UN General Assembly
1996

of Security Council resolutions 1044 (1996), 1054 (1996) and 1070 (1996), respectively, against my country. First, it has been proven that 11 Egyptians were the organizers and perpetrators of the attempt that was the subject of these resolutions. Second, prior to the incident the suspects had been moving in a number of Arab, African and Asian countries. The Sudan was but one of these countries. Third, the Security Council has based its resolutions on the statement of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution, which called upon the Sudan to look for, locate and extradite the suspects if — and I underline 18 if — they were found in the Sudan. This was stipulated in the Mechanism’s decision of 19 December 1995. Fourth, those resolutions were based on the assumption that the three suspects, who are Egyptians, were in the Sudan at the time the other members of the group entered Addis Ababa from other countries, several months before the incident. Fifth — and this I would underline — no evidence