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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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“The United States and European countries, paradigms of that egotistical model, are at a loss to find solutions to their structural problems. They drag their citizens and the world into unemployment, social insecurity and greater poverty. Thus the exclusive nature of the privatization of the State and its subjection to market forces, speculation and financial fraud becomes clear, demonstrating the urgent need for equitable distribution of wealth worldwide. Many outstanding thinkers describe the scenario as a struggle between the market and the State.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“They are the real power in decisions having a global impact; their decisions determine the course of many important events related to the economy and to peace. That is totally contrary to the idea that gave rise to our Organization. That situation is aggravated by the growing sense that, increasingly, well-being and world power are completely in the hands of market and finance elites, that the people’s standards of living are dramatically crumbling and that confidence in the capacity of all Governments to solve the most pressing problems is decreasing at an accelerating pace. The impact of the economic and financial crisis on the centres of power of global capitalism is provoking political and social changes with great international repercussions.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“The situation in the world today proves that when governance is conceived and conducted from the perspective of global capitalism — savage, as it was called by His Holiness Pope John Paul II — instead of becoming a factor for positive transformation, as we were led to believe it would, it can lead us to the edge of civilization. The vertiginous development of speculative venture capital in developed countries has reduced the role of the State in public affairs. The market imposes itself in all areas — the economy, politics, culture, society, individuals and the mass media — thus strengthening the influence of the interests of giant corporations involved in food production, communications, medicine and the military-industrial complex.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“As I address the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session, I would like first of all to convey the warm greetings and solidarity of the people of Nicaragua and its Government of national reconciliation and unity, led by Comrade President Comandante Daniel Ortega Saavedra, who wishes us success in our work. The changes now taking place in science, economy, geopolitics, technology, ecology and culture are truly revolutions in the life of all human societies around the world, but they raise doubts about the effectiveness of international organizations in conducting global affairs.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“Dinosaurs already took that path.” Nicaragua is proceeding on the belief that a better future is possible if only we are capable of steering in a new direction, if we struggle for justice and peace, and if we commit ourselves to the development and defence of the common good of the Earth and of humankind.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“Where do we find the solution we so urgently need? Where do we regain hope in the possibility of a different present and future world, in which there is peace between States and nations? In which development efforts and impressive scientific and technological advances are equitably shared? In which, as the Greek sophist Protagoras put it, man is the measure of all things? According to many prominent thinkers on the global reality, the final crisis of the capitalist development model has arrived. There is no time for reforms. As Leonardo Boff has said, “We need to find another way of thinking, one based on principles and values that can sustain a new test of civilization. If not, we will have to 11-51398 8 accept a path that leads straight to the edge of the precipice.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“Reinvention and re-grounding are key concepts that will pave the way for an international system based on genuine multilateralism that is in harmony with the changes the world has undergone during the past few decades. We must restore a true political dimension to international law and to the rights of people. Developed societies are sinking into the despair caused by unemployment, the lack of social security, financial insolvency, the implosion of established labour rights and an uncertain future. Global Powers are waging wars of aggression with no moral or political base, causing material destruction and enormous human suffering. Economic and financial recovery are nowhere in sight; on the contrary, specialists foresee a recession even more serious than the one we have recently experienced.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“In his book La reinvención de la ONU: una propuesta, our comrade and friend, the former President of the Assembly, General Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann — who is with us here — states that it is urgent that we give true meaning to democracy and independence in the United Nations, so that the opinions of all can be heard and so that those opinions really count in the decision-making process, with no one being excluded. This proposal, adopted by our national reconciliation and unity Government, consists of proposals on the United Nations charter, the statute of the International Court of Justice and the statute for the International Tribunal for Climate Justice and Environmental Protection, as well as a proposal on a draft universal declaration on the common good of mother earth and humankind.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“We were able to deal with the situation successfully — success with costs that in Nicaragua’s case were not passed on to the poorest, because the measures we adopted were based on the interests of our country as a whole. As we consider international developments, we must also turn our attention to our own Organization. Global democratization must be accompanied by democratization of the United Nations without further delay.