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first: 1991-09-24
most recent: 1993-09-24
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“The emergence of new conflicts and the persistence of old ones in different parts of the world reconfirm, if such a thing is necessary, the proven wisdom of trying to achieve, as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations, an integral structure of harmonization and peaceful cooperation for the international community. Let us pledge to achieve this with our votes and our actions.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“We are also in favour of the revitalization of the United Nations in the economic, social, cultural and related spheres. It is essential that the necessary measures be adopted as soon as possible to strengthen the capacity of those organs concerned in order to discharge the functions conferred upon them by the Charter of the United Nations in the sphere of international cooperation. We welcome the steps that have already been taken to achieve the objectives we have set, but we believe that we need to arrive at a more effective and more economical United Nations system, one which is at the same time less passive in executing the programmes adopted here.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“Together we can design preservation strategies that also make it possible to make rational use of our natural resources in order to meet our countries’ requirements for employment needs and economic growth. In Honduras, we have established a Ministry of the Environment charged with designing policies and strategies aimed at creating mechanisms to protect and preserve our ecosystem and its endangered species of flora and fauna. Lastly, as regards the restructuring of the United Nations, Honduras supports the proposal that the Security Council be expanded to include new permanent and non- permanent members so as to reflect the realities of today’s world, allowing for the rotation of membership and an equitable geographical distribution in the composition of the Council.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“Protectionist measures imposed by certain States on exports from our region not only cause a decline in the prices of those products but also impede access to international markets, thus helping to plunge our economies into a climate of uncertainty by restricting the possibilities of investment and continued growth. The need to achieve greater global economic stability without regard to the economic and political might of any individual nation should be examined along with the growing convergence of opinions concerning global priorities with regard to the environment; this was demonstrated in a clear and positive way at the Earth Summit held at Rio de Janeiro last year. The deterioration of nature must be avoided.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“There can be no doubt that all of these attempts to achieve prosperity for our nations must inevitably involve a willingness on the part of the industrialized States to include us in trying to establish an open, multilateral trade system that gives our products greater access to competitive markets so that more and more countries can reach satisfactory levels of growth and trade. Unfortunately, the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations has not yet been concluded, and this is a source of grave concern to the less developed States whose expectations are affected along with the programmes of structural adjustment they are carrying out with great sacrifice, as an effective contribution to a better ordering of the world economy.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“In so doing, it reaffirmed in that community of nations the commitment to representative democracy, the promotion of the observance and defence of human rights, and the promotion of the economic and social development of our peoples, which are united by language, tradition and by a shared future. To follow up on what was decided in this new forum for cooperation, we Ibero-Americans must strengthen our commitment to the successful convening of the World Summit for Social Development, an initiative of the Chilean Government supported enthusiastically by Honduras, and which we hope will be given a final impetus by this General Assembly.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“A revitalized Central America with sustainable economic growth, while respecting the natural environment and continually acting to rapidly improve the quality of life of its inhabitants, is the best guarantee of permanent security for the region bathed by the Caribbean Sea, within which Central America, in harmony with the principles of the member countries of the "Community of the Caribbean", can consolidate an era of peace and cooperation by the end of this century. The third Ibero-American summit, held at San Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, examined with concern the subject of development, with emphasis on social development.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“This in turn requires us to promote greater social participation by deepening the process of decentralization through a concept of human development at the local level and expressing that social development in realistic macroeconomic policies which encourage both domestic and foreign investment. In Honduras this year we will be holding our fifth consecutive general election since the restoration of democracy in 1980, and it is our policy to give firm support to the economic integration of the Central American isthmus Forty-eighth session - 28 September l993 47 in order to consolidate the results of growth with greater social well-being.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“It is a fact that the difficulties of any one Central American country have an effect on all other countries of the region. Concerted action within a regional framework is therefore necessary, to allow internal processes to be strengthened while fully respecting the particular circumstances of each country. The Government of Honduras therefore appeals to our fellow Central Americans to meet in the near future in order to give a new thrust to coordination of the efforts which benefit from international support and to make it possible for us to view with hope the economic integration now under way. The challenge of establishing peace in Central America requires that we give priority to the geographical areas most affected by poverty.