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Valencia-Rodriguez

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first: 1975-09-24
most recent: 1982-09-24
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“When in 1822 Bolivar, as President of Colombia, proposed to the Governments of Buenos Aires, Chile, Mexico and Peru that they should constitute an assembly of confederated countries, he envisioned that this would lay the legal foundation between the American Republics and would come to serve as a counsel in common dangers, a faithful interpreter of public treaties whenever difficulties arise and, finally, as a conciliator of our deferences . 174. These are additional reasons, revitalized through the San Francisco Charter, upon which Ecuador relies to reiterate its full trust in the United Nations and to urge it once again to intensify its efforts to attain the purposes and objectives of the greatest legal instrument of our time.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Because our country owes to the Liberator, Simon Bolivar, the culmination of its political inde¬pendence and the defense of its territorial integrity, the President of Ecuador has proclaimed as the Year of the Bicentenary of the Liberator the period from 24 July 1982 to 24 July 1983, at which time the bicentenary of this great world figure of freedom and international understanding will be celebrated. Ecuador, together with the other Bolivarian countries, that is, the Andean Group and Panama, will co-operate fully in the well-deserved tribute to be paid within the United Nations to the universal thinking of Bolivar. 173.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“In this connection, Ecuador supported the request for the inclusion of the question of the Malvinas as an additional item in the agenda of the present session submitted by 20 Foreign Ministers of Latin American countries and Haiti so that negotiations between the Argentine Republic and the United Kingdom may be carried out within the framework of the United Nations and as soon as possible. 171. That historic Treaty strengthens the vigorous unity of the Latin American peoples, founding mem¬bers of the United Nations and heirs to an ancient juridical tradition which has strengthened interna¬tional law and contributed significantly to the forma¬tion of the United Nations and of various regional organizations, as they themselves have acknowledged. 172.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Ecuador has reaffirmed its adherence to the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, adopted as General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV), paragraph 6 of which clearly states: Any attempt aimed at the partial or total dis¬ruption of the national unity and the territorial integrity of a country is incompatible with the pur¬poses and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. It should not be forgotten that the islands are located on the continental shelf of Argentina and within the security zone established by the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance. 170. There is a dispute, and it must be solved by diplomatic means.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“A regrettable, anachronistic colonial case arose this year in the South Atlantic—that of the Malvinas Islands, where an extra-continental Power mounted a disproportionate punitive expedition, with the support of other great Powers, to deny the Argen¬tine Republic's right of sovereignty. Ecuador, which maintained its anti-colonialist position before, during and after that warlike episode, has rejected the use of force and has recalled that the principle of uti possidetis juris of 1810 is the basis, of the territorial reality of the American countries which gained independence from the Spanish Crown.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“We have expressed our concern about the suggested ways of differentiating between developing countries in granting preferential treatment, since the concept of graduation, which the countries granting the preferences seek to introduce, is incompatible with the basic norms of the generalized system of preferences. Ecuador has spoken of the advisability of examining a system of safeguards under conditions and on the basis of criteria that are mutually agreed and are supplemented by a multilateral mechanism of control and monitoring. The forthcoming GATT ministerial meeting will be an opportunity to reach concrete agreements which may allow GATT to achieve its essential objective of the attainment of shared benefits. 169.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Although Ecuador is not a contracting party to GATT, it has always been interested in its activities, since GATT's main objective is the reduction of barriers to international trade and the preparation of rules which will enable it to be regulated according to equitable and just terms. However, GATT has not yet succeeded in solving the problems which affect the trade of the developing countries, such as quantita¬tive restrictions and the increased protectionist measures which are applied to the products of which the developing countries are major exporters. 168.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“It is also necessary to stress the multilateral process of trading, because this contributes to the preservation of the independence of peoples and prevents the anachronistic exploitation and dependence which often accompany bilateral aid. All this must continue to be considered in international forums, so that exports from developing countries may earn a fair remuneration and maintain sources of employment for the inhabitants of those countries. It is to be hoped that the forthcoming session of UNCTAD will result in new approaches, understandings and decisions which will ensure the dynamics of development for the countries of the third world. 167.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The world multilateral system of technical co-operation and pre-investment is the most commendable, because of its political independence, its objectivity, its flexibility and its experience. We reject any attempt to orient it towards the governing of the programmes of some States by others, which would be intolerable. 