1. Lifting of the arms embargo against Bosnia and Herzegovina

The lifting of the arms embargo must remain a last resort.

We call on the international community to demand the unconditional lifting of that embargo.

Calls for the lifting of the embargo placed on Somalia's livestock and agricultural products.

The European Union is seriously concerned about the consequences of lifting the arms embargo.

Morocco firmly supports the draft resolution before us on the lifting of the embargo.

Most important, we cannot support a call for lifting the arms embargo.

Against that background, we welcome the deferral of the question of lifting the arms embargo.

These have taken various forms. Their purpose is to delay indefinitely the lifting of the embargo.

I am referring in particular to paragraph 22 on lifting the embargo on deliveries of weapons.

My Government recognizes that lifting the arms embargo, even in six months, has risks.

It is known that the General Assembly favours the lifting of the arms embargo on Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In this respect, lifting the arms embargo could further escalate an already vicious cycle of death and destruction.

To remove final obstacle to lifting of arms embargo Bosnian Government officially requests withdrawal of United Nations relief personnel

Furthermore, my Government is in favour of lifting the economic embargo that is such a burden on that country.

Of course, we cannot but strongly object to the very idea of lifting the arms embargo against Bosnia and Herzegovina.

If given the option between the continuing role of UNPROFOR and, on the other hand, the effective lifting of the arms embargo imposed on our Government, we choose the option of directly addressing the continuing root causes and aggression by the lifting of the arms embargo.

In that context, Japan believes that the question of lifting the arms embargo poses a serious problem in this situation.

2. Recommends that the President of the Republic obtain the lifting of the embargo once the following events have taken place

My delegation has consistently called for the lifting of the arms embargo unjustly imposed on the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Therefore, if our compromise proposal on the arms embargo is rejected for any reason, we shall ask our friends to secure the immediate, and even unilateral, lifting of the embargo.

Pakistan and other Islamic countries fully support the demand for the immediate lifting of the arms embargo against Bosnia and Herzegovina.

For France, lifting the embargo is also an important symbol, one that recognizes China s role in fighting Islamist terrorism.

We have supported and still support the request of that Republic for the lifting of the arms embargo against it, an embargo which there is no doubt has been an encouragement to the aggressor.

Secondly, history has proved that the lifting of an arms embargo leads to the creation of alliances, with the danger of escalating the war.

The European Union believes that the lifting of the United States trade embargo would open Cuba's economy, to the benefit of the Cuban people.

The pleas of the Bosnian Government for effective international intervention or at least the lifting of the ill conceived arms embargo have gone unheeded.

Notwithstanding this, the Bosnian pleas for effective international intervention, or at least the lifting of the ill conceived arms embargo, have gone unheeded.

Paraguay lent its fullest support to the Rio Group apos s decisions, including its declaration on lifting the embargo against Cuba.

quot It is our intention today, in requesting the withdrawal of relief personnel, to remove that final obstacle to the lifting of the arms embargo.

Our State, like the majority of United Nations Member States, strongly condemns the United States embargo against Cuba and calls for lifting it immediately.

Jamaica welcomes the call made by the Rio Group at its recent Eighth Summit meeting for the lifting of the trade embargo against Cuba.

For these reasons we cannot accept a lifting of the arms embargo and, therefore, we shall abstain in the voting on the draft resolution.

For that purpose, we ask for lifting the embargo, that way we shall help ourselves, our people, but also the international community.

A lifting of the arms embargo would have serious implications for the security of UNPROFOR and the humanitarian aid operations it has been mandated to protect.

Minister Serreqi declared that Albania has supported and does support the request of the Muslim leadership of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the lifting of the arms embargo.

Lifting the arms embargo may become unavoidable, as we said at Geneva in July, and in those circumstances UNPROFOR would have to withdraw.

However, Australia has reservations about the wisdom at this time of lifting the arms embargo as it affects the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federation.

We wish to pay tribute to President Alija Izetbegović of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who made a very wise and fair proposal for a de jure lifting of the illegal embargo against Bosnia and Herzegovina, to be followed in six months by the actual lifting of the embargo if the Bosnian Serbs continued to reject the peace plan of the Contact Group.

However, the Monitoring Group did meet with Hussein Aideed, the Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, to discuss his concern about lifting the arms embargo.

10. The Foreign Ministers reaffirm their call for the lifting of the de facto arms embargo unjustly imposed against the Government of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

My delegation reaffirms its call for United Nations Member States to support an immediate lifting of the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba, as that embargo violates the norms of free trade and navigation.

Mr. Denktaş took the position that adequate compensation should be provided by lifting the embargo that has been maintained on the Turkish Cypriot side.

We call for the lifting of the arms embargo imposed on Bosnia and Herzegovina so that it can defend itself in accordance with Article 51 of the Charter.

In our view, therefore, all factors must be carefully considered, including the necessary flexibility concerning the timing of the decision and the actual lifting of the arms embargo.