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Hermida Castillo

lines on the record: 69
first: 2008-07-17
most recent: 2023-06-13
sittings or episodes: 10
sources: un-security-council

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“Lastly, we thank and commend the United Arab Emirates for hosting the twenty-eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which represents an urgent opportunity for the future of our civilization and for the ecosystems that are vital to life on Earth. We wish you every success, Mr. President, and assure you of Nicaragua’s full cooperation in achieving the best and most concrete and ambitious results in Dubai.”
2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Nicaragua has participated in all negotiations of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, advocating for the fulfilment of all commitments for climate justice, based on the principles of equity, common but differentiated responsibilities, with financing and funds for compensation through the Loss and Damage mechanism, in addition to the Green Climate Fund, so that more resources are made available for developing countries. In conclusion, with seven years remaining until 2030 and climate change moving much faster than the international community, the answer is to strengthen the Convention on Climate Change and implement the Paris Agreement and all commitments on finance, adaptation, mitigation and emission reductions in order to limit the average global temperature rise to 1.5ºC.”
2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345Resumption1 (2023) · source
“It is becoming increasingly arid, affecting millions of subsistence-farming families. If climate change destroys that economy, which encompasses some 18 million people, it will cause overcrowding in impoverished districts of the cities of the region or force people to head north to climb over, dig under or go through whatever walls they find along the way. Nicaragua is in one of the areas most sensitive to the impact of climate change. We were hit by two extreme weather events — two Category 4 and 5 hurricanes in a period of 15 days — resulting in considerable loss and damage.”
2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345Resumption1 (2023) · source
“We would like to take this opportunity to stress that as a matter of urgency, developed countries must cease their unsustainable patterns of production and consumption and comply with their commitments to providing additional, predictable and sufficient financial resources for adaptation, mitigation, loss and damage, capacity-building and technology transfer. The only scientific, fair and ethical response to our loss and damage is for the countries that have caused it to recognize their historical responsibility and compensate the countries that are suffering the consequences. If the small island States whose future is being squandered are not compensated, there can be no climate justice in the world. In Mesoamerica, southern Mexico and Central America, there is a dry zone known as the Dry Corridor.”
2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345Resumption1 (2023) · source
“It is obvious that discussions and negotiations on climate change and the implementation of binding principles, commitments and agreements in that area should occur within the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol and its Second Commitment Period and of course the Paris Agreement. Those instruments form the only international legal framework for meeting agreed-on objectives and commitments. Responses, actions and discussions on the issue should therefore be addressed within the Convention on Climate Change, not in the Security Council. We also note that this issue is closely related to the right of peoples to development and is therefore considered together with all aspects of sustainable development in the General Assembly and the Second Committee.”
2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Since 1992, in recognition of the fact that changes in the Earth’s climate and its adverse effects are a common concern for all humankind, the United Nations has designated the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as the legitimate forum with the responsibility and jurisdiction for discussions and negotiations providing an appropriate response to global warming resulting from the carbon dioxide emissions of developed countries operating within the capitalist economic model. Those countries therefore have a historical responsibility vis-à-vis our developing countries.”
2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345Resumption1 (2023) · source
“The world is currently facing various environmental threats resulting from global warming on Mother Earth, such as severe drought, floods, storms and fires. Just in the past few days all of us here in New York were affected by the very air we breathed. We consider climate-change issues a high priority. They are intrinsically linked to the existence of all species on our Mother Earth and to all of our peoples’ right to development. That is why they must be addressed on universal, inclusive and, most important, equal terms among all nations of the world.”
2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Mr. Hermida Castillo (Nicaragua) (spoke in Spanish): Allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your country’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and on its leadership of it. A recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicated that the ravages of climate change continue to worsen, warning that global warming this century is on track to exceed 1.5˚C, which will have catastrophic consequences for people’s livelihoods, especially for the poorest populations. Similarly, increasingly intense and frequent weather events have been affecting people’s development and the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, especially in developing countries.”
2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Nicaragua welcomes the Montevideo Mechanism created by our America and the Caribbean, which, bringing together Mexico, Bolivia, Uruguay and the countries of the Caribbean Community, seeks to foster understanding, agreement, respect and dignity, in order to promote fraternal and fair solutions in Venezuela. We salute the heroic and magnificent people of Simon Bolivar, as well as their President, Comrade Nicolas Maduro, and in embracing Venezuela, we embrace all the peoples of our America who proclaim homeland, life, love and hope. War offers us nothing; we wish to live in peace.”
