S/PV.2570 Security Council

Members of the Council have before them document S/l7ooO, which contains the text of a draft resolution submitted by Lebanon. I should also like todraw theattention ofCouncil members to the following documents: S/169!Ut and S/16997, which contain the texts of two letters dated 26 February 1985 and 4 March, respectively, addressed to the Secretary-General by the representative of Lebanon; S/17007, containing the text of a letter dated 6 March addressed to the Secretary-General by the representative of Ismel; and S/17008, containing the text of a letter dated 6 March addressed to the !Iecretary-General by the reprosentative of India. Tk meeling was cal&d to or&r at 4.k p.m Tk agenda was &pted 4. The first speaker is the representative of Lebanon, upon whom I now call. I. The PRESIDENT (interpretation front Frerwh): In accordance with decisions taken by the Council at its 2568th meeting. I invite the representative of Lebanon to take a place at the Council taMe: I invite the representatives of Israel, Qatar and the Syrian Arab Republic to take the places reserved for them at the side of the Council chamber. 5. Mr. FAKHOURY (Lebanon) (Inrrrprerrrlin from Arub&) Since theCouncil held its first meeting on 28 February last lo consider the complaint submitted by Lebanon against Israel [2%8th IIIcollng, there has been, as we expected, such inhuman escalation of Imel’s practices and policies that maasaacs have been committed in holy places. as indicated in my letter dated 4 March lo the Secretary- General [S/16997). The Israeli occupying authorities have launched a major R;ilitary operation involving almost 800 sddiers and over 50 armoured vehiclattanks, personnel carriers. bulldozers-and surrounded and stormed the viilage of Ma’rakah, locatal sooth of the Litani River, where the French unit of the United Nations Interim Force in AI Ik WiIOlhm of Ik P&&I, Mr. F&hotoy (L&i+ noor) :twk o phzce at tk Coundl rabk Mr. Netanyahu (lsr& Air. AbKawari (Qaur) cad Mr. E&Fattal (Syrian Arab hywblk) wok rk pbwes reserved$~ tkm at tk st& qf tk Cowcil ckmkr. 2. Tbc PRESIDENT (interprets/ion jiwn Fren& I should like to inform members of the Council that I have ~~4umh!C!kE-=- ah/m nf AImAm Rnnoln dah* cuba* Democrralic ~----;,*;~-~~&--l;e I rhmum tl INIF \ ia Anhum fhwino &QI -tinn I# -_-_..- ..\-- .__ _-,.-L-T--,--‘- -- . ..~ -_.-. -r _.__._..,--- citizens were arrested and, after interrogation, I7 of them were taken to an unknown destination. The Israeli forces also destro!cd fir houses and one vchick. The operation lasted for 24 hours, during which searches were carried out in and attempt to find weapons and explosives. and those searches were carried out by the Israeli authorities with all the rigour to which we have become accustomed. Republic. the Islamic Republic of Iran, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Viet Nam and Yugmlavia in which they request to be invited lo participate in the discus&n of the item on the Council’s agenda. In conformity with the usual practice, I propose. with the consent of the Council, to invite those representatives to participate in the discussion, 7. We hold Israel and its occupying forces responsible for this massacre. It is a direct responsibility which they cannot shirk, as the representative of Israel has tried to do in document S/I7007 of 6 March. It is hard to believe that these forces, in carrying out 24hour searches for weapons and after having discovered. as they claimed, an arsenal that would be big enough to supply an entire military unit, did not find one large explosive such as that which destroyed Husseynieh Mosque. They even searched children’s beds. Indeed. a baby had its two legs broken while sleeping in its bed when a soldier hit his crib with a rifle. The responsibility they hear is all the more serious since the explosion and the ensuing massacre were aimed at a holy place. This is a IIagrant violation of the most elementary standards of international morality and of international law and instruments. 8. In condemning this atrocious crime and massacre, which is one more in a long list of Israeli massacres, Lebanon once again asks the Council to condemn these actions and practices and to take effective steps to put an immediate end to them. Once again Israel has shown that it does not respect holy places and their inviolability, and once again it has proved that it scorns the resolutions of the Council and the presence of UNIFIL in Lebanon, which is the tangible expression of those resolutions. 9. At 6 p.m. on 5 March. an Israeli armoured unit consisting of three tanks and other vehicles entered the village of Sila. where the Ghanaian UNIFIL contingent was located. The force assembled the inhabitants-men, women and children-in the village school, interrogated them, searched their homes, arrested three persons and killed one citizen. Another unidentified body was found in the same area a little later. IO. Yesterday again, news was confirmed by the UNIFIL spokesman that Israeli forces invaded the village of Rediyas, east of the town of Tyre, and searched houses, interrogated the inhabitants and detained 30 persons in a road block they .ut up near this town on the road between Tyre and Tayr Dibbah. I I. The Israeli forces at the same time used tank guns. mortars and heavy automatic weapons against a unit of the Lebanese army in the town of Arzai to the north of the Litani. a region which had been vacated by Israeli forces a few weeks ago. Israeli forces arrested five foreign journalists and two Lebanese journalists. including the Associated 13. The Council con no longer fail to discharge its responsibilities and to do justice to the Lebanese demands contained in the draft resolution we submitted the day before yesterday [S/17&M]. If the Council does not condemn the massacres in holy places and places of worship, if it does not condemn arbitrary and inhuman practices like killing, arrest, deportation and destruction, what then should it condemn? 14. Each member of the Council has an obligation to the people of the world and to history. The Government and the people of Lebanon want the Council to adopt a draft resolution in keeping with its responsibilities and to follow the example of the non-aligned countries, which have fully and unhesitantingly supported our claims.

The next speaker is the representative of Algeria. I invite him to take a place at the Council table and to make his statement.

First of all. Sir, allow me on behalf of the Algerian delegation to express to you warmest congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of March. We are particularly pleased to see you presiding over the work of the Council because you represent a country, Madagascar. which has always distinguished itself by its unswerving support of just causes throughout the world. It is a countrv with which mine has narticularly close relations that ar;! all the stronger becat& we belong to the same continent. Africa. and to the same political movement, the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. Your great competence, your knowledge of international affairs, your wisdom and your long experience guarantee that the Council will move in an enlightened direction. 17. I should like to take this opportunity to extend the congratulations of the Algerian delegation to your predecessor, the representative of India, Mr. Krishnan. who last month conducted the work of the Council with skill and knowledge that earned him everyone’s respect and admiration. 18. Rarely six months have passed since the last meeting of the Council on this subject [25sbrh meeting], and now the Council must once again deal with the same problem: an aggravation oi the situation in I&anon due to an escalation of Israeli violence. 19. Once again the victim and the aggressor are well known; once again the Council must face up to its responsibility; once again it is called upon to act in accordance with its mandate under the Charter of the United Nations. 21. In occupied southern Lebanon, horror has become a daily reality. Every day brings with it a toll of dead, wounded and deported. Every day there are frightening images of killing and/or destruction. Every day peaceful villages are attacked and besieged, houses searched, plundered or destroyed, the inhabitants-men. women, old persons and children-mistreated, tortured, arrested or summarily killed. 22. Barely had one meeting of the Council ended on this subject when the Zionist occupying troops-knowing it could do so with impunity-raided the small village of Maarakah. sowing death and destruction, brutally opposing the soldiers of UNIFIL. who were literally threatened and prevented from helping the wounded, and forbidding, for very good reasons. the presence of journalists. 23. Two days later, a new stage in the escalation of provocation was reached: the Mosque of Maarakah was blown up at the very time when inside it women, children and old people were receiving food after days of going without food as a result of the invasion. Fourteen were killed, and about 100 were wounded. That is the terrible toll of the massacre, which nothing could justify and which only illustrates, if that were necessary, the savagery of the Zionists. That is the iron fist of which, with their customary arrogance, the aggressors themselves often boast. 24. This is undoubtedly a new challenge to the authority of the Council and, beyond the Council, to the whole international community. 