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Taj El Dine

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2005-10-26
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2005-10-26
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  1. “We also request that the United States shows us that its actions, including the financing of groups to destabilize a State, are not trying to force socio-political changes, destabilize or overthrow Governments under the pretext that they are terrorists or that they protect terrorists. We reaffirm that we want each and every Member of the United Nations to be consistent in this area, in condemning terrorism, without distinction. Terrorists can be either State or non-State actors. We would like the United States to abandon its terrorist practice and policies in its relationship with other States.”

    2005-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5293 (2005) · source

  2. “For this reason, we are asking the United States Government here, before the three Committees and their Chairmen present here, to show us if we are wrong, if we are not right in what we are saying, and then to extradite the terrorist Luis Clemente Posada Carriles or to try him on this territory for what he is - a terrorist, an assassin and a torturer. We would like to be shown that we are mistaken, and that the United States at present, and in the future, can show us that all of those terrorist practices and policies it uses with regard to other States and peoples will no longer be applied.”

    2005-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5293 (2005) · source

  3. “Now, my question would be the following: is a court independent when a decision is being taken with regard to a person who has served as an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States - could there be a link with the fact that individual needs to be protected and is being protected, by the United States Government? In Venezuela, we take a diligent, responsible and consistent approach to such matters, and we would request that, in the Committees, each State be studied with the same diligence. We must avoid terrorism being used by some States. We must make sure that States stop supporting terrorists, as we have seen repeatedly throughout the world.”

    2005-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5293 (2005) · source

  4. “The United States must refuse to protect any terrorists on its territory, and it must apply the principle of either extraditing them or bringing them to trial. We have a number of doubts with regard to the comments made in this Chamber that there is an independent justice system in the United States, when we see that a court can arrive at a decision that the terrorist Luis Clemente Posada Carriles should not be deported to Venezuela because, supposedly, he would be tortured in our Republic. There is absolutely no foundation for that assertion. Moreover, up to now we have complied with all international norms, and we are party to all conventions against torture. To date, Venezuela has not been called to task by any international organization in connection with cases of torture.”

    2005-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5293 (2005) · source

  5. “Ms. Taj El Dine (Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): Mr. President, above all, we would like to thank you for having given us the floor once again. Like the delegate from the Republic of Cuba, we wish to reiterate our firm position with regard to the question of terrorism. When the representative from the United States Mission took the floor, she said that the main objective of this meeting was to evaluate measures to eliminate international terrorism and to assess the work of the Committees. We want to say the following: if we are evaluating measures and if the Committees are assessing their work, then how can we allow members, in a body such as this one, to have a double standard when dealing with the question of terrorism? We wish to reaffirm our position - all States must abstain from providing shelter to terrorists.”

    2005-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5293 (2005) · source