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lines on the record: 31
first: 2017-09-20
most recent: 2019-04-10
sittings or episodes: 2
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“As President Trump has said, "Ifthe righteous many do not confront the wicked few, then evil will triumph". When decent people and nations become bystanders to history, the forces of destruction only gather power and strength. So let us today rededicate ourselves to the mission upon which this body was founded - to maintain international peace and security. We have confidence that if we do that, if we make every effort to be at peace, the God ofpeace will guide us and bless us, today, tomorrow and always. I thank you, Mr. President, for the honour of addressing the Council today. May God bless the people of Venezuela. May God bless us all.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“But now it is time for the United Nations to act and for the world to stand with the people of Venezuela as they march to freedom. History has taught us what happens when the civilized nations of the world allow oppression to go unchecked. When a brutal dictatorship arose in Europe, the world failed to respond, and millions of lives were lost in the Second World War. This very institution was forged in the aftermath of that war so that nations around the world could come together and confront dictatorship with one voice. And so the United States is calling on the United Nations to live up to its very purpose, reject the failed leadership of Nicolas Maduro, stand with us and with nations across the world and this hemisphere to help the people of Venezuela forge a brighter future.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“To that end, the United States is preparing a draft resolution recognizing the legitimacy of the Government of interim President Juan Guaido, and today we urge every member of the Security Council and all States Members of the United Nations to support it and to stand with the Venezuelan people as they rise up to restore freedom, democracy and libertad to their nation. And this they are doing. They are rising up against intimidation and violence. Even today the people of Venezuela are taking to the streets to march for freedom. Despite all the hardship, they continue to march. Despite all of the oppression, they continue to march. Despite the opposition, they continue to march with courage and strength, because they are marching to freedom. In the words of Simon Bolivar, a people that loves freedom will in the end be free.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“This body should revoke the credentials of Venezuela's representative to the United Nations, recognize interim President Juan Guaido and seat the representative of the free Venezuelan Government in this body without delay. With all due respect, Ambassador Moncada should not be at this meeting. He should return to Venezuela and tell Nicolas Maduro that his time is up. It is time for him to go. The men, women and children of Venezuela are suffering. Their economy has been destroyed. Their democracy has been destroyed. The people of Venezuela are paying the price, and soon the region and the world will pay the price if we fail to act. There can be no bystanders to this history. For the peace and security of our hemisphere, the world and the United Nations must stand with the people of Venezuela.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“We have provided $200 million in aid to support displaced Venezuelans and the host communities that support them. And today, under President Trump's direction, the United States is announcing an additional $60 million in humanitarian assistance to address that crisis. The United States of America will continue to exert all diplomatic and economic pressure to bring about a peaceful transition to democracy in Venezuela, but all options are on the table. Up to this point, while other international bodies have acted, the United Nations and the Security Council have refused to act. But now that nations across this hemisphere have spoken, the time has come for the United Nations to recognize interim President Juan Guaido as the legitimate President of Venezuela and seat his representative in this body.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“Unlike nations that are subsidizing the dictator in Caracas, under the leadership of President Donald Trump, the United States has been standing with the people of Venezuela. And we are committed to helping the families and communities that have been devastated by the Maduro regime. At this point, the United States has sanctioned more than a 150 Government officials and organizations loyal to the dictator. We have sanctioned State-owned businesses to prevent the Maduro regime from robbing the people of what is rightfully theirs, and as President Trump has said, we can be a lot tougher. In addition, the United States has positioned more than 500 metric tons of food and humanitarian supplies on the Venezuelan border, ready for immediate distribution.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“And soon, at President Trump's direction, the United States will announce additional action to hold Cuba accountable for its malign influence in Venezuela. This week, in addition to Cuba's action, Caracas received a delegation from Iran to begin direct air service between those two rogue capitals. That blacklisted airline is used to export terrorism by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which President Trump formally designated as a foreign terrorist organization on Monday. That is the company that Nicolas Maduro keeps, and those nations continue to prop him up even as he inflicts suffering on the Venezuelan people. Just two months ago, the dictator in Caracas actually danced while his own citizens were shot and truckloads of desperately needed food and medicine burned.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“The draft resolution was not adopted (see S/PV.8476). Two nations that continue to back that brutal regime used their vetoes to stop this body from taking action. And while Russia and China continue to obstruct the Security Council, rogue States, like Iran and Cuba, are doing all they can to prop up the Maduro regime. For decades, Cuba has tried to create client States across our region. While normal countries export goods, Cuba exports tyranny and strong-arm tactics. Even now Cuban military and intelligence services train, support and equip Venezuela's secret police as they silence opponents, jail and torture members of the opposition. Last week, the United States took action to sanction ships transporting Venezuelan oil to Cuba.