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Moncada

lines on the record: 294
first: 2014-07-22
most recent: 2022-05-19
sittings or episodes: 28
sources: un-security-council

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“It tries to find other ways to get around them. It tries to find new customers. It tries to find new sources of imports. So what do we do? We watch carefully, and we can see ships moving and we can see new contracts with new companies, and when we do, we talk to shippers, or we talk to refiners, or we talk to Governments, and we say, you should not be doing that. That is what we are doing." That is what was stated by Mr. Abrams, whom some are attempting to portray as a humanitarian actor. One repugnant aspect of this criminal policy of mass destruction is that it goes hand in hand with looting and pillaging. This deprives our people of basic goods, leading to tremendous suffering and literally robbing the Venezuelan people of tens of billions of dollars.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“In fact, they are the ones causing our social implosion. What we want is peace and the well-being of our people. They are the ones who want to see social implosion in order to justify an invasion. This is a plan under which banks, insurance companies and the shipping system are being used with a destructive capacity comparable to that of weapons of mass destruction, but without those responsible for the suffering being brought to justice or suffering the moral sanction that they deserve. John Bolton said, "My advice to bankers brokers and other businesses: do not deal in [Venezuelan] gold or oil". Mr. Elliot Abrams, also infamous for his actions in Nicaragua and the Middle East specifically, where he planned the killing of thousands of people, stated: "We are imposing our sanctions. What does the regime do?”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“This is deliberate economic destruction, the systematic implementation of the policy of aggression through the use of financial instruments, through the application of undue pressure and through the use of market dominance to influence the banking sector, private enterprise and other nations that engage in legal trade with Venezuela, including extorting United Nations agencies - all of this in order to isolate our country from the international trade and financial system. If it were true that the Venezuelan Government, as has been stated here many times, as part of an incredible litany of lies, is killing its own people, then why is this group of countries using massively extortionate methods that only increase the suffering? Why would that be necessary if we are already killing our people, as they say?”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“Senator Marco Rubio, the leader of the coup d'etat in Venezuela, said: "In the next few weeks, Venezuela is going to enter a period of suffering that no nation in our hemisphere has ever confronted in modern history." On 22 March, Mr. John Bolton, infamous in this Organization, said, sickeningly, "It is like in Star Wars, when Darth Vader constricts somebody's throat; that is what we are doing to the regime economically". That is what he said; those are not my words.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“In October of last year, the United States Ambassador, William Brownfield, said: "We must treat this as an agony, a tragedy that will continue until it reaches an end and if we can do something to speed it up, we must do it, understanding that this is going to have an impact on millions of people who are already having difficulty finding food and medicine We cannot do this and pretend that it is not going to have an impact. We have to make a hard decision. The desired end justifies this severe punishment." Those are not the diplomatic words or the words of a humanitarian worker. They are basically the words of a psychopath. There is no name for it, it is cruel and inhumane. It is an international crime. Severe punishment for the entire Venezuelan people, that is what he said.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“It is a giant inhumane experiment in unconventional warfare, a policy of calculated cruelty and a massive violation of human rights, going as far as committing crimes against humanity, in order to justify an overthrow and pillage by installing a subordinate local Government and, in our case, using racist ideology of 200 years ago, that is, the infamous Monroe Doctrine. Members may think that I am exaggerating. But let us hear the criminals in their own words. Do not listen to me but to what they say. In January last year, that is, more than a year ago, the State Department declared: "the pressure campaign is working what we are seeing is a total economic collapse in Venezuela. So our policy is working, our strategy is working and we are going to keep it".”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“None of the three briefers, like most members of the Security Council, recognize that the human actions that led to this situation are part of a plan to destroy the economy directed by the Government of the United States and the United Kingdom in order to strangle the national economy, cause the greatest social suffering possible, undermine our country's ability to support itself and, ultimately, bring about a collapse that allows for a foreign military intervention under the perverse pretext of the responsibility to protect, which has been the excuse for colonial invasions of countries with oil reserves.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“I want to mention something that has not been said, including by the three briefers - and they are very quick to gather data about the smallest non-governmental organization, while never setting foot in Venezuela, including Mr. Stein. He knows a great deal but is blind before the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. However, he sees the representative of the dictator Government in Guatemala and meets with his representatives. But he will not meet with us to learn what the current situation is, despite the fact that we have invited him on several occasions.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“But there is no basis in international law for what he is doing. We are certain that when the United States tries the trick that it played yesterday at the Organization of American States here at the General Assembly, it will fail. We are certain of that. And we wanted to respond to that before proceeding. It also threatens us with war: "all options are on the table". On what legal basis can a country come to the Security Council table to threaten another with war? The Security Council should address that point as well. Turning to the topic at hand, the humanitarian situation in Venezuela must be resolved, but if we make a mistake in the diagnosis, we will also make a mistake in the treatment for its relief. As has been said here, the situation is the result of human actions.