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Stagno Ugarte

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1. “Thirdly, the Council should create permanent institutional machinery that will enable it regularly to monitor in a proactive and comprehensive manner the situation of minors in armed conflict. Such a body should receive periodic reports on violations of the rights of children in situations of armed conflict and must be able to rely on an independent group of experts that can evaluate any information objectively, undertake fact-finding missions to verify allegations, and sound the alarm whenever a situation arises in which the safety of minors is endangered. Fourthly, the Council must support and lend momentum to the efforts of the Secretary-General and his special representatives to sensitize the parties to conflict to the problems affecting minors.”

   2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

2. “Any resolution adopted by the Security Council must include clear and comprehensive provisions aimed at protecting the safety and the fundamental rights of minors. Plans for the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of combatants and peace-building programmes must seek the rehabilitation of minors who are combatants or victims of conflict. Every peacekeeping operation must include child protection advisers to deal with the problems of children victims of conflict. Before any sanctions regime is adopted, the Security Council should evaluate the possible impact of such sanctions on children. Every sanctions regime must include exceptions aimed at minimizing the detrimental effects it might have on children.”

   2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

3. “The Council must give such entities a deadline for presenting evidence of having taken measures to halt the recruitment of minors, to punish those who continue to recruit them and to demobilize child combatants. If no positive response is received, the Council should impose sanctions, such as embargoes on arms and funds, against entities that continue to use child soldiers. It is crucial, in this context, that the Secretary-General maintain and periodically update the two lists of entities that recruit minors or use child soldiers. Secondly, it is indispensable that the topic of the protection of minors be systematically incorporated into all the activities of the United Nations.”

   2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

4. “In some parts of the world, however, the situation of minors worsened considerably over the past year. Several non-governmental organizations have reported massive increases in the kidnapping and forced recruitment of minors in parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia and Myanmar, by the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia and by the Tamils in Sri Lanka. Much work certainly remains to be done. I should like to point out just some of the measures that the Security Council will have to adopt as a result of this debate in order to protect minors in armed conflict. First, this body must demand that all the entities on the two lists annexed to the Secretary- General's report refrain from recruiting minors and demobilize those already recruited.”

   2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

5. “The Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General has been working tirelessly to make the parties to conflict sensitive to the suffering of minors who are combatants and victims of war. Efforts have been made to include the problems of children in the peace processes in Sri Lanka and the Sudan. Efforts have been made to establish a better dialogue with regional organizations, and national commissions for war-affected children have been set up. The General Assembly has strengthened and secured the budget of the Special Representative's Office. The report of the Secretary-General (S/2003/1053) also represents an important step forward, as it provides an updated list of groups that recruit children in situations under the Council's purview, as well as a list relating to situations not yet on the Council's agenda.”

   2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

6. “Millions more are indirect victims of conflict. Thousands of children are killed or wounded as part of the collateral damage of armed encounters. Many suffer from hunger and thirst; thousands more are orphaned or abandoned, or become refugees or internally displaced persons. Hundreds of minors are victims of sexual abuse. Furthermore, the great majority of children caught up in armed conflict lose the chance of an education, and almost all of them are scarred by the psychological trauma of war. A year ago, when adopting resolution 1460 (2003), the Security Council called upon the entire international community to abide by international standards and principles concerning the protection of children affected by armed conflict. There is no doubt that over the past year there has been some progress.”

   2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

7. “Mr. Stagno Ugarte (Costa Rica) (spoke in Spanish): I should like first of all to express my delegation's satisfaction at seeing you, Madam Minister, presiding over the Security Council's debate on this very important issue. I would also like to express my gratitude for the briefings provided this morning by Mr. Olara Otunnu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Ms. Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund. The protection of children during armed conflict must occupy a priority position on the Security Council's agenda. The world's children are the most vulnerable group in times of war, and they therefore deserve to be the first to be protected. Today, almost 300,000 boys and girls are direct participants in armed conflict, whether as combatants, spies or in another capacity.”

   2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

8. “That is why we believe it is necessary to create a mechanism within the Secretariat to proactively monitor the implementation of arms embargoes and to serve as technical support for the sanctions committees' political work. In the past few years, both the Security Council and the General Assembly have taken a number of positive steps against the scourge of small arms. Some measures have been positive; others have not been effective. Let us continue to move forward; there is still a long road ahead.”

   2004-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4896Resumption1 (2004) · source

9. “Furthermore, the Security Council must design new mechanisms to guarantee compliance with arms embargoes. The most recent report of the Secretary- General (S/2003/1217) reveals that compliance with recommendations related to embargoes remains deficient. Suffice it to recall that, in 2001, 54 countries were linked to transfer or resale of weapons in express violation of existing embargoes. In the meantime, the sanctions committees established by the Security Council to verify compliance with such embargoes were unable to take any effective action. That came as no surprise: the sanctions committees are political bodies that lack the technical capacity to carry out genuine verification work.”

   2004-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4896Resumption1 (2004) · source

10. “In addition, the draft establishes a number of prohibitions on arms transfers when it is evident that they will be used to violate the Charter of the United Nations, to commit grave violations of human rights or international humanitarian law, or to perpetrate genocide or crimes against humanity. The framework convention seeks, not to create any new obligations, but to specify categorically the logical and necessary implications of the norms and principles already in force. The draft also seeks the adoption of innovative measures of a precautionary nature that, in principle, should be taken into account whenever arms transfers are authorized. We hope that the draft will become a model for internationally binding agreements that, once adopted, will facilitate coordinated and concrete action involving the regulation of arms transfers.”

    2004-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4896Resumption1 (2004) · source

11. “The draft strives to be a faithful codification of State obligations arising from existing international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, with regard to arms transfers. As a basic principle, the draft framework convention establishes that every arms transfer must be authorized. The text also stipulates a number of restrictions on transfers arising directly from existing State obligations under current international humanitarian law, such as the prohibition on the use of weapons that cause excessively injurious or indiscriminate effects.”