166. Together with technical co-operation and pre- investment, which link the transfer of technology with economic development, from investment to productivity, trade must be an instrument of justice between countries, through agreement on equitable prices and theelimination of discriminatory barriers.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“While the global negotiations are going on, Member States will have to prepare plans and projects, as well as train personnel, with the support of oper¬ational programmes such as UNDP, whose charac¬teristics of universality, formulation of programmes by Governments and financing by voluntary contributions as well as its 32 years' experience all combine to make it the ideal instrument to meet the real needs of world development. That is why its activities must be trebled, which is possible if the major countries respond to the General Assembly's appeals to increase their con¬tributions by 14 per cent. Ecuador, for its part, has done so. The developing countries have made a significant increase in their contributions, and there is growing South-South co-operation in the economic and technical fields.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“In this respect, it is appropriate to mention that the Committee on Information, created by the Assembly, has succeeded in adopting by an admirable and encouraging consensus 42 recommendations [see <4/37/2/, para. 9/], which we hope the General Assembly will endorse. They include an appeal to the powerful world communications media to back up the efforts of the international community to ensure global development, and in particular the efforts of the developing countries to achieve their own economic, social and cultural development. 165.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States must be effectively implemented in order to establish just and equitable bases for international economic relations. To that end it is also necessary to revitalize the Economic and Social Council, a principal organ of the United Nations, where the crucial questions of our time should be debated. The Council should contribute to consolidating and making more coherent the whole system of specialized agen¬cies, development funds and operative programmes created and consolidated over the past three decades. It must also follow up the resolutions of the General Assembly as well as those of the Council itself and of its Commissions. This covers the major part of the work of the United Nations, since 80 per cent of the activities of the system are in the economic and social fields. 164.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Consequently, Ecuador trusts that, in the Assembly, the political will which is indispensable for the pro¬gress of the global negotiations will be forthcoming form the industrialized countries and that a system of world economic relations will be arrived at reflecting the principles of equity, sovereignty, equality, inter¬dependence and co-operation among States that are the basis of the new international economic order. We cannot watch with indifference the increasingly serious broadening of the gaps that separate the poor coun¬tries from the rich countries, with respect to access to the sources of capital and to markets, and to the transfer of technology, while inflation and unemploy¬ment afflict the whole international community, the harshest effects being felt by the weakest. 163.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The International Development Strategy was conceived in response to the new approach of a world of co-operation, and to promote a new stage of global economic growth which would benefit all and which would accentuate the activities and benefits of peace in relation to the many development tasks which involve the fulfillment of the world's needs in the fields of education, health, housing, productivity, sources of energy, transport and communications.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“For the sake of adequately coordinating the foreign policies of countries with the greatest historical, political and cultural affinities, the President of Ecuador has proposed that the Foreign Ministers of the Latin American countries join together in a com¬mittee on co-ordination, which would be an essential step in strengthening Latin American unity and soli¬darity. At the subregional level, Ecuador is an active participant in the integration process among the Andean countries which are parties to the Cartagena Agreement. 162.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“We have also pointed out the advisability of establishing a body empowered to co-operate with the parties to a dispute in the search for a peaceful settlement at the request of any of them, so that full use may thus be made of the possibilities afforded by the Charter for that purpose. 161. Among the increasingly important forums in which Ecuador participates is the non-aligned move¬ment, which it joined over a year ago, although it had endorsed the principles and policies of the movement ever since the Belgrade meeting of 1961, because of our wishes for the consolidation of peace and inter¬national co-operation, in accordance with Ecuador's foreign policy, which is independent, and free from any influence, with respect for ideological pluralism, and seeks to maintain friendly relations with all coun¬tries.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“In every forum of which it is a member—international, regional and subregional—Ecuador advocates peaceful settlement. All disputes between States, both present and future, must be settled solely by peaceful means, without interference and without anything being imposed from outside. We therefore maintain that the United Nations must redouble its efforts in this regard. 