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Aguilar Zinser

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“Mexico supports the first recommendation of the Secretary-General on the need for the Security Council to urge Member States to support measures aimed at developing an international instrument that will enable States to identify and undertake follow-up activities in a timely and reliable fashion with regard to small arms and light weapons that are unlawfully traded. In this connection, the meeting of States to be held in 2003 as a follow-up to the 2001 Small Arms Conference will be an appropriate forum to consolidate advances achieved in this field and to make further progress.”
2002-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4623 (2002) · source
“Such activities are also a key element in the peace-building strategies being carried forward through the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes of former combatants in Sierra Leone, the Balkans, Timor-Leste and Afghanistan. The report of the Secretary-General on small arms and light weapons deals with some of the objectives of the Programme of Action to which I referred earlier. It would be advisable for the Security Council, however, to make specific references to - and incorporate into the various peacekeeping operations, sanctions Committees and arms embargoes - the coordination of activities for the effective fulfilment of the undertakings set out in the Programme of Action.”
2002-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4623 (2002) · source
“Likewise, the presidential statement issued as document S/PRST/1999/28 stressed the responsibility of that body in the maintenance of international peace and security in relation to threats to stability caused by such weapons in various fields, including disarmament, human rights, public health, international humanitarian law and democratic stability. The issue of small arms and light weapons has particular significance in West Africa and the Great Lakes region, and in this respect my delegation has followed the work being undertaken in the sanctions Committee on Sierra Leone and in relation to the implementation of arms control measures. We have noted that the availability of such weapons fuels and keeps alive the conflicts in those regions.”
2002-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4623 (2002) · source
“Mexico also actively participated in the development of the United Nations Programme of Action to which I referred earlier, as well as in the preparation of the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. The Security Council must also be much more resolute in its efforts. In 1999, the Council incorporated the subject of small arms and light weapons into its programme of work. Starting in 2001, Colombia has focused on the issue, taking initiatives that strengthen the Council's capacity to take action. The report submitted by the Secretary-General in this respect is the product of the work carried out by Council members - work for which Colombia provided a strong impetus.”
2002-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4623 (2002) · source
“We should demand greater accountability, involvement and commitment from them in the implementation of measures adopted by our Organization with a view to curbing such weapons. In this context, Mexico supports national, regional and international efforts aimed at regulating the illicit trade in and production of small arms and light weapons, preventing their excessive accumulation and combating illicit trafficking in such arms. To that end, Mexico has promoted and is a party to the Inter- American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunitions, Explosives and Other Related Materials, adopted by the Organization of American States in 1997. For the period 2000-2002, Mexico held the position of Secretary pro tempore of the Consultative Committee established pursuant to that regional instrument.”
2002-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4623 (2002) · source
“In its various peacekeeping operations, especially those in Africa, the United Nations has been introducing, with increasing resolve, a disarmament component aimed at collecting and destroying small arms and light weapons that, in the hands of irregular armed groups, represent a threat to the stability and security of countries emerging from conflict or going through a peace- building stage. On several occasions, however, the efforts of the United Nations, have been isolated or have been thwarted. The responsibility for facing up to the illicit trade in and production of small arms and light weapons is incumbent upon all States, not just those that are the recipients of such weapons. Indeed, those that have the greatest responsibility are the producer and exporter countries.”
2002-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4623 (2002) · source
“This increase has not been curbed by the implementation of the measures contained in the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, adopted at the United Nations Small Arms Conference in July 2001. The proliferation of such weapons is even more evident in areas of conflict. Yet, when used in all of our countries to commit ordinary crimes, as well as by those responsible for organized crime and terrorist attacks, small arms and light weapons confer strategic power. Some wars are also being waged today primarily with small arms and light weapons, although they are no less devastating, bloody and destructive for that.”