    2004-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4896Resumption1 (2004) · source

12. “My delegation welcomes the recent creation by the General Assembly of an open-ended working group to negotiate an international instrument that will enable States to identify and trace illicit small arms and light weapons. We also welcome the report of the Group of Experts that designed the reference framework for future negotiations. However, the mandate of those negotiations is limited. It is not sufficient to create norms for tracing and marking; we need to adopt binding norms defining when the use of weapons is legitimate and under what conditions arms transfers can be authorized. To that end, the Government of Costa Rica is promoting a draft framework convention on international arms transfers, prepared by a group of non-governmental organizations, Nobel Peace Prize laureates and qualified jurists.”

    2004-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4896Resumption1 (2004) · source

13. “The implementation of all those recommendations is indispensable, but it is not sufficient in itself. The international community's action with regard to small arms must go beyond marking weapons and implementing existing embargoes. It is time to look at the problem of small arms from the perspective of human rights. It is time to prohibit the transfer of military equipment or personnel or of financial and logistical support to States whose military units or security forces participate in human rights violations. It is time to prohibit the sale of weapons to those who do not respect democratic principles or have not ratified the principal instruments of human rights or international humanitarian law.”

    2004-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4896Resumption1 (2004) · source

14. “As Barbara Frey, Special Rapporteur of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, recognized, "Small arms are used to violate, directly and indirectly, the entire spectrum of human rights" (E/CN.4/Sub.2/2002/39, para. 76). We are pleased that the Security Council has recognized the pernicious impact of the proliferation of small arms and light weapons and that it has therefore decided to include that subject on its agenda. This body has already adopted a number of valuable recommendations, such as the request that all States use end-user certificates in their arms transfers, the appeal to arms-exporting countries for greater responsibility, the invitation to establish national registers of weapons intermediary firms and the appeal to impose sanctions against those who violate arms embargoes.”

    2004-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4896Resumption1 (2004) · source

15. “Mr. Stagno Ugarte (Costa Rica) (spoke in Spanish): My delegation is pleased to see you, Sir, the Permanent Representative of Chile, presiding over the Security Council this month. The fact that your country is presiding over the Council during January undoubtedly augurs well for the rest of the year. The accumulation, proliferation and illegal use of small arms and light weapons pose a threat to the peace and stability of all peoples. The proliferation of such weapons fuels armed conflicts, exacerbates violence, promotes crime and terrorism, contributes to the flow of refugees and internally displaced persons, makes peace processes more difficult and hinders humanitarian assistance.”

    2004-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4896Resumption1 (2004) · source

16. “Finally, Costa Rica reaffirms its full support for United Nations specialized agencies charged with monitoring respect for and implementation of humanitarian law and human rights in situations of armed conflict and after conflicts. We express our firm resolve to contribute to the extent of our ability - together with international humanitarian assistance bodies, including the International Committee of the Red Cross and United Nations specialized agencies - to programmes aimed at the rebuilding of Iraq.”

    2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source

17. “Moreover, with a view to providing humanitarian relief to the most vulnerable populations and to financing reconstruction, the Organization must administer Iraq's natural resources - particularly oil - in conformity with the relevant Security Council resolutions and bearing in mind, above all, the Iraqi people's best interests. My delegation invites the Secretary-General and the United Nations Development Programme to take a detailed inventory of the war's economic effects and to assess needs for international cooperation for reconstruction. In parallel, we call on the international community - in particular the warring States - to cooperate with Iraq in repairing the pernicious environmental effects of the conflict.”

    2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source

18. “For that reason, we consider it essential to establish a temporary administrative structure in Iraq at the end of the armed conflict, under United Nations monitoring and administration, with a view to ensuring a climate of stability and to creating the conditions necessary for lasting peace and respect for human rights. Throughout the rebuilding phase, we must bear in mind that Iraq must comply fully with all its disarmament obligations, must be free of weapons of mass destruction and must not become a refuge for international terrorist organizations. In that context, we regard the role of the United Nations as essential in the definition, elaboration and implementation of the principal objectives of Iraq's reconstruction.”

    2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source

19. “Likewise, my delegation demands full respect for international humanitarian law and international refugee law, with a view to providing the broadest possible protection for all refugees, internally displaced persons and other victims of the hostilities. We appeal to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to devote immediate attention to the situation of such persons. The fundamental rights of prisoners of war, irregular combatants and all other detained persons must be fully respected, in conformity with the norms of international law governing armed conflict. In my country, we are convinced that legitimate, lasting and sustainable peace in Iraq can be built only through multilateral action within the framework of the United Nations.”

    2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source

20. “Moreover, at the end of the armed conflict, the parties maintaining troops on Iraqi territory must continue to comply with their obligations, in conformity with international humanitarian law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. For that reason, Costa Rica urges that the civilian population's security and inalienable human rights - particularly their right to life and personal integrity - be guaranteed. We demand that all warring parties comply scrupulously with their obligations under international humanitarian law, particularly their obligations arising out of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Additional Protocols of 1977.”

    2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source

21. “Mr. Stagno Ugarte (Costa Rica) (spoke in Spanish): Given the current military conflict in Iraq, it is the chief concern of the Costa Rican Government to plead for respect for human rights, above and beyond any other consideration. We wish to speak out for children, fathers and mothers, older persons, the displaced and the wounded - that is to say, the real victims of war, whatever their allegiance. Costa Rica calls on the warring parties to respect Iraq's territorial integrity, sovereignty and political independence, in conformity with the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations and the relevant resolutions of the Security Council.”

    2003-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4726Resumption1 (2003) · source