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Millennium Summit of the United Nations te New York 8 september 2000
Tijdens de 55e zitting
van de UN Assembly heeft o.a. H. Exc. Count Carlo Marullo di Condojanni, Prince
de Casalnuovo, Groot Kanselier van de Souvereine Militaire Orde van Malta, het
woord gevoerd als volgt:
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| H. Exc. Count Carlo Marullo di
Condojanni, Prince de Casalnuovo |
Mr. President,
The Millennium Summit
represents an opportunity to consider the actual evolutionary prospects with
respect to the programmes presented by the International Community concerning
the many problems faced by peoples in the world today, for most of which an
adequate solution has not been found.
The Sovereign Military
Order of Malta congratulates the Secretary-General on the high moral content of
his report and wishes humbly to remind the Heads of State and Heads of
Government convened here of some priorities, in the firm belief that when going
home, as the Secretary-General said, they will make their best efforts and use
their powers in order to lessen differences and omissions, especially at this
stage in the history of mankind in which the globalisation of markets, unless
adequately, may lead to a deepening of the existing imbalances, thus making
richer the already rich countries, and poorer the already poor ones.
Much will depend on
the way in which the new bio-technologies applied to agriculture will be
exploited. These technologies must not become a new mine to the exploited by the
few rich and powerful countries but must be placed at the service of mankind,
while at the same time respecting the fundamental rules of nature, thus without
unhinging ecosystems and addressing the same towards an harmonious and
controlled development assuring the poorer countries an easier access to
productions systems. Therefore, this may improve, if not solve, an age-long and
chronic problem which cannot be tolerated any longer by all those who care about
the future of mankind.
Therefore, if we look
with great hope at the projects aimed at the alleviation of hunger in the world,
at the enhancement of quality of life, through at least sufficient food and
medicinal supplies, we must not neglect, in addition to the issues relating to
survival, the spiritual development of man from an intellectual point of view
and therefore the right to education, from a social point of view and therefore
the end of any discrimination, from the point of view of the right to live with
necessary assurances, also with respect to justice in the largest meaning of
this word.
On the other hand,
this is one of the purposes for which the United Nations were established. Such
purposes specially include the enhancement of behaviours complying with the
principles of justice.
In a world approaching
the third millennium, also the so-called civilised countries are unfortunately
late in providing people with an effective justice.
They openly declare a
formal adherence to the charter of human rights, but then trample on such rights
each time they do no assure fast trials and allow the use of unlimited pre-trial
detention in criminal cases (thus breaching the basic legal right of the
presumption of innocence until the final conviction) and, which is even worse,
without respecting the individual right to breaching the primary rule which
should govern criminal trials, i.e. the absolute equality of defence and
prosecution before an actually impartial judge.
In this view, the
Sovereign Military Order of Malta firmly confirms its fullest response to the
Secretary - General's invitation to all nations to 'sign and ratify the Rome
Statutes of the International Criminal Court, so as to consolidate and enlarge
the success achieved in delivering to justice those guilty of crimes against
humanity'.
Much more could be
added on this subject, but this would require additional time. The hope remains
that the Millennium Summit may, accepting the requests of the Secretary-General,
effectively stimulate better forms of international aggregations among the
States, in order to face emergencies in the world, also in view of a legitimate
universal control which is now called for by the global perspective in which the
International Community has been operating for some years.
Thank you, Mr.
President and best whishes for the work we are all facing.
In deze Millennium
Summit is achtereenvolgens gesproken door:
1. H. Exc. Mr. Vaclav
Havel, President of the Czech Republic
2. H. Exc. Mr. Isaias
Afwerki, President of Eritrea
3. H. Exc. Mr. Kumba
Yak, President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
4. H. Exc. Sir Orville
Turnquest, Governal-General of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas
5. H. Exc. Mr.
Teburoro Tito, President and Prime Minister of Kiribati
6. H. Exc. Abdikassim
Salad Hassan, President of Somalia
7. H. Exc. The
Honourable Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada
8. H. Exc. The
Honourable Barak Sope Maautarnate, Prime Minister and Minister for Public
Service of the Republic of Vanuatu
9. H. Exc. Mr. Lamine
SidimJ, Prime Minister of the Republic of Guinea
10. H. Exc. Mr. Nagoum
Yamassoum, Prime Minister of the Republic of Chad
11. H. Exc. Mr. Meles
Zenawi, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
12. H. Exc. The
Honourable Ionatanna Ionatana, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs
of Tuvalu
13. H. Exc. Cardinal
Angelo Sodano, Secretary of State of the Holy See
14. H. Exc. Mr. Sabo
Nassirou, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and African Integration of
the Niger
15. H. Exc. Mr.
Yerodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and
International Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of Congo
16. H. Exc. Shaikh
Mohammaed bin Mubarak Al-Khalifa, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bahrein
17. H. Exc. Mr. Hersey
Kyota. Chairman of the Delegation of Palau
18. H. Exc. Dr. Ahmed
Esmat Abdel Meguid, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States
19. H. Exc. Mr. Roman
Prodi, President of the Commission of the European Community
20. H. Exc. Dr.
Azeddine Laraki, Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference
21. H. Exc. The Right
Honourable Don McKinnan, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Secretaria
22. H. Exc. Dr.
AbdarahimGovahi, Secretary-General of the Economic Cooperation Organization
23. H. Exc. Dr. Jakob
Kellenberger, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross
24. H. Exc. Count
Carlo Marullo di Condojanni, Grand Chancellor of the Sovereign Military Order of
Malta
25. H. Exc. Dr. Najma
Heptulla, President of the Conference of Presiding Officers of National
26. Hr. Tachestc
Adherom, Co-Chair of the Millennium Forum.
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