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Gallegos Chiriboga

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  1. “As the report notes, without doubt, a broad and solid framework enabling the international community to continue working to protect children affected by armed conflict is provided by the machinery relative to this question in the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, International Labour Organization Convention No. 182, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, the relevant provisions of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and of the Convention of the Rights of the Child and relevant Security Council resolutions.”

    2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

  2. “Mr. Gallegos Chiriboga (Ecuador) (spoke in Spanish): I should like at the outset to ask you, Sir, to convey to the Minister my country's gratitude for her presence in this Chamber, which is clear evidence of the high priority she attaches to this issue, which is of such importance to all of us. Let me express my country's gratitude to the Secretary-General for his clear and detailed report on children and armed conflict contained in document S/2003/1053, in which he gives us an update of the work done and achievements registered in this area. These achievements are very significant, and have, as the Secretary-General states in his report, been particularly notable since 1998 when the item on children and armed conflict was officially incorporated in the Council's agenda.”

    2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

  3. “The evil activities of terrorist networks have a profound and indiscriminate effect on the entire international community. We cannot remain passive before such a serious global threat. We must ensure peace and the peaceful co-existence that all peoples of the world desire.”

    2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source

  4. “Ecuador has done its utmost for the effective application of existing international norms relating to the prevention and suppression of terrorism, especially Security Council resolution 1373 (2001), for which it has developed a wide-ranging strategy that includes legislative, administrative, policing and other measures. At the same time, we are taking steps and exercising the necessary control with regard to the consolidated list prepared by the Security Council Committee established under resolution 1267 (1999). In this connection and on the occasion of the seventeenth Presidential Summit of the Rio Group in May, Ecuador committed itself to strengthening cooperation in the struggle against terrorism and has been participating in efforts within the Organization of American States and in the Andean Community to this end.”

    2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source

  5. “Faithful to these beliefs and principles, as well as to its international commitments, the Government of Ecuador has in the past year complied with article 18, paragraph 13, of the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime relating to the appointment of a central authority and has promulgated the text of the Convention so that it will be a part of our national legal code. Similarly, on 25 February 2003, the Ecuadorian Government ratified the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism.”

    2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source

  6. “We reiterate in this forum our appeal to all peoples who hold dear peace and the peaceful solution of conflicts to overcome their differences and to join efforts in the interest of the common good and of international peace, security and concord, with a view to securing a present imbued with progress, development and peaceful co-existence and guaranteeing for coming generations a future in which respect, tolerance, dignity of the human being reign supreme.”

    2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source

  7. “As I said yesterday to the Sixth Committee, several years have elapsed and lengthy discussions have taken place on measures to eliminate international terrorism and on the drafts of the comprehensive convention on international terrorism and the international convention for the suppression of acts of nuclear terrorism. They have been analysed yet again in recent days, but, for various reasons, it is not yet possible to guarantee their viability.”

    2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source

  8. “It is therefore of paramount importance that the international community be fully aware that these harsh daily realities of developing countries are also a threat to world security, since they cause the loss of thousands of human lives around the world every day. Thus, the international community must, concurrent with its frontal attack on terrorism, undertake a broad and concerted global strategy to promote development and improve the standards of living of the great majority of the world's population and develop dialogue and tolerance among human beings as well as among States.”

    2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source

  9. “The perpetrators, accomplices and dissimulators, in making violence and terror their way of life, claim to justify their acts by wrongly attaching to them some kind of foundation or principle, some ideological, religious or other singularity. However, my delegation also wishes to point out to this body that hunger, unhealthy conditions, poverty, great economic disparities, failure to respect human rights, corruption, the handling of divergencies and conflicts in non-peaceful ways and the overwhelming external debt burden are all sources of international instability and insecurity. They undermine governability and destabilize democratic institutions.”

    2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source

  10. “We must adopt legislation against those acts and penalize them more severely to prevent them from taking innocent life, causing enormous material damage and affecting sociopolitical and economic structures of the international community to satisfy the perverse and execrable purposes of their masterminds. My delegation wished to say this because, while we frequently bury ourselves in long and unfruitful etymological or conceptual discussions, men, women and children in every corner of the world - defenceless, innocent people - continue to be the victims of these unacceptable, indiscriminate and, from any point of view, unjustified terrorist acts.”