25. This is a tragic and revolting situation to which Israel has added an astonishing dimension with its boldness and its lack of decency: as it announces the withdrawal of its occupying troops, it also tries to regain the support of world public opinion by claiming that this decision to withdraw is an act of goodwill for which the international community should be grateful to it. But the massacre of Lebanese people shows that the occupier may be prepared to leave in defeat just as it entered as an invader: over the bodies of the anonymous heroes of an indomitable resistance. 26. It is therefore to be hoped that the Council will take a clear approach to the situation and decide on appropriate means to deal with the aggressor and, fmally, to put an end to its undertaking. 27. The Council, the primary body having the formidable responsibility for the maintenance of peace. is once again called upon to act because of the seriousness of events in southern Lebanon. 28, The representative of k%IInOn has demanded that the Council ensure justice. He has asked it to express its 29. For its part, Algeria has never withheld its support for the Lebanese Government and people in their hardships during these many years. We fully support these claims, and we wish to express here all our admiration and respect for the heroic resistance of the Lebanese people, who, like the Palestinian people, have given the Israeli occupier unforgettable lessons in courage and bravery. 30. Algeria here and now also reaftlrms its tirm attachment to Lebanon’s independence. sovereignty, national unity and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized boundaries. 31. Lebanon’s full authority over its entire territory must be restored, which in turn requires the total. immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Israeli forces to the internationally recognized boundaries of Lebanon, in keeping with Council resolution 509 (1982). 32. The daily plight of the Lebanese people, who have been subjected to foreign occupation for many painful years now, could have become insufferably and tragically banal if the occupier, by the very nature of its policy and the ferocious means by which it puts that policy into effect. had not been bent on exceeding ever more each day the limits of the intolerable. Israel, through the shedding of blood and the force of its weapons, was able to occupy some territory lbr a time. but it could not, either by sword or by fire, subjugate the people of th t territory. Hence. it was recently obliged IO abandon that territory, which it was never able to subject to its will. That failure is the lesson to be drawn from this exemplary struggle which the Lebanese have waged for themselves and for us all. .4s it withdraws. the occupier attempts to exorcise this failure by large-scale, deadly reprisals carried out blindly. 3. %JS, the i&anese. who have endured mdescnbable suffering, who have lost their property, who have undergone untold hardship in attempting to practise their religions, wlio hate been the victims of one of the most aggressive mechanisms of oppression in modern times, are agal.. rr;itncssing horror pushed to the extreme limit. This is the horror we feel at !he assassination of women, old people and children and the destruction-with the same 41. Numerous written complaints by Lebanon have been distributed as ofticial documents of the General Atiemhly and the Security Council. l’hc Government of Lebanon has provided in these letters a detailed and tragic chronicle of violations of clemcntary human rights and of inhuman practices against civilians, including the siege of villages and towns. acts of oppression. killing. detention, breed exile, demohtion of house% and schools, humiliation ol inhabitants, and kidnappings. 34. The ~‘rightful logic of Israeli expansionism, inspired I-I) ;ui uuhritllcd &sire tar power, has taken concrete form, wc’c II\ ;Ippilrance in the Middle East region, in an appe- IIIC 101 torritort that has been nourished by the heady knowlcdgc ol’ the many fairs uccompks carried out with Impunity. It is this impunity, as well as the blocking of all political d&ions within the United Nations, that has undcrmincd the very credibility of the Organization. and particularly of the Council. 35. Israel of course exploits this paralysis in order to pursue the aims of its lust for power, which seems to incite it to ever greater massacres, because of its failute to break the Lebanese people’s national will of resistance. Indeed, at Israel’s instigation, all the elements forecasting the direct events are making their voices loudly and openly heard. That is a situation which the Council cannot but view with the greatest concern. it is politically its responsibility to decide on measures to be taken, with the greatest urgency, to prevent the irreparable from happening, 36. Morally, it has no other choice, for yesterday’sevents iIt Subra and Shatila seem to have made the world suddenly discover with stupefaction and fright that, through the dimensions of this massacre, the insane advocates of a genocidal plan had brutally revealed the barbarism that we had thought for ever banished from an international arena where peace and security could decidedly never accept the sucrilice of a pcoplc. of any people. 37. The PRESIDENT (inrprpre/a~kmfiom Frenchk The next speaker is the representative of Yugoslavia. 1 invite him IO take a place at the Council table and to make his statement.

At the outnet. I should like to congratulate you, Sir, on your accession to the presidency of the Council for the month of March. We have full confidence in you, the distinguished representative of non-aligned Madagascar, and we are familiar with your experience, wisdom and dedication to peace, reflected so fully in the policies of your country. 39. I should like IO congratulate also Mr. Krishnan. rep resentative of India. on the knowledge and patience he showed in guiding the work of the Council during the month of February. His performance was in the best tradition ol’ non-aligned India and in the best spirit of the policy of non-alignment and of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. of which India is Chairman. 40. For almost three years. Israel has been occupying p;lrt> of Lchanon. a sovereign and independent State. This 42. There is no justification for these practices, which were reported by the representative of Lebanon in his letters of 21.25 and 26 February and 4 March [S//6974and A&l, s/16990, annex, and s/I6994 and again today at this meeting of the Council. 43. In June 1982, the Council unanimously adopted a resolution demanding that Israel withdraw forthwith and unconditionally to the internationally recognized boundaries of Lebanon [resolution 509 (1982)]. This resolution and others adopted since June 1982 on the issue of the Israeli occupation of Lebanon are, inter alia. ample proof that the international community refuses to reconcile itself and to become used to the use of force and to the policy of occupation and aggression. 44. In our view, the occupation does not bestow any rights upon the occupier, but rather the occupier has a sole duty: to withdraw immediately and unconditionally from the territory of another sovereign State. Any other approach undermines the basis of international peace and security as envisaged in the Charter of the United Nations. 45. Let me recall here that this and other general approaches apply to the situation in Lebanon as well. One is that there can be no justification for any act which in any way limits or threatens the territorial integrity. independence and sovereignty of another State. Another is that it is .not for a neighbour to judge whether or not a Government has under control the situation in a country and to use that as an excuse for intervention. Furthermore, no country can strengthen its security by using force against another or by occupying foreign territory. And. linally, no matter what an aggressor or occupier claims, r&stance to occupation and aggression is legitimate and justiticd. 46. The peoples of Yugoslavia remember well the occupation of their IanJ and the war they waged against the i-:-.--. --A -c .I..- oia.g~Kts. ii ts LuGi”* cjf tii OVii nmtw~ a8464 VI wc future of all peoples that we are giving full and undivided support for the peoples fighting against aggressors. 47, WC of Yugoslavia share in the wide support given to the demands of the Government of Lebanon that the inhuman ptxtices be stopped and that Israel withdraw forthwirh. 49. It was only yesterday that the Coordinating Bureau of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries met here in New York and rcallirmed all those positions [see S//7008 annne.rl. At the same time, the Bureau stressed the need to cnhurc the safety and security of civilian populations in those areas, including the Palestinian refugees. The Ce ordinating Bureau thus reaffirmed the repeated warnings and justilied requests issued by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and its Chairman, Yasser Arafat. as well as by the non-aligned countries, that the lives and well-being of the Palestinian refugees should be safeguarded. Finally, and most significantly. the Bureau made an appeal to the Security Council to implement urgently the provisions of its resolutions on Lebanon. 50. We reiterate that appeal and believe that the Council will fulfil its duty and take all necessary measures to ensure that the sovereignty of a Member State is fully respected and the withdrawal of occupation forces effected without delay.

