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Samuel Santos López

lines on the record: 124
first: 2009-09-24
most recent: 2014-09-24
sittings or episodes: 6
sources: un-general-debate

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“Let us unite from this very moment to achieve the urgent and necessary changes needed to attain a better world and better lives for our peoples.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“In our Caribbean autonomous regions, in addition to the restitution of the rights of indigenous peoples and people of African descent, the autonomy process is growing in strength every day, with the recent completion of the land ownership process in the indigenous and Afro-descendant communities. All these efforts of our people and Government, together with our policies of inclusion and social justice, won immediate recognition and support from our people, who have taken ownership of them, and they have been held up as examples of good practice by all the agencies, projects and programmes of the United Nations system. In conclusion, we note that the work of the General Assembly at the present session and in the coming years will be crucial for developing countries and the rest of the world.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“We are reducing poverty and extreme poverty, attaining the Millennium Development Goals and empowering women through political and economic participation. Indeed, we rank very highly in the world in terms of female ministers, parliamentarians and mayors. We combat violence against women and girls head on, with strict laws and social programmes targeting both groups, and with police stations for women in all municipalities of the country. Education and health care are prioritized and are provided free for all Nicaraguans, and early childhood care programmes and maternity homes can be found throughout the country.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“Within the framework of the Central American Integration System, we are strengthening integration in all fields and working together to fight the scourges of drug trafficking and organized crime and to turn the Gulf of Fonseca into a zone of peace and development. Our Government of Reconciliation and National Unity, under the visionary leadership of our President, Commander Daniel Ortega Saavedra, continues to work to restore the political, economic, social and cultural rights of all Nicaraguans. Nicaragua has become the leading country in the region in terms of public safety. Our fight against drug trafficking, organized crime and human trafficking has been recognized as the most vigorous and effective in the region. Our economic growth is consistent and rising and is among the highest of our region.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“In turn, it promotes other forums such as Petrocaribe, which groups together 20 countries of our region and has had an immediate and concrete positive impact on the well-being of our peoples as one way of overcoming poverty, hunger and inequality. On 14 December, we will celebrate the tenth anniversary of its founding, resulting from the unifying vision of the Latin American and Caribbean leaders Hugo Chávez Frias and Fidel Castro Ruz. These steps towards regional integration have borne fruit with the creation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, through which we continue to deepen our process of political, economic, social and cultural integration, respecting diversity and building unity. We have declared our region a zone of peace.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“Nicaragua, a small country whose policies are based on Christian values, socialist principles and the practice of solidarity, works proactively in our complex global environment, through various international and regional forums, to promote policies of peace, unity and understanding among nations, political and negotiated solutions to conflicts and the right of our peoples to achieve sustainable development and well-being. The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, of which Nicaragua is a member, has been a factor in improving unity, complementarity and economic integration in our region.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“Puerto Rico continues to labour under the colonial yoke and now more than ever needs our solidarity and active support in its struggle for independence and self-determination. The United States should free the world’s longest-imprisoned political captive, the Puerto Rican patriot Oscar López Rivera. We also commend and remain in solidarity with the struggle of the people of Western Sahara under the leadership of the Frente Polisario.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“Nicaragua recognizes the cooperation of China on Taiwan with developing countries, particularly in the area of food and social inclusion programmes, and we reiterate our support for the legitimate aspirations of China on Taiwan for greater participation in the United Nations specialized agencies, one that accords with the requirements and needs of its population of 23 million. We reiterate our full support for the legitimate rights of the Republic of Argentina in the dispute over the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands, the South Sandwich Islands and the adjacent islands. The United Kingdom should comply immediately with the relevant United Nations resolutions and initiate direct negotiations with Argentina. Similarly, we support and consider ourselves part of Argentina’s fight against vulture funds.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“Nicaragua has frequently expressed its rejection and condemnation of actions aimed at regime change, which rupture constitutional order, lead to widespread violence, encourage the use of force and open the door to coups d’état that can overthrow legitimate Governments elected by the will of the people. That is the kind of policy that we have witnessed in Ukraine; it has led to loss of life and the displacement of populations, and created a humanitarian crisis with unpredictable consequences. Because we want peace and believe in the prevention and resolution of conflicts by peaceful and inclusive means, we reject such policies, as well as the imposition of unilateral measures and economic sanctions that violate international law.