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“The burdens of poverty and underdevelopment require sound policies and sustained effort and political and governing systems that have the necessary commitment to our people’s aspirations. I can assure the Assembly that through our Government of national reconciliation and unity we will achieve that and more. As we have said before, it is not easy for developing countries such as ours to deal with an issue of the breadth and depth of the global economic and financial crisis. We have yet to recover from the harsh effects of the last wave, while the new threat of another and greater crisis is bearing down on us. According to the International Monetary Fund, Central America’s response to the previous world economic and financial crisis was in large part successful.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“Throughout this process, young people and women have been at the forefront of the direct democracy model that is the essence and continuity of the Sandinista revolution. Nicaragua can demonstrate the profound, concrete and verifiable economic, social, political, legislative and cultural achievements our people are undergoing. In the context of the serious crises that so many countries, developed and developing, are going through, our Christian, socialist, solidarity model is an inspiration for an ever better future. We are aware of our difficulties and limitations. We know that the weight of the historical structure that we inherited is still a liability that we must cast off in our national development process.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“Within the framework of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, we are securing our model through complementarity, investments, fair trade and solidarity. With our neighbours and brothers in Honduras and El Salvador, we are working together for the sustainable development of the Gulf of Fonseca. 7 11-51398 Comrade President Daniel Ortega Saavedra has also made several approaches to the Government and people of our neighbour to the south, Costa Rica, concerning the possibility of joint development of our common border, particularly in terms of protecting and restoring the environment and working on sustainable economic and social development for the benefit of both our peoples.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“We are enjoying macroeconomic stability, with gross national product growth projected at 4 per cent or more. Our improvement policies have increased direct foreign investment in our country’s strategic sectors. We have had outstanding successes in confronting drug trafficking and transnational organized crime. Nicaragua is now recognized as one of the safest countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the safest in Central America. We have had indisputable successes in reducing poverty and inequality, as has been recognized by international financial institutions. We are fervent supporters of the integration and unity of Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“The restoration of the human and constitutional right of the Nicaraguan people to free health care means providing better access to, and improving the quality of, health services, reducing maternal and infant mortality, paying more attention to the development of young people, expanding community family health services, and the first large-scale registering of people with disabilities. Our Programa Amor is designed for boys and girls under six years old and for street children and adolescents, and those who work during school terms, in order to restore to them their fundamental rights. In structural areas, we are making progress in transforming the energy matrix so that by 2017, 90 per cent of energy will be from renewable sources and 10 per cent from fossil fuels, radically inverting the pyramid we inherited in 2006.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“At the same time, our national human development plan is aimed specifically at promoting the country’s economic and social health by adding jobs and reducing poverty and inequality, on a basis of sovereignty, security and integration. The restoration of the human and constitutional right of all Nicaraguans to free education is reflected in the fact that, in a country with a total population of 6.5 million, 1,821,682 students are now enrolled in schools. This year we are launching the battle for universal primary education, aiming at universal sixth grade education by 2012. The goal is to achieve universal enrolment in the third year of secondary school by 2015.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“We are articulating popular democracy through the national human development plan. Together these constitute the backbone of a new phase of the Sandinista revolution. These achievements are due in large part to Nicaragua’s integration into the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas, an initiative stemming from the genius of Fidel Castro, the Commander in Chief of the Cuban revolution, and of Commander- President Hugo Chávez Frías. This brotherhood, unique in today’s world, enables solidarity, complementarity and fair trade between our peoples and advances the historical cultural unity of our peoples.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“The International Conference of Support for the Central American Security Strategy, held in Guatemala last June, exposed the seriousness of a situation that exists not only in our region, but in all of the countries of the world. That is why the principle of shared but differentiated and proportional responsibility must guide mutual commitments. It is urgent that we move in the right direction before it is too late for us all. Nicaragua is going through a time of change aimed at reversing the negative effects of 16 long years under neoliberal Governments. We are recovering values, restoring rights, strengthening capacities and constructing a new model based on replacing the neoliberal model of untrammeled capitalism with one based on Christian, socialist and solidarity principles.