At the outset I should like to extend my felicitations to you. Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of March. It gives us particular pleasure to see in the Chair the rep=- sentative of Madagascar, a friendly and fellow nonaligned country. We share the conviction that this Council is richer for your varied diplomatic experience, your personal qualities and your wise counsel, and that, under your able leadership. it will be able to addrcxs itself effectively to the question now before us. 52, The Council is meeting once again to consider the tragic situation prevailing in southern Lebanon. the western &iaa and ibc Rashayii &s&i. ‘GC ilavc iisiciicd wiiii close attention to the statement of the representative of Lebanon. He has given us a moving account of the untold sufferings of the hapless civilian population in the Lebanese territories occupied by Israel. He has also brought to the notice of the Council, in numerous communications addrex.ged to the Secretary-General. information on the continuing Israeli operations and practices in the area. We have been shocked to hear of the latest Israeli acts in the 53. It is indeed appropriate that the Council, which is entrusted under the Charter with the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, should take upon itself the task of finding ways and means of ameliorating the serious situation which could have wider repercussions for peace and stability in the region. 54. The Movement of Non-Aligned Countries has been deeply cottczmed over the grave situation prevailing in southern Lebanon. The Seventh Conference of Heads of State or Govimment of Non-Aligned Countries, held at New Delhi in March 1983, reafftrmed its support for the safety of Lebanon. its territorial integrity, independence and its right to exercise its sovereignty throughout its territory within its intemaiionttlly recognited boundaries. The Conference also called upon all States to support Lebanon in the implementation of Security Council resolutions SC% (1982) and 509 (1982) in order to ensure the withdrawal of Israeli forces from all Lebanese territories. Those principles were reaffirmed at the Meeting of Ministers for Foreign Alijirs and Heads of Delegation of Non-Aligned Countries to the thirty-ninth session of the Genrral Assembly. held in New York III October 1984 [see S/f/16773, UtttWX]. 55. The Co-otdinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Countries held an urgent meeting in New York yesterday, 6 March, to consider the Israeli praetiees in the areas occupied by Israel in southenr Lebanon, the western Bekaa and the Rashaya district. The Bureau unttnimously adopted a eommuniqttC expressing its grave eoncem at the deteriomting situation. which threatens peace and security in the area as a ret& of Ismel: practices against the civilian pop tdation. I should like to quote the following extracts from that communiqti “The Bureau condemned the Israeli practices and measures against the civilian population in southern Lebanon, the western Bekaa and the Rashaya district which are in violation of the rules and principles of international l-tw, in particular the provisions of the fourth Geneva Convention. “. . . IIte Bureau called on the Security Council urgently to implement its resolutions on Lebanon, particularly resolutions 425 (1978). 508 (1982) and 509 (1982), to clm.-ir L-AL L--AA.*, . . aa*oc, a II,,‘,Dw1oIc od tmcorii;tiorG! with drawal from the Lebanese territories to the internationally recognized borders. The Bureau reiterated its support for Lebanon’s sovereignty, independence. territorial integrity and unity. ‘The Bureau expressed its support for the efforts of the Gowzmment of Lebanon to extend its authority over all of its territory and for its determination to

First of all, Sir, I want to stress that it is truly a great pleasure for us to see you, the representative of the friendly State of Madagascar, recently elected to membership of the Council, occupying the presidential Chair. We have no doubt that your well-known professional qualities and your high degree of authority will enable you to guide the work of the Council in an exemplary manner. “The Bureau affirmed that the provisions of the fourth Geveva Convention applied to the territories occupied by Israel in southern Lebanon, the western Bekaa and the Rashaya district and that the occupying Power is duty-bound to respect and uphold the provisions of the said Convention and of other norms of international law. It demanded that Israel, the occupying Power, desist forthwith from its illegal and abusive practices against the civilian population in these areas in violation of the fourth Geneva Convention and other norms of international law and immediately lift all restrictions and obstacles to the restoration of normal conditions in the areas under its occupation.‘* [S/17008, tvmex.] 62. We wish also to convey to the representative of India, Mr. Krishnan. our gratitude for the very skilful way in which he guided the Council’s work in Pebruary. His tenure as President coincided with the shortest month of the year. but that month was by no means an easy one from the point of view of the problems which had to be dealt with. 56. Since the Israeli aggression against Lebanon in 1982, the situation in Lebanon has come up for consideration by the Council on several occasions. Memories of the atrocities committed by Israel against the innocent Lebanese and Palestinian peoples and of the genocidal massacres of Sabra and Shatila still haunt our minds. It must be ensured that there is no repetition of such acts. Israel should be made to discharge its obligations under the Geneva Conventions* and the norms of international law. We call for the speedy implementation of Council resolutions 508 (1982) and 509 (1982) in order to ensure the withdrawal of Israeli forces from all Lebanese territories. 63. Since this ls the Soviet delegation’s first statement this year, we wish to offer our congratulations to the newly elected members of the Council. We are certain that they will make a worthy contribution to carrying out the responsible functions vested in the Council by the Charter of the United Nations. We wish at the same time to express our gratitude to our five colleagues who have completed their two-year terms as members of the Council, and to wish them every success in their further activities, both within the United Nations and outside it. 57. On 14 January 1985, Israel announced its unilateral three-phase plan for the withdrawal or redeployment of Israeli forces in Lebanon. It is important that Israel indicate the exact and full time-frame for its complete withdrawal plan, to permit the resumption of the Naqoura talks under United Natiom auspices with a view to securing, without further delay, a peaceful and orderly withdrawal of Israeli forces from all of Lebanon. In this context, I should like to express our appreciation of the Secretary-General% initiative for the Naqoura talks, and of the role of UNIFIL in the area. 64. I should like tinally to welcome to our midst the new representative of France, Mr. Claude de Kemoularia, and the new representative of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Mr. Oudovenko, and to wish them all success in their endeavours. 65. The Soviet delegation fully supports the urgent request made by Lebanon to the Council in connection with Israel’s provocative actions in the southern regions of that country, which it now occupies. The persuasive statement made here by the representative of Lebanon and the facts which he adduced may with full justice be termed a powerful indictment of the Israeli occupiers. 58. The continuing contlict in the Middle Past remains the most serious threat to peace. The tragedy in Lebanon is a symptom of that malaise. No solution of the problem of Lebanon can be divorced from our search for a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle Past, which must h based on the exercise by the Palestinian people of their inalienable national and human rights. 66. For three years now, Israeli troops have held sway on Lebanese roil. The Israeli occupation has already caused incalculable suffering and privation for hundreds of thousands of Lebanese and Palestinians. 59. The Government and the people of India have been profoundly anguished over the tragic events in Lebanon. On the basii of the fa& which tuave ktr! p!lred b&r? !.he Council, it is beyond douht that responsibility for the hardships of the civilian population in southern Lebanon rests with the Israeli authorities. 67. A day does not pass without news reaching us from southern Lebanon about the acts of outright violence and tp~nr which arc cudrmo~;rrrll~* rrriA Ire4 La* *L- -------. -_..-. . . . ..-. . e.- ‘,“.‘.“Y....a..> -&.,.%a ““6 YJ LB,& -up,- ing forces against the local civilian populations, and the already long list of casualties continues to grow. 68. Recently, massive repression against the Lebanese population has been greatly escalated. The occupiers have imposed what is nothing less than a blockade of Lebanon’s 60. My Government fully supports Lebanon’s just demand, as outlined in the draft resolution submitted by Lebanon JS/f7ow]. The Council must act decisively and southern regions and have perpetrated there a bloody mash designs in Lebanon. It is quite natural and logical that Lebanese patriots should valiantly rise up to protect their homeland, and today the soil of Lebanon is literally on tire beneath the feet of the usurpers. 75. Judging by the facts, however, this elementary lesson has not yet been fully absorbed in Tel Aviv. There, they continue to juggle worn-out labels, writing offal1 problems as “terrorism”, although it is clear to everyone that terrorism, particlarly on a State-wide level, State terrorism, is precisely what Israel is practising on Lebanese soil. 76. It should be recalled that six months ago the Council had occasion to consider the question of Israel’s unlawful activities in southern Lebanon [2552& fo 2556th meefings]. We all recall quite clearly that that series of meetings concluded with the American veto cast against the minimal draft resolution submitted by the delegation of Lebanon [s/&573& which proposed that Israel should comply with the provisions of the fourth Geneva Convention, as well as with other basic norms of international humanitarian law. The present Israeli reign of terror in Lebanon is, to a large extent. a direct consequence of the attitude taken by the United States, as well as of the entire policy of Washington, which is aimed at giving every encouragement and support to its junior strategic partner. 69. The most recent link in the concatenation of Israeli crimes are the recent events in the village of Ma’rakah, which have given rise to indignation both in Lebanon and throughout the world. 70. The Council is duty-bound to demand that Israel cease forthwith its policy of terror and violence against the population of those parts of Lebanon it occypies and that it comply with its obligations pursuant to the relevant international conventions. 71. Israel’s comportment vised-vis UNIFIL has been equally provocative. We fully share the concern expressed in this connection by the Secretary-General. Quite recently, Israeli forces have frequently employed force against UNIFIL personnel that were merely attempting to put a stop to the lawless acts of the occupiers-in other words, to carry out the functions directly entrusted to them by the United Nations. It will be reealled that in the summer of 1982 Israeli tanks ostentatiously drove over the Ilag of the United Nations; we also know what scant respect the Israeli forces have paid to the personnel of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, subjecting hundreds of that Agency’s employees to lengthy detention. In the light of those actions, the most recent episodes are further illustration of Tel Aviv’s attitude towards the United Nations. 