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Rubiales De Chamorro

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  1. “Mrs. Rubiales de Chamorro (Nicaragua) (spoke in Spanish): Allow me to thank you, Sir, for having convened this open debate under your presidency on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. My delegation associates itself with the statement made by the representative of Egypt on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement. I also thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, for his briefing. We have observed and closely followed the negotiations launched on 2 September. We did not have to wait long before seeing once again which party would continue to create obstacles to peace in the Middle East.”

    2010-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6404Resumption1 (2010) · source

  2. “Thus, in order to get the job done, it is crucial that those who support Israel take appropriate action to ensure that Israel commits to the peace process. If Israel will not commit to an acceptable timetable, the Security Council must take appropriate measures as outlined in the Charter of the United Nations. The Palestinians, strengthening their unity with the support of the Arab nation, the Non-Aligned Movement and the rest of the international community, must prepare for their own declaration of independence, for their free and sovereign State, and for their admission as a full Member of this Organization.”

    2010-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6265Resumption1 (2010) · source

  3. “It is high time for the international community to move from declarations and resolutions to action. Recognition by the entire international community of the Palestinian State would send a clear message that all the resolutions we have adopted must begin to be implemented. We do not understand why there some still who refuse to acknowledge that at this point. Thus far, only the Palestinian side has made commitments, whereby it has demonstrated its desire for peace. It is time now for the permanent members of the Council to demand that Israel make a commitment to peace and to a solution to this question in conformity with United Nations resolutions. There is a manifest universal consensus in favour of speeding up the peace process; only Israel opposes it.”

    2010-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6265Resumption1 (2010) · source

  4. “Illegal settlements throughout the Palestinian territory, walls that divide houses and neighbourhoods, ethnic cleansing that is being carried out, and the usurpation of East Jerusalem all point to a policy of absorption. The solution based on two States living together side by side is something that Israel has never contemplated. As a member of the Non-Aligned Movement, Nicaragua fully associates itself with the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Egypt as Chairman of our Movement. We condemn Israel's illegal occupation of all of the Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese territories, and we demand its immediate withdrawal. We condemn the Israeli policy and practice of building and/or not dismantling settlements, the inhuman blockade of Gaza and the bantustanization of the West Bank and other Palestinian territories.”

    2010-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6265Resumption1 (2010) · source

  5. “The fundamental problem does not lie in the content of these resolutions, but rather in the fact that Israel, the occupying Power, has not been required to comply with them. Those who are responsible for enforcing compliance are the permanent members of this Council, in particular one of them, the primary accomplice and ally of Israel. The reality is that the issue of the Israeli occupation of Arab and Palestinian territories has not been resolved because Israel and its primary ally do not want to resolve it. From its beginnings, Israel has had its own clearly defined road map: the absorption of the entire Palestinian territory, the exile of that people along with the corresponding Judaization of the territory, and the expansion of its own State - all in full sight and with the consent of the members of this Council.”

    2010-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6265Resumption1 (2010) · source

  6. “We cannot allow Israel to continue to play with human lives and with the rights of Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese and those in neighbouring countries. How long are we going to meet in the Security Council, calling for open debates and consultations, adopting resolutions, and discussing an issue concerning which our Organization has already decided what must be done? The United Nations must meet its historic responsibility. Or is it perhaps possible that some Member State still has doubts about the content of General Assembly resolution 181 (II), which called for the creation of two States in Palestine, one Arab and one Jewish. Also clear and transparent are Security Council resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973), 1701 (2006) on Lebanon and 497 (1981) on the Syrian Golan Heights.”

    2010-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6265Resumption1 (2010) · source

  7. “This year marks the sixty-second year of the looting of the Palestinian people of their homes, their ancestral lands and of their most fundamental and inalienable human rights. It is also the forty-third year of brutal military occupation by Israel, marked by death, physical and psychological aggression, blockades, ethnic cleansing, imprisonment and humiliation. It has also been a year since the brutal Israeli invasion and occupation of Gaza, the damage to which, exacerbated by the continued blockade, has been amply documented and will have harmful effects on the Palestinian population for decades. The international community demands that those responsible for this massacre be tried before impartial tribunals.”

