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Denis Ronaldo Moncada Colindres

lines on the record: 49
first: 2018-09-24
most recent: 2022-09-24
sittings or episodes: 4
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“In the name of our generals of free men and women, Augusto Sandino and Benjamin Zeledon, national heroes, heroes of anti-imperialism who fill our hearts with the resolve to fight and continue to overcome; in the name of our infinite father of metaphor, dreams and realities both worldly and heavenly, our magical teacher, the great Ruben Dario, we greet each and everyone here and call on us all to continue fighting for justice, peace and the inalienable rights of our peoples, life, health, strength, hope and faith in the future. A better world, multipolar, just, ethical, spiritually and materially, is already being born, and we are here to continue its creation and to defend it. The sovereignty of a people is not a matter for discussion, but to be defended, with love and the sacred flames of celestial hopes.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“We embrace with solidarity the admirable resistance and just development of the People’s Republic of China, which generates so much discomfort, concern and envy among the enemies of the common good. It is time to remain united with Syria, with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, with Belarus, with the peoples of Asia, of Africa, of our America and the Caribbean, fighting all the magnificent, momentous struggles that we are sure will result in the most sublime and supreme triumph of all time — a new world that is now indispensable and cannot be postponed! In Nicaragua, there is a patriotic nation, and because there is a patriotic nation, there is peace.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“All our countries that have lived through all the fires of greed, avarice, selfishness, the vainglory of vanities and the search for absolute dominion by others over a world that does not belong to them must strengthen and consolidate our identities and consensus, together defending culture and justice based on respect and peace in all relevant spaces. We support and embrace with commitment dignified and brave Venezuela, with heroic Cuba, with the historic and noble battles of the Palestinian people, with the Islamic revolution of the Iranian families; the continuing great battle of the Russian Federation against fascism and for security, integrity and peace, which will continue, we have no doubt, to gather victories.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“And it is time to assert the freedom to be ourselves and not what others — who demand, who wage war, seeking to displace us and continue to occupy us so as to plunder our cultural and natural riches — want us to be. It is time to enforce the principle of the sovereign equality of States in all international organizations and forums, so that this multipolar, non-aligned world that we have worked so hard to bring about becomes a reality, strengthens and grows while taking all of us into account. It is time to ensure that the Charter of the United Nations and so many organizations that should serve to bring us together are valid for everyone and respect the rights of everyone. Now is and should be the time of the peoples.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“It is time to say “enough” to the hypocritical imperialism that politicizes, falsifies and denigrates the very human rights that they themselves violate and deny on a daily basis, imperialism and its coercive actions against life in all its spheres, which are contrary to international law in and of themselves. It is time to stop, with the help of everyone, the invasions, aggressions and occupations affecting so many territories made for the glory of God, in the name of the right to a safe, harmonious life, with rights, with decent work, with food and sustainable and viable means to be able to affirm the well-being and happiness that we deserve. It is time to denounce and put an end to the capital sins used to justify intervention and interference in the internal domestic affairs of each country.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“It is time to continue rejecting criminal blockades, all the illegal, arbitrary, illicit aggressions called sanctions, which highlight the prevailing perversion of an imperialist and capitalist system and model that seeks to continue imposing punishments, bleeding the world dry, in full view and with the patient complacency of the organisms that should defend it. It is time to say, “enough” to the lack of common sense, compassion and spirituality, to the appalling and utter disregard of the human condition and soul. It is time to say “enough is enough”, to rebel and continue to rebel against the innate evil of capitalism, which suffocates the majority while brutally enriching the few. Enough is enough.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“It is time to assert our multiple voices, our demands, our causes, which can no longer be ignored or buried under piles and mountains of idolatry and indifference. It is time to transcend the selfishness that kills millions of human beings through the world, subjecting them to the cruelty of poverty and extreme poverty out of the barbaric, animal-like instincts of the great Powers, which seek to sustain and even perpetuate their domination at the cost of hunger, ill health, climatic destruction, ignorance, war and all the darkness derived from hatred.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“We speak the language of a human community that demands recognition of our particularities, our models and ways of life, our creeds and beliefs, in accordance with our own history, tradition and aspirations, which we must make victorious, because life is made up of effort, anxieties, searching and demands, of respect from each to all, and from all to everyone. It is time to do more to make a reality the right of the peoples to a United Nations that represents us all and does not submit to the designs of any imperialist Power. It is time to assert a world of dialogue and peace, of justice and solidarity, of brotherhood and sisterhood and genuine, true goodwill, coming together despite our differences and enriching our consensus.