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Giraldo

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2003-02-20
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  1. “We also urged the international community to contribute to the objective of opening up new progress and development opportunities for the Iraqi people, in a democratic environment and with full guarantees of their fundamental rights and freedoms. That was stated by President Uribe Velez when, in a message to the Colombian people, he said, "International action must protect civilians and respect the democratic rights of the people of Iraq". It is essential that the Security Council and the United Nations take up the issue of Iraq to provide the assistance required by the people in terms of humanitarian aid and the rebuilding of the country. We must prevent a humanitarian catastrophe, brought about by hunger, that might arise in the coming weeks.”

    2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source

  2. “Mr. Giraldo (Colombia) (spoke in Spanish): Colombia decided to speak in this open debate because of the obvious urgency of providing to the Iraqi people, as soon as possible, the humanitarian assistance that it requires at this difficult time. Leaving aside considerations about what occurred in the Security Council and on the international stage during the past three weeks, the Government of Colombia believes that what is fundamental today is that we try to prevent the past from distorting our current and future obligations, which are to make less difficult the conditions in which the Iraqi people are living and, later, to work on rebuilding the nation. In a communique dated 17 March, Colombia urged the United Nations to provide the Iraqi people with the humanitarian assistance required at every stage of this crisis.”

    2003-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726 (2003) · source

  3. “Their offers of dialogue, peace, disarmament and peaceful settlement of the conflict were mere rhetoric to camouflage the worst of intentions. Peace is a desideratum - something that has value in and of itself. But on certain occasions, in order to achieve it, we should not confuse it with appeasement and with the illusion of the easy way out, but we should work instead to overcome misunderstandings and choose the difficult but correct path.”

    2003-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717Resumption1 (2003) · source

  4. “For that reason, we urge the members of this body to make a final and resolute effort to maintain the unity of the Council and to agree on a new draft resolution that would establish a firm deadline and clear-cut indicators, with a view to ensuring that the Government of Iraq finally complies with its obligation to disarm. However, we are facing a strong likelihood that the use of force will be necessary in order to avert greater evils. My country knows this because we have experienced this in the context of our internal conflict. At one time we believed that we could convince irregular groups of the rightness of peaceful methods, but we came to realize that this only allowed them to buy time, to arm themselves to an even greater degree and to increase their capacity to do harm.”

    2003-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717Resumption1 (2003) · source

  5. “The Iraqi people deserve a leadership that will ensure national harmony and peaceful coexistence with neighbouring countries and with the international community. We should make no mistake about the dilemma facing the Security Council: to disarm the Government of Iraq by the peaceful means of inspections, or to do so through the use of force. Of course, all the members of the Security Council and the Members of the United Nations at large prefer peaceful means, which is what is provided for in the Charter of the United Nations. Colombia is a peace-loving country that has historically chosen to resolve conflicts through dialogue and mediation, with the use of force as a last resort. However, the choice lies not with the Council but with the Iraqi Government.”

    2003-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717Resumption1 (2003) · source

  6. “For that reason, Colombia takes the view that the Iraqi Government continues to be in non-compliance with the international community and that it has provided scope for the application of the "serious consequences" heralded by resolution 1441 (2002). The discussions that have taken place in the Security Council over the past few months have revealed a serious division in this fundamental body for the maintenance of international peace and security. Colombia appeals for unity in the Council at this particularly crucial time for the future of the institution of the United Nations and of multilateralism. We need to keep in mind that the Government of Iraq has violated basic norms of international law in attacking its neighbours and in using weapons of mass destruction.”

    2003-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717Resumption1 (2003) · source

  7. “As an elected member of the Security Council in 2001 and 2002, Colombia viewed with concern the failure of the Iraqi Government to comply with the resolutions of the Council and its persistence in developing and keeping weapons of mass destruction, which represent a serious threat to international peace and security. Only the threat of the use of force and the unanimous adoption by the Security Council of resolution 1441 (2002), which gave the Government of Iraq its final opportunity to cooperate unconditionally, immediately and actively with the inspectors in the disarmament process, have made it possible for certain headway to be made in this cooperation, which is still far from being "unconditional, immediate and active".”

