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Juan Carlos Wasmosy

THE RECORD WRITES THIS SPEAKER AS JUAN CARLOS WASMOSY

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first: 1993-09-24
most recent: 1997-09-24
sittings or episodes: 2
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“Paraguay undertakes to make its contribution to attaining those noble objectives. At this very special moment I warmly embrace the Assembly, not only in the name of my people, but also on behalf of myself, Juan Carlos Wasmosy, a citizen with faith in democracy, struggled for his country’s freedom and won.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“Moreover, MERCOSUR participates in the Free Trade Area of the Americas, and there are proposals to conclude shortly a hemispheric free trade initiative involving the 34 countries of the Americas. MERCOSUR is also expanding towards the European Union. We are making progress in defining political decisions which would encourage the establishment of a free trade zone between the two customs unions. This has been my third address to the General Assembly as President of the Republic of Paraguay. I am here today to reconfirm on behalf of my country — a founding Member of the United Nations — our commitment to the lofty ideals that inspire us. Our Organization needs to be adapted and reformed so as to be able to respond effectively to the major challenges of the next millennium.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“In that context we have reached undeniably relevant milestones for the present and future of our peoples. Today, it is recognized that in MERCOSUR we are on the right path, and we are receiving an encouraging message from the outside world concerning our integration. Our efforts are focused on trying to establish a common market, within a gradual and continuous process in which the basic stages still need to be rounded off, improved and studied in depth. MERCOSUR’s experience is expanding. This is an important regional bloc. We have opened negotiations with the Andean Community and the United Mexican States, and we hope that by the end of this year agreements will be signed allowing for trade preferences in the region.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“In the particular case of Paraguay, I have to point out that international cooperation has played a decisive role, and its true dimensions can therefore be assessed and appreciated. For this reason, I am particularly grateful to the United Nations, whose presence in Paraguay, through its various specialized agencies, has been and continues to be so positive and dynamic. Just over six years ago the Argentine Republic, Brazil, Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, and later, the Republic of Chile and the Republic of Bolivia, as associated members of the Southern Cone Common Market (MERCOSUR), decided to cooperate in a spirit of solidarity in order to gain an increasingly advantageous position in this globalized and dynamic world.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“With regard to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious 4 Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa, we submitted the legal instrument for ratifying the instrument in January this year. In this context, the countries that share the Gran Chaco Americano — Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina — have entered into a new relationship based on a model of cooperation for sustainable development in this vast region. There is an old saying that nobody is so rich that he does not need anything and nobody is so poor that he has nothing to give. In line with those words of wisdom, every Member State of this Organization has given and received.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“I have every reason to be satisfied that my Government has been able to institutionalize various instruments to improve the quality of the environment in our country — in particular, the strategy for managing, using, preserving and protecting natural resources in the context of the programme for change in Agenda 21, whose basic aim it is to strengthen the process of sustainable development. Highlights of the new environmental legislation now in force include laws on evaluating the environmental impact, on wildlife, on protected rural areas and on penalties for ecological offences. In the context of the Agenda for Change, we are ratifying international agreements, and taking account of the importance of international cooperation on the environment.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“Five years after the Rio Conference, the Republic of Paraguay is building on the increasing awareness of the need to preserve the ecosystem, whose priority nature is reflected in the 1992 Constitution. But I must also emphasize how urgent it is to give full effect to the principle of common but differentiated responsibility put forward in Rio. If it is to be valid, this principle must enjoy the support of richer countries in terms of financial and technical assistance, so that we can put an end once and for all to the “ecology of poverty” which forces many sectors of poor countries to destroy their environmental basis with the simple and tragic aim of ensuring their subsistence from day to day.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“During the Eleventh Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Rio Group, which was held in my country, I spoke enthusiastically about the need for a bold strategy to back up the ideals of democracy, sustainable development, equity and integration, and placed particular emphasis on what I called “education for democracy”. The training of young people in this emerging world must include guidelines based on sound ethical and doctrinaire principles. The young must be given experience in how to handle modern technological tools, so that they can deal with the requirements of the new political, economic and social processes which are defining the current and future development of our nations. Further thought needs to be given to the environmental issue.