Security Council considers Nicaraguan complaint against United States, takes no action.

Security Council considers Nicaraguan complaint against United States, takes no action

During five meetings in early July,the Security Council considered a complaint by Nicaragua regarding what was termed "the escalation of the United States Government policy of aggression against Nicaragua, which threatens international peace and security".

Thirty-four speakers participated indebate on 1, 2 and 3 July 1986. The Council adjourned without a draft resolution having been tabled.

A report of the Secretary-Generalon the situation in Central America (A/40/1136-S/18184) was reviewed, which contained the text of the Final Version of the Contadora Act on Peace and Co-operation in Central America.

While Contadora efforts had yet toachieve the desired results, the Secretary-General said, the Group (Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela), with the backing of the Support Group (Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Uruguay), had served as a "means of restraint" and had helped to avoid an overall deterioration of the situation in the region. The problems of Central America could be resolved only by peaceful means, in accordance with Charter principles, the Secretary-General added.

The three versions of the ContadoraAct, he went on, had developed the basic elements on which a comprehensive settlement of the Central American conflict should be based. Those elements were: the need for a Latin American solution to the region's problems, which should be removed from the arena of East-West conflict; the establishment of genuinely pluralistic democratic systems, and respect for the human rights of all citizens; the right of all nations to self-determination, which means the right of all nations to choose freely and without outside interference their own forms of government and their own political, economic and social systems; the need to carry out far-reaching economic and social reforms; the prohibition of the use of a nation's territory as a base for attacks on another country or for the provision of military or logistical support to irregular forces or subversive groups; and the cessation of support by any State within or outside the region to irregular forces or subversive groups operating in any country of the region.

The mechanisms for implementationand follow-up of those basic elements had been established, the Secretary-General observed. Those elements constituted the fundamental pre-conditions for lasting peace in the region. He appealed urgently both to the countries of the region and to those with interests in the region to begin without delay observing and implementing fully and simultaneously those basic elements and to act in accordance with international law. Unjust socio-economic structures were at the root of the region's current political crisis, the Secretary-General said.

Letters: The Council had before itthree letters addressed to the Secretary-General. One, dated 27 June, from Nicaragua (A/40/1135-S/18189), contained a 25 June note from Nicaragua's Acting Foreign Minister Javier Chamorro Mora to United States Secretary of State George Shultz.

Mr. Chamorro Mora said the approvalof the United States House of Representatives of President Reagan's request for new funds for "the mercenary forces created by your Government with the declared object of destroying the Sandinist People's Revolution" had committed the United States Congress to "a dangerous step whose consequences will inevitably be a prolongation and further aggravation of the Central American conflict, opening the door to a spiral of violence that threatens to 'Vietnamize' the crisis and affect the security and stability of Central America and even of Latin America as a whole".

The United States had dealt a newblow to the efforts of the Contadora Group, Mr. Chamorro Mora said, adding that Washington had reaffirmed "its policy of state terrorism". The United States should "cease all forms of aggression against Nicaragua, agree to resume the bilateral dialogue with Nicaragua, abandon its boycott of Contadora and base its conduct on respect for international law and existing treaties, which are the foundations for the establishment of a legitimate peace in Central America", he stated.

A 30 June letter from the USSR(A/41/438-S/18194) contained a 29 June Tass statement, which said United States approval of $100 million to finance "American mercenaries--the Somozan counter-revolutionary bands terrorizing the peaceful population and undermining the economy of Nicaragua"--was "a new and extremely dangerous step" taken to...