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“Drug trafficking, human trafficking, illegal arms trafficking, and the trafficking of immigrants, among others, constitute ethical, political and economic challenges for Central America, which is stigmatized today in some international reports as one of the most violent regions on Earth. That stigmatization is deliberate and carries serious consequences for our countries. It transforms us into protagonists of the problem rather than the victims we truly are, victims of the lucrative businesses that constitute those new threats. Through transnational networks they utilize our territories as a bridge from South to North and from North to South, in a dance of millionaires as thousands of people are assassinated along illegal routes and porous borders.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“It is not true that the arms sector is vitally important to the world economy. In fact, despite what the producers of small arms and light weapons would have us believe, their trade and the trade in munitions and components represent less than 0.01 per cent of the world’s industrial transactions. We are firmly convinced that because the Korean peninsula remains a focal point of international tension, any solution must take place through goodwill and sincere dialogue between the parties in order to maintain peace and stability. 11-51398 6 The factors called new threats to security have become an outright scourge for most of our countries.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“It is therefore unjustifiable and unacceptable that the present world continues to spend more on the development and testing of all types of weapons and less on protecting the life and development of human beings. While millions of persons suffer the effects of the economic and financial crisis, global military expenditures have skyrocketed. Over the past 10 years, those expenditures have increased by 50 per cent, to $1.5 trillion today. More than 8 million small arms and light weapons and more than 16 billion munitions are produced every year, the equivalent to more than 2.5 munitions for every single person on the planet. That arms proliferation causes irreparable direct and indirect harm to peoples and their economies. We can end that proliferation if we decide to.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“From the ethical point of view, as well as political, economic and social, it is essential to take immediate concerted action to avoid the continuing increase in the number of hungry people and to develop sustainable policies for guaranteeing food security worldwide. We renew our commitment to the cause of general and complete disarmament. It is imperative that we establish peace on Earth and provide the 7 billion human beings who inhabit it, and Mother Earth itself, with the opportunity to survive the destructive tendencies promoted by the dominant economic model, so that humankind may develop in an environment conducive to manifesting our enormous spiritual and material capacities. No other way will enable us to achieve a better future.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“We know that this crisis also has structural causes in the present capitalist development model — a model that discourages internal production and impedes technology transfer to the agricultural sector of impoverished countries, a model without available credit or technical training for small and medium producers, which results in production difficulties. Climate change has become an additional major factor in the deepening of the food crisis. The trend towards higher oil prices at the international level has caused some countries with an agricultural base to begin producing biofuel. That phenomenon has significantly changed food supply and demand and has reinforced the trend toward higher prices.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“We recall that the Universal Declaration on the Common Well-Being of Mother Earth and of humankind is an essential guide for our debates and actions. Looking at other issues, Nicaragua salutes the international community’s invitation to Taiwan to participate in the assemblies of United Nations specialized agencies directly related to the well-being of the 23 million Taiwanese. We urge other international forums to adopt similar positions. The global economic and financial crisis has compounded the already serious food crisis, primarily in impoverished countries.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“Although the sixteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change established a Green Fund and called for the mobilization of financing for developing countries, that accord is far from addressing the serious damage being done to the environment and Mother Earth or the historical responsibility of the developed countries, which are bent on dealing a final blow to the Kyoto Protocol so as to continue their uncontrolled emissions of greenhouse effect gases. In Rio and in Durban we will be called upon to renew our political will and adopt genuine, concrete commitments based on previous progress and commitments. The issue is of transcendental importance for our planet and for human beings. Development must not sacrifice life.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“5 11-51398 The upcoming Durban Climate Change Conference and the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development will provide renewed opportunities — which we must not allow ourselves to squander — to truly break with destructive logic and redirect humankind towards development that is in harmony with Mother Earth and respectful of the lives of the 7 billion human beings now populating the planet. We all know that we have been incapable of achieving an accord on climate change.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“Its present and future repercussions, which have not yet been fully established, are considered by recognized scientists to be more serious than those of the Chernobyl disaster. While expressing our solidarity with the Government and the heroic people of Japan — the victims of the earthquake that levelled their territory and those affected by the Fukushima accident — we vehemently call on States with nuclear reactor installations to take all measures to avoid similar accidents that would gravely endanger people’s health and would harm the environment.