    2003-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717Resumption1 (2003) · source

  8. “Mr. Giraldo (Colombia) (spoke in Spanish): Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your work as President of the Security Council. Colombia has decided to speak in this open debate in view of the importance of the issue for the future of the United Nations and of the capacity of the Security Council to handle threats to international peace and security. The maintenance of peace was the primary goal of those who created the United Nations after facing suffering and overcoming the hardships and challenges of the Second World War. We must continue this legacy, shouldering the responsibility of taking productive, efficient and appropriate precautionary measures to dispel serious threats to peace.”

    2003-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4717Resumption1 (2003) · source

  9. “In reaffirming the support we expressed as a non- permanent member of the Security Council for the work of the Council and its Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), under the wise leadership of Ambassador Greenstock, to combat this universal scourge, I wish to state our certainty that the Security Council will be able to meet the expectations of our peoples concerning its historic role in countering terrorism in all regions of the world.”

    2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source

  10. “For this reason we turn to the United Nations so that, in keeping with its role in difficult times, as far as the international aspects of the Colombian internal conflict are concerned, it may indicate a course to follow and induce the international community to support peoples and States that are striving to preserve the lofty principles of the Organization and that daily struggle to protect the dignity of individual human beings.”

    2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source

  11. “That is why Colombia cannot stand alone in its fight against terrorism and its inseparable ally within and outside of the country: the worldwide problem of illicit drugs. Without the cooperation of the international community, not only in terms of money, but also in terms of legal and police activities such as those required by resolution 1373 (2001), we shall not be able to combat this terrorism and its sponsor: drug trafficking.”

    2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source

  12. “This aspect, the internal one, is a variable that we Colombians must tackle and control. But there is another aspect of which little is spoken, namely the external aspect. The attacks to which I have referred were made possible by the deadly alliance between drug traffickers and the guerrillas, who finance themselves through that activity. The death-dealing explosives were negotiated for and acquired abroad and were paid for through external bank accounts fed by the drug trafficking. The chemical precursors that are essential to produce the illicit drugs reach Colombia through similar procedures. Generally speaking, the same process is used for the weapons that fuel our conflict.”

    2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source

  13. “Generally speaking, only the first is considered: killings, attacks, terrorism, bombs, anti-personnel mines, kidnappings, extortion and illicit drug trafficking are all committed by armed illegal perpetrators and are carried out within our territory. With regard to this aspect, the Government of Colombia recognizes the obligations incumbent upon it. Taking as a paradigm respect for the constitution, the law, international treaties, human rights and international humanitarian law, my Government is stepping up the State's presence with larger numbers of better-trained soldiers and police officers with the mission to protect all Colombians. We seek to provide democratic security for civilians, unionists, human rights defenders, businesspeople and workers.”

    2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source

  14. “Unfortunately, last Friday, the day following the adoption of that resolution, we had to lament not another car-bomb attack, but this time a house-bomb attack in the city of Neiva, in southern Colombia, that left 15 dead, several children among them, and more than 50 wounded and destroyed more than 70 homes belonging to poor people. Our country has undergone a surge in terrorism owing largely to the guerrillas of the so-called Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who have announced that there will be more terrorist acts of this kind. The Government of Colombia wishes to offer a few thoughts in this open meeting of the Security Council on terrorism. In our already protracted conflict, there are nowadays two inseparable aspects: the internal and the external.”

    2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source

  15. “Mr. Giraldo (Colombia) (spoke in Spanish): Colombia welcomes and fully subscribes to the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Peru on behalf of the Rio Group. However, the Government of Colombia has decided to make a statement in this open debate of the Security Council in connection with the item "Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts" because the terrorists acts that my country has suffered in recent months demonstrate the international dimension of the Colombian internal conflict. In the name of the people and the Government of Colombia, allow me to extend our gratitude to this Council for the adoption last Thursday of resolution 1465 (2003) condemning the terrorist attack in Bogota on 7 February, in which 35 persons, a number of children among them, were killed and close to 200 were injured.”

    2003-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4710 (2003) · source