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“We also stress our total solidarity with the Government and the people of Syria in their fight against international terrorism and in defence of their sovereignty and territorial integrity. We emphasize the importance of achieving a negotiated political solution among Syrians and ending foreign intervention, including the financing and supplying of weapons to terrorist groups. When confronted by such conflicts, rather than opting for dialogue and negotiation to settle them, the NATO countries take unilateral decisions, measures and action outside the United Nations framework and in violation of international law, including aerial bombardment in territories of sovereign countries.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“We must bring to an immediate end Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory and prevent Israel from continuing its aggression and brutal attacks on the men, women and children of Palestine. The Security Council should once and for all live up to its obligations and demand that Israel end such practices and policies in order to clear the way for a sovereign and independent State of Palestine, based on its pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and with two States, Palestine and Israel, living side by side in peace. Nicaragua reiterates its absolute and unconditional solidarity with the State of Palestine in its fight for freedom and its inalienable rights.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“We demand the immediate and unconditional release of the five anti-terrorist Cuban patriots. And we condemn the role that the United States arrogates to itself in putting countries on its unilateral and arbitrary list of State sponsors of international terrorism, and demand that Cuba be removed from the list. We condemn such anachronistic United States policies, as well as the intensification of the blockade and its extra-territorial nature. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and its Bolivarian revolution continue to suffer from harassment, interference and external aggression. Nicaragua offers its unconditional support to Venezuela’s people and Government, led by our comrade Nicolás Maduro Moros, in their defence of their revolutionary liberation process.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“We consider it vital that we have a nuclear- weapon-free world with total and complete disarmament. We welcome the designation last year of 26 September as the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, initiated by the Non-Aligned Movement at Cuba’s suggestion. In the face of the growing Ebola epidemic, Cuba, our sister in solidarity, has once again made its human and scientific resources available to work alongside our African brothers who are fighting the deadly virus. Meanwhile, that same sister nation of Cuba continues to resist the criminal economic and financial embargo imposed on it by the United States. Nicaragua emphasizes its unconditional solidarity with Cuba and demands an end to a blockade that violates international law and the human rights of the people of Cuba.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“No country that is part of the international community can claim the right to use or threaten the use of force in its international relations. Such exceptionalist policies not only do not resolve conflicts; rather, they stir things up, as has been seen in recent years. Dialogue and negotiation are the only means to resolve conflict. Based on its Charter, the United Nations must assume its role as the main organ responsible for ensuring world peace and must reject war-mongering policies, war and confrontation. Given the challenges we are dealing with, thorough reform of the United Nations is becoming increasingly imperative, and particularly reform of the Security Council, which should recognize contemporary realities by including the voices and votes of developing countries in the categories of both permanent and non-permanent members.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“Developing countries suffer the most from the adverse effects of climate change, whose extreme meteorological phenomena are ever more frequent and intense. Despite our economic limitations and prioritized focus on poverty and sustainable development and with no obligation under the Convention, we are assuming the costs of the adaptation and mitigation efforts. We must urgently achieve a binding agreement in 2015, containing strong, ambitious and balanced commitments on all its provisions and based on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its principles and provisions, particularly equity and common but differentiated responsibilities, in order to address the climate crisis and protect the ecosystems that sustain life on our Mother Earth.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“It is urgent to redouble efforts and create an international environment conducive to facilitating developing countries’ implementation of the MDGs, including appropriate financing. The post-2015 agenda will provide a new opportunity to strive for a just world order. It should promote sustained economic growth, inclusive and participatory social development, environmental protection and human dignity, with sufficient flexibility to respond to the needs, priorities and specificities of each country and region, conscious of the fact that no single model or recipe for development exists. The agenda should involve an intergovernmental, open and transparent process, based on the results of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals and the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“We must work together to overcome and eradicate poverty, hunger, malnutrition, disease, war and conflict, regime change politics and coups, violence against women and children, the arms race, the negative impacts of climate change, and emerging social and slavery plagues, including drug trafficking, organized crime and human trafficking, among others, as soon as possible. Social justice, solidarity, unity, complementarity among peoples, and brotherhood and respect among nations must prevail. The eradication of poverty remains the greatest challenge facing the world. We will begin negotiations on the post-2015 agenda with the central concern of not having achieved the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in all developing countries.