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2002-04-15

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1. “The addendum to the Madrid Guiding Principles and the key principles for the protection, repatriation, prosecution, rehabilitation and reintegration of women and children with links to United Nations-listed terrorist groups are excellent tools in that regard. I wish to conclude by reiterating Peru's unwavering commitment to preventing and combating terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, in particular through the actions able to be undertaken by the Council, which constitutes a forum for consensus that we must take advantage of and strengthen. I wish to make one final remark, if I may. As is well known, there is a particular concern in America regarding the establishment of, or links between, terrorist groups, transnational criminal organizations and the illegitimate regime of Nicolas Maduro.”

   2019-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8626 (2019) · source

2. “I would therefore like to highlight the recent adoption of resolution 2482 (2019), under Peru's presidency and leadership of the Council (see S/PV.8582), which addresses in particular the phenomena of terrorism and international organized crime and the links between them. The resolution justifies the role that regional and subregional organizations are called upon to play in the face of these challenges, including in the provision of technical assistance and helping States to strengthen their capacities. We also believe that every strategy must adopt a gender perspective, as some delegations have already mentioned, as well as focus on safeguarding the rights of children.”

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3. “We believe in that regard that the cooperation agreements that those organizations have signed with the Executive Directorate of the Counter-Terrorism Committee, as well as with the Office of Counter- Terrorism, are a useful practice. We would also like to commend the role of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia in coordinating those efforts in an effective manner. We thank those organizations for their role in diagnosing and developing a joint response to complex threats, based on an approach that acknowledges and is based on unique regional features, such as porous borders and transnational organized crime, which are a dangerous combination for the stability of Eurasia.”

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4. “Intensifying the fight against that scourge is crucial. That must be accompanied in turn by specific mechanisms that enable us to collectively prevent and combat the scourge. As some representatives have already said, it must be done with full respect for international law, human rights and fundamental freedoms. We listened carefully to the briefings. We would like as I said to congratulate the work conducted by those three regional organizations. We believe that they help uphold the international commitments of the States in their regions. We thank and support them in particular for their role in promoting the national implementation of the United Nations Global Counter- Terrorism Strategy and in ensuring adherence to Security Council resolutions.”

   2019-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8626 (2019) · source

5. “Mr. Balarezo (Peru) (spoke in Spanish): Allow me to thank Russia for convening today's important meeting, which is essentially a discussion about Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations. Latin American countries actively participated in developing that Chapter at the San Francisco Conference, which led to the establishment in 1948 of the Organization of American States, one of the first regional organizations with links to the United Nations through Chapter VIII. Today's discussion is very important in that context and we would commend it. We would also like to thank and congratulate the representatives of the three regional organizations for their very useful briefings. Today's meeting is important as I said because it addresses the issue of terrorism, which is one of the main threats to our States.”

   2019-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8626 (2019) · source

6. “Therefore, we must continue to provide to MINUSTAH all the necessary means so that, at the end of its mission, we will have a successful experience. A good sign for the future would be to establish a longer mandate period when MINUSTAH's mandate is renewed. In addition - and this is a fundamental aspect - we need to ensure that the funds pledged to Haiti are disbursed. In conclusion, we have the opportunity to create the conditions for a promising future in Haiti. And, as the Minister for Foreign Relations of Chile said, we must not fail in that effort.”

   2005-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5110Resumption1 (2005) · source

7. “Therefore, it is very important that MINUSTAH devote special attention not only to the humanitarian aspect, but also, and above all, to the dimension of long-term development. Haiti requires resolute support from the United Nations, the donor community and the international financial institutions. In its short period of existence, MINUSTAH - thanks to the troop contributors, the Mission authorities and the Security Council - has made progress in implementing its mandate, including the civil component, security and the preparation of the forthcoming elections. But additional efforts are needed in terms of contributing military and police staff, disarmament, stabilizing the political system and rebuilding Haiti.”