2019-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8472 (2019) · source
“Nicaragua welcomes the efforts that the international community and the organizations defending international law are carrying out, and that we are carrying out, so as to avoid other tragedies that repeat, as we have said, the history of discord and the desire of the powerful to dominate and force into submission peoples of dignity. We have learned 4 and must now know 4 how to choose life with respect, and, with the strength of our unbending and indestructible identities, dismiss anything that seeks to ruin the brave and noble and brave soul of our American and Caribbean, which emphatically wants peace.”
2019-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8472 (2019) · source
“In this sad, unfortunate hour, which seems to repeat a historical cycle that we thought we had transcended, we are called upon in brotherhood to defend peace everywhere, and at this particular moment in Venezuela, as well as throughout our America and the Caribbean. We want peace, agreement and dialogue, with a view to resolving with all problems, contradictions or conflict in good faith, so that our peoples do not suffer the scorn and brutality of war in any of its forms, or the poverty that snatches away all our rights.”
2019-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8472 (2019) · source
“In the spirit of brotherhood, and with all the respect that we owe each other as fellow inhabitants of our planet, we are called upon to defend 4 with every fibre of our strength - peace, respectful relations, and the right of every country to choose its political, economic and social model without interference, threats or coercive actions that contradict the intention of the United Nations Charter and all instruments of international law. We have chosen the path of peace and not of war. At the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, held in Havana in 2014, the Heads of State and Government in our America and the Caribbean proclaimed our entire territory a zone of peace, justice and development, and we must respect - and ensure respect for 4 that proclamation.”
2019-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8472 (2019) · source
“We call on our fellow countries to cease aggression and hostilities, which seek to subdue our peoples, condemning us to poverty, harassment and humiliation while destroying economies and exposing so many human beings to misfortune, vulnerability and dependence. Triggering chaos, instability, violence and economic strangulation and issuing threats of death and war constitutes a serious violation of universal human rights, and alienates countries and peoples that have been objectified and singled out from the fulfilment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, thus increasing the number of human beings and families living in exclusion, poverty and insecurity by millions.”
2019-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8472 (2019) · source
“Nicaragua fraternally summons all those present, in particular the Governments and peoples of our America, to defend the Charter of the United Nations, which embodies the right to live and coexist in peace and harmony, rejecting speeches and practices that injure the dignity of peoples, the strength of our institutions, our laws and above all the Constitution of each State - the Magna Carta that each State defends as it defends its honour, its pride, its national rights. We call on our fellow countries to respect the will of the people. We call on our fellow countries to rule out threats and actions that bring instability, suffering and death to millions of human beings, and that by denying them peace deny them the possibility of living with security and well-being.”
2019-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8472 (2019) · source
“Our commitment is reinforced by the outrageous threats that arise from interference and intervention in the affairs of States, as well as by any practice, proposal or discourse that seeks to revive the offensive history of Latin America and that, by means of intimidation, disrespect and the use of means and technologies of information, seeks to promote hatred and separation between peoples and States and between brothers and sisters throughout the world.”
2019-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8472 (2019) · source
“Mr. Hermida Castillo (Nicaragua) (spoke in Spanish): We recognize the presence among us of our brother Jorge Arreaza, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Allow us to congratulate you, Sir, your team and the people and the Government of our sister Republic of Equatorial Guinea on the excellent conduct of the work of the Security Council this month. The Government and the people of Nicaragua have continuously reaffirmed - and we reaffirm today - our full commitment and our absolute responsibility to comply with the instruments of the United Nations, including the Charter of the United Nations, as well as its mechanisms and everything that represents the possibility and duty of peacefully transcending conflicts.”
2019-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8472 (2019) · source
“In our struggle for global peace, which is the unswerving commitment of the people and Government of Nicaragua, the solution to the Palestinian question, in accordance with United Nation resolutions, holds a special place. In conclusion, we believe that peace in the Middle East entails resolving the Palestinian question, including the withdrawal of Israel from Lebanon, the Syrian Golan and, in short, from all occupied Arab territories. Similarly, it is essential to put an end to foreign interference and intervention in the region and, finally, to achieve peace and security in the Middle East for all peoples of the region.”
