We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights freedom and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

Since achieving their independence in 1992 the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law respect for human rights and a free market economy.

The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market it is a guarantee of democracy freedom justice and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.

Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights or are used as an excuse for others to do so.

How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies that respect human rights that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran?

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is that so far as she is concerned their rights are protected.

For about ten years now the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we as a people assume responsibility?

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards but rather questions of compliance with those standards.