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Pérez Ayestarán

lines on the record: 129
first: 2021-12-09
most recent: 2023-12-07
sittings or episodes: 12
sources: un-security-council

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“Quite the contrary, it continues to deteriorate day by day, while the suffering of the noble Palestinian people, victims of violent attacks by Israel’s occupying forces, including acts of terror perpetrated by extremist settler militias, continues to drag on and on. A clear example of that is the situation in the Gaza Strip — the world’s largest prison — which has been subject to a cruel blockade for more than 15 years, resulting in a dire humanitarian situation and deplorable socioeconomic conditions for more than 2 million Palestinians that continue to deteriorate daily.”
2022-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9099Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Mr. Pérez Ayestarán (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): We appreciate the convening of today’s quarterly open debate on a topic to which we attach special importance based our long- standing, principled position and firm support for the just cause of the heroic Palestinian people. We would also like to thank the Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process for her briefing. We align ourselves with the statement delivered by the representative of Azerbaijan on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. Unfortunately, since we last met in this Chamber to address this issue (see S/PV.9021), the situation on the ground has not improved.”
2022-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9099Resumption1 (2022) · source
“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela wishes to conclude by urgently calling for the complete and immediate elimination of all so-called sanctions and for the establishment of mechanisms that, where the most serious crimes have been committed, provide due attention and reparations to victims, one the one hand, and promote accountability and justice, on the other. We must put a stop to the prevailing cycle of impunity that has resulted in encouraging the perpetration of atrocity crimes and serious violations of international law against entire peoples and nations, which are being punished for simply having decided, in a free and sovereign manner, to be masters of their own destiny and to reject any attempt at foreign domination.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Today, as humankind faces multiple challenges and common threats and as we are called upon, in an unprecedented manner and within the framework of an effective and inclusive multilateralism, to work together to strengthen international cooperation and solidarity, we are simultaneously observing the largest and most aggressive wave of unilateral coercive measures since the Second World War. We wish to warn of the dangers and grave consequences that such a criminal policy will undoubtedly have, either directly or indirectly, on the lives and well-being of all of our peoples, especially the most vulnerable.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052Resumption1 (2022) · source
“On that basis, today before this organ, we denounce the most serious, cruel and systematic violation, on the part of all Governments that promote and apply unilateral coercive measures with impunity, of human rights and international law, including international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law, international trade law and the law of international responsibility, as well as international human rights treaties; the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations; the relevant judgments and resolutions of the International Court of Justice, the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council; and the norms governing the immunities of States and their property. In that context, we wish to take this opportunity to express not only our regret but also our serious concern.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052Resumption1 (2022) · source
“The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court states that the crime of extermination includes the intentional imposition of living conditions, including the deprivation of access to food or medicine, that lead to the destruction of a part of the population. The statements I mentioned earlier clearly constitute an open confession by the United States Government with respect to the commission of crimes against humanity against my country’s people.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052Resumption1 (2022) · source
“In that context, it is worth recalling the remarks of the former United States Ambassador to Venezuela, William Brownfield, who in 2018 noted the following: “We must treat this as an agony, a tragedy that will continue until it finally reaches an end ... And if we can do something to accelerate it, we must do it, but we must do it understanding that this is going to have an impact on millions of people who are already having difficulties in finding food and medicines ... We cannot do this and pretend that it will not have an impact, we have to make a hard decision, the desired end justifies this severe punishment”.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052Resumption1 (2022) · source
“According to former United States National Security Advisor John Bolton, the unilateral and extraterritorial coercive measures enacted by his country, applied without any kind of authorization from the Security Council, that is to say, illegally, seek to use the immense economic power of the United States to benefit the interests of its Government; in other words, to exert pressure on other States, coerce their sovereign will and obtain various kinds of advantages from them, on the basis of a non-existent exceptionalism, through which it seeks to convert its national laws into universal laws.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052Resumption1 (2022) · source
“The economic, commercial and financial blockade that has been imposed de facto and in a generalized manner against our country has resulted in considerable human and financial losses for the nation, as well as in the theft of at least $30 billion in accounts and property of our country abroad, in addition to the loss of more than 14 tons of our country’s gold reserves, which were looted by the British Government.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052Resumption1 (2022) · source
“That being the case, at this meeting we reiterate that unilateral coercive measures are indisputably illegal and are part of a coldly calculated experiment to create pain and suffering. It is a planned and deliberate policy of aggression, which was even escalated amid the worst pandemic in the past 100 years, to violate the human rights of entire peoples, including 30 million Venezuelan men and women. Since at least 2015, when our country was brazenly declared a so-called unusual and extraordinary threat to the security of the United States, more than 502 unilateral, restrictive and punitive coercive measures have been illegally applied against Venezuela.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052Resumption1 (2022) · source
