Informe del secretario general sobre

IV.FOLLOW-UP AND REPORTING

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   To instruct the SMS to submit in due course its 2014-2015 plan of activities for consultations or proper oversight by member states.
   

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   To request the Permanent Council to report to the General Assembly at its forty-fifth regular session on the implementation of this resolution. Execution of the activities envisaged in this resolution will be subject to the availability of financial resources in the program-budget of the Organization and other resources.
   

FOOTNOTES

1. …. objectives, and performance. The international context in which the entities concerned with defense issues in the Americas were conceived is long gone. The hemispheric relations that grew out of the Second World War and the Cold War were based on the now-defunct interventionist doctrine of national security and the principle of collective self-defense. In Latin America and the Caribbean, we have consolidated our democracies and the full operation of the principles of sovereignty, independence, and non-intervention in our internal affairs. Accordingly, our countries reject any attempt at intervention and interference by global hegemonic powers. The vision and execution of defense policy has moved beyond the militaristic, to submit to legally constituted civilian authority and to respect for the rule of law in all sectors of society, the very ones that consolidate the democratic institutional system in our states. For its part, the inter-American system has not kept pace with regional political development but has kept old structures that must, without delay, adapt to the changing times in the Hemisphere. We therefore demand that the IADB’s activities be strictly confined to the mandates provided for in Article 3 of the Statutes.

2. … and expertise on certain subject matters.  The issue of data privacy is one such matter.  The issue is not a Committee on Hemispheric Security issue; rather, it belongs to the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs (CAJP) or the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL).
The United States strongly supports privacy rights and the right of freedom of expression as set forth in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and protected under the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Laws and understands this resolution to be consistent with longstanding U.S. views regarding the ICCPR, including Articles 2 and 17.  Such rights are pillars of our democracy. as the OAS seeks to define its strategic vision, it also needs to consider working strategically in appropriate committees without redundancy to effectively deliver democracy, prosperity, and security to our citizens in the Americas.
3. Idem, footnote 2.
4. … aimed at developing preventive actions to address the diverse threats to security arising from crime in all its manifestations. With that approach, Nicaragua has been supporting various Central American and regional initiatives.
Nevertheless, with respect to the various initiatives proposed by some countries to strengthen and consolidate the role of the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB), Nicaragua maintains that the historical context that gave rise to that entity no longer exists and that our states today find themselves in very different circumstances. In light of the above, the Government of Nicaragua does not agree that the Inter-American Defense Board should intervene in military or other matters that infringe the country’s sovereignty, independence, legal system, and institutions.
5. Idem, footnote 2.
6. … the United States’ comprehensive review of its antipersonnel landmine policy is ongoing.
7. … nuclear disarmament. The only practical and realistic path to the elimination of nuclear weapons lies in a step by step process that has reduced dramatically nuclear arsenals from their Cold War highs and which the United States seeks to build on through negotiations with Russia on further reductions and through support for FMCT, CTBT and Nuclear Weapon Free Zones.
8. … they have adopted various international instruments for combating and prevention of illicit trafficking in firearms.

Furthermore, the Government of Nicaragua has incorporated in its national system of laws the United Nations Programme of Action and the International Tracing Instrument through the Special Law for Control and Regulation of Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Related Materials (Law 510), which has enabled it to implement a strict plan of control and registration of firearms in civilian possession and confiscation of weapons of war. The Nicaraguan nation is mindful of the humanitarian impact and of all the repercussions caused by this scourge in the Hemisphere, particularly in the Central American region, which is why it remains committed to multilateralism. However, Nicaragua is unable to accept the Arms Trade Treaty adopted by the United Nations for the following reasons:

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  It does not include a ban on transfers of firearms to non-state actors, which seems to it very dangerous, given that by its non-prohibition it is led, perforce, to the assumption that it is permitted.
  
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  The operative part of the treaty does not contain a clear affirmation of the sovereign right of states to procure, manufacture, export, import, and keep conventional weapons and their parts and components for their legitimate defense and security needs.
  
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  There is no prohibition against the transfer of weapons to states that threaten the use of force or that commit crimes of aggression against other states and which have as their practice and policy the destabilization of other states as well as the threat and the use of force.
  

9. … or to any commitment assumed by the states in connection with this topic.

AG/RES. 2867 (XLIV-O/14)

DRAFT AMERICAN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES