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Acosta Bonilla

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2003-02-19
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2003-05-13
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  1. “The Honduran people place our trust in the procedures of international organizations for the settlement of international conflicts and for facing the major challenges facing humankind. That is why we support our world Organization and ask for all countries' respect and support for the functioning of the Organization and implementation of and compliance with its resolutions. In the twenty-first century, the men and women living on this small planet are committed to eradicating the major calamities facing humankind - wars, hunger, slavery and disease - in order to achieve a full life allowing for unlimited material well-being and spiritual development for all people. That goal is within our reach. The process must be led by the Security Council.”

    2003-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4753Resumption1 (2003) · source

  2. “A more active diplomacy on the part of the Secretary-General, a greater capacity for analysis and the proper use of resources available to the specialized agencies of the United Nations can make a substantive contribution to the prevention of possible conflicts, as the reports of the Secretary-General to the Security Council must reflect in a timely fashion the information available on possible inter-State and intra- State conflicts that fall within the purview of the United Nations. That mechanism can be more effective if the Council, when it is informed of a potential conflict, were to invite the parties to a meeting of special consultations in order to recommend or promote an early solution to the conflict.”

    2003-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4753Resumption1 (2003) · source

  3. “Peace, security and development at both the international and national levels will be thwarted if there is no consensus in the Council and if we cannot guarantee compliance with the sentences imposed by the International Court of Justice or one of the main international tribunals that have been created. The Council must solemnly voice its opinion on this issue and fully support the decisions of the International Court of Justice and other world legal forums.”

    2003-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4753Resumption1 (2003) · source

  4. “Bolstering and enhancing our Organization, reviewing its working methods and bringing together mechanisms that can enable the Organization to work efficiently is an essential task that will allow us to resolve, together, the enormous challenges threatening humankind now and in the future. The Honduran people faithfully comply with international law. Our national constitution is an expression of our commitment to peace. We have therefore signed all instruments relating to the peaceful settlement of international disputes, and we recognize unreservedly the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice and abide solemnly by its decisions. Furthermore, we trust in the Security Council as a guarantor for carrying out the sentences handed down by international justice bodies.”

    2003-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4753Resumption1 (2003) · source

  5. “That observation leads us to acknowledge the importance of this open meeting of the Security Council. New challenges threaten world peace and are the impetus to unite the world's efforts and resources to meet them. Terrorism and drug trafficking are a tremendous threat to humankind and, together with the spread of pandemics, could lead to the destruction of broad social sectors in all parts of the world. Hunger, AIDS, malaria and, recently, SARS - the severe acute respiratory syndrome: each alone could decimate the population of the planet. We must make rational use of our collective resources in order to meet those enormous challenges. To do that, we must strengthen the role of the United Nations, in particular the Security Council.”

    2003-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4753Resumption1 (2003) · source

  6. “Mr. Acosta Bonilla (Honduras) (spoke in Spanish): I am pleased to see you, Sir, presiding over this important Security Council meeting. The international community has placed its hope in the United Nations and firmly believes in its conciliatory and peaceful role. It also believes that that is a fundamental factor for the economic development and well-being of our peoples. Security, peace and economic development constitute the triple equation that sustains the peoples of the Earth. What can a country hope for without internal or international security? How can we work towards economic development if there is no security? Economic, social and cultural development cannot be achieved if valuable resources are spent on ensuring internal and international stability while education, food, health and infrastructure programmes are postponed.”

    2003-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4753Resumption1 (2003) · source

  7. “The Security Council must, together, or each member individually, make the maximum effort to ensure a promising and satisfactory future for the millions of human beings who aspire to such a future. It also has the unavoidable obligation to salvage the institution of the United Nations, which is the safeguard ensuring that individuals and States, large and small, can continue to live harmoniously and in peace. May there be peace for the benefit of all peoples.”

    2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source

  8. “Kofi Annan, in his heroic struggles at the beginning of this current tragedy correctly stated that it is an urgent necessity to ensure that humanitarian assistance is not interrupted for those in need, and that, above and beyond any other consideration, the institution's procedures must be reorganized so as to continue the delivery of medicines, foodstuffs and shelter to the children, women and elderly who require them. We cannot allow the tragedy to take on inhuman dimensions in the twenty-first century. The Security Council must immediately support the Secretary-General and establish the necessary provisions to meet the needs of the millions in need.”

