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D0 Hung Viet

lines on the record: 7
first: 2014-08-21
most recent: 2014-08-21
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: un-security-council

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“The Security Council, together with other international and regional partners, could engage in promoting a culture of peace and proactive prevention, including by adhering to international law and common rules and norms and by taking concrete action under frameworks of dialogue and consultation. Only by doing so will we be able to live up to our task of saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war.”
2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source
“In doing so, coordination among the Council, the Secretary-General, the General Assembly and regional organizations should be further promoted for better information sharing and early warning for effective conflict prevention. The international community today is equipped with not a few tools, lessons and measures for effective conflict prevention. But the ultimate reason for a number of failures has been the lack of strategic trust among the parties concerned and the failure to understand that what the parties could have achieved by preventing and avoiding conflicts would far outweigh what they did after giving up chances for peace.”
2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source
“In that respect, over the past decades, the United Nations, including the Security Council, has played a critical role thanks to the creative and timely employment of the various mechanisms and tools available to it. Those include the important role of the Secretary- General and his special envoys, good offices missions, fact-finding missions, mediation, reconciliation and peacebuilding efforts, the employment of which in other parts of the world could be further studied. As a result, the growing workload at the United Nations related to conflict prevention can be interpreted as commensurate with the growing role accorded to the Organization. That can also be seen as an indication that more needs to be done by the United Nations, in which the primary responsibility is given to the Security Council, especially its permanent members.”
2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source
“In that connection, we welcome the related elements set out in the resolution adopted by the Council earlier today (resolution 2171 (2014)). Thirdly, basic principles must be translated into concrete actions. Parties related to inter-State and intra-State conflicts, bearing in mind the potential severe consequences of violence and coercion, should be supported to engage in sincere dialogue and other means of peaceful settlement. International and regional organizations should promote such efforts and facilitate efforts addressing the root causes of conflicts. Such crucial engagement, if conducted in the appropriate manner, could be conducive to more creative solutions to outstanding issues.”
2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source
“The use of force should no longer have any standing in the twenty-first century. Secondly, human progress since the end of the Second World War has provided us with strong institutions of peace, which we must hold dear and strongly promote. Faced with warning signs of inter-State and intra-State conflicts, including those related to territorial disputes, international law and its fundamental principles must be upheld, especially the principles of the peaceful settlement of disputes and respect for national sovereignty and territorial integrity. It should be stressed that, in the wake of discord and disagreement, the most important principle that the parties concerned must uphold is the need to accede to common international and regional rules and normative frameworks.”
2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source
“Many lessons were elaborated at the open debate in this very Chamber on war, its lessons and the search for permanent peace last January (see S/PV.7105), yet the fact is that only more simmering tensions and conflicts have broken out during the intervening months. It is therefore imperative to revisit the lessons learned and the measures for conflict prevention, and our delegation would like to touch upon the following. First, conflicts stem from the wishful thinking that the imposition of force from a position of strength will work, and from an ungrounded belief in power politics and its accompanying aggressive behaviour. History has, however, provided us with ample evidence that the use of force will only result in massive loss oflives and material destruction.”
2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source
“Mr. D0 Hung Viet (Viet Nam): Viet Nam commends the United Kingdom presidency for the initiative to hold today's open debate on conflict prevention. We appreciate the informative and insightful briefings by the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. My delegation aligns itself with the statement made by the representative of Iran on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. Our topic today is all the more pertinent in the wake of a number of crises that the world is watching with profound sorrow across the continents. Talk about conflict prevention, to some, could be seen as deja vu all over again. Nevertheless, time and again, the international community has to bear witness to numerous conflicts that, in hindsight, could have been averted or at least moderated.”
2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source