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The assault, the robbery, the disgraceful, abominable depredation, the looting and the genocides unleashed by the colonialists and imperialists of the Earth are real crimes, and their perpetrators are the true criminals against humanity. We denounce them in those terms. In speaking on this final day of the general debate of the seventy-seventh session, we do so with our heads held high and our hearts full of freedom- loving, fraternal solidarity, espousing lasting justice and peace, and sovereignty and independence that must be respected, as well as the character — a great deal of character, a great deal of mettle, a great deal of heart — to defend what is ours.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The invaders have been expelled from Nicaragua and defeated by the bravery of Nicaraguan patriotism. Our own courage has also been inspired by the great revolutionary and evolutionary liberation struggles of the admirable peoples of this world. In these times of brazen and violent greedy, ambitious, avaricious practices, of absurd political pretence, and their notorious, spiteful media farces, as they seek to seize our freedoms, our natural and cultural heritage, so as to impose — although they will not succeed in doing so — a global society governed and administered by those who have committed and flaunted their criminality with horrifying and stunning shamelessness amid the most tremendous looting of the riches of our common home.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“We come to this seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly in moments of extreme vulnerability and danger, which have put and continue to put life in all its aspects at risk, in a world where we should unite to continue facing the great social, economic, climatic, cultural and security challenges to which the human family is exposed on a daily basis. We come to speak on behalf of a heroic, dignified, sovereign, free people who, together with so many other heroic, dignified, sovereign and free peoples of the planet, have been demonstrating and exercising our national dignity and sovereignty, faced over centuries with the avarice and colonial and imperial greed that have raged, from Europe and the north of this wounded continent, attacking, intervening in, invading and occupying our sacred lands.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“In the face of the pandemic, it is essential, for humanitarian reasons, that the principle of universality be applied so that Taiwan can participate in the corresponding mechanisms and meetings of the United Nations system. Mr. President, Ladies and gentlemen heads of delegation, Together we must build a United Nations in the service of humankind. Building a better world is possible, and it is what all our peoples rightly demand. Thank you very much, Mr. President.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“We must safeguard and defend international law and the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. Nicaragua believes that only together, with solidarity, love and cooperation and without selfishness, can we triumph in the face of the great challenges facing humankind. Nicaragua expresses its firm support for the theme that will guide our work throughout the seventy-fifth session, namely “The future we want, the United Nations we need: reaffirming our collective commitment to multilateralism”. Having affected all countries, the pandemic has highlighted the need to create a new international economic model based on inclusion, equality and justice, prioritizing health as a universal human right and demanding that the resources allocated for war be made available for life and peace.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“We hail the brotherly people of Iran and will continue to strengthen our bilateral relations in all fields of mutual interest and in defence of peace, sovereignty, and peaceful coexistence. We condemn the hegemonic political aggressions of the United States, which undermine the peaceful resolution of conflicts, as well as the military, economic and commercial threats against Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. We must defend the principles of dialogue and negotiation and the non-use and threat of use of force, which are fundamental principles of our Organization. Mr. President, Ladies and gentlemen heads of delegation, Today, our commitment to strengthening the essential pillars of multilateralism cannot be postponed.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“Nicaragua advocates for the two-State solution, with the State of Israel and the State of Palestine living side by side in peace and harmony, with East Jerusalem as the capital of the latter, in accordance with the pre-1967 borders, as enshrined in the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Security Council. We reaffirm our unshakeable will to continue supporting the just struggle of the noble Saharawi people for self-determination. We respect their dignity and rights as a sovereign nation. Our Government of National Reconciliation and Unity expresses its unwavering support for the cause of the Syrian people in their fight to defend their dignity foreign aggression and international terrorism.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“We implore those bodies to remember that, 75 years ago, the countries of the world created the United Nations to ensure respect for human dignity, security and the peaceful coexistence and lives of peoples, and that they must conduct themselves in a manner consistent with international law and the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations itself. We demand that all perspectives and all rights be taken into account by strengthening dialogue and peace in a world so in need of harmony and the peaceful resolution of any conflict. Mr. President, Nicaragua calls for the decolonization of the continent, with independence for Puerto Rico and the restitution of the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands to the Republic of Argentina.