This is the third time - or is it the fourth? - in as many months that we are discussing the situation prevailing in one or another city of Bosnia and Herzegovina: the massacre of Sarajevo, the strangulation of Maglaj, and now the pounding of Gorazde. Is it going to be Zepa next time? Or perhaps Sre…
We are considering today the fifty-fifth resolution on matters related to the former Yugoslavia and we are considering it in an atmosphere very different to that to which we are accustomed. With hindsight, it appears that the world’s reaction to the Sarajevo marketplace massacre on 5 February was a …
It is by default that we have today adopted a resolution which in a sense is only technical. My delegation would have been prepared to discuss a very substantial resolution that would have authorized a serious peace-keeping effort in Georgia, for the situation there has not improved one iota since P…
Violence breeds violence; terror breeds terror. That, at least, is how the conventional wisdom would have it. Responding to terror with terror, to violence with violence, is the standard response, the intellectually undemanding response, the routine response: an eye for an eye, as it says in the Old…
The Czech delegation is delighted to have had the opportunity of listening to President Shevardnadze’s statement, for two reasons, which are rather different from each other.
First, we are particularly concerned with what is happening in Georgia. There are long ties of friendship that link our two …
Let me congratulate you, Sir, on your assuming the presidency for the month. You have navigated us through the first few days of this month with such deftness and élan, such a voracious appetite for work, that you will no doubt dispose of all the remaining issues the Council is facing by mid-March.
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It bears recalling that the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina which we are deliberating today is the third war to take place on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. First came the short war between Serbia and Slovenia for the independence of Slovenia. Then came the war between Serbia and Croati…
Due to its strategic, economic and cultural importance, the Middle East has been the Achilles heel of the whole world’s security situation. The situation in the Middle East has erupted several times into wars. Today, after the hopeful results of the Israeli-- Palestinian and the Israeli-Jordanian ta…
In a recent statement in the First Committee my delegation has discussed several of the issues mentioned here by other speakers. Today, I should like to detail the efforts of the Czech Republic to continue in and take up the commitments of Czechoslovakia with respect to the International Atomic Ener…