77. There is only one way to settle the Lebanese problem, and that is clearly set forth in the unanimously adopted Security Council resolutions-i repeat. unanimously adopted-508 (1982) and 509 (1982). by which the Council demanded that Israel withdraw all its military forces forthwith and unconditionally to the internationally recognized boundaries of Lebanon, 78. In this connection, the Soviet delegation would like to emphasize once again that the implementation of the resolutions of the Council is a matter of principle if we truly desire this body effectively to perform the functions entrusted to it under the Charter of the United Nations. It is no secret that from time to time certain delegations have not been averse to thinking aloud about possible ways and means to enhance the effectiveness of the Council’s work and about their own dedication to the Charter. However, 72. The Council should secure respect for the flag and the forces of the United Nations in Lebanon and insist that there be no interference in their activities, as stated in earlier resolutions, and particularly in resolution 523 (1982). UNIFIL should finally be given a chance to perform the duties entrusted to it by the Council; otherwise, it is legitimate to wonder what the purpose of its presence in that country is. 73. The Soviet delegation believes it would be desirable for the Secretary-General to keep the Council informed on a regular basis with regard to the state of affairs in the UNIFIL deployment area and of all instances in which that Force is not in a position to perform its functions pleased to see an eminent son of a fraternal and friendly country. Madagascar. with which my country has special 74. What has caused this wanton orgy of violence against the civilian population in southern Lebanon? The answer it can I think be said that Lebanon is a very striking example of how such statements fade into mirages as soon as a real need to ensure the implementation of our resolutions arises. The immediate and unconditional implementation of resolutions 508 (1982) and 509 (l982)-unanimously adopted by ihe Council-is ihe uniy r&i& key iu a soiution of the Lebanese problem. It k only in that way that we can or should put an end to the protracted Israeli occupation of Lebanon. 79. Mr. BASSOLE (Burkina Faso) (inrerprtvalion from Frt+rrch): Mr. President, the delegation of Burkina Faso is 80. I should also like, through you, Sir, to thank YOUI predecessor, Mr. ‘Krishnan, the representative of India. who conducted the Council’s work with his characteristic competence. 81. Once again the Council and the international community as a whole are faced with a challenge from Israel. Israel is not only refusing to submit a comprehensive plan for the withdrawal of its troops from South Lebanon, a Egion it has illegally occupied, thereby raising doubts about. its true intentions; it is also massacring the civilian populations and destroying entire towns and villages. 82. The international community and the Council must, first and fonzmost, vigorously condemn this vandalism by the Israeli troops and, above all, take the action necessary to put an end to such barbaric acts forthwith. Facts brought to the attention of the Council show that these Israeli troops have no respect for the elementary principles of human rights. 83. As I said on 4 September 1984 in the Council [255ir mpoting, the Israeli authorities must scrupulously respect the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and other international instruments, in particular the Geneva Convention relative to the Rotection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of I2 August 1949,’ the Hague Conventions II of 1899 and IV of 1907 respecting the laws and customs of war on land’ and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 84. It fs time for Israel to abide by the relevant resolutions and decisions of the Security Council and of the General Assembly by withdrawing from southern L&anon and by facilitating the peaceful and comprehensive settlement of the general issue of the Middle East, under the auspices of the United Nations. 85. The international community has the duty tirmly to support the efforts of the Secretary-General, and in particular UNIFlL, so that it can fulfil its mandate lo maintain peace and security in the region. A great responsibility rests with the parties concerned, particularly the occupier. which must ensure the achievement of this objective. 86. The resumption of the Naqoura talks, under the auspices of the Secretary-General, has become necessary. In or&r io bring this about, the isracii side wiii have 10 submit a compkte and comprehensive plan for the withdrawal of its forces from southern Lebanon with the necessary guarantees for respect for these commitments. 87. The Government of Burkina @o pays a tribute lo the Secretary-General and his s@ial representatk for their tireless efforts to bring about a peaceful and final settlement of the question of the Middle East.

Mr. President, I should like first tocongratulate you upon your amumption of the presidency of the Council. March is barely a week old, but it has been a busy week and we have had ample confirmation aheady of the great personal and professional qualities which you bring to your task. 90. Our thanks are due too to your predecessor, the representative of India, Mr. Krishnan, for the wise and skilful manner in which he conducted the affairs of the Council last month. 91. Since this is my delegation’s first intervention in a &bate in the Council in 1985, I should also like to take the opportunity of extending a warm welcome to those members who joined us at the beginning of the year. At the same time, we thank their predecessors for their cooperation and for their contribution to the work of the Council owr the previous two years. 92. My delegation listened with dismay to the exchange of accusations btlueen the panies in the Council last IIu&ay [2515&h tneerhgJ. It was evidence of yet another sad and violent chapter in the continuing tragedy of Lebanon. 93. Our dismay was compounded because all this had long been predicted, and responsible people had made a considerable etTort to avert it. In his report of 9 October 1984, the Secntary-Ckneml warned eHtyone of the need to act expeditiously to take advantage of what then appeared to be a relatively favourable situation for securing the withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern J&anon. He said: “lf this opportunity is missed, I fear that other factors will come into play which will once again inhibit progress and that another opportunity may not present itself again soon. This, in turn, will cause a further deterioration in the situation in southern Lebanon, with disastrous consequences for the inhabitants of the region and also, in all probability, for the longterm prcspccts for peace in the area.” [S/f6776, pme 26.1 94. This warning has now proved all too regrettably correct. Instead of agreed arrangements for a peaceful and orderly Israeli withdrawal. we now see increasing violence and bloodshed. One act of violence leads to another. As always. it is the civilian population who suffer. My Government wishes to reiterate its deep concern for that population. They have suffered grievously from continual 95. The SecretaryGeneral in his press statement of 27 February drew attention to the new situation which had developed in southern Lebanon since early February. He said that, apart from the restrictions impd upon the civilian population by the Israeli occupation, the increasing number of attacks on the Israeli forces by Lebanese resistance groups had led to a series of strong Israeli countermeasures, including cordon and search operations. The Commander of UNIFIL has reported nine such Israel Defence Forces (IDF) operations in the UNlFlL area since 6 February. 95. The representative of Lebanon, in his statements and letters to the Council, has charged that Israeli forces have laid siege to individual towns and villages, inllicting casualties and considerable sulTering on the inhabitants and destruction of property. The representative of Israel, in his response, has not denied that such operations have taken place. but has sought to justify them by reference to the need to protect Israel’s withdrawing soldiers. The full facts are not yet known, but we cannot but express our deep concern over this new twist to the cycle of violence in southern Lebanon. We believe that such actions will only serve further to inflame the situation and are against Israel’s own long-term interests of achieving peace and security for its northern border. 97. My Government’s views on the question of southern Lebanon are clear. We condemned Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in June 1982. We have called for the early, complete and orderly withdrawal of all Israeli forces to the south of Lebanon’s international border. We have called for the early withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon, except those present at the request of the Government of Lebanon. The sovereignty, unity, independence and territorial integrity of Lebanon within its internationally retognized boundaries must be strictly respected. As we told the Council last September [255&h meet@], it is imperative that the Israeli occup$ng forces scrupulously respect the international conventions on humanitarian law applicable to armed conflicts. In particular, they must respect all the provisions of the Geneva Convention of 1949 relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. 01’ I2 August 1949.’ Such security measures as Israel may lind it necessary to institute must be designed to have the minimum effect on the lives of local inhabitants and must be strictly within the framework of the fourth Geneva Convention. 98. It is incumbent on Israel and all other3 Eonocrned _ ._ _--. aiso to show iuii respect ior UNII-IL and to -perate with the Force. We share the Secretary-General*s concern in this respect and his view that UNIFIL must continue to perform its present functions. We have noted with much regret the recent reports of incidents affecting the French contingent in UNIFIL. We should like to express our appreciation of the steadfast efforts made by the French contingent and the other officers and men of UNIFIL to prevent violence and protect civilians under difficult cir- 99. 1 should like to recall the efforts which were made Sy the Secretary-Ccneral last year, with the support of my Government and that of other Governments, to lind a mechanism to avert the present violent situation in southern Lebanon. We continue to believe that. given the necL+ sary will and determination on all sides, a diplomatic solution can still be found to the problems of that area. The Governments concerned should co-operate with the Secretary-General to this end. The Naqoura talks should be reconvened without delay and every effort made to attain as soon as possible the objectives set out by the Secretary-General in his October report, of Israeli withdrawal, peace and security in the region and the restoration of Lebanese authority and sovereignty up to the internationally recognized boundary. Everything possible should be done to ensure that the withdrawal of the remaining Israeli forces is orderly and co-ordinated. The machinery of the United Nations, including UNIFIL, can play an important role in assisting this process. In the mean time, all concerned need to exercise maximum restraint so as not to impede complete Israeli withdrawal. 100. I believe that there is widespread support for such an approach in the Council. We should use this debate to advance this process, not to stoke the tires of violence in southern Lebanon. A diplomatic solution is still both right and possible. We should encourage the parties to strive for it.

