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  1. “As the representative of Chile said, globalization has empowered them. But by using these same instruments to deal with all of those crimes, using the network that was created in the Convention to fight corruption, and using them against drug trafficking and terrorism, I believe that we are developing an approach that might be interesting. We are also very much bearing in mind the regional organizations within the OAS area. The Caribbean has its own organization, and we are working on financial aspects in the Caribbean. We have also worked in Central America, which has a treaty on security and democracy. In MERCOSUR, the Andean area, they have their own concerns. I believe there is a set of elements there that might be of interest to other regional organizations.”

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  2. “Moreover, and in conclusion, I understand that the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and Other Related Materials is something on which Mexico has already taken the initiative by sharing its experiences with other countries. But our organization is also doing something very interesting: we are harmonizing instruments related to fighting drug trafficking, to border control, to money laundering and to financial structures and are creating databases that can serve all countries and can be accessed by them - there, we have had some pilot experiences. But we are harmonizing legal and judicial cooperation being worked out through annual meetings of Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General so as to tackle the various types of crime that are now so widespread.”

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  3. “I know that that cannot be done in every case, but in the Americas it has been possible to take that approach. I also believe that it could be an important experience for other organizations. On the subject of terrorism, at the meeting held here in the Security Council we committed ourselves to cooperating with other regional organizations and with the United Nations to follow up on what was said here and on our discussion on the experiences of various organizations. We are fully prepared to have such a follow-up meeting within the inter-American system.”

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  4. “I also believe that, in the inter-American system, we have mechanisms for the settlement of disputes - already used for many decades - that could be useful for other regions, especially since we in the inter-American system do not call for the use of force; we are totally committed to the peaceful settlement of disputes. That is our fundamental focus, and I believe that we have achieved some important results. We also have had some post-conflict experiences, and I should like to mention one that other regional organizations could explore at some point: using only civilian personnel to deal with post-conflict solutions. After the confrontations and the domestic conflict that took place in Nicaragua, an OAS mission was able to demobilize 22,000 armed personnel using only civilian staff.”

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  5. “In the Americas, when we deal with offenses of organized crime, there is also a series of aspects that are involved in such cooperation. For example, we have problems related to banking secrecy and to the right of asylum. There are a great number of aspects that can maintain legitimacy - a prerequisite for their effectiveness - only if they are regulated by a convention or by a treaty. Naturally, all the countries of the OAS respect and are committed to Security Council resolution 1373 (2001). That is the principle on which we are working: full acceptance of that resolution.”

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  6. “I believe that we in the Organization of American States (OAS) have had some experiences that can be of use to other regional organizations. Specifically, for example, in the area of terrorism, we have made significant progress since 11 September 2001 and have created a general environment of cooperation. We have agreed on a convention, already ratified by a large number of States, whose fundamental focus has been on cooperation and on accepting the definitions arising from United Nations conventions. We have spent our energy on trying to define, not terrorism, but rather the fundamental and critical aspects of cooperation. When norms take the form of treaties, political legitimacy is greatly enhanced in States.”

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  7. “To that end, in order to give effect to such instruments, we have scheduled a security conference to take place in Mexico in May. I conclude by once again extending our thanks to the Foreign Minister of Mexico for having organized and convened this meeting. I also thank the Secretary- General, for whom we in the Organization of American States have the greatest respect.”

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  8. “We have worked on a variety of problems, in some cases to ensure that confidence-building measures are respected when cases are referred to the International Court of Justice or arbitration machinery, as in the case of Honduras and Nicaragua. We have also acted as facilitator in negotiations between countries, such as those recently held between Belize and Guatemala. I wish to note that we are working primarily through peaceful means to prevent conflicts. We have made progress with our traditional instrument, the Inter-American Treaty on Reciprocal Assistance, which was invoked in the case of the attack against the United States. A series of instruments constitutes our framework for dealing with the new generation of security threats that has arisen since the end of the cold war.”

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  9. “We have worked intensively in recent months on the destruction of mines held by armed forces. About 500,000 of these have been destroyed this year in Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Peru. In Peru and Ecuador, we are also working on associated problems. Since 1994, we have been convening Meetings of Defense Ministers of the Americas. This is a standing instrument designed to address the question of confidence-building measures, white papers on defence and compliance with the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms and our own registers. We have a convention on transparency in strategic arms. We have managed to create a climate of trust, transparency and predictability. In the past few years, we have also considered the issue of conflict prevention.”

