S/PV.3114 Security Council

I thank the representative of the United States for his kind words addressed to me. Mr. NB (Belgium) (interpretation from French)% Firstly, Mr. President, on behalf of my delegat.?on and as other delegations have done I should like to congratulate you very sincerely on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. We have full trust in your way of conducting our business, and you can count on the full cooperation of my delegation. I should also like to take this opportunity to tell Ok. Noterdwe. B&&&Q) Ambassador Li Daoyu that were are very grateful to him for the way in which he conducted the business of the Council last month. My delegation voted in favour of this resolution for a very simple reason: developments on the ground show that military protection for humanitarian convoys in Bosnia has become absolutely essential. Furthermore, the parties to the conflict have recognised this fact themselves at the London Conference, and they have agreed on the need for military protection of humanitarian assistance. Uaving said that, we believe that this is merely a stage! the Council decided, in operative paragraph 4 of the resolution, to remain actively seized of the matter ma to consider, a8 required, what further step:; might be necessary to ensure the safety of the United Nations Protection Force (U?WROFOR) and to enable it to fulfil its mandate. We are thinking of two measures to which the Council should give thought in the very near future: firstly, there is, in our opinion, a need to ban military flights over Bosnia territory - and I must just point out that the parties to the Lonaon Conference have undertaken to implement just such a cessation of military flights. I think that the Council will have to take steps in this direction very shortly. Secondly, we believe - and this is already clear from the report of the Secretary-General (S/24540) - that it will be essential for UNPROFOR to take steps at the appropriate the to supervise the heavy weaponry of the parties to the conflict very closely. Tke (interpretation from Spanish): I thank the representative of Belgium for his kind words addressed to me. There are no further speakers on my list. The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on ite agenda. The Security Council will remain seized of the matter.