    2010-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6265Resumption1 (2010) · source

  8. “Mrs. Rubiales de Chamorro (Nicaragua) (spoke in Spanish): Mr. President, allow me to begin by congratulating you on having assumed the presidency of the Council and to thank you for having convened this debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. We are called once again to discuss the need for a peace process that would lead us to the realization of a Palestinian State living side by side with the State of Israel, and to bring an end to Israel's illegal military occupation of Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese territories. I welcome the new members of the Council: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Gabon, Lebanon and Nigeria. We know that they will always act in defence of the principles of the Charter of our Organization. I would also like to thank Mr. Fernandez-Taranco for his briefing.”

    2010-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6265Resumption1 (2010) · source

  9. “The recommendations of the Goldstone mission should be followed by all United Nations organs, in particular the Security Council, and all possible legal measures should be taken to put a definitive end to all of Israel's human rights violations in the occupied territories. The consideration of the report should result in unequivocal action by the Security Council that puts an end to Israel's impunity and its practices and policies of the past 60 years; it must also ensure the necessary accountability and justice. The Security Council would be an accomplice in the crimes described in Judge Goldstone's report if the decisions necessary for the implementation of its recommendations were not adopted.”

    2009-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6201Resumption1 (2009) · source

  10. “In the light of this most recent crime against humanity, the Human Rights Council, of which Nicaragua is a member, decided to establish a fact- finding mission, led by Judge Goldstone, to investigate all violations of international law, human rights and international humanitarian law that may have been committed at any time in the context of the military operations carried out by Israel in Gaza from 27 December 2008 to 18 January 2009. The report (A/HRC/ 12/48) concludes, inter alia, that serious violations of international law were clearly committed by Israel during the conflict in Gaza and that Israel committed acts that constitute war. The report is yet further testimony to all the crimes committed by Israel.”

    2009-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6201Resumption1 (2009) · source

  11. “Only Israel is opposed to that consensus. The Security Council cannot maintain its passive attitude of the past, allowing Israel to manipulate the situation in the Middle East and to perpetuate its occupation, in violation of the Charter of the United Nations and all norms of international law. Israel's latest war crimes, committed during its 12 invasion of Gaza in December, exhausted the patience of the international community.”

    2009-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6201Resumption1 (2009) · source

  12. “It was fully in keeping with my country's principled position, in particular our recognition that Israel has not abandoned its policies and practices aimed at perpetuating the occupation of all Palestinian territories and other Arab territories occupied in Syria and Lebanon; its ongoing obstacles to serious peace negotiations in the Middle East; its continued policy of building rather than dismantling settlements; its ongoing blockade of Gaza; its practices in violation of the status of Jerusalem; or its reprehensible ethnic cleansing of that city's legitimate Arab and Palestinian inhabitants - all to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian State and the achievement of peace in the region. There is a universal consensus in favour of reversing this situation on the basis of negotiations and the establishment of two States.”

    2009-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6201Resumption1 (2009) · source

  13. “Mrs. Rubiales de Chamorro (Nicaragua) (spoke in Spanish): At the outset, I wish to congratulate you, Sir, a representative of the honourable people and Government of Viet Nam, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. We are confident that your leadership will make significant contributions to the urgent issue before us. We thank the delegation of the Libyan Arab J amahiriya, without whose participation and initiative we would not be debating this issue today. We align ourselves with the statement made by the representative of Egypt, current Chair of the Non-Aligned Movement. It was a broad and principled statement expressing the positions of our Movement on all key issues related to the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestine.”

    2009-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6201Resumption1 (2009) · source

  14. “My Government also expresses its solidarity with the people and the Government of Syria and condemns Israel's illegal occupation of the Golan Heights. It should be recalled that any change intended to alter the physical, legal, demographic or institutional character of the Golan Heights or any measure to impose Israeli jurisdiction and administration there is contrary to international law and null and void. Accordingly, Nicaragua will continue to support all measures, based on the relevant United Nations resolutions, that will help us to achieve a just and lasting peace in the Middle East and, in particular, to ultimately establish a free, sovereign and independent State of Palestine.”

