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Chaderton Matos

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2006-08-09
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2006-08-09
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  1. “The United Nations Charter was crafted in order to ensure respect and enjoyment of such principles and to pave the way to peace, not to allow war to prevail.”

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  2. “My country hopes that the General Assembly will be able to establish machinery, whereby nations that make contributions to promoting the development of African countries can present voluntary reports concerning their achievements. Venezuela reaffirms its concern for the well-being of our brothers and sisters, the peoples of Africa, which will only be possible if their most pressing needs are met in the framework of complete freedom and the full enjoyment of human rights. 06-46 124 At the same time, it is essential for the international community to give all the support requested in order to ensure that African nations have direct control over their political and economic processes, in keeping with the principle of the self- determination of peoples.”

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  3. “Now, we are freer, and we want to share our experiences. We must support the countries of West Africa in their democratic progress towards peace, respect for human rights and development. That requires continued commitment on the part of the international community. We encounter specific problems in West Africa, including poverty, famine, the spread of HIV/AIDS, the role of women, the reintegration of child soldiers and the trafficking of small arms and light weapons. Those issues need to be addressed together with the development of political democracy. We support the initiatives of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), launched by the African Union in 2001, which addressed the primary responsibilities of the peoples and Governments of Africa in defining their economic growth and their sustainable development.”

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  4. “We believe that, last year, we lost an important opportunity to reverse those trends when we failed to address the economic and social elements of the Goals adopted at the Millennium Summit. The Bolivarian Government of Venezuela is looking to the South for new responses to old questions that we have sought to resolve, questions imposed from the North. At present, we are developing projects such as Televisora del Sur (TeleSUR) to provide free and accurate information that will show the other side of the coin, as well as projects such as the Banco del Sur, the Universidad del Sur and Petrosur: areas in which African nations can work together with us. We are focusing priority attention on education, which is a basic tool for the liberation of peoples. UNESCO has verified that Venezuela is now free of illiteracy.”

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  5. “In Venezuela, we have established institutions such as the following: African Friendship House, created in an area with a large population of African descent; a regional study centre for African historical heritage; and an educational cooperation programme with Mali, which is open to grant-holders from that country. That is the practical, peaceful way in which we contribute to international peace and security. Extreme poverty is the greatest threat to peace. Half of the world's population survives on less than two dollars a day, and some 1.2 billion people live on barely one dollar. That is both a potential and a real source of political destabilization and social disintegration. Hunger and the lack of health care and education trigger violence which the most powerful have come to meet with the ultimate response of further violence: war.”

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  6. “We have moved forward in applying the principles of solidarity and complementarity through tangible, productive actions such as the signing of cooperation agreements with Benin, the Gambia, Libya, Mali and the Sudan, as well through measures in support of specific programmes in Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Mali and Niger. We have worked with the secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, to support the efforts of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cameroon, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Senegal and Togo. Further examples include our support for the programme for woman and young people in the Sahelian region; agreements on energy cooperation with Mali and Senegal; and tripartite education and health projects among Venezuela, Cuba and Africa, which are to be put in place by the end of this year.”

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  7. “In its process of historic democratic institutional and social change, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has deepened and broadened its relations with Africa based on a foreign policy that draws upon our African roots to develop a multi-ethnic and multicultural society. For us, rhetoric has been outpaced by events. In recent years, President Hugo Chavez and other high Venezuelan officials have frequently visited Africa. Thus far, we have more than doubled the number of Venezuelan embassies in the continent; we have created a unit within our Ministry for Foreign Affairs, headed by a Deputy Minister, dealing exclusively with that friendly and fraternal continent. This ideological, political and spiritual commitment was highlighted by the participation of our head of State in the African Union (AU) summit held at Bajul.”

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  8. “Mr. Chaderton Matos (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): We are pleased, Sir, to see you presiding over the work of the Security Council. Your country, Ghana, has been a pioneer in the history of liberation and the consolidation of Africa as a region of free States. Our commitment to international social justice and our sense of solidarity with our brothers and sisters of West Africa prompt us to support initiatives and programmes to enhance cooperation within the United Nations system, not only to eliminate real or potential causes of war but also to consolidate peace in the region: peace that will generate freedom, growth and justice - and Vice versa, in a virtuous circle. Lasting peace and sustainable development are complementary and mutually inclusive terms.”

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