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Lopez Clemente

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2004-10-19
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2005-03-30
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  1. “African nations do not need foreign advice or models, but rather financial resources and access to both markets and technologies. Assisting Africa would not be an act of charity, but an act of justice, a settling of the historic debt resulting from centuries of exploitation and pillage." (A/59/PV.]0, p. 33)”

    2005-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5156 (2005) · source

  2. “We have offered 427 scholarships for the 2005-2006 school year Africa does not need paternalism. Rather, it deserves, first and foremost, respect and solidarity. It needs cooperation that is free from every kind of conditions and intervention. There is a great deal of wisdom and experience among African leaders and representatives. No one is better qualified than they are to understand their problems; no one is better able to determine the best solutions. I should like to conclude by quoting the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cuba, who, during the most recent general debate in the General Assembly, said, with reference to the Millennium Development Goals: "We said that we would pay attention to Africa's special needs. However, very little has been done.”

    2005-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5156 (2005) · source

  3. “Cuba, a blockaded country with limited financial resources but with the necessary political will, has always offered its cooperation in solidarity with African countries, expecting nothing in return. Within the context of such cooperation, its comprehensive health care programme, carried out in 18 African countries with a total of 1,249 participants, is of particular note. 3,381 participants have already offered their services within the framework of that programme. Likewise, from 1961 to the 2003-2004 school year, 29,876 African youths from more than 40 African countries have graduated from middle and high schools. Currently, 1,801 African students are enrolled in educational programmes in Cuba; such studies are entirely subsidized by the Cuban Government.”

    2005-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5156 (2005) · source

  4. “There can be no peace without development or development without peace. On the other hand, many of the measures necessary to eliminate the causes of conflict in Africa and to achieve the consolidation of peace and sustainable development clearly do not fall within the scope of the Security Council's mandate and are the purview of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council. An adequate level of coordination between those principal organs is therefore required. Since its beginnings, the Cuban revolution has implemented a policy of cooperation in various fields with the countries of Africa, a continent to which we are attached by profound bonds of history and friendship.”

    2005-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5156 (2005) · source

  5. “We appreciate the Security Council's efforts to achieve a better understanding of the conflicts in Africa, accompanied in recent years by the development of African mechanisms for resolving conflicts. Nevertheless, greater and more systematic support from the United Nations and the international community in general is required, for the region suffers from insufficient financial resources, hindering the achievement and/or consolidation of peace in many countries, such as the Sudan and Somalia, to provide just two examples. Despite what has been stated in debates and affirmed in many resolutions, in practice emphasis is still on reaction to African conflicts and not on their prevention. Prevention requires the deepest causes of conflicts, such as poverty and underdevelopment, to be addressed.”

    2005-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5156 (2005) · source

  6. “The historical origins of the African crisis cannot be ignored. Thus, the former colonial Powers currently have the moral obligation to make up for the consequences of their acts. Likewise, the persistence of an unjust and unsustainable international economic order, characterized by inequalities imposed by the neoliberal globalization process, places the so-called third world, and particularly the African continent, at a terrible disadvantage. Such vast inequalities are the sole cause of the fact that the African population, which constitutes approximately 18.5 per cent of the world's population and whose territory comprises the greatest reserves of natural resources on the planet, contributes approximately 1 per cent of the world's gross domestic product and 2 per cent of international trade.”

    2005-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5156 (2005) · source

  7. “Mr. Lopez Clemente (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): Our delegation welcomes Brazil's initiative of convening this wrap-up meeting as an open debate. It is a contribution to the efforts aimed at achieving the necessary and urgent goal of making the work of the Security Council more transparent. It would be appropriate for such wrap-up sessions to be held systematically in the future and for delegations to address any question of interest with respect to the work of the Security Council throughout a given month. A great deal has been said about the difficult circumstances of life in Africa and about the growing needs of the continent, where the majority of today's armed conflicts are taking place, killing many people in several countries and having devastating effects on their economic and social development.”

    2005-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5156 (2005) · source

  8. “In view of the lack of action to date, we would like to ask today whether resolutions 1373 (2001) and 1566 (2004) are not applicable to our specific accusations with regard to the aforementioned terrorist acts, which have gone unpunished. Those who repeatedly proclaim their determination to fight tirelessly to eradicate international terrorism, without exceptions or selectivity, have a clear opportunity to prove that the Security Council, where some have veto power, is in fact an instrument capable of addressing the struggle against international terrorism in an effective, just, impartial and non-selective manner.”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059 (2004) · source

  9. “Luis Posada Carriles, the fourth and perhaps the most notorious terrorist among those pardoned by Moscoso, is presumably somewhere in Central America. Abundant information about our accusation, including the criminal records of the four terrorists, may be found in documents S/2002/15 and S/2004/753 and in our statements in Security Council open debates on this issue in 2003 (see S/PV.4710) and earlier this year (see S/PV.4921). On 4 March 2004, during a debate similar to this one, we asked once again about the practical actions the Council was planning to take, particularly in the CTC framework, regarding the considerable evidence that has been presented concerning terrorist actions committed against our country in blatant violation of resolution 1373 (2001) and other international legally binding instruments.”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059 (2004) · source

