Jimmy Carter

he matter does not end here, for in a letter to Begin—one of the nine letters considered an integral part of the first Camp David agreement—President Carter stated that he had been informed by Begin that he understands the terms "Palestinians" and "Palestinian People" to mean "Palestinian Arabs" and the e

nd with other interested parties to establish agreed procedures for a prompt, just and permanent resolution of the refugee problem. 170. As President Carter stated in his address to Congress, the United States is irrevocably committed to bringing about a satisfactory solution to the problem of the Palesti

ate, not dominate their citizens. Given he will turn 100 in the next few days, we recall with admiration such leadership, exhibited by then President Jimmy Carter in 1978, in concert with Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. They talked for 11 straight days at Camp David, from

e perfection the enemy of the good. The many-sided turmoil of today prompts me to conclude with the probing insights of Guyana’s Poet Laureate Martin Carter, in his celebrated poem “Bitter Wood”. “Here be dragons, and bitter cups made of wood; and the hooves of horses where they should not sound.... Here

f the struggle of generations of Panamanians and the global support that culminated in the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties. I am referring to Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States, and Omar Torrijos, then Head of the Government of Panama, who led the negotiations between two nations, one l

o the people of Panama thanks to the Panama Canal treaties and the courageous decision of a simple human being, former President of the United States Jimmy Carter, whose commitment, I publicly acknowledge today, changed the course of our nation’s history. While we have experienced difficult situations that have

istory must not be repeated. The financial and economic blockade and the persecution suffered by Cuba must end as soon as possible. Just as President Jimmy Carter in 1979 signed the agreement to return the sovereignty of the Panama Canal to the Panamanians, we hope that soon the United States will return the Gu

anize, finance or carry out terrorist acts against any country, including the United States. Similarly, the prominent former United States President, Jimmy Carter, has stated that the role of Havana as a guarantor in the peace talks between the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia and the Colombian Gover

international institutions involved in this field, as well as many renowned and prominent experts, diplomats and politicians. Some of them, including Jimmy Carter and Martti Ahtisaari, have been rightly acknowledged by being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.

s will be held in Venezuela to elect the President of the Republic. They will be transparent and credible, because, as former United States President Jimmy Carter said a few days ago, we have the most modern electoral system in the world. Between 1999 and 2012 we have held 14 clean national elections, a world r

Guinea. We need no scientist to tell us of the negative impact of climate change. We live it and we suffer from it. Many of our islands, such as the Carterets, and coastal habitats like my own home area of the Murik Lakes are being gradually submerged by rising sea levels. The result is that people livin

ion of coastal areas, an increase in malaria due to warming in the highlands region of the country, and especially in the plight of the people of the Carteret Islands, where sea level has risen and some 1,200 people have had to be resettled. We therefore strongly support the recent Alliance of Small Islan

In the words of my country’s national poet, Martin Carter, in his poem entitled “All are involved”: Like a jig shakes the loom; Like a web is spun the pattern; all are involved all are consumed (All are invo

blic takes the liberty of suggesting Presidents Fox of Mexico and Lula da Silva of Brazil, the former Presidents of the United States of America, Mr. Carter and Mr. Clinton, and the legendary former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela. Elections are the first important political step to help Haiti b

support from representatives of the Organization of American States. We have also requested support from the Carter Center headed by former President Jimmy Carter.

n Burundi. Since the Nairobi Agreement, signed in December 1999 between the Governments of the Sudan 6 and Uganda and facilitated by former President Jimmy Carter of the United States and by President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya, relations between Sudan and Uganda have continued to witness steady and satisfactory

the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the Group of 77 and China, and large sectors of the American community, including former President Jimmy Carter, former Attorney-General Ramsey Clark, a number of Congressmen and the American mass media. Our position was also supported by high-ranking officials

ents voluntarily entered into. That is what should be addressed. In the case of the Great Lakes region, former Presidents Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Jimmy Carter of the United States of America and General Touré of Mali successfully managed to get the Heads of State and Government to agree and sign solemn decl

ng to take on all the responsibilities stemming from the final transfer of the interoceanic canal in 1999, pursuant to the provisions of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties. One calendar year from the holding of the Congress, I wish to inform the General Assembly that the Panamanian Government is hard at work on

Abuja, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, on 19 August 1995. In celebration of Abuja, we hereby announce our profoundest gratitude to former President Jimmy Carter and current President William Clinton of the United States of America, ECOWAS Chairman President Jerry John Rawlings and his Special Facilitator, Cap

ons of the world, desires friendship with all States and wishes to normalize its relations with all users of this inter-oceanic passage. The Torrijos-Carter Treaties provide for the culmination on 31 December 1999 of the process of the return to Panama of the inter-oceanic canal and adjacent facilities an

e was addressed by the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Trevor Gordon- Somers; the former United States President, Jimmy Carter; and the OAU Eminent Person, the Rev. Dr. Canaan Banana. General Arnold Quainoo, ECOMOG’s first field commander and Special Representative of the ECO

nd cooperation with the Government of the United States, grounded in a common resolve to fulfil on schedule the timetable established by the Torrijos-Carter Treaties on the Panama Canal and associated territories. Furthermore, we are seeking to extend our relations, as partners and friends of the United S

As proof of our assertion, it could not generate any support. Former President Jimmy Carter and a number of credible institutions and newspapers have expressed their scepticism and criticism regarding its ethical value. Likewise, the Sudanes

ensure the credibility of the electoral process we have invited the International Negotiation Network (INN), headed by former United States President Jimmy Carter, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the Economic Community of West African States, the United Nations, the Republican Institute for Internation

organizing and supervising elections in Liberia. They have also agreed to cooperate fully with the "International Negotiations Network (INN)" of the Carter Centre, designed to provide assistance to the organizing of the electoral process. We hope that the promising process thus begun will be further and

ssisting in every way possible. The Prime Minister of Belize has been personally engaged in this endeavour, along with former United States President Carter. It is our hope and prayer that the people of Haiti will be allowed to emerge from the long night of terror and tyranny into a dawn of peace, justice

