive depiction of the suffering endured by the Lebanese civilian population caused by the Israeli attacks this past summer. Although Lebanon expresses the utmost appreciation for all the humanitarian aid and support that it has received from all nations of the world and from the United Nations, it endured extremely harsh circumstances when the ceasefire was constantly delayed, which allowed Israel to continue its violent attacks. Lebanon calls on the Security Council to deploy more efforts in the future to seek a durable and sustainable peaceful solution to armed conflict in the world.”
2006-12-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5577Resumption1 (2006) · source
“In resolution 1674 (2006), adopted on 28 April, the Security Council recalled that deliberately targeting civilians and other protected persons in situations of armed conflict is a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, and the Council asked all parties immediately to put an end to such practices. The high-level Commission of Inquiry, created pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution S-2/ 1, of 11 August 2006, established Israel's responsibility for the gross violations of international humanitarian law committed during its military attacks on Lebanon. It has proved beyond doubt that Israel's claims that it took precautions to protect civilian lives in the conflict were untrue.”
2006-12-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5577Resumption1 (2006) · source
“The twisting of reality and blatant violations of international humanitarian law cannot be accepted. The failure of the Security Council to take responsible action to ensure access to Lebanese civilians and to protect humanitarian convoys over a three-week period should not be repeated. The Security Council has the responsibility to act swiftly to protect civilians. In its presidential statement of 20 December 2002, the Security Council recognized that secure humanitarian access and the clear separation of civilians and combatants should be ensured in armed conflicts.”
2006-12-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5577Resumption1 (2006) · source
“At the Khiam base of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, for example, four United Nations observers lost their lives as a result of a deliberately planned attack. We all remember how a naval blockade and a land blockade were imposed on Lebanon and how the Israeli air force managed to impose a curfew on the country, with countless raids that endangered the humanitarian situation of all Lebanese. To this day, we are still dealing with the lethal effects of the cluster munitions, 90 per cent of which were fired by Israel in the last 72 hours of the aggression. There were 1,159,200 individual bombs dispersed over south Lebanon, concentrated in developed areas and agricultural lands, all of which have since become desolate. Impunity cannot be tolerated.”
2006-12-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5577Resumption1 (2006) · source
“No time was given to the victims to flee, and when time was given, the fleeing civilians were themselves the targets of violent and inhuman attacks. As if all these massacres were not enough; as if the state of panic and fear experienced by the entire Lebanese population, from north to south and from east to west, were insufficient; and as if the attacks against the Lebanese infrastructure, which caused billions of dollars in losses, were inadequate, the Israeli forces prevented humanitarian assistance from reaching large parts of south Lebanon. In a number of instances in which they did allow such assistance, the forces attacked the aid convoys either directly or indirectly. The Israeli forces even attacked United Nations positions and bases.”
2006-12-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5577Resumption1 (2006) · source
“The scope and the scale of the destruction were massive: 1,191 civilians were killed and more than 4,000 were injured. Approximately 900,000 people - one quarter of the Lebanese population - were displaced; many of them are still homeless. Buildings and homes were flattened to the ground. In 34 days, the Israeli forces carried out a massive military campaign. The Israeli air force flew more than 12,000 combat missions, the navy fired 2,500 shells and the army fired more than 100,000 shells. The Israeli army pursued an indiscriminate and deliberate policy of targeting civilians, whether they were hiding in shelters, fleeing in convoys from the area of attack or lying wounded in ambulances and medical facilities. No measures were taken to ensure that the targets of the attacks had no military character.”
2006-12-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5577Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We hail your wisdom and stewardship. At the same time, I would like to express the deepest appreciation to your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of Peru. Finally, I would like to thank Mr. Jan Egeland, not only for his briefing today, but also for the work that he accomplished during his tenure in general and during the humanitarian crisis that my country, Lebanon, witnessed last summer. I salute him and wish him all the best in his future endeavours. Between 12 July and 14 August 2006, Lebanon was the target of a ferocious Israeli aggression, considered disproportionate by international legal standards as well as by the international community.”
2006-12-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5577Resumption1 (2006) · source
“In the report under consideration today, the international community has set out a strategy that the Lebanese Government approves and fully endorses. In conclusion, Lebanese children should not be destined for martyrdom. Lebanese children, like all children of the world, should have the right to live and to dream of a better tomorrow. Lebanese children, like all children of the world, should be the bearers of peace in the future.”
