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Arias Cerdenas

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2007-05-22
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  1. “That is what we are talking about here, and we continue to appeal for justice, for the dignity of peoples and for sending Mr. Posada Carriles to be tried in Venezuela in conformity with our laws and in compliance with the extradition request submitted to the United States.”

    2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source

  2. “A resounding voice must be raised within the Council compelling the Government of the United States of America to respect the law, not to continue to mock the people and not to use force as an argument to impose its version of the truth. We have spoken about removing individuals from the terrorist list; we have heard reports about action against Al-Qaida. But on the territory of the United States a terrorist is being protected. This is a blatant contradiction that cannot be tolerated at this stage in human history. We therefore respectfully call upon the 44 Security Council to take this opportunity to make a clean breast before the world and not pursue terrorists only when it suits a powerful nation, but to pursue terrorists and punish terrorism in all their forms.”

    2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source

  3. “On 27 April 2007, the United States prosecutor submitted to the Federal Court in El Paso, Texas, a motion to exclude all evidence, testimony, questions and arguments on the relationship between Posada Carriles and the United States Central Intelligence Agency: on 13 February 1976, Posada Carriles had signed a document with his employer, the Central Intelligence Agency. Thus, this is a case of protecting a terrorist who acts under cover and under the protection of a Power. The situation in the twenty-first century - the enlightened rule of law that has been mentioned here - is very different from that of the feudal period, and it obliges the Security Council and its Counter- Terrorism Committee to review this case.”

    2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source

  4. “Mr. Arias Cerdenas (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): Personally speaking, we are saddened to hear an ambassador with Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad's background reading a note that really does not explain anything but makes a mockery of the Security Council, the United Nations, international law and the domestic legislation of the United States itself. Indeed, he has responded with sophistry to a legal and legitimate request by our country, by our Republic, for the extradition to Venezuela of Mr. Posada Carriles for trial by our authorities. Why, then, has the extradition treaty between the United States and Venezuela, which has existed since 1922, not been respected? That is what we want to know. I feel that there are reasons for this, and I shall be more specific about them.”

    2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source

  5. “President, that my country's extradition request be honoured, so that we can see each other as brothers without thinking that your Government misleads and lies under the presumption that power gives the right to violate the law. The Council cannot remain impassive in the face of the attitude of the current Government of the United States, which is provocative, disrespectful to the international community and to this forum, a mockery of the dignity of peoples and a clear violation of resolution 1373 (2001). Finally, Venezuela reiterates its firm commitment to combating terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, including State terrorism.”

    2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source

  6. “We hope that the United States authorities will meet their obligations in conformity with the aforementioned international legal instruments. Mr. President, as a colleague in this Organization and with greatest respect for your professional career in the service of your country, we ask you to demand that your Government fulfil the laws of its own country and international law. I know your position in this matter is a delicate one, but this ought to be a matter of dignity and self-respect and respect for the great people of the United States. It is hard to explain how cities can be bombed to destroy terrorists while a terrorist is being protected within the very territory of the United States. Demand, Mr.”

    2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source

  7. “It must be recalled that resolution 1373 (2001), in both paragraphs 2 (c) and 3 (g), prevents States from giving safe haven to those who commit terrorist acts and prohibits recognition of claims of political motivation as grounds for refusing requests for the extradition of terrorists. The release of Luis Posada Carriles is a decision that reveals and confirms the double standard of a Government which states that it is combating terrorism while, in its actions, endorsing terrorist methods. Unfortunately, terrorism will not be defeated if a selective approach with double standards continues, as is being practiced by the present United States Government. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela reiterates once more the request for the extradition of the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, a fugitive from Venezuelan justice.”

    2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source

  8. “It would appear that failure to comply with this treaty could be seen as a message of confidence to a special type of terrorist - those who act as the secret partner of the imperial Power. The released terrorist could have been kept in detention for immigration offences, or he could have been arrested for extradition in keeping with the request submitted by our country and in accordance with the aforementioned agreement. But in this case procedures were all ignored, indicating manifest complicity on the part of those who act immorally in their public actions.”

    2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source

  9. “The Government of the United States is bound by the provisions of the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, which entered into force on 23 May 2001, and of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, which entered into force on 26 January 1973. As a State party to those conventions, the Government of the United States is obliged to extradite Luis Posada Carriles or, failing that, to submit the case to its relevant authorities for prosecution, without exception, and irrespective of whether or not the crime had been perpetrated in its territory. The Venezuelan request is also based on the bilateral extradition treaty signed by the United States and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in 1922.”

    2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source

  10. “Also ignored was the Declaration of the Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement reiterating support for Venezuela's extradition request to bring Luis Posada Carriles to justice and demanding that all States refrain from extending political, diplomatic, moral or material support for terrorism, and in that context, urging all States, consistent with the United Nations Charter and in fulfilment of their obligations under international law, to ensure that the perpetrators, organizers or facilitators of terrorist acts not use their refugee status or other legal status abusively, and that their claims of political motivation not be recognized as grounds for refusing extradition. Also ignored was the call of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, which unanimously supported the request for the extradition of this terrorist.”

    2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source

  11. “Jose Miguel Insulza, stated with regard to the extradition request presented by the Venezuelan Government: "The extradition of Luis Posada Carriles should be permitted... so that he can be judged in the country [Venezuela] where he launched his career of crime" [Posada Carriles] "perpetrated a very serious act of terrorism and we are working well in the Americas in the fight against terrorism. There can be no excuse for not delivering such a person to justice." However, the voices of qualified men and women throughout the world, including those of Nobel Prize laureates, were not heard; nor were the requests and pain of the families of victims of terrorist acts.”

    2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source

  12. “The United States Government had various legal options for detaining him by declaring him a terrorist, as it should have if it had acted in accordance with the principles established by international law, as required under terrorism-related resolutions adopted here. Nevertheless, the United States Government acted as it always does when it suits it to do so. It chose to free him. Although the United States delegation has stated several times in this Council that its Government is considering the extradition request submitted by our country, the liberation of Luis Posada Carriles ignores the request made by the Venezuelan Government almost two years ago, having fulfilled all the pertinent requirements. On 3 May 2007, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Mr.”

    2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source

  13. “In that context, my delegation would like to remind this Council once again of the extradition request that the Venezuelan Government has presented to the Government of the United States concerning the renowned international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles. Since the 1970s, that terrorist has been involved in numerous plots to track down, torture and assassinate men and women throughout the length and breadth of our continent. His most notorious crimes were the bombing of a Cuban plane in Barbados, the torture and murder of social leaders in Venezuela, his support for terrorist operations in Central America against Nicaragua and El Salvador, and the murder by bombing of tourists in Cuba, among other crimes for which he is responsible.”

    2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source

  14. “Mr. Arias Cerdenas (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela firmly and categorically condemns terrorism, repudiates all terrorist activity and has reiterated its commitment to fighting against that problem actively in all international forums. A fundamental expression of that policy has been the strengthening at the domestic and international levels of the legal norms aimed at preventing terrorist acts and the adoption of measures to intensify regional and global cooperation frameworks for the fight against that scourge. Those measures and norms are reflected in the various reports we have presented to the respective Security Council Committees as part of our consistent and responsible commitment to this struggle.”

    2007-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5679 (2007) · source