The international locations gathered on the Particular Assembly of the United Nations Financial and Social Council (ECOSOC) on the “Way forward for Work” – which concluded right this moment on the predominant headquarters of the Financial Fee for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile – paid tribute to the legacy of Chilean lawyer Hernán Santa Cruz, one of the vital vital figures in Latin American and international diplomacy, a member of the drafting committee of the Common Declaration of Human Rights, and originator of such momentous initiatives because the creation of ECLAC in February 1948.
On the ceremony, by which the seventy fifth anniversary of the Common Declaration of Human Rights was commemorated, ECLAC launched a brand new version of the three volumes that make up Hernán Santa Cruz’s memoirs Cooperate or Perish: The Dilemma of the World Community, initially revealed in 1984 and conceived of by its writer as “a Latin American imaginative and prescient of the gestation, achievements, obstacles and views of the United Nations system for dignifying human beings and peoples.” This publication constitutes a richly documented chronicle of the genesis of multilateralism at the beginning of the postwar interval and of the progress and setbacks that marked its trajectory between 1945 and 1990.
The occasion was led by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Government Secretary; Alberto van Klaveren, Minister of International Affairs of Chile; Ambassador Paula Narváez, President of ECOSOC and Everlasting Consultant of Chile to the United Nations; and Rodrigo Santa Cruz, the son of Hernán Santa Cruz. Additionally collaborating had been professor Mikel Mancisidor, a member of the United Nations Committee on Financial, Social and Cultural Rights, and Mariano Fernández, a former Chilean International Affairs Minister.
International Minister Alberto van Klaveren highlighted the numerous participation that Hernán Santa Cruz had in initiatives such because the drafting of the Common Declaration of Human Rights, “the place he introduced the voice of Latin America and, with the energy that characterised him, insisted on the inclusion of financial and social rights.”
He additional recalled that with the argument that Latin America had additionally been affected by the Second World Conflict and that its financial system had suffered, partly because of the contribution the area made by providing uncooked supplies to the allied forces, “he was in a position to persuade a considerably skeptical United Nations of the necessity to have an establishment like ECLAC, which has performed such an vital function within the technology of Latin American financial pondering.”
Ambassador Paula Narváez, in the meantime, emphasised that reminiscence, legacy and multilateralism are three important components of Hernán Santa Cruz.
“Ambassador Santa Cruz presents in his memoirs a strenuous but neutral protection of multilateralism and significantly on the significance of working collectively to attain a world with out starvation or poverty, a world by which human dignity could be primarily based on respect for human rights, on the self-determination of peoples and the place the elimination of inequality would prevail,” she said.
In his remarks, ECLAC’s Government Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, pointed up the republishing of Hernán Santa Cruz’s memoirs and famous that the concepts, pondering and analysis contained within the famend Chilean diplomat’s testimonial piece of writing stay related and present.
“As Hernán Santa Cruz signifies within the presentation of the e-book that we’re republishing right this moment, ‘humanity has not skilled such a crucial scenario as the present one for the reason that Second World Conflict. It’s dealing with quite a lot of crises which can be spreading to all corners of the Earth.’ Forty years later, the world continues to face the identical dilemma of ‘cooperating or perishing,’” ECLAC’s highest authority affirmed.
He added that right this moment – amid a cascade of crises and sharp geoeconomic and geopolitical tensions, along with armed conflicts by which a number of international locations and powers have clear stances that they see as issues of nationwide safety – hopeful proposals are wanted together with dialogue and processes that will avert an escalation of rivalries and channel energies and efforts alongside paths of peace, prosperity and financial and social well-being.
José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs urged for making Hernán Santa Cruz’s legacy “our personal, and with delight,” facilitating joint motion to revitalize multilateralism and selling the implementation of present commitments whereas agreeing upon new options to new challenges.
“It’s time to let our creativeness unfastened and search new approaches, foster transformational modifications, think about renewed establishments, be the builders of a extra simply, productive, inclusive and sustainable future, simply as Hernán Santa Cruz did,” he emphasised.
On behalf of the household of Hernán Santa Cruz, his son Rodrigo highlighted the main function that his father had within the drafting of the Declaration of Human Rights and within the creation of ECLAC.
“For my father, who all the time had his hopes pinned on a greater world for all, and particularly for these most missing, the United Nations is an irreplaceable group. It could have been a dream for him to think about that greater than 70 years after the approval of the Common Declaration of Human Rights and the creation of ECLAC we’d be remembering him, accompanied by representatives of 54 international locations at this particular session of ECOSOC,” he said.
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