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66th session of the United Nations General AssemSeptember, 2011
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"Peoples of the world, the future of a multipo
world, in peace, resides in us, in the organizat
of the majority of the people on earth to def
ourselves against the new colonialism, in order
achieve a balance in the universe that is capable
neutralizing imperialism and arrogance."
Hugo Chvez Fr
Our commitment to peace and justice in the worldHugo Chvez Fras
Letters from President Hugo Chvez to the United Nations. September, 2011
Coleccin Claves
CORREO DEL ORINOCO
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BOARD OF D I R ECTORS
Hugo Rafael Chvez FrasPresident of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Andrs IzarraMinister of People's Power for Communication and Information
Alejandro BoscnVice-minister of Communication Strategy
Ldice AltuveVice-minister of Communication Management
Edited byEmbassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the U.S.Department of International Communication - Ministry of People's Power forCommunication and Information.
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ISBN: 978-980-7426-16-9October, 2011
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Acknowledgment ofPalestinian sovereignty:Act of historic justice
Miraflores Presidential P
September 17, 2
His Excellency
Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary General of the United Natio
Mr. Secretary General:
Distinguished representatives of the peop
of the world:
I address these words to the United Natio
General Assembly, to this great forum t
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We dont need memories
because we carry within us Mount Carmel
and in our eyelids is the herb of Galilee
Dont say: If only we could flow to my coun
like a river!
Dont say that!
Because we are in the flesh of our countryand our country is in our flesh.
Against those who falsely assert that w
has happened to the Palestinian people is
genocide, Deleuze himself states with unfalter
lucidity: From beginning to end, it involv
acting as if the Palestinian people not only m
not exist, but had never existed. It represents
very essence of genocide: to decree that they
not exist as a people; to deny them the rightexistence.
represents all the peoples on earth, to ratify,
on this day and in this setting, Venezuelas full
support of the recognition of the Palestinian
State: of Palestines right to become a free,
sovereign and independent state. This represents
an act of historic justice towards a people who
carry with them, from time immemorial, all the
pain and suffering of the world.In his memorable essay The Grandeur of
Arafat, the great French philosopher Gilles
Deleuze wrote with the full weight of the truth:
The Palestinian cause is first and foremost the
set of injustices that these people have suffered
and continue to suffer. And I dare to add that the
Palestinian cause also represents a constant and
unwavering will to resist, already written in the
historic memory of the human condition. A will
to resist that is born of the most profound love
for the earth. Mahmoud Darwish, the infinitevoice of the longed-for Palestine, with heartfelt
conscience speaks about this love:
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against Palestine. It is worth mentioning that an
Semitism is a Western European scourge in wh
the Arabs do not participate. Furthermore, l
not forget that it is the Semite Palestine peo
who suffer from the ethnic cleansing practiced
the Israeli colonialist State.
I want to make myself clear: One thing is
denounce anti-Semitism, and an entirely differthing to passively accept that Zionistic barbari
enforces an apartheid regime against the Palestin
people. From an ethical standpoint those w
denounce the first, must condemn the second.
A necessary digression: it is frankly abusive
confuse Zionism with Judaism. Throughout ti
we have been reminded of this by several Jew
intellectuals such as Albert Einstein and Er
Fromm. And today there is an ever increas
number of conscientious citizens, within Isr
itself, who openly oppose Zionism and its crimi
and terrorist practices.
In this regard, the great Spanish writer Juan
Goytisolo is quite right when he forcefully states:
The biblical promise of the land of Judea and
Samaria to the tribes of Israel is not a notarized
property contract that authorizes the eviction
of those who were born and live on that land.
This is precisely why conflict resolution in the
Middle East must, necessarily, bring justice to thePalestinian people; this is the only path to peace.
It is upsetting and painful that the same people
who suffered one of the worst examples of
genocide in history have become the executioners
of the Palestinian people: it is upsetting and painful
that the heritage of the Holocaust be the Nakba.
