COLOMBIA
INTERVENTION
Of
AMBASSADOR
HECTOR CHARRY SAMPER
IN
NAME OF THE DELEGATION OF COLOMBIA
BEFORE
II THE CONFERENCE ON MEASURES TO FACILITATE THE TAKE EFFECT OF THE TREATY OF
COMPLETE PROHIBITION OF NUCLEAR TESTS - (TPCEN)
NEW
YORK, 12 OF NOVEMBER OF 2001
Sir President:
I have the taste to express to him, in name of the Delegation of Colombia,
our congratulations by its designation like President of the Second Conference
of Facilitación for the take effect of the Treaty of Complete Prohibition of
Nuclear Tests - (TPCEN). We trusted that, with its capacities, and the effort
of all, will be fulfilled our assignment to reach the aims proposed in article
XIV of the Treaty.
We stood out pleased the honorable Mexican tradition to the service of La
Paz and of the configuration of a multilateral system it jeopardize with the
use of its main instruments.
We have listened to with attention the inaugural intervention of the
Secretary General of the United Nations and shared the preoccupations in her expressed.
Its revalida message the postulates of the Treaty to continue in the efforts in
favor of the quick take effect of the TPCEN. Just let us create to express our
recognition to Mr. Hoffman, Executive Secretary, by its work.
Sir President:
The call of this conference has not been able to become at more opportune
moment. We faced an aid of circumstances that by their gravity and
implications, demand of the international community adjustments in his
questioned perception in the matter of security and the conception and design
of novel more effective mechanisms of global cooperation.
She is well-known the estagnación and deceleration of the control of the
armamentismo and the nuclear disarmament, accompanied by an adverse atmosphere
the application of safeguards, particularly in countries with not declared
nuclear programs. Colombia shares with the immense majority of the
international community, and the main experts, the conviction that the TPCEN is
central part of the treaty regime, agreements and norms that consecrate the
will to prevent the proliferation with the arms of massive destruction. It is a
vital handle to reinforce the limitation of all luck of armaments -
conventional and nonconventional - and to advance towards the objective I
complete - cannot be waived although distant of the disarmament.
It is necessary to prevent new armament races, to seat the collective
security instead of the ways insulares. We are of the majority states that we
lack the technology to exert monitoring on the nuclear tests or sophisticated
intelligence for the verification of the fulfillment of the treaty.
For that reason our confidence rests in the effectiveness, the
transparency, the reliability, of the TPCEN like expression of the multilateral
action to organize the prevention, the control, the sanctions to those who
violate the Treaty. The possibilities also worry to us to the ecological
injurious effects and about the nuclear use about terrorist groups.
There are at the moment 31,000 nuclear weapons against 39,000 existing ones at
the time which the Treaty of Nuclear No-Proliferacion I have been taking effect
for 31 years. The decrease is slow, worrisome.
The doctrines of first use persist of a concomitante form (first-it uses),
preventive use (pre-emptive uses) with a noticeable deceleration of the
mechanisms of control of nuclear weapons, particularly in the referred thing in
the Treaty on the Limitation of the System of Missiles Antibalisticos (Treaty
on the Limitation of Anti-ballistic Missile Systems) and START II.
Recently indicated in the symposium of the Agency the International of
Atomic Energy on Safeguards and Nuclear Terrorism, members of the TNP exist
solid evidences of programs of nuclear weapons in some not-nuclear states. The
easy access and the illegal use of the nuclear technology accompanied by a
sensible increase of the traffic of radioactive material warn to us, like a
signal of alarm, on the dangers and abominable threats of nuclear terrorism in
anyone of its forms. The unthinkable thing has become probable.
In these circumstances, the validity of the instruments whereupon is
structured the building of the global regime of nuclear proliferation -
intimately bound to the disarmament - does not acquire a greater relevance,
without precedents. Among them the Treaty of Nuclear nonProliferation that is
first instrument.
He is essential that the efforts of nuclear disarmament are translated in
concrete measures by the countries with nuclear weapon as the last year were
its commitment in the Conference of Overhaul of the celebrated TNP. To
reinforce the system of safeguards is key.
The TNP allows to attend the States, particularly developing, in the
pacifica use of the nuclear energy without affecting the objectives of
nonproliferation. Let us create in the pacifica use of the nuclear technology
and science with comprobable fullness of safeguards and controls. That will be
our position in the Meeting of Governors of the Agency of Atomic Energy for
which we were chosen recently.