   2005-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5110Resumption1 (2005) · source

8. “Strengthening the judiciary is paramount. The political and institutional development of Haiti is closely linked to economic and social development. Therefore, it is essential to adopt a comprehensive, long-term strategy that will take into account the many challenges facing the country. Peru believes there must be a firm commitment on the part of the international community to the reconstruction and development of Haiti. Certainly, the Haitian Government has a basic responsibility to carry out the domestic efforts necessary to lay the foundations for sustained growth and poverty reduction. But the fact is that Haiti does not have the resources to address the great challenge of development on its own. Haiti requires international cooperation in terms of financial and technical assistance.”

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9. “However, in the case of Haiti, the insecurity arising from the persistence of illegal armed groups requires a special political and inclusive effort. We see that the consolidation of a sustainable security environment requires simultaneous action on various fronts, especially in the political, institutional and social development of the country. We must resolutely support the reconstruction of national capacities to strengthen the rule of law and the exercise of civil rights and to help the people overcome poverty. Peru is paying particular attention to the development and implementation of the electoral timetable planned for this year in Haiti. We also need a transparent, robust and independent judiciary. That will permit full respect for human rights and a resolute fight against impunity and corruption.”

   2005-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5110Resumption1 (2005) · source

10. “That is why we welcome the strong response from countries of the region in support of Haiti, which, in the specific case of Peru, is expressed in the contribution of a military contingent to MINUSTAH. But complex crises like the case of Haiti also highlight the new challenges to international security that confront the United Nations. Therefore, our commitment to international peace and security is regional, but it is also universal. That is why Peru participates in five peacekeeping operations in Africa and Cyprus. For Peru, restoring the Transitional Government's control over civil order throughout the country is a basic element of stability in Haiti; nothing is more important than that aspect.”

    2005-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5110Resumption1 (2005) · source

11. “Mr. Balarezo (Peru) (spoke in Spanish): At the outset, I want to congratulate Argentina on the leadership it has demonstrated in the presidency of the Security Council this month and also to congratulate it on this initiative, which enables us to specifically address a most important issue, which is one of the complex crises faced by the region. I should also like to welcome the presence of Juan Gabriel Valdes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), and to thank him for his report, which has informed us in greater detail about the progress made. As our heads of State reiterated at the Rio Group Summit last November, the stabilization, reconstruction and development of Haiti are regional priorities.”

    2005-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5110Resumption1 (2005) · source

12. “Therefore, to sum up, we propose the following: a code of conduct whereby, faced with the threat of genocide or crimes against humanity, permanent members of the Security Council would not exercise their right of veto to prevent intervention. Secondly, we propose that the United Nations have volunteer standby rapid deployment units to restore peace and prevent these domestic conflicts from becoming the setting for the most savage violations of human dignity.”

    2004-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4970Resumption1 (2004) · source

13. “The developed countries, the only ones able to provide significant financing for peacekeeping operations and their components, must also remember that it is better to invest in averting the collapse of States or in rebuilding States than in confronting global threats that are fed by these internal conflicts. For more than three decades, Peru has been participating in peacekeeping operations and is fully convinced that they are useful and needed. Our commitment was reinforced in November 2003 with the memorandum of understanding signed at Lima by the President of our republic and the Secretary-General on 11 November 2003. We also hope to contribute to the peacekeeping operation recently undertaken in Haiti. Ultimately, our contribution to this debate seeks to help ensure the success of these operations.”

    2004-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4970Resumption1 (2004) · source

14. “First, they must ensure sustainable good governance, as agreed in political agreements that bring together the parties to the conflict. Secondly, they must build a legal system that restores the rule of law, guarantees access to justice and protects human rights. And thirdly, they must establish conditions of security in order to ensure public order and make it possible for economic activity to be carried out. These tasks certainly lie outside the scope of this debate. Yet they are factors that are being incorporated- and must be reinforced - in the mandate of peacekeeping missions. The United Nations and its peacekeeping operations are an indispensable mechanism for peace-building and for rebuilding States that have collapsed.”