160. Our country has accordingly supported the draft Manila Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes, designed to strengthen and make more effective the system of the peaceful settle¬ment of disputes between States, in accordance with an initiative, in which Ecuador took part from the beginning, in the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Similarly, in the face of the unacceptable claim by the space Powers that it is the right of the first occupant to place satellites in geostationary orbit, Ecuador has maintained that the special rights of the equatorial countries must be recognized for the benefit of the developing world and in view of the determina¬tion to keep outer space an area of peace and co-oper¬ation for scientific and technical progress in the service of all mankind, and especially the developing countries, was reaffirmed in the Declaration of Equatorial States, which met at Quito in April of this year. Ecuador will continue to maintain that position. 159. Disarmament is closely linked with the peaceful settlement of international disputes, which is an element essential to understanding among countries and the strengthening of world peace and security.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The new law of the sea recognizes wide-ranging and specific rights of sovereignty of the coastal States over the natural resources in the adjacent waters, on the sea-bed and in the subsoil thereof in that 200-mile zone. The recognition that the sea-bed beyond the limits of national jurisdiction constitutes the common heritage of mankind is also an irreversible victory. Much has been gained. But further progress is necessary to achieve definitive protection of all the rights of peo¬ples which, like that of Ecuador, have been exercising their rights over their seas without violating any of the norms of international law. 158.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“There are, of course, other important factors that have to be taken into account in the maintenance of peace and the promotion of the integral development of nations, such as the elimination of economic aggression and of theillegal exploitation of natural resources belonging to other peoples, the changing of unfair terms of trade, and the elimination of all kinds of coercive measures. 157. The United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea highlighted the evolution of one aspect of international law, which began 30 years ago with the Santiago Declaration, in which Ecuador, Chile and Peru proclaimed sovereignty and jurisdiction over the sea along their coasts to a distance of 200 miles. That legal position has become universal.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“We have supported resolutions calling for the reallocation of the astronomical sums spent for military purposes worldwide to be used for the development of the poor countries, a development which is essential for the establishment of the new international economic order. In that connection, we have enthusiastically supported the inclusion in the agenda of the additional item concerning the relationship between disarmament and development. 155. On the other hand, we deplore the lack of political will on the part of the great Powers, which prevented the General Assembly at the second special session devoted to disarmament from even ratifying the points agreed on during the first such special session. 156.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“As a country of the Amazon region, Ecuador fulfils its role under the Treaty of Amazonian Co-oper¬ation among the eight countries whose territory makes up the water basin of the great river that was discov¬ered by the expedition organized in the sixteenth century from Guayaquil and Quito. 154. Because of its vocation for peace, Ecuador has supported all disarmament resolutions at past sessions of the General Assembly, in particular those resolu¬tions calling for nuclear disarmament and for the prohibition of nuclear tests. We must reiterate our total condemnation of the unbridled arms race—if only because of a basic instinct for the preservation of human life on our planet, which belongs as much to the non-nuclear as to the nuclear countries.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“As a result, I reiterate the reservation that Ecuador expressed before the Assembly at the 31st meeting of the thirty-sixth session with regard to its rights of territorial sovereignty over the undefined border zone extending to the east of the Condor Range to the effect that whatever acts and works Peru may have carried out, as well as those it is currently undertaking and those it may undertake in future, in no case will Ecuador agree to the sitting of the landmarks that Peru claims in that Range, which is not mentioned as a border line in any instrument between the two countries, not even in the so-called Rio Protocol that was imposed upon Ecuador in 1942 after the armed invasion of 1941 and under conditions that included the occupation of part of its territory. 153.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“This neces¬sary atmosphere for negotiation has been seriously disturbed by the warlike events of January and Feb¬ruary 1981 and by other later incidents, but the full re-establishment of such an atmosphere is hampered above all by the acts of appropriation of the territories under dispute that Peru has since that time been intensifying and by which it is attempting to pass off the territorial dispute it maintains with Ecuador as having been resolved in favor of its own unilateral pretensions. 152.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Ecuador has always advocated and will not cease to seek a peaceful and honorable solution of justice and equity to that problem, one that recognizes its Amazonian rights. That is why it renews from this rostrum its invitation to Peru t& lend its loyal and effective participation to establishing as soon as possible the climate indispensable for understanding between the two countries and for the initiation, as soon as such a design is consolidated, of negotiations aimed at the earliest and definitive solution of the dispute that separates them, without conditions that might prejudge the results of the negotiations and with the assistance of the countries that are most closely linked to the preservation of peace and the search for harmony between the parties.