First of all I should like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the pm&-lency of the Council for the month of March. Your long experience at the United Nations, as well as the diplomatic skills you have already amply demonstrated, make us confident that your presidency wi!l be a success. 102. I also want to pay tribute to the representative of India, Mr. Krishnan, for the excellent way in which he presided OMT the Council during the month of February. 103. Since this is the lirst time I have spoken in the Council, I should like to express my sincere thanks for the words of welcome to my country as a newcomer to the Council. It is with a sense of humility that we assume our responsibilities in the Council, but also with a strong conviction of its indispensable role in the promotion of international peace and security and with a firm resolve to render our contribution to this end. 104. My delegation listened with great attention and with deep understanding to the representative oi Lebanon as he described yet another chapter in the human tragedy which still alllicts his country [2568/h me&fig]. My Government has consistently supported Rstotation of the full sovereignty. independence and territorial integrity of Lebanon. These principles were reiterated at the meeting of the European Council at Dublin in December 1984. and the Ten recalled their belief that this can be effected only in circumstances in which all foreign forces are with&au-n from the 106. We have urged the Lebanese and Israeli Governments to show flexibility in establishing security armngements in southern Lebanon and to do everything possible to prevent new acts of violence in the whole area of the Israeli withdrawal. 107. After the completion of the first phase of the Israeli withdrawal, on 16 February. we have witnessed a WOE= ened cycle of violence in the areas still under Israeli occupation. Apart from the restrictions imposed on the civilim population by the Israeli occupation, the increasing number of attacks on the Israeli forces by Lebanese resistance groups has led to a series of strong Israeli countermeasures. including cordon and search operations, with tragic loss of lives as a conse’quence. Denmark strongly deplores these developments. It reiterates the need for a speedy and total Israeli withdrawal and urges all parties to show the utmost restraint. 108. It is indeed imperative that the Israeli occupation forces uphold the provisions of the Geneva Convention relative to the Rote&on of Civilian Pemons in Time of War, of I2 August 1949,’ as well as of other norms of international law. Any security precautions which Israel, as the occupying Power, may find it necessary to take must be designed to have minimum effects on the local inhabitants and must in no way conflict with Israel’s obligations under the fourth Geneva Convention. 109. Developments over the last few weeks clearly indicate that the situation is rapidly deteriorating for all parties concerned. My Government therefore considers that both Lebanon and Israel should give priority to promoting an orderly and complete withdrawal of the Israeli forces. In our opinion, the main objective of the Council’s deliberations should be to assist in this process. We believe that the United Nations can play an important role in this respect. 110. Denmark welcomed the negotiating process with United Nations involvement initiated at Naqoura and the efforts .of the Secretary-General in implementation of Council resolution 555 (1984). We believe that the framework of rhe ‘u’aqoura taiks wouid be usefui in securing arrangements for a complete Israeli withdrawal and early restoration of the Lebanese Government’s authority in southern Lebanon. I I I. We also think that the Secretary-General and UNIFIL will. in accordance with the Council resolutions, bc able to play a valuable role in the zones to be evacuated. cspccially as regards ensuring the safety of the inhabitants 113. While deeply sympathidng with the continuing plight of the Lebanese people, Denmark would find it difiicult to support any Council action which could hamper our common objective: the speedy and orderly termination of the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon.

I too should like to begin by congntulating you, Sir, both as a representative of Madagascar, a State which has newly arrived in the Council, and as a representative of Madagascar who now serves as President of the Council, on your accession to the Council and to the presidency. 115. I should like also, of course. to congratulate the representative of India for the extraordinary skill and energy with which he conducted our Council’s affairs last month and to express our confidence that the representative of Madagascar will do no less. 116. The United States also takes pleasure in welcoming the other new members of the Council-Australia, Denmark, Thailand and Trinidad and Tobago, and the new representatives of continuing members of the Council. 117. Today we in the Council a= asked to address our attention to the realities of the situation in Lebanon posed by the violence and counter-violence associated with the continuing conIlict inside that country among the various groups of its citizens, and also associated with the withdrawal of Israeli forces and the continuing presence of other foreign forces. These are matters of great concern to all of us. But, as the representative of the United States, I must call to the attention of the Council a matter of very special concern to my country. IIS. My Government has been subjected in the past week to direct threats against its nationals in Lebanon, nationals serving in peace-keeping functions for the United Nations. lhose threats have been specifiilly linked to our actions in the Security Council, in a gross and vile attempt to influence the participation and vote of the United States in this body. 119. The United States of course welcomes the assurances of the Government ot Lebanon that It does not encourage reckless behaviour of this kind but seeks, rather, to discourage it. But none of us in the Council, and no one who values the work of the Council, can ignore the realities posed by these facts. Prior threats to the United States concerning a prior Council meeting in a not dissimilar context resulted in the grievous loss of American and Lebanese lives. I should like to remind the Council briefly of these facts. 127. I think it is important that the Council take a moment to consider the ingredients of minimal world order. The Charter of the United Nations tells us that its central tenet must be freedom from fear, freedom from threats against the territorial integrity or political independence of a State, freedom from threats against any Member of the United Nations-certainly against any member of the Security Council. This, one would have thought, is axiomatic, since the peril that arises from violations of this basic rule is readily apparent. Obviously, the Council cannot function effectively to maintain international peace and security, or even to seek to do so, if its members are subjected to the use and threat of violence. I2 I. On 20 September 1984. at I ! .30 a.m. Beirut time. ;I van approilchcd the norlhrrn cntrancc uccc.ss road to the Amcricim Embassy annex in the suburb of Awkar. northeast of Beirut. The annex is located on a residential street blocked at both ends by barricades. The driver of the van opened fire on the guards at the barricades,disabling some of them. Under tire from other guards, the vehicle manoeuv& through the barricades and proceeded towards the Embassy building, where it was stopped by firing u) feet short of the northern end of the building, still outside the compound proper, and at that point it detonated. The building was severely damaged. Two American employees of the Embassy and 10 Lebanese employees were killed in the explosion. Some 59 employees and visitors were injured, 18 of them seriously enough to require hospitalisation. 128. It has been suggested informally in recent days by certain persons in the Council that such threats are of little consequence and should not stand in the way of the pressing business of the Council. But I should like to suggest that the Council has no more pressing business than maintaining its own processes, free from intimidation and violence. 129. I should like to be clear: the United States does not seek a pretext to raise the issue of terrorist threats. The United States does not seek to avoid discussion of the situation in Lebanon. Quite to the contrary. the United States stands ready to discuss and to join in constructive action on Lebanon’s problems. For this reason, we urged at the last meeting of the Council on this item [2s68rlr met@] a resumption of direct talks between military representatives of Israel and Lebanon at Naqoura. in order to facilitate a more peaceful Israeli withdrawal. For this reason, we have strongly supported the Secretary- GCnCdS fCC0lllHlendations concerning the restoration of peaceinthearea. 122: This time, in this not dissimilar context, as thecouncil considers once again a complaint of the Government of Lebanon against Israel, the United States has received three specilic threats, which I should like to review with the Council. 123. On 8 February 1985, Observer Group Lebanon (OGL) Headquarters received a report from a senior United States United Nations military observer of a threat against United States ollicers serving with the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation (UNTSO) in South Lebanon, if the United States vetoed the Lebanese draft resolution. 130. On instructions from my Gomment, I brought our concerns about threats to American personnel to the attention of the Scre~ry-General, and the United Nations Headquarters saw tit, on the basis of its own review of the situation, to call for the withdrawal of United States personnel from United Nations peace-keeping forces in wnon. I should like to emphasise that the United States has been and continues to be a warm and active supporter of United Nations peace-keeping functions in Lebanon and outside it, and wt have consistently sought in the past two years to enlarge the role of United Nations obsewem and II-LA wL..:--- --^- L--.2-- A- ----- :- * -L ---- “I”IH( I.P”“UD p&.uw-aapaa’& h”‘Lca 1“ YW‘W‘,. 124. On I March, a United States officer servingwith the OGL informed OGL Headquarters of a second threat to American oflicers serving with the ilnited Nations force in South Lebanon. This threat was passed on to American members of the ‘I’cam Tyre” by a regular contact, whose reporting was considered to be generally reliable. We have no evidence that this threat and the previous threat were connected. 