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Arias Senchez

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  1. “There are a number of speakers remaining on my list for this meeting. In View of the lateness of the hour, I intend, with the concurrence of members of the Council, to suspend the meeting until 3 p.m. The meeting was suspended at 12.50 p.m. 27”

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  2. “Maintaining peace will never be a simple task, nor will it ever be completed. But, I assure you that strengthening multilateralism, reducing military spending in favour of human development and regulating the international arms trade are steps in the right direction, the same as that marked out 63 years ago by those who, having survived atrocities, were nonetheless able to hope. I resume my function as President of the Council. I now give the floor to His Excellency Renan Fuentealba, Special Envoy of the President of Chile and Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies.”

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  3. “We are working to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger and, yet, armed conflicts constitute the principal cause of hunger in our world. We are working to improve health care, particularly maternal health and the fight against AIDS and malaria. Yet, military spending drains millions of dollars from the health-care budgets of poor countries. The Millennium Development Goals were brave words, but they will never be more than words if we do not regulate arms or devise incentives to reduce global military spending. Humanity can break the chain that, until now, has forced us to spend our centuries in an incessant and fratricidal struggle. That was the belief of those who founded this Organization. The enormous mission entrusted to this Council is not a failed expectation, but it is a rocky path.”

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  4. “But my country also knows that those nations have recognized terrorism and drug trafficking as serious threats to international security. International organized crime depends on arms trafficking, which until now has flowed with terrifying freedom across our borders, with the result that these same powerful nations suffer the consequences. Although the treaty would not eliminate the existence of such criminal groups, it would certainly limit their operations. If we do not succeed with these measures, if the Costa Rica Consensus does not win the support of developed nations and if the arms trade treaty sinks in the waters of this organization, our pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals will become nothing more than the impossible dream of a world that, like Sisyphus, labours without rest towards an unattainable goal.”

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  5. “This treaty seeks to prohibit the sale of arms to States, groups or individuals, when there is sufficient reason to believe that they will be used to violate human rights or international law. I do not know how much longer we can survive unless we realize that it is just as terrible to kill many people, little by little, every day, as it is to kill many people in a single day. The destructive power of the 640 million small arms and light weapons that exist in the world, 74 per cent of which are in the hands of civilians, has proven to be more lethal than that of nuclear weapons and constitutes one of the principal motors of national and international insecurity. Costa Rica knows that the members of this Council include some of the countries that top the list for the sale and purchase of small arms and light weapons in the world.”

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  6. “That is why my Government has presented the Costa Rica Consensus, an initiative to create mechanisms to forgive debts and support with international financial resources those developing countries which increase spending on environmental protection, education, healthcare and housing for their people and decrease spending on weapons and soldiers. In other words, this initiative seeks to reward developing countries, whether poor or middle-income, that divert increasingly fewer of their economic and human resources to the purchase of arms, just as stipulated in Article 26 of the Charter of the United Nations. Today, I ask members for their support in making the Consensus of Costa Rica a reality. I also ask members for their support for the arms trade treaty that Costa Rica, along with other nations, presented to the United Nations in 2006.”

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  7. “With the money that some developing nations spend on a single combat plane, they could buy 200,000 MIT Media Lab computers for students with limited resources. With the money they spend on a single helicopter, they could pay $100 monthly grants for a whole year to 5,000 students at risk of dropping out of school. The perverse logic that impels a poor nation to spend excessive sums on its armies and not on meeting the needs ofits people is exactly the antithesis of human security and is ultimately a serious threat to international security.”

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  8. “Costa Rica will work along these lines during the coming year as a way to generate an environment that allows for the gradual reduction of military spending. Ours is an unarmed nation but it is not a naive nation. We have not come here to lobby for the abolition of all armies. We have not even come to urge the drastic reduction of world military spending, which has now reached $3.3 billion a day - which is shameful. But a gradual reduction is not only possible, but also imperative, in particular for developing nations. I am well aware that neither this Organization nor this Council nor any of its Members can decide how much other countries spend on arms and soldiers. But we can decide how much international aid they receive and on which principles such aid is based.”

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  9. “But in that place there also rests the possibility of reviving that intention; of giving it the meaning intended by those who precede us in this struggle. "The least diversion of resources" means, first and foremost, finding alternatives to excessive military spending that do not damage security. One of those alternatives is to strengthen multilateralism. As long as nations do not feel protected by strong regional organizations with real powers to act, they will continue to arm themselves at the expense of their peoples' development - of the poorest, in particular - and at the expense of international security. The Security Council must support, as a guarantor of collective security, multilateral accords adopted in our various regional organisms.”

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  10. “It makes a statement of which this Council must take note, to the fullest extent of its meaning: spending on arms is a diversion of human and economic resources; that is to say, a use that is not correct. As a minimum, the Charter asks us to accept that excessive military spending exacts an infinite cost in opportunity. These are not the delusions of a citizen of the first country in history to abolish its army and declare peace on the world. They are not the dreams of a Nobel Peace laureate. This is the text that holds up this building. It is the text that justifies any action of this Security Council. Article 26 has been, until now, a dead letter in the vast cemetery of intentions for world peace.”