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“And just yesterday, the Organization of American States, the oldest regional organization in the world, voted to stand with the Venezuelan people and recognize the Guaido Government's representative as the only true representative of Venezuela. At President Trump's direction, the United States was proud to be the first nation to recognize interim President Juan Guaido as the legitimate President of Venezuela. Today, 54 nations have joined us. The western hemisphere has spoken with a clear voice. Nations across the world have spoken. It is time for the United Nations to speak. In February, the United States introduced a draft resolution at the Security Council that called for the restoration of democracy in Venezuela and for the Maduro regime to allow all humanitarian aid into the country.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“Just three short months ago, after Nicolas Maduro was sworn into his second term, which was stolen in a sham election, the National Assembly, the only duly elected body in Venezuela, exercised its power under the Constitution and recognized a new leader, interim President Juan Guaido'. All across the western hemisphere nations have been standing up to declare their support for President Guaido. Last month, the Inter-American Development Bank voted to see President Guaido's representative. Earlier this week, the Group of Seven issued a statement saying the May 2018 presidential election lacked legitimacy, and called on the Madura regime to, in their words, "restore the authority of the National Assembly".”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“Venezuela is a failed State, and as history teaches, failed States know no boundaries. Drug traffickers, criminal gangs, even terrorists, such as Hizbullah, are exploiting the chaos in Venezuela to gain a foothold in the region and export crime and violence. Were we to let the crisis continue, the chaos and suffering would only spread. The struggle in Venezuela is between dictatorship and democracy. Nicolas Maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power. And Nicolas Maduro must go. But for all the suffering, the Venezuelan people across Venezuela - in cities large and small - people are rising up. They are rising up against their oppression and deprivation. Today those courageous Venezuelans will take to the streets again. As President Trump said not long ago, the fight for freedom in Venezuela has just begun.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“Then there was the day in Cartagena, Colombia, at another mission, where Venezuelan people had fled the deprivation in their country, and a grandmother told me how it had gotten so bad in their small rural town that her grandchildren had to rise at 4 am. to get a single ticket to purchase a piece of bread at 4 pm. Their children were starving, and she gathered up her grandchildren and fled the country. Those are the stories the world deserves to hear of deprivation. The truth is that those who stay behind are subject to crime, violence and lawlessness. Thieves in Venezuela do not rob banks; they rob restaurants for food. Vicious gangs and so-called "colectivos" have turned the streets into war zones. Venezuela now has the highest murder rate in the world, as more than 70 people are murdered every single day.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“The rising desperation in Venezuela has fuelled a mass exodus, the likes of which we have never seen in the western hemisphere. More than 3 million Venezuelans have now abandoned their beloved country, and, if things do not get better, it is estimated that another 2 million are expected to follow before the year is out. Travelling through the region, my wife and I witnessed the results of that deprivation first-hand. At a church in Manaus, Brazil, we spoke to families who had fled the deprivation in Venezuela. I will never forget when a father looked at me, with his two young boys standing at his side, and said how hard it was as a father to come home at the end of the day and say, "we are not eating today". As he said it, his two little boys looked up and nodded, recalling those days.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“In what was once one of the wealthiest countries in our hemisphere, nine out of 10 people now live in poverty. The average Venezuelan has lost more than 20 pounds through deprivation and malnutrition. Thousands of Venezuelan children are starving and, at this very hour, infants in hospitals across Venezuela are dying for lack of basic medical care. The Maduro regime, in the midst of this deprivation and suffering, has used violence and intimidation against anyone who opposes their actions. In the past three months, the regime has thrown at least 1,255 people into jail without any due process of law and killed at least 40 protesters. That is the nature of the regime that we are dealing with. But the Maduro regime is a threat not only to the Venezuelan people, it is a threat to the peace and security of the wider region as well.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“I am here today on behalf of the President of the United States of America to discuss the ongoing crisis in Venezuela and to call on this body to stand up for democracy and the rule of law in that nation, which has suffered so much. Article 24 of the Charter of the United Nations confers on the Security Council the responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. As another American president said many years ago, the United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its Members. It is why this institution exists. For six long years, the people of Venezuela have suffered under the heavy hand of oppression. The Maduro regime's socialist policies have shrunk their economy by nearly half.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“My prayer today is that this institution might mirror that conviction in renewed ways, in the faith that, as we make every effort to pursue peace, the God of peace will guide us and bless us, today, tomorrow and always, for this generation and our posterity.”