2017-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7929 (2017) · source
“We hope that through dialogue, negotiation and continuing efforts to seek a peaceful political solution, and with the good faith of both parties, both peoples can live in lasting peace, given that both States and their peoples have the same right to peace, security and sustainable development. At this time, as we press ahead with the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, Palestine has the same right as everyone else to live in peace and receive assistance for development, cooperation and investments in order to ensure sustainable development.”
2017-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7929 (2017) · source
“We believe that a just and lasting solution to the Palestinian question is key for peace and stability in the Middle East. That peace and stability will come about only through the full implementation of General Assembly and Security Council resolutions on Palestine. We must make particular mention of the urgent need to implement Security Council resolution 2334 (2016) in order to ensure the viability of the two- State solution, which, after 70 years, would ultimately restore the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. Nicaragua supports the two-State solution, with the State oflsrael and the State of Palestine within the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
2017-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7929 (2017) · source
“Mr. Hermida Castillo (Nicaragua) (spoke in Spanish): We congratulate you, Madam, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We welcome the convening of this debate on the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. Nicaragua endorses the statement made by the representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement and that made by Ambassador Neville Gertze of Namibia on behalf of the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. The Government and the people of the Republic of Nicaragua reaffirm its call for peace, solidarity and mutual respect among peoples and for a peaceful solution to disputes. Nicaragua expresses its full solidarity with the State of Palestine.”
2017-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7929 (2017) · source
“Our country continues to focus its efforts on strengthening the family unit and education, important factors in efforts to forge strong societies that are committed to working, maintaining their well- being and developing themselves. Our Government will continue to bolster its policies to combat the scourge before us and protect our societies from it.”
2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source
“Conflicts are resolved through dialogue and political negotiation, and the United Nations, based on the Charter of the United Nations, must assume its responsibility and be the main organization to ensure global peace. Nicaragua - a small country that bases its policies on Christian values, socialist principles and solidarity within this complex global context - has been working purposefully in the various regional and international forums to promote policies of peace, unity and understanding among nations, promoting politically negotiated solutions to conflicts and the right of our people to achieve their sustainable development and well-being.”
2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source
“Our Government is also working with other countries in our area through a regional system that facilitates the rescue of victims with a view to strengthening prevention as well. However, international financial and technical cooperation are always crucial for us to be able to combat such scourge. If we want to put an end to trafficking in persons in conflict situations, we must begin by looking at the root cause of the conflict. No country in the international community can claim the right to use or threaten to use force in international relations. That form of exceptionalism not only does not resolve conflicts, it fuels them, just as we have seen in recent years.”
2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source
“Being a small country with limited resources, we are making our contribution to the international community in maintaining a firm position of vigilance and in comprehensively addressing the topic within a legal and normative framework. We have a nation-wide coalition to detect, prevent, protect and rehabilitate victims of human trafficking at the national level and to ensure that the perpetrators of such crimes are effectively punished. In January 2015, we adopted Law No. 896 against trafficking in persons, which determines the aims and modalities of the crime, the protected legal goods and the criminal classification of the crime. That instrument is based on prevention, offering individual recommendations for people and their families.”
2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source
“Trafficking in persons is a global problem that affects more than 29 million children, women and men who are subjected to sexual exploitation, forced labour, domestic servitude and organ harvesting. It is in itselfa violation of human rights. It is a most abominable crime that destroys the essence of people, their life, freedom and integrity. It turns human beings into commodities, leading to the degradation of the dignity and physical and mental health of people, leaving indelible imprints on the social fabric. Our people, who have experienced the scourge of war at first hand, today live in peace and reconciliation, led by Commander Daniel Ortega, who is working with determination to eliminate trafficking in persons.”
2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source
“Mr. Hermida Castillo (Nicaragua) (spoke in Spanish): We offer our condolences to the family of Ambassador Andrey Karlov and the Government and the people of Russia. Allow me to congratulate Spain on so efficiently presiding over the Security Council during the month of December. At the same time, we would like to thank you, Sir, for convening this meeting on such an important topic. We agree with the President's concept note (S/2016/ 1031, annex), which reiterates the importance and need for the United Nations to redouble its efforts to eliminate trafficking in persons in conflict situations. However, our approach and contribution to the debate are focused on the prevention of trafficking in persons in all circumstances. It should be fought even when it takes place in non-conflict situations.”
