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Valdez Carrillo

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2001-08-02
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  1. “Finally, Peru wishes to express its complete confidence that the United Nations and its principal bodies will, at their respective levels of action, provide adequate responses to national, regional and subregional expectations that have arisen today regarding this matter of profound moral concern.”

    2001-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4355 (2001) · source

  2. “With respect to the need to send Security Council missions to study the issue of small arms in the affected countries, Peru considers that the current fact- finding missions of the Organization, such as that which it recently sent to Kenya to determine the scale of the proliferation of these arms, carry out this function in a way that duly reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the problem, involving representatives of the Department of Political Affairs, the Department for Disarmament Affairs and the United Nations Development Programme. They should therefore be sustained. In any event, the Security Council can certainly incorporate concerns involving the issue of small arms into the missions it is currently undertaking in various regions and conflicts.”

    2001-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4355 (2001) · source

  3. “The need for coordination is also clear with respect to the United Nations role in promoting technical and financial cooperation to encourage an effective presence of the donor community in programmes including information on best practices for, inter alia, the collection, destruction and safe storage of arms stockpiles, which is simply another way of contributing to the prevention of conflicts.”

    2001-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4355 (2001) · source

  4. “In this area, more detailed studies could be made of the experience gained in cases in which the voluntary surrender of arms was carried out on the basis of non- monetary compensation, as has been successfully done in such countries as Albania, El Salvador and Panama. These exchanges of weapons for farming or building implements, or for the construction of schools and clinics, provide a viable and imaginative alternative that can be used in diverse conflicts, based on a case- by-case analysis.”

    2001-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4355 (2001) · source

  5. “Furthermore, their presence would serve to provide the sanctions Committees with the latest information on the implementation of arms embargoes previously imposed by the Security Council. Another way in which these organizations and participants can express their points of view on this matter is through the representatives of the Secretary-General in the field, who can forward these opinions and include them in the reports of the Secretary-General. With respect to the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants, the Security Council should play an important and essential role by incorporating the appropriate measures included in the Programme of Action into the mandates of peacekeeping operations and by implementing them.”

    2001-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4355 (2001) · source

  6. “Peru considers that the Security Council should establish appropriate permanent channels of communication to enable it to gather the opinions of regional organizations on the particular circumstances of each conflict. This information should be taken into account before the Council incorporates into its mandates or recommends for inclusion in peace agreements such measures as arms embargoes; moratoriums on the import, export and manufacture of such arms; the control of borders; and programmes for the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants. We believe that representatives of these regional organizations and of the countries involved should be invited before the Security Council prior to the elaboration and adoption of such measures.”

    2001-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4355 (2001) · source

  7. “The Programme of Action adopted at the Conference on small arms and light weapons, despite the incomprehensible deficiencies apparent in its adoption, rightly provides the general direction that was lacking, above all at the regional and global levels, and constitutes the fundamental international framework for dealing with this problem. It recognizes, among other levels of action, the specific responsibility of the Security Council in underscoring the profound impact of these arms on the duration and intensity of armed conflicts and their effects on the most vulnerable sectors of society. To address this situation, the Programme of Action also underscores the importance of the role of regional and subregional mechanisms.”

    2001-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4355 (2001) · source

  8. “However, there has been no interactive dialogue with other bodies of the United Nations and it does not reflect a general, coordinated and unanimous vision belonging to the membership as a whole. In this sense, Peru feels that the Security Council and other bodies of the United Nations, the General Assembly in particular, share a particular responsibility in this area. Precisely because of the overlap in their functions, this affords a splendid opportunity, through careful coordination, to effect an assignment of specific roles by engaging mechanisms created for that purpose and through the coordinated work of their respective presidents.”

    2001-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4355 (2001) · source

  9. “A conclusion shared by the aforementioned documents has been the recognition of the important role the United Nations, and in particular its main bodies, is called upon to play in this matter, both in setting and developing strategies for action and in disseminating information on, increasing awareness of and alerting people to the excessive and destabilizing accumulation of these arms, a recognition that places this matter as a priority on the current international agenda. The Security Council, in the evolution of its duties, has taken on specific tasks with respect to small arms. It has done so on the basis of its own thinking, as in the open debate that took place two years ago.”

    2001-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4355 (2001) · source

  10. “For Peru, this issue reflects a political and moral imperative that requires joint international action at all levels. For more than 10 years, the flow of small arms and light weapons in my country sustained terrorist movements, including those financed by drug- trafficking networks, which left in their wake more than 30,000 dead and billions in material losses. On the basis of the reports of the Secretary- General for 1995 and 1997, it was possible to ascertain the broad and multidimensional scope of this problem that involves numerous participants at various levels. The multifaceted nature of the problem was recognized by the Security Council itself, through its presidential statement of 24 September 1999.”

    2001-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4355 (2001) · source

  11. “Mr. Valdez Carrillo (Peru) (spoke in Spanish): I would like first to say a few words of welcome and congratulations on behalf of Peru to the Republic of Colombia on having assumed the responsibility of presiding over the Council for this month. Peru is particularly pleased to take part in this dialogue under the leadership of a country so deeply committed to the establishment of a regime of control and cooperation to eliminate the current threats to security arising from the traffic in small arms and light weapons, as it demonstrated by its skilful conduct of the recent United Nations Conference on this subject. My delegation also wishes to express its appreciation for the document prepared by Colombia, which constitutes an important contribution and a useful basis for determining the role of the Security Council as regards small arms.”

    2001-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4355 (2001) · source