Sir President:
As it is known the Treaty for the Complete Prohibition of Nuclear Tests
represents the culmination of a long process of almost half directed century to
prevent the nuclear proliferation and the advance towards the elimination with
the nuclear weapons, with a view to reaching international La Paz and the
security.
Like one of the fundamental axes of its foreign policy, Colombia supports
and participates in the global strategy of security and it is united to the
efforts of the international community, to end all the nuclear explosions,
under strict and effective international control.
We are part of a region with pacifist vocation that created in 1967 in total
Cold War, a free zone of nuclear weapons by means of the treaty of Tlatelolco whose
principles, as outside expressed by the Minister of Outer Relations of Chile,
to name of the Group of River, have indicated a north to us and marked a
conductive thread in the matter of not-proliferation. We identified ourselves
totally with the declaration of the Group of River.
Colombia signed the TPCEN IN 1996, like result of its conviction that the
complete prohibition of the nuclear tests is indispensable for La Paz and
international security. We are a not-nuclear country without no pretension nor
reason that motivates to change this situation to us. On the contrary, we
firmly create in the not-proliferation of the arms of massive destruction and
in the pacifica use of science and nuclear technologies.
The inclusion of Colombia in the list of countries which it deals with
annexed the II of the Treaty whose ratification is necessary for its take
effect, gives an additional responsibility us. Our commitment with the Treaty
is reflected in the will of the National Government to ratify it to the greater
brevity. Already approved by the Congress, the ratification law is in the
process of constitutional control.
Sir President:
Here we are reunited nonsingle to state a series of important
political developments - of necessary and careful analysis -, but to identify
measures that facilitates the take effect of the Treated one and reinforce the
assembly of the international system in the matter.
The Conference will have to respond to its mandate, that is to say,
to identify and to cause measures of facilitación under the principle of which
the objectives of the Treaty are obtained if the confidence and mutual benefits
of the cooperation between the States are based on.
It is of particular relevance to find measures you specify, perhaps
under the principle of " marries by marries " for countries
developing like us, with impediments of constitutional order to cancel the
originated financial contributions before the ratification. By our part, of
" bona fidae " we have exposed the difficulties that are crossed to
him to Colombia, and renewed the disposition to make a effort to surpass them.
As much the Preparatory Commission as Provisional the Technical Secretariat is
in capacity to contribute to an acceptable solution for the parts that the take
Treaty effect accelerates.
Imaginative mechanisms of transference of technology necessary to
implement national systems of data, concrete modernization of facilities of
seismic networks, contributions to the development of the national capacity are
some examples of cooperation that open perspective for the mentioned solution.
The organization of the Treaty and the Preparatory Commission will
have to make efforts additional to promote in the countries developing the
benefits of their adhesion, nonsingle like contribution to the world-wide
security, but for benefit of the civil and scientific applications, of the
verification techniques. The technical cooperation to the countries developing
must be invigorated in all the system of United Nations.
Sir President:
The Treaty of Complete Prohibition of the Nuclear Tests must take advantage
of the Conferences overhaul to reinforce its own capacity of reflection on the
application of the treaty. With self-criticism, recognition of profits that are
evident and prospectiva in a joint effort to obtain their objectives at
difficult moments.
To find answer to a series of questions that allow to fit their own
paradigms, must be a constant and decided work. Single thus it will be
able to clear the political uncertainty on essential aspects of the Treaty,
that certainly does not operate in the emptiness. This connected
nonsingle with other treaties but with the same international climate, the
chronic conflict resolution, with the certainty of which the monitoring, the safeguards,
them inspection on the land, the moratorium in the nuclear tests, fulfills
their assignment.
Recognizing the necessity to have a unique and global regime of
verification, to weigh the putting in it practices of the regime of
verification in the phase of the Preparatory Commission taking in consideration
his financing and restlessness on the date of take effect of the treaty, it
will require of a handling adapted by the Preparatory Commission.
Fine lmente, se pondrá a prueba
la capacidad de adaptaci ó n de la Comisi ó n Preparatoria y de la Organizaci ó
n para el TPCEN a los desaf í os de la realidad internacional y al
aprovechamiento de sus ventajas comparativas y valor agregado en favor de la
cooperaci ó n internacional con el objetivo de servir a la paz y la seguridad
mundial, en beneficio de todos. Disipar los temores sobre los peligros
nucleares contribuye a disipar otros temores sobre peligros devastadores. En
nuestro siglo XXI tenemos el imperativo categ ó rico de convertirlo en el
tiempo de las certidumbres pacificas, las soluciones negociadas de los
conflictos y las convergencias inteligentes en una civilizaci ó n com ú n.