2002-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4623 (2002) · source
“Mr. Aguilar Zinser (Mexico) (spoke in Spanish): Mexico welcomes the decision by the President of the Security Council to include this public debate on the subject of small arms and light weapons in the programme for October. My Government is particularly attentive to this problem. We believe that the accumulation of small arms and light weapons worldwide has reached such proportions that it constitutes a challenge that the international community must face in a much firmer, more resolute and better coordinated manner. According to the most recent estimates in the 2002 Small Arms Survey, worldwide there has been an increase in the number of small arms and light weapons to about 640 million units.”
2002-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4623 (2002) · source
“I wish to conclude by reaffirming Mexico's absolute readiness to continue to participate in, adopt and support practical measures, with a long-term vision that will make it possible to forge and consolidate a new concept of international cooperation to combat this scourge. Such a concept would have as a fundamental purpose addressing the roots and basic causes of hatred, frustration and violence.”
2002-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618 (2002) · source
“We regard its input as valuable, and we feel it is essential for the Committee to maintain dialogue with it. We pay tribute to Mrs. Mary Robinson for her contribution, and we would like to offer our support to the new High Commissioner, Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello, as he begins his work. My country has begun consultations with other United Nations Members so that we can produce a General Assembly resolution on human rights and terrorism to give States the guidance necessary to guarantee full respect for human rights in the fight against terrorism. Regional cooperation plays a very important role, since convergences of interest and geographical proximity make regional organizations a natural front for action in the fight against terrorism. Here, we applaud the progress achieved within the Organization of American States.”
2002-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618 (2002) · source
“The best, most effective weapons will be economic and social development, the quest for peace through broad- ranging and sustained efforts, focused attention to humanitarian issues triggered by conflict, the promotion of values, education and health care. The United Nations has a central role to play in all of these critical tasks. We are aware that the Committee's mandate does not include monitoring human rights, because other bodies exist for that purpose. However, we would appeal to States to ensure that their domestic authorities comply with their international obligations in that regard. Taking note of the contributions that have been made by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, we would underscore the importance of that Office.”
2002-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618 (2002) · source
“We must clearly bear in mind the costs of each and every one of our actions, and we must be certain that the measures we propose and take are fully justified and truly effective. We must scrupulously combine the fight against terrorism with the defence of our freedoms and of human and civil rights. We cannot play the game the terrorists play. However effective we may be in instituting precautionary and preventive measures, terrorism will take advantage of every crack. No security measure will render us immune to terrorism. We are therefore compelled to make a substantive response in our fight against terrorism, a fundamental response that goes to the core and the root of the impulses that motivate such acts.”
2002-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618 (2002) · source
“But the fight against terrorism presupposes some very painful decisions for societies: the establishment of monitoring and surveillance systems that limit our freedoms, the building of barriers that impede our freedom of movement, and restrictions on some of our rights because of the struggle against terrorism. These measures affect all of us. They are preventive measures, the purpose of which is to prevent terrorist acts. But they also represent after-effects and damage, from which all of us suffer. They harm the quality of our lives and the ways in which we live together. Given this, the international community, and the United Nations in particular, must be very vigilant.”
2002-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618 (2002) · source
“Terrorism exploits those freedoms and attacks them. Terrorists penetrate open spaces; they take advantage of the transparency of the information and communications media; they use the media as a weapon and financial systems to their advantage; and they randomly attack innocent victims who are going about their daily business. Given their perverse nature, their fanaticism, their anonymity and their cruelty and brutality in selecting targets and victims without any consideration for the lives of women, children and innocent people, terrorists must be combated by every means available.”
2002-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618 (2002) · source
“Thanks to the work of the Committee, we are moving towards a process of uniformity and complementarity among the legal systems and judicial processes of States, which will enable us to work together to combat this common enemy. One of the basic principles underlying the struggle against terrorism is respect for international law and for human rights. If this were not so, the legitimacy and unity of our efforts would be significantly diminished and undermined. We must resolutely defend the fundamental principles that govern our Organization. Terrorism, in its many forms and its manifestations, represents an assault on fundamental human values: understanding, human compassion and tolerance. Terrorism is sometimes perversely used in the name of democratic freedoms to attack those very freedoms.”
