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President Perez

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1992-01-31
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1992-01-31
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  1. “No longer can the United Nations live on the sidelines of history. We have the good fortune to be able to strengthen and guide it. Undoubtedly, this will require new instruments of action in accordance with the new priorities we set together, And it is clear, perhaps for the first time, that the United Nations is indispensable to us all. We cannot and must not presume that this will be easy. But we can and must determine how it can be made part of the solution of present-day challenges, This means placing our trust in its leadership and in its set-up, as well as in the decision-making machinery. The guiding principles must be those that inspired its establishment, now brought to complete fruition. That is how I see the task of peace-building, peace~making and peace-keeping.”

    1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source

  2. “Here I wish to quote the reflections contained in the annual statement of the Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security, which I believe to be particularly timely and eloquent: "Can anyone seriously envisage a 'new world order' composed of three closed blocs formed by the wealthy sector of humanity wielding the economic dagger, calmly advocating democracy, market economies and disarmament to a majority that is ever more desperate, and all of this in a world of overburdened natural systems, openly proclaimed divergent values and massive migrations such as have never been seen before, as well as technology and weapons of mass destruction proliferating throughout the world?" We must deal with all of these risks in a democratic and legal way, just as in each of our national societies only the rule of law can safequard international coexistence through a legal system that ensures international justice.”

    1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source

  3. “Venezuela has been and remains a staunch promoter of relations among developing countries - South-South relations - in the conviction that it is in the interest of all nations to put an end once and for all to the inequality of conditions and opportunities on which contemporary international society has been built. The welcome reconciliation and cooperation between East and West must not be at the expense of the necessary cooperation and agreement between North and South. These are no longer national problems. If anything demonstrates that fact, it is the constant tension that exists between models of global economic organization and new regional structures. that are exclusive in nature and threaten to create not only competitive but antagonistic blocs.”

    1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source

  4. “The Rio summit on development and the environment can be an initial staging ground for the democratization of international relations and the role which relations between North and South must now play. It must be followed by a summit on social development, as proposed by President Mitterrand, if we wish to be consistent with the goals that we have expressed. May I recall that Venezuela was the country which proposed an international convention on the question of the traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. Venezuela was also spokesman for efforts to focus the international community's attention and action on the serious and persistent absurdity of underdevelopment, which continues to distort the fabric of North-South relations.”

    1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source

  5. “We must adapt the traditional concept of national sovereignty, incorporating into it the transnational responsibilities implicit in the interdependence of all our nations and in supranationality, which has been fully recognized through the democratization of global society. We must reshape the traditional concept of national sovereignty to the full ee of State duties and peoples' rights. This is obvious when it comes to the issue of the environment and, even more so in connection with natural resources, which have been described as a collective heritage. We must also adapt and reshape it to an essential body of human rights and States' commitments among themselves and towards their peoples with the new concept of a democratic legal philosophy.”

    1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source

  6. “Its title is an accurate reflection of this change in global life: "From Confrontation to International Cooperation". I wish to stress the main lines of the Rio Group's declaration because they reflect the thinking of all Latin America on the role which this Organization should play. We can replace the nuclear threat with the challenge of disarmament. This task is not the exclusive responsibility of those who confronted each other during the cold war. It is a collective responsibility. It means reconverting to peaceful uses the industrial-military apparatus and controlling the flow of technology. It means the development of guarantees and controls by the international community.”

    1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source

  7. “The role of the international Court in The Hague should be complemented by the establishment of an international penal tribunal, as has so often been requested. The situations that have arisen in the Republic of Panama and now in Libya, bearing serious risks for peace and the enforcement of international law, alert us clearly to that need. Regional conflicts, which could become the most serious and aggressive threat to the peace, must be approached through a methodology that sets aside the interests that predominated in the past and reflected the quest for hegemony and zones of influence among the dominant Powers. The permanent representatives to the United Nations of the Rio Group, to which Venezuela belongs, prepared a document for the consideration of the General Assembly.”

    1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source

  8. “The Security Council reflects political realities as they existed at the end of the Second World War, and not current realities. The General Assembly is repetitive in its resolutions and weak in providing political guidance to humanity. Its organs in the field of cultural, economic and social. cooperation must be reviewed, reinvigorated, streamlined and effectively redesigned to contribute to North-South dialogue and the development of the peoples of the third world. The office of the Secretary-General must be strengthened and provided with modern management. I believe that another priority of the United Nations in maintaining peace is the strengthening of regional organizations in an operational relationship with the United Nations.”

    1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source

  9. “conflict; the momentum of the process of democratization throughout the world; interrelation and global economic interdependence; the end of the decolonization process and, more recently still, the resurgence of nationalities on the Euro~Asian continent all show us that circumstances are so different today that it would be imprudent to disregard the implications. The right of veto has been an extraordinary power. The circumstances on which it was based have to a great extent been superseded by history. It was highly useful in ensuring the survival of the Organization, which, without that power, might perhaps have met the same fate as the League of Nations. Now that those risks are gone, the Organization must restore the basic principle underlying its validity: that of equality of rights and obligations.”

    1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source

  10. “Ever since the San Francisco Conference in 1945, Venezuela has underscored the principles that, in its view, should guide the action of the United Nations. Then as now, that action is to organize the peace. But to organize the peace, the United Nations was compelled, owing to the circumstances of its foundation, to sacrifice sovereign equality in the fulfilment of its mandate. In San Francisco Venezuela expressed its hope that the formula adopted on the powers of the Security Council and the General Assembly "might evolve in time towards modalities that are more democratic and more representative of all peoples". The end of the East-West.”

    1992-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3046 (1992) · source