2006-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5573Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Friends of mine in the battalion told me they also fired everything." In blunter terms than any of us could use, the head of an IDF rocket unit was quoted in the same newspaper on 22 November 2006 as saying: "What we did was insane and monstrous[;] we covered entire towns in cluster bombs". Again, no twist in logic can underscore the reality of those testimonies and the conclusions of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Last week, the Third Committee adopted a resolution on the status of human rights in Lebanon as a result of the Israeli aggression this past summer. The Committee condemned the killing of civilians, children, older persons and women, wherever it occurred, and called for respect for life as a fundamental human right.”
2006-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5573Resumption1 (2006) · source
“So too was the statement by Ambassador Arkady Mil-Man, the Israeli Ambassador to Russia, who declared on 26 July that reports of the Israeli army using cluster munitions were obvious propaganda on the part of Hizbollah and other organizations that did not know what was actually going on. A more accurate rendition of the events that took place can be summarized by an anonymous Israeli reservist, who was quoted in the Ha 'aretz newspaper on 14 September 2006 as saying: "In the last 72 hours we fired all the munitions we had, all at the same spot. We didn't even alter the direction of the gun.”
2006-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5573Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Today, Lebanon's biggest challenge remains the removal of the 1.2 million cluster bombs that Israel left behind, including the location and removing of mines planted by Israel. According to the group Landmine Action and to Lebanese Government reports, three to four civilians are still being killed or maimed every day as a result of unexploded ordnance. Over 22 people have died and 135 have been injured since the cessation of hostilities, with 35 per cent of the victims being children. Cluster munitions have prevented the harvest of summer and fall crops in south Lebanon, a region in which agriculture comprises about 70 per cent of the economy. The claims by Major-General Benny Gantz of the IDF that those unreliable weapons can be used in a precise or surgical way were complete fabrications.”
2006-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5573Resumption1 (2006) · source
“The Secretary-General's report on children and armed conflict (S/2006/826) stated conclusively that "Children in Lebanon were also denied access to humanitarian assistance owing to an Israeli military blockade of Lebanon's borders, seaports, bombing of roads and Beirut's airport." (para. 52) Those acts, as we stated earlier, cannot be justified by any play on words or twisted logic. The tactics used by the IDF created a situation in which about 975,000 people, constituting approximately one quarter of the Lebanese population - with one-third of them being children - were displaced from their homes and attacked as they fled. They returned to find over 30,000 housing units destroyed and 1.2 million cluster bombs scattered and hidden, waiting to remind them of the trauma they had just survived.”
2006-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5573Resumption1 (2006) · source
“While analyzing the various aspects of the impact on life during this past summer's war on Lebanon, the Human Rights Council's Commission of Inquiry on Lebanon concluded, in the advance unedited version of its report, that "the damage inflicted on some infrastructure was done for the sake of destruction". Yes, it was a simple attack for the sake of destruction. The report also accused Israel of not providing local civilians with effective warning, as required under international humanitarian law. One stark example was the massacre at Marwaheen on 15 July, in which 23 civilians, including 14 children, were bombed by sea and gunned down by air as they attempted to flee a conflict zone during the existence of a supposed "safe passage" corridor that the IDF had promised the local population.”
2006-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5573Resumption1 (2006) · source
“These are but a few examples of the 32 vital points targeted by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), including 109 destroyed bridges, 137 damaged roads, and severe damage to the oil reserves, causing one of the largest ecological disasters ever in the Mediterranean. With so much destruction, Lebanon must once again undergo the difficult task of recovery. According to Israeli logic, Lebanese civilian infrastructure was deliberately targeted and its designation was changed from civilian to military. The IDF argued that the infrastructure could hypothetically be used by Hizbollah, That twisted logic has not fooled anyone. Allow me to refer to some reports.”
2006-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5573Resumption1 (2006) · source
“The massacres that took place at Qana II, Marwaheen and Chiah are already etched in our history as another example of Israel's intentions towards our youth and our population. There were 360 child fatalities. Hundreds of children suffered permanent injuries and disabilities. Fifty schools were destroyed, with around 300 needing substantial repair. Primary health-care facilities in many parts of the country were annihilated. Water systems in southern Lebanon, the Beka'a Valley and southern Beirut were destroyed, thereby stranding at least 1.7 million people - 40 per cent of whom were children - without the basic means of hygiene.”