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“What they now have is a strange individual. No one understands what he will do, because he does not represent the State of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela but the National Assembly. That is what is written in the resolution. So he is lying. I say that because the United States uses that lie to sell its course of action to the other States Members of United Nations to convince them to impose a puppet Government here and that the United Nations is a club of friends of the United States. According to him, the only ones that can be here are the friends of the United States, those that serve its interests and believe in the Monroe Doctrine, which is clearly a racist policy of more than 200 years ago, when the United States was a slave State, and which they think can still be pushed today when it comes to international law.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“Yesterday, in its eagerness to promote a coup d'etat in Venezuela and impose a puppet Government to serve the interests of the United States to enable it to pillage our homeland, they sacrificed the founding Charter of that organization, which is the equivalent of the Charter of the United Nations. They distorted the law to the extent that what was approved was not the expulsion of the representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela but the inclusion of a representative of the National Assembly. What they did there yesterday is a legal absurdity, since the Organization of American States, like the United Nations, is an organization of States, not of assemblies. The only State present in that organization is the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Therefore, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela was not expelled from that organization.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“Mr. Moncada (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): To begin, we must respond to the host of falsehoods spoken here by the Vice-President of the United States while we are supposed to be discussing the humanitarian situation. I must clarify matters before the international community, the people of Venezuela and the media. He lied in saying that yesterday the region as a whole rejected the representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela at the Organization of American States. That is false. He is misinformed. It is a problem with his lawyers.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“We therefore urge the Security Council to insist that its resolutions be implemented to the letter and to reject the use of terrorist practices as a political weapon against our legitimate Government institutions.”
2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source
“Our resolve is all the greater today, given that our country is a victim of terrorist attacks, including against our vital infrastructure, including our national electric system, in flagrant violation of resolution 2341 (2017), and against our own Head of State, as occurred in August 2018 when there was a failed assassination attempt was carried out against President Nicolas Maduro Moros. In that regard, we conclude our statement by denouncing before the international community the fact that the terrorist activities against Venezuela are planned, instigated, implemented and financed using resources that have been stolen from our nation as part of a campaign of aggression that has the backing of foreign Powers whose policies and practices are a threat to peace and security, both at the international level and for my country.”
2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source
“We encourage United Nations entities to cooperate with Member States and continue to provide assistance, uponrequest, to implementtheir international obligations in the fight against the financing of terrorism. We also recognize the importance of sharing information and good practices, through our financial intelligence units, domestically and among Governments, in order to effectively combat the financing of terrorism. In conclusion, the 120 Member States that make up the Movement express their full solidarity with those countries that recently suffered from terrorist acts. Allow us now to make a few comments in our national capacity. We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to combating terrorism and its financing.”
2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source
“The Member States of the Movement note that the financing of terrorism is a matter of great concern that must be fought with determination. We therefore reiterate the obligation of the international community to prevent and suppress the financing of terrorist acts and to criminalize the intentional provision or collection, by any means, directly or indirectly, of funds by their nationals or in their territories with the intention that they be used, or with the knowledge that they might be used, to commit terrorist acts. On that point, it is worth noting the increase in recognized potential links between transnational organized crime and the financing of terrorism. We therefore stress the need to promote cooperation in the fight against those criminal activities.”
2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source
“The Movement expresses its determination to take prompt and effective measures to eliminate international terrorism and, in that context, urges all States, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, to comply with their obligations, under international law and international humanitarian law, in the fight against terrorism by prosecuting or, where appropriate, extraditing the perpetrators of acts of terrorism; preventing the organization, instigation or financing of acts of terrorism against other States from within or outside their territories or by organizations based in their territories; refraining from organizing, instigating, assisting, financing or participating in acts of terrorism in the territories of other States; and refraining from encouraging activities within their territories aimed at the commission of acts of terrorism and from allowing the use of their territories to plan, train or finance such acts; and refraining from supplying arms or other weapons that could be used in terrorist acts in other States.”
