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S/Agenda/2503 SC

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Vote ConsensusS/PV.2503

Speeches following this vote (11) may include explanations of vote
Mr. Shah Nawaz (Pakistan)
Mr. President, I have great pleasure in availing myself of this opportunity first of all to extend to you our congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of December. During the past two weeks you have given the Council admirable leadership and excellent advice. We feel confident that your great experience as a diplomat and statesman and the prestige…
The President
I should like to inform members of the Council that I have received letters from the representatives of Cyprus, Greece and Turkey in which they request to be invited to participate in the discussion of the item an the Council’s agenda. In accordance with the usual practice, I propose, with the consent of the Council, to invite those representatives to participate in the discussion without the rig…
Mr. Moushoutas (Cyprus)
It is an honour and a pleasure for me to congratulate you warmly, Sir, on your assumption of the high-office of the presidency of the Council for the month of December and to express to you my Government’s deep appreciation for the outstanding competence, efficiency and tact with which you have conducted the consultations for the renewal of the mandate of UNFICYP. Your vast diplomatic experience …
The President
The next speaker is the representative of Greece, on whom I call.
Mr. Dountas (Greece)
I should like to thank you, Mr. President, and the other members of .the Council for acceding to my request to participate in this debate under rule 37 of the provisional rules of procedure . 52. Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of December. In your person we pay a tribute both to a distinguished European statesman…
The President
The next speaker is Mr. Nail Atalay, to whom the Council has extended an invitation in accordance with rule 39 of its provisional rules of 61. Mr. ATALAY: I thank you, Mr. President and, through you, the other members of the Council for giving me this opportunity to participate inithe debate on behalf of the Turkish people of Cyprus, an equal cofounder partner in the independence and sovereignty…
The President
The next speaker is the representative of Turkey, on whom I now call. 122. Resolution 544 (1983), ‘which has just been adopted by the Council, has been rejected in its entirety by the Government of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. In the view of my Government, that decision by the Turkish Cypriot Government is totally justified. Therefore, for my part, I must inform the Council of the Tu…
The President
The representative of Cyprus has asked to be allowed to speak in exercise of the right of reply, and I call on him. 144. First let me say that I consider it to be the epitome of audacity when the aggressor, Turkey, the usurper, the oppressor ,of our people, all our people -Greeks, Turks, Armenians, Maronites, Latins-and the occupier of 40 per cent of our territory, contrary to repeated United Na…
The President
I call on the representative of Greece, in exercise of the right of reply.
Mr. Dountas (Greece)
I admit my inability to follow the Turkish side’s lengthy, monotonous and mainly out-of-context recital of newspaper articles, statements, speeches and obscure authors. They have been harping on these themes for years now. Replies have been given to them and they are on the record. 164. But I am compelled to invite the Council’s attention to the last part of Mr. Kirca’s intervention, which conta…
The President
There are no further speakers. The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on the agenda. The meeting rose at 6.35 p.m. NOTE ’ United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 382, No. 5475. HOW TO OBTAIN UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATIONS United Nations publications may be obtained from bookstores and distributors throughout the world. Consult your bookstore or wr…
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