Mideast situation/Palestine question – Verbatim records (excerpts)

Provisional

Security Council

Fifty-seventh year 

4336th meeting

Thursday, 28 June 2001, 3 p.m. 

New York

Agenda

The situation between Iraq and Kuwait

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    The meeting was resumed at 3.15 p.m. on Thursday, 28 June 2001.

  The President : The next speaker inscribed on my list is the representative of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.

 Mr. Babaa (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (spoke in Arabic ): …

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  The Tel Aviv regime, under the very eyes of the international community, continues to attempt to eradicate and disperse the Palestinian people and to gain control of its remaining territories, using new apartheid-like means based on occupation, settlement, siege and displacement. It is indeed strange that, due to such double standards, the major State providing the Tel Aviv regime with the most up-to-date weaponry, to be used against children and women, is the same very State that insists on maintaining the siege of Iraq and that prevents the Security Council from compelling the Tel Aviv regime to respect the resolutions of the United Nations and to protect the Palestinian people.

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  The President: The next speaker inscribed on my list is the Under-Secretary-General for Foreign Affairs of Iraq. On behalf of the Council, I welcome him. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.

  Mr. Al-Qaysi (Iraq): …

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  The Council must pay attention to the hypocritical policy of double standards pursued by the United States and the United Kingdom by comparing its role in supporting the Zionist entity against the Palestinian people, starting with the settlements on the Palestinian territory then continuing with the suppression of the glorious Palestinian uprising. The uprising and Iraq’s steadfastness against the hegemony of the United States have become the motto of all Arab peoples. I am not talking about Arab Governments, but they, too, have started to feel that this is the only means that would advance their nations in order to join the mainstream of human civilization.

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    The meeting rose at 7.15 p.m.

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