2002-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618 (2002) · source
“Mexico believes that the combat against terrorism requires concerted action on the part of authorities at various levels. This commitment on the part of the Mexican authorities is attested to by the fact that at this meeting the delegation of Mexico includes the Governor of the state of Michoacan, Mr. Lazaro Cardenas Batel, and the Governor of the state of Oaxaca, Mr. Jose Murat, who are here to observe the Committee's work. We believe that one of the main contributions of the Committee is its compilation of the publicly available information concerning the practices of States in the combat against terrorism. This compilation will definitely facilitate the study of comparative international law in this field.”
2002-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618 (2002) · source
“The work of the Committee and of its experts in arranging the provision of technical assistance is, at this stage, acting as a kind of backbone, inasmuch as it provides support for cooperation within the Committee, thereby enabling the States Members of the United Nations to enhance their capacity to respond to terrorist acts. The dialogue between Member States and the experts should be interactive, so that countries can decide on the type and scope of the assistance that they wish to receive. Each and every one of us, as Members of the United Nations, must make an effort at the national level to adapt our juridical institutions and our political and legal instruments to this undertaking, to which the international community is committed. Mexico has undertaken these steps in the full understanding of its responsibilities.”
2002-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618 (2002) · source
“In the year that has elapsed since its establishment, the Committee has demonstrated its dynamism and its importance to the United Nations. I wish also to note the work of the Vice-Chairmen - Ambassador Valdivieso, Ambassador Koonjul and Ambassador Lavrov - who, along with Ambassador Greenstock, form an excellent team. The team of officials from the United Kingdom Mission, the outstanding work done by the Secretariat - and here Mexico wishes to pay particular tribute to Ms. Sujata Mehta for her tireless work in the Committee - all of these factors have contributed to the success of the Committee's work. It is also important to commend the work done by the experts and their team of assistants. They are quite simply the linchpin of the Committee.”
2002-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618 (2002) · source
“Mr. Aguilar Zinser (Mexico) (spoke in Spanish): My country wishes to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council, and we wish you every success in this difficult month. Our appreciation goes also to the Ambassador of Bulgaria for the manner in which he conducted the work of the Council last month. My delegation associates itself with the statement to be made later by the delegation of Costa Rica on behalf of the Rio Group. Mexico wishes to convey its very sincere and well-deserved congratulations and its appreciation to Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock for the wise and efficient manner in which he has guided the work of the Counter-Terrorism Committee since its inception. We hope that we can continue to rely on his leadership, and my country reaffirms its fullest support for the work of the Committee.”
2002-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618 (2002) · source
“Similarly, the General Assembly's Open-ended Working Group on Security Council reform is another area where we are working to institutionalize our working procedures and rules of procedure, which paradoxically have remained provisional for more than 50 years. Mexico's commitment to the principle of transparency is unswerving. We want to do away with the barriers to a more substantive report that reflects the daily work of the Council. We hope that this endeavour will succeed. It is one to which my delegation and others are committed.”
2002-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4616 (2002) · source
“We welcome the increasing trend of the Security Council to hold more meetings open to participation or attendance by all Members of the United Nations. We reiterate that we must implement the provisions of rule 48 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, which stipulates the practice of holding open public meetings. We hope that the resistance to change of some Council members will diminish, and that there will be closer links between the members of the Security Council and those ofthe General Assembly. We shall continue to work within the informal working group to achieve those ends.”