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“Nicaragua rejects the politicization of the United Nations system, as promoted in particular by the Government of the United States, which seeks to convert its organs into instruments at the service of its interests in order to destabilize countries that do not submit to its imperialist dictates. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights does not act fairly and equitably towards our country, by turning its oral updates and reports into intentionally politicized content. In addition to revealing worrying and serious methodological deficiencies, its reports are prepared exclusively from sources opposed to the Government of Nicaragua, compiling only information directly related to the failed coup attempt of 2018 from NGOs and the media.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“We reiterate our firm and unwavering defence of the sovereignty and the rights of the Bolivarian people, the people of Commander Hugo Chavez, led by our comrade Nicolas Maduro Moros, the legitimate President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela who is demonstrating heroic resistance with great civil-military unity in an unequal struggle. Such coercive and aggressive imperialist policies constitute the real obstacle to the eradication of poverty and to progress towards sustainable development. Against the backdrop of a pandemic, these measures have become a crime against humanity by those who impose them. The United Nations must focus on the well-being of human beings.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“We denounce and condemn the repeated attacks in a cruel and unrelenting war against the peoples of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua in particular, which are designed to serve only foreign interests, as outlined in the interfering and interventionist policies of imperialists, and constitute a violation of human rights. We denounce and condemn the aggression, through a brutal economic, political and commercial blockade, that is causing the worthy people of Cuba great suffering. We reaffirm our enduring solidarity with the legacy of Commander Fidel Castro, with General Raul Castro and with the President of sovereign Cuba, our brother Miguel Diaz-Canel. We reaffirm our strong support for the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which is suffering a brutal and criminal cowardly onslaught of aggressions by the United States imperialists.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“Although the challenges posed by the pandemic are complex, we cannot forget the existential threat of climate change that continues to be overlooked as a consequence of unbridled capitalism. It is urgent that we ensure the survival of the human species and protect the life and rights of Mother Earth In line with our peaceful vocation, Nicaragua also advocates for general and complete disarmament and is in favour of the total elimination of nuclear weapons. The illegal unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States against other populations must cease immediately to ensure stability, peace and development for families.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“In order to achieve those objectives, we must join efforts in a true global alliance to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as other pandemics imposed by some Powers to the detriment of international peace and security, the independence and sovereignty of States and the self-determination of peoples. Nicaragua will continue to promote a culture of peace and peaceful coexistence among the brotherly countries that form the United Nations and we will continue to be a factor of regional peace and security and stability in Central America. We also call for the continuation of global efforts in favour of safe, orderly and regular migration.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“We express both our hope for and our commitment to that necessary and dutiful transformation, with the reform and democratization of the United Nations and its organs, which will enable our Organization to serve in the interests of our peoples and not hegemonic Powers. We are confident that our peoples will move forward with vigour and hope to build a new world order, with justice, equality and multilateralism at its core, in order to guarantee international peace and security for the common good and the fulfilment of the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. We are entering the last decade of action to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“The pandemic has plunged the world into uncertainty and could further exacerbate major crises such as hunger, malnutrition, poverty, inequity, unemployment and climate change, which exist as a result of an economic system that is unjust and degrading to human beings. Mr. President, As we commemorate 75 years of our Organization, the world continues to cry out for peace, justice, security and a comprehensive response from the United Nations for the benefit of humankind. Reform of the United Nations, as proposed on behalf of Nicaragua by the priest and Nicaraguan Foreign Minister, Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, during his presidency of the General Assembly in 2008, is a matter of urgency.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“Your Excellency Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Your Excellency Volkan Bozkir, President of the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session, Ladies and gentlemen representatives of Member States, Receive the warmest greetings of the people of Nicaragua, from President and Commander Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Vice-President and First Lady Rosario Murillo, with a message of peace, health and prosperity for the Governments and peoples that constitute the United Nations. We have come together at an exceptional time due to the pandemic affecting all of humankind. We reiterate our solidarity and condolences with the families around the world who are suffering the consequences of COVID-19.