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“In accordance with this basic objective, my country aspires, with increasing determination and political will, to see our region established as a region of peace, freedom, democracy and development which is more actively involved in the new reordering of the international community. However, in spite of the progress in the regional peace process, many of the root causes of the Central American crisis persist, and the advances that have been made are only a starting-point in confronting the underlying causes of the armed conflict which threaten to destroy all that has been accomplished. Peace and development will be securely established only if a broad and participatory commitment is achieved, involving both the Governments and the organized sectors of civilian society of each of our nations.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“Our country expresses its resolute support for all measures that may be taken to comply with the timetable established in the Governors Island Agreement, which led to the parliamentary ratification of Prime Minister Robert Malval, which in turn has made it possible to suspend the embargo on Haiti. In Central America, the Tegucigalpa Protocol of 13 December 1991 has entered into force. It adapts the legal framework of the former Organization of Central American States to the new realities of the region by establishing a system of Central American Integration which, acting under the impetus of the regional summits, is strengthening and fostering a new system of economic, social, cultural and political integration for the benefit of all Central Americans.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“Similarly, our country has followed with great attention the course of events in Haiti, where we have welcomed the agreement reached between President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the head of the country’s armed forces, through the mediation of Mr. Dante Caputo, the Special Envoy of the Secretaries-General of the United Nations and the Organization of American States (OAS). The text of this agreement, in addition to contemplating a series of basic provisions for the solution of the crisis, calls for the return of Haiti’s legitimate President, and for compliance with all commitments undertaken both in the United Nations and in the OAS.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“It was with rekindled hope that the entire world learned of the outcome of the negotiations which, under the inspired mediation of the Government of Norway, led to the recently signed historic agreement on mutual recognition between the State of Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization. This is one more step towards the normalization of good- neighbourly relations in the Middle East with respect to the right to self-determination of peoples. The Honduran Government, which has followed with interest and concern the fierce struggle that for decades has pitted Israelis and Arabs against each other, welcomes this positive development and hopes it will be accompanied by peace agreements between Israel and its Arab neighbours.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“In Somalia, there is no national government to ensure that the United Nations intervention in that country will not only mitigate the hunger which unfortunately afflicts its inhabitants but also make it possible, with the full participation of the Somalis, to follow the path to peace, coexistence and the restoration of normalcy. That path of hope has already been taken with great determination in South Africa, and the international community is rejoicing at the end of the last vestiges of apartheid and the beginning of national reconciliation and reconstruction.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“It is only natural that, in activities in the field of general disarmament, priority should have been given to nuclear disarmament, but this must not impede renewed efforts in the field of conventional disarmament, particularly on a regional basis. Honduras has observed with great concern the tragic situation still prevailing in Bosnia and Herzegovina: the escalation of hostilities, massive violations of human rights and attempts to enshrine in legal instruments territorial conquests obtained by aggression. My country therefore unreservedly supports the Security Council’s efforts to protect the displace populations, to provide them with food, medicine and protection, and to 46 General Assembly - Forty-eighth session obtain a cease-fire and a solution to the various problems that stand in the way of restoring peace to the region.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“We are pleased to state that a year ago Honduras and El Salvador were handed down a ruling by the International Court of Justice on their border dispute; we are now complying with that ruling and the border populations are living in complete harmony. On the question of disarmament, in taking note of the vital discussion of the destructive power of nuclear weapons, we urge the nuclear-weapon States to arrive at sound, verifiable agreements on the reduction and destruction of such weapons and their means of delivery, taking into account the great danger the use of these and other weapons of mass destruction represents for humanity, and ensuring that the growing financial resources released from the arms race are transferred to the needs arising from international cooperation for development.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“We do so fully convinced that within the framework of the United Nations we will establish and strengthen strong bonds of friendship and cooperation with them, and that their participation will contribute effectively to the full realization of the principles and purposes enshrined in the United Nations Charter. Pursuant to those same principles, the Republic of Honduras calls, as it did at the previous session of the General Assembly, for greater support and resources to be accorded to the universal organs for the legal settlement of disputes, such as the International Court of Justice, whose rulings contribute to the peaceful settlement of disputes brought before it.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“First of all, I take great pleasure in expressing to the President of the General Assembly the sincerest congratulations of the people and the Government of Honduras on his well-deserved election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session. In entrusting this very delicate role to him, the international community is recognizing his personal merits and those of our sister nation of Guyana. We are convinced that with his experience and proven capacity he will conduct the work of this Assembly with great success. My delegation also extends a warm welcome to the new Members of our Organization: the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Eritrea, Andorra and the Principality of Monaco.