2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source
“Experience shows us that terrorist groups are fuelled by, among other things, hopelessness, injustice, frustration, the lack of opportunity and the denial of human rights and fundamental freedoms in order to promote their criminal agenda based on hatred, intolerance, sectarianism and extremism. Poverty, social and economic inequalities; political, ethnic and religious intolerance, as well as the imposition of unilateral coercive measures, colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation, as well as violations of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States, among others factors, are also part of the fabric of so-called determining drivers of terrorism.”
2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source
“Acts of terrorism are among the most blatant violations of international law, including international humanitarian law, in particular the right to life, as they deprive people of the full enjoyment of their human rights and fundamental freedoms. Such acts endanger both the territorial integrity and stability of States, as well as national, regional and international security, while destabilizing legitimately constituted Governments, existing constitutional order and the political unity of States. Against that backdrop, we believe it is necessary to address in a comprehensive way the conditions that facilitate the spread of terrorism.”
2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source
“Mr. Moncada (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): It is an honour for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to speak on behalf of the 120 member States that make up the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. Due to lack of time, I shall read out a summarized version of our statement. The Non-Aligned Movement takes this opportunity to renew its commitment to the fight against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, considering it one of the gravest dangers and threats to international peace and security. Any act of terrorism is criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of its motivation as well as where, when and by whom it is committed.”
2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source
“It is already publicly known that the United States is right now attempting to put together an indirect mercenary war using irregular armed groups, which will make it possible for it to seem - perversely - to be part of a colonial humanitarian operation and thus the supposed saviours of our nation. In brief, we are here to call for what any other country or responsible State Member of the United Nations would call for, that is, defence of the principles of our founding Charter, including respect for sovereignty, political independence, territorial integrity, non-interference in internal affairs, the right to the self-determination of peoples and the right of States' legal equality. But, above all, we have come to request that Security Council uphold our right to peace.”
2019-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8476 (2019) · source
“And, in a cruel twist of fate, the person put in charge by the United States of the operation by the Contras in Nicaragua was Elliott Abrams, who is present here. He himself is today responsible for the operation against Venezuela. He is the one who used airplanes loaded with weapons disguised as humanitarian aid to foment death and destruction in Nicaragua. And he would have us believe that he is very keen to send monetary assistance to Venezuela using masked men throwing Molotov cocktails. In conclusion, we demand from the Security Council a clear statement condemning and prohibiting the use of military force in all its forms and manifestations against Venezuela.”
2019-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8476 (2019) · source
“We also denounce the fact that the spokespeople of President Trump's Government are currently fabricating a narrative alleging an absurd number of supposed defectors from the National Bolivarian Armed Forces so as to justify the formation of a so-called liberation army of Venezuela on Colombian territory, with the aim of infiltrating our country and destroying the peace of our nation. The organizers of that armed criminal group flagrantly brag with total impunity in the Colombian media. That is public data. We are not saying that we have secret information. We will share all the information with the Council. It is no longer about publicly using military force but instead of its covert use in a war using paid mercenaries, in the same manner as was done in Nicaragua during the cruel war by the Contras.”
2019-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8476 (2019) · source
“Both Costa Rica and other countries in the region refuse to support the violence of the United States and its allies against our people. We want to denounce - and it is a very important denunciation - the fact that there is an ongoing military threat against Venezuela. It is for that reason that the United Kingdom deployed a warship last Saturday less than 80 kilometres off our coast. It still has not been able to justify its presence. It is for that same reason that the United States made a show of troop movements on Colombian territory near our border, while at the same time threatening to kill our Head of State.”
2019-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8476 (2019) · source
“Given that the primary function of this organ is the maintenance of international peace and security, the world cannot understand why President Trump's Government refuses to adopt a draft resolution prohibiting the use and threat of use of force in the case of Venezuela. Do Council members know why it does not do that? Because President Trump continues to publicly threaten the Venezuelan people with the military option. It is immoral and irresponsible to blackmail an entire population in total violation of international law and the Charter of the United Nations. The President of Costa Rica pointed out yesterday that he did not endorse the communique issued by the group of countries that met last Monday in Bogota to discuss the situation in Venezuela, because the issue of the use of military force against Venezuela was openly discussed.”