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“Nicaragua stands as a bulwark against international organized crime, gangs, terrorism and drug trafficking. Its related domestic policies and constructive international cooperation continue to be developed by the Government of President Daniel Ortega Saavedra. In assuming the responsibility that we shoulder as a State, we are ensuring that Nicaragua takes the path leading towards successful poverty eradication, quality education, climate action and especially social inclusion, as the vocation of our Government is to stand up for the poor and those who have historically been marginalized and for peace, good governance, progress, international security and the peaceful coexistence among the brotherly countries that constitute the United Nations.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“We therefore continue to demand that all policies of interference violating international law cease, including interventionist actions in Nicaragua and such brotherly nations of the Americas and the world as Cuba, Venezuela, Syria and Iran, inter alia. We reaffirm that, in Nicaragua, we are lovers of peace. We are strengthening security and comprehensively promoting, defending and respecting human rights, despite media campaigns that, in their use of fake news, seek to project a negative image of our country and our Government. In the region, Nicaragua continues to be an important factor in promoting stability, peace and regional security, as illustrated by positive indicators in economic, political, and social development, poverty reduction, gender equality and State and citizen security.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“In Nicaragua, we continue to follow the path of development with social justice, family advocacy, gender equality, support for young people and improving security, education, health, energy, water and sanitation services, highways and roads, bridges, housing, agriculture and livestock, nature conservation in the context of climate change, small- and medium- sized businesses, the creative economy and everything represented by a culture based on identity, tradition and values, together with work, rights, well-being and the harmonious coexistence among Nicaraguans in peace, friendship, solidarity and cooperation with the States Members of the United Nations. The Government and the people of Nicaragua are defenders of the principles of independence and sovereignty, as set out in the Charter of the United Nations.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“However, new modalities incompatible with the purposes of the United Nations are being implemented by super Powers that seek to subjugate developing countries, while undermining their rights to self- determination and political independence.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“We reject and condemn any threat of military intervention and the invocation of the obsolete Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, which is nothing other than an instrument designed by the Government of the United States to use or threaten to use force, which it is promoting within the framework of the Organization of American States. We continue to support decolonization throughout the world and join in solidarity with the Palestinian and Saharawi peoples, Puerto Rico and the Malvinas Islands, which are part of Argentina. In conclusion, it has been 74 years since the Charter of the United Nations was adopted. To some extent, its purposes and principles have contributed to the maintenance of international peace and security.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“Illegal occurrences such as these confirm the urgent need for the United Nations to be rebuilt on new foundations and for the Headquarters to be moved to a country where international law and the Charter of the United Nations are respected. This requires the urgent reinvention and democratization of our Organization. We condemn once again the criminal blockade against the brotherly Republic of Cuba and all the extraterritorial measures and ramifications associated with it. Nicaragua rejects all coercive economic measures that seek to break the will and spirit of freedom and the sovereignty of the Governments and the peoples of the world. We reiterate our militant solidarity with the brotherly Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Bolivarian people and the legitimate and constitutional Government of President Nicolas Maduro Moros.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“The recent expulsion by the Government of the United States of two diplomatic representatives of the sister Republic of Cuba to the United Nations from the Organization’s Headquarters in New York is another example of the need for the United Nations to undergo a profound transformation and change of Headquarters in order to meet the objectives for which it was created and so that it can become a multilateral forum that serves all countries of the world, without limitations or quarantines for States Members’ representatives. We express our rejection and condemnation of this expulsion of the two Cuban diplomats, which was a clear violation of international law, in general, and of the United Nations Headquarters Agreement between the Organization and the Government of the host country, in particular.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“Putting obstacles in place that prevent our people from reaching these goals is inhumane and criminal and must be denounced and condemned by all of humankind. Once again, we raise the urgent call for a reinvention of the United Nations, as proposed by the Nicaraguan priest and Foreign Minister Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann in 2008, during his presidency of the General Assembly. The transformation of the United Nations is indispensable in order for it to effectively serve the interests of humankind.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“It also recognizes that the Government of Nicaragua has managed to reduce general poverty rates by 17.6 per cent and extreme poverty by 7.7 per cent between 2009 and 2016, as well as having achieved a notable reduction in infant mortality. UNICEF also recognizes that Nicaragua has made significant strides in guaranteeing free access to education, as well as its extensive coverage and higher quality. UNICEF and Nicaragua have agreed a cooperation programme for the period 2019-2023. We would reiterate that in order to comply with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, including eradicating poverty and providing quality education, unilateral coercive measures that violate international law and the human rights of our peoples must be avoided.