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“The Government of Honduras takes great satisfaction from the common reflection on urgent environmental problems initiated at that conference, and we reiterate our support for the principles adopted by it and for Agenda 21, which comprehensively encompasses a whole programme of action in the environmental sphere and for sustainable development. We must persevere in this direction. The deterioration of nature must be halted. Together we can design conservation strategies that allow for the rational use of natural resources to meet the needs of employment and the economic growth of our populations. The new strategy of peace is also necessarily a new strategy of development. Only by growing together can we survive; only by pooling our efforts can we secure for future generations a better world in harmony and concord.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“This leads us to stress the need to bring about better regulation of conditions of access guaranteeing the growth of sales of our competitive products at fair prices. In this context we must also, in our judgement, strengthen the transfer of technology for industrial development and more flexible terms in financing the modernization of industrial plant in developing countries. The urgent need to share responsibilities and to act together to guarantee global economic stability independently of the economic and political power of each nation, together with the growing convergence of views as to global priorities, were clearly and positively demonstrated at the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Maintenance of an open multilateral trading system is of vital importance to the expansion of world trade and the economic development of all countries. For that reason we must join our efforts to bring about the speedy culmination, on satisfactory terms, of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations. Stagnation of the negotiating process would have very serious consequences for world trade and would affect prospects and the structural programmes that many developing countries have undertaken at the cost of great sacrifice to find our proper place in the trend towards large trading blocs. This year there has been a dramatic fall in the prices of commodities essential to our economies.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Those are the fundamental reasons that led us to constitute the Ibero-American Conference, which, following its founding declaration in Guadalajara, signed in July 1991 by the Heads of State and Government of the Hispanic-American countries, Brazil, Spain and Portugal, has now formally been constituted. Within the Ibero-American Conference, as a mechanism for interaction and cooperation, we have been designing programmes of mutual benefit primarily in the fields of education, exchanges of programmes via satellite, the creation of an indigenous fund and the launching of a broad programme of exchanges of scholars and researchers. The Summit of Heads of State and Government held in Madrid this year also gave support to growing and leading involvement by our countries in a world programme of human development.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“That is why Honduras, like Chile and other friendly countries, will continue to give impetus to, and participate in, the appropriate preparations for and holding of a world conference on social and human development that may serve as a forum for reflection and initiatives to effectively set in motion international measures and policies in this respect. In an ever more integrated world, our countries, which share not only a rich cultural heritage exemplified by the common use of a single language, but also a democratic and modern vision of international relations, are naturally seeking to strengthen our links of fraternal friendship and our presence in the world.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Enhanced social well being should not be conceived of as a generous remedy that may prove insufficient to the communities receiving it, but rather as a joint undertaking to facilitate, through international cooperation, conditions for vocational training and better access to the opportunities that can be provided by open and growing economies. On 12 December 1991, in Central America, the Heads of State and Government of the seven countries of the isthmus assumed that very commitment, and, in the presence of various distinguished figures and executives of the United Nations and regional organizations, initiated a coordinated programme of human development with goals, objectives and resources defined for the present decade to culminate in the year 2000. Those initiatives of our subregion are universal in conception.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“For Honduras, an essential part of this integrated vision is the formation and implementation of national, regional and international strategies to fight poverty and to overcome long-standing problems that strike hardest at children, women and the elderly. If we justly aspire to economic development, and to growing expansion of trade in goods and services originating from all continents, we should likewise aspire to, and indeed make possible, real improvement in the quality of life of the inhabitants of our countries.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Our countries are aware of the countless challenges posed by the insufficiency of our productive infrastructure, poverty and inequalities. But we also know that with dedication and vision, and especially with unity, we shall be able to overcome them. That is why the Tegucigalpa Protocol (A/46/829, annex III) of 13 December 1991 has entered into force, establishing a system for Central America integration which, working in the summit meetings of Presidents of the Central American isthmus, will impart force and impetus to a broad movement towards integration. Honduras hopes that the ever-stronger voice of Central America will be heard and that our region, a region of peace, democracy, freedom and development, will join and participate actively in the new forms of global interdependence that are taking shape on the eve of a new millennium.