2006-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5573Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Mr. President, at the outset I wish to congratulate you for having organized this important meeting. I would also like to express my appreciation to Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy for the report on children and armed conflict, and we look forward to her visit to the region in general and to Lebanon in particular, where we are sure that she will witness on the ground what I am going to share with the Council about the suffering of Lebanese children as a result of Israel's latest act of aggression this past summer. While the facts and the realities on the ground have by now been well documented, the emotional, psychological and collective trauma is much more difficult to relay to Council members.”
2006-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5573Resumption1 (2006) · source
“We commend the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and their tenacity in clinging to their land in the face of the Israeli military machine, which is daily endeavouring to wipe them out. The time for peace has come. The Madrid Conference, the relevant resolutions of the international community and the Arab Peace Initiative adopted at Beirut in 2002 all are good bases for bringing about the just, lasting and comprehensive peace to which the peoples of the region aspire. It is our hope that the Council will seek to relaunch that initiative in enhancement of international peace and security and as a contribution to building a prosperous future without extremism for coming generations in the region.”
2006-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5564 (2006) · source
“The resolution aims primarily at ending all acts of aggression against Lebanon. It also seeks to assist the Government of Lebanon to exercise its sovereignty and power over all of its territory. Israel is daily violating our sovereignty by violating Lebanese airspace. As if that were not enough, Israeli military planes fly at high and low altitudes over German and French naval vessels, in total violation of Israel's commitment to abide by the provisions of resolution 1701 (2006) and the role and authority of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. It is the joint responsibility of both parties to implement resolution 1701 (2006), and we therefore call in this forum on the Israeli party to abide by its commitments and to assume its responsibilities vis-a-vis the international community.”
2006-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5564 (2006) · source
“The positive developments taking place in southern Lebanon following the adoption of resolution 1701 (2006) have been first and foremost due to the support of the international community and the full commitment of the Government of Lebanon to honour its obligations and responsibilities. The Lebanese army has now been deployed in the south of the country. The Special Representative of the Secretary-General has described our cooperation with UNIFIL as excellent. The Government of Lebanon has deployed 8,600 troops along the Lebanese border to strengthen the observation mechanisms. The Government has repeatedly denied all allegations by Israel that arms are being smuggled into the country. It is unacceptable that resolution 1701 (2006) be reduced to meaning solely the release of the two Israeli soldiers.”
2006-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5564 (2006) · source
“The Council must adopt a resolution that demands that Israel end its military activities, that puts in place a mechanism to ensure that it in fact does end those activities, and that establishes a commission to investigate the Beit Hanoun massacre. Such a resolution would not contradict the work of the Quartet; rather it will complement it and lend it momentum while increasing the credibility of the efforts of the international community to put an end to daily Israeli massacres. It may also serve to open a window that would make it possible to adopt a serious approach to peace in Palestine and the entire Middle East region.”
2006-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5564 (2006) · source
“The international community, and the Security Council in particular, can no longer stand by as spectators watching this unjust and protracted tragedy. Israel's acts of aggression, killing of dozens of innocent Palestinian victims, firing on peaceful women demonstrators and the massacre at Beit Hanoun, as well as its use of internationally banned weapons and its destruction of Palestinian civilian infrastructure, require invoking the vast wealth of civilized human laws and rules, agreements and moral precepts to end such acts of aggression. In the light of what is taking place, we wish to underscore the fact that there is an urgent need to put an end to Israeli aggression.”
2006-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5564 (2006) · source
“As if the complete air, land and naval blockade on Gaza was not enough, as if it were not enough that last summer's so-called Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip was a mere pretext to turn the entire Gaza Strip into a prison for the Palestinian people, as if the ongoing daily acts of aggression against innocent Palestinians were not enough, as if the daily scenes on Western television of Palestinian deaths and blood were not enough - as if all of that and Israel's other daily actions against the Palestinian people were not enough, Israel yesterday launched a new military operation to shed the blood of more Palestinian women, children and elderly persons, destroying all hope for peace and a life of dignity for an entire people. Words of condemnation no longer rise to the magnitude of Israel's actions.”
2006-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5564 (2006) · source
“Ms. Ziade (Lebanon) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I would also like to thank Ms. Angela Kane for her briefing on developments in the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.”