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  10. “The purpose of these Meetings is to address threats of a non-military nature and crimes committed by transnational organizations. This has all been developed on the basis of legal and judicial cooperation among the countries of the Americas, which is allowing us to tackle a number of different problems, including corruption. Over the past 15 years, moreover, we in the inter- American system have learned to cope with the problem of anti-personnel landmines before it became of worldwide concern. We have been working on this issue since 1991 and have largely succeeded in our demining tasks in the Central American republics following the lengthy conflicts of the 1980s. Peace now prevails there and we have managed to demine most of those countries, although some, such as Nicaragua, have a little way to go.”

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  11. “I also wish to note that, in the inter-American system, we have autonomous human rights institutions, including the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. These have made a significant contribution in addressing human rights problems, especially under military dictatorships. In more recent times, they have assisted in protecting a new generation of rights. With respect to the problems of illicit arms trafficking and manufacturing, with Mexico's assistance we now have the first regional convention on illicit arms trafficking, which is fully in force. In the Americas, we have also developed an instrument that we regard as particularly important: the Meetings of Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General of the Americas.”

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  12. “Today, there exists more trust, a common language and a series of strategies that take into account all aspects of drug use and production. I believe that we have eliminated much of the confrontational language that prevailed in our hemisphere and have replaced it with a language of cooperation. In connection with money laundering, we have broad regional experience in addressing its connections to terrorism, as well as links with other organizations, such as the Inter-American Bank, that have cooperated closely with us. We have been able to develop training for financial intelligence units. In particular, we have received assistance from the European Union and such countries as Spain, France, Canada and the United States. That has been quite useful in enabling us to tackle this kind of non-military challenge.”

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  13. “When those incidents occurred, we were able to rapidly create a secretariat and actively work on a series of issues, which we had the opportunity to explain here. We put particular emphasis on cooperation to deal with problems of a financial nature. In doing that, we were able to take advantage of an institution within our organization: the Inter-American Drug Control Commission. It gave us the ability to work especially on issues such as money laundering. In that case, it was possible to use those structures and mechanisms to tackle the problems of terrorism. As I said, we tackled the problem of drug trafficking within the framework of the Commission I mentioned. First, we formulated a strategy among all countries of the Americas. Then we created a multilateral evaluation mechanism.”

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  14. “Today we can say that the principal challenges to security in the Americas lie in non-military threats. In the Americas of today, our principal problems are terrorism, drug trafficking and the illicit trade in arms. Further, in the Caribbean States, natural disasters constitute the greatest challenge to regional security. Faced with such non-military challenges, we have created a series of regional instruments. A few months ago, we had the opportunity to come before the Security Council to describe how we are dealing with the problem of terrorism in the Americas and how the events of 11 September 2001 have led us to be relatively well-prepared. Over the last decade, we held two conferences to combat terrorism. We created plans of action. We established a committee against terrorism in the Americas.”

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  15. “We have ensured that the defence of democracy and the protection of human rights are compatible with the principles enshrined in the Charter: non-intervention, self- determination, the legal equality of States, respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity and, above all, the peaceful settlement of disputes. As well, simultaneously, in particular in the 1990s, we worked on a series of conferences on confidence- and security-building measures that have greatly assisted us in eradicating many regional disputes. That has also enabled a process of integration based on regional instruments and on a process of integration at the hemispheric level, which we are seeking through trade. We are resolving many of the regional differences and disputes.”

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  16. “In the Americas, in just over a century, since 1890, we have succeeded in creating a number of political institutions and instruments that have enabled us, in general, to preserve peace and security, although we had some problems during the cold war. We achieved that by constructing instruments that have helped us fundamentally in achieving the peaceful settlement of disputes. Especially over the last decade, we have achieved a good amount of reconciliation on how to make the defence of democracy the pillar of peace and security in our hemisphere.”

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  17. “I wish to express my thanks to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mexico, President of the Security Council, for the invitation extended to the Organization of American States. Without doubt, this meeting is timely because we have recently seen that peace and security cannot be achieved in isolation but require decisions, sustained political will, resources and sacrifice. We in the Organization of American States have assumed the responsibilities set out in Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter, which grants regional organizations responsibility for the maintenance of peace. For us, that includes the task of preventing local disputes from becoming international crises.”

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