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“movement has brought an end to armed confrontation in our neighbouring country and has opened the way for a complete reconciliation in the spirit of freedom and democracy for the Salvadorian people. Honduras associated itself in the well-deserved tribute paid to former Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar for his mediating efforts. We have given and shall continue to give our full support to Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali in the fulfilment of the various stages of the peace agreement, including demobilization of formerly opposed forces and integration into civil and political life of the insurgents in a framework of complete legality. With peace in El Salvador, Central America, under the sign of democracy, is returning to the path of integration and development.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Candidly acknowledging past injustices, trusting in the mediating efforts of the United Nations, and convinced that the fruits of peace are beneficial to their populations, the leaders of all the parties involved in these conflicts should now more than ever before strive to bring about equitable solutions to the differences that separate them, in order to guarantee a speedy restoration in their respective regions of stable and secure conditions of good neighbourliness. The signing of the Chapultepec Peace Agreements in January this year between the Government of El Salvador and representatives from the insurgent The President returned to the Chair.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“More than ever before, the United Nations should redouble its efforts to bring about faithful compliance with the relevant resolutions of the Security Council ensuring an end to threats of aggression and guaranteeing for the countries of the Gulf an environment of peace and a future free of coercion and uncertainty. In the Middle East, in southern Africa and in Cambodia, processes of peace and reconciliation continue to move forward.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“We also urge that the non-proliferation Treaty system be made more general and strengthened, with guarantees of verification; this applies also to the regional systems such as the Treaty of Tlatelolco. We shall also join in the broad movement that is being generated at this session towards seeking and achieving the prohibition of the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons. In the Persian Gulf, the reasons for the vigorous response by the international community in defence of the sovereignty and legitimate rights of Kuwait still exist in several respects.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Honduras has also decided to lend its armed forces and police for peace-keeping missions and is at present satisfactorily participating in the conciliation mission in Western Sahara of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). With the end of a bipolar world and of the cold war, the terrible threat of a nuclear holocaust has dissipated. However, atomic weapons and other powerful weapons of mass destruction continue to overfill the arsenals of large and medium-sized Powers. My country therefore urges those who possess nuclear weapons to pursue, and as appropriate to initiate, serious and verifiable programmes for the reduction and destruction of such weapons, and the dismantling of possible vehicles for them.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“The Government of Honduras warmly supports the proposals on preventive diplomacy and on strengthening the logistical and financial capacity of the United Nations for peace-keeping and for peace-building when peace is threatened, when peace has been breached, or when the persistence of situations of confrontation make peace vulnerable. In accordance with those aims, Honduras also urges greater support for and use of the international organs for the legal settlement of disputes such as the International Court of Justice, which has only recently handed down a judgment providing a definitive solution to a long-standing border dispute between El Salvador and Honduras. The peoples and Governments of both countries intend to comply in good faith with this judgement.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“Membership in the United Nations does not constitute diplomatic recognition of sovereignty, and there have been and are precedents in the history of the United Nations for the simultaneous presence of countries which are in search of their historical unity but which, while they remain separated, have not been denied the opportunity to make their contribution to the complex fabric of international relations and obligations which bring together the peoples of the Earth through the United Nations. We are beginning a new era in the life of this Organization. For us, the "Agenda for Peace" of our distinguished Secretary-General is a noteworthy effort embodying both vision and realism that will enable us to make progress in forging a more secure and prosperous world.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“We hope that Serbia and Montenegro will best achieve those objectives by meeting the legitimate expectations of the international community that an end will be put to the war, persecution and intolerance in the countries of former Yugoslavia, and that they will be able to become Members of this great family of nations. Moreover, in a world of changing realities, one which is none the less marked by its attachment to universality and peaceful coexistence, my Government, like other Central American countries, believes that we should open the way for the Republic of China, with more than 20 million inhabitants and authorities established in Taipei, to participate in the work of our Organization and its specialized agencies as that country does in various regional forums and international mechanisms.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“I wish to convey to Mr. Ganev the most sincere congratulations of the Government of Honduras on his well-deserved election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-seventh session. Through him we should also like to extend our best wishes to the Bulgarian people, who, like other peoples of Eastern Europe, are today, after much effort and self-sacrifice, helping to keep alive the flame of freedom, democracy and progress in that continent. To the new Members of our Organization, we extend a most cordial greeting. We are fully convinced that through the United Nations we shall be able to establish growing links of friendship and cooperation. Our Organization is grounded on principles of equality, shared responsibilities, and the promotion of international peace and security.”
