Examples of using Draft declaration should in English and their translations into Spanish
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The draft declaration should be adopted in its current form.
My delegation therefore believes that the draft declaration should include the following elements.
The draft declaration should reflect the aspirations of the international community in the field of disarmament.
Those delegations considered that the draft declaration should be consistent with existing international law.
The draft declaration should embody and complement all rights recognized by other international instruments.
The representatives believed that, for that reason, the land andresource provisions of the draft declaration should be adopted in their current form.
He emphasized that the draft declaration should be adopted without any definition of“indigenous peoples”.
The view was expressed that the listing of crimes was to be avoided and that the draft declaration should focus on general policy matters.
It further decided that the draft declaration should be in three parts and the draft programme of action in five parts.
The draft declaration should stress that people who lived in poverty were quite capable of finding solutions to their problems when given the means to do so.
The Chairperson-Rapporteur stated that the draft declaration should be a consensual document containing a short and balanced text.
The draft declaration should be unequivocal in its condemnation of terrorism and must appeal to States to assist each other in their fight against that common enemy.
She stressed that the only ground for proposing an amendment to the draft declaration should be that the proposal better reflected what was or ought to be the position of international law.
The draft declaration should be referred by the Sub-Commission to the Commission on Human Rights this year, without change; it would be most productive to work on the declaration at the Commission level.
The representative of Chile expressed support for article 6, and said that the draft declaration should clearly spell out the term“distinct people” and bring it into line with article 1 of ILO Convention No. 169.
The draft declaration should strike a reasonable balance between the rights and responsibilities of the human rights defenders, who must carry out their activities without endangering national peace and security.
The observer for the Syrian Arab Republic stated that her delegation considered that some elements of the draft declaration should have been addressed differently, and underlined that they were matters of principle for the delegation.
The draft declaration should encompass such questions as the preservation of the cultural specificities of indigenous peoples, equal participation by them in the political and legislative processes, environmental protection and non-discrimination.
My delegation believes that the draft declaration should contain, in particular, the following elements.
The draft declaration should be established on the basis of a level playing field mirroring the current international political and economic realities, which have blurred the previous stereotypical relationships between developed and developing countries and economies.
He asserted that the original text of the draft declaration should be amended as little as possible and that any amendment should strengthen the collective rights of indigenous peoples worldwide.
The draft declaration should invoke the legal bases of a right to international solidarity that have already been identified a number of times and that document the details of international law and international human rights law on which the right is founded.
All members of the Working Group established to elaborate the draft declaration should approach its next session in a spirit of compromise in order to achieve a consensus text before the end of the Decade.
They considered that, as the draft declaration should be seen as an effort to codify the right to peace, references to those declarations seemed essential.
A number of representatives of indigenous peoples also expressed the view that the draft declaration should be short and clear so as to provide a document which was accessible and understandable to all indigenous peoples, not only to those involved in the current process.
Mr. VIGNY(Switzerland) said that the draft Declaration should be adopted by the General Assembly in the form in which it had been adopted by the overwhelming majority of members of the Human Rights Council.
One speaker indicated that the concept of responsibility as reflected in the Draft Declaration should be replaced by the concept of professionalism for journalists. Professionalism and the creation of a professional culture would protect ethical media conduct.
She also expressed the view that the draft declaration should be considered as an entire document and should therefore be adopted as such, especially as far as the notion of collective rights was concerned.
The observer for Chile stated that the draft declaration should recognize the right of indigenous people to self-determination but that that concept had to be made subordinate to the concept of unity and territorial integrity of States.
It was generally stated that the draft declaration should be consistent with the existing body of international human rights law, be sufficiently precise to give rise to identifiable and practicable rights and obligations and attract broad international support.