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“Furthermore, the changes to the administration of justice, with a multiparty Supreme Court, prevent any manipulation or distortion of the mechanisms laid down by the Constitution and the laws of the Republic. Management by parliament has become part of the process of joint cooperation in government, and this has been an enriching experience in the democratic life of the country. Paraguay has a young population which is eager to learn. Current and future generations must be able to equate a free economy with democracy and democracy with a State based on the rule of law, with guarantees for human dignity.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“I am pleased to state today that my Government has been able to lay the foundations for true development, without making any Messianic promises or pandering to the populists. I should highlight the significant progress made in the institutional framework of this process, with electoral reform that has enabled us to move satisfactorily through all the stages of the democratic schedule. Equally historic is the balance achieved in civil and military relations, following the successes of April 1996, when popular pressure and the enormous weight of solidarity on the continent thwarted attempts to take us back to outdated forms of autocracy. I am convinced that our fledgling democracy has gathered new strength since those events and that it will be an insuperable obstacle to any attempts to bring down our institutions.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“My Government has therefore tried to strengthen the interrelationship between democracy, development and human rights, thus combining these democratic achievements, through a plan for social action designed to create opportunities so that all citizens, through their own efforts, can enjoy all the benefits of human development. Obviously, a central feature of democratic governance is concern for social problems. If our democracies do not adapt to these new realities, not only will they be impossible to govern, but they will remain on the sidelines of history. Even worse, that all the sacrifices made to strengthen our institutions may have to yield to populist and Messianic pressures.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“During this journey, my Government has helped make the dream of every Paraguayan a reality: the establishment of a system guaranteeing full freedom and a strengthened democracy allowing the peaceful transfer of the presidential mandate to another candidate, elected by the people, who will take up the office of President of the Republic in August 1998. 3 This is in keeping with the undeniable achievements of the World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna in 1993, which reaffirmed the universality and indivisibility of human rights, while recommending that greater attention be paid to the links between democracy, development and the satisfaction of the basic needs of the most disadvantaged sectors of the population.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“Much of what we have achieved along the way has been the product of blood and pain, but with due satisfaction we can now confirm that the principles and objectives of the Declaration are increasingly being put into effect and that the concept of a State based on the rule of law is gradually becoming part of our national realities. Moreover, the new culture of democratic solidarity has managed convincingly to combat any aspirations for a return to anachronistic times in our political history characterized by authoritarianism and the denial of human rights. For Paraguay, the road to freedom and the establishment of an institutional basis which sits well with our republican ideals has been long.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“In this connection, I am pleased to inform the Assembly that in October 1996 my country’s Parliament, at the initiative of the Executive, adopted a law that establishes norms and punishments for the crime of laundering money or goods derived from illicit traffic in narcotics, psychotropic substances or dangerous drugs, thereby significantly improving the legal framework for combating such crimes head on. On 10 December 1998 we shall celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a major landmark in the history of humankind and its endless struggle to ensure dignity and reciprocity among human beings.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“I should also like to reaffirm my country’s unswerving commitment to continue the struggle against terrorism, a destabilizing force that negates human rights and threatens to undermine the very foundations of security in our regions. It is fitting here to stress that Paraguay, along with the entire international community, is concerned about the growth of drug trafficking. We therefore firmly reiterate the Paraguayan people’s determination to combat that scourge and its resolve to take integrated and concerted action, within the context of international cooperation and in conjunction with producing, transit and consuming countries.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“We recently took part in the Oslo Diplomatic Conference, which adopted the definitive text of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, and we supported the majority position of the principal States to seek appropriate and effective legal mechanisms to prohibit the manufacture, use and distribution of the cruel devices of death and pain that are anti-personnel landmines. We congratulate the international community on that decisive step, and we reaffirm our unswerving decision to sign the Convention. We urge other Governments to do the same without any doubt or delay, so as to ensure its earliest possible entry into force.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“That Treaty, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test- Ban Treaty, the efforts of States to reduce their arsenals and the establishment of new nuclear-weapon-free zones are all important elements that will help prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons and eventually achieve general and complete nuclear disarmament. True to its pacifist principles, the Republic of Paraguay has been following the Ottowa process with great interest.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“The challenges of peace, security and equilibrium are more relevant to us today than ever before, and they are an absolute imperative for building a world that guarantees development to nations in a context of universal harmony. On the crucial issue of world disarmament, allow me to reiterate Paraguay’s position of support for United Nations efforts in this sphere. My country welcomes optimistically the preparatory work for the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non- Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) to be held in the year 2000, hoping that by then the Treaty will have become universal.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“With regard to the particular case of the Republic of China on Taiwan, Paraguay welcomes the attitude adopted by that country’s Government and expresses its hope that 2 there will be movement towards reconciliation and that it will be possible to resolve the differences with the People’s Republic of China. In keeping with the principle of the universality of the United Nations, all States that meet the requirements set forth in the Charter have the right to seek admission or membership. In this respect, we believe that it would be advisable to reconsider General Assembly resolution 2758 (XXVI), which completely denies the 21 million inhabitants of the Republic of China on Taiwan the fundamental right to participate in international organizations and their activities.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“It is of course true that many serious conflict areas continue to exist, but Paraguay is pleased to note the commendable efforts that the United Nations has made in the maintenance of peace in various areas of tension, and we have followed closely the Organization’s initiatives in such new areas of conflict as Cambodia and Sierra Leone, for whose peoples my country most sincerely wishes the immeasurable benefits of peace and harmony. We have also followed with keen interest the disturbing developments in the Middle East situation, and we urge the parties there to redouble their efforts to seek a lasting and stable peace. We warmly welcome the actions taken by the mediating nations, which untiringly continue to participate in all negotiations.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“I am pleased to say that my country has always, in so far as it has been able, honoured its international commitments, aware that the Organization’s proper functioning requires the appropriate and equitable distribution of its administrative costs among all Member States. This moment in history is indeed a very special one. Alliances are now being replaced by complementarity. Isolationism and confrontation have given way to globalization and cooperation. We no longer speak of rivalry and struggle but, rather, of honest and creative competition. The asymmetries in the world order that have historically meant that some nations have been subordinate to others are now themselves being subordinated to this influx of solidarity and mutual assistance.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“Let me say once again that this increase in the permanent and non-permanent membership of the Council must necessarily envisage the presence of Latin America and the Caribbean and other geographical groups without any form of discrimination whatsoever. In this connection, Paraguay reaffirms its support for permanent membership for Brazil, Germany and Japan. It is also important to note that the process of reforming the Organization must include a plan to eliminate unnecessary expenditures and an attempt to merge programmes designed to further the development of our peoples, which will lead to an optimum utilization of available resources as well as to the elimination of duplication in the use of human, technical or economic resources. The serious financial problems of the United Nations deserve sincere and determined consideration.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“Seventh, it expresses the importance of transparency in management and decision-making in the Security Council and increasing the number of open meetings and orientation meetings at which the Secretary-General or his special representatives present reports. Eighth, it considers that the increase in the Security Council’s membership, the reform of its working methods and the question of the veto are integral parts of Council reform and must be addressed in the same agreement. Ninth, it expresses the explicit resolve of our Governments to continue to participate actively in the Working Group in order to reach general agreement on this matter.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“Fourth, it states that, because of its legal traditions and contribution to the cause of peace, the Latin American and Caribbean region should be given special consideration in any proposal to increase the membership of the Security Council. Fifth, it expresses the conviction that reform of the Security Council must respect the principles of equitable geographical distribution and the sovereign equality of States, and that any reform that entails discrimination by developed countries against developing countries would be unacceptable. Sixth, it expresses the ideal of moving towards the total elimination of the veto and, as a first step, limiting its use to actions taken under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“Second, it expresses support for the Secretary- General’s initiative in putting forward a broad programme for reform, presented on 16 July of this year, particularly reforms designed to strengthen the effectiveness of the Secretariat and to emphasize activities to promote economic and social development. Third, it notes the relevance of the process of increasing the membership of the Security Council and to reforming it to correct the imbalances in its current membership, improve its decision-making mechanisms, make it more transparent so that it will reflect in a more legitimate and representative manner the overall membership of the Organization.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“Last August last I had the great honour of chairing in Asunción the eleventh summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Permanent Mechanism for Consultation and Policy Coordination — the Rio Group — the members of which are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. There a Declaration was adopted on the strengthening of the United Nations and the reform of Security Council, stressing certain principles and guidelines that I shall now describe. The Declaration of Asunción expresses, first, full support for multilateralism, sovereign equality of States and steadfast respect for the rule of law.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“For the people of Paraguay, throughout the long struggle to acquire and strengthen their democratic institutions, the United Nations has always been a universal forum that ensures the free debate of ideas and the participation of all the peoples of the world, without exclusion or discrimination, the vital issues involving development, equity, the maintenance of peace and the preservation of the environment. Because of the great importance my country attaches to this forum, we recognize the urgent need to support the institutional reform of the United Nations by strengthening the General Assembly and democratizing the Security Council — adding both permanent and non- permanent members — so that this institution will be able to respond appropriately to the new challenges facing the international community.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“It is a great honour for me to address this great Assembly in my capacity as President of the Republic of Paraguay. I take this opportunity to express my deepest thanks to the President of the General Assembly at its fifty-second session, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Mr. Hennadiy Udovenko. Also, I would note the excellent work done by Ambassador Razali Ismail, who so efficiently guided the work of the last session. In addition, I should like to extend my best wishes to Mr. Kofi Annan, in connection with his responsibilities as he exercises his functions as Secretary-General of the Organization.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“Let us all unite in the war against underdevelopment, against unemployment, and against ignorance, which is the worst of all slaveries. Reiterating our commitment to full support for the United Nations, we also reaffirm our resolute cooperation with the international community and express our deepest desire for peace, prosperity and development for all the peoples of the world. I should like to conclude with a message in my native language, Guaraní: "Ja johayjhú, ñaño pytyvó, icatú haguaicha ñasé ténondé oñondivepá. Aguiyéveté." This means: "Let us love one another, brothers. Let us help each other to move forward together".”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“We continue to believe and have always maintained that the United Nations should assume leadership, with the support of all Member States, in carrying out the necessary changes to establish the rule of peace and the human development to which we all aspire. My country wishes to underscore the outstanding work of the Secretary-General, Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, and to express its appreciation for his activities aimed at making the United Nations and its entire system more efficient. Paraguay has faith in these positive solutions. We pledge to uphold the legal principles of international coexistence and appeal to the loftiest sentiments and the highest sense of responsibility of all leaders of the world. My country believes that this can be achieved and urges that it be made a reality. No more fratricidal wars.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“Let us do the opposite - let our Organization be the great forum of the international scene. Let it be renewed, better, more effective and more equitable. With timely intervention, the United Nations has brought lengthy conflicts to an end and achieved their settlement. This praiseworthy work must be recognized and if, in some cases, the success has not been great, that has been due to struggles between different power centres. But today we are all equally ready to work to achieve more effective disarmament and to establish new international standards for the use of nuclear energy to benefit mankind and not to destroy it. We have made considerable progress but there remains a long way to go before we have full and complete security in this area. Paraguay will support a disarmament policy as a commitment to the international community.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“In this way will the United Nations be able to live up to the high ideals and hopes with which it was created. To that purpose, it is vital that it redistribute functions and responsibilities among its bodies, increase coordination and streamline its processes. The United Nations should be the forum for the genuine expression of the aspirations of all Member States and the primary instrument for genuine and peaceful understanding among all peoples of the world. We must confront and settle the financial crisis which weighs so heavily on our Organization. It is not logical to assign it tasks without providing adequate means to carry them out. Let us avoid being moved by political motives to transform that inadequacy into administrative negligence and financial paralysis.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“Forty-eighth session - 29 September l993 5 We shall always stress the need for a more balanced treatment of the social and economic issues on the international agenda. Attention must not be given to socalled new global issues at the expense of the problems of development, the struggle against poverty, the defeat of ignorance, and the promotion of international cooperation. After 48 years, men and institutions are able to concede their mistakes and can strengthen their convictions in order better to achieve their purposes. The United Nations has demonstrated such abilities by renewing and adapting itself to the demands of our changing world. Paraguay is in favour of this and supports the necessary reforms to adapt the Charter to the challenges of a new age.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“For this reason, we are trying to improve human resources so that we may make use of the new technology which we sorely lack. Education is not simply a commitment on the part of the State; it is a challenge shared by all the productive sectors of the country. Technology may provide fresh economic opportunities resulting in new sources of labour. That is why Paraguay believes that the Bolívar Programme is a good precedent for what can be done between countries determined to face the future by sharing technologies, innovations and industrial competitiveness. We also hope that the industrialized countries, or those that have achieved a high technological level, will show the necessary will to promote the presence of their companies in our countries, so that their capital and new technology can accelerate progress in our developing countries.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“The United Nations is preparing for a conference in 1995, which will be a special landmark in the whole of international coexistence. I refer to the World Summit for Social Development that will be held in Copenhagen. The Government of Paraguay applauds this initiative and offers its fullest cooperation at the preparation stage and in the studies. We are also willing to take an active part in the event itself. Initiatives of this kind and the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development deserve our fullest support. Although, as I have said, the issues to which I referred earlier are of great significance to my country, I wish to make the point that the raising of educational standards in my country is my obsession.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“With regard to social problems on a world scale, drug trafficking threatens the economic and political stability of some countries. In this area too the United Nations should take the lead in order to combat the scourge of drugs, with all its disastrous consequences for young people and the money laundering and terrorism that are its ramifications. Paraguay is totally committed to the battle against drug trafficking, the money laundering resulting from it and all the other crimes that are associated with drugs. This struggle requires total international cooperation if drug trafficking is to be eliminated. It has to be recognized that responsibility for this undertaking must be shared by producers, consumers and also intermediaries.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“Both concepts are valid for everyone, irrespective of differences in countries’ levels of economic development. Environmental degradation will continue if we keep on applying such ambiguous criteria as "environmental conditionality". The great meeting on the environment held at Rio in 1992, after very lengthy deliberations, points us in the direction of "sustainable development" - development that can be made compatible with protection of the environment. We need to fulfil the agreement that was reached at Rio. We must not go back on the commitments undertaken there. Neither should there be double standards - different standards for industrialized and for developing countries. The latter need the cooperation that was promised at that memorable international meeting.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“North America provides a very promising example of this. Mexico, Canada and the United States are proposing a zone of free trade between countries that have different cultures, histories, languages and lifestyles. In spite of these differences they have taken a praiseworthy decision to make their economies complementary. NAFTA represents an undertaking to ensure shared prosperity through collective arrangements. As we enter a new century, these three countries realize that economic prosperity depends, as never before, on the opening of new markets across the world and increasing the volume of world trade. We hope that when this arrangement is established it will be of great benefit to the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean. Economic development should not run counter to the preservation and protection of the environment.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“Today - 29 September - we commemorate the battle of Boquerón, a symbol of the valour of both peoples which we hope will be a landmark for the future in our search for cooperation, understanding and peace. This new era represents a challenge in relations between nations. In the process of the globalization of economies, countries must avoid selfishness. They must share their prosperity and technological advances in order to ensure effective progress for all mankind. The European Community, the NAFTA countries and the Asia-Pacific countries should be a dynamic force in economic relations, and should not set new limitations on world trade. International coexistence requires that we seek to establish mutually supportive understandings and agreements that will strengthen the collective economy and, thus, every country’s individual economy.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“We wish to see trade flowing more freely, without any tariff or other barriers and without subsidies, which undermine the competitiveness of our MERCOSUR products. We fully support the principle of free trade. One cannot hamper trade by protectionism while professing belief in the principle of free trade. I have just visited Bolivia, a sister country with which we have signed joint agreements and I made an offer to its Government that Paraguay would serve as a link for its entry into MERCOSUR. I also requested that they themselves, in their turn, shall serve as a link between MERCOSUR and the Andean Pact. Through the system of MERCOSUR and through the Andean Pact, we have established a fresh and, 4 General Assembly - Forty-eighth session we hope, promising arrangement.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“We hope that the negotiations that have begun with the European Economic Community, the future North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the AsiaPacific countries will bear fruit. Paraguay gives its fullest support to the creation of this Common Market of the South. We hope fervently that there will be frank and full cooperation in all the negotiations between the four countries involved. All our actions should be really consistent with our aims. It is our sincere desire that we may reach an understanding that is just and fair and of benefit to everyone. While dealing with economic affairs, I should like also to express our desire and hope that full agreement will be reached in the Uruguay Round negotiations. We hope that the markets will open up increasingly.