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Lasso Mendoza

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first: 2013-02-12
most recent: 2015-02-23
sittings or episodes: 10
sources: un-security-council

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“For those reasons, any action by the international community to protect civilians in conflict situations should strictly adhere to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, including full respect for the sovereignty of States. If the international community decides to intervene to protect vulnerable populations, its decision must be substantiated by fair and legitimate grounds, not by broad and incorrect interpretations of Security Council resolutions.”
2013-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6917Resumption1 (2013) · source
“On thatbasis, the collective measures provided for in Chapter VII and referred to in Article 2 should be limited exclusively to what is stipulated in Article 39 of the Charter - namely, any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression - in such a way that the ideological orientation of any Government or its sovereign decisions over its natural resources or the legitimate use of technologies for peaceful purposes cannot be sufficient grounds for a State or a group of States to decide to use force to change that regime or to force it to subject itself to the interests of other Governments.”
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“The international community's adherence to and respect for that aspect is not subject to qualification or the unilateral decision of any country. Paragraph 7 of Article 2 of the Charter of the United Nations provides with absolute clarity that no provision of the Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters within the domestic jurisdiction of any State.”
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“Moreover, Ecuador is persuaded that the International Criminal Court is the only body that can end the impunity with which criminal Governments kill their own people or other people and can restore the rights of victims after crimes have been committed against them. We therefore insist that the Rome Statute be ratified by all States Members ofthe United Nations. I cannot conclude this statement without mentioning substantial aspects in the debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. National sovereignty, clearly stated in paragraph 1 of Article 2 of the Charter of the United Nations, is an element that must be taken into account in any case of the protection of civilians in armed conflict. That element is a characteristic inherent in the very existence of a State.”
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“The protection of the civilian population should not be applied with double standards, nor should political justifications be used in order to protect some, while massacring others. Likewise, the protection of the civilian population should be a firm and rational commitment held by the international community, based on international principles and without making any distinctions between victims or those who victimize. It should never be a simple pretext to kill people in other countries and deprive other countries of their independence and their natural resources. To that end, we believe that it is particularly important to adhere to all of the Geneva Conventions and the amending Protocols to those Conventions. All of those instruments provide protection to victims from the scourge of war and recognize the victims as innocent.”
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“It is the international community's responsibility as a whole to uphold those principles. At this time, we believe that an important questions arises we discuss the legal and moral value of the policies of selective assassination. Do those policies form part of the powers of any Government in such a way that we can kill each other without those acts having any legal or moral implications? To the contrary, such selective assassinations are not only acts of international terrorism, but they are also without any moral legitimacy or legal foundation. Ecuador attaches the greatest importance to the protection of civilian populations throughout the world, without discrimination of any kind and without according any legitimacy to crimes committed in the name of absurd and unsustainable interpretations of the right to legitimate defence.”
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“In the Ecuadorian delegation's view, the contribution of the Brazilian Mission consists in maintaining those three singular principles intact; restricting the interference of the international community to those cases in which intervention is necessary, without illegitimate or illegal invasions of sovereign States; and ensuring that force will be used only as the last resort to protect the civilian population and that force will not be the first option exercised by those who believe that they have the right to change a Government or impose an ideology or any other form of political organization that no one, no one, has requested. We believe that it is essential to highlight that important contribution from a country of my region to an issue that impacts all of us.”
2013-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6917Resumption1 (2013) · source
“First, the State has the main responsibility to protect its people from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity and to prevent the incitement of such crimes; secondly, the international community has the reponsibility to encourage and help States in the exercise of their responsibility; and thirdly, the international community has the responsibility to use diplomatic, humanitarian and other appropriate means to help protect populations from those crimes.”
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“Such atrocities have posed a threat to the peace, security and well-being of humanity. Therefore, such crimes should not go unpunished, regardless of who commits them. On 21 February 2012, the Permanent Representative of Brazil organized an informal discussion to analyse the concept of the responsibility to protect, which is designed to address the failure to protect. The Brazilian proposition, to which my country attaches great importance, is based on the three key principles set forth in General Assembly resolution 60/1 of 2005.”
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“Those provisions clearly determine the international Convention's vast scope of application, which was designed to grant as much protection as possible to the civilian population in the event of an armed conflict. It is worth pointing out that no provision of the Geneva Convention allows for an exception with regard to the protection of a country's national security vis-a-vis its real or imagined enemies, much less granting the State the option of killing its own citizens or foreign citizens under the pretext of preventive measures or precautions. For their part, the second and third paragraphs of the preamble to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court clearly state that throughout the last century millions of children, women and men were victims of atrocities that defy the imagination and that profoundly move humankind.”
2013-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6917Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Mr. Lasso Mendoza (Ecuador) (spoke in Spanish): Allow me to begin by recalling that article 2 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 sets forth a number of fundamental rules with regard to its application. First, its provisions are applicable to any armed conflict that arises between two or more contracting parties. Secondly, the provisions of the Convention are to be applied in all cases of the complete or partial occupation of a territory by one of the contracting parties. Thirdly, it unequivocally states that, if one of the parties to the conflict is not a party to the Convention, those parties that are party to the Convention must abide by the provisions in their mutual relations.”
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