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  11. “In 1945, with the smoke still clearing after the worst war in human memory, the founders of this Organization wrote in Article 26 of the Charter of the United Nations: "In order to promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world's human and economic resources, the Security Council shall be responsible for formulating, with the assistance of the Military Staff Committee referred to in Article 47, plans to be submitted to the Members of the United Nations for the establishment of a system for the regulation of armaments." The wording of that Article is no accident.”

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  12. “There lies the reason for the creation of this Security Council: in the search for solutions to the endless battle within the human species, fed by the frenzy of the arms race. It is unlikely that any organization has ever been set a more ambitious task than that. And it is unlikely that any organization has faced more difficult choices. Many of those dilemmas remain to be resolved but their answer can be found, without a doubt, in the content of the Charter of the United Nations.”

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  13. “I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the representative of Costa Rica. A curious tale from Scandinavian mythology tells of two kings condemned to fight one another for eternity. If one succeeded in killing the other, the Victim would rise again to continue their struggle until the last day of the world. The story has several versions, but, in all of them, the kings and their armies are revived each morning with new weapons, ready to take to the field of battle once more. This fantasy, product of a warrior culture, became a painful premonition of the events that would mark, with blood, the history of the twentieth century: an escalation of weapons, enemies, threats and war that ended the lives of hundreds of millions of people and forced us into the trenches of international insecurity.”

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  14. “I thank Mr. Duarte for his statement. In accordance with the understanding reached among Council members, I wish to remind all speakers to limit their statements to no more than five minutes in order to enable the Council to carry out its work expeditiously. Delegations with lengthy statements are kindly requested to circulate the written text and to deliver a condensed version when speaking in the Chamber. I am pleased to welcome the presence in the Council table of the Vice-President and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Panama, His Excellency Mr. Samuel Lewis-Navarro. I invite him to take the floor. 3”

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  15. “It 08-60919 would appear that the time has come for us to recognize the link that exists between the squandering of resources on arms and the need for those resources to advance us to greater levels of human development. This is what we must do after having recognized that peace and security, development and human rights are the pillars of this Organization and the basis of our collective security and wellbeing. Today we need to go beyond words. The dialogue that we are starting now must lead us to action. At this meeting, the Security Council will hear a statement on behalf of the Secretary-General by Mr. Sergio Duarte, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. I invite Mr. Duarte to take the floor.”

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  16. “Among them is the strengthening of both regional and global multilateral mechanisms and, without a doubt, arms control and regulation. The dialogue that we are proposing today should not be an isolated event in the struggle to build better well-being. We must begin on a path of reflection and action which will bring us to a more rational use of available resources and, without undermining security, will ensure greater development. This is a particularly opportune moment. On one hand, arms races are developing in many situations around the world. On the other hand, there are the crises that afflict us. The food crisis, the environmental crisis, the energy crisis and the economic crisis are impeding efforts to improve the lives of those who are condemned to poverty, ignorance and ill-health.”

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  17. “Costa Rica has convened this thematic debate on strengthening collective security and arms regulation with the objective of considering what is contained in Article 26 of the Charter. That Article gives to the Security Council the express mandate of promoting the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world's economic and human resources. We must take action to achieve this noble objective. I believe that we have the obligation to reflect upon the role entrusted to this Council to promote international peace and security. And I believe that this is an opportune moment to consider the instruments that can be used to achieve those objectives.”

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  18. “In accordance with the understanding reached in the course of the Council's prior consultations, I shall take it that the Security Council agrees to extend an invitation, under rule 39 of its provisional rules of procedure, to Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations. There being no objection, it is so decided. I invite the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to take the seat reserved for him at the side of the Council Chamber. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I wish to draw the Council's attention to document 8/2008/697, containing a letter dated 10 November 2008 from the Permanent Representative of Costa Rica, transmitting a concept paper on the item under consideration.”

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  19. “Renan Fuentealba, Special Envoy of the President of Chile. At the invitation of the President, the representatives of the aforementioned countries took the seats reservedfor them at the side of the Council Chamber. The President (spoke in Spanish): In accordance with the understanding reached in the course of the Council's prior consultations, I shall take it that the Security Council agrees to extend an invitation, under rule 39 of its provisional rules of procedure, to Mr. Sergio Duarte, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. There being no objection, it is so decided. I invite Mr. Duarte to take a seat at the Council table.”

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  20. “I should like to inform the Council that I have received letters from the representatives of Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Qatar, Spain, Switzerland and the United Republic of Tanzania, in which they request to be invited to participate in the consideration of the item on the Council's agenda. In conformity with the usual practice, I propose, with the consent of the Council, to invite those representatives to participate in the consideration without the right to vote, in accordance with the relevant provision of the Charter and rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure. There being no objection, it is so decided. On behalf of the Council, I extend a warm welcome to His Excellency Mr.”

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