2006-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5564 (2006) · source
“Finally, I should like to renew our thanks to Mr. Brammertz and his assistants. We stress that just as Lebanon was able, with the help of the Council, to rid itself of Israeli aggression, it will continue to insist on the complete uncovering of the truth of this major crime of the killing of Prime Minister Hariri and his companions, as well as crimes before and following that assassination. The prosecution of those implicated in the assassination of the late Prime Minister in a court with an international character is desirable. We rely once again on the will and insistence of our people as expressed in its Government and on the Security Council and all those who uphold justice in the world. 06-54337”
2006-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5539 (2006) · source
“We welcome the progress on the various aspects of the investigation into the assassination of Mr. Hariri, as well as the other crimes within the Commission's terms of reference. We hope that progress in the investigation will continue and that cooperation with all relevant parties will strengthen and improve. With the continuing investigation, the Government of Lebanon, in cooperation with the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, Mr. Nicolas Michel, and his assistants, is working to set up a court with an international character, which we hope will find support and assistance from the Council. The idea of such a court enjoys firm and wide unanimity in Lebanon and is of utmost importance to the Lebanese people. Lebanon hopes that it will no longer be a place for political assassination, a situation that we have long suffered.”
2006-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5539 (2006) · source
“Ms. Ziade (Lebanon) (spoke in Arabic): We come to the Security Council once again to debate the report of the International Independent Investigation Commission (IIIC) on the assassination of the martyred Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. We must renew our thanks and appreciation to the Council for having so closely followed this question since the first days following the major earthquake of the assassination of the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Allow me to express our thanks also to the IIIC, to its Commissioner and its members. We commend their tireless efforts and their perseverance. Allow me to pay special tribute to Mr. Serge Brammertz, who enjoys wide respect and appreciation. We believe that the report before us reflects professional, precise work.”
2006-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5539 (2006) · source
“With all due respect, what is required today is Israel's full commitment to the provisions of resolution 1701 (2006) and all other relevant international resolutions, so as to achieve a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.”
2006-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5515 (2006) · source
“Finally, we appeal to the international community to continue its vital humanitarian assistance to the many Lebanese in need and to contribute effectively to the reconstruction of Lebanon, a country rich in its capabilities, unique in its diversity and distinguished by its democracy. Wounded Lebanon today would like to salute the heroic struggle and steadfastness of the Palestinian people. We openly condemn the continuous acts of aggression committed by Israel against that people, including its kidnapping of Palestinian officials, its hindrance of everyday life, its settlements on Palestinian territory and its construction of the barrier wall.”
2006-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5515 (2006) · source
“All of that has led us to reiterate over and again that Lebanon, which believes in the principles of the United Nations and looks to the Organization as the basic framework for extricating itself from the current crisis, appeals to the Security Council to work diligently to bring about the following: the establishment and strengthening of a permanent ceasefire through a UNIFIL strengthened with additional international troops, and the immediate and unconditional lifting of the air, sea and land blockade imposed by Israel. The root causes of the crisis should be addressed, including by ending the occupation of the Sheba'a farms, securing the release of all Lebanese prisoners in Israeli prisons and convincing Israel to turn over maps of the landmines it has planted on our territory.”
2006-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5515 (2006) · source
“This has prompted the Secretary-General to express his deep concern for the fragile calm that has been achieved, and about the danger that it might entail in terms of undermining the authority of the Lebanese Government. In pursuing their efforts to block the implementation of resolution 1701 (2006), Israeli officials have informed us of conditions and have vetoed the participation of a number of countries that have declared their readiness to contribute to an enhanced United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Israel has also very clearly procrastinated in committing itself to the three phases of withdrawal from Lebanon, namely, by increasing the number of phases to 16. Its Minister for Defence has also threatened us many times with a return to war.”
2006-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5515 (2006) · source
“Such ordnance has been used and planted by Israel since the beginning of its aggression on 12 July - all on the pretext of self-defence and combating terrorism. I should therefore like to stress the following points. Regardless of the justifications it puts forth, Israel's acts are offensive acts. Regardless of the pretexts offered, Israel's acts are acts of aggression. Regardless of the reasons and justifications, what Israel is doing contravenes international law. Were that not enough, on 19 August, Israel added to its violations with a land operation deep in Lebanon, close to the city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, thereby subjecting this fragile calm to great instability and committing an act of aggression against the sovereignty of the Lebanese State.”
2006-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5515 (2006) · source
“However, what has Israel, the executioner, done? How has it responded to those efforts? Today, more than 10 days after the cessation of hostilities was declared, we are once again here in the Council to inform its members that Israel is continuing its aggression and its daily violations of resolutions 1701 (2006) and 425 (1978). There were 82 violations of our airspace between 14 and 20 August. Moreover, Israel has maintained its presence in many border areas within Lebanese territory. It has set up checkpoints and has fired bursts of gun and sniper fire against civilians, to say nothing of the explosion of cluster bombs and landmines, which kill civilians, including women and children, and members of the Lebanese army.”