125. On S March, United Nations officials in Lebanon received a threar from an important Amai representative against Security Council members who used their veto on the Lebanese draft resolution. Specifically, a United Nations military official in Lebanon was told that countries which use their right of veto in the Council will “face strong problems”. The United States and the United Kingdom were specifically mentioned. Other, les5 specific, 131. We cannot imagine a greater chilling effect on the peace-keeping functions of the United Nations or on the free exchange of ideas, the discussion, debate and decision processes of the Council than tbrcats and use of violence. No process of discussion. debate, compromise and rational threats have also been received in the period of the past decisions-making can possibly take place under the threat of vidence. This body is therefore dire4 t threatened by week. 133. The t!nited States welcomed theannouncement ofthe second plu~w of the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, which marks a further step in Israel’s plan for Cull withdrawal. The United States is convinced that the hrst hope for peace and security for the people of southern Lebanon will be a rapid and co-ordinated Israeli withdrawal, resulting in the restoration of Lebanese Government sovereignty and control over the region and. indeed, the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon and the restoration of the full sovereignty of the Government of Lebanon in all its territory. 134. In this regard, the United States has repeatedly called on all parties to exercise restraint and to seek to break the violent cycle of action and reaction that has resulted in the loss 0T life and destruction of property, to end this human tragedy that has racked Lebanon in these recent years. We have especially urged the parties to take advantage of the Naqoura process as the best means of arranging these desirable ends. 135. There is a cycle of violence in Lebanon. That cycle of vioknce is fed by uttbalaneed, unfair resolutions, as by terrorism, a-on, ntribution and hate. The most pressing question before the Council today is whether the cyzk of vioknce that has racked Lebanon will be permitted to spread to the Council itself, endangering this last en&~ in which the parties to conflict may come and seek a hearing from the nations of the world. 136. The C4umcil c8n function only if the parties to conflict respct the right of all members to speak and vote according to their besl interests and their best judgement. No member of the security Council, of the General Assembly or indeed of any United Nations body is safe if intimidation, coercion and violence are admitted into the deliberations of our institutions. The United States therefore calls on all memturs of the Council to repudiate the threats 8gahtsi the clclliti~ process of the &u&i itself.

Since this is the first occasion on which Australia has addressed the Council in its capacity as a member for 1985 and 1986. I should like at the outset to erpress our pleasure at having in the Chair such a capabk individual and the representative of a country whose people swim in the same ocean as we do. Let me 139. Let me assure representatives that Australia takes its responsibilities as a member of the Council very seriously. AustralQ is concerned that the Council should play as effective a role as possible in discharge of its responsibilities as the organ with primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. We believe that the Council should play a constructive role in anticipating problems and working to avert or to.solve them. To this end, we believe that resolutions adopted by the Council should deal with issues in a balanced, constructive and forward-looking manner. 140. Our approach to the problem before the Council has been guided by these general ConFiderations as well as by some particular considerations which apply to the situation now before the Council. These am: there should be strict respect for the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Lebanon, within its internationally recognised boundaries. 141. Australia deplores all acts of violence in Lebanon, especially those with endanger civilian lives; Australia has consistently called for the withdrawal from Lebanon of all foreign forces, except those in Lebanon at the request of the Lebanese Government-and that ~mains our position. 142. Australia welcomes the intention of Israel to begin to withdraw its forces and believes that a complete withdrawal according to an agreed timetable is essential. Australia the&ore supports the Seeretary~neral’s call for the reconvening of the Naqoura talks as a means of achieving this objective. 143. Australia Rcognizes that Israeli forces in withdrawing have been subject to attacks and that some Israel Defence Forces actions might have been undertaken in selfdefence. On the other hand, other of their actions appear to have been severe, and cause us concern because of their severity. In this regard, there should be strict Rspect for the provisions of the Geneva Convention I&- tive to the Protection of Civilian Rersons in Time of War, of I2 August 1949,’ and for the rights of the civilian population. in the diflkult environment in which it is requhed to function. All acts of violence against UNIFIL, from whatever quarter, are to be deplored.

The next speaker is the representative ol the Islamic Republic of Iran. I invite him to take a place at the Council table and to mskc his statcmcnt. 153. As the Zionist atrocities continue to increase, the scenes of the crimes show the further uncontrolled madness of the Zionist criminals. In another article published in The Chris&ta Science hfodtor of 25 February, Jim Muir reports that 1 should like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency and particularly on the masterly manner in which you have been conducting the affairs of the Council. 147. 1 would also congratulate Mr. Krishnan of India who, during the month of February, carried out the heavy responsibilities of President of the Council with gmat et& ciency and diplomatic skill. “Any houses where arms or suspetis are found are bulldozed. Several dozen villagers are usually taken tbr questioning. None has yet returned . . . They came in with tanks and troops, shooting everywhere.’ one said. All the men between I4 and 60 were taken to the village school for interrogation. They took police do@ into the houses where the women were.” 148. Once again comes the Council to Lebanon, which was the vic:im of Zionist air raids, acts of aggression, crimes and atrocities even long before its occupation by the Zionist army. Lebanon is now the holy land of struggle and msistance. Moslem people of Lebanon-absolutely disap pointed with all the pompous labels of such paralysed international bodies as the Security Council, and knowing that the Council is no less a victim of Zionist idlttation and hegemony than Lebanon itself-have d&fed to &fend themselves both against internal default elements which have been collaborating with the aggressor enemy and against the aggressor Zionist army, all, at the same time. The same article reports that* 154. In an article in 7&e New York Iljrtes of 25 February, John Kifner reported that 149. The task of the Lebanese people-of I&anon’s champions--who are the pride of the history of Islam and of the contemporary Islamic movement in the region, then, must be very heavy indeed. The Zionist army has always ken the best quipped with the most recent war technology of the west, especially with that of the united States. It has always been well fed with billions of dollars, taken in pennies from American taxpayers, many of whom have from time to time gone on strike because of low pay, and all of whom have to carry the burden of the United States budget d&it, not knowing how much d that d&it comes from unmserved American suppott for the Zionist aggressor army. To show their “iron fist”, 150. The Zionist army has always been thought of as invincible. But the peopk of Lebanon have given it such a maddening lesson that it does not know what it is doing when it kills innocent worshippers in their sanctuaries--or why it is doing it. Where are the honest, adamant sup porters of human rights when it comes to commenting on the many Sabras and Shatitas and Deir Yassins being chalked up by the Nazi army of Israel? 151. In the Warhinglon four of 21 February. Richard Homan says that The scope of Zionist crimes continued to widen. according to Mr. Kifner’s at-tick: “The International commission of Juris!s charged yesterday that the Israeli army has harshly mistreated prisonem at its detention centre in the occupied West Bank and is using it as an ‘intimidation centre’ in which ‘confessions are manufactured’.” I3 “When the village sheikh tried to explain to the Israelis that itney wete turning the whole people against them. they shouted at him to get back in line . . . ‘The lsraclis were weighed down with arms, but they wera more frightened of us than we wen of them. We laughed at them’.” “Israeli soldiets besieged at laast nine sltiite Moslem villages in southern Lebanon today, continuing their crackdown on the undergrourtd msistance. e4 . . . **Ismel initiated what its Dafencc Mlnlster, Yitzhak Rabin, called an ‘iron fBt policy’.” “Columns of Israelis backed by armoured personnel carriers and tanks have surrounded and entered a string of Shiite villages just east cf Tyre that have been centres of rebellion. They rounded up all the men of the villages for questioning, carried OR suspected Shiite guerrillas and bulldozed or blew up houses”. u . . . “Details of the Istaeli action are coming out slowly because the Israelis have kept Beirutfomignjour- MI&S out d the area and have ciosai the smaikr reads between the tillagcs. hindering local communications.” “The Red Cross said today that the Istaeli forces bad put 112 new prisoners into the Ansar prison camp in ‘The Shiite imam. or religious leader, of the village of Burj al Shemaii. who was seen being carried off by Israeli soldiers during a raid last week, was found today by a shepherd in an abandoned well. He was taken to a hospital run by United Nations forces.” 