    2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100Resumption1 (2009) · source

  15. “The entire Non-Aligned Movement will stand with them. Nicaragua expresses its solidarity with the Government and the people of Lebanon and calls on Israel to end the occupation of northern Ghajar and the adjacent area north of the Blue Line and to avoid any violation of the sovereignty and independence of Lebanese territory. We also demand a swift resolution of the issue of the Shaba'a farms with full respect for the territorial integrity of Lebanon, in accordance with resolution 1701 (2006). In addition, we join with others in demanding, as a matter of humanitarian concern, that Israel provide maps of the mines that it planted during its attacks on Lebanon. Thus, we could prevent many deaths.”

    2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100Resumption1 (2009) · source

  16. “My Government supports the adoption of the measures necessary to ensure that Israel withdraws totally and unconditionally from the occupied territories, that those responsible for Israel's war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people - including genocide and ethnic cleansing - are prosecuted, that the peace process is intensified and that the Palestinian people can exercise their inalienable right to self-determination on the basis of the borders prior to 4 June 1967, with East Jerusalem as their capital. My Government supports negotiations to achieve reconciliation among all Palestinian forces and to form a government of unity and reconciliation whose representatives can sit down, united and strong, at the negotiating table with the occupying Power and its allies.”

    2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100Resumption1 (2009) · source

  17. “We have no doubt that that new report will further inform the international community about the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and that its recommendations will be of great importance for future action by the Security Council and the General Assembly. We also wish to emphasize the importance of the immediate dispatch of the Human Rights Council fact-finding mission.”

    2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100Resumption1 (2009) · source

  18. “The Rapporteur also stated that people in Gaza holding foreign passports were allowed to leave the territory, while Palestinians - including the sick, disabled, orphaned, elderly and injured - were denied that option. The Special Rapporteur requested an in-depth investigation into the abuses committed, emphasizing the need to draw on the relevant experiences and rulings of the principal international courts. We wish to take this opportunity to request that the Secretary-General distribute the report containing the conclusions and recommendations of the Board of Inquiry be dispatched to Gaza.”

    2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100Resumption1 (2009) · source

  19. “In his report to the Human Rights Council, Mr. Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, indicated that the number of dead Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip was six times as high as the number of heroic combatants killed. That illustrates that no distinction was made between civilian and military targets. He also underscored the fact that Israel also used all sorts of weapons against densely populated areas, including aeroplanes, heavy weaponry and even prohibited weapons. The forced confinement of Gaza's civilian population to the zone of conflict during the operation denied them the option of finding sanctuary. Such a policy must be viewed as a new type of crime against humanity.”

    2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100Resumption1 (2009) · source

  20. “Even the import of lentils, pasta and tomato juice has been restricted, based on the incomprehensible logic that such items could pose a threat to the security of Israel. Military controls have been imposed through grinding force and a level of disregard that clearly illustrates the intention to crush the human dignity of the proud and heroic Palestinian people. The daily humiliation at border crossings and in the course of constant incursions by Israeli soldiers, as well as the herding together of people, reveal a consistent and generalized pattern on the part of the occupation. The Council must demand that all crossing points be opened and that people and goods be allowed free access. In particular, the Council must demand humanitarian access to the Palestinian population, which has yet to recover at all from the latest aggression.”

    2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100Resumption1 (2009) · source

  21. “We want to condemn and to emphasize the illegality of these actions, which are tantamount to a de facto annexation that undermines the integrity, contiguity, viability and unity of the Palestinian territory, thereby jeopardizing the very establishment of a State. What is worse, however, is that the situation continues to be the same as when Dr. Cahill witnessed it. Rebuilding has not yet begun, because Israel will not allow the import of steel, cement or glass, among other building materials. The people of Gaza have lived under hostile occupation for more than four decades. In recent years, there has been a continuous reduction in all imports and exports, which has served to slowly strangle the economy. That has led to one of the highest rates of unemployment and among the lowest levels of nutrition in the developing world.”