And it is truly disturbing that Zionism continues
to use the charge of anti-Semitism as blackmail
against those who oppose their violations and
crimes. Israel has, blatantly and despicably, used
and continues to use the memory of the victims. And they do so to act with complete impunity
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Read and reread the document historica
known as the Balfour Declaration of 1917:
British Government assumed the legal author
to promise a national home in Palestine to
Jewish people, deliberately ignoring the presen
and wishes of its inhabitants. Christians a
Muslims lived in peace for centuries in the H
Land up until the time when Zionism beganclaim it as its complete and exclusive property
Lets not forget that beginning in the seco
decade of the 20th century, Zionism started
develop expansionist plans by taking advanta
of the colonial British occupation of Palesti
By the end of World War II, the tragedy of
Palestinian people worsened, with their expuls
from their territory and, at the same time, fr
history. In 1947, the despicable and illegal U
resolution 181 recommends dividing Palest
into a Jewish State, an Arab State, and an aunder international control (Jerusalem a
We must spell it out: Zionism, as a world
vision, is absolutely racist. An irrefutable proof
of this can be seen in these words written with
terrifying cynicism by Golda Meir: How can we
return the occupied territories? There is nobody
to return them to. There is no such thing as a
Palestinian people. It is not as people think, that
there existed a people called Palestinians, whoconsidered themselves as Palestinians, and that
we came and threw them out and took their
country. They didnt exist.
It is important to remember that: from the
end of the 19th century, Zionism called for the
return of the Jewish people to Palestine and the
creation of a national State of its own. This
approach was beneficial for French and British
colonialism, as it would later be for Yankee
imperialism. The West has always encouraged
and supported the Zionist occupation ofPalestine by military means.
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transnational media outlets, what happened a
continues to happen in Palestine using Sa
words is not a religious conflict, but a politi
conflict, with a colonial and imperialist stamp. It
not begin in the Middle East, but rather in Euro
What was and continues to be at the heart
the conflict? Debate and discussion has prioritiz
Israels security while ignoring Palestines. Thicorroborated by recent events; a good exampl
the latest act of genocide set off by Israel dur
its Operation Molten Lead in Gaza.
Palestines security cannot be reduced
the simple acknowledgement of a limited s
government and self-policing in its enclav
along the west bank of the Jordan and in
Gaza Strip. This ignores the creation of
Palestinian State, in the borders set prior to 19
with East Jerusalem as its capital; and the rig
of its citizens and their self-determination a
people. This further disregards the compensat
Belem). Shamefully, 56 percent of the territory
was granted to Zionism to establish its State. In
fact, this resolution violated international law
and blatantly ignored the will of the vast Arab
majority: the right to self-determination of the
people became a dead letter.
From 1948 to date, the Zionist State has
continually applied its criminal strategy againstthe Palestinian people with the constant support
of its unconditional ally, the United States of
America. This unconditional allegiance is clearly
observed by the fact that Israel directs and sets
US international policy for the Middle East.
Thats why the great Palestinian and universal
conscience Edward Said stated that any peace
agreement built on the alliance with the United
States would be an alliance that confirms Zionist
power, rather than one that confronts it.
Contrary to what Israel and the United States
are trying to make the world believe through
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Commitment to justice,equality and peace
Miraflores Presidential Place
September 27, 2011
Mr. Secretary General:
Distinguished representatives of the peop
of the world:
I address these words to the United Natio
General Assembly, to this great forum wh
all the peoples of the earth are represented,
express Venezuelas truths and to reassert o
inalienable commitment to justice and equal
that is to say, to peace.
I would like to conclude with the voice of
Mahmoud Darwish in his memorable poem On
This Earth: We have on this earth what makes
life worth living:
On this earth, the lady of earth, Mother of all
beginnings
Mother of all ends. She was called
Palestine
Her name later becamePalestine.
My Lady, because you are my Lady, I deserve life.
It will continue to be called Palestine: Palestine
will live and overcome! Long-live free, sovereign
and independent Palestine!
Hugo Chvez Fras
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
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We have to look directly at the terrify
reality of the world we live in. It is necess
to ask a series of questions on the basis of
risks and threats we face: Why is the Uni
States the only country that fills the plan
with military bases? What does it allocate su
a staggering budget for increasing its milit
power? Why has it unleashed so many waviolating the sovereignty of other nations wh
have the same rights to their own fates? H
can international law be enforced against
United States insensible aspiration to milit
hegemony of the world in order to ensure cont
over energy sources to sustain their predat
and consumer model? Why does the UN
nothing to stop Washington? If we answ
these questions sincerely we would understa
that the empire has awarded itself the role
judge of the world, without being granthis responsibility by anyone, and, therefo
imperialist war threatens us all.
Peace, peace, peace We do not look for the
peace of the cemetery, as Kant said ironically,
but a peace based on the most zealous respect
for international law. Unfortunately, the UN,
throughout its history, instead of adding and
multiplying efforts in favor of peace among
nations, has ended up supporting, sometimes
through its actions and other times by omission,the most ruthless injustices.