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“We live in a world of many interconnected and related crises that reveal the unjust and inequitable development policies prevailing among various peoples and nations. The existing unjust economic order, resulting from imperialism and its contemporary model — global capitalism — has failed to respond to the growing and increasingly frequent crises. The numbers of the world’s poor increase daily in both the South and the North, in flagrant violation of the most basic human rights.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“We are proud to have our African brother, Sam Kutesa, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Uganda — a member country of the African Union — presiding over the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session. We are fully confident that during his tenure he will advocate for and advance the most pressing issues of our peoples. He can count on Nicaragua’s support. We would also like to congratulate the President of the General Assembly at the previous session, a brother from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, Ambassador John Ashe of Antigua and Barbuda, and his entire team for their dedicated leadership and unstinting effort to realize an agenda for the benefit of our peoples.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“Maritime trade is expected to continue to grow, particularly between Asia and the Americas, and our project is designed to complement the Panama Canal expansion. We are planning a canal for peace, for the development of all peoples, constructed with a sense of responsibility as a world heritage site — a canal open to international investment in a reliable and transparent fashion, a canal that is the fulfilment of the dreams of the General of Free Men, Augusto C. Sandino, and of the people of Nicaragua, for their greater progress. Climate change continues to be a grave problem. “Our environmental, economic, political, social, and spiritual challenges are interconnected”, states the Earth Charter. In that statement lies the essence of our vision and our duty — to save Earth’s vitality and ourselves as the human race.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“We reiterate our solidarity with the struggle of the Polisario Front and the Sahrawi people, which this year marks its fortieth anniversary. We welcome the fiftieth anniversary of the African Union under the banner of pan-Africanism and the African renaissance. Furthermore, Nicaragua continues to support the just aspirations of the Republic of China on Taiwan for greater participation in the various bodies and specialized agencies of the United Nations. Much has been said and heard in recent days about the Grand Canal of Nicaragua. With that project, our Government intends to take advantage of the unprecedented transformation in global maritime trade that has taken place in the first decade of the twenty- first century.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“We support the efforts being made to achieve lasting solutions to the conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa. Nicaragua continues to support a negotiated solution to the bloody conflict in Syria. The proposal of the Russian Federation to put an end to the war has received broad international support, including from countries that are members of the Security Council with the right of veto. We reiterate our commitment to the cause of the Palestinian people in their struggle for self- determination and their legitimate right to establish their own State. We consider the resumption of talks between Palestine and Israel to be a step in the right direction. The talks must be accompanied by the suspension of the construction of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“We condemn that act, as well as the refusal of the United States to grant visas to our Venezuelan brothers so that they could attend this General Assembly plenary. We reiterate our support for the brotherly people of Puerto Rico in their struggle for self-determination, independence and social justice. Puerto Rico is one of the last colonial enclaves in our continent. Its brave people deserve our full support and solidarity in order to take their place within the United Nations and in our Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, thereby eliminating colonial situations from the region. We express our solidarity with comrade Oscar López Rivera and demand that he be freed immediately. We express the hope that the peace process in Colombia will come to fruition, bringing peace and social progress to the people of that country.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“The United States must also stop its arbitrary and capricious inclusion of that brother country in its unilateral list of State sponsors of terrorism. We reiterate our full support for the legitimate rights of the Argentine Republic in the sovereignty dispute relating to the question of the Malvinas Islands. We recognize and welcome the progress in the political process of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and reject international campaigns aimed at weakening it. We condemn, once again, the arbitrary conduct of the Government of the United States in preventing the aircraft of our colleague, Nicolás Maduro Moros, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, from flying through Puerto Rico’s airspace.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“It is urgent that the international community give more support through additional financial resources to the efforts and investment the Central American countries are making against those scourges. Despite its limitations, Nicaragua invests considerable resources from its budget to ensure an optimal environment for public safety. Its successes are internationally recognized, and Nicaragua is seen as one of the safest countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. We are committed to the struggles of other peoples for their full independence and sovereignty. Therefore, we demand once again the immediate and unconditional termination of the economic, trade and financial embargo imposed against Cuba by the United States of America and the immediate and unconditional release of the Cuban patriots imprisoned in that country.