    2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100Resumption1 (2009) · source

  22. “There were areas in the northern Gaza Strip in which not a single structure was left standing." The primary responsibility for resolving the Palestinian problem lies with the United Nations, and specifically with the Security Council, which has simply not acted in conformity with its mandate under the Charter of the United Nations. Why was the Security Council unable to act and call for a ceasefire in the course of 22 days of aggression, knowing that this was not a mere skirmish but rather a total massacre against the Palestinian people? Is there any other example in today's world of an invading occupying country being able to settle more than half a million colonists on the territory of the occupied country without being sanctioned even once by society, as represented in the United Nations?”

    2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100Resumption1 (2009) · source

  23. “Mrs. Rubiales de Chamorro (Nicaragua) (spoke in Spanish): It is a pleasure for me to welcome you, Mr. President, a brother representative of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, a country that is a friend of Nicaragua, and to see you leading this debate. Without a doubt, your experience and knowledge will contribute to the success of this debate. I would also like to thank Under-Secretary-General Pascoe for the report he gave us this morning. As stated by Dr. Kevin Cahill, Chief Adviser for Humanitarian Affairs of the President of the General Assembly and his special envoy on the situation in Gaza, "Seeing Gaza in February 2009, shortly after the Israeli invasion, reminds me of engravings of Dante's Inferno. The level of destruction recalled images from Dresden or Hiroshima at the end of the Second World War.”

    2009-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6100Resumption1 (2009) · source

  24. “Given this situation of inertia, my Government supports the call by the President of the General Assembly, who at the request of the countries of the Non-Aligned Movement has decided to reconvene the tenth emergency special session of the Assembly. We support the Secretary-General in all his initiatives on the Middle East and any other international initiative that will bring an end to the slaughter once and for all. We have the unshirkable responsibility to protect civilian populations in armed conflict.”

    2009-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6066Resumption1 (2009) · source

  25. “And this disdain does not end there, since the Israeli slaughter and barbarity continues against the Palestinian civilian population. As a State Member of the United Nations, we urge this body to comply with its responsibilities, take the measures necessary to implement resolution 1860 (2009), and establish a ceasefire leading to a withdrawal of the Israeli occupying forces, thus halting the genocide that is being practiced against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip and ensuring the unfettered delivery of humanitarian assistance. The resolutions of the principal body of the United Nations for the maintenance of international peace and security must be complied with on the ground, all the more so when human lives are at stake. We must act to protect the civilians in the armed conflict in Gaza from the Israeli armed aggression.”

    2009-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6066Resumption1 (2009) · source

  26. “Given this tragic situation, I would like to express the profound disappointment of the people and the Government of Nicaragua that the Security Council has not been able to date to take real and concrete measures on the ground or to comply with its responsibility to immediately halt the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people. This concern is all the greater given the possibility that the conflict could spread through the region. The number of civilian victims in the Gaza Strip has doubled since the adoption of resolution 1860 (2009), as have the derision and disdain of Israel of the adopted resolution, of the body that adopted it, and of the members of that body, particularly the permanent members, and of the international community in general.”

    2009-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6066Resumption1 (2009) · source

  27. “The distinction must be made between property of a civilian nature, such as homes and places of worship, and military targets. However, Israel seems to have a contrary understanding of these provisions and has taken every possible measure, such as the use of the most technologically advanced weapons - including weapons of which the use is prohibited in international humanitarian law - to cause the largest possible number of civilian victims and the destruction of civilian property. The banned weapons that are being used, as borne out by independent experts in Gaza, include white phosphorus and cluster munitions, which are strictly banned in densely populated areas, such as those we are talking about here.”

    2009-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6066Resumption1 (2009) · source

  28. “My delegation wonders: Who is stopping the violation of the most fundamental rights of these thousands of civilians, children and women who are being massacred? What body of our Organization is implementing on the ground the provision, set out in the first paragraph of Article 1 of the Charter of the United Nations, for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace? How many more children will have to die in Gaza before the United Nations takes action? In accordance with the instruments of international humanitarian law that I mentioned previously, in the event of hostilities every possible precaution must be taken to avoid causing the collateral death or injury of civilians, or damaging civilian property.”