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“Based on the principle of shared but differentiated responsibilities, our country is undertaking great economic, social and preventive efforts to address climate change, which have so far yielded internationally recognized positive results. Nicaragua will continue contributing to regional stability, peace and security, and will persist in fighting to maintain the important indicators of the inclusive economic, political, educational and social development achieved so far, attaining significant progress in the eradication of poverty. UNICEF recognizes that the Government of Nicaragua has achieved success in its economic and social policies. In addition, UNICEF recognizes that Nicaragua has a broad legal framework, as well as national and international instruments that protect the human rights of children and young people.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“Nicaragua welcomes the efforts promoted by the Secretary-General at the Climate Action Summit held here in New York, as well as the commitments undertaken within this framework by a large number of States, aimed at overcoming the grave threat to the existence of humankind caused by climate change. Nicaragua and the countries of the Central American region are among the most vulnerable nations on the planet, and our people are suffering the extremely grave consequences of the destructive effects of climate change. It is urgent that the international community adopt measures that curb global warming to ensure the future of the Earth, the future of humankind and the life of present and future generations.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“I wish to extend the fraternal message of peace and respect from the people of Nicaragua, the President of the Republic, Mr. Daniel Ortega Saavedra, and the First Lady and Vice-President, Mrs. Rosario Murillo Zambrana, to the General Assembly. The theme of this session, “Galvanizing multilateral efforts for poverty eradication, quality education, climate action and inclusion”, coincides with our prioritized State policies that the Government of Nicaragua has successfully developed over the past decade. We reaffirm the commitment and political will of the Government of Reconciliation and National Unity of Nicaragua to continuing to develop and strengthen these inclusive economic and social policies aimed at the common good of Nicaraguans.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“In conclusion, we stress our commitment to continuing to fight for peace — a priority for the world and our people — and to ensuring that conflicts arising in various parts of the world can be overcome through dialogue and negotiations and that, above all, peoples and countries can be free of fear from the use or threat of the use of force, a threat that the great Powers seek to impose on States that are small in population. In fact, they may be small in terms of development, but they are great in terms of their values and history.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“Our Government and our people advocate for a world with values, a world in which we, as human beings, can rely on what is best within us to foster the best possible conditions for creating fair, sustainable, equitable, secure and sovereign development based on full access and sharing by every man and woman of scientific and technological advances relating to all aspects of our lives. We once again entreat the international community and hope that, at this seventy-third session of the General Assembly, the commitment that we are undertaking will result in an open process marked by profound reflection aimed at achieving the required transformation for reinventing and democratizing the United Nations.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“The principle of common but differentiated responsibilities remains in force, and those primarily responsible for the largest volume of the emissions, destruction, degradation and imbalances in nature must recognize the losses and damages suffered by the rest of us and help with the recovery of Mother Earth and the peoples of the world. In order to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, we need to repeal the unilateral and coercive measures that are impeding our countries’ development programmes and which are in violation of international law. We must work to achieve justice, peace, respect, dialogue and sovereign security in the world. To that end, we must encourage making the changes necessary so that the Organization can serve the interests of all its Members.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“We underscore that at the sixty-third session of the General Assembly in 2008, during his presidency, the late Father Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, whom we fittingly referred to as the Chancellor of Dignity of Nicaragua, planned and fought, with those ideas in mind, wishing to fulfil Nicaragua’s mandate to lay the groundwork for discussions on such a transformation, by introducing a proposal for a “universal declaration of the common good of the Earth and humanity” (A/63/PV.105, p.32), as the first indispensable step towards reinventing the United Nations. We need urgent action to combat climate change.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“We reiterate our complete solidarity with the Government and the people of Syria in their struggle against international terrorism and in defence of their sovereignty and territorial integrity. Humankind continues to seek peace. Seventy- three years after its founding, the Organization has not yet managed to fully meet the goals set out with regard to peace. Given such a regrettable state of affairs, the call for reinventing the United Nations, as former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua, Father Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, proposed during his presidency of the General Assembly (see A/63/ PV.1), is more urgent than ever. To that end, we must promote the transformation needed to ensure that the Organization serves the interests of every one of its Members and all of humankind.