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“Our people’s inexhaustible capacity for hope and essential relationship with the Christian, socialist and solidarity model that we have built together, in which all sectors of the country participate, has meant that our people continue to move ahead while promoting peace, serenity and the full exercise of their rights. Our defence of peace and international security remains unwavering. Similarly, we continue to fight against drug trafficking and the various manifestations of transnational organized crime. Our retaining-wall strategy produces positive results. We are committed at the regional level to implementing the Central American Security Strategy.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“In 2012 Nicaragua received recognition from the Pan American Health Organization for its contribution to the community vigilance programme against malaria. Campaigns are being developed to curb dengue fever, leptospirosis and influenza. We have successfully carried out the campaign “Live clean, live healthy, live a good life, live well”, which aims to clean and beautify communities, provide preventive health measures against epidemics and pandemics as well as to maintain a harmonious and respectful relationship with one another and with the environment. All of those projects are made possible by the enormous efforts our people, who have made a social, economic and political model of dialogue, alliances and consensus, recognized by all.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“We established a Ministry of Women to promote gender equality and to empower women, while our laws ensure that women enjoy human rights. Nicaragua received the Americas Award of the International Training Centre for Local Actors/Authorities (CIFAL) Atlanta and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research for achieving its goals in reducing maternal mortality and in recognition of the national strategy called Maternal Homes. In 2006 the national maternal mortality rate was 92.8 per 100,000 live births. In 2012 the rate was nearly half that, reduced to 50.9, and we continue fighting to reduce it further. We continue our efforts to combat HIV/AIDS. Preventive measures are being disseminated and supportive care is provided to patients.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has recognized our country’s remarkable progress to ensure the food security of our citizens and to reduce the prevalence of undernourishment. Our Government guarantees the right to universal primary education. Major programmes are under way — the “battle for ninth grade”, the intercultural bilingual education programme, the inclusive education programme and the comprehensive school nutrition programme. UN Women ranks Nicaragua among the leading countries in the world with the highest percentage of women in the executive, legislative and judicial branches. Today 42 per cent of the deputies in the National Assembly are women. Women hold 54 per cent of positions in the executive branch, 60 per cent in the judicial branch and 50 per cent in municipal councils.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“In the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America and in Petrocaribe, Nicaragua has found a model of integration to overcome poverty, hunger and inequality, while strengthening the Central American Integration System , the Mesoamerican Integration and Development Project and its economic and commercial relations with the international community and its organizations. In this difficult context, Nicaragua continues to make progress. We have opted for a development model that produces results. Despite the difficulties and limitations, the Millennium Development Goals in Nicaragua are being realized in a tangible manner that demonstrates our Government’s respect and promotion of the human rights of its citizens and its deep ethical commitment to the common good.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“President, for the Assembly’s sixty-eighth session, namely, “The post-2015 development agenda: setting the stage”. It is important, therefore, that we agree to launch an intergovernmental process for that new phase. In Latin America and the Caribbean, we are deepening our political, economic, social and cultural integration process, all the while respecting our diversity and building unity. Our Community of Latin American and Caribbean States has been achieving a shared vision of social development, education, health, the environment, energy and financing, among other sectors. It is now preparing to work collectively on cooperation, nuclear disarmament, fighting corruption, agriculture, science and technology.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“The economic and financial situation imposed by global capitalism continues to rapidly dismantle the welfare State in developed countries and seriously affects developing countries. Now more than ever, it becomes essential to establish a new global economic model that is sustainable, based on justice, solidarity, complementarity and committed to the defence of the Earth and the environment. International democracy cannot exist without respect for international law. Nicaragua continues to demonstrate with reliable facts its adherence to international law and its respect for the principle of resolving our differences through dialogue, negotiation and recourse to international bodies such as the International Court of Justice to settle territorial and other types of disputes. We welcome the central theme selected by you, Mr.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“We are pleased that a representative of a brother country and member of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, Petrocaribe and the Community of Latin America and the Caribbean States will guide us in the activities of this important organ so that our efforts may contribute to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, which must be implemented by the Organization. The United Nations continues to require profound reform that cannot be delayed any longer. The position of some permanent members of the Security Council on the issue can no longer be an insurmountable obstacle. We continue to support the proposed reinvention of the United Nations proposed by our colleague Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann. The power of the Organization must rest completely with the General Assembly.