In addition, my country has invited observers from the European Parliament and also ex-Presidents Jimmy Carter of the United States and Raul Alfonsin of Argentina. We hope that the other Central American countries, in compliance with the agreements, will invit

against Panama, more than against an individual or an event, are designed to create an atmosphere conducive to a United States breach of the Torrijos-Carter Treaty under which Panama will gain full sovereignty over the Canal and which requires the dismantling of United States military bases in the Canal Z

ative announced by the Ethiopian Government on the basis of which negotiations were launched under the auspices of former United States President Mr. Carter. My country welcomes the decision of the two negotiating parties to select from among a number of other capitals as the venue for their negotiations,

rous process of democratisation in Latin America. Nothing would be more unacceptable to us than a crisis that would call into question the Torrerijos-Carter Treaties, which we consider to be an accomplishment of Latin American solidarity and a commitment uniting all our peoples.

nt of Sudan is to undertake with the opposition in the south, as well as the negotiations that the Government of Ethiopia is conducting, on President Carter's initiative, with the representatives of the Eritrean people. The painful problem of apartheid in South Africa still remains. The elections held at

Republic over the canal continues to be constant, and it is imperative for the international community to guarantee the fulfilment of the 'Ttorrijos-Carter Treaty. There are discrepancies in other latitudes that have been the subject of General Assembly resolutions, and we should be resolved to safeguard

he world's attention to the problem of the transfer of conventional weapons and of their reduction. Exactly 10 years ago the United States President, Jimmy Carter, drew the General Assembly's attention to the fact that the rate of growth of military spending was increasing at a faster rate in the developing cou

in order to undermine our efforts in the Contadora Group to bring peace to Central America and silence our demand that the violations of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties be corrected. During the past year, we have seen that campaign strengthened with all sorts of unfounded accusations, especially against thos

support for the rights of the sister Republic of Panama over the Canal is unwavering, and proceeds from our spirit of pan-American ism. The Torrijos-Carter Treaty is an example of this spirit, and its unqualified implementation is an imperative for the Latin American and Caribbean community. The world ec

regime to continue the negotiations initiated between the two Governments to find a just solution. We demand strict compliance with the 1977 Torrijos-Carter treaty on the Panama Canal, and reject manoeuvres by the Government of the United States to violate it and perpetuate its domination and military pre

against my country because they are seeking to deny us the right to manage, operate and defend the Panama Canal from the date agreed in the Torrijos-Carter Treaties and to maintain the Panama Canal within the strictest neutrality, offering efficient service to all the nations of the world.

spirit of consultation and mutual respect in our dealings with the United States of America over the thorny problem of the Panama Canal. The Torrijos-Carter treaties of 1977 show that both countries are well disposed to an orderly and harmonious transition of the primary responsibility for administering a

recall with constant gratitude the two courageous and visionary statesmen who were responsible for the Treaties, General Omar Torrijos and President Jimmy Carter. 19. Contrary to what was maintained by the opponents of the Treaties, ever since the colonial regime in the Cana! Zone was abolished and the bi-nati

concern at the deployment of nuclear weapons in the islands. 12. My country views with satisfaction the beginnings of the application of the Torrijos-Carter treaties which have restored to Panama its sovereignty over the Canal Zone. We hope that the provisions of the treaties will be complied with faithfu

After the long struggle led by General Omar Torrijos, the people of Panama achieved the signing of the Torrijos-Carter treaties. There have been attempts to violate and block the implementation of these agreements, and the United States Government also continues to us

ms the blockade and constant threats against that country. We join the brother people and Government of Panama in their just demand that the Torrijos-Carter treaties be implemented. 255. We rejoice with the people of Bolivia over their nation's return to legality and democracy. We extend our solidarity to

esident of the United States, had a working meeting in Washington, a meeting of the greatest importance, five years after the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties and precisely on the third anniversary of the entry into force of those instruments. 26. The purpose of the meeting was to consider relation

ntation and 14 years of intricate negotiations culminated on 7 September 1977 in the signing in Washington by the President of the United States, Mr. Jimmy Carter, and the head of Government of the Republic of Panama, General Omar Torrijos Herrera, of the Panama Canal Treaty and the Treaty concerning the Perman

more than $500 billion are spent annually on armaments throughout the world, and when the report Global 2000, produced by a commission established by Jimmy Carter, informs us that the quantity of cereals needed to eradicate malnutrition throughout the world has a value equivalent to the price of only five subma

e by Jack Anderson in the Washington Post of 30 September 1980, in which he stated that the American Defense Intelligence Agency had warned President Carter that the Israelis were undoubtedly planning to attack Iraqi nuclear installations. Another article by the same author in the Washington Post of 16 Ju

ammunition. The covert Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] operation of support for Afghan counterrevolutionaries, which was initiated under President Carter, has become an overt policy of the United States Government. 315.

y, ratification of which has been unjustifiably delayed for more than a year now by the American side, although—and this is worth recalling—President Carter said on 13 May 1979, that if it failed to ratify the Treaty, the United States would find itself in the role of a warmonger refusing to participate i

ting the natural resources stemming from its geographical position, especially since 1 October 1979, the date of entry into force of the new Torrijos-Carter Panama Canal Treaties, aimed at restoring the territorial integrity, sovereignty and jurisdiction of the Panamanian State over all its territory, inc