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“We welcome and maintain our solidarity with the peoples of Puerto Rico, the Western Sahara and the struggle of the Frente Polisario and with Argentina with regard to the occupation of the Malvinas Islands. Observations made in the Assembly in 2010 regarding the need to achieve a balance between human beings and Mother Earth remain relevant; they have even led us to conclude that, far from diminishing, pressures on the planet have increased; threats have escalated and real and potential dangers have multiplied. Among those, the Fukushima disaster in Japan had the virtue of bringing into view the chilling global risk of radiation. The Japanese crisis has rightly been described as a nuclear war without war.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“Despite that criminal blockade, Cuba continues daily to strengthen its solidarity and fraternal relations with all peoples of the world. Cuba’s armies of white coats and educators are ever more numerous in demonstrating their country’s solidarity. We also echo the call for an end to the injustice against the five Cuban heroes who have been unjustly imprisoned for 13 years as of this past 12 September, for having alerted their people to the activities of terrorist organizations against Cuba. As unlikely as it may seem, the process of decolonization has not ended, and there remain entire peoples who have been denied their right to independence and self determination.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“May both States exist, so that both peoples may live in peace and work for their well-being and development: That is the universal appeal. Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly for more than two decades have demanded an end to the United States of America’s economic embargo against Cuba. They must be fully implemented. Despite expectations, the facts confirm that nothing has changed. Sanctions against Cuba remain intact and are rigorously implemented. That criminal blockade violates international law; it is contrary to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and constitutes a crime against a sovereign State’s right to peace, development and security. In its essence and its objectives, it is an act of unilateral aggression and a permanent threat to a country’s stability.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“From the moment of triumph of our revolution in 1979 — the Sandinista revolution — Nicaragua has been a proud witness to the noble struggle of the Palestinian people and their substantial concessions aimed at achieving peace. Before the General Assembly, Nicaragua ratifies its recognition of the Palestinian State within its 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. We call, here and now, for the proclamation of Palestine as the 194th State Member of the United Nations. Recognition of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people can only serve to promote Middle East peace and stability. At present, more than ever, such recognition must become a reality. Clearly, Palestine’s right is linked to the existence of the State of Israel, a State we recognize in juridical and political terms.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“Where are those countries, the supposed defenders of oppressed peoples, the self- proclaimed civilian protection apostles, when an attempt is being made to recognize the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, their right to live in peace, their right to a sovereign State enjoying full recognition as a State Member of the United Nations? This is clearly an instance of double morals, double standards. After six decades of conflict, the Palestinian people are now to be denied their right to a State, while a mere 10 days ago, with unheard of haste and, I must note, a certain irony, the General Assembly recognized a transitional council that has not yet formed a Government. We reject the logic of denying the very existence of a Palestinian State.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“Nicaragua expresses its firmest rejection of the use of the misnamed responsibility to protect in order to intervene in our countries, bomb civilians and 11-51398 4 change free and sovereign governments. We cannot allow the imposition of this new model of imperialist aggression nor the continued aggression against our peoples. Interference and intervention will not resolve crises; only dialogue and negotiation among brothers and sisters will resolve political crises among peoples. The unacceptable policy of double standards has become a constant of those Powers, which clearly aspire to hegemony.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“At present, as before, we affirm that we reject the language of war between peoples and we reject war as a means to resolve conflicts between States. In the light of the events in the brotherly Arab socialist popular republic of Libya, we reiterate our declaration of principle and express our solidarity with the brotherly Libyan people. The blunt and shameful manipulation of Security Council resolution 1973 (2011) regarding Libya — the illegal war being carried out by NATO members — is the most recent example of the pathological need of particular States to attempt to subordinate the peoples of the world at any cost. It is the most recent example of attacks against the sovereignty of a State Member of the United Nations in violation of the Charter of the United Nations.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“One year later, the evolution of world events has confirmed our profoundest fears that our civilization is now at a critical stage and that peace between States and peoples is dangerously at risk. Expectations that the international economic and financial situation would improve have dissipated before the relentless reality of a profound crisis; its gravest effects still continue to affect deeply our peoples. The international financial system, which is controlled by speculators, again plunged into a tailspin. The measures taken have had a temporary, non-lasting effect owing to the ever increasing greed of bankers. We are now witnessing the effects of the United States internal debt problem, which has generated great losses in most exchange markets.