UN General Assembly
1995

and while we were deploying persistent efforts to do just that, we have not received in return any objective and equitable position that would have reduced sanctions commensurately with the progress achieved by Iraq in implementing the resolutions, or that would have given encouragement and hope and given confidence that the situation would be normalized eventually, in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations. The reality has been the very opposite. From the very beginning and to date, we have been the target of many threats; doubts have been raised about our intentions; and we have been, twice, the target of armed aggression. There has been considerable deceit with regard to objectives. Pressure has been brought to bear on any party that even thought of treating us fairly, even if such fairness was not intended as a gesture towards Iraq but as a means of safeguarding the credibility of the Charter system and of the resolutions of the Security Council. We have been accused of intermittent and selective cooperation and of a lack of peaceful intentions