  10. “Moscoso's actions, carried out in conspiracy with the United States Government and the Miami terrorist mob just one week before the end of her presidential mandate, was the culmination of a process, begun in 2001, to make compromises with anti-Cuban terrorism by protecting those terrorists of Cuban origin. On 12 September, one day after the commemoration of the anniversary of the crime perpetrated on 11 September 2001 in the United States, the anti-Cuban mob based in Miami publicly celebrated and welcomed with open arms three of those terrorists, who had travelled with false documents. Is not even the promotion and encouragement through the United States media of confessed terrorists with long criminal histories, including with the FBI, an affront to legitimate international efforts to fight the scourge of terrorism?”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059 (2004) · source

  11. “They are subjected to excessive and long confinement and isolation, and in some cases they have had no personal contact with their wives or other relatives since being imprisoned. Another recent event has once again provided evidence of the double standards applied by the Government of the United States in its alleged war on terror. On 25 August, the then-President of Panama, Mireya Moscoso, signed Decree 317, by means of which four terrorists of Cuban origin were pardoned. They had been arrested, tried and sentenced in Panama for planning an assassination attempt on President Fidel Castro in November 2000. Mrs.”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059 (2004) · source

  12. “Yet the United States provides weapons, safe haven and the use of its territory with full freedom of movement to groups of the anti-Cuban mob based in Miami, despite the fact that such groups have been planning, financing and carrying out terrorist acts against Cuba for more than four decades, including bomb attacks, assassination attempts against Cuban leaders and other actions resulting in harm or death to thousands of people, as well as in great economic hardship to my homeland. Five young Cuban men have been given life - or very long - sentences by an illegitimate court in Miami for carrying out observation activities of those terrorist groups so as to prevent similar attacks against Cuba and the territory of the United States itself. Those young men have already been imprisoned for more than five years in the United States.”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059 (2004) · source

  13. “In that spirit, on three occasions the Cuban Government proposed to the Government of the United States - unconditionally and in accordance with the provisions of resolution 1373 (2001) - that three draft bilateral agreements be drawn up on cooperation to combat terrorism, illicit drug trafficking and trafficking in persons, but these were rejected by the United States on flimsy pretexts.”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059 (2004) · source

  14. “That resolution is designed to define terrorism - a task that is rightly the General Assembly's - in a manner that is biased, and to include under Chapter VII a number of items and questions that fall within the discretionary competence of the Assembly, as with negotiations on the two conventions to which I referred and the establishment of a fund to assist victims of terrorism. Furthermore, given the Security Council's double standards with regard to the fight against terrorism, we are concerned that the CTC has been granted the prerogative to establish a monitoring mechanism in countries by means of visits without having to obtain the consent of the State involved. Cuba will comply with its own sovereign laws and reiterates its readiness to cooperate with all countries, with full respect for the Charter and international law.”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059 (2004) · source

  15. “Cuba supports a definition of terrorism that distinguishes between terrorism and the legitimate struggle of peoples for their right to self-determination and against foreign occupation. Cuba believes the conclusion in the General Assembly of the draft international convention for the suppression of acts of nuclear terrorism and of the draft comprehensive convention on international terrorism to be an urgent necessity. The Council's tendency to legislate under Chapter VII of the Chanter was demonstrated on 8 October, when it adopted resolution 1566 (2004).”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059 (2004) · source

  16. “While rejecting the arbitrary inclusion of Cuba in yet another list of countries that allegedly support terrorism, as drawn up by the United States, I would like to take this opportunity to remind the Council that my country was among the first three countries to ratify the 12 international instruments on terrorism. It has promulgated a comprehensive law against terrorist acts, adopted additional and effective non-legislative measures and cooperated in good faith with the Security Council, in particular the CTC, to which it has submitted four comprehensive reports in a timely manner. Cuba has never allowed, nor will it tolerate or permit, the use of its territory to carry out, plan or finance acts of terrorism against any State, without exception.”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059 (2004) · source

  17. “We can make progress in the struggle against terrorism only by means of international cooperation, based on full respect for international law and the Charter, not by means of extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions of a country's nationals or foreign citizens, the persecution of immigrants or other violations of human rights, pre-emptive wars, acts of aggression or vengeance, covert actions that violate laws and borders, unilateral sanctions, drawing up "lists" of countries or singling them out with obscure political purposes in mind, or other unilateral actions that will only bring about further violence.”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059 (2004) · source

  18. “Mr. Lopez Clemente (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): My Government would like to express its appreciation for the information presented by the Chairman of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) and by Mr. Javier Ruperez. There must be true international cooperation in the struggle against terrorist acts in all their forms and manifestations, wherever and by whomever committed, with Third World countries participating as equals, transcending political, religious or other differences. The United Nations should play a central role in that cooperation.”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059 (2004) · source