1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)
“As we approach the end of this century, our Organisation will be marking its fiftieth anniversary. In view of the trends of population growth in a world where natural resources are becoming more and scarcer and where technology, although it increases productivity, can also seriously harm the environment, we must stay alert. It must be understood that cooperation and solidarity between the developed North and the developing South must he the framework for our efforts for the new millennium. Let the commitment to renewed cooperation and solidarity be one of the fundamental guidelines for the United Nations for the decade now beginning. Let us endeavour thus to make possible the attainment of the noble goals set forth in the Charter of our Organization.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“As regards the regional agenda, Honduras, with its neighbours in Central America, is striving to improve the environment, by means of reforestation and protection of tropical forests, and also through a number of other measures, particularly in those areas where refugees and those displaced by the crisis of the 1980s were settled and where there have been difficulties in regard to the preservation of the environment. My Government has also assumed its responsibility for the preservation of the biosphere of the Platano River, in northern Honduras, a heritage of mankind, according to a resolution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, and the second most important reservoir of natural oxygen in Latin America after the Amazon region, according to a statement of the United Nations Environment Programme.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“He are aware of the close relationship between economic development and the environment and consequently we are taking an active part in defining the basic principles that are to govern the economic and ecological behaviour of peoples and nations for ensuring a common future. We realise that we developing countries must not make the same mistakes as the developed countries have made as regards the negative impact productive activity has had upon the environment. However, the progress and further development of the industrialized countries must not be pursued at the expense of the well-being and flourishing of our peoples. It is here that the concept of shared responsibility and international solidarity finds its first application.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“The last-named institution has in recent months succeeded in resolving enormous problems facing communities and municipalities in Honduras with the use of local labour and technical advice from our own national experts. It enjoys an excellent reputation internationally, which makes it easier for it to gain access to resources from abroad for its human development projects. We are also keenly aware of the support that must be given to the forthcoming Earth Summit, as the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, to be held in Rio de Janeiro from 1 to 12 June 1992, has been called.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“He are convinced that at that time we shall be able to work out a strategy for human development in Central America which, besides involving a commitment to dealing with the traditional problems of poverty, malnutrition, illiteracy, school abandonment and unemployment, will come to grips with the deterioration of people's living conditions through the effects of drugs and the degradation of the environment. In Honduras we have established a broad-ranging programme aimed at achieving social equity, including programmes to assist mothers who are heads of families, a social fund for housing, a large-scale programme for construction of classrooms with the appropriate furniture, and also the Honduran Social Investment Fund.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“Generally speaking, my Government hopes to see a constructive dialogue between North and South that would lead us towards an all-encompassing strategy based upon consensus which would guarantee real progress towards the attainment of the goals we have sat for our countries by the year 2000. Consistent with these aspirations and these responsibilities, the Government of Honduras is organising a Central American presidential summit meeting, to be held in my country next December, focusing on social matters and questions relating to children.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“Should patterns of economic behaviour based on statistics alone continue to emerge, each country and the international community as a whole will face an era of greater distrust and despair. Economic discipline, in this global contact, must be diversified and corrected through programme of social cooperation, and there must be a fast method of disbursing official loans, along with greater participation In developing countries by the financial and entrepreneurial sectors of the industrialised world. South-South cooperation must also be channelled towards more practical goals. Better means must be devised to allow us to share our experience better and use our respective competitive advantages to the best effect.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“Effective steps have been taken to ensure that, within an appropriate institutional framework and with the support of the international community, as well as the active involvement of entrepreneurs and workers as economic protagonists, we might arrive relatively soon at a standardization and progressive reduction of tariffs vis-à-vis the outside world. He also seek to establish intensive programmes of industrial conversion and an accelerated liberalization of intra-Central American trade involving industrial and agricultural products, along with a progressive integration of financial services. The economic structural adjustments to which we are committed make genuine international solidarity more necessary than ever before.