The Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United Nations (UN), Jorge Valero, presented the final report of the Conference on Disarmament (CD) to give an account of his tenure as president of this entity and highlighted the progress towards substantive negotiations on legally binding instruments that contribute to a world in which nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction may disappear.
At the latest Plenary Meeting of the Conference on Disarmament of the United Nations (UN), based in Geneva, the Venezuelan diplomat stressed that during his tenure a very broad process of consultations was carried out with almost all the ambassadors that make up the Conference on Disarmament.
Eight plenary meetings, two meetings with the regional groups, 30 bilateral meetings with ambassadors and four meetings with the presidents of the conference for the 2019 session, and with the coordinators of the regional groups were held. In addition, numerous meetings were held at a technical level.
In his report to the Conference, Ambassador Jorge Valero presented on behalf of Venezuela a work program of 14 preambular and resolutive paragraphs and consensus was reached in 13 of them, which is why the plan could not be adopted since it is required the unanimous support.
THE GOALS:
The work program presented by Ambassador Valero states: “With the objective of promoting multilateralism, the Conference decides to negotiate with a view to reaching an agreement on legally binding instruments on: the cessation of the arms race and nuclear disarmament, the prohibition of fissile material, the prevention of an arms race in outer space and agreements that give guarantees to non-nuclear-weapon States against employment or the threat of employment “.
“It has been auspicious, with a view to the future, that we achieve a transparent and participatory dialogue to approximate points of view, often opposed, that the States have in different matters on disarmament”, said the Bolivarian diplomat.
He added that the Venezuelan presidency acted constructively trying to listen to everyone’s voice. The conditions have been created so that the future presidencies have as a reference the document presented by Venezuela and this is an advance for future negotiations.
FOR AND AGAINST:
Numerous diplomats took part in the debate, including the ambassadors of Russia, China, Cuba, Iran, Vietnam, Syria, Egypt, Algeria, South Africa and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, who recognized the successful performance of Ambassador Jorge Valero and praised him for his diplomatic action.
It should be noted that only the government of Donald Trump, and very few of its docile allied governments, tried to sabotage the Venezuelan presidency.
US Deputy Secretary of State for Arms Control, Yleem Poblete, said, at the time the US ambassador assumed the presidency (and to which Ambassador Jorge Valero came next), that his government would prevent at all costs Venezuela from assuming the presidency of the Commission.
The United States failed rudely in its nonsense, since almost all the countries that make up the Commission on Disarmament participated constructively and supported the Venezuelan presidency.
AHORA:
