Vatican
City, 26 September 2012 (VIS) - In New York on 24 September,
Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for Relations with States,
addressed the United Nations High-level Meeting on the Rule of Law at
the National and International Levels.
Archbishop
Mamberti spoke in his capacity as Holy See delegate to the
sixty-seventh Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Brief extracts from his English-language remarks are given below.
"Faced
as we are by challenges old and new, the calling of the High-Level
Meeting on the Rule of Law is an important opportunity to reaffirm
the will to find political solutions applicable at the global level
with the aid of a juridical order solidly based upon the dignity and
nature of humanity, in other words, upon the natural law.
"This
is the best path to follow if we wish to realise the grand designs
and purpose of the United Nations Charter and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, which remain relevant by means of
various treaties on human rights, disarmament, and the codification
of the great principles of international law and in the gathering and
progress made in the norms of humanitarian law.
"It
will be possible to advance if, as well as working through ever more
specialised organs, including in economic and financial matters, the
United Nations remains a central point of reference for the creation
of a true family of nations, where the unilateral interest of the
most powerful ones does not trump the needs of the weaker ones. Such
will be possible if legislation at the international level is marked
by respect for the dignity of the human person, beginning with the
centrality of the right to life and to freedom of religion".
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