Nicaragua’s Statement at Conference on Palestine

Mensaje de Nicaragua en Conferencia sobre Palestina

Message from the Government of Reconciliation and National Unity at the High-Level Political Consultative Conference on the Situation of Palestine

Foreign Minister Denis Moncada Colindres

Tehran, December 23, 2023

Brother President, Seyyet Ebrahim Raisi, Honorable Foreign Ministers, Special Guests to this Consultative Conference, High Level Policy on the Situation of Palestine.

1. I begin this message with Nicaragua’s position, expressing our fraternal and militant solidarity with the Palestinian people and their just cause. We thank the People and Government of Iran for inviting Nicaragua to this important Conference, we convey the cordial greetings of the Nicaraguan People, the President, Commander Daniel Ortega Saavedra and the Vice President Compañera Rosario Murillo.

2. Humanity continues to be outraged and stupefied at the inhuman aggressions, genocide and serious war crimes committed by the Zionist State against the Palestinian population in Gaza and the West Bank, endangering Regional and Global Security and Peace.

3. Failure to comply with the limited ceasefire, the Zionist Government of Israel continues its aggressive attacks, violating the entire system and the International Legal Institutionality, trying to exterminate the Palestinian people in their historical and legitimate territories occupied and divided by the Israeli apartheid Government, disrupting vital infrastructure, with massive and forced displacements and actions to destroy and exterminate the people and homeland of Palestine in its atrocious scorched earth war without quarter.

4. With the systematic massive destruction of homes and other civil infrastructure, the Government of Israel tries to force the Palestinian brothers not to return, not to return to their destroyed homes, to occupy the territory of Gaza and the West Bank to prevent the materialization of the State Palestinian.

5. The Palestinian people are victims of unimaginable atrocities that move, dismay, and outrage the people of this Planet. The atrocities committed by the Government of Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, against innocent children and defenseless women are condemnable, the Government and People of Nicaragua denounce and strongly condemn them.

6. The Government of Israel is becoming a State that is incompatible with the community of States that make up the United Nations. Their supremacist criminality is unparalleled in the history of humanity. The International Community rejects and condemns this atrocious and despicable behavior.

7. Even in multi-crisis situations generated by the hegemonic empires of the West, the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter remain in force, specifically that which states that States will refrain from resorting to threats or the use of force against territorial integrity or independence of another State or any other form incompatible with the Charter, however the Government of Israel transgresses them, converting them into its State policy with the support of the Government of the United States, the United Kingdom and other Western powers interested in control of Palestine’s energy resources and its global geostrategic location.

8. The People and Government of Nicaragua reaffirms its solidarity with Palestine and joins the friendly Peoples and Governments in supporting the immediate ceasefire, cessation of actions and genocidal attacks by the Government of Israel against the Palestinian People in the Gaza Strip. The attacks and bombings on the civilian population must stop immediately, the delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians is a vital necessity that cannot be postponed, likewise, the forced displacement of the Palestinian population must stop.

9. The International Community is called to act as soon as possible, to demand solutions in Law and Justice to stop this senseless spiral of violence that is genocide, a war crime, a crime against humanity and a policy of extermination.

10. Those responsible for so much barbarism must answer to the world and the human family for their crimes.

11. The State and Government of Israel is obliged to recognize and respect the Free, Independent and Sovereign State of Palestine and the Governments and Peoples of the Region and the World that demand to live together with common Security for all, Stability and Peace with the State Palestinian being part of the United Nations.

12. The Palestinian People will be victorious in their struggle to materialize the Free, Sovereign, Independent and Self-Determining State of Palestine, recognizing the borders prior to June 4, 1967 with East Jerusalem as its Capital. The Government and People of Nicaragua solidly and firmly support the Palestinian People and their Just Cause for their State, for their Security and for Peace.

Thank you so much.