VENEZUELA

Intervention

of Mr. Luis Alfonso Dávila
Minister of Outer Relations
of the Bolivariana Republic of Venezuela

CONFERENCE ON MEASURES TO FACILITATE
TAKE EFFECT OF THE TREATY OF PROHIBITION
IT COMPLETES OF THE NUCLEAR TESTS

New York, 12 of November of 2001

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Sir President:

The Delegation of the Bolivariana Republic of Venezuela is pleased to see it you direct the this 11 works of Conference for the Take Effect of the Treaty of Complete Prohibition of the Nuclear Tests. It is a happy coincidence that a Minister of Outer Relations of Latin America and the Caribbean presides over this meeting, given the credentials of our region in the defense of the principles of general disarmament and complete, specially the nuclear disarmament, of which the Treaty that occupies to us is piece fundamental to prevent the vertical and horizontal proliferation of this type of armaments. Permítame also, to thank for the complete report that presented/displayed the Executive Director to us, Ambassador Hofmann.

The Delegation of the Bolivariana Republic of Venezuela totally shares the content of the intervention of the Representative of Chile in name of the States of the Group of River that are signatory and/or ratificantes of the Treaty.
 

Sir President:

The terrorist attacks of past 11 of September, that repudiamos of the possible most energetic way, have demonstrated painfully that to La Paz and the security of our societies, the right of our citizens to live peacefully and without fears, it is threatened by forces whose combat does not depend nor can depend on detached activities and unilateral, but that must be from the cooperation of all the loving nations of La Paz.

We understand and we shared the pain the American town, and in fact the one of many towns whose nationals perished in these attacks, Venezuela including. Nevertheless, we called the attention on the fixed necessity that the actions against the terrorism are framed within the international norms, the international right, justice and the human rights, so that not of foot to a violence spiral in which innocent victims lose the life still more and the conflict with unpredictable consequences extends.

For that reason it causes to special preoccupation the declarations to us according to which the nuclear option in against the regime of Afghanistan would not be discarded, because this Treaty, to which in this meeting we tried to fortify and to cause its quick take effect, deals with that exactly: to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, to guarantee to we ourself and the next generations, that we pruned to live free on the threat of a nuclear attack, because in that case it will not be possible to discriminate between those who the terrorism and the innocent civilians support to.

Venezuela would wish that this century that begins outside more wars than the previous ones, we do not want biological wars, neither chemical nor atomic nor of no type. Let us think that the only war that there is to free is against the death, the hunger, the poverty. Perhaps this painful conjuncture opens opportunities to thoroughly think more about the world and we in the surface do not stop to have left and to attack the consequences of the phenomena.

Let us create firmly, therefore, which it corresponds to the United Nations to play the role of guarantor of La Paz for which it was created, to serve as element of ponderación, agreement between all the States, to go further on and to look for the deep causes of these criminal actions, the sprouting of extremist groups that, among, are the injustice and the conditions of poverty in which many nations of the world are sunk.

In this sense, the support that all the States we give this Treaty, the cooperation which we lend for its quick take effect and its operativity, constitutes a clear example of cooperation, a reiteration in the concrete scope of which we really want to do more surely of a this world and frees for always of the nuclear threat.

With regard to my country, Venezuela has maintained a position of defense of the international principles on disarmament in all the forums in which it participates. Venezuela was one of the 6 countries that in 1989 the modification of the Treaty of Moscow of 1963 proposed to turn it into Treaty of Complete Prohibition. This conference of overhaul was summoned and made in January of 1990 in New York, but it did not reach his objective in that opportunity, given to the prevailing political realities and the simple fact that, by then, the nuclear powers considered that was still necessary to make a series of tests before being able to do without such. However, this initiative, combined to the celebration of the conference of overhaul and extension of the Treaty of nonProliferation of Nuclear weapons in 1995, of some way impelled the negotiations in the Disarmament conference in Geneva for the writing of a Treaty of Total Prohibition, which was reached in 1996.

Additionally, the Constitution of the Bolivariana Republic of Venezuela, adopted in December of 1999, gathered that pacifist tradition and of active participation in the corresponding forums, when including in its introduction the aim, among others, to promote the nuclear disarmament. It is then, absolutely sure our support in relation to all the agreements of nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, between which it is included this in individual.

In order to fulfill this aim in which it concerns to the Treaty of Complete Prohibition of the Nuclear Tests, the National Assembly, the legislative device of the country, examines the Treaty with a view to its ratification. We hoped that Venezuela can soon deposit its instrument of ratification and that way to perfect its obligation in this matter.

Also, the country has put to the disposition of the world-wide system of monitoring anticipated in the Treaty, two seismic stations, of auxiliary character, so that they integrate the verification network. We have cooperated in the solution of the inherent problems to the workings that Provisional the Technical Secretariat makes in the country and hoped that the same ones are carried out of the possible most harmonious way, reason why reiterated our disposition to facilitate everything what it is necessary to conclude these works and to grant the legal support to them that needs.

Finally, I allow myself to again make a call to all the States, specially to those whose ratification is necessary for the total use of this instrument, so that they carry out the steps necessary for such aim and thus together to fight the threat that represents the proliferation of the nuclear weapons.

Thanks Sir President.