    2004-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4970Resumption1 (2004) · source

15. “Following the rapid deployment force should be a process of peace-building and rebuilding the State, in cases where it has collapsed. Reconciliation in such societies is a long and complex process of restoring the political and social fabric. This includes, most fundamentally, the creation of truly democratic institutions and the elimination of the scourge of social exclusion. Without tolerance and democracy and, most important, if social exclusion persists, poor societies will continue to harbour the seeds of conflict. Therefore, peacekeeping missions must not leave conflict situations prematurely. Missions must include multidimensional nation-building programmes and must remain in States until the foundations are laid for programmes that, at the least, ensure the following.”

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16. “As Sir Brian Urquhart, a former United Nations Under-Secretary-General, has said many times, without these effective, voluntary standby units, the United Nations cannot realistically deal with a world where peace is being destroyed not because of wars between States, but because of real domestic infernos that are exploding in poor countries, where nation- States collapse and become chaotic non-governmental entities, turning into real factories of crimes against humanity. In this regard, we must also support regional and subregional organizations in preventing conflicts and in carrying out peacekeeping operations. The experience of the United Nations should be made available to regional and subregional organizations and this link should be prioritized in the deployment of standby volunteer units.”

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17. “Often debates and negotiations in the Security Council delay the establishment of peacekeeping operations. Moreover, once they are approved, deployment can sometimes takes months. If we want the United Nations to really be able to take action quickly and avoid new tragedies, then we must move beyond the Brahimi recommendations. For that, troop- contributing countries should have units standing by, available to the Organization without conditions and with a pre-established mandate, to be immediately deployed.”

    2004-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4970Resumption1 (2004) · source

18. “In that regard, the five permanent members of the Security Council with the right to veto could agree, as part of a code of conduct, not to use the veto on matters related to peacekeeping operations, where there is a danger of genocide and crimes against humanity. As a counterpart to that code of conduct and to add substance, it would be agreed that the deployment of a peacekeeping mission would be requested by the Secretary-General at the request of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, of representative regional organizations or of a large group of countries. The idea is for the permanent members of the Council to cooperate in response to a request of the international community by not exercising their right to veto military interventions that could save thousands of lives.”

    2004-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4970Resumption1 (2004) · source

19. “The cases of Somalia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and the recent Rwandan genocide are clear examples of the United Nations inability to settle domestic conflicts. That situation is being corrected. The Security Council has organized peacekeeping operations in many countries where United Nations forces not only defend people, but where in many instances they are also mandated to intervene with force to avoid ethnic cleansing, mass human rights violations and genocide. Today we must embark on reform that consolidates and systematizes this tendency in peacekeeping operations. The strategic recommendations in the Brahimi report (S/2000/809) represent progress in that direction, but strong political measures must also be taken.”

    2004-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4970Resumption1 (2004) · source

20. “Those conflicts are truly domestic infernos where respect for the basic principles of humanity vanishes and civil war becomes tantamount to mass crime. These are the most common types of situations that United Nations peacekeeping operations face today. In the face of the enormous proliferation of domestic conflicts and crimes against humanity, the Organization has confined itself to launching humanitarian interventions. Instead of intervening militarily to protect civilians and disarm rival groups, the Blue Helmets provided access for humanitarian assistance. They protected humanitarian assistance, but they did not protect people against massacres. In other words, in a rather surrealistic manner, they were providing food, medicine and blankets to potential corpses.”

    2004-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4970Resumption1 (2004) · source

21. “Mr. Balarezo (Peru) (spoke in Spanish): Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate of the Security Council on a matter that is vital to the United Nations. This matter ultimately determines whether or not this Organization can promote and maintain peace. Accordingly, it requires deep political thinking on our part, rather than simply a technocratic approach. The United Nations was founded to avert international conflicts among Member States. Its big problem today is that most armed conflicts are not international, but rather are domestic, armed conflicts, intra-State conflicts. Since the end of the cold war, more than 33 civil conflicts have emerged in the developing world, leaving more than 5 million dead and almost 17 million refugees.”