2019-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8476 (2019) · source
“We do not need those saviours, who are motivated by greed and end up destroying every nation they enter. We do not need those saviours. They are at this moment carrying out a massive extortion operation against every country legally trading with Venezuela. The United States and Europe are not a world Government that regulates trade throughout the rest of the world, and their illegal acts are the primary cause of our people's suffering. The Security Council must ensure compliance with international law in the face of the use, by the United States and the United Kingdom, of international economic institutions as weapons of mass destruction. Modern wars are not conducted only with bombs, but also with banks. They are using banks to destroy our people.”
2019-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8476 (2019) · source
“We also denounce the fact that those two colonial Powers - one still quite strong, the other in decline - have, in the course of one week, carried out the biggest robbery in our history - more than $30 billion was stolen from the Venezuelan people. And they want to conceal that pillage of historic proportions. If they have a genuine interest in the humanitarian situation and the well-being of the Venezuelan people, the first thing they should do is to return what they stole. The United States and the United Kingdom are committing acts of looting and pillaging that cannot be concealed under the cloak of humanitarian assistance. It is the same colonialist plundering from two centuries ago, but now it is disguised with a racist and messianic ideology that proclaims itself to be saving third-world countries. We do not need those saviours.”
2019-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8476 (2019) · source
“We still have not seen a single mention of that, not to mention any condemnation of those acts of aggression. We want the world to know that, when some countries in this Chamber express concern about the humanitarian situation in Venezuela, they never refer to the causes of the problem. It is illegal for acts of economic war to be perpetrated against our country, in violation of the human rights of our people and while using them as hostages in a policy of calculated cruelty, in total violation of the Charter of the United Nations. In addition, after that policy of calculated cruelty, there is concealment of the responsibility of the primary perpetrators of that crime, which are - we will name them here in the Chamber - the Government of the United States and Government the United Kingdom.”
2019-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8476 (2019) · source
“As an international incident, it falls under the responsibility of the Security Council, but it has been deliberately ignored. The Colombian Government still has not submitted the protocols and photographs that it threatened to show a few days ago that allegedly prove that it was a humanitarian operation and not an operation of aggression. We are still awaiting that alleged evidence. There is no international law that protects a Government from presenting itself at the border of another country and trying to force unknown cargo into that foreign territory using unknown protocols. Three days after the attack, there are still people with masks on at those bridges - protected by the Colombian Government - throwing firebombs from Colombian territory at the Venezuelan forces of public order.”
2019-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8476 (2019) · source
“The European countries that support the Government of President Trump in this adventure do so in spite of the fact that the legal experts of their own Parliaments are warning them that their interference in our internal affairs and their coercive illegal actions constitute hostile and illegal acts against our nation. The international community cannot understand how the Security Council can allow the deliberate Violation of the Charter of the United Nations by Council members, which have an obligation to enforce it. We denounce the fact that no mention has been made of the violent acts that occurred last weekend from Colombian territory to Venezuelan territory. That was an international incident, not a national one.”
2019-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8476 (2019) · source
“Therefore, it is not true that we have been sanctioned or disregarded by the OAS. That is false, yet it is cited as an example in draft resolution S/2019/186. We also reject the fact that our Constitution continues to be used in an attempt to justify a colonial intervention, while supporting a fictitious entity that does not exist in our basic law. The self-proclaimed Government constitutes a dictatorship, which has no legal basis in Venezuela. Its spokespeople have even already abandoned all intentions of calling for elections and are intending to hold on to power for years without consulting the people. For them it is enough to have the support of President Trump.”
2019-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8476 (2019) · source
“With regard to draft resolution S/2019/186, submitted by the United States and the Government of President Trump, we denounce, first, the falsification of the content of the resolutions of the Organization of American States (OAS), which are mentioned in the draft resolution, as the very Charter of that regional organization establishes that States do not have the authority to determine the legitimacy of the electoral processes of another country. That authority does not exist. And, if a group of countries decided to ignore the election results, the countries of that group did so in their national capacities, which do not apply whatsoever to that regional forum. This being about a failed operation of political aggression, our country is today fully exercising all its rights and privileges at the Organization of American States.”