2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source
“Given those aspects, the answer must obviously not be military in character, but rather of assistance to development, without conditions of any kind, under strict respect for non-interference in the internal affairs of States.”
2015-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7361 (2015) · source
“If attention is not paid to such necessities for our peoples, or if it is not adequately paid, it will lead to citizen insecurity, violence and situations that could end up before the Security Council. We must take care to not place conditions on the sustainable development agenda by trying to impose concepts that undermine our peoples' sovereignty. Such concepts have not been agreed at the intergovernmental level and thus violate the basic social, economic and environmental commitments that we need to address on a priority basis. In conclusion, we agree with the statement in the concept note (S/2015/6, annex) circulated by Chile, which states that numerous conflicts have their root causes in situations of exclusion or discrimination, including socioeconomic exclusion.”
2015-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7361 (2015) · source
“On the other hand, it is enough to glance at the resources allocated to peacekeeping operations and those earmarked for development to realize that the difference between the two is both gaping and truly inexplicable. Therefore, an objective and realistic approach is to learn from past experiences and enable resources to be mobilized to confront and resolve the root causes of the problem. In so doing, it is essential that developed countries fulfil the commitments they have undertaken. Security is certainly required, but it is the security of decent work, food security, the security that comes with adequate housing, security for working families to live in dignity, the security of a life without poverty, and the security and resources to combat the trafficking in drugs and arms.”
2015-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7361 (2015) · source
“The interplay between security and development must take into account the economic and social reality prevailing in conflict and post-conflict situations. That will help in the development of a strategy in which development programmes are the first instruments that we must consider and wield, before weapons for security. The order of priorities should often be reversed. It is sustainable development that will strengthen security and stability and therefore peace in the world. We have seen conflict situations in which the approach based purely on security considerations, undertaken in places where it is generally acknowledged that the problem is socioeconomic, has not yielded the desired results.”
2015-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7361 (2015) · source
“However, we must prioritize inclusive and sustainable development as essential requirements for ensuring security and stability. To contribute to peace and security, our efforts must focus on inclusive development that reinforces the commitment of all to eradicating poverty and achieving sustainable development in which environmental, economic and social concerns are integrated in a balanced manner. For Nicaragua, the commitment to security includes a commitment to the promotion of human development, which must be understood as sustainable development. Such development is human-centred and implemented in an environment of good governance, with direct citizen participation and social equity. Those are elements necessary to achieving the Millennium Development Goals and, beyond them, the Sustainable Development Goals.”
2015-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7361 (2015) · source
“The complexity of peacekeeping operations entails a need for a focus that is different from the current one, in accordance with the needs of each State or region where peacekeeping forces are being deployed, and not attempts to implement a single policy for different situations. The full approval and involvement of the States concerned and respect for their sovereignty and territorial integrity is crucial. We must also continue to strengthen the Peacebuilding Commission and achieve effective and efficient coordination between States, particularly in the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the high-level political forum on sustainable development. Development, peace and security are interdependent and mutually reinforcing.”
2015-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7361 (2015) · source
“When we speak of development in the Security Council, we cannot set precedents, and we must preserve and refrain from altering the major intergovernmental agreements that have been reached by consensus, including the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (General Assembly resolution 66/288, annex) and the Sustainable Development Goals, which are the basis for the upcoming post-2015 development agenda we must approve. Our work on security matters must move towards a commitment to the promotion of human development, which must be understood as sustainable development.”
2015-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7361 (2015) · source
“Nicaragua aligns itself with the statement made by the Permanent Representative of South Africa on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. This debate is taking place during a historic year for the United Nations, in which we will negotiate the post-2015 development agenda. That agenda should set us on a consensus-based path towards ending once and for all the scourges we face today, namely poverty, hunger, disease and climate change. In short, we need an agenda to save humankind from the many scourges we face. In this debate, it is important that we take as a starting point the functions, powers and responsibilities of each of the United Nations bodies and their respective mandates, in strict compliance with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations.”