We should always remember that saving future
generations from the scourge of war is mentioned
in the Preamble of the Charter of the United
Nations but its just dead letter. From 1945 on,
wars have done nothing but inexorably increase
and multiply. We see, once again, Libya destroyed
and bloodstained by the will of the powerful.
I call on the governments of the world to
reflect: Since September 11th, 2001, a new and
unprecedented imperialist war has begun, a
permanent war, in perpetuity.
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Washington knows that a multipolar worl
already an irreversible reality. Its strategy cons
of stopping, at any price, the sustained rise o
group of emerging countries, by negotiating gr
interests with its partners and followers in ord
to guide multipolarity along the path the emp
wants. What is more, the goal is to reconfigure
world so it is based on US military hegemonyHumanity is facing the very real threat o
permanent war. The empire is ready to cre
the political conditions for triggering a w
anywhere, and the case of Libya is proof. Wit
the imperial view of the world, Clausewitzs axi
is being reversed: politics are the continuation
war by other means.
What is behind this new Armageddon? T
absolute power of the military-financial leaders
that is destroying the world in order to accumul
even more profits; a military-financial power t
is subordinated, de facto, to an increasingly lar
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the conquistadors Cortes and Pizarro, as
influential French thinker Edgar Morin righ
pointed out, leads to continuously degrad
and destroying. Energy and food crises
sharpening, but capitalism continues to tresp
all limits with impunity.
Given such a meager outlook, the great
scientist Linus Pauling, awarded the Nobel Pron two occasions, continues enlightening our pa
I believe that there is a greater power in the wo
than the evil power of military force, of nucl
bombs there is the power of good, of mora
of humanitarianism. I believe in the power of
human spirit. Let us mobilize all the power of
human spirit. It is time now. It is imperative that
unleash a great political counter-offensive in or
to prevent the powers of darkness from find
justifications for going to war, from unleashin
widespread global war through which they attemto save western capital.
group of States. Keep in mind that war is capitals
modus operandi: war ruins the majority and
makes only a few wealthier.
Right now, there is a very serious threat to
global peace. A new cycle of colonial wars, which
started in Libya, have the sinister objective of
reviving the capitalist global system which is going
through a structural crisis today. There are nolimits to its consumerist and destructive voracity.
The case of Libya should alert us to the attempt
to implement a new imperial kind of colonialism,
that of military interventionism backed by the
antidemocratic organs of the United Nations and
justified on the basis of prefabricated media lies.
Humanity is on the brink of an unimaginable
catastrophe. The world is marching inexorably
towards the most devastating ecocide. Global
warming and its frightening consequences are
announcing this, but world perspective on the
ecosystem, which resembles the ideology of
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Remember that the Libyan Case w
brought before the Security Council on the ba
of an intense propaganda campaign by west
mass media, who lied about the alleged bomb
of innocent civilians by the Libyan Air Force,
to mention the grotesque media manipulation
Tripolis Green Square. This premeditated bun
of lies was used to justify irresponsible and hadecisions by the Security Council, which pav
the way for NATOs military regime chan
policy in Libya.
It is worthwhile to ask: What has the no
zone established by Security Council resolut
1973 become? How could NATO perform m
than 20,000 missions against the Libyan peo
if there was a no-fly zone? After the Libyan
Force was completely annihilated, the continu
humanitarian bombings show that the W
through NATO, intend to impose their interein North Africa, turning Libya into a colon
protectorate.
Venezuela calls for the establishment of a broad
alliance for peace and against war, with the supreme
aim of avoiding war at all costs. Warmongers, and
especially the military-financial leadership that
sponsor and lead them, must be defeated.
Lets build the balance of the universe foreseen
by the Liberator, Simon Bolvar the balance that,
according to his words, cannot be found withinwar; the balance that is born out of peace.
Remember that Venezuela, alongside the
member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance
for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), was
actively advocating for a peaceful and negotiated
solution to the Libyan conflict. That is also what
the African Union tried. However, in the end, the
logic of war decreed by the UN Security Council
and put into practice by NATO, the armed wing
of the US empire, was imposed. And, the logic
of war is spearheaded by corporate mass media,
do not forget.
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By the way: the Residence of the Venezue
Ambassador in Tripoli was invaded
looted, and the UN did nothing, remain
ignominiously silent.