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“In the specific case of the American continent, the territorial problems that sail exist in Central and South America which, we could assert, involve almost all States of the region, hamper the co-ordination of an international policy that would make it possible to attend to a)l existing problems and to obtain the co-operation required to solve them. 150. There exists a serious territorial problem between Ecuador and Peru, dating back to the time when our peoples acceded to independent life. The problem was aggravated when, by force and by the occupation of Ecuadorian territory, the Protocol of Rio de Janeiro was imposed on us, By virtue of which Ecuador was deprived of the Amazonian territories to which my country is entitled in accordance with unimpeachable legal titles. 151.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“It also reiterates the need to promote the settle¬ment of disputes among the countries of the Andean Group, or between them and third parties, by peaceful means, and it provides for a subregional and regional process which, inspired by the premises contained in the 1974 Ayacucho Declaration/for constitutes an effective contribution to general and complete disarm¬ament and thus makes it possible to release resources for economic and social development. 148. The multiple world problems and the disputes of every kind that exist in various regions, including those of a territorial character, seriously affect world peace and security and are consequently of interest to the community of nations. 149.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The political parties, the trade unions, the chambers of commerce and the information media have been given the widest guaranty’s for the exercise of their activities. 147. The Charter of Conduct signed at Riobamba in 1980 by the Presidents of the countries of the Andean Group, as well as Panama, Costa Rica and Spaing reaffirms the commitment by which respect for human, political, economic and social rights constitutes a fundamental norm for the internal conduct of States, and notes that joint action in the defense of such rights does not violate the principle of non-interven¬tion.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“My country upholds the need for universal respect for human rights without the selectivity as to their violations that leads to covering up in certain regions what is criticized in others. It also maintains that it is proper for each State member of the international community to report of its own accord and in such international forums as this on the observance of those rights within their borders. 146. In this regard, the Constitutional President of Ecuador, Mr. Osvaldo Hurtado, stated at the opening of the session of the Ecuadorian Parliament this year that for ... the Government has scrupulously respected public freedoms in such a manner that it can proudly report that in the course of the past year no act tending to limit them has occurred.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“In this respect, Ecuador has considered with interest the new proposals aimed at the full recognition of the basic rights of the Palestinian people and the need to give effect to United Nations decisions, particularly those of the Security Council. In fact, and in accordance with the latter, the search for practical measures that would meet the just claims of the Palestinians and reaffirm respect for the sovereignty, political independence and territorial integrity of all States in the region continues to be the urgent aim of the international community in the Middle East. 145. Ecuador lives within a democratic system with full respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms as laid down in its Constitution and in relevant international instruments.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“It has demanded the immediate withdrawal of the invading forces as well as the cessation of hostilities in order to put an end to the loss of human lives and the destruction of that martyred country. The Lebanese people must remain free from any foreign interference so that they may decide their own destiny in a sovereign and democratic manner and so that their intrinsic and inalienable right to live in peace is respected. Similarly, Ecuador reiterates the basic need to find a solution to the problem of the Palestinian people, who have the right to establish themselves in their own territory, a right to self-determination and a right to participate on an equal footing with the other countries of the region in international negotia¬tions aimed at finding a just, definitive and compre¬hensive solution to this serious situation. 144.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“In the firm belief that peace is possible only through the observance of those fundamental prin¬ciples of the legal system of the United Nations, Ecuador continues to call for the immediate withdrawal of foreign forces from territories that do not belong to them, in Afghanistan as well as in Lebanon and all of the Middle East, and in Cyprus, Kampuchea, Namibia or any other territory where forces of occupa¬tion are to be found. 143. Ecuador has condemned the aggression against Lebanon as well as the execrable massacres of hun¬dreds of Palestinians that recently occurred in west Beirut, and it has requested that an appropriate investi¬gation be made in order to determine responsibilities.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The joint declarations of the President of Ecuador and the Presidents of Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia on the occasion of the visits made in the course of 1982 by the Ecuadorian President to those brother countries, as well as the declaration signed by nine heads of State from Latin America and Spain on the occasion of the recent transfer of power in Colom¬bia, reaffirm adherence to those principles and indicate the guidelines of Ecuador's international policy. 142.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“That political will is an essential requirement for the restoration of a climate of inter¬national understanding and the removal of the dangers that loom over the future of mankind. 140. To face up to those perspectives, Ecuador comes to this new session to reaffirm its position of adherence to the basic principles of its international policy, outstanding among which are those relating to the sovereign equality of States, non-intervention, the rejection of the threat or use of force in international relations, the non-recognition of territorial conquests obtained by force, the peaceful settlement of disputes, international co-operation, respect for human rights, and the rejection of racial discrimination, apartheid, colonialism and neo colonialism. 