COPENHAGEN, March 12 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman
today addressed the World Summit for Social Development in
Copenhagen.
Following is the unofficial version of the statement of the
Croatian President presented at the Meeting of Heads of State and
Government on Sunday, March 12, 1995.
"Mr. President,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
We have gathered here, at the invitation of the United Nations
in order to give a new momentum to the efforts aimed at enhancing
social development throughout the world so that all men, women and
children may exercise their right to live in human dignity and
utilize the resources given to humankind, but doing it with
responsibility towards others, especially those who are less
fortunate, underprivileged and living in poverty.
Today we will commit ourselves, our Governments and our
nations to the noble goals defined in the Declaration and the
Programme of Action. These documents comprise a comprehensive list
of goals and commitments for the future. However, they will not be
easy to realize. We should not deceive ourselves that the road
before us is easy, but we should not be discouraged and
disillusioned either by the obstacles that we might encounter or by
the slow progress of our endeavours irrespectively of our sincere
efforts to see them realized. The terrible events in the course of
human history: wars, famine, poverty, social injustice and
discrimination, have a long record. Our efforts to eliminate them,
as major sources of social distress and instability, will have to
be permanent, relentless and uncompromising, but they will
necessarily require time to succeed.
The Republic of Croatia welcomes the commitments of the
international community to alleviate human plight and to create a
better world. Croatian nation, although one of the oldest in Europe
has, after centuries again constituted in 1990 its independent
democratic and social state which has committed its national life
to freedom and human rights of all its citizens and residents as
well as of all human beings, paying special attention to their
economic, social and cultural rights which are the subject-matter
of this Conference. Therefore, we fully support the Conference and
its political, economic, ethical and spiritual vision of social
development based on peace, human dignity, protection of human
rights, equality, democracy, mutual responsibility, cooperation and
respect of different cultural, ethnical and religious values.
Croatia has already at the national level created the
necessary legal requirements for the achievement of the goals of
social development which its citizens are expecting in the near
future: rule of law, access to justice for all, democratic
organization of the State with free and representative
organizations of civil society, open and free markets, promotion
and stability of investments, social programmes for socially
handicapped people, protection of human rights and rights of
minorities and ethnic communities, culture as a factor of social
development and tolerance, disease and drug-abuse control.
However, we have not been able to turn all our good intentions
and determination into reality throughout the territory of Croatia,
owing to the occupation of part of it, first by the former Yugoslav
army and later by the rebel Croatian Serbs (who account for less
than a half of the total Serb population of Croatia), whose leader
are trying, with the help and incentive from abroad, to secede and
incorporate the occupied parts of Croatia into Greater Serbia. As a
result of this occupation and ethnic cleansing, besides thousands
of killed and wounded, Croatia has still more than two hundred
thousand internally displaced persons and cares for about two
hundred thousand refugees from neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina.
These unfortunate people pose an additional heavy burden for
Croatia in spite of the help given by the international
humanitarian organizations and other non-governmental bodies.
Therefore, our top priority is the peaceful reintegration of our
occupied territory and the return of refugees and displaced persons
to their homes.
However, in order to achieve the goals of our Conference on a
global scale we must not forget some of the basic principles the
existence of which is the precondition of social development at the
international as well as at the national level.
The first of them is the upholding of the sovereignty,
territorial integrity and independence of States, as well as
observance of international law and of the Charter of United
Nations, because there can be no social development in an
atmosphere of instability, conflict and, worst of all, armed
hostilities.
Secondly, the consequences of acts of aggressive policies and
armed conflicts have to be redressed by the active involvement and
help of the international community, so as to allow for economic
progress in peaceful conditions. Refugees and internally displaced
persons must be allowed to return to their homes and have to be
given assistance for a smooth reintegration into their society.
Thirdly and finally, the creation of a just new international
order in which there will be no fear of aggression and unjustified
ambitions for political dominance by any foreign power is the
priority task of the whole international community.
If these preconditions are met, the desired social development
will be feasible! Without them our efforts will be doomed! We can
look forward to a better future only if the necessary political
atmosphere prevails in the international community, which will make
the achievement of the ideals of social justice, democratic
society, tolerance, solidarity and respect of the human being
possible. We have look forward to this goal with optimism, but we
also have to be patient and spare no efforts in the quest for a
better world in which dignity of human life, and not poverty, will
prevail," the statement concludes.
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