2015-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7361 (2015) · source
“Mr. Hermida Castillo (Nicaragua) (spoke in Spanish): At the outset, allow me to welcome the presence here this morning of Her Excellency Ms. Michelle Bachelet, President of the Republic of Chile. We congratulate her delegation on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. We know that the leadership of the brotherly nation of Chile, a member of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, augurs well for the success of the Council's work. We also welcome the presentations made by Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Permanent Representative of Brazil, and Ms. Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize laureate. We welcome the new Council members Angola, Spain, Malaysia, New Zealand and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.”
2015-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7361 (2015) · source
“It is time to abandon threats of veto. It is time for the international community to substitute concrete action for rhetoric. Nicaragua thus calls for the immediate recognition of the Palestinian State along its 1967 borders by the Security Council and the General Assembly. Only in this way will there be a firm and lasting peace that allows both peoples to effectively enjoy all their rights, putting an end to an inexplicable injustice. May those who oppose it do so publicly, and thereby publicly acknowledge their own shamefulness.”
2011-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6636Resumption1 (2011) · source
“Since the victory of the Sandinista popular revolution, in 1979, Nicaragua has witnessed the heroic fight of the Palestinian people and the substantial concessions they have made, which, shamefully, were responded to by Israel with more illegal settlements, more humiliation, more deaths, more systematic murders of Palestinian leaders, more destruction of homes and more expulsions, including in East Jerusalem. 11-56143 For all of those reasons, Nicaragua reiterates the need to put an immediate end to the intolerable impunity that Israel enjoys, which has been irresponsibly guaranteed it by the Security Council, in particular through the indiscriminate use of the veto, which has become Israel's greatest accomplice. It is high time that the Security Council lived up to its responsibilities and demand that Israel make a commitment to peace.”
2011-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6636Resumption1 (2011) · source
“That logic is part and parcel of a policy of corralling the Palestinian people, and it is based on an unacknowledged determination to deny all Palestinian citizens their very humanity. It is extremely urgent that Israel free, as soon as possible, all Palestinian political prisoners, who suffer, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, inhumane conditions, torture, captivity and indefinite isolation. Israel must put an end to those violations and comply with its obligations under international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law.”
2011-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6636Resumption1 (2011) · source
“We condemn the expansionist Israeli policies and practices of building and not dismantling settlements, as well as the inhumane blockade of Gaza and the policy of breaking up the West bank and other Palestinian territories. The Security Council is meeting on the eve of a historic moment that will give undeniable reality to the existence of a Palestinian State that is recognized and fully welcomed into our Organization, and represent the implementation, at long last, of the many resolutions and agreements calling for the creation of two States - one Arab and the other Jewish - on Palestinian territory. We can no longer tolerate the logic of denying the very existence of the Palestinian State.”
2011-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6636Resumption1 (2011) · source
“Mr. Hermida Castillo (Nicaragua) (spoke in Spanish): At the outset, we wish to convey our most 11-56143 sincere condolences to the people and the Government of Turkey in connection with the tragedy that they have suffered as a result of yesterday's earthquake. Nicaragua, as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement, associates itself fully with the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Egypt in his capacity as Chair of the Movement. Nicaragua once again reiterates its most fervent condemnation of the illegal occupation by Israel of all of the occupied Arab territories in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, and demands Israel's immediate withdrawal.”
2011-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6636Resumption1 (2011) · source
“There is universal consensus that the Palestinian people must not remain under occupation. Israeli colonialism must end. The Palestinian people must exercise their inalienable rights and the State of Palestine must be established immediately. We reiterate that only with the establishment of the two States, Palestine and Israel, and with an end to Israeli occupation of occupied Arab territories will there be just and lasting peace in the Middle East. Once again, Nicaragua wishes to express its support for and solidarity with the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic and the Government of Lebanon as they seek territorial unity for their respective States and consequently an end to Israeli occupation in those territories.”
2009-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6171Resumption1 (2009) · source
“We hope that the day is coming when Israeli actions with regard to Jerusalem will respect and recognize the etymology of the city, whose name derives from the Hebrew for "house of peace" or from the Arabic, Al-Quds, which means "sacred site". Nicaragua calls for a politically just solution to the Palestinian problem based on numerous United Nations resolutions, including the resolution establishing the right of return for Palestinian refugees and those resolutions calling for Israel's withdrawal from all Arab territories occupied since 1967, in accordance with the principle of land for peace, established at the Madrid conference and in the Arab Peace Initiative, which will allow for the creation of an independent Palestinian State with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
2009-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6171Resumption1 (2009) · source
“It has permitted continued violation of the status of the city and its residents and helped dim the prospects for peace, which is essential to the future of Jerusalem. An agreement between both interested parties that recognizes East Jerusalem as the capital of the new Palestinian State is essential to achieving lasting peace. We must underscore the extreme urgency of these matters and once again reiterate that the Council, on the basis of its own as yet unimplemented resolutions, must comply with its obligations under the Charter and act against the illegal actions of the occupying Power, Israel, in the occupied Palestinian territories.”
2009-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6171Resumption1 (2009) · source
“Many children are suffering from serious psychological problems. Civilians whose homes and possessions were destroyed during the conflict cannot recover. In short, the blockade imposed by Israel three years ago remains unchanged and the United Nations does nothing. Poverty in Gaza is directly related to the blockade. In order to prevent the misery from increasing with every passing day and to enable people to rebuild their lives, the restrictions on movement and goods must be lifted. The uninterrupted occupation of Arab territories by Israel in implementation of its policy of conquest and expansion is an ongoing violation of the United Nations Charter. Unfortunately, the Security Council has adopted no effective measures to put an end to Israel's illegal actions.”
2009-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6171Resumption1 (2009) · source
“The building of the wall was the subject of an International Court of Justice advisory opinion of 9 July 2004, which stated that the wall being erected by Israel, the occupying Power, in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem and its environs, was counter to international law and that Israel was obligated to end its non-compliance with international law and to immediately halt construction work on the wall and to immediately dismantle existing structures. With regard to the Gaza Strip, there has been no progress since the end of the Israeli military operation seven months ago. The inhabitants of Gaza cannot rebuild their lives. The majority of the population of 1.5 million is having extreme difficulty making it to the end of the month. Seriously ill people are suffering because they cannot access medical treatment.”
2009-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6171Resumption1 (2009) · source
“The continued occupation has further exacerbated the situation of the Palestinian people, which has already been precarious since the construction of the wall that has dismembered its territory, isolated its various areas and separated East Jerusalem from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory. This has led to a serious physical, economic, cultural and social disaster.”
2009-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6171Resumption1 (2009) · source
“This is a result of Israel's destructive and provocative policies and actions, through its settlement campaign throughout the occupied Palestinian territory. This is under way primarily in Jerusalem, where Israel continues fiercely to wage its final conquest and colonization of the city and the neighbouring areas. The isolation of Jerusalem from the remainder of the occupied Palestinian territory, the Judaization of the city and the destruction of its original demographic composition and its historical and cultural heritage, along with the expansion of illegal settlements at an unprecedented pace, constitute an ongoing violation of articles 49 and 53 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.”
2009-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6171Resumption1 (2009) · source
“That measure is illegal under resolution 478 (1980) and illegal in the eyes of the General Assembly, which has reaffirmed that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, that have altered or purported to alter the character, legal status and demographic composition of Jerusalem are null and void and have no validity whatsoever, in particular the so-called Basic Law on Jerusalem and the proclamation of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and that such measures must be reversed. Nonetheless, and in spite of United Nations resolutions declaring the illegality of Israeli actions in East Jerusalem, tension has continued to rise after more than 40 years of occupation.”
2009-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6171Resumption1 (2009) · source
“These basic norms are the legitimate concern of the entire community of nations; all peoples can appeal to them and have an interest in safeguarding them and ensuring their implementation. Early last week, in defiance of the international community and in particular the Security Council, the Government of Israel asserted a unified Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish people and of the State of Israel and that its sovereignty in Jerusalem was not a matter for discussion. During the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel seized East Jerusalem as war booty. Then, in 1980, it adopted national legislation encompassing the eastern and western parts of the city, proclaiming this as its eternal and invisible capital.”
2009-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6171Resumption1 (2009) · source
“A colonial Power had only to put a handful of men on the territory to be colonized to view itself as endowed with the right of conquest - a right that, even before it was actually exercised, made that Power the master of the territory to be conquered. The natural inhabitants of the territory, once the owners of their ancestral lands, came to live in utterly precarious, depressing and miserable conditions 4 if they survived the conquering Power's genocide. That is the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. The Israeli violations that flout the very basis of the modern-day international legal order are a fundamental transgression of the basic norms of international law, which possess the character of jus cogens.”
2009-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6171Resumption1 (2009) · source