2006-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5515 (2006) · source
“Our Government has continued to take a series of fundamental measures and decisions, including the Cabinet's 16 August decision to deploy the Lebanese army in southern Lebanon, with a mandate to maintain security in the area, defend our country's territory and secure the property of our citizens, while reaffirming full respect for the Blue Line and the implementation of all laws regarding any weapons outside the authority of the Lebanese State, in cooperation and coordination with international forces, in accordance with resolution 1701 (2006). My country, gravely wounded but determined to rise again to restore its sovereignty and security and the safety of its citizens, has committed itself, despite being the victim, to that international resolution and taken courageous and unprecedented measures to act upon that commitment.”
2006-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5515 (2006) · source
“In 33 days, Israel has set Lebanon back 30 years, in fulfilment of a promise made by Israel's Minister for Defence. The aggression has also had an enormous cost in terms of the thousands of persons killed and injured, the imposition of a land, sea and air blockade, the displacement of around 1 million people and the destruction of hundreds of bridges, vital institutions and infrastructure amounting to a loss of between $4 billion and $9 billion. Despite all of that, the Government of Lebanon has shaken off the dust of war and agreed to the resolution, which called for a cessation of hostilities, to which it has been committed since 14 August 2006.”
2006-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5515 (2006) · source
“I am addressing the Security Council more than 10 days after its adoption of resolution 1701 (2006), a resolution that the Council sought with a view to achieving a cessation of hostilities, not a ceasefire; a resolution that did not respond to all the requirements of the Lebanese Government, but nonetheless addressed Lebanese issues and concerns with great seriousness; a resolution that emphasized Israeli withdrawal and international commitment to Lebanese sovereignty, support for Lebanon and respect for its national decisions. We therefore accepted the resolution, in the hope that it would deter the Israeli war machine and bring an end to its aggression, which has lasted for 33 consecutive days. In that time, Israel has wreaked havoc, killed, displaced and destroyed.”
2006-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5515 (2006) · source
“Ms. Ziade (Lebanon) (spoke in Arabic): I should like at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month and to thank your predecessor, the representative of France. Through you, I also wish to express our great appreciation to the Secretary-General for his efforts to address the Lebanese crisis. In addition, I should like to thank Mr. Gambari for his briefing today.”
2006-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5515 (2006) · source
“Israel continues to carry out acts of aggression against States that have consistently expressed their wish for the establishment of a just, lasting and comprehensive peace on the basis of the relevant United Nations resolutions. Lebanon, while condemning Israel's wanton acts of aggression, joins in the call for a ceasefire, for a return to calm, for a resumption of negotiations, for the release of prisoners, and for an end to this round of bloody violence.”
2006-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5481 (2006) · source
“Israel's actions in the occupied Palestinian territories constitute a flagrant violation of human rights, an act of aggression against the safety and security of the Palestinian people and against their right to a decent, dignified life in liberty. They also pose a challenge to the desire for peace in the region. Israel's aggression is not confined to the occupied Palestinian territories. Israel has also heightened the readiness of its military forces along the Blue Line, again on the pretext of self-defence. Its air force has violated Syria's airspace and Israel continues to violate the airspace and territorial waters of Lebanon. Those repeated messages express Israel's aggressive intentions against the entire region.”
2006-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5481 (2006) · source
“We believe it is necessary to promptly take the following steps. First, the Security Council should swiftly take decisive steps to achieve a ceasefire and to restore security in the occupied Palestinian territories. It should guarantee international protection in accordance with the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention, of 1949, and other relevant instruments of international law. Secondly, the Quartet must shoulder its political responsibilities and must accelerate the establishment of a mechanism to channel the assistance that has been pledged and to permit the distribution of humanitarian assistance. Thirdly, the Palestinian Authority must immediately be permitted to restore the security situation, thereby enabling the Israeli and Palestinian parties to return to the negotiating table in order to deal with the current situation.”
2006-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5481 (2006) · source
“Once again, Israel is going far beyond international standards of self-defence. Self-defence usually takes place in the territory of the State concerned, and not in territories under its occupation. The Government and the people of Lebanon denounce the Israeli occupation forces' military campaign against the Palestinian people. Lebanon views this aggression as one more example of State terrorism - which is nothing new for Israel. In fact, Israel has never had any qualms about violating the sovereignty of other States, terrorizing innocent civilians, carrying out wanton acts of aggression or arresting innocent people. Lebanon associates itself with the efforts of the Arab Group to compel the international community to take decisive steps to put an end to Israel's State terrorism against the entire Palestinian people.”