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“Our sisterly Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Bolivarian People and the legitimate Government of President Nicolás Maduro Moros can count on our unconditional solidarity. We have condemned the assassination attempt against President Nicolás Maduro Moros and the threat of military intervention against the Bolivarian people and Republic of Venezuela. We must continue to promote decolonization in the world, and we therefore support the Palestinian, Sahrawi and Puerto Rican peoples and the Argentine Malvinas Islands. Nicaragua advocates for the two- State solution, that is, the State of Israel and the State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital, within the 1967 borders, living in peace and harmony.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“We stress that that agreement demonstrates that dialogue and diplomacy are the most appropriate means for solving such problems and are the essential components that enable multilateralism to work. Nicaragua condemns the criminal blockade against the sisterly Republic of Cuba and all of the associated extraterritorial measures and ramifications. Nicaragua rejects all coercive economic measures that seek to bend the will and spirit of freedom and sovereignty of peoples and Governments. Our country finds the use of unilateral coercive economic measures to be a political and selective instrument aimed at trying to illegally change Governments, and it is therefore unacceptable. This year we will once again vote against the unjust blockade imposed by the United States.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“The Government of the Republic of Nicaragua hopes that nuclear weapons will be dismantled in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner, and that the countries involved will cooperate and consequently ensure firm and lasting peace on the Korean peninsula. The Government of Nicaragua supports nuclear negotiations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the E3/EU+3, that is China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States, along with the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, which resulted in the finalization of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on 14 July 2015.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“For Nicaragua, contributing to international peace is synonymous with achieving general and complete nuclear disarmament. We have therefore signed and ratified the recent Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and call on countries to ratify that historic Treaty. The Government of the Republic of Nicaragua has supported the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, based on dialogue and communication between the authorities of both parties. We welcome the rapprochement between the two Koreas and the holding of the third inter-Korean summit, as well as the Joint Declaration that the two Korean leaders agreed on in September in Pyongyang and which is seen as a great stride forward in alleviating tensions and meaningfully obviating the danger of war on the entire peninsula.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“The Government and the people of Nicaragua have worked persistently to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. As of April our country recorded sustained annual growth of approximately 4.7 per cent. Our socioeconomic projects and programmes to eradicate overall poverty at the national level have succeeded in decreasing poverty from 42.5 per cent in 2009 to 24.9 per cent in 2016. Extreme poverty decreased from 14.6 per cent in 2009 to 6.9 per cent in 2016. Today, we are once again facing the threat of the United States, which seeks to halt the social, economic and cultural development of our people. We condemn such interventionism, which is manifested in the introduction of a law in the United States Congress requiring international financial institutions to refuse to issue loans to Nicaragua.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“In the region, Nicaragua is widely recognized as an agent of regional stability, peace and security with its exemplary benchmark achievements in economic, political and social development, poverty reduction, gender equality and public security, all of which are included in the State policies that we continue to develop and that insulate our country from international organized crime, local and transnational gangs, terrorism and narcoactivity. The Government and the people of Nicaragua are staunch defenders of the principles of independence and sovereignty, as enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations. We therefore demand that an end be put to all interventionist policies, which violate international law, including interventionist activities in Nicaragua and brotherly nations of the Americas and the world.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“The attempted coup d’état that we overcame in Nicaragua was the result of such interventionism, and its legacy has entailed grave consequences for us, including economic damage, death, destruction and terrorism disguised as peaceful protest, characterized by the savage killing of citizens and policemen, the setting on fire of public and private property, assaults, rights violations, extortion, torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“I bring a message of peace from the people of Nicaragua and from President and Commander Daniel Ortega and Vice-President Rosario Murillo. Since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development three years ago, we have continued to witness a world in crisis, the result of unbridled capitalism, interference in the affairs of others and the violation of international law and the sovereignty of our peoples through the use of force, as well as attempts at coups d’état and destabilization efforts that threaten our prospects for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals set out in the 2030 Agenda. Nicaragua has resisted attempts at regime change. Our country has once again prevailed and achieved peace, fraternal coexistence and a gradual return to normal daily life.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)