“In 1970, the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, recalled the duty of States to refrain in their international relations from exercising, applying or encouraging coercion or economic, political or any other kind of measures against the political independence or territorial integrity of any State or to achieve its subordination. For its part, the International Court of Justice, in 1986, ruled that, in the light of the principle of non-intervention, methods of coercion are illegal when they seek to interfere in the sovereign affairs of States, such as the choice of their political, economic, social or cultural system, or the formulation of their foreign policy.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052Resumption1 (2022) · source
“There is a clear contradiction in raising the issue of accountability and justice when at this same table sit representatives of Governments, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, that, by their deliberate actions, seek to kill entire peoples through starvation, poverty and disease. It is impossible to speak of accountability and justice while at the same time promoting in this organ a climate of international impunity, which ultimately encourages the crimes by which such countries seek to satisfy their desire for neocolonial domination at all costs.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Despite the that, the so-called international community and, more specifically, some permanent members of the Security Council have failed more than a third of humankind, that is, more than 2.5 billion people, who, according to independent experts of the United Nations, are today suffering the negative effects of the illegal enactment and implementation of unilateral coercive measures in more than 30 countries. Such measures, by all accounts, represent not only flagrant violations of international law, but also massive violations of their human rights, particularly their right to life, development, food and health, among many others. That being the case, we must recognize that the issue under consideration at today’s meeting faces a fundamental contradiction.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Mr. Pérez Ayestarán (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): In the founding Charter of our Organization, the peoples of the United Nations reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, the dignity and worth of the human person and the equal rights of men and women, while declaring their determination to promote social progress for all. For its part, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights emphasizes that, “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services”.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052Resumption1 (2022) · source
“We reiterate our commitment to continuing to work towards the achievement of a free, independent and sovereign State of Palestine, within the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital and as a full Member of the Organization. In that regard, we reiterate that the two-State solution, which is the most just, sustainable and widely supported by the international community, is the only way to end one of the most painful conflicts that has faced humankind for more than 70 years.”
2022-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9021Resumption1 (2022) · source
“However, given the current reality and the gravity of the situation on the ground, while the Israeli aggression continues to be carried out with total impunity, with no accountability for the perpetrators of those heinous crimes before international justice, we stress that the time has come to adopt without further delay the measures needed to provide international protection to the Palestinian civilian population. In conclusion, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela reaffirms its unwavering position in support and defence of the independence and inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the realization of their legitimate national aspirations.”
2022-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9021Resumption1 (2022) · source
“To that end, we reiterate that it will be imperative for this organ to end once and for all the long-standing framework of international impunity that has been permitted by the Government of one of its permanent members and that ultimately results in encouraging the crimes committed daily by Israel. We also call on the occupying Power not only to comply with its obligations under the relevant General Assembly and Security Council resolutions, cease its systematic violations of international law, end its policy of colonial occupation and apartheid and stop committing crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Palestinian people, but also and especially, end all unilateral approaches and actions, including the illegal expansion of settlements and the policy of evictions and the demolition of homes.”
2022-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9021Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Faced with that reality, however, we are duty- bound to continue urging the Security Council to play a constructive role in the peaceful resolution of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, in line with the powers conferred upon it under the Charter of the United Nations, including by fostering an environment conducive to the resumption of the needed political dialogue and credible, serious and direct negotiations to achieve a just, comprehensive and lasting peace, based on the two-State solution, with both States living side by side in peace and security.”
2022-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9021Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Similarly, we regret that the work of this organ continues to be paralysed by the obstruction of one single country — the United States of America — the Government of which refuses to allow even the publication of certain press releases, that is to say, the minimum possible step that the Security Council can take to reject the violence and acts of collective punishment against the heroic Palestinian people and call for dialogue, de-escalation and upholding the status quo. We are not surprised, however, for that is precisely the double standard embodied by those adamantly presenting themselves as champions of freedom, human rights and a supposedly rules-based system. The harsh reality is that, in their racist and supremacist view, the degree of human suffering apparently depends on the geographic location of the conflict.”
2022-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9021Resumption1 (2022) · source
“We further condemn the fact that, in the face of the painful and protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the same determination on the part of some Western countries, including some members of the Security Council, is lacking not only to uphold the Charter of the United Nations and the norms of international law, but also to hold Israel accountable for its crimes and demand that it end its continued aggression against Palestine.”