2017-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8051 (2017) · source
“The first words of Article 1 of the Charter of the United Nations - "to maintain international peace" - must again be our lodestar, our ideal and our aspiration. Through reform of our efforts and reform of this institution, through renewed courage to speak and act whenever and wherever the inalienable rights of innocent people or the peace of the world are at risk, we will create, as our President said, "a more safe and peaceful future for all people". As the world witnessed yesterday, our President is a man of deep conviction and faith - faith in God and faith in the boundless capacity of peoples and nations founded on peace and justice to improve the world.”
2017-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8051 (2017) · source
“Unless the violence is stopped, which justice demands, it will only get worse, and it will sow seeds of hatred and chaos that may well consume the region for generations to come and threaten the peace of us all. As I said, keeping the peace requires more than peacekeeping; it requires action, courage, conviction. And so the United Nations must be prepared to do more, for as President Trump said yesterday: "If the righteous many do not confront the wicked few, then evil will triumph. When decent people and nations become bystanders to history, the forces of destruction only gather power and strength." (A/72/PV3, p. 11) Let us therefore rededicate ourselves to the mission upon which this organ was founded.”
2017-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8051 (2017) · source
“Yesterday, Secretary of State Tillerson discussed Rohingya refugees with Aung San Suu Kyi, and urged the Burmese Government and military to facilitate humanitarian aid and confront the allegations of human rights abuses. While we welcome Suu Kyi's comments that returning refugees have nothing to fear, the United States renews its call on Burma's security forces to end their violence immediately and support diplomatic efforts for a long-term solution. President Trump and I also call on the Security Council and the United Nations to take strong and swift action to bring that crisis to an end and give hope and help to the Rohingya people in their hour ofneed.”
2017-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8051 (2017) · source
“At this very moment, in South-East Asia we see heartbreak and assaults on human rights and innocent civilians that are ultimately endangering the sovereignty and security of the entire region. In recent weeks, the people of my country and the wider world have witnessed a great tragedy unfolding in Burma, with the Rohingya people. Recently, Burmese security forces responded to militant attacks on Government outposts with terrible savagery, burning villages and driving the Rohingya from their homes. The images of the violence and its victims have shocked the American people and decent people all over the world. And now we are witnessing a historic exodus. Over 400,000 Rohingya, including tens of thousands of children, have now been forced to flee from Burma to Bangladesh, with more following every day.”
2017-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8051 (2017) · source
“As evidence, the Human Rights Council has adopted more than 70 resolutions condemning Israel, while largely ignoring the world's worst human rights abusers. It is, as President Trump said yesterday, "a massive source of embarrassment", and we call on the Security Council and the entire Organization to immediately embrace reforms of the membership and practices of the Human Rights Council and end the Council's blatant bias against our cherished ally, Israel. Under President Trump, the United States of America is firmly committed to the cause of human rights because we are committed to keeping the peace. Keeping the peace requires more than peacekeeping; it requires action and reform, and it also requires a willingness to call out senseless attacks on innocent people around the world.”
2017-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8051 (2017) · source
“Venezuela - a dictatorship that undermines democracy at every turn, imprisons political opponents and, as we speak, is advancing policies that worsen deprivation and poverty and are costing the lives of innocent men, women and children - sits on the Human Rights Council. The Security Council must reform the Human Rights Council's membership and its operation. As to its operation, I think of what President John F. Kennedy warned more than 50 years ago - that the United Nations must not become "a forum for invective". Unfortunately, today the Human Rights Council has become exactly that, and particularly the Human Rights Council has become a forum for anti-Semitism and invective against Israel. The Council's agenda item 7 actually singles out Israelfordiscussionatevery singlemeeting-something no other country must endure.”
2017-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8051 (2017) · source
“The United Nations is bound by its Charter to foster international cooperation in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all. That was the purpose under which the United Nations Human Rights Council was formed, but the truth is the Human Rights Council does not deserve its name. As we look at the membership of the Council today, we see nations that betray those timeless principles upon which the Organization was founded. Today the Human Rights Council actually attracts and welcomes many of the worst human rights violators in the world. A clear majority of the Human Rights Council members failed to meet even the most basic human rights standards. Cuba - an oppressive regime that has repressed its people and jailed political opponents for more than half a century - sits on the Human Rights Council.”
