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What fills us with anguish also is the $60 billion thatour Latin American and Caribbean region is devoting to military expenditures.
Greater transparency in regard to military expenditures would contribute to removing suspicions between States.
Mr. Rosales Díaz(Nicaragua)said that the reluctance of donor countries to fulfil their international commitments with regard to ODA was puzzling in view of the enormous sums many of those countries allocated to military expenditures.
It has always considered it appropriate to divert resources allocated to military expenditures towards development and economic growth.
Unfortunately, the existing mechanisms have not succeeded in promoting enough transparency: on the contrary, there is abundant evidence at the country level of covert practices being used to get around the controls anddivert increasing resources to military expenditures and the arms build-up.
Further, suitable action is also necessary to set responsible limits to military expenditures and the arms trade and to prioritize in governments' expenditure in favour of development. EU.
In view of declining levels of official development assistance, he observed that developing countries would have to depend more on mobilizing their own resources for development and, to that end, they must examine the percentages of their gross national product andcentral government budgets that are devoted to military expenditures.
That should include the question of how resources currently devoted to military expenditures can be redirected to support international efforts, primarily the strategies defined during post-conflict peacebuilding processes.
In addition, on the basis of the 2001 Human Development Report, out of 138 countries for which we have relevant data,51 allocated more resources to military expenditures than to education, health care and preventive medicine.
NAM reiterates the importance of exercising restraint with regard to military expenditures, so that the human and financial resources saved can be used for the ongoing efforts to eradicate poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
Our feelings of incredulity and indignation are accompanied by the conviction that many of the economic and social problems which overwhelm andcause distress to the majority of human beings could be alleviated in considerable measure if only a fraction of the resources devoted to military expenditures were utilized for the noble objective of the progress and well-being of the peoples of the world.
How much progress could be made if only a minute portion of the more than $1 trillion currently devoted to military expenditures were used to find solutions to the problems associated with underdevelopment and to reduce the gap between the richest and the poorest countries?
The reasons for inadequate progress on the Millennium Development Goals are many, including some climate change-related disasters, outbreaks of conflict, a failure by some of the wealthier countries to live up to their commitment of allocating 0.7 per cent of GDP to ODA, priority not given in many countries to the Millennium Development Goals anda skewed budget allocation to military expenditures rather than to development.
It was paradoxical that, in the current state of the world, some countries were devoting such astronomical figures to military expenditures as well as millions more to the arms race in space, while other nations sought instead to ensure that outer space, the common heritage of mankind, would be made to serve more noble ends, such as sustainable development and the prevention of natural disasters.
It notes with satisfaction the efforts of the Government to tackle unemployment from various angles; the positive measures undertaken with regard to the protection of the economic, social and cultural rights of women, elderly workers anddisabled persons; the increase, both in absolute terms and in proportion to military expenditures, in public spending on health; the existence of a non-contributory social security system in parallel with the general system; and the measures taken to regularize the situation of clandestine immigrant workers.
How much could be achieved if only a part of the $849 billion dollars that are allocated annually to military expenditures-- almost half of which is spent by only one country-- were invested in the assistance of 815 million hungry people, 1.2 billion people living in abject poverty, 854 million illiterate adults, 2.4 billion people without basic sanitation or the 40 million human beings sick with or having contracted the AIDS virus?
The Group recognizes the potential for arms transfers to have an adverse impact on conflict prevention and peace-building and to add to military expenditures, and recommends, in connection with small arms and light weapons, that this issue be considered further at the United Nations review conference in 2006 with a view to discussing arrangements for arms transfers.
It is therefore incomprehensible that staggering sums are still being diverted to military expenditure.
A significant part of national expenditure is allocated to military expenditure owing to existing political instability in the region.
By contrast, those countries allocate approximately 3 per cent to military expenditure, which is inconceivable in the light of the end of the cold war.
Alarmingly high levels of national budget in many countries are devoted to military expenditure at the expense of funding the Millennium Development Goals.
For example, the majority of countries have reduced the proportion of gross domestic product(GDP)allocated to military expenditure during the last decade and all could consider further reductions.
Security considerations have sometimes compelled countries to allocate a disproportionate share of their national budgets to military expenditure.
In the Latin American region,despite the billions allocated to military expenditure, the average rate of schooling was seven years and 20 million people lived in poverty.
Promoting greater openness andtransparency with regard to military expenditure and arms trade, in particular of light weapons, constituted an important issue.
The share of the budget allocated to military expenditure was very high on average in developing Asia(15 per cent) and Africa(10 per cent) compared with Latin America(6 per cent) and developed countries 5 per cent.
These obstacles include the priority attached to military expenditure in budgetary allocations and the consequently low investment in education, contrary to the thrust of international human rights law which mandates priority for human rights.
Whereas Iran, after eight years of war,allocates less than 1.5 per cent of its budget to military expenditure- a figure that includes a steady and relaxed programme for gradual replenishment of lost capabilities- others are digging deep into their resources to spend an ever-increasing amount on arms and military build-up.
The Committee notes with concern the data in the Human Development Report 2001 that indicates a significant decrease in public spending on health and education in the 1990s, as a percentage of both GNP and GDP,and relative to military expenditure, which more than doubled as a percentage of GDP.