2019-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8476 (2019) · source
“Mr. Moncada (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): Venezuela is today at peace, which is safeguarded by the constitutional Government of President Nicolas Maduro Moros, who is in full exercise of his legal powers and is guaranteeing the protection of the Venezuelan people and territory and the effective control of the country. We repeat - there is no violence of any kind in Venezuela. If there are any threats to the peace, they are coming from abroad.”
2019-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8476 (2019) · source
“The Charter of the Organization of American States and the Charter of the United Nations are being deliberately violated in that States are being threatened with the imposition of unilateral and illegal coercive measures, if they do not comply with the aggressive campaign of the United States of America. We have now reached the point whereby the Secretary-General of the Organization of American States has made a public call for war and military intervention, endangering the peace of the region, while benefiting from the protection and support of the United States Government. In that regard, we reject the United States' manipulation of that regional organization in order to advance its own imperial interests, promote its warmongering policy and attempt to undermine the peace and security of Latin America and the Caribbean.”
2018-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8414 (2018) · source
“The United States of America - the most powerful Power in the hemisphere - is in clear violation of all of the norms of international law and the foundational Charter of the Organization of American States itself, by insulting, coercing and punishing the States members of that Organization in order to subject them to United States economic and political interests and designs. The United States has a political doctrine - the Monroe Doctrine - that still today, 200 years after its inception, openly considers the entire American region as part of its own backyard and states that the United States has the right to act as the overriding police authority in the region.”
2018-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8414 (2018) · source
“We underscore the need for the Peacebuilding Commission to establish coordination among regional and subregional organizations, with a view to ensuring that regional efforts receive the necessary attention and support. We also express the need to develop integrated peacebuilding strategies with programmes that are able to adapt to the needs of the host countries in order to ensure national ownership. Speaking now in our national capacity, Venezuela rejects the manipulation pursued by certain regional organizations, such as the Organization of American States, in contrast to our relations with the African Union.”
2018-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8414 (2018) · source
“That means that they have a comparative advantage to both tackle and prevent conflicts, as well as to support political processes aimed at achieving the peaceful settlement of disputes. On many occasions, such as in the case of the African Union, regional organizations also have a well-established road map for the region and enjoy respected political authority. The countries of the Non-Aligned Movement therefore wish to highlight the role of regional and subregional agreements or bodies - including those to which Non-Aligned Movement countries and developing countries are a party - in the promotion of international peace and security, as well as in the economic and social development of their peoples, through cooperation among countries in their respective regions.”
2018-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8414 (2018) · source
“At the same time, we underscore that the implementation of all tasks entrusted to peacekeeping operations under the auspices of the United Nations should be supported by a comprehensive peace process and the provision of adequate resources and should be based on national ownership, the support of the international community, and the consent and acceptance of all of the parties concerned. The role of regional and subregional organizations has become increasingly more important, and they should receive support from the United Nations, bearing in mind that those organizations tend to have a better understanding of the realities, dynamics and background of the conflicts in their respective regions.”
2018-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8414 (2018) · source
“We emphasize that the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security lies with the United Nations and that agreements reached with regional and subregional organizations should be pursued under the provisions of Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter. Those agreements must not in any way serve as a substitute for the role of this Organization nor should they bypass the full application of the guiding principles of United Nations peacekeeping operations.”
2018-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8414 (2018) · source
“Mr. Moncada (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is honoured to deliver this statement on behalf of the 120 States members of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. The Non-Aligned Movement wishes to reiterate its full commitment to promoting the peaceful settlement of disputes, in line with the provisions of Article 2 and Chapter VI of the Charter of the United Nations, as well as relevant United Nations resolutions and international law, based on the conviction that those principles serve to strengthen international peace and security, thereby contributing to our collective efforts to save future generations from the scourge of war and armed conflicts.”
2018-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8414 (2018) · source
“In that regard, the Movement pays tribute to the work of the men and women peacekeepers who carry out their duties in the context of armed conflict and who work in adverse conditions, even at the risk of their lives. We express our sincere recognition of all peacekeepers, including those who have lost their lives on the ground while defending the flag of the United Nations and the cause of peace.”
