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2006-07-24
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  1. “Lastly, Venezuela cannot fail to express its deep concern for the situation of boys and girls in Lebanese territory and in the occupied Palestinian territories, given the tragic events that threaten their physical integrity. We call on all the States and international agencies to fulfil their obligation to protect the lives of those who are unjustly swept up in this outbreak of violence in the Middle East. In recent events in the Middle East, we have seen photos of children being used to support activities of destruction and war. That is no more than a reflection of how the warlords use even the innocence of children who are swept up in traumatic situations around the world.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  2. “Our country rejects any use of children in armed conflicts, as well as other abuses and violations committed against children in situations of armed conflict. Venezuela deplores the impunity that still prevails in many areas affected by armed conflict where the parties involved continue to contravene the relevant provisions of applicable international law concerning the rights and protection of children in such situations. Venezuela resolutely supports the adoption of effective measures to ensure demobilization of child soldiers and their rehabilitation, physical and psychological recovery and reintegration into society.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  3. “We cannot hide the fact that, given the tragic situation of poverty and exclusion that many children face, they are the first affected when confronting an extremely delicate situation, exposed to all kinds of risks that endanger their integral development. It is also important to recall that General Assembly resolution S-27/2, adopted in 2002 at the Assembly's twenty-seventh special session, on children, stresses in section III, the Plan of Action, that chronic poverty remains the single biggest obstacle to meeting the needs and protecting and promoting the rights of children. This concern has been tackled by the Government of President Hugo Chavez Frias as a fundamental element in social programmes promoted by the State.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  4. “It can also establish a collaborative relationship that might provide guidance to the Security Council Working Group and link its work to development-related issues, in particular health and education, in order to give children better prospects of rehabilitation, physical and psychological recovery and reintegration into society. We would like to stress that the quest for proper solutions to the problem of children and armed conflict necessary involves tackling the causes that contribute to the rise of this phenomenon in various regions of the world. This approach involves applying strategies designed to overcome poverty and hunger as essential prerequisites for ensuring the full realization of the human rights of children.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  5. “In Venezuela, the Conscription and Military Enlistment Law sets the minimum age for enlistment in the armed forces and participation in armed conflicts at 18. Moreover, in drawing up its Act on the Protection of Children and Adolescents, promulgated in 2000, Venezuela prepared its National Strategic Plan for the Protection of Children and Adolescents, which, among other things, covers the right of survival, and within that the right to protection in the cases of armed conflict. The National Council for the Protection of Children and Adolescents is the Venezuelan agency that can support the activities of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  6. “Moreover, it is difficult to ensure that irregular armed groups respect the legal measures that have been established against recruiting those under 18 when those groups are contravening all legal norms. On this point, moreover, our country has concerns about the laws whereby those minors might be brought to trial should they decide to desert when they are in active service in the armed forces with the consent of the parents or those who have legal guardianship over them. What law applies to them? Are the provisions of the Convention and its Optional Protocol applicable to them? That aspect is not dealt with in the Convention or in the Optional Protocol and has not been considered adequately in order to cover situations falling within a legal vacuum, which have been arising recently.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  7. “There is some ambiguity in some provisions of that legal instrument, which is also plain in article 4, paragraphs 1 and 2, which indicate that armed groups that are distinct from the armed forces of a State should not in any circumstance recruit or use in hostilities those under 18, and that States parties should take all feasible measures to prevent such recruitment and use, including the adoption of the necessary legal measures to prohibit and criminalize such practices. That may seem contradictory, given that it prohibits recruitment of minors to armed groups distinct from the armed forces of a State, whereas States are allowed to recruit those under 18.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  8. “The Protocol stipulates that States parties shall ensure that on their territories there shall be no forceable recruitment of minors under 18, furthermore establishing that States parties that allow voluntary recruitment into their armed forces of those under 18 should take steps to safeguard them and to ensure that recruitment does not occur by force or coercion, and that also they will take all necessary measures to ensure that no member of their armed forces under 18 directly participates in hostilities.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  9. “Article 38 of that Convention enshrines the protection of children during and after situations of armed conflict and establishes a ban on recruitment by all States parties of those under 15 into their armed forces. Venezuela ratified this Convention on 7 September 2000. The Venezuelan State is also a party to the Optional Protocol of the Convention on the Rights of the Child concerning the involvement of children in armed conflict, ratified on 23 September 2003. We would like to take this opportunity to voice some concerns with respect to that Optional Protocol.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  10. “At the same time, we commend the work done by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict. As regards the working group established by the Security Council, we believe that it is important that it carry out its work in close consultation and cooperation with States, given the primary responsibility that States bear in advancing and defending the rights of children. Moreover, it is vital in negotiations and peace agreements among parties involved in situations of armed conflict that the problem of child soldiers is taken into account and given priority in programmes of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration after the conflict. Our country is a party to the international Convention on the Rights of the Child.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source

  11. “Mr. Anzola (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): Venezuela welcomes the initiative of France to convene this open debate on the question of children and armed conflict, which is an issue of concern to the international community. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela regards the work that the Council could do in this area as complementary to the primary role of the General Assembly in the overall handling of the situation of children in the world and to the mechanisms established pursuant to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict. The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela recognizes the work done by the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the issue now before us.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494Resumption1 (2006) · source