We call for the immediate cessation of bombi
operations in Libyan territory. Similarly, we w
continue calling for respect for internatio
law in the case of this sister nation. We wnot remain silent in light of the evil intent
of destroying the basis of its sense and reas
Therefore, we ask this Assembly: Why is
Libyan seat in the UN granted to the natio
transition council, while the admission
Palestine is blocked by ignoring, not only
lawful aspiration, but also the existing will of
majority of the General Assembly? Venezu
hereby ratifies its unconditional solidarity w
the Palestinian people and its total support
the Palestinian national cause, which naturaincludes the immediate admission of Palestine
a full member state within the United Nation
How can we say that an arms embargo was
imposed on Libya when it was NATO itself
that introduced thousands of heavy weapons to
support a violent upheaval against that countrys
legitimate government?
The embargo was, of course, meant to
prevent the Libyan government from defending
its sovereignty.
This demonstrates, once again, the cruel logic
of international relations, where the law only
applies to the weak. What is the real reason for
this military intervention? Recolonizing Libya in
order to capture its wealth.
Everything else is related to this goal. Nobody
colonizes innocently, as the great Martinican
poet Aime Cesaire said, quite rightly, in his
extraordinary essay called Discours sur le
colonialisme.
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And the same imperialist pattern is being
repeated regarding Syria. If some permanent
members of the Security Council had not taken
the firm stance that was missing in the case of
Libya, it would have authorized shooting missiles
and bombs at Syria.
It is intolerable that the powerful of this world
intend to claim for themselves the right to orderlegitimate and sovereign governments rulers to
step down. This was the case in Libya, and they
want to do the same in Syria. Such are the existing
asymmetries in the international setting and such
are the abuses against the weakest nations.
It is not for us to bring forward a conclusive
judgment about the national situation in Syria.
First, because of the inherent complexity of
any national reality and, second, because only
the Syrian people can solve their problems and
decide their fate in light of the peoples right to
self-determination, which is an inalienable right
in all respects.
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how much is being spent to destroy Libya. Thi
the answer of US congressman Dennis Kucini
who said: This new war will cost us $5
million during its first week alone. Obviously,
do not have financial resources for that and
will end up cutting off other important dome
programs funding.
According to Kucinich himself, with amount spent during the first three weeks
Northern Africa to massacre the Libyan peop
much could have been done to help the ent
region of the Horn of Africa, saving tens
thousands of lives.
The reasons behind the criminal milit
engagement in Libya are not humanitarian
all: they are based on the Malthusian notion t
there are just too many people in the wor
and they have to be eliminated by generat
more hunger, destruction and uncertainty, a
creating at the same time more financ
If we direct our eyes to the Horn of Africa we
will witness a heartbreaking example of the UNs
historical failure. Most serious news agencies
report that 29,000 children under the age of 5
have died in the last three months.
The great journalist Frida Modak, in her
article, To Die in Somalia, reveals all the misery
there, which is worse than that ravaging the restof the vast region of the Horn of Africa, and
which undermines the role of large international
organizations, such as the UN. She writes: What
is needed to face this situation is $400 million,
not to solve the problem, but just to address the
emergency that Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti and
Ethiopia are going through. According to all
sources, the next two months will be crucial to
prevent more than 12 million people from dying,
and the worst situation is in Somalia.
This reality could not be more atrocious,
especially if, at the same time, we ask ourselves
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imposed against the Cuban people, but also
release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fight
held hostage in the prisons of the US Empire
the sole reason of seeking to prevent the ille
actions of terrorist groups against Cuba, un
the protection of the US government.
Mr. President of the General Assembly a
distinguished representatives of the peoples the world, we want to reiterate that it is impossi
to ignore the crisis of the UN. Before this sa
General Assembly we expressed, back in 2005, t
the UN model had been exhausted. Back then,
also expressed the urgent need for it to be rebuil
Up until now, nothing has been done. T
political will of the powerful has prevail
Certainly, the UN, in its current functioni
docilely serves their interests. For us, it is obvio
that the UN is not improving, nor will it impro
from the inside. If the Secretary General, alo
with the President of the International Crimi
profits. In this regard, it is frankly regrettable
that in the opening address of the 66th General
Assembly of the UN, an immediate appeal to
solve humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa
was not made, while instead we were assured
that the time has come to act on Syria.
As of 2010, 19 UN General Assembly
votes confirm the universal will demandingthat the United States stop the economic and
trade blockade against Cuba. Since all sensible
international arguments have been exhausted,
we have no choice but to believe that such cruel
actions against the Cuban Revolution result
from imperial arrogance in view of the dignity
and courage shown by the unsubmissive Cuban
people in their sovereign decision to determine
their own fate and fight for their happiness.