155. Following an article by ihsan Hijazi entitled “Rl;lst in Lebanon Kills I5 in Mosque”, Thp /Ve,cn York Times 01 5 March reported a piece of news from Reuters about a hospital in Tyre, southern Lebanon, saying “Hospital of?icials here asserted today that Israeli troops stormed this city’s main hospital, beat its director and seized people waiting to give blood for victims of the explosion in Marakah. ‘They said Israeli troops seized at least eight people at gunpoint as they were about to give blood for those wounded by the blast in the village.” 156. Such ravaging and murderous atrocities made the Lbanese Moslems hold a procession, about which a reporter of me New York T&m wrote on 6 March: “Chanting ‘Death to Israel!’ and ‘America, the Great Satan!’ thousands of Moslem demonstrators marched through the streets of West Beirut today to protest the death of I5 people in a bomb blast in a Shiite village in southern Lebanon.” 157. Since the Council is supposedly so committed to the maintenance of international peace and security, the Council must have been following the development of such ewnts in Lebanon with serious concern and moment by moment. Therefore, to quote much more of the criminal record of the Zionist entity in this chamber is unneassary and redundant. It is particularly so because some conscientious States members of the Council know petty well that their own bands too are deep up to tJte elbows in the blood of the Lebanese Moslems. 158. The basic question before the Council is not why it has been watching all these terrorist criminal acts in cold blood. The answer to that question, considering the pre% ena of the Zionist supporters in the Council. is quite clear. The basic and enlightening question is whether, during the two years of occupation of Lebanon by the Zionist forces, anything has happened to international peace and security or not. Was the sleeping wnsciena of the guardians of ir.r-.h...nl -.-a a.4 -...A., h.4- a. r,Y) .r :* -,.a . . . . -..mY”.L. pa- YIN .-e-u ..r, vvu...- u, Mu. ..x .L I,“, the case that each one of us has been sleeping fairly well despite the blatant and continued violation of intemational peace and security? Is it not true that for all these two painfully slow-moving years, every hour of which has lasted longer for the Moslems of Lebanon than a jear for the Council. only the brave Moslems of Lebanon have ken sacrificing to the last drop of their blood in the 159. Among the millions of Arabs and hundreds of millions of Moslems, only the people of Lebanon. thanks to their genuine commitment to the liberating faith of Islam. have taken it upon themselves to demonstrate a historic record of resistance, determination and struggle. For the first time, they have defeated the champion of the 1967 Six-Day War. 160. The representative of Egypt, who is now attending the Council and who remembers the size of the Arab army in the 1967 war, can well appreciate how great the achievement of the Moslem people of Lebanon is. Of all national and international entities which have been somehow pertinent to the Arab-Israeli conflict and who have wished to be known as adversaries of the Zionist invaders, only the Moslem people of Lebanon have proved victorious under the banner of Islam. 161. We think the international Organimtion-and particularly the Security Council-is deeply indebted to the people of Lebanon for their struggles against Zionist invasion. They have fought bravely for the callse of peace and independence. They are the supporters of the Charter, not those who produce rhetoric here. With an Islamic determination they have punished the Zionist aggressor and those behind it. They are thus paying the heavy price of that lawful punishment they have brought, and that they shall, by the grace of God, continue to bring to the Zionist enem’. And, at. the peak of this struggle of crime and 4 punrs ment, we all of a sudden observe a desperate dip16 matic move by dignitaries of Arabia towards further surrendering to the Zionist enemy. Instead of allowing the Arab Moslems under their yoke to be free to join the resistance forces of Lebanon, they move about from one capital to another like idiots to spread further and strengthen the miserable Camp David Accords. In a recent declararation the Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Republic of Iran, while forewarning the international community of the potential dangers involved in the recent moves made by the r&gime governing Jordan and other reactionary Arab r&g&s of the region, expressed the belief that the slogan being publicized by those reactionary figures of peaa in Rtum for a piece of land is but a lie and an open --A -_.- ,!-I- -.I... _ _..... 4 -a.- n.-- c-a --? - _. (II&u sAput.lc ,#&(I I” Lu‘llpcl UK DfaLea 01 UK rsgw1 w negotiate with and recognize the Zionist enemy r&me. 162. The long history of aggression and massacre of the regime occupying AI-Quds clearly indicates that this ripime is content with nothing less than total domination over all the lslamic lands. from the Nilr IO the Euphrates. and complete eradication 01 cvcr)- Mamic m;mifmtation in the 164. I would like to address myself to all the Arab delegates present in this &mber and ask: are the people of Lebanon not fighting the historically and internationally recognizcd enemy of the Arabs? Are the people of Lebanon not Moslems, and is tlieir enemy not the Zionist K& far who have occupied the Moslem land of Palestine and the Islamic sanctuaries? Why then do the Arab rulers, instead of helping them, conspire against them and work for the expansion of the Camp David Accords? Does it not mean that together these rulers are acting like enemies of Islam? And, furthermore, does it not make it evident that the entire struggle in the Middle East is a confrontation between Islam and Ku&? 165. The records of the Council and its governing principles show that those who can maintain their interest outside the Council in the real world can also maintain their interest inside this chamber, and those who are blindly fascinated by the material glamour of satanic worldly Powers, and have therefore adopted servility to them outside the United Nations, remain surrogate and tributary to those Powers inside this chamber too. 166. Therefore, until and unless the Moslem nations bring together all their potential in a united Islamic front, they are bound to be scared of Islam-as the enemies of Islam are-and will not be able to contribute to +uman society all the good and happiness that Islam requires them tocontrib ute. When Moslems identify themselves with anythingother than Islam. then their new, artificial. insecure identity fearfully departs from Islam and anything Islamic. It is this fear of Islam and the Islamic revolution-as today’s article by Karen Elliot in The Woshingo~ Post says-that encouraged certain Arab nations, including Iraq, to hearken to Egypt’s call for a broader ArabIsraeli peace. 167. My first proposal is to our Arab brothers in the region who have mistaken the problem for the solution. Islam-I do not need to assure them-is the solution and not the problem, and a broader Arab-Israeli peace is only the problem and surely not the solution. 16% To the Council-if it really wants to play “Security Council” -my proposal is a strong and straightforward draft resolution which condemns ihe &nisi aggressor for its recent crimes, as well as for its illegal occupation of Lebanese territory. which has gone on for far too long, and requires the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all Zionist forces from all the occupied territories. 1 believe that the present draft resolution [S/f7ooo] contains these two very important points of concern to my Government. We also hope that the professional vetoers will this time 169. Finally, the Islamic regime in Iran, owing to its Islamic quality, is always blamed for all the Islamic developments in the region, and particularly in Lebanon. In putting the blame on the Islamic Republic of Iran, they do not intend to make propaganda for Iran as a powerful Islamic State on which the oppressed can rely and which the arrogant Powers fear. They wish rather to discredit the Moslem people of Lebanon, as if others besides Iran are neither entitled nor committed to Islam. 170. Let me assure those concerned that, first of all, Islam is nobody’s monopoly. All people, including our brothers in Lebanon, are equally entitled to Islam. Secondly, as soon as a nation like Lebanon refreshes its commitment to Islam it will continue its constructive liberating role, independently of the Islamic Republic of Iran and immediately on the basis of Islam and according to it. Those who rhink otherwise are ignorant of Islam. What we are observing in Lebanon is simply the light of Islam. which has happily enlightened a portion of the tiny population of Lebanon. who have resolutely decided powerfully to cleanse their Islamic homeland of the darkrtess of zionism and imperialism. Nothing can stop them. I am afraid the more one tries to extinguish this light, the more it flares up. The best advice to the enemy is to leave the area peacefully-though it is not very easy to carry out this advice. 171. I am told that the Israeli currency is in this situation: one fourth of it used to be equal to one dollar, but nowadays more than 9,ooO of it hardly makes a dollar. Airline tickets in Israel are to be paid for in dollars, and that is a problem. It means that if the Ashkenali Jews sell all their property and real estate, they can hardly get a return ticket to Brooklyn. It also means that even for those return tickets the poor American farn%r has to pay. 172. Secondly, to my Arab brothers I wish to reiterate that the Zionist base is a balloon-beast, full of air. Do not fear it. It is nothing. It is already beaten and defeated. An American professor of politics who once came to see meand permit me not to give his name-commented that the United States could never understand how weak and defeatable this petty Satan was. 173. I therefore hope that American officials will no longer spend on a Zionist real non-entity, They have to live with Moslems, with independent and powerful Moslems. -t-L-.. L-l Le.--- _._A ,--- :-- .^ 1- :. _^_^ ,,.A . ..LL I _.__ 4 MC)1 UO” VcllC, am,, kGu,wrg L” “” I, .nJu,‘ Pl‘” nn,, lC”CI casualities on both sides. 174. To my Arab brothers I have to reiterate that the enemy is already defeated. They do not need to fear it. Let us join together and liberate Palestine. Relieve me, the beautiful flag of Palestine will soon be hoisted throughout the occupied land. The .sooner we establish our united

The next speaker is the representative of Israel. I invite him to take a place at the Council table and to eke his statement.