2018-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8407 (2018) · source
“In that regard, and in line with our principled position in favour of African solutions to African problems, we stress the importance of securing financial support for African Union-led peace operations mandated by the Security Council so that deployed missions - including the African Standby Force, which has demonstrated its ability to respond to complex security situations - can maximize their effectiveness on the ground. In conclusion, we believe that the security of United Nations mission personnel remains a matter of great concern. We therefore categorically condemn all attacks and acts of violence against peacekeeping personnel, and we call for measures to be taken to ensure that those responsible are brought to justice.”
2018-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8407 (2018) · source
“The Movement welcomes the determination of the United Nations to strengthen its relationship with regional and subregional organizations, in particular with the African Union, in accordance with Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations and the recommendations of the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations. We are convinced that such cooperation is essential, while taking into account African potential, as long as peace and stability prevail. States members of the Movement reaffirm their support for efforts to strengthen African peacekeeping capacities and underline the importance of implementing the Joint United Nations-African Union Framework for an Enhanced Partnership in Peace and Security, signed on 19 April 2017.”
2018-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8407 (2018) · source
“Moreover, we reiterate the importance that we attach to the deliberations and reports of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations, which is the only body mandated to consider all aspects of peacekeeping operations, including the development of concepts, policies, doctrines and strategies. In that regard, we emphasize the need to establish a relationship of shared responsibility among the Security Council, police- and troop-contributing countries and the Secretariat, with a view to making objective evaluations and harnessing the potential of mandates and operations. That will ensure the formulation of clear mandates responding to the challenges on the ground. However, it will come to pass only if such cooperation is continuous and substantive, including before the renewal of mandates.”
2018-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8407 (2018) · source
“The implementation oftasks assigned to operations must be supported by a broad political process that is based on national ownership and backed by the international community, as well as on the consent and commitment of the parties concerned. Operations should not be used as an alternative to address the root causes of conflicts or to manage conflicts themselves. From the outset, they should receive political support and human, financial and logistical resources, as well as clearly defined mandates and exit strategies to guarantee the safety of the personnel deployed in the field.”
2018-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8407 (2018) · source
“At the most recent ministerial conference in April, member States reaffirmed their position on operations, which must be carried out in strict compliance with the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations. At the same time, they stressed that respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence, as well as non-interference in the internal affairs of States, are fundamental elements for promoting peace and international security. In that regard, the Ministers reiterated that respect for the principles of peacekeeping - namely, consent of the parties, impartiality and the non-use of force, except in self-defence and in defence of mandates - is essential to the success of operations, particularly those mandated to protect civilians.”
2018-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8407 (2018) · source
“Mr. Moncada (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuelais honouredto speak on behalf of the 120 States members of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. We express our gratitude to the delegation of the People's Republic of China for convening this debate on a topic of great importance to the Movement, bearing in mind that 88 per cent of the peacekeeping personnel deployed in the field come from non-aligned countries. The Movement reiterates its commitment to the promotion of the peaceful settlement of disputes under the provisions of Article 2 and Chapter VI of the Charter of the United Nations, all relevant resolutions of the Organization and international law as a whole, convinced that it will contribute to the strengthening of international peace and security.”
2018-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8407 (2018) · source
“We also renew our determination to work for a multipolar world, through the strengthening of the United Nations and multilateral processes, which are indispensable to our efforts to promote the interests of our nations and humankind as a whole.”
2018-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8395 (2018) · source
“In that regard, we urge the Security Council to make greater use of the International Court of Justice - the principal judicial organ of the United Nations - which has played an important role precisely in promoting the peaceful settlement of disputes and as a source of advisory opinions and interpretations on the relevant norms of international law and on controversial issues, with a view to ensuring the adherence of States in their actions to the Charter of the United Nations and international law. In conclusion, the Movement, faithful to its commitment to strengthening its role as an anti-war and peace-loving force, today reaffirms its determination to work for the establishment of a peaceful and prosperous world and a just and equitable world order.”
2018-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8395 (2018) · source
“In the spirit of the Charter of the United Nations, we call upon all States to promote the principle of the non-use of force and the peaceful settlement of disputes as the means of achieving collective security, and not the threat of force or the use of force, bearing in mind that armed force is not to be used save in the common interest, as stipulated in the Charter of our Organization.”
2018-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8395 (2018) · source