From Venezuela, we believe it is time to
demand of the US not only an immediate and
unconditional end to the criminal blockade
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law while the North violates it, destroying a
plundering us.
If we do not make a commitment, once a
for all, to rebuilding the United Nations,
organization will lose its remaining credibil
Its crisis of legitimacy will be accelerated unt
finally implodes. In fact, that is what happened
its immediate predecessor: the League of Natio
A crucial first step in rebuilding the Uni
Nations would be to eliminate the category
permanent members and veto power wit
the Security Council. Likewise, the decisio
making power of the General Assembly must
maximized democratically. We also demand
immediate, in-depth revision of the UN Char
with the aim of drafting a new Charter.
Peoples of the World:
The future of a multipolar world, in pea
resides in us, in the organization of the major
Court, take part in an act of war, as in the case
of Libya, nothing can be expected from the
current structure of this organization and there
is no longer time for reform. The UN does not
accept any reform whatsoever; the illness at its
core is deadly.
It is unbearable that there is a Security Council
that turns its back, whenever it wants to, on theclamor of the majority of nations by deliberately
failing to acknowledge the will of the General
Assembly. If the Security Council is some sort
of club with privileged members, what can the
General Assembly do?
Where is its room for manoeuver, when Security
Council members violate international law?
Paraphrasing Bolivar when he spoke of
nascent US imperialism in 1818, we have had
enough of the weak following the law whilethe strong commit abuses. It cannot be us, the
peoples of the South, who respect international
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and anti-imperialist governments, seeking w
to break the prevailing international order a
strengthening the capacity of the people to fa
together, the reigning powers. But this does
prevent its members from making an enthusia
push for the consolidation of the Union of Sou
American Nations (UNASUR), a political b
that federates the 12 sovereign States of So America with the purpose of grouping th
under what the Liberator Simon Bolivar cal
a Nation of Republics.
Furthermore, the 33 countries of La
America and the Caribbean are curre
preparing to take the historic step of establish
a great regional entity that joins us all, with
exclusions, where we can together design
policies that will ensure our wellbeing, o
independence, and our sovereignty, on the ba
of equality, solidarity, and complementarCaracas, the capital of the Bolivarian Repub
of the people on earth to defend ourselves against
the new colonialism, in order to achieve a balance
in the universe that is capable of neutralizing
imperialism and arrogance.
This broad, generous, respectful, and inclusive
call is addressed to all the peoples of the world,
but especially to the emerging powers of the
South, which must assume, with courage, therole that they are called on to play immediately.
From Latin America and the Caribbean,
powerful and dynamic regional alliances have
emerged, seeking to shape a regional democratic
space, respectful of differences and eager to
emphasize solidarity and cooperation in order to
foster the ties that bind us and settle what keeps us
apart politically. And this new regionalism allows
for diversity and respects the various rhythms
of nation. Thus, the Bolivarian Alliance for
the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) advances
as an avant-garde experiment of progressive
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I want to conclude by remembering wo
of the great Venezuelan singer, Ali Prime
In one of his songs he asks us: What is ma
struggle to achieve peace? And what peace
they want to leave the world just as it is? Tod
more than ever before, the worst crime agai
peace is to leave the world as it is. If we le
the world as it is, the present and future willdetermined by perpetual war. On the contra
to quote Ali Primera again, achieving pea
involves radically reversing all that impe
humanity from being humane.
Hugo Chvez Fras
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venez
of Venezuela, is proud to host, next December
2 and 3, the Summit of Heads of State and
Government that will establish, definitively, the
Community of Latin American and Caribbean
States (CELAC).
The people of Venezuela place our hopes
on a broad alliance among the regional
organizations of the South, such as the Unionof South American Nations (UNASUR),
CARICOM (the Caribbean Community), SICA
(the System of Central American Integration),
the African Union, ASEAN (the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations) or ECO (the Economic
Coordination Organization), and especially the
cross-regional organizations among emerging
powers, such as BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India,
China, and South Africa), which should become
a pole of influence in coordination with the
peoples of the South.
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During the UN General
Assembly 66th Session,
President Hugo Chvez addressed
the Assembly through two letters in whichhe pleaded for the inclusion of Palestine as a UNO
permanent member. He also demanded the establishment
of true world peace and respect to self-determination of the
peoples, in the view of the imperialist neocolonialism that
intends to spread in the world.