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“The task of bringing peace to Central America will never be complete if the leaders and their peoples do not manage to meet and master the major challenges facing us as we seek to achieve sustained economic development in the context of societies in which social justice, liberty, democracy and development will be indestructible pillars of independence and sovereignty. The President of Honduras, Rafael Leonardo Callejss, together with the Presidents of the other five Central American countries, has therefore been promoting economic integration in Central America to the greatest possible extent.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“In Honduras' case, such an inventory was submitted on 6 June to the Secretary-General of the United Nations as well as to the Secretary-General of the Organisation of American States. Beyond that, we must study and adopt machinery that will ensure a military balance among the States of the region. In this context, my Government has taken the initiative to propose to our Central American neighbours a comprehensive draft regional security treaty, a document that was taken note of by the Central American Presidents at the tenth regional summit conference held from 15 to 17 July this year. It has been the subject of negotiation since then with a view to the adoption, before the end of this year, of a pertinent instrument on the subject.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“The United Nations participation is thus not confined merely to monitoring compliance with certain commitments which the Central American Governments assumed via the Esquipulas IT accords; it also involves the adoption of approaches to resolve El Salvador's domestic problems, a contribution which the Government of Honduras supports. In the specific field of Central American security, the Security Commission that has been meeting, with United Nations participation on an observer basis, has not made the progress my Government had hoped for. Because of the persistence of armed conflict, there has been a delay in handing over an inventory of installations and armaments on the part of the military and security forces in each country.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“The work of the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador (OKUSAL) is crucial to ensure compliance with the accords worked out between the Government and the Frente Farabundo Marti in connection with human rights and a future verification of the cease-fire. Moreover, my Government maintains that we must keep United Nations observers in certain border areas between El Salvador and Honduras. That is why, along with the other Central American Governments, we would like to request the extension for another six months of the mandate of the United Nations Observer Group in Central America (ONUCA).”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“The Government of Honduras resolutely supports progress made in that context last week and yesterday within the framework of the dialogue for peace, justice and democracy in El Salvador. We are firmly committed to the idea that the accords that have been negotiated between the Government headed by President Cristiani and the Frente Farabundo Marti should be consolidated. We hope there will soon be a cease-fire and that the reconciliation for which the Salvadorian family strives will be fully achieved, so that within that neighbouring nation a democratic and tolerant society will take root, thus expressing the dedication and hard work of the Salvadorian people. Towards that end, the presence in Central America of the United Rations continues to be necessary.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“In Central America, the United Nations contribution to peace has been timely and invaluable. The socio-political problems faced by certain countries, together with tensions between States that reflect the East-West conflict in the area, triggered an acute crisis in the 1980s that posed a real threat to regional and international peace and security. In that context, Honduras promoted from the outset greater and effective participation by third countries and the United Rations towards a solution to the Central American crisis. In 1991, because of firm abidance by commitments made by the Presidents of the five countries of the Esquipulas process, and through the establishment (f democracy in all the Central Americas countries, it can be said that the phase of confrontation has given way to understanding and cooperation.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)
“The convening of a conference with wide-ranging participation - aimed at helping both the Israeli and the Arab sides involved tackle existing disputes - is gaining increasing acceptance as the best and most integral way of achieving peace and reconciliation in that region. Meanwhile, in South Africa, new political steps have brought about the formal dismantling of the apartheid laws. This is a positive development that must be seen through to effective completion via practical measures that have real impact on the vast majority of the population. Above all, there must be a deepening of the dialogue between the Government and the African National Congress with a view to ensuring an orderly transition to a society of greater justice and shared prosperity.”
1991-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 46 (1991)