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In addition to all these splendid qualities in a man and a professional, there was a dignified resilience helping him to navigate the troubled waters of the most complicated and enduring issues on the global agenda.

From these examples, one can conclude that there are situations where the Security Council, confronted by horrific human rights crimes, acts on behalf of justice.

In its foreword, Justice Louise Arbour warned that “the violence in Kosovo was horrific, and again proved devastating for the many ordinary people who became its victims” (p. 1).

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In addition, mass media outlets contained horrifying reports about the killing of the residents and defenders of Khojaly by indiscriminate Armenian gunfire and other brutal acts by invading troops (more information is available in document E/CN.4/2002/151).

Cuba rejects this illegitimate mechanism whereby the United States Government arrogates to itself the right to certify the conduct of other nations with regard to terrorism and to publish discriminatory, selective and politically motivated lists, while maintaining a double standard by failing to try the avowed perpetrators of horrendous terrorist acts against Cuba and other countries in our hemisphere, instead allowing them to remain at large.

I write in regard to another horrific terrorist attack perpetrated by the Iranian Al Quds forces and Hezbollah, as part of a gruesome campaign targeting Israelis and Jews around the world.

Whereas it has been internationally recognized, including by the principal organs of the United Nations, that Armenia unleashed the war, attacked Azerbaijan and occupied its territories, including the Daghlyq Garabagh (Nagorno Karabakh) region, carried out ethnic cleansing on a massive scale, perpetrated other heinous crimes in the course of the war and established the ethnically constructed subordinate separatist entity on the captured Azerbaijani territory, it is curious that Armenian propaganda continues to qualify the aggression against Azerbaijan as “a peaceful and constitutional demand of the Nagorno Karabakh people to exercise its right to self-determination”.

He became a lawyer and, while working in South Africa, he was appalled at the way Indians were treated by the British and began to work for the independence of India from British rule.

States must respect and promote the rights of children living in poverty, including by strengthening and allocating the necessary resources to child protection strategies and programmes, with a particular focus on marginalized children, such as street children, child soldiers, children with disabilities, victims of trafficking, child heads of households and children living in care institutions, all of whom are at a heightened risk of exploitation and abuse.

To deprive a child of his smiles and dreams and burden him with gore and machine guns is an appalling indictment of the values of the certain groups and individuals.

In one particularly horrific incident in early November, an estimated 150 people were killed during two days of violence in the town of Kiwanja.

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The spectacular horror in the use of attacks will remain, I am afraid, a tactic of the insurgency for the time being, as will their efforts to interfere with the current military surge.

Data such as highresolution topographical information, which would provide the fundamental baseline for coastal vulnerability studies, wave impact and inundation modelling, is almost entirely absent; thus much of what is understood regarding coastal vulnerability in the Pacific islands region is inferred or based on inadequate baseline data.

Two major projects have been implemented, one to improve teacher-training modules, the other to promote preventive education for children in difficult situations, in particular street children, with the dual aim of: (i) giving children, in particular underprivileged children, access to the fundamental rights set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and (ii) protecting or lessening the impact of the epidemic on this highly vulnerable section of the population.

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The argument that, since the utmost violence of 1998-1999 one decade has passed and the “conflict is over”, somehow “buried” into oblivion, and that there is peace today in Kosovo and the aforementioned repression belongs to the past, is in my view superficial, if not unsustainable.

The members of the Council also expressed their deep sympathy and condolences to the victims of that heinous crime and to their families, the people and Government of Nigeria and the Secretary-General and other United Nations staff members.

We have no doubt that raising such allegations is nothing but an attempt to divert attention from the horrendous record of non-compliance by those countries with their nuclear disarmament obligations, including through nuclear weapon-sharing, hosting nuclear weapons in their territories and assisting the only non-party to the NPT in the Middle East, the Israeli regime, with its nuclear weapons programme.