I want to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency. I also want to congratulate your predecessor, the representative of India, for his successful completion of last month’s tcnun!. 178. Some here today have falsely and maliciously attacked my country. We have heard a vicious verbal echo of the physical attacks Israeli soldiers have endured as the Israeli army withdraws from South Lebanon. 179. For example, the Lebanese reptesentative has asin put forward the despicable charge tbat Israel ~88 involved in the explosion that destroyed the Mosque in Maatakah. Let me therefore again state categorically that Israel bad no involvement in that explosion whatsoever. IDF units were not even in the village at the time of the incident. ft appears that this explosion took place when terrorists mishandled the triggering device and caused the explosion device to detonate. 180. In no way did IDF units prevent ambulances and other emergency vehicles from entering the hospital referred to by the Lebanese nprescntative. In fact, the contrary is true. ‘Ihe IDF cleared a path to the hospital and assured access to it by dispersing a violent demonstration in front of the hospital. 181. So, apart from these and similarly preposterous charges, what am we really being accused ot? I think we are attacked simply because M have the audaeity to protect the lives of our men. We seek out caches of arms. We attempt to locate terrorists who are planning to attack us, or those who have already attacked us. For this we are expected to be apologetic. We are not. 182. Now, what is so striking about this selective indignation we have heard today is this: its motive is not to defend the integrity of Lebanon or the safety of its citizens but soieiy fo attack israei. For if the Govemmcnts that have waxed so indignant about alk@ Israeli actions in Lcbanon really were concerned about that country and its people. they would have at least mentioned the 60 per cent of Lebanon that remains under the Syrian yoke, I have heard many representatives here speak about the sovereignty of Lebanon. the incalculable suffering of its people. They could have mentioned the Syrian occupation, or they that we have had to endure in this forum before. When, during the previous decade of turmoil and terror, loO.CUHl Lebanese died-slaughtered by Syria, the PLO and by each other-we did not hear even a word from the same countries that have been busily denouncing Israel today. 184. But of course, in the Never-Never Land of antilsraeli resolutions, reality has a way of wandering off by itself. So let me try. like a few others here, to bring reality back to this discussion. 185. We believe that if terrorists stockpile car bombs and missiles and guns to use a@inst our soldiers and, as they have repeatedly threateaed, against our civilians, we have not only a right but a duty to locate these bombs and missiles and guns before they are used against us. 186. Now, most of South Lebanon is peaceful. The people ate sick of violence. They have rejected the murderous incitement of some local leaders inspired by Khomeini and d&ted by Syria. But a few villages, mostly in the Tyre ana. have succumbed to the incitement from Damascus, Tehran and the relay station in Beirut. 187. Our search and patrol missions have tracked terrorists to these villages. They have taken unusual care to place only the minimal restrictions needed to apprehend the terrorists and to uncover their hidden weapons. Let me tell the Council about part of what they found. 188. In the village of Dir Arabiyeh, we uncovered rocketproplled grenades, anti-tank rockets and two cars packed with explosives. In the vitlage of Burj-Rahhal we found 37 crates with thousands of rounds of ammunition, dozens of hand-grenades, 60 mortar shells and Stnla shoulder-fmd missiles. In yet another village, that of Kfar Jibshit, we found a huge depot of arms containing over 2,ooO dctonatot% hand-m, tines, machine-guns--even Katyusha rockets. 189. These weapons welt clearly intended for use against us. But to judge by the threats made by the fanatics, they wzrc meant to be used against others in Lebanon as well. Countless innocent people would have betn murdered and maimed, had ult not acted. 190. These fanatics wrap themselves in the mantle of m si~tance. But their campaign against us began in earnest only after we statted our withdrawal. Well, what are they resisting? Our departure? 191. Only a few days ago, my Government began the second phase of our withdrawal to the international border. But the exhortations to violence continue from Tehran, Damascus and Beirut. The Lebanese Government should know that when it joins the company of those who incite terror, it will be held responsible for the consequences. 193. Bcsidcs the indiscriminate killing of their own people, they have made targets of the citizens of the mcmbcrs of this Council. They arc the .satne people who have killed sleeping American and Prench peace-keepers, who have bombed cmbassics. ollicc buildinB and homes. killing women. children and other noncombatants. 194. In short, they kill cvcrybody; and, as wc have seen today, they even want to kill United Nations pcrsonncl. 195. Now one of the intended victims of their terror, Israel. has been placed in the dock. Just to bc sure that the result in this chamber will be satisfactory to the terrorists, they adopt one linal, incredible terrorist tactic: they level :hreats against a State member of the Security Council. They threaten to murder an American mcmbcr of the United Nations ot,jerver group if the United States does not accept an anti-Israeli draft resolution. Can any doubts be left as to who thcsc people really arc, this so-called resistance? 196. Thus, in an attempt to dictate the outcome of our deliberations. terrorists have invaded this chamber. Now it is the Council itself they want to take hostage. This is the ultimate hostage-taking. 197. 11’ the terrorists wcrc to get their way, then who would be next? Which country here might find itself subject to terrorist blackmail in another diplomatic forum? It would be folly. dangerous folly. to let the terrorists prevail. 198. Given its distortion of the situation in Lebanon. this draft resolution [S/17ooo] deserves to be defeated. If member States wish to conduct their affairs without the threat of terrorist blackmail. it must be defeated. 199. I cannot end without directing a few remarks at some of the statements just made at this table-first, the statement by the representative of the Soviet I.!nion. 200. Of the many charges levelled at my country today. I feel this one deserves special attention. The Soviet representative spoke of Statc%ponsored terrorism: I believe those were his words: Statesponsored terrorism. He should know. It is a subject on which I am sure his Government is well versed. It has, after all. bccomc the foremost practitioner of this art in this gcncration. 201. The Soviet trpresentativc also voiced a spcial h~am-anit-zri-An AWWPC~ Lr rhn nrrx-r intnrnntinnol narmc ..” .,...,...w.. -.. _....-_,. * ..,. . ..- r..,~-. . . ..-... - . . . . *.... . . . . . . . . . -. to tell about it. Let us take Private Olcg Khhm. Ibr cxamplc. An interview with him appcarcd in ‘IL C’hrisriun Science Monitor of IO August 1984. Hc said this: “We were ordered by our otticers that when we attack a village. not one person must bc left alive to tell the talc. If Wc rcfusc to carry out thcsc orders, we get it in the neck oursclvcs.” 202. If the Soviet rcprescntativc would like further examples. I shall be happy to supply them. In any cast. if hc wants to lecture us on imernational ethics, let him lind his lirst students in the Russian units in the Panshir Valley OI Afghanistan. 203. There is one other statement I should like to r&r to at this time: one that breaks all records, which just came from the representative of Iran. What can one say after this astonishing, sometimes buffoonish, display from a rep resentative of one of the most unabashed terrorist States 01 our time? Only that it deserves marks for candour. The Iranian representative does not even pretend. He, like his Government, not only supports terrorism in Lebanon. he incites Member States to fundamentalist fanaticism against another Member State. 204. Thus. we come to a critical test in the life of this body. Terrorism and holy war are brought into the Security Council by Iran. If only a handful of representatives lind the courage to speak out against this dual obscenity, this should raise grave concern for the future not only of the United Nations but of the entire international order.

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