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Toro Jimenez

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2005-07-20
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2005-10-26
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  1. “With regard to the second case, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has already taken steps, in accordance with the extradition treaties in force between the United States of America and the Republic, with a view to extraditing Mr. Pat Robertson for the crimes committed, under the terms of the Venezuelan penal code and international law, against the President of the Republic. We hope that, once those steps have been completed and a formal extradition request has been made, the competent authorities of the Government of the United States of America will give due and diligent attention to the matter, in accordance with the treaty in force and with international practice.”

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

  2. “Against that backdrop, we do not understand how that terrorist can continue, with impunity, to make absurd, insane and disrespectful comments directed at the President of a democratic republic who has been confirmed in office on a number of occasions by the Venezuelan people in accordance with his constitutional mandate. We reaffirm that it is inadmissible from the standpoint of international law to harbour those two terrorists. That would be to ignore resolution 1373 (2001), of 13 September 2001, subparagraphs (c) of paragraph 2 and (g) of paragraph 3 of which prevent States from providing refuge to those who carry out terrorist acts and ensure that political motivation is not recognized as grounds for refusing requests for the extradition of terrorists.”

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

  3. “The double standard of the United States Government with regard to terrorism is clear. It applies its national anti-terrorist laws only when it is convenient, and the same is true of its international obligations. The second case we would like to bring before the Council is also incomprehensible to anyone of good judgement. It relates to the Reverend Pat Robertson, who has high-level connections within the Republican Party and who, on United States television, publicly called for the assassination of our President, Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias. We can assure the Council that that constitutes a crime under United States law. Furthermore, that crime is an act of terrorism, according to existing international law, including the most recent Security Council doctrine as expressed in resolution 1624 (2005) of 14 September 2005.”

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

  4. “The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has already requested his extradition by the Government of the United States of America, on the basis of existing international agreements. Despite that request, to date there has been no response from the authorities of that Government. There has been only a long, compromising silence. Neither has Posada Carriles been tried in the United States. In this regard, we recall documents S/2005/394 of 16 June and S/2005/624 of 3 October 2005, which set out our position in that respect. In our opinion, not only those who carry out terrorist acts, but also those who protect such individuals, are terrorists. We cannot ignore the inconsistent attitude of the Government of the United States of America, which has often repeated those same words, yet offers protection to the terrorist Luis Clemente Posada Carriles.”

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

  5. “We recall once again that resolution 1624 (2005) states, in its fifteenth preambular paragraph, that "all States must cooperate fully in the fight against terrorism, in accordance with international law, in order to deny safe haven and bring to justice, on the basis of the principle of extradite or prosecute, any person who supports, facilitates, participates or attempts to participate in the financing, planning, preparation or commission of terrorist acts or provides safe havens". Today, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela would like to set out two cases before the Council. The first is the case of the Venezuelan terrorist Luis Clemente Posada Carriles, who is currently in the territory of the United States of America, apparently as a refugee.”

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

  6. “Equally condemnable are the lies, distortions, misinformation and manipulation promoted and disseminated on a daily basis by the national and international communications media that, working in the service of the dominant imperial Powers, conceal and alter information and prevent the general public from knowing the truth about those who are working collectively, in exercise of their right to self- determination, to build their future and to make possible a different world.”

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

  7. “We have also submitted, in a timely manner, reports to the Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee and to the Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism. With the same conviction and consistency with which we are fighting that scourge, we condemn and reject the use of terrorism as a political tool to kill at close range and to intimidate weak, helpless, innocent victims in any part of the world, including through actions that are justified as collateral effects of a foreign invasion.”

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

  8. “Mr. Toro Jimenez (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): On behalf of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, we wish to express once again our categorical condemnation of all acts of terrorism, whatever their form or manifestation, whether committed by States or by non-State actors. We also want to make clear our position that the legitimate resistance of peoples against foreign invasion or occupation does not constitute an act of terrorism. That is recognized in the Charter of the United Nations. In our resolve to fight terrorism, we have ratified many international conventions. At the domestic level, we have developed broad legislation to combat terrorism and have created a national authority in that area. Our Government is diligent, responsible and consistent in its approach to this matter.”

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

  9. “In that regard, we have also submitted the relevant mandatory reports in a timely fashion. Finally, we reiterate what we have said before other United Nations bodies: The solution to terrorism is not more terrorism - in other words, war. We need to dismantle that perverse and criminal mechanism through the constructive, peaceful and just deployment of political means focused on the self-determination of peoples.”

    2005-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5229Resumption1 (2005) · source

  10. “My delegation also recalls the case, already brought to the attention of this Council, of the action taken by my Government with respect to Luis Posada Carriles, a Venezuelan terrorist who has sought asylum in the United States. That co-author of the bombing of a Cuban aircraft in 1976, in which innocent youth were killed, is a criminal notorious throughout the world and a fugitive from Venezuelan justice. We expect a speedy, positive response from the United States authorities to our request so that justice can be done. In any case, the safe haven being given to the fugitive is in clear violation of paragraph 2 of Security Council resolution 1373 (2001). The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has scrupulously fulfilled Security Council resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004).”

    2005-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5229Resumption1 (2005) · source

  11. “In such cases, it is necessary to distinguish clearly between terrorist acts and the legitimate defence of fundamental freedoms under threat. My delegation also believes that another powerful and effective aspect of terrorism is clearly the ongoing system of lies and manipulation on the part of the national and international media at the service of imperialism, seeking to conceal the truth from peoples who are fighting for self-determination and to forge their destiny in a new world. We ourselves have suffered from terrorism, such as the criminal assassination by car-bomb of Danilo Anderson, a high-ranking civil servant in the Venezuelan Justice Department, on 18 November 2004. The perpetrators of that crime are being dealt with by the judicial authorities.”

