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Oquist Kelley

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2019-01-25
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2019-01-26
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  1. “Whenever it wants to, it disregards international law, including United Nations Security Council resolutions, and takes unilateral actions, because it decides to do so, based on the power it has." Venezuela is all ofLatin America and the Caribbean; Venezuela is the whole world, because, in Venezuela, the principles of non-interventionism and a multilateral order based on the independence, sovereignty and equality of States are being defended.”

    2019-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8452 (2019) · source

  2. “Nothing should derail the zone of peace in Latin America and the Caribbean proclaimed by the Heads of States and Governments of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States in 2014. Accordingly, any threat or act of military aggression is unacceptable and reprehensible. Our Commander President Daniel Ortega Saavedra has effectively summed up what is happening in this sister nation as follows: "Andinthesedays,whenitinitiateshostilities against peoples and nations like Venezuela, it is launching an openly interventionist policy of interference. What we are seeing is an action and an attitude of arrogance and disrespect for international law by a Power that, as history has shown, cannot coexist with or abide by international law.”

    2019-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8452 (2019) · source

  3. “It is essential and urgent that the will of the people be respected, that policies that violate international law definitively cease, and that hostile actions, including all unilateral coercive economic measures that threaten economic development and hinder the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, thereby violating the human rights of the entire Venezuelan people, are stopped. What characterizes the situation in Venezuela are the shameless concrete attempts to destroy the social gains in health, education, housing, reduction of poverty and hunger achieved with great effort by the Bolivarian revolution launched by the timeless Commander Hugo Chavez Frias.”

    2019-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8452 (2019) · source

  4. “The request for convening today's meeting is a clear interference in the internal affairs of States and a violation of the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations and of international law. The interest in and insistence on including the issue of Venezuela on the Council's agenda by the United States is another form of interfering and intervening in Venezuela's internal affairs, the clear objective of which is to impose a change of Government and to replace the Constitutional Government of President Nicolas Maduro through a coup d'etat. These actions do not contribute to a political and peaceful solution that specifically fits the Venezuelan people, who are the ones who should exercise their rights to sovereignty and self-determination within the framework of their domestic jurisdiction.”

    2019-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8452 (2019) · source

  5. “We must recall and share with the international community that the former President of the United States, Mr. Jimmy Carter, described Venezuela's electoral system as the best in the world. We recall this in case anyone has doubts about the accuracy and transparency of the results of all the elections held in Venezuela in the past 20 years. By the way, it is important to point out that no people in our Americas have exercised their sovereign right to choose their leaders as many times as the people of Venezuela have in these past two decades, which serves as an important lesson for all peoples - a lesson of sovereignty, socialjustice and democracy, conceived by the Venezuelan people.”

    2019-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8452 (2019) · source

  6. “Mr. Oquist Kelley (Nicaragua) (spoke in Spanish): Nicaragua is participating in today's Security Council meeting to reaffirm its commitment to peace and reiterate its solidarity with the Government and the people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and its legitimately elected president, our brother, Mr. Nicolas Maduro Moros. The Government and the people of Nicaragua believe that Venezuela in no way represents a threat to international peace and security, and we therefore demand and urge that the sovereign decisions of the Venezuelan people be respected. The Venezuelan people have already exercised their sovereign right by electing our brother Nicolas Maduro as their legitimate constitutional president, and notjust for one, but for two consecutive terms.”

    2019-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8452 (2019) · source

  7. “We congratulate Poland on the twenty-fourth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Katowice, but we must implement the Paris Agreement by following through on the commitments to reduce emissions and provide financing that will enable us to limit global average temperature rise to 15°C. The future of our civilization and the ecosystems that are vital to life on Mother Earth depend upon the 1.5°C target. With the climate summit to be convened by the Secretary-General in September, we have an opportunity to launch a genuine and effective movement for survival.”

    2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

  8. “If small island States that are losing their future are not compensated, there will be no climate justice in world. To safeguard international peace and security from the impact of climate change we have to decide on what to base our policies - science or greed, the common good of humankind and the planet in the long- term or national economic advantages in the short- term, defending the most vulnerable populations or promoting the selfish economy of endless, limitless and meaningless growth of production, consumption and capital accumulation on a planet with limited resources? We are 11 years from 2030 and have some decisions to make. There has been some progress.”

    2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

  9. “For mitigation and adaptation, the real test will be the replenishment of the Green Climate Fund in 2019. For losses and damages, the only scientific, fair and ethical way is for the countries that have caused the phenomenon to compensate the countries that are suffering the consequences to the extent of their historical and current responsibility, as Nicaraguan President Commander Daniel Ortega Saavedra proposed in the message delivered on his behalf to the General Assembly in 2015 (see A/70/PV.23). For those who find that approach very radical, we must remind them that the concept of compensation for damages has been part of all the legal and ethical systems of the world since antiquity. Of course, there are those who find it old-fashioned because they think that survival is too expensive.”

    2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

  10. “As for the future, if subsistence farming economies continue to collapse, an estimated 20 million refugees from the Sahel alone are expected by 2050. If Europe does not know what to do with 1 million refugees, it should ponder what it would do with 20 million. Central America and the Caribbean are among the most vulnerable regions to climate change worldwide. In Mesoamerica, southern Mexico and Central America, there is an increasingly arid dry zone inhabited by 3.6 million subsistence farming families. If there is a climate-related collapse, that economy of approximately 18 million people would swell the slums of the cities of the region or march north to climb over, dig under or pass through any wall they find along the way. The biggest obstacle to overcome is political will. One indicator is the lack of climate financing.”

    2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

  11. “In some cases droughts have lasted up to 300 years, such as in the Akkadian empire in Mesopotamia, in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, and the early Minoan civilization in Crete. I wonder if our civilization could survive a 300-year drought, or even a 100-year drought. Currently, the Sahara Desert is destroying the livelihoods of herders and farmers in conflict, while an Islamist war rages nearby, leaving 15.6 million people in the Sahel affected by a food crisis and generating a dangerous mass migration to the north. Lake Chad has dried by 95 per cent, affecting the population of four countries that face a double crisis of climate change and Boko Haram operations. At the same time, Al-Shabaab operates among the tens of thousands of refugees and internally displaced persons in Somalia.”

    2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

  12. “Mr. Oquist Kelley (Nicaragua) (spoke in Spanish): At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. We are pleased to see a sister republic of the Central American Integration System lead the debate. We also congratulate Belgium, Germany, Indonesia and South African on their election to serve as non-permanent members on the Council. Climate-change disasters have already led to failed States, and even failed societies. That has been the case in the past and is beginning to occur now. Forecasts are catastrophic if we do not take urgent action. Four thousand two hundred years ago, the great civilizations of the Bronze Age all toppled at almost the same due to droughts lasting more than 100 years.”

    2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source