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“At this general debate of the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly, I convey to the Assembly a Christian, socialist greeting of solidarity from the people of Nicaragua and Comrade President Commander Daniel Ortega Saavedra. We trust that our work will contribute to strengthening the Organization through an appropriate focus on its purposes, principles and possible contributions so that we can successfully deal with the challenges before us as a community of States, peoples and nations. One year ago, during our discussions at the sixty- fifth session of the General Assembly, we extensively addressed the serious and multifaceted international crisis experienced by humankind. At that time we called it an apocalyptical crisis.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“Nicaragua declares its dignity, sovereignty, self-determination, respect, unity and solidarity with all the peoples of the Earth, as guaranteed by the United Nations Charter. Nicaragua is working to develop a social awareness of solidarity identified with the ideals of humankind, justice, freedom and democracy for all, without exception. From this forum, Nicaragua makes a vehement call for world peace, for the survival of the human species, for the dignified future of the noblest aspirations of men and women. That is the only possible future.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“That campaign has far-reaching implications and has the goal of destroying the process of direct popular democracy and of the profound and revolutionary social transformations that are taking place in our countries as a result of the triumph of revolutionary political forces, as is the case in Nicaragua with the Sandinista Front. We must denounce the campaign waged by hegemonic and selfish interests in a few countries in an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of our political system and our people’s Government. Nicaragua proclaims its right to live in peace and to combat the poverty, illiteracy, hunger and malnutrition generated by historic exclusion and the imposition of an economic and political model that is alien to our reality.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“The most prominent is the suppression of information — not saying anything in order to perpetuate ignorance. And when information is made available, it is distorted and always against the peoples’ interests and their legitimate aspirations and experiences, thus converting lies into truths and vice versa, converting a smile into a sneer, words into noise and an objective fact into virtual reality. The universal citizen is witness, through global communication, to a real war for truth and freedom, forced to confront a permanent, slanderous campaign against change, against hope and against the proper evolution of history.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“Malnutrition and hunger-related diseases cause 60 per cent of those deaths. The cost of malnutrition to national economic development is estimated at between $20 and $30 billion per year. That intolerable situation must stop. The developed countries must fulfil their commitments to eliminate the suffering of millions of human beings. 10-55128 32 Nicaragua reaffirms its decision to confront, with the means available to it and in the context of its national sovereignty, the different forms of transnational organized crime, which have become a permanent threat to domestic and international security. Similarly, Nicaragua reiterates its position of combating terrorism in all its forms and whatever their source. There are several processes that are hampering necessary and urgent changes.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“In connection with the urgent need to create a new model, we reiterate our support for the outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development of June 2009 (resolution 63/303, annex). There can be no economic recovery or balance in the inequality with the present model, which concentrates the income and wealth among and within nations. All of this should take place in a framework of mutual respect, devoid of punitive political conditions against our peoples that would block and stifle the development of the countries of the South. Besides the hundreds of millions of people in the world who suffer from hunger, we have before us the terrifying reality that in developing countries, 10.9 million children under the age of five die every year.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“We should not continue to accept the imposition of economic models based on the pillage and exploitation of our riches. For all of those reasons, Nicaragua and most of the Latin American nations are dedicated to building an alternative model of economic sovereignty, a sphere of interdependence and solidarity that will enable us to face global capitalism’s profound crisis and to recover our capacity to determine our own paths to development. We reaffirm that the development strategies of each country are their own responsibility, that they should have national ownership and leadership, and that foreign cooperation should be in line with the strategies, plans and objectives of the country that receives it.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“In that hope, Nicaragua was the first country of the world to have signed the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth, and calls on all the countries of the world to sign it. It was also in that hope that Nicaragua signed the People’s Agreement adopted in Cochabamba in April during the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. It is in that hope that Nicaragua trusts that, when we arrive in Cancún, we will be united in seeking agreements that will at least partially reverse the harm, and in taking a path that re-establishes the lost or gravely endangered balance between humankind and Mother Earth. Although it is proclaimed without much support that the worst of the global economic and financial crisis is behind us, its most serious effects remain and continue to greatly affect our peoples.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“The meeting in Copenhagen demonstrated the power of the interests that block decisive action on climate change and the rights of Mother Earth. It left us with the unpleasant feeling that we had wasted our time and that those who impede the urgent solutions needed to address the critical state of Mother Earth are uncommitted to change. With our eyes fixed on hope, we continue to promote our commitments based on the fundamental principle of common but differentiated responsibilities. These should be proportional to the greenhouse gas emissions accumulated since the onset of the Industrial Revolution and not since last year. Those who have historically caused the damage should assume most of the responsibility.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“Our awareness of the gravity of the situation makes it indispensable that we forge a coalition of forces based on the common values and inspiring principles that serve as the ethical foundation and catalyst for practices to promote a sustainable way of life. The Earth, with its minerals and sources of energy; with its land, water, forests and marine life; with its ecosystems and micro-organisms, must be recognized as our supreme and universal benefactor and an integral part of humankind, and not only as a source of survival. Global capitalism, with its logic of competition and unlimited growth and its unsustainable modes of production and consumption, separates human beings from nature and establishes a relationship of dominion over it. This situation must change and be restored to the right track before it is too late for us all.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“We must tie the hands of those who fan the flames of hatred and war and are capable of attacking a humanitarian flotilla — an act that has been denounced by the Human Rights Council commission of inquiry. 31 10-55128 We salute the invitation extended by the international community to Taiwan to participate in the work of some United Nations specialized agencies directly related to the well-being of the 23 million Taiwanese. In this regard, we call on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the International Civil Aviation Organization to adopt a similar position. Never before have we had so much information or, I hope, been so conscious of the severity of the environmental crisis affecting our planet.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“The criminal economic blockade by the Government of the United States of America against the brotherly people and Government of heroic Cuba must stop immediately, and the five Cuban heroes, counter-terrorism combatants imprisoned in United States jails, must be released now. We express our solidarity with the brotherly people of Argentina in their demand for sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands and with the brotherly people of the Democratic Arab Saharan Republic in their quest to be recognized as an independent State. The war and State terrorism against the people of Palestine must immediately cease. All Security Council and General Assembly resolutions concerning Israel must be respected and complied with.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“We have already made the historic decision to create the Latin American and Caribbean Community of States, whose institutionalization will begin next year and conclude in 2012. This is further and unquestionable proof of the profound changes taking place in the world. The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America has become the vanguard of this process of change. The struggle against intervention of all kinds, including military intervention, and for the maintenance and re-establishment of peace is an essential component of the Alliance’s action in its relations with the world, and strengthens its capacity to guarantee the national sovereignty of its peoples. Nicaragua joins the brotherly people of Puerto Rico in waving the flag of its independence which has been unjustly trampled.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“Such multilateralism must listen to the voices of peoples living in extreme poverty and underdevelopment. It must take the new political realities into account and effectively democratize the world order, beginning with this Organization, including the Security Council and the United Nations as a whole; re-establish the representational and democratic rights of its 192 Member States; and identify the rights and obligations that are common to all States without undermining their sovereignty, independence and self-determination, regardless of their size. In Latin America and the Caribbean, this trend is manifest in the process of integration and unity taking place among our peoples.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“Precisely because of this belief, Nicaragua demands that neither Iran nor any other nation be taken to task for developing nuclear programmes for peaceful purposes. It is possible to build trust based on dialogue and negotiation. In this context, Nicaragua joins the general support expressed for the tripartite declaration of Brazil, Turkey and Iran, which constitutes an alternative for promoting regional and world peace. That which was a warning yesterday is today a reality. The present international context is leading to a global political crisis. The entire political model constructed and articulated around the paradigm of neo-liberalism, globalization and the free market is in question. At the global level, we need more decisive action to affirm multilateralism as the new paradigm.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)
“Nicaragua believes that only a climate of fundamental trust and solidarity can guarantee strict compliance with arms control and disarmament accords with a view to attaining complete disarmament — and especially nuclear disarmament — as the only option for achieving real and lasting world peace. Nicaragua supports the inalienable right of the parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and without discrimination. Nicaragua encourages actions to promote the exchange of material resources, equipment and technology for the peaceful use of nuclear energy in order to guarantee the sustainable economic development of every nation and the world.”
2010-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 65 (2010)