141.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The realization of the noble purposes of the United Nations has, as at no time before, eluded the reach of the peoples, who anxiously contemplate the permanent weakening of the resolutions of the General Assembly and the non-implementation of the decisions of the Security Council. Let us recall that mankind put its trust and its hope in the United Nations in order to for save succeeding generations from the scourge of warfare . If the Organization shows itself ineffectual in attaining that objective, the perspectives will become increasingly distressing. 139. For that reason, Ecuador urgently appeals to the Governments of Member States, and prin¬cipally to the great Powers, to act in compliance with their responsibilities and display the political will needed to give substance to the measures adopted by the Organization.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“His efforts during the prolonged work of the thirty- sixth session will always be recalled as an example of selfless devotion to the cause of the United Nations. 138. World problems have worsened considerably in the midst of an atmosphere laden with growing tension, constant collective insecurity, aggressions that are neither punished nor stopped and an acute inter¬national economic crisis. The world panorama has darkened over the past year as a result of the dangers that confront peace, while the measures adopted by the Organization to alleviate this state of tension and insecurity have not brought about the expected results.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Sir, I would ask you to transmit to Mr. Hollai, President of the General Assembly, the greetings of my country, together with our best wishes for complete success in the conduct of the work of this session of the General Assembly, a success assured by his prestige and experience in the Organization. I also greet the Secretary-Genera), who comes from our Latin American region, elected last December to the elevated responsibility that the international community has entrusted to him, for the furtherance of peace and the strengthening of the United Nations. I also wish to place on record our profound gratitude to and praise for Mr. Kittani, the esteemed President of the thirty-sixth session.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Ecuador believes it is essential, therefore, for the international community and the individual countries concerned to speed up the process of establishing the new economic order which will lead to development in keeping with the needs of the moment and those foreseeable in the future. The Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States [resolution 3281 (XXIX)] and the results of the seventh special session must be the basic machinery that is to give impulse to this process.”
1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)
“It is undeniable that we cannot, in this day and age, apply the same procedures as those that applied to past structures. The evolution of the world offers new prospects. It would be erroneous to hope that an increase in national savings and private capital by itself could give impetus to the process of industrialization that is essential for the achievement of an improvement in the balance of payments and progress in general. That would mean postponing the solution of social problems and maintaining alive a permanent threat of internal disruption. It is therefore desirable to adopt a new social philosophy to enable our communities to cast off the burden of their backwardness.”
1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)
“In a report of the World Bank issued recently, it is stated, inter alia, that behind the cold statistics there lies hidden the cruel reality of the rise of hunger and poverty throughout the world. This reveals the undeniable gravity of the underlying socio-economic problems, characterized by the very unequal distribution of income, excessive unemployment levels, high rates of infant mortality and illiteracy, and generally poor health. This picture is unfortunately almost a common denominator for the peoples of the third world, particularly for many in the American continent. Therefore, co-operation and mutual help at the international level so as to reduce the gravity of these symptoms are the tasks calling for action by the international community and, in particular, for a change of attitude on the part of the developed countries. 242.”
1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)
“There is an urgent need to ensure stable markets for products from the developing countries, to reduce tariff and non-tariff barriers and truly to eliminate restrictive trade practices. 240. The effective participation of the developing countries in the administration of world monetary affairs to date has been nominal. On the other hand, our countries beset by financial difficulties because of our scarce resources urgently require greater and more direct participation in the financial surpluses, as well as in the special drawing rights, administered by the International Monetary Fund; and this participation should be proportional not to our respective contributions, but to the requirements of the economic development and social progress of our peoples. 241.”
1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)
“Among these policies we find today the foreign trade laws of the United States, under which my country is the victim of discriminatory measures merely because it defends its own natural resources. That is why Ecuador has stated repeatedly that it cannot maintain a dialog under the pressure of threats or measures of such a kind. 239. Ecuador considers that one effective way to eliminate the present disequilibrium in the balance of payments of some of the developing countries would be for the developed countries to be willing to adopt a just and balanced pricing policy for the goods that they export to the developing countries in terms of the prices of the primary commodities exported by the third world countries.”