    2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source

  11. “We are therefore firmly convinced that this global threat must be dealt with firmly, in a concerted manner and with all the ways and means that international and national law make available to States. My delegation would like once again to reiterate its categorical condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and calls on the international community to redouble its efforts to seek the necessary consensus, with a view to giving the international community a sufficiently broad multilateral legal framework for the global fight against terrorism, while at the same time preserving the fundamental rights and dignity of human beings.”

    2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source

  12. “Ecuador believes in respect for the rule of law, international solidarity, tolerance and full respect for human rights, as well as in the immutable ethical and moral principles by which we should abide in the context of relations among human beings and States. On the basis of the principles and values to which the Ecuadorian nation firmly adheres, we are a strong champion of the Charter of the United Nations. Ecuador wishes to reiterate to the Security Council and to the international community its strongest support for the any initiative or action undertaken to fight international terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. However, such action should always be undertaken in the framework of the United Nations, which has a central role to play as the premier multilateral body ensuring respect for international law and human rights.”

    2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source

  13. “Accordingly, my delegation deems it appropriate that its voice be heard concerning one of the most serious and acute problems facing us today - a problem that is disrupting the equilibrium, peace, concord and security of the planet, rending the socio- political fabric and undermining financial architecture and State security - that is to say, the problem of terrorism in all its manifestations and ramifications, with all its linkages to a broad range of illicit activities. My delegation endorses the statement made by the representative of Peru in his capacity as coordinator of the Rio Group in New York. I wish, however, to make our voice heard, because Ecuador is an ally of those peace-loving nations that aspire to the peaceful solution of disputes.”

    2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source

  14. “Mr. Gallegos Chiriboga (Ecuador) (spoke in Spanish): Let me at the outset commend Ambassador Arias for his leadership and thank him for his report. I welcome this opportunity for my delegation to address this body of the United Nations, and I appreciate it even more because it is rare for non-members of the Security Council to be able to address this body to express their concerns or views on the most important problems facing the international community as a whole.”

    2003-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4845Resumption1 (2003) · source

  15. “We hope that it will continue and that the necessary efforts and actions will be stepped up in order to ensure that the world can truly become a place fit for children.”

    2003-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4684Resumption1 (2003) · source

  16. “Ecuador wishes to note the list included in the Secretary-General's report, at the request of the Security Council, of the parties to armed conflict that recruit or use child soldiers, in violation of applicable international obligations. This is an important development, through which we no longer speak in general terms concerning the brutal realities that exist in various regions and fully identified areas. Instead, we are identifying specific parties, which will allow us to encourage State and non-State actors involved to alter their behaviour and to adhere to the basic norms of human rights and international humanitarian law. Although much remains to be done, the progress noted by the Secretary-General in his report on the issue of protecting children in armed conflict, while limited, is praiseworthy.”

    2003-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4684Resumption1 (2003) · source

  17. “Therefore, the international community must accord high priority to the situation through the implementation of better concrete measures to guarantee children's most fundamental rights and to mitigate and prevent the pernicious effects that armed conflicts have on them. In his report, the Secretary-General also emphasizes the problems related to child soldiers. Nothing is more inhuman and more contrary to the highest values of any society than the fact that, instead of toys, children are forced or permitted to handle instruments of death; that human beings, in the earliest stages of their existence, are dragged into violence, confrontation and destruction. The solution to this problem must, of course, be a United Nations priority.”

    2003-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4684Resumption1 (2003) · source

  18. “We also welcome the progress that has been made in the incorporation of the issue of the protection of children as an essential component of the work of peacemaking, peace-building and peacekeeping. One of the saddest and most tragic realities that we see in various parts of the world today is the unspeakable suffering experienced by the innocent and most helpless victims of society - children - as a result of armed conflicts. The report of the Secretary- General describes that intolerable reality, including the risks to which children are exposed as a result of landmines, unexploded ordnance and small arms and light weapons. It also discusses the serious situation of displaced children and the exploitation and abuses of every kind to which children are exposed.”