2002-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4616 (2002) · source
“Given our awareness of what has taken place, we want to thank the members of the Security Council secretariat, whose openness to the measures discussed and proposed here with a View to gradually making the Security Council far more transparent and more closely connected to the rest of the Organization. They have remained receptive to these ideas and they have facilitated implementation of the measures we have adopted. They have also been responsive with regard to the issuance of documents. We have also worked to strengthen the work of the Secretariat in connection with the new work of the Council, such as the field missions of the entire Security Council as a whole and of the sanctions committees, in which my country has actively participated.”
2002-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4616 (2002) · source
“We will continue to support this becoming a regular practice. However, there are still members with reservations that must be carefully and respectfully considered, so that agreements can be reached in the near future. Measures have been adopted to improve the working procedures in the Security Council as a whole. Some of these are very simple, such as assigning seats to non-members in our discussions. Others are of greater importance, such as the publication of the Secretary-General's reports and the agenda, and the very important contribution of the fact sheets on items before the Council.”
2002-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4616 (2002) · source
“We know that, as an elected member, we are in the Council only for a short period of time. For this reason, and for other key reasons, we want to make a particular and extraordinary effort, in the same spirit as Ambassador Mahbubani, to ensure that, when we leave the Security Council, we will have contributed to bringing it much closer to the rest of the United Nations community; that its working procedures will be far more transparent; and that progress will have been made towards the establishment of mechanisms aimed at creating linkages among the decisions taken in the Security Council and those of other United Nations bodies. In that connection, we believe that monthly wrap- up meetings provide an excellent opportunity for an interactive discussion among members and non- members.”
2002-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4616 (2002) · source
“Some members remain reluctant to move forward along the path that was set out in the process of preparing the report. Today we can consider that slow movement forward as a victory; however, more victories must be achieved. My delegation is pleased, but not yet satisfied, with what has been achieved. Mexico hopes that future developments, particularly in terms of the analytical section, could include, among other innovations, the adoption of clear and precise indicators to measure progress in the Council's work, as well as a section containing proposals to improve the working procedures and performance of our Organization. Mexico has followed with great interest the work in the Council as well as the efforts made to turn it into a body that has closer ties to the rest ofthe membership of the United Nations.”
2002-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4616 (2002) · source
“My delegation participated actively, sharing the vision and approach of Ambassador Mahbubani and his desire to produce a substantive document that would truly be useful to the community of nations. We congratulate Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock for the contribution he made to the preparation of the introduction, which was the subject of a lively discussion among the membership and which appears in this report; it is, in fact, the most important innovation in the report. As Ambassador Levitte ~ who himself was a very important supporter of this initiative - said, the Council moves forward slowly. This certainly represents a Victory. But discussions are ongoing, and agreement has not yet been reached among all members of the Council.”
2002-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4616 (2002) · source
“Accordingly, we are pleased that this report is the outcome of agreement in the Council to improve its presentation and that it includes, for the first time, an analytical section that focuses on areas of Council activity that are of interest to the entire membership of the United Nations. We echo the congratulations and support expressed by some members of the Council to Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani, Minister Lee and their team for their contribution, which has given us this useful tool, which enables us more accurately to report on the activities of the Council in the course of the current year in its work of maintaining international peace and security. Intensive deliberations led to the adoption of the criteria for the preparation of this report.”
2002-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4616 (2002) · source
“Mr. Aguilar Zinser (Mexico) (spoke in Spanish): I agree with Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock's statement that this has been an extraordinary year for the Security Council. There are still a few months remaining, however, during which we may confront the most important events in the life of our Council. Consequently, the submission of this report to the General Assembly is taking place in circumstances in which the Council is now more than ever before under intense scrutiny by the international community and closely watched by Members ofthe United Nations and international public opinion.”
2002-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4616 (2002) · source
“My country appeals to Israel to act in such a way as to help build confidence. This would include facilitating and supporting humanitarian assistance to alleviate tension in the occupied Palestinian territories so that acceptable living conditions could gradually be established there. It is imperative that we face up to the economic and humanitarian situation, which has been deteriorating in an unacceptable manner because of the actions of Israel. Mexico once again reaffirms its support for the efforts being made by the Quartet. We will be considering the draft resolution that is before Council members with a view to seeking consensus and, indeed, demonstrating the clear will of the Council and reiterating our desire for peace.”
2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614 (2002) · source
“Nothing could be more effective in preventing the recurrence of such acts than resolute action by the Palestinian Authority to isolate and neutralize armed groups, such as Hamas, which resort to and glorify terrorism. The Palestinian Authority must dissociate itself, actively and definitively, from terrorism. It must make a genuine and sincere effort to prevent the continuing dissemination of hatred. We should ask ourselves, however, how the Palestinian Authority can do so if it is being subjected, as it clearly is, to constant harassment and destruction. Time and again my delegation has expressed my country's conviction that reprisals and efforts to destroy the Palestinian Authority simply encourage violence and escalate hatred. Israel should be betting on peace and assuming all the risks of such a wager.”
2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614 (2002) · source
“Under those circumstances, the international community began to feel that the peace effort might bear fruit. Those expectations have been once again thwarted, however, by the violent developments of the past few days. The resumption of suicide attacks and reprisals by Israel are two elements that show clearly the endless vicious cycle. The terrorists who carried out those acts did so with the clear intention of undermining the peace process that could have been under way. But it is also clear that the reprisals carried out by Israel, whatever their objective, also represent an obvious movement backwards and a means to thwart hopes for peace. Mexico condemns and repudiates the terrorist acts that have claimed Israeli victims in the past few days.”
2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614 (2002) · source
“Mr. Aguilar Zinser (Mexico) (spoke in Spanish): Over the past few days, the efforts of the Quartet to draw up a plan of action leading finally to peace in the Middle East has borne fruit. A time frame was prepared, with a three-phase plan designed to obtain a lasting peace built on the vision of two States, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace within secure borders and with normal, productive working relations with all their neighbours. The Quartet's efforts also led to the search for a mechanism to implement, monitor and verify agreements to be arrived at on the basis of the three- phase plan. Agreement was reached on considering the idea of setting up a monitoring system, to be carried out by parties from outside the region who could confirm that the commitments entered into by the parties were being implemented.”
2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614 (2002) · source
“The recognition of a link among gender, conflict and peacekeeping, as reflected in resolution 1325 (2000), is only one aspect of the broad subject of mainstreaming gender perspectives, with respect to which the United Nations must demonstrate its leadership, most especially if it wishes its views to be emulated outside the Organization.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“And it is also important that that function not always be performed by a woman, as is usually the case. Strong mechanisms should be established to investigate cases of abuse and exploitation of women by armed groups, by State authorities or by members of peacekeeping operations. In accordance with the foregoing, full implementation of the provisions of international humanitarian law, of international human rights law and of emerging international criminal law should be promoted. Systematic and generalized attacks on the physical integrity and dignity of women - crimes whose victims are women in conflict situations - must be definitively prosecuted and punished by international law as war crimes - as crimes against humanity.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The Member States of the Organization must conduct more effective campaigns to recruit women and, above all, to present candidates for leadership and decision-making posts. There are few women who have been in charge of a United Nations peacekeeping mission. That must change, and such change depends on Member States, but also - and above all - on the Organization's being consistent in its principles and guidelines. In that regard, I welcome the recent appointment of a woman as Special Representative of the Secretary- General in Georgia. It is fundamental that training courses for members of peacekeeping missions - as well as for staff working for those missions at Headquarters - incorporate gender perspectives. Any operation must have at least one gender expert.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“In that regard, my delegation wishes to insist on the need to take concrete steps that are measurable in the short term, so that there can be closer cooperation on this subject among the Security Council, the General Assembly and the subsidiary bodies of the Economic and Social Council; so that gender perspectives can be incorporated in a truly systematic way into all peacekeeping operation mandates; so that verification mechanisms - preferably external - can be established to ensure that those mandates are implemented; and so that there can truly be greater participation by women in all stages and at all levels of peacekeeping operations, including those of planning, implementation and assessment.