    2004-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4970Resumption1 (2004) · source

22. “For that reason, it is very important to develop a programme that will strengthen awareness of human rights and their legal foundation and will ensure that the fight against terrorism is carried out with respect for the civil rights and political freedoms of all persons, including immigrants, as recognized in the various international instruments approved by all the members of the United Nations community. In conclusion, we are convinced that strengthening the Committee's work from the subregional and regional perspective is most welcome, and I believe it is a course of action that we should pursue.”

    2002-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4512Resumption1 (2002) · source

23. “Thirdly, the fight against terrorism could become an obstacle to trade and the free circulation of goods and services, not only by increasing costs but also by eroding the narrow profit margins of many poor economies. Certainly, this is an area that must be analysed in detail, and we must find the best ways to diminish such effects. We must avoid creating barriers to the normal transit of persons, goods and services, because that would run counter to the globalization process, which should unite peoples, not separate them. Finally, for Peru, victory over terrorism can be achieved only when democratic values, the rule of law and respect for human dignity prevail.”

    2002-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4512Resumption1 (2002) · source

24. “First, a programme for legal assistance to ensure that domestic laws are compatible with the 12 United Nations conventions concerning terrorism, as well as, of course, to ensure their effective implementation. For Peru, an appropriate juridical framework should also consider the obligations of States to prosecute, extradite, try and punish those engaged in terrorist acts. Secondly, a programme of "smart" borders that allows the strengthening of coordination and action in real time among agencies that control and police the cross-border movement of persons, goods and services. The use of new technologies and the experience of various countries in this sphere will be fundamental.”

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25. “This struggle requires deepening and widening the scope of technical and financial cooperation to many other areas, so that all countries of the Organization can truly control, suppress and defend themselves against terrorism. It also requires that we prevent the emergence of "hyper-terrorism" capable of mass destruction, the consequences of which are unimaginable. To that end, and in accordance with Security Council resolution 1377 (2001), Peru believes that the CTC, with the cooperation of other relevant entities and additional funding, could develop or promote an extensive cooperation programme with countries that so request. In our view, such international cooperation might include, inter alia, the following programmes.”

    2002-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4512Resumption1 (2002) · source

26. “The Counter-Terrorism Committee has taken decisive steps to confront the sources and means that enable this scourge of humanity to emerge, develop and operate. Progress has been made in preventing and repressing the funding of all types of international terrorism and collaboration with it. We must continue to make every effort until money laundering, drug trafficking and other transnational crimes no longer serve as the source of, or support for, terrorist acts. This should be our goal and we should not rest until it is accomplished. But a frontal attack against terrorism requires much more from the international community.”

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27. “Not long ago, during the holding of the Monterrey Summit - during which we sought new forms of cooperation to give momentum to development and to eradicate poverty - and just hours shy of the official visit of the President of the United States to my country, we in Peru were the victims of a serious terrorist attack that left behind the dark and ghostly shadow of destruction and suffering. That attack, like any other terrorist act that negates, in the most basic sense, the right to life, security, tranquil coexistence and peace, had no other effect than to reaffirm Peru's deepest conviction that it must combat terrorism using the weapons of international law, the rule of law and the supreme value of proper moral conduct.”

    2002-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4512Resumption1 (2002) · source

28. “Mr. Balarezo (Peru) (spoke in Spanish): First of all, Peru of course associates itself with the statement made by the Ambassador of Costa Rica on behalf of the member countries of the Rio Group. I would like to begin my statement by conveying Peru's satisfaction with the progress made to date by the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC). We believe that that progress is the direct result of the resolute leadership of Ambassador Sir Jeremy Greenstock and of his Vice-Chairmen. It is also due to the firm commitment of Member States like Peru that want to end this scourge.”

    2002-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4512Resumption1 (2002) · source