    2005-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5229Resumption1 (2005) · source

  12. “That decision of the United States Senate runs counter to the commitments undertaken by the United States in article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, to the very spirit and meaning of that convention, and, obviously, to the United Nations Charter. As a nation and a people, Venezuelans jointly condemn and repudiate terrorism in all its forms and manifestations as a lethal political instrument for the extermination and intimidation of innocent peoples throughout the world, including by those who justify their actions as collateral effects of foreign invasion. At the same time, we recognize the activities of those who fight foreign invasion and lay down their lives for freedom, self-determination, sovereignty and respect for human rights.”

    2005-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5229Resumption1 (2005) · source

  13. “The firm resolve of peoples to stand up to the latest version of State terrorism practised by the United States and its allies is evident in the decision to use apocalyptic weaponry against the courageous resistance of peoples who have bravely sacrificed many lives in repelling the invaders and their abuses. The United States Senate recently authorized the renewed production of miniature or tactical nuclear weapons, which are said to be more efficiently deadly than the genocidal experiments in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, at a time when popular revolt seems not only to be irreversible, but also to be threatening the two- pronged power of the almighty Pentagon to wage war on two fronts simultaneously.”

    2005-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5229Resumption1 (2005) · source

  14. “Given the profound and deepening gulf between the States of the G7 - and later, the G8 - and the sufferings of the majority of the peoples of the South, the victims have declared themselves in overt rebellion against and defiance of the lead role of the transnational capitalist monopoly. In the 60 years since the defeat of European Nazism, the Government of the United States and its imperialist allies have assumed the military, political ideological role once played by that movement in the destruction of the marginalized world and are now threatening the very foundations of the biosphere with annihilation. That contemporary manifestation of repression is State terrorism. It has a long history of malfeasance throughout the planet to which the peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America can bear witness.”

    2005-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5229Resumption1 (2005) · source

  15. “The expansion was brought to a temporary halt by the unexpected downfall of the champions of popular rule, in line with the prediction of history's coming to an end made by Francis Fukuyama, who foresaw that the expansionists would soon identify as new ideological enemies those countries with the most important fossil fuel resources. This was followed by wars against Afghanistan, Iraq and the fragile Palestinian State that was just emerging, as well as the supposed threat posed by Iran, all covered under the so-called clash of civilizations proclaimed by Professor Samuel Huntington. That scenario also explains the attempted coups against the democratic revolutionary Government of our President Hugo Chavez Frias in April and December 2002.”

    2005-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5229Resumption1 (2005) · source

  16. “To that end, it pursued its exploitation and pillaging of the peoples and resources of marginalized countries in order to test and develop new conventional and unconventional weapons of mass destruction, strengthening its capacities especially in the area of nuclear, chemical and bacteriological weapons targeting the socialist States in particular - its most Visible adversaries - as a means of dissuasion, and using dependent countries as the testing grounds of its new weapons of extermination. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the world socialist system opened a brief period of uncertainty in the military and economic policies of the West.”

    2005-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5229Resumption1 (2005) · source

  17. “Nevertheless, at the time of the Second World War, the democratic traditions and movements that had emerged in Europe, the North American continent and other places led to a marshalling of forces that was able to thwart that criminal and suicidal movement against the Western world driven by extremist political agents of monopolistic capitalism. In the post-war period, from 1945 until the end of the twentieth century, in the context of the historic conflict between capitalism and the principal socialist States and of the bipolar confrontation within the so- called Western world, peoples continued to advance in their key role of breaking the chains of oppression in the process of decolonization. In order to stop the popular advance, the international capitalistic monopoly needed additional financing.”

    2005-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5229Resumption1 (2005) · source

  18. “I am referring to the tragic European and Asian misadventures in National Socialism, fascism and falangism, as well as the Japanese militarism hearkening back to theocracy. At that stage of the imperialist phase of international monopolistic capitalism, and faced with the uncontainable surge of peoples supported by the actions of the first socialist State, which emerged in 1917, some capitalist States reacted by employing the systematic political use of extreme terror in order to ensure collective obedience through intimidation and threats to life and liberty, thereby suppressing all dissent against their genocidal plans and actions.”

    2005-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5229Resumption1 (2005) · source

  19. “The principle to which I am referring is no other than the historical reconstruction of the process of the emergence of terrorism at the international level and the various stages and manifestations of that phenomenon. By revisiting the past in an examination of history we can assess the period between the last two violent confrontations of the twentieth century - the so-called world wars - in order to identify the emergence of capitalistic, despotic, racist, bellicose, totalitarian, imperialistic and, to varying degrees, genocidal States that were led by demented ideologies in an attempt to not only further subjugate their own peoples but also those on the world's periphery who had been subsumed in the colonial backwardness of ignorance, political and social exclusion and poverty and who were deprived of the most basic human rights.”

    2005-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5229Resumption1 (2005) · source

  20. “Mr. Toro Jimenez (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish): On behalf of the Government and the people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, we would like to reiterate our heartfelt and categorical repudiation of the terrorist acts recently committed against the British people. Deliberating and taking decisions on courses of action in areas such as terrorism, which is a crucial item on the agenda of the Organization and of the Council, is fraught with danger and the risk of distortion, unless the guiding principle used to shed light on the truth and reach conclusions is one that provides a historical and holistic perspective.”

    2005-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5229Resumption1 (2005) · source