    2009-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6066Resumption1 (2009) · source

  29. “This is the case in Israel's terrible aggression carried out by land, sea and air against the civilian inhabitants of the Gaza Strip. We are witnesses to the fact that in Gaza, the very bases of society - houses, civilian infrastructure, public health facilities, universities and schools - are being destroyed. On Tuesday, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child denounced the devastating effects of the Gaza conflict on children. The Committee's 18 experts recalled that the international instruments to which Israel has acceded prohibit the targeting of children in situations of armed conflict and direct attacks on objects protected under international law, including places that generally have a significant presence of children, such as schools and hospitals.”

    2009-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6066Resumption1 (2009) · source

  30. “Mrs. Rubiales de Chamorro (Nicaragua) (spoke in Spanish): We thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this important debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. We also wish to thank Under-Secretary-General Holmes for the information he provided today. International humanitarian law is implemented in times of war to protect persons who are not participating or no longer participate in hostilities because they have been wounded or taken prisoner. In addition, it imposes restrictions on the methods and means of combat. The main instruments of such law are the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and its Protocols Additional, which are nearly universally accepted. I say "nearly" because this debate is occurring in the face of a concrete case of the violation and non-application of those international instruments.”

    2009-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6066Resumption1 (2009) · source

  31. “We are sure that such measures will help to reduce crimes of a sexual nature. We urge that more effective measures be considered by both the General Assembly and the Security Council aimed at implementing resolution 1325 (2000). We join in the appeal to the international community to play a leading role in seeking to ensure that women participate in international peace and security processes, while at the same time recognizing that States bear the major responsibility for promoting and implementing national policies that allow for the empowerment of women in that area. Without the inclusion and participation of women in all decision- making processes, we will never attain the international peace and security for which we all yearn.”

    2007-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5766Resumption1 (2007) · source

  32. “We are grateful to all the specialized agencies, programmes, funds and entities of the United Nations system involved in the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), and we urge them to continue to incorporate the gender perspective in all of their activities, so as to ensure that women participate in decision-making processes at all levels on matters of peace and security. We are exceedingly concerned by the complaints regarding rape in peacekeeping operations, and we would invite all the actors involved to comply with the policy of zero tolerance for acts of sexual exploitation and abuse. We join in the call for an end to be put to impunity. Nicaragua believes that the Secretary- General must continue to step up his efforts to increase the presence of women at all levels in peacekeeping operations, including the highest ranks.”

    2007-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5766Resumption1 (2007) · source

  33. “Nicaraguan women have distinguished themselves as leading actors in achieving peace and reconciliation. As companions, mothers, sisters and members of society in general, they have succeeded in moving towards full participation in the decision-making process on projects and programmes that affect their community and their own lives, at all phases of the process, from diagnosis and planning to monitoring and evaluation. That has been a key factor in the successful reconstruction process in our country. That experience proves that it is possible to provide women with the space in which to work to achieve lasting peace and sustainable development.”

    2007-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5766Resumption1 (2007) · source

  34. “Many of those women have been forgotten, omitted from historical accounts by chroniclers who disregarded their participation in the transformation of ideas and societies. Some years ago, the words "women and peace and security" would only bring to mind women as victims of conflict and the objects of sexual violence. Now, they must be recognized as a decisive factor in peace negotiation processes, peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction. In Nicaragua, women have held a key role, despite the difficult situation in which they have lived, in the most important decisions that have affected our society. They have been a vital element in the reconciliation of family members and of members of society that fought on opposing sides in the war of foreign aggression.”

    2007-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5766Resumption1 (2007) · source

  35. “Mrs. Rubiales de Chamorro (Nicaragua) (spoke in Spanish): The delegation of Nicaragua wishes to commend you, Mr. President, the Permanent Representative of the fraternal country of Ghana, for the initiative of holding this open debate in the Security Council. Likewise, I wish to thank the Secretary-General for his report on women and peace and security, which described the achievements in implementing resolution 1325 (2000) and the institutional and organizational difficulties that need to be overcome in the next plan of action in order to fulfil that resolution. Women throughout the ages have played a very important role in the decisions that have changed the course of history.”

    2007-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5766Resumption1 (2007) · source