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“This idea spread throughout the Latin American continent and to other regions of the world. For this reason I am pleased to suggest that the United Nations adopt that date as the world day of friendship. Events are giving rise to a higher and higher level of world and regional interdependence. With the Treaty on the Integration of the Common Market in the Southern Cone, known as MERCOSUR, we in the southern cone - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay - are seeking an improvement in our economies. The purpose of MERCOSUR is to harmonize economies, to reach better and broader understandings with other economic groups through the provision of mutual facilities.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“This demonstrates not just that the Organization is alert to the need to find a solution where any event may cause a breach of the peace but also that, in doing so, it tries to realize the hope of peace for suffering peoples, meeting their basic needs and alleviating their difficulties. The peace to which we aspire cannot come from sterile immobility or from armed respite. It cannot be imposed. It must be dynamic, sincere and generous and must be based on the principles of solidarity between nations. Let me refer to a contribution from my country, reflected in our universal feeling of friendship. A few years ago, in a small town called Pinasco, a doctor who was a distinguished member of the community proposed that 30 July be designated as a day dedicated to friendship.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“This valuable contribution to world peace is due to the courage and the clear-sightedness of the leaders on both sides, who have been able to overcome the burden of ancestral prejudice to enter into a new harmonious relationship. We also applaud the participation of countries as mediators in these negotiations. They all deserve the world’s admiration. My Government believes that, in compliance with the San Francisco Charter, the Organization will accept as Members all those States that fulfil the requirements set out in the Charter. We congratulate the United Nations on the tremendous work that is being done in its peace missions.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“We have undertaken to fulfil these purposes in the certainty that the international community will be prepared to support us in so doing. Nationalistic passions have flared up in many parts of the world, challenging borders and jeopardizing international coexistence. Age-old conflicts still seethe, as can be seen from the terrible bloodshed, and havoc in former Yugoslavia. The United Nations has set up more peace-keeping missions in the last three years than it did in its first 45 years of existence. At the same time as we are witnessing these events with distress and sorrow, we are rejoicing in the signing of the statement of principles between the Government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“In order to achieve that aim, my Government will act very responsibly, ensuring that its administration does not Forty-eighth session - 29 September l993 3 engage in irregularities, and it will be very strict in enforcing the law. We wish to have the greatest possible transparency in the whole of the governmental process, in both domestic and international affairs. We believe that the stability of democratic countries lies, among other things, in the integrity of their civil servants, in the independence of the judiciary, in individual and collective security, and in the State’s efficiency in promoting development. That is why my Government will pursue and punish anyone who engages in corruption. In that way we intend to eradicate corruption.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“We recognize the great assistance they have provided in the past, and we urge them to exceed even their past achievements in order to ensure a better future for all our countries. If the developing countries do not receive such cooperation, the consequence will be, on the one hand, a prosperous and democratic world with freedom and an abundance of goods for all and, on the other, a world corroded by ignorance, poverty and the enslavement of the poor. It will be difficult for democracy to survive if poverty persists. Establishing economic progress with equity in Paraguay means strengthening democracy. My greatest desire as Head of State is to establish the democratic system once and for all in my country.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“We call also on the specialized agencies of the United Nations system - each of which has in its field greatly assisted in our countries’ development plans - to redouble their efforts, increase their effectiveness by means of greater creativity, and lower their expenditures by exercising greater control. This cooperation should go hand in hand with domestic efforts to attract assistance on favourable terms and greater flows of private foreign investment. The financial institutions, especially the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, should speed up their assistance by reducing their bureaucracies and should provide the fullest possible support to developing countries’ projects and programmes.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“To accelerate our development we call for an extension of the magnificent collaboration of the United Nations system and its many institutions, such as the United Nations Development Programme, which now has a new, dynamic Administrator and in which the developing countries place great hopes; the effective traditional programme of the United Nations Children’s Fund, which champions the rights of children and adolescents; and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, which plays a very important role in regard to the crucial question of population.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“Today we must consolidate our victory and institutionalize democracy as the only possible choice. We have run into two main obstacles to the attainment of that objective: an increasing rate of population growth and a lack of resources to finance our development with the rapidity required by the rapid increase in our population and the pressing need to raise the standard of living and the well-being of all Paraguayans. We believe that we must be able to count on the cooperation of the industrialized countries in order to ensure the continued primacy of the values we share with the community of nations.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)