| Date | 7 November 1995 |
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The Acting President
I call on the representative of Panama to introduce draft resolution A/50/L.13.
Mr. Illueca (Panama)
For many reasons related to the history of Panama, from the time of its discovery by Spain until our day, it is a special honour for me to introduce draft resolution A/50/L.13, "Universal Congress on the Panama Canal", which my delegation has submitted to this fiftieth session of the General Assembly together with the representatives of France and the United States.
The reasons for this joint submission were explained at the meeting of the General Committee on 20 September last, when the inclusion of the item on the agenda was requested. At that time, we referred to the Panamanian Government's wish to obtain United Nations support for this initiative linked to the future of the Panama Canal and its role in the twenty-first century.
With that intention in mind, we appointed Mr. Fernando Manfredo, the High Commissioner of the Republic of Panama for the Universal Congress on the Panama Canal, to be a member of our delegation. For a number of years he was Deputy Administrator and then Administrator of this interoceanic waterway.
With the Assembly's permission, I would venture to suggest that the draft resolution contains the necessary elements to highlight the convergences between the competence of the United Nations and the implications of the Congress in some areas of that competence.
Reference is also made in the draft to facts and dates which mark the process that will culminate in 1999 with Panama's exercise of full sovereignty over all its territory and assumption of total responsibility for the control and functioning of the Panama Canal, for which we enjoy the support of brotherly countries of the Americas and elsewhere.
We should also like to draw attention to the very pertinent reference to 1998 as International Year of the Ocean and to the World Exposition to take place in Lisbon by decision of the Government of Portugal.
The draft resolution, which we are asking the Assembly to adopt by consensus, will help to make the Universal Congress on the Panama Canal a part of the rich experience of the United Nations with regard to international and multidisciplinary meetings as a form of world diplomacy and a way of promoting brotherhood among men through knowledge.
Beginning in December 1999, Panama will be assuming a responsibility which we firmly intend to honour. By preparing and holding the Universal Congress, we shall be sending a powerful signal to the world on how international cooperation, taking into account the interests and expectations of many countries, disciplines and activities, can work to define and assure the role that the Panama Canal will play in the twenty-first century in problems and preoccupations that are part of the subject-matter of the United Nations: the law of the sea, international trade, the environment, and sustainable development.
In addition, with the holding of the Universal Congress, my Government hopes to bring the scientific, technological and cultural life of the Isthmus of Panama into harmony with that of the advanced centres of the world.
For many reasons related to the history of my country, and having to do with my own record as a champion of Panama's sovereignty over the whole of our national territory, I feel that at this time I am representing an age-old aspiration of all the men and women of Panama. Unquestionably it will be a source of deep satisfaction to bring the twentieth century to a close with an act which will again bear witness to the entire world of the continuing universalist vocation of the people of Panama.
The Acting President
I now call on the representative of Bolivia, who will speak on behalf of the Latin American and the Caribbean States.
Mr. Camacho Omiste (Bolivia)
As Chairman of the Regional Group of Latin American and Caribbean States for the month of November 1995, it is my honour to speak on agenda item 162 entitled "Universal Congress on the Panama Canal".
For many years, Latin American and Caribbean countries have followed with common interest items relating to the Panama Canal and the negotiations which led to the signing of the treaties known as the "Torrijos-Carter Treaties" on 7 September 1977. On that historic occasion, the Heads of State, Heads of Government and representatives of the American Republics witnessed the signing of the Treaties, and on the same date they signed the Washington Declaration recognizing:
"the importance for the hemisphere, for trade and for world shipping of agreements designed to ensure the accessibility and continued neutrality of the Panama Canal".
Panama is a centre of universal significance, a keystone in relations between the northern and southern hemispheres on the American continent and for interoceanic communication for all peoples. Some of Europe's influence in the sixteenth century had reached broad swathes of South America, and Panama became a required passage for a significant proportion of world trade. Consequently, it was also a meeting-point of economic and political interests with global influence. These geographical and historical realities lend extreme significance to events in this special region. How can we be indifferent to the problems, hopes and achievements of our fellow peoples that live in our part of the world?
In the conviction that the Universal Congress on the Panama Canal will promote understanding and stability, and also the development and international cooperation that will make possible the orderly and sustainable use of the resources of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, the delegations of the Latin American and Caribbean countries wish through me to express their support for draft resolution A/50/L.13, and to request that it be adopted by consensus.
Mr. Marrero (United States)
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| /data/vhost/www.undemocracy.com/docs/trunk.py in |
| 194 if __name__ == "__main__": |
| 195 pathpart = os.getenv("PATH_INFO") |
| 196 maintrunk(pathpart) |
| 197 |
| 198 |
| maintrunk = <function maintrunk>, pathpart = '/generalassembly_50/meeting_52/pg012-bk01' |
| /data/vhost/www.undemocracy.com/docs/trunk.py in maintrunk(pathpart='/generalassembly_50/meeting_52/pg012-bk01') |
| 131 elif pagefunc == "gameeting": |
| 132 LogIncomingDB(hmap["docid"], hmap["gadice"] or "0", referrer, ipaddress, useragent, remadeurl) |
| 133 WriteHTML(hmap["htmlfile"], hmap["pdfinfo"], hmap["gadice"], hmap["highlightdoclink"]) |
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| 135 LogIncomingDB(pagefunc, hmap["agendanum"], referrer, ipaddress, useragent, remadeurl) |
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| 322 if dclass == "spoken": |
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| /home/undemocracy/unparse-live/web2/unpvmeeting.py in WriteSpoken(gid=u'pg013-bk01', dtext=u'<h3 class="speaker"> <span class="name">Mr. Marr...d to assist it in this important undertaking.</p>', councilpresidentnation=None) |
| 69 print '</cite>' |
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