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Decerega Smith

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1996-08-15
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1996-08-15
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  1. “On behalf of the Government of Panama, I reaffirm our readiness to contribute our determination and resources to bring about the elimination of anti-personnel land-mines and to ensure that the complete eradication of these horrible tools of suffering is a goal we reach as soon as possible. My delegation endorses the statement made by the representative of Nicaragua, who spoke on behalf of the countries of Central America.”

    1996-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3689 (1996) · source

  2. “My delegation sees in that statement a firm promise to carry out efforts of all kinds, including legal and financial efforts, and we hope that will be the case. A few days ago we learned of the seven-point action programme on anti-personnel land-mines presented by Mr. Klaus Kinkel, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, on 18 June 1996. The seventh point of the German programme was by way of a supplementary invitation to today's Security Council meeting, to which Panama is happy to respond by means of the present statement. We note important efforts on the part of a number of countries to engage in a task that should involve us all. At the risk of omissions, I want to thank the European Union, Canada, the United States of America, Japan, New Zealand, Pakistan, Australia, Uruguay, Colombia and Argentina.”

    1996-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3689 (1996) · source

  3. “My delegation wishes to put on record that the Government of Panama agrees with those who favour the total prohibition of the production, export and use of anti-personnel land- mines. The General Assembly of the Organization of American States, which met in Panama some three months ago, adopted a resolution supporting mine clearance in Central America; we hope that the General Assembly of the United Nations will echo that position at its forthcoming fifty-first session. In May 1996, the European Union, through its then Chairman-in-Office, the delegation of Italy, expressed the conviction that "it is constant, broad and persistent efforts that are needed to achieve all the fundamental humanitarian goals".”

    1996-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3689 (1996) · source

  4. “Whether or not one agrees with that interpretation, my delegation considers that the story illustrates many dimensions of the problem of the existence of so many millions of anti-personnel land- mines at the end of the twentieth century, despite the firm hope that we all share that the will for peace and cooperation for development can prevail in international relations. Last May the revised Protocol II on land-mines was adopted as part of the 1981 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects. The provisions of that Protocol and the restrictions it sets out are insufficient.”

    1996-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3689 (1996) · source

  5. “Boutros Boutros-Ghali, in "An Agenda for Peace" and in the Agenda for Development. One historian of the Spanish colonization of the Americas relates that at one point the political and military authorities of the people indigenous to an area colonized by the Spaniards took the decision to make no more poisoned arrows. It was the view of that historian that the fields of battle against the colonizers and against enemy tribes were littered with poisoned arrow-heads, which posed a particular threat to the indigenes, who went barefoot.”

    1996-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3689 (1996) · source

  6. “This threat poses a challenge to the human intellect: that of dealing with this senseless situation and eliminating the land-mines, whose existence in more than 65 countries is cause for shock - and the cause of pain and death. This situation, which is repugnant to human logic, must be eliminated. Many in the United Nations, on many occasions, have denounced anti-personnel land-mines and have called for international cooperation for rapid, urgent, effective and complete demining. During today's debate in this Chamber, speakers have also stressed the relationship between the issue of anti-personnel land- mines, political disarmament issues, humanitarian issues, and development issues. That relationship has also been sharply underscored by the Secretary-General, Mr.”

    1996-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3689 (1996) · source

  7. “Ms. Decerega Smith (Panama) (interpretation from Spanish): I am grateful to you, Sir, for your initiative in convening this meeting of the Security Council. The delegation of Panama sees today's debate as a good opportunity to express its support for including the question of anti-personnel land-mines in the consideration of peace-keeping, in both conceptual and operational terms. It is an urgent duty for us to consider and act upon the problem of land-mines. The ongoing threat on lands that are no longer a battlefield is that at any time land- mines can explode and claim men, women, children and the elderly as their victims: civilians one and all, who are defenceless and unaware of the threat to their lives.”

    1996-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3689 (1996) · source