President Peres at the UN
President Peres at the UNMark Naiman/GPO

 

President Shimon Peres sounded a scolding note Thursday during a meeting with ambasadors to the U.N. Security Council, after news reached him that a missile had hit a school bus.
 
"Ladies and gentlemen, I just got a piece of information that missiles hit a bus of children and two children were seriously wounded," he told the ambassadors. "It cannot be like [this], you know. If you want to bring peace and openness to Gaza, the right way and the shortest way is to tell the people in Gaza - stop shooting, stop smuggling arms, and that's it. We don't ask for anything. We don't want to go back to Gaza."
 

 


"And if the United Nations can provide us with the answer to the security - go ahead. But if you cannot provide - be careful," he warned. "Can you provide, can the United Nations provide a guarantee there won't be missiles, there won't be terror, there won't be intifadahs. And what, then, are we supposed to do with the United Nations resolutions?"
 
"I assume that you gentlemen represent a responsibility," he said. "None of you would give away the security of [his] own people."