SecCo report – GA general debate – Verbatim record (excerpts)

Official Records

General Assembly
Sixtieth session
50th plenary meeting
Friday, 11 November 2005, 3 p.m. 
New York

    In the absence of the President, Mr. Diarra (Mali) took the Chair. 

    The meeting was called to order at 3.10 p.m.

 Agenda items 9 and 117 (continued)

  Report of the Security Council (A/60/2)

  Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters

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

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    Although we recognize that the Security Council has achieved some success in making peace and preventing conflicts, particularly in Africa, we are disappointed and frustrated by the Council’s inability so far to adopt any measure to protect the Palestinian people from suffering at the hands of the occupying Power, or to assist the Palestinian people in regaining their territories and enable them to achieve their inalienable rights, particularly the right of return, the right to self-determination and the right to establish an independent State of their own throughout their territory.

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  The meeting rose at 5.40 p.m.

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