2006-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5481 (2006) · source
“Ms. Ziade (Lebanon) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, Madam President, I wish to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I fully associate myself with the statements of the Arab Group and of the Non-Aligned Movement. The occupied Palestinian territories in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank witness constant Israeli acts of aggression that target the innocent civilians and destroy infrastructure and vital economic installations of the Palestinian people. Those acts of aggression have not spared a number of Palestinian officials. The Israeli forces have arrested several cabinet ministers and members of the Palestinian Legislative Assembly. At the same time we are hearing, yet again, Israeli claims that these military actions are just acts of self defence.”
2006-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5481 (2006) · source
“Arabs have made peace as a strategic choice and have worked towards it. The Israeli party must rise to this choice in order to achieve a just, comprehensive peace in the Middle East based on the principle of land for peace, the principles of the Madrid Conference and resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973) and 425 (1978), as well as the Arab Peace Initiative adopted at the Beirut summit of 2002 and since reaffirmed by the Arab summit of Khartoum, which concluded on 29 March 2006. Peace is a collective responsibility, and with good will the page of the past can be turned towards a better future.”
2006-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5404 (2006) · source
“The arbitrary measures taken by Israel against Palestinian citizens such as closing harbours and crossing points, freezing assets, withholding all other aid, acts of assassination, violation of Palestinian sovereignty and others, including the raid of the Jericho prison and the detention of detainees from that prison, as well as the continuing building and expansion of settlements and the wall, call us to demand in today's meeting that the international community pressure Israel to cease and desist in the building and expansion of settlements and prevent it from continuing to build the separation wall, in accordance with the decision by the International Court of Justice. The international community should also urge Israel to withdraw from all occupied Palestinian territory and respect the principles upheld by the international community.”
2006-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5404 (2006) · source
“Our respect for democratic values and principles compels us to respect the democratic choice of the Palestinian people and to call for preventing any collective punishment of them because of their choice.”
2006-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5404 (2006) · source
“Concerning Palestinian weapons, we have decided to address that issue through dialogue, while reaffirming that the Palestinian Government must exercise full sovereignty over all its land. Lebanon is suffering from Israel's continued policy of threatening our sovereignty and from its continuing breaches of the sanctity of Lebanese land and airspace. We call on the international community to shoulder its responsibility and move immediately to demand that Israel put an end to these aggressive practices. Lebanon calls on the international community to demand the release of all Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails and to compel Israel to provide to the United Nations all maps of mines left by its armed forces during its occupation of Lebanese land.”
2006-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5404 (2006) · source
“It was also agreed that the Shab'a farms and the Kafr Shuba hills occupied by Israel must be recovered and that the Lebanese Government must take the necessary steps to ensure the Lebanese character of Shab'a farms, in accordance with United Nations procedures. Those participating in the dialogue also agreed that sovereign relations must be established with sisterly States. The Lebanese Government, in cooperation with the international community, has adopted a comprehensive approach with regard to Palestinian refugees. The Lebanese people reject naturalization, and we reaffirm their right to return to their homes in accordance with General Assembly resolution 194 (III).”
2006-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5404 (2006) · source
“Following last year's free parliamentary elections and the formation of the Government of President Fouad Siniora, Lebanon is on the road to full sovereignty, securing its freedom, building its institutions and promoting a culture of democracy. Perhaps the most notable of these democratic activities is the national dialogue currently taking place among various political groups with the confidence and encouragement of the international community. During the first meetings of the dialogue, agreement was reached on the need to support the international investigation into the crime of the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and his colleagues, and on the need to create an international tribunal to punish those involved in that crime.”
2006-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5404 (2006) · source
“Ms. Ziade (Lebanon) (spoke in Arabic): I should like at the outset to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the statesmanship and professionalism of your presidency of the Security Council during the month of March. I should also like to pay tribute to your predecessor, Ambassador John Bolton, for his efforts during his Council presidency last month. We meet today at a time when the Middle East region is witnessing accelerating crises. In Iraq, there are unstable security and political conditions; in the occupied Palestinian territory, there are daily Israeli violations of the rights of the Palestinian people; and in Lebanon, which has long endured Israeli occupation of its lands, there are thousands of Palestinian refugees who were expelled from their land and their homes.”
2006-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5404 (2006) · source