    2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source

  9. “Hondurans have hope the Security Council will bring to bear its authority to ensure that current differences are promptly overcome and that confidence in the Council's unity remains, so that it may correctly address the world affairs on its agenda. What is in jeopardy is infinitely more valuable - morally, culturally and economically - than the matters that have led to division which should be overcome promptly and properly. The Secretary-General, Mr.”

    2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source

  10. “What concerns everyone now is that the United Nations is paralysed and that this uncontrolled situation may cause its ultimate destruction. The hope for a democratic world that respects human rights seems to be dissipating in an atmosphere charged with destructive and violent forces. Hondurans want to enjoy universal peace and a world governed by law and providing opportunities for advancement to all the men and women on the earth, so they may enjoy civilized life and prosperity. In order to make this a reality, it is absolutely necessary for the United Nations to continue to operate with legal force and efficiency in order to resolve problems of any kind that may injure humankind.”

    2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source

  11. “Mr. Acosta Bonilla (Honduras) (spoke in Spanish): The Security Council has all the world's citizens in suspense. Its wisdom and its ability to act will largely determine its future, which is seriously threatened by war, by economic crisis and, in wide areas, by hunger. Another factor is the uncertainty of humanity's future. The relative tranquillity of the post- war and post-cold-war periods is now being lost, as events have called into question the institution created specifically to ensure global peace and harmony. During the past half-century that we have experienced, the main role has been played by the United Nations, which, despite its limitations and weaknesses, has finally been able to tackle the long list of conflicts of conflicts and crises that mankind has faced over the past 50 years.”

    2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source

  12. “The peaceful settlement of the conflict with Iraq will confirm humankind's progress towards creating on planet Earth a way of life that guarantees to all peoples- weak or powerful, great or small - the right to enjoy a satisfactory material and spiritual existence.”

    2003-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709Resumption1 (2003) · source

  13. “The dispute among Governments owing to differing perceptions of the facts, to conflicting criteria adopted by different cultures or to struggle over secondary economic interests must not lead humankind to its destruction. The Government of Iraq must inescapably accept its obligations towards the rest of the world. It cannot shirk its responsibilities or adopt threatening, belligerent stances towards neighbouring peoples. Conduct of that kind is utterly inadmissible in the twenty-first century, which should be an age of respect for the universal rule of law established by the free consensus of all nations of the world. The United Nations represents that new world legal order.”

    2003-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709Resumption1 (2003) · source

  14. “In the latter unfortunate scenario, the Security Council would be obliged to adopt the appropriate measures to safeguard humankind from criminal, genocidal acts. We Hondurans, together with all others who desire that peace in the world not be disturbed, support Secretary-General Kofi Annan in his responsible and forceful stance of ensuring that the Government of Iraq respects the world Organization and that no hasty or unwarranted actions are taken which could plunge the world into chaos. Honduras believes that all countries and Governments of the world agree on peace, on the institution of the United Nations and on the preservation of human rights and of the civilization achieved by humankind, which constitutes a set of values that must always be protected and safeguarded.”

    2003-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709Resumption1 (2003) · source

  15. “Given those goals, it our wish that the United Nations should attempt by all possible means to ensure that the Government of Iraq destroys or effectively eliminates all deadly weapons of mass destruction and that measures are taken to ensure that Iraq will not possess such weapons in the future. Such an objective requires that the United Nations inspectors receive all possible material and technological support and that they receive cooperation in the form of broad information in pertinent areas both within and outside Iraq so that they can determine with reasonable certainty either that the aggressive threat by Iraq no longer exists and will not arise again or that verification is impossible due to the negative attitude of the Government of Iraq.”

    2003-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709Resumption1 (2003) · source

  16. “Our people, which wishes to live in peace and harmony with all peoples of the world, is doing its utmost to ensure that a full understanding is reached as soon as possible in the present conflict with Iraq in order to safeguard international peace, human rights and the continued normal functioning of the United Nations, which is the most important organization created by mankind to regulate relations among Governments, peoples and individuals, within a framework of law, justice and mutual respect so as to work in concert to secure the progress and well-being of the human race.”

    2003-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709Resumption1 (2003) · source

  17. “Mr. Acosta Bonilla: (Honduras) (spoke in Spanish): Like all peoples of the world, the people of Honduras is living through times of extreme disquiet and anxiety due to the world situation and the possible consequences for humankind of the solution that the United Nations decides upon in the conflict with Iraq.”

    2003-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4709Resumption1 (2003) · source