2017-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8051 (2017) · source
“As the President said yesterday, the United States has great strength and patience, but all options are on the table. If we are forced to defend ourselves or our allies, we will do so with military power that is effective and overwhelming. We call on the United Nations and the Security Council to do more to keep the peace - much more - and confront the threat posed by North Korea. Finally, to keep the peace most effectively, this organ must have the credibility to pursue peace by advancing the cause ofhuman rights. It is no coincidence that some of the most dangerous regimes in the world are also some of the worst abusers of human rights. In Iran, North Korea and other despotic regimes, we see a truth of history borne out once again - those who subvert the freedom of their people at home undermine sovereignty and security abroad.”
2017-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8051 (2017) · source
“And as the world has seen in just the past few days, a depraved regime in North Korea is relentlessly pursuing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles and now, as the President said, "threatens the entire world with unthinkable loss of human life". The United States is grateful to see the Security Council unanimously adopt resolutions 2371 (2017) and 2375 (2017), which impose tough new sanctions on the North Korean regime. But to be clear, the United States of America will continue to bring the full range of American power to bear on the regime in Pyongyang. We will continue to marshal economic and diplomatic pressure - ours and from countries across the world - to demand that North Korea abandon its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.”
2017-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8051 (2017) · source
“For as President Trump observed yesterday, we are once again confronted "by those who threaten us with chaos, with turmoil and terror", who seek to undermine sovereignty, prosperity and security - all of which the President called the "pillars of peace". In Eastern Europe, Russia continues to compromise the sovereignty of its neighbours as it seeks to redraw international borders by force. Radical Islamic terrorism continues to beset nations, with barbarous attacks in Barcelona, Paris and London. In the Middle East, the world's leading State sponsor of terrorism continues to flout the spirit of the Iran deal, destabilizing the region and brazenly threatening the security of sovereign nations.”
2017-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8051 (2017) · source
“The United States of America, with our allies, emerged victorious, but in that victory we vowed to come together to prevent dictators and demagogues from ever threatening the peace that we had won through our shared sacrifice. As President Harry Truman told us then, it was not sufficient to merely check madmen who would plan world domination, but rather to bring together again "a mighty combination of nations founded upon justice for peace". And so we founded this great body, the United Nations. That was the rallying cry of the United Nations in the twentieth century, and so it must be again in the twenty-first century. But keeping the peace requires more than peacekeeping; it requires action and the unwavering resolve of every country represented here today.”
2017-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8051 (2017) · source
“We urge the United Nations to analyse all peacekeeping operations in the light of those principles so that missions most effectively advance peace across the wider world - after all, keeping the peace is at the heart of the United Nations mission. The very first words of the Charter of the United Nations are "to maintain international peace". Just yesterday President Trump challenged this great body to rededicate itself to that noble goal, and I do so today on behalf of our nation before the Security Council. History records that the United Nations was forged in the fading embers of the Second World War, the most destructive conflict in the history of the world.”
2017-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8051 (2017) · source
“President Trump and I firmly believe that the United Nations must act to make its peacekeeping operations more efficient, more effective, more accountable and more credible. Ambassador Haley previously laid out the United States principles for peacekeeping reform, and we are all familiar with them. Peacekeeping missions must support a political solution and have the consent of the host country. Its mandates must be realistic and achievable. Every mission must have an exit strategy. And United Nations peacekeeping missions must adjust to progress and failure. In short, when a mission succeeds we should not prolong it; when a mission underperforms we should restructure it; and when a mission consistently fails to fulfil the mandates of the Council, we should end it.”
2017-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8051 (2017) · source
“It was my honour, as Vice-President of the United States, to cast a vote in favour of the resolution. As President Trump said yesterday in his historic address to the General Assembly (see A/72/PV.3), just as each of us should always put our country first, we will always put America first. But as his words and, I hope, our presence here attest, America first does not mean America alone. As the President said, we will forever be a great friend to the world. It is because ofthat commitment that he sent me here today to the Security Council to reiterate our call for fundamental reforms of United Nations peacekeeping and our determination to see this institution do even more to keep the peace across the wider world.”
2017-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8051 (2017) · source
“It is a great honour to be with the Security Council today in the midst of the seventy-second session of the General Assembly. As we gather at this historic Assembly, I know all of our hearts are with the people of Puerto Rico as they face Hurricane Maria and its aftermath, as well as with the people of Mexico City. Even now, as first responders and families seek to save the lost and find those that are injured in the midst of the earthquake that has now claimed more than 200 lives, our hearts and our prayers are with the people of Puerto Rico and the people of Mexico as we gather. We are here today to discuss what I believe is the most important mission of the United Nations: keeping the peace. Let me begin by thanking Ethiopia for introducing resolution 2378 (2017), on peacekeeping reform.”
2017-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8051 (2017) · source