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President Borja

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1992-01-31

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1992-01-31

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1. “become aware of its own imbalances; ethical value judgements have been passed On countries' situations, and this has added a new chapter to modern economic science, on the study of - to paraphrase Adam Smith - the causes of the poverty of nations. , Human development is, definitively, the most important issue of our day. Non-military risks to security have increased. Today, in the marginal countries, there is more poverty, more unemployment and more social instability than there was 10 years ago. The end of the cold war, as the Secretary-General said in his last report, will make it possible for mankind to release very considerable financial resources to social and to human development. This is, in the view of Ecuador, the most important, most crucial task of the United Nations during the new, historic phase, which is beginning today.”

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2. “We must be clear about the idea that behind poverty there lurk serious threats to the peace because - as they had not in times gone by - the peoples of today have passed value judgements on poverty. People used to view poverty as a household object and with the familiarity with which one views a household object, but they do not do so today. The conviction that poverty can be avoided leads to rebellion, and thus a dangerous and explosive political equation has now arisen: poverty plus a value judgmement on it plus rebellion equal the breaking of the peace. The same thing is happening in the international sphere: mankind has.”

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3. “A primary responsibility of the United Nations is to contribute to their attainment. Its fundamental mission as we look to the future should be the attainment of a new order which does justice to the poor countries, which allows them to participate equitably in global income and which distributes with justice the benefits of progress. That is why Ecuador enthusiastically supports the initiative to which President Mitterrand referred just a few moments ago, of convening a summit meeting on social development. Ecuador therefore enthusiastically supports the initiative, to which President Mitterrand referred just a few moments ago, of convening a summit on Social development.”

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4. “I say this as a leader who, deeply committed to the peaceful settlement of international disputes, proposed, last September before the General Assembly of the United Nations, the arbitration of Pope John Paul II to put an end to an old territorial dispute between my country and Peru. I am pleased in this connection to inform the Security Council that, since that time, we have begun an era of understanding and negotiation with the Government of Peru, inspired by the aspirations of peace and cooperation of both peoples, There can be no doubt whatsoever that a new stage has bequn in the history of mankind. I believe that this meeting symbolizes that fact. It is the turning of a page of history. The challenge today is international economic and social justice and human development.”

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5. “Thus, the sovereignty of a State is truly affirmed as such only when the State does not betray its own essence, in other words, its nature as a participant in a possible and necessary community of States, in which it has the power neither to disregard nor to deny its own nature." Following the implosion of the Marxist regimes, in other words, the crumbling from within of the walls and scaffolding of their systems, the | bipolar distribution of global power and therefore East-West confrontation have disappeared. In this respect, I would say that I consider commendable the announcement made a few hours ago by Presidents Bush and Yeltsin of their readiness to eliminate nuclear missiles and reduce arsenals of other types of Strategic weapons. This would be a major step on the road to disarmament.”

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6. “Jean Jacques Rousseau, one of the classic exponents of political thinking and universal thought, in explaining the origins of human society, affirmed that in a society its members, "giving of themselves to all give themselves to no one in particular and, since in any such partnership the partners enjoy equal rights towards each other, one wins in that exchange the equivalent of everything one loses, and greater strength to preserve what one has". The same thing happens in the international sphere. The liberty of States, which is called sovereignty, is not undermined but rather is strengthened by the establishment of international organizations. The Italian philosopher and jurist, Giorgio del Vecchio, in referring to this issue, . states: "Only by obeying the law of our nature do we become truly free.”

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7. “In the former case, man, an essentially incomplete being, ill-equipped to meet the needs of his own existence, was forced to join with others in order to survive; in the latter case, the State, which with the passage of years has proved incapable of resolving alone the problems of economic and social development, has also been compelled to establish communities of States in order to join forces and attain common goals.”

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8. “Let us begin by recalling the importance for the destiny of mankind of that one initiative taken on 26 June 1945 in San Francisco to establish a world-wide community of States capable of resolving, on the basis of unity and consensus, problems that States could not have been able to resolve individually and in isolation. There is a clear parallel between the age-old process of forming human communities and the process of forming societies of States. In both cases, the same motivating factors exist.”

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9. “We must remember the nature of nazi-fascism and the horrors of war and what followed. We had East-West confrontation with its implacable struggle to divide the planet into zones of influence, the madness of military expenditures, the SS-20s and the Pershing-2s that were targeted at human civilization, with the peace of the world subjected to the balance of terror. We need to recall these irrational and warlike elements in order better to admire and value the work done by the United Nations during its first 50 years of existence.”

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10. “Its birth was inspired at that historic time by the ideal so eloquently expressed in the preamble to its Charter, which states; "We the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind ...". We are far from having completely won the battle for peace. There still persist aggressive intentions, inferiority complexes that lead to violence, and misanthropy in the minds of certain political leaders. Racial and. religious fanaticism, senseless nationalism, and xenophobia also constitute threats to the harmonious coexistence of peoples. The United Nations has lent invaluable services to mankind. Just consider how different the world of today is from the world of 50 years ago.”

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11. “Today, the concern is qualitative and human development is understood to mean freedom, health, security, well-being, culture, environment, satisfaction in one's work, the good use of leisure time and a wide range of other values. BHS/plj . S/PV.3046 26 (President Borja) Economic development does not necessarily and automatically presuppose human development. There are countries which, despite high levels of economic growth, have unacceptable social problems. Inversely, there are other countries that have low per capita income and, none the less, have reached considerable levels of human development. The United Nations was established 47 years ago as an answer to the deeply felt need for peace and security in the world following the untold suffering caused by the last world war.”

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12. “And the answers must be found in the way in which the benefits of progress are distributed in a community and the fundamental needs of the human being are met. According to the criteria of the United Nations Development Programme itself, this involves longevity, education, personal security, political freedom, community participation and respect for human rights. As President Mitterrand just put it, this is the human dimension of development. In the past, the concern was quantitative in nature, always involving national production indices measured by econometric formulas which were often deceptive in countries of great contrasts.”

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13. “Finally, there is human development, which is much more than economic development and the mere accumulation of material wealth, which goes beyond material consumption and which embraces a broad range of tangible and intangible possessions and values that together determine the quality of a people's life. | These, while not the only ones, are clearly the concerns that most deeply pervade the human spirit today. For a long time following the Second World War, when the concept of economic development was born, the inevitable question was: how much does a society produce? The answer was always given in econometric terms of the gross national product. Now things have changed and the. questions are different. How are the inhabitants of a nation faring? What is their quality of. life?”

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14. “'Then, we have the age-old issue that political authority must be subject to the law ~ in other words, the limitation of power, which is a problem of conscience for any thinking person and which arouses profound ethical debate concerning the relationship between society and the individual, the balance between authority and freedom, the demarcation of authority, the juridical security of those governed, and respect for human rights. Another of our concerns is undoubtedly the protection of the environment as an expression of solidarity with those who will follow us in this exciting adventure of life on our planet and to whom we are morally obliged to bequeath clean water, pure air, fertile land and green surroundings. It is a self-evident truth that no one can claim ownership of the freshness of the air or the purity of water.”

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15. “In the maelstrom of concerns afflicting the spirit of modern humanity in this last decade of the twentieth century, four main issues are outstanding. The first is violence in all its forms, nuances and manifestations: violence from above and from below; institutionalized violence and the violence of protest; political and economic violence; religious violence and racial violence ~ in brief, all the various and devastating forms of violence that beset the world.”

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