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“On behalf of the people and Government of Nicaragua, Comrade President Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Comrade Rosario Murillo, I want to begin by paying tribute to the Commander of the revolution of our America and the Caribbean, leader of the free men and women of the world, Hugo Chávez Frías, who has left us a legacy of strength, hope and certainty of victory in defending the inalienable rights of humankind, such as sovereignty, justice, freedom, democracy, solidarity and peace. On behalf of the people and the Government of reconciliation and national unity of Nicaragua, led by Comrade Daniel Ortega Saavedra, I congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“The only headway being made is through the new effort I am describing to deeply transform the economy, politics, society and culture. That effort alone will endure as the fruit of the best of our human nature and our history. The other world, the world that refuses change, the world of war and human misery, the world of the apocalypse being announced on television as a novelty, will fail. The hope and the future for which we struggle will grow and shine on its remains.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“The final blow is intended to destroy or break up popular social movements in order to eliminate States and Governments that do not align themselves with the neoliberal model. Therefore, in the progressive or revolutionary national projects manifested through the nation States of our Latin and Caribbean America, our citizens, our peoples, are called to resist and to raise banners of peace, dignity, identity and national sovereignty. We are constructing a new world governance with our work to transform international institutions. We are strengthening a new world governance by incorporating more and more citizens in the work of building this new world to which we aspire. The present global order and its institutions are at an impasse.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“That is a road whose specificities must be respected without interference of any kind. Dangers lurk and have resulted in events that do not contribute to our political stability. Coups d’état, such as those attempted in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador or those carried out in Honduras and Paraguay, must be condemned and rejected, regardless of how they are executed or attempted. We cannot allow coups to once again become entrenched as methods for a political solution to conflicts, whether within any country or between States. We cannot ignore that the process of concentration of global power has repercussions in the political and social systems governing our societies.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“Furthermore, in times of crisis, we can see that we run the risk of not reaching all of the Millennium Development Goals that we proposed to reach by 2015. We cannot allow that to happen. The commitments of the developed countries to allocate 0.7 per cent of their gross national product to official development assistance must be honoured. Another grave problem is that of food insecurity. The food crisis is a serious obstacle in the struggle against poverty and hunger. We must work together to universally restore that right to the peoples. Our societies are struggling with the urgency of satisfying their most basic needs, with equitable profits from the benefits of development and with the importance of developing democracies based on representation and direct participation of the citizens.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“That strengthens the process of restoring rights, which translates into more health, better education, more productive and service-oriented infrastructure, and a higher living standard for all our citizens. Very soon we will have transformed our energy matrix, using sources of renewable energy, so that by 2017, 94 per cent of energy consumed will be renewable energy. We have decided to take the necessary steps for the construction of the great inter-ocean canal through Nicaragua for ships weighing more than 250,000 tons. Climate change and all its related effects constitute one of the most formidable challenges of our time. The developed countries should comply with their legally binding environmental commitments. The valuable natural resources of our planet must not be privatized in favour of a few.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“Our model for integration and unity is also evident in the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, which has a component of fair trade, complementarity, cooperation and solidarity among its members. Another expression of this process is the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, which was established in 2011 and is convincing proof of our integrationist calling. The principles and purposes of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries constitute a broad common platform, which has world reach and is contributing to the development of a multipolar world and to the strengthening of peace and international security. In that context, our Government of national reconciliation and unity, presided over by Comandante Daniel Ortega Saavedra, and our people are achieving important results in the struggle against poverty.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“In that scenario, which is not very encouraging and in which we are far from being triumphant, Latin America and the Caribbean are making great strides in strengthening their economic, political, social and cultural integration and unity through the Central American Integration System, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. Our regional process of integration and unity through the Central American Integration System advances consistently and on solid ground, based on the common objectives that further the peace and economic and social development of Central Americans.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“On a different matter, Central America is a transit zone for the drugs produced in the South and that find in the North, in the United States, their largest consumer market and the largest money-laundering operation for the traffic in drugs. Central America has expressed the need for destination countries to eradicate drug trafficking and consumption within their borders, using all the technology and resources at their disposal. Likewise, we have agreed to demand economic support for all of Central America in its constant struggle against organized crime and drug trafficking. However, the slow pace or lack of commitment to that issue does irreparable damage, especially to the peoples of Mesoamerica, who have to allocate enormous resources for the prohibition and interception of drugs, consequently delaying our social investments.