    2003-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4684Resumption1 (2003) · source

  19. “Other important advances in that sphere are the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, as well as the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which ensures that the gravest significant crimes for the international community - among which are crimes committed specifically against children - will not go unpunished. The strengthening of international law in that sphere, respect for it and effective application of it are indispensable in order to guarantee the necessary protection for children, especially in the light of the persistence of conflicts of all kinds in various regions of the world.”

    2003-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4684Resumption1 (2003) · source

  20. “It is also important to highlight - as the Secretary-General did in his report - the adoption by the General Assembly of the document "A world fit for children", annexed to resolution S-27/2, in which the Assembly agreed on a renewed commitment to protect children during armed conflicts, in accordance with international humanitarian law and human rights law. The Security Council resolutions in that area and effective compliance with them are also important means to contribute to that objective.”

    2003-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4684Resumption1 (2003) · source

  21. “We express our congratulations to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict on his valuable initiatives and on the commitments reached in various countries in order to ensure the protection and well-being of children during and after conflicts, as well as compliance with obligations arising from international law. We encourage the Special Representative to continue to undertake all necessary efforts, in coordination with the competent bodies, to achieve increasingly significant results and commitments.”

    2003-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4684Resumption1 (2003) · source

  22. “Mr. Gallegos Chiriboga (Ecuador) (spoke in Spanish): It is an honour to speak before you, Sir, representative of a friendly country such as France. At the same time, I should like to express my delegation's congratulations to the former President of the Council, the representative of Colombia, on his excellent work during his tenure. I should also like to congratulate the representatives of Angola, Chile, Germany, Pakistan and Spain, who have just joined the Council. First of all, I should like to express Ecuador's gratitude to the Secretary-General for his new and important report on children and armed conflict (S/2002/1299), in which he presents an account of activities undertaken and progress achieved related to that crucial issue during the period of the report.”

    2003-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4684Resumption1 (2003) · source

  23. “As we did previously in Geneva, on the occasion of the presentation of the report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, I wish to affirm emphatically Ecuador's rejection of violations of human rights in the region. Finally, I wish to express Ecuador's endorsement of statements on this issue by the Rio Group and the Non-Aligned Movement.”

    2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source

  24. “Ecuador especially welcomes the United States Government's dispatch to the region of a delegation at the highest level, led by Secretary of State Colin Powell. Ecuador recognizes Israel's right to live within secure and recognized borders, according to international law, as well as the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to establish their own State, in accordance with United Nations resolutions. As a multicultural and multi-ethnic country, Ecuador calls on Israel and Palestine to renounce violence in favour of relations of tolerance and respect for ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. Ecuador expresses special concern at the military operations being carried out at holy sites.”

    2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source

  25. “The Government of Ecuador considers that these resolutions provide the legal and political elements that can bring about the resumption of peace negotiations along the lines provided for in the Tenet plan and the Mitchell recommendations. In this context, the Government of Ecuador reiterates the appeal for peace made by President Gustavo Noboa in his notes of 5 December 2001 addressed to the Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, and to the President of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat. In his messages, President Noboa invoked the need to find a peaceful, lasting and equitable solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Ecuador supports the initiatives of the United Nations, the European Union, the Russian Federation and the United States towards a negotiated settlement of the conflict.”

    2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source

  26. “Mr. Gallegos Chiriboga (Ecuador) (spoke in Spanish): First of all, I would like to congratulate the Security Council on holding this open debate on the serious situation in the Middle East. The Government of the Republic of Ecuador, deeply concerned over the escalating violence in the Middle East, supports the international community's appeal for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from occupied territories and the immediate cessation of acts of violence on both sides, which, as we know, have caused so many innocent victims, in particular among the civilian population. Ecuador, convinced that the only way of solving disputes is through peaceful negotiation, expresses its full support for recently adopted Security Council resolutions 1397 (2002), 1402 (2002) and 1403 (2002).”

    2002-04-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510Resumption1 (2002) · source