By KUNA,
United Nations : In the harshest speech ever by an assembly president in history, the Roman Catholic priest and former Foreign Minister of Nicaragua under the Sandinista regime, announced that he will hold a high-level dialogue on the Democratization of the UN during his presidency and in three five-day sessions with the aim to “prevent a few from imposing upon the majority prescriptions that only make matters worse.” The first session, he explained, will concern the “indispensable coordination of the Bretton Woods and other international finance and commerce institutions with the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly.
In this regard, he said the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are “basically controlled by the US and Europe” and continue to be used as instruments of domination. The world resents this and this situation must change.” The second session, he added, will be devoted to a discussion of the revitalization and empowerment of the assembly itself through the transfer to it of the power “wrongly accumulated in the Security Council.” The third session, he continued, will be devoted to a “frank” discussion of the Security Council where “breaches of the peace and threats to international peace and security are being perpetrated by some members of the Security Council that seem unable to break what appears like an addiction to war.” “All attempts by member states to put themselves above the (UN) Charter constitute a serious offense against the (UN Membership and a threat to peace. Guaranteeing respect for these principles is something that can no longer be postponed,” he stressed.
Increasing the number of the council member, “while necessary to ensure fairer and more geographically balanced representation, would do nothing to correct the anomalies that we should be trying to rectify,” he argued.
On Terrorism, he said whether or not it is committed by a Government, engenders more terrorism. “Initiatives to stop this vicious cycle must begin at the level of State terrorism. Terrorism by powerful states against relatively weak states must stop,” he said. “No state should appropriate the right to decide on its own which states are terrorists, or sponsors of terrorism and which are not. Less still should states that are guilty of wars of aggression, the worst form of terrorism imaginable, presume to arrogate that right unto themselves, and further, to unilaterally take action against those it has stigmatized,” he said.
He called on the assembly to embark “with all due seriousness” on a discussion of international terrorism, “including its definition” and the assignment of responsibilities for dealing with it. “This is a task which can wait no longer.” On the question of Palestine and the creation of a Palestinian state, the only conflict he chose to mention in his speech, Brockmann said it is the “greatest case failure of the UN. “This body has failed completely. At this very moment people continue to die as a result of our incapacity to implement a resolution adopted more than 61 years ago.” On nuclear control and disarmament and in an indirect reference to Israel and its neighbours, he said “today many countries feel threatened by their nuclear-armed neighbours and thus seek nuclear balance within their region.” “Let us put to rest forever the unhealthy aspirations of dominance of one over the other.
Let us free ourselves, as well, from addiction to war and violence in general. Let us work together now to make a truly ‘United Nations’ – united, fraternal. Now is the time for all of us to begin the process of turning weapons into ploughshares to feed a hungry world,” he concluded.