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“In considering the establishment or the renewal of a peacekeeping operation, we must take into account the accumulation of principles, instruments and plans formulated since the World Conference on Women, held in Mexico in 1975, including the guidelines adopted by the Security Council and by the Economic and Social Council, and the study by the International Committee of the Red Cross, as well as studies undertaken by the Secretary-General and by the United Nations Development Fund for Women - studies that are about to be released.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The process is slow and the achievements are limited. With women's active participation, their viewpoints and their perspective, peacekeeping operations can have better mechanisms for confidence-building in the reconciliation of communities broken by hatred and rancour. It is a question of facilitating, with the active presence of women, communication between peacekeeping missions and the local population so that the international presence can truly contribute to the restoration and consolidation of peace. In short, it is a question of making peacekeeping operations more effective.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Nonetheless, when mechanisms for peace are designed, women and their experience and needs are ignored or little valued, and they are excluded from the formal processes of negotiation and peace-building. Women - their social perspective, their understanding of problems stemming from violence and their efforts to reconcile - can make the difference between war and peace. So that women, in particular those in societies affected by conflict, can have a voice in peace processes, it is fundamental to incorporate gender perspectives into peacekeeping operations in a much more systematic way, in conformity with Security Council resolution 1325 (2000). My delegation recognizes that there have been advances in mainstreaming gender perspectives into peacekeeping operations, but we are not satisfied.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Mr. Aguilar Zinser (Mexico) (spoke in Spanish): We are grateful to Mr. Jean-Marie Guehenno, Ms. Angela King and Ms. Noeleen Heyzer for their presentations. Women and children are those most affected by armed conflicts. Women and girls are frequently the specific and deliberate target of attacks by armed groups and armies in conflicts such as those suffered in Bosnia, the Congo, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and other countries. Attacks, violations, abuse, subjugation and murders of women have outstripped other military objectives and goals of conquest. In conflict situations, women play very diverse roles as refugees, as heads of families, as the backbone of their communities, as peace activists and even as combatants.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“A lasting peace process in the region must take into account, simultaneously, the various aspects of the conflict. Political negotiations, security arrangements, implementation of an immediate humanitarian assistance plan and building of Palestinian institutions should be the most important elements in building the desired peace. We reaffirm support for increasing the efforts of the international community to restart the peace process in the Middle East based on Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973). We reaffirm our support for the concept of a region in which two States, Israel and Palestine, would live side by side within secure and recognized borders, as provided for in resolution 1397 (2002).”
2002-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4588 (2002) · source
“The acts of violence, reprisal and mutual provocation we deplore today are happening at the same time as endeavours are being made to restore the bilateral dialogue and promote international initiatives to find a long-term substantive solution to the problem. Mexico believes that military actions as well as terrorist attacks generate greater violence in the Middle East and undermine the valuable initiatives and tireless efforts of the international community to get the peace process started again and end the conflict. We call on the parties to comply, without delay, with the provisions of resolution 1397 (2002), whereby the Security Council called for immediate cessation of all acts of violence, including all acts of terrorism, provocation, incitement and destruction.”
2002-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4588 (2002) · source
“In reaffirming our most profound dismay at the vicious circle of violence in which Middle East is trapped, we endorse the appeal of the Secretary- General to the effect that the parties should immediately take all necessary measures to restore security conditions for the civilian population, in both Israel and Palestine. Mexico concurs with the joint statement of the "quartet" that emphasizes the urgent need to address the humanitarian situation in Palestine. We appeal again to the parties to refrain from resorting to practices contrary to international humanitarian law and urge them to comply fully with the provisions of the fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Times of War, of 1949.”
2002-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4588 (2002) · source
“Mr. Aguilar Zinser (Mexico) (spoke in Spanish): Mexico expressed yesterday, and it reiterates today, its most vigorous condemnation of the Israeli army's aerial attack on 23 July in Gaza, which resulted tragically in the loss of many innocent civilian lives and more than a hundred injured, mostly women and children. Israel has gained nothing by this action, nor has it avoided or prevented anything. On other occasions Mexico has just as strongly repudiated the terrorist acts committed by Palestinian groups in Israel in which innocent civilians, including children, also died. My country deplores the continued acts of terror and reprisal which inflict unspeakable suffering on the civilian population and scar present and future generations through the horrors and the scourge of war.”
2002-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4588 (2002) · source
“Their participation in Sierra Leone's political life and their commitment not to take up arms again are factors that should be taken into account by the members of the Security Council in implementing such sanctions. I wish to conclude by saying, as Under-Secretary- General Guehenno has said, that much remains to be done in Sierra Leone. But the international effort made so far is a guarantee that in Sierra Leone and in the rest of the Mano river region, with the participation of the international community and the active participation of the societies of those three countries, it will be possible to establish an order of peace, security and sustainable development.”
2002-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4577 (2002) · source
“Guided by national criteria and norms, the international community should increase capital investment in modern methods of diamond production, creating employment opportunities for local populations. The gradual eradication of traditional diamond mining methods - taking into account the circumstances in each country - should be pursued to favour the rational economic exploitation of those resources. A review and updating of the lists of individuals subject to travel restrictions under Security Council sanctions should be carried out to stimulate political processes in the countries of the Mano river region. In the case of Sierra Leone, former combatants from rebel groups who have disarmed, joined political organizations, taken part in recent elections and accepted the election results should benefit from the process.”
2002-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4577 (2002) · source
“Given the nature of diamonds, which are easily traded and which easily evade controls, embargoes must be only the starting point for a regional and international effort to create certification systems that will regulate the diamond industry to the benefit of the economic development of peoples, sparing them from the fomenting of violence. If there is no regional system for the certification of origin for diamonds, they will continue to flow from one country to another, escaping controls. Such a system must also be part of the efforts carried out through the Kimberly Process. In the diamond-trading sector, it is necessary to strengthen government monitoring structures to eradicate corruption.”
2002-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4577 (2002) · source
“In the case of the arms embargoes in the Mano river region, it is necessary to establish the appropriate mechanisms, beyond sanctions, to institutionalize the prohibition of illicit flows of weapons. Those mechanisms should possess the means to ensure their observance, even after the ending of sanctions. The lesson learned from the diamond embargoes in the Mano river region is that the embargoes cannot in themselves necessarily have the desired consequences and that they have yielded mixed results. In some aspects these are positive, while in others they are limited and even counterproductive.”
2002-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4577 (2002) · source
“Thus, an additional effort is needed on the part of the community of nations to identify the origin of the weapons circulating in the Mano River region and to put an end to the trafficking in small arms and light weapons. None of the countries of the subregion has the capacity in itself to curb these illicit flows. The commitment by the States of the region and outside of the region is necessary in order to enforce the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) moratorium and effectively to apply the national, regional and international measures provided for in the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects. Sanctions regimes have the objective and temporary function of achieving the peace objectives set by the Council.”
2002-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4577 (2002) · source
“In the specific case of Liberia, in the Mano River region, the population perceives the sanctions to be unjust and not a means of bringing about change in the behaviour of its political leaders and rebel groups. Secondly, in the case of Sierra Leone, the arms embargo has had a limited impact, because the actual presence of UNAMSIL forces and the successful disarmament process have, in fact, led to the eradication of the circulation of weapons in the country. The sanctions are not - and will not be - a guarantee that weapons do not pass back into Sierra Leone. Accordingly, compliance with the sanctions by third parties must be emphasized, so that weapons do not get back into the hands of former combatants or those who might wish to use them to disrupt order.”
2002-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4577 (2002) · source