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Official Records<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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General Assembly <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Fifty-sixth session<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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55<\/strong><\/span>th plenary meeting<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Thursday, 15 November 2001, 3 p.m. <\/p><\/div>\n

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New York<\/p><\/div>\n

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President:<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Mr. Han Seung-soo   …………………………………………………………<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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(Republic of Korea)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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\t<\/span><\/i>The meeting was called to order at 3.05 p.m.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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Agenda item 9<\/strong> (continued<\/i>) <\/p><\/div>\n

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General debate<\/strong> <\/p><\/div>\n

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 The Acting President<\/strong> : I give the floor to His Excellency Mr. José Miguel Alemán, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Panama.<\/p><\/div>\n

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 Mr. Alemán<\/strong> (Panama) (spoke in Spanish<\/i> ): …<\/p><\/div>\n

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[…]<\/p><\/div>\n

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  We are caught up in a vortex of bloodshed that brings us ever closer to generalized conflagrations. The States represented here, when we became Members of this Organization, undertook formally to promote peace and human rights; to meet the food, health care and educational needs of our peoples; to preserve the environment; and to bring about overall social, economic and political development.<\/p><\/div>\n

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  However, for this commitment to have a real effect, we must secure the support of those States that, due to pure fanaticism, particularly in the Middle East, have not been able to come to terms with the purposes and principles of the United Nations. My country believes that the intolerance and intransigence demonstrated in that part of the world are the result of ancient ways of thinking and injustices that can be easily discerned and which constitute flagrant violations of the United Nations Charter. The Republic of Panama has repeatedly urged the parties in conflict to renounce the use of force, re-establish cooperation on security and adopt measures to restore mutual trust, which enable a return to the peace process based on the norms of international law.<\/p><\/div>\n

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  In recent days, the international community has witnessed with deep sadness the intensification of violence in that region. Because of the brutality occurring in the Middle East, Panama considers that it is the responsibility of the United Nations to vigorously strengthen its mediating role in order to put an end to the unfortunate bloodshed that has grieved the international community for decades.<\/p><\/div>\n

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  In particular, Panama calls on the Security Council to assume a more active role in the efforts to apply the recommendations of the Mitchell report, which proposes using constructive dialogue and mutual concessions to move beyond the violence. An indispensable step is recognizing the right of the Palestinian people to create a sovereign State and the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security.<\/p><\/div>\n

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  We must make our best effort, employ our most outstanding human resources and put ourselves to the task of reconciling all humankind. The Republic of Panama will persist in this task and will always advocate peaceful solutions to conflicts through dialogue and the rejection of violence as the means to resolve internal or international disputes.<\/p><\/div>\n

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[…]<\/p><\/div>\n

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  The Acting President<\/strong> : I now call on His Excellency the Honourable Motsoahae Thomas Thabane, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Lesotho.<\/p><\/div>\n

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 Mr. Thabane<\/strong> (Lesotho): …<\/p><\/div>\n

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 The volatile and explosive situation in the Middle East remains highly regrettable. Lesotho supports the creation of an independent Palestinian State on the basis of Security Council resolutions, a State that should coexist in peace with its neighbours.<\/p><\/div>\n

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 The Acting President<\/strong> : I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Agba Otikpo Mezode, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Central African Republic.<\/p><\/div>\n

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 Mr. Mezode <\/strong>(Central African Republic) (spoke in French<\/i> ): …<\/p><\/div>\n

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  Indeed, the Millennium Declaration must be viewed as a strategy within which States should work so as to be able meet the many challenges facing the world today, which include poverty, conflict, intolerance, terrorism, debt, marginalization, endemic disease and HIV\/AIDS. These growing challenges, the persistence of which leads to global imbalance, can be dealt with only through multilateral cooperation, above all in the framework of the United Nations. <\/p><\/div>\n

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  Such cooperation must first of all aim to eradicate the causes of certain frustrating problems in the world, by, for example, achieving a just and lasting settlement of the question of the Middle East.<\/p><\/div>\n

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  The Acting President<\/strong> : I now give the floor to Her Excellency Ms. Ellen Margrethe Løj, Chairperson of the delegation of Denmark.<\/p><\/div>\n

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 Ms. Løj<\/strong> (Denmark): …<\/p><\/div>\n

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  A conflict of particular concern is that in the Middle East, which threatens to escalate beyond control. <\/span>The Mitchell report<\/a> and the Tenet Plan still provide important windows of opportunity. The United Nations, the European Union, the United States and neighbouring States must redouble their efforts to get the parties to take immediate action to stop the violence and to create the atmosphere necessary to restart negotiations.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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   The meeting rose at 7.25 p.m.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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This record contains the text of speeches delivered in English and of the interpretation of speeches delivered in the other languages. Corrections should be submitted to the original languages only. They should be incorporated in a copy of the record and sent under the signature of a member of the delegation concerned to the Chief of the Verbatim Reporting Service, room C-178. Corrections will be issued after the end of the session in a consolidated corrigendum.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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