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“We strongly condemn the terrorist acts in Benghazi, Libya, on 11 September, in which United States Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other United States citizens lost their lives, just as we condemn any act of terrorism that is an assault on civilization, culture, religion and justice anywhere in the world. We welcome the recent positive developments with regard to the relationship between China/Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China. We have to address the legitimate aspirations of Taiwan to participate more broadly in all United Nations specialized agencies and organs. We reaffirm our commitment to total and complete disarmament and international security. A world free of nuclear arms and weapons of mass destruction is indispensable.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“Nicaragua recalls that it is a form of aggression that was already condemned by the International Court of Justice in 1986 in the case of The Republic of Nicaragua v. The United States of America. It is evident that the mediation promoted by the United Nations is going nowhere, simply because it is being blocked by the members of NATO and their allies with interests in the region. A peaceful solution with regard to the Islamic Republic of Iran should be promoted. We need to resolve without delay the aspirations of the Palestinian people by supporting the peace negotiations and their legitimate right to their own State and to be part of the United Nations.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“The peace process in Colombia should be fully supported in order for the people to start on a path of true social progress. International law should be given unrestricted support as regards the inviolability of Ecuador’s diplomatic Mission in the United Kingdom. We also reaffirm our support of Argentina’s sovereign rights over the Malvinas Islands and the right of Puerto Rico to obtain its full independence. Bearing in mind the information disseminated daily by the world’s main communication media, it has escaped no one’s attention that there is a risk of widespread war in the Middle East. The situation in Syria is unacceptable. We strongly condemn the acts of terrorism that have cost the lives of high-level officials of President Bashar Al-Assad’s Government and of the population of Syria.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“We demand the immediate and unconditional end of that crime against humanity, which constitutes an affront to the conscience of our peoples. We also demand the immediate and unconditional release of the five Cuban patriots who are unjustly kept in prison in the United States of America. We demand respect for the sovereignty and independence of the fraternal Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which faces a wave of conspiratorial actions seeking to destabilize and destroy the democratic plan of the Bolivarian Revolution and the popular interests, thus undermining the enormous social and economic gains obtained by the Venezuelan people through great effort and courage, with the distinguished leadership of President Hugo Chávez Frias.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“In the name of the people of Nicaragua, I invite all to strongly push for that proposal, in order to make a reality of a new Charter of the United Nations that guarantees democratization of the Organization. Peace is a supreme value and a condition in which human activity can develop in a stable manner beneficial for all. However, some developments establish a dangerous path. We consider the economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba a f lagrant violation of international law and the most basic norms of peaceful coexistence. Furthermore, today it is claimed that that blockade is based on the arbitrary, groundless and unilateral inclusion of that fraternal country in a list of States sponsoring international terrorism.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“In that connection, we reiterate the urgency of making progress in the reform of the United Nations system, or rather in its reinvention. Nicaraguans have the honour of having taken the initiative in this matter. Our brother, the former Foreign Minister of Nicaragua and President of the the General Assembly at its sixty- third session, Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, together with President Daniel Ortega Saavedra and other great present-day thinkers, have taken on the task of developing a plan for the reinvention of the United Nations system. We say “reinvent” because the present Organization no longer permits reforms; those that have been proposed so far have not made progress, due the policy of some permanent members of the Security Council.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“We are certain that the nature of these adjustments is permanent, and that it is a new economic agenda that will direct the greatest concentration of power to the highest global level in the quest to dictate the path of a new capitalist model that in all spheres of life is ever more concentrated. The world of 1945, after the Second World War, gave rise to all the institutions that constitute global governance, beginning with our Organization. That world no longer exists. Thus today as never before it is imperative that we re-establish a philosophy of firm and lasting world peace and of economic development for the benefit of all the peoples of the world — that is, the philosophy that inspired the founders of the United Nations system, the philosophy of global governability and management.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“However, the paradox is that the very State that wanted to find the paradigm for development in the greater comfort of its citizens is one that today, without political scruples or ethics, develops a new neoliberal programme, disguised as necessary adjustments to save the economy and defend the citizens. That reveals that in developed countries, the economy, the market and political power are the same thing. In them, the State has evolved only to merge into one programme the interests of speculative financial capital, of large global corporations and industries and of the military-industrial complex.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)