2022-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9021Resumption1 (2022) · source
“We have also witnessed repudiatory acts of vandalism against the holy sites in occupied East Jerusalem, such as the Al-Aqsa Mosque, even in the midst of what should be a time of reflection and peace for Christians, Jews and Muslims alike. We reject this new onslaught by Israel, which is using the attention that the international community is devoting to other conflict situations in the world today to its advantage as a distraction and opportunity to step up its brutal aggression against Palestine.”
2022-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9021Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Mr. Pérez Ayestarán (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): We appreciate the convening of this quarterly open debate on a subject to which our country attaches particular importance, given its historic principled position and staunch support for the noble cause of the heroic Palestinian people. We are also grateful for the briefing by the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. In recent weeks, we have observed with great concern how the situation on the ground has been deteriorating with each passing day. Tensions have further escalated, marked by provocations and deplorable acts of violence, with excessive, unnecessary and indiscriminate use of force against the Palestinian civilian population, including women and children.”
2022-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9021Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Venezuela is determined to continue participating actively and constructively to that end, but we would warn of the dangers of including the issue on the agenda of the Security Council. On the one hand, it would do nothing to contribute to the efforts under way to address the climate crisis. On the other, it would perpetuate the organ’s practice of usurping functions that are not within its scope of competence by insisting on addressing issues that go beyond the powers conferred upon it by the founding Charter of our Organization.”
2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923Resumption1 (2021) · source
“Therefore, the General Assembly, as the main deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the United Nations, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the main forum for discussing and comprehensively addressing that important issue, represent more inclusive platforms for forging consensus and adopting decisions, jointly and on an equal footing, on the course of action to follow in order to achieve the goals we have set together. In conclusion, we echo the words of the Secretary- General in that there is no planet B. That is why there can be no other option than collective action with a sense of urgency to make climate justice a reality now, without political calculations or pettiness.”
2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923Resumption1 (2021) · source
“Furthermore, if that practice were to be consolidated, it would open the door to invoking issues related to climate change for the purpose of including certain countries on the agenda of this organ for purely political motivations that are clearly not in line with those established in Article 24 of the Charter of the United Nations. Similarly, we reiterate that climate change must be addressed through cooperation and concerted action; that is, within the framework of multilateralism and under the auspices of the United Nations, in order to ensure the due participation of the entire international community.”
2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923Resumption1 (2021) · source
“We agree that, in situations of armed conflict or post-conflict, the adverse effects of climate change may represent an additional threat that has the potential to further exacerbate the situation on the ground. However, we must express our concern over attempts to securitize such a sensitive issue that concerns us all, without exception, by having it addressed by the Security Council, which has a clear mandate to ensure prompt and effective action by the United Nations in cases that threaten international peace and security.”
2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923Resumption1 (2021) · source
“For its part, while climate change — the consequences of which have accelerated in recent months — constitutes an existential threat to all humankind, that phenomenon has a major impact on the countries of the South, and especially on small island developing States. We insist, in that regard, on the need to comply fully with the relevant commitments in that area, including the three pillars in our joint response to global warming, and to always observe the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities. We further stress that the illegal application of unilateral coercive measures has serious repercussions on climate action, as they undermine, inter alia, the implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and efforts aimed at adaptation, mitigation, financing and the acquisition and transfer of technologies.”
2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923Resumption1 (2021) · source
“We agree that, as indicated in the concept paper prepared to guide the deliberations of this debate (see S/2021/988), the intensification of both scourges in recent years is a source of great concern for the entire international community. In that vein, we reiterate that international terrorism today represents one of the greatest threats to international peace and security. The criminal acts committed by terrorist groups threaten the territorial integrity and political unity of States, while seeking to generate terror, destabilize legitimate Governments and undermine their constitutional order. We reject, in that connection, the exploitation of the ongoing pandemic for the perpetration of terrorist acts and reiterate that the use of terrorism and violence to promote the overthrow of legitimate Governments is clearly unacceptable.”
2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923Resumption1 (2021) · source
“Mr. Pérez Ayestarán (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): As this is our first time taking the floor this month, allow us to wish you, Sir, every success at the helm of the Security Council during December. We would also like to take this opportunity to recognize the work of Mexico in its presidency over the Council in November. At the outset, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela would like to reaffirm two central issues in its statement, namely, its categorical rejection of international terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and its firm commitment to the fight against climate change.”
2021-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8923Resumption1 (2021) · source