1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)
“The participation of the developing- countries in world trade has become smaller and smaller, deteriorating progressively, especially by reason of the barriers imposed by the developed countries. The developing countries are aware of their limitations as regards the lack of diversification of their export products, which are basically primary commodities. This situation leads to our observing with great concern that not only are our products experiencing continued deterioration of prices in the light of the constantly rising cost of the intermediate products and capital of the industrialized countries but, furthermore, the exports of the developing countries are subject to discriminatory and coercive policies which cancel out or limit the third world's participation in international trade.”
1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)
“Ecuador, in keeping with the policy it has been maintaining, affirms the principle of total and absolute sovereignty of the State over its own natural resources. This is an irrenunciable and inalienable right recognized by the international community, from which stems the right of the developing countries possessing such resources to carry out their exploration, exploitation, industrialization and marketing in accordance with their own interests. 237. On the other hand, Ecuador, like the other developing countries, in wishing to safeguard its heritage, believes that interdependence in this sphere must necessarily stem from the satisfaction of its own needs as well as marketing and industrialization terms compatible with the integral development needs of its people. 238.”
1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)
“The International Development Strategy takes account of these purposes, which were enshrined in the resolution on the Second Development Decade [resolution 2626 (XXV)]. However, the examination and assessment of the results so far achieved by the application of the Strategy have caused the Government of Ecuador some concern. Those results confirm once again the slight progress, if not the stagnation, in the process of integral development of the countries of the third world, because even the initial goals provided for in the Strategy have not been achieved. If the developing countries have achieved partial development in terms of isolated economic indices, this has been due exclusively to their domestic effort and has not been the result of the action of the international community in favor of the poorer countries. 236.”
1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)
“If the Conference on the law of the sea orients its work on the basis of good faith, realism and true deliberation, we are convinced that it will achieve full success. My country will continue to offer its most sincere and determined co-operation. 234. As regards economic development, it has been stated repeatedly that it not only must relate to the structure of public and social service which provides the human being with material well-being but, at the same time, must ensure an atmosphere wherein he can act as an individual member of society protected by fundamental freedoms. In the world of today, which is subject to the closest interrelation in all spheres of human endeavor and most essentially in the economic field, that so deeply desired goal can be achieved only through effective international co-operation. 235.”
1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)
“There can be no valid regime for the sea-bed and the ocean floor, which have been declared the common heritage of mankind, unless administrative international machinery benefiting all nations is established. The moratorium declared by this General Assembly and ratified by the Conference, the purpose of which is to prevent the few technologically and economically capable countries from arbitrarily beginning the exploitation of the sea-bed and the ocean floor for their own egoistic and exclusive use and purposes, is still in force. Technology is not a basis for dominion, but an instrument for the common progress of all, and States possessing technology should share it generously if they are truly oriented towards the building of peace. Ecuador reiterates its views on the imperative need to maintain and apply that moratorium. 233.”
1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)
“23], My country's experience in this field has led it to the conviction that the only effective guarantee of respect of its right as regards the sea is the proclamation of its own sovereignty and jurisdiction over a distance of up to 200 miles. In this territorial sea that Ecuador possesses, there has been for almost 25 years now peaceful coexistence and harmonious co-ordination between its national rights and respect for the interests of the community of nations. 232. Another fundamental aspect to be elucidated at the next stage in the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea is that connected with the sea-bed and the ocean floor beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.”
1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)
“Moreover, once those countries were faced with the majority reaction of the developing peoples, they were compelled to recognize the need to introduce specific changes in the law of the sea, although at the same time they still resort to maneuvers whose fundamental purpose is to take all practical meaning from the acceptance of contemporary juridical trends. Thus the developing countries have stated, and rightly, that the recognition of jurisdiction by coastal States over 200 miles of the sea must not be devoid of concrete content but must, on the contrary, constitute an effective guarantee of the establishment of a system of conservation and use of the resources of the seas mainly for the benefit of their own peoples.”
1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)
“Measures for the conservation of renewable resources, the prevention and elimination of pollution and scientific research arc sections of the law of the sea in which true solutions will have to allow a greater margin for international co-operation. 230. However, certain countries still adopt attitudes which are governed by the sole purpose of prolonging the existence of a system of exploitation which, sheltering under the principle of the so-called freedom of the seas, has favored and still favors a few great maritime and fishing Powers only.”
1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)