Fernando Luque

Retired Ecuadorian diplomat. Chair UN Open Ended Working Group for SSOD-IV (2016-2017). All opinions expressed are personal.

[Fernando Luque @fer_luq]

@SCProcedure @geoffreyyork And provided for under article 141 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly.

[Fernando Luque @fer_luq]

@SCProcedure @geoffreyyork It should not be forgotten that, under the Charter, the appointment belongs to the GA upon the recommendation of the SC. The UN membership at large are not mere observers of the process if they hold a vote on the appointment as was the case up to U Thant's reelection in 1966.

[Fernando Luque @fer_luq]

@SCProcedure 2/2 The debates organized by the PGA, as useful as they may be, in the end mean little if the appointment act itself is a passive rubber stamp to the SC nominee.

[Fernando Luque @fer_luq]

@SCProcedure 1/2 The 1971 shift to appointment by acclamation surrendered the General Assembly's biggest lever. Even with the SC recommendation requirement, a recorded Assembly vote would give the broader membership an actual voice in the process.

[Fernando Luque @fer_luq]

@pass_blue @TheElders Regrettably, despite the effort by some during the GA revitalization discussions, Member States have relinquished their right to vote, pushed by the narrative that a formal ballot would weaken the appointee's mandate.

[Fernando Luque @fer_luq]

@pass_blue @TheElders Member States even did so in a "solemn" manner, stepping to the front of the GA hall to cast their ballots individually (for example the last time for U Thant: https://t.co/Nf3BlroK9b).

[Cancillería del Ecuador 🇪🇨 @CancilleriaEc]

#BicentenarioEcuador | La Batalla de Pichincha dio paso al nacimiento de esta nación. Cuando en 1830 se fundó Ecuador, inmediatamente, inició la gestión diplomática. En este nuevo escenario varios soldados que lucharon por la independencia se convirtieron en🧵

[Wildfire_ @Wildfire_v]

Been away from Twitter for a while, and came back to find that some people seem to be very confused about the #TPNW, what motivated it, and what it is for. So here's a thread for @JBWolfsthal, @ian_j_stewart and others interested in TPNW and #Ukraine.

https://t.co/GSj11YpO5s

[Fernando Luque @fer_luq]

Proud to remember that this resolution was presented for consideration of the GA, as Rapporteur of the 1st Committee, by the Ecuadorian diplomat Homero Viteri Lafronte.

[UN Office for Disarmament Affairs @UN_Disarmament]

Today marks the 76th anniversary of the very first @UN General Assembly resolution, Res 1 (I), adopted following the 1945 Hiroshima & Nagasaki atomic bombings, on the elimination of atomic weapons and all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction. (1/4)👇

[International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) @ICRC]

Exactly a year ago, the Nuclear Ban Treaty came into force.

It is just the beginning — not the end — of our efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons.

But #NuclearBan is a victory for humanity.

[Cancillería del Ecuador 🇪🇨 @CancilleriaEc]

Hoy celebramos el 1er aniversario de la entrada en vigor del Tratado de Prohibición de las Armas Nucleares 🇪🇨 ha sido parte activa de este extraordinario avance. Las armas nucleares son ilegales #TPNW @UN @nuclearban

[Charles Darwin Foundation-Fundación Charles Darwin @DarwinFound]

Get ready for an iconic event for the Galapagos Marine Reserve! Tomorrow the executive decree that makes official the addition of 60,000 km2 of protected area will be signed! We will keep you updated so stay tuned!!! #Galapagos

📸 Jordi Chias, CDF.

[UNESCO @UNESCO]

🔴 BREAKING

Pasillo, song and poetry, has just been inscribed on the #IntangibleHeritage list.

Congratulations #Ecuador 🇪🇨! 👏

ℹ️https://t.co/YJNjcKP2if #LivingHeritage

[UNESCO en español 🏛️#Educación #Ciencia #Cultura @UNESCO_es]

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA

“El Pasillo”, canto y poesía, acaba de ser inscrito en la lista del #PatrimonioInmaterial.

👏 ¡Felicidades #Ecuador 🇪🇨! 👏

ℹ️ https://t.co/LTe8M1fyS7 #PatrimonioVivo

[Ecuador en UNESCO @DELECUNESCO]

UNESCO designó al “pasillo ecuatoriano: canción y poesía” como Patrimonio Inmaterial de la Humanidad. Justo reconocimiento del aporte cultural del Ecuador al mundo @Presidencia_Ec @CancilleriaEc @Cultura_Ec @INPCEcuador

[Fernando Luque @fer_luq]

@ShornaKayR @UN @UN_Disarmament Congratulations, Shorna-Kay! You are an important voice for disarmament in the Latinamerican and Caribbean region.

[Cancillería del Ecuador 🇪🇨 @CancilleriaEc]

Ecuador 🇪🇨presenta la candidatura del embajador Marcelo Vázquez-Bermúdez, miembro de la Comisión de Derecho Internacional de @ONU_es y Relator Especial sobre los principios generales del derecho, para su reelección. 🧵
https://t.co/WLfYklGDoJ

[Fernando Luque @fer_luq]

Is great to see that the resolution was adopted without a vote, after the consensus outcome reached in 2017 in the OEWG I was honored to chair

[Reaching Critical Will @RCW_]

L.25, "Convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament," is adopted without a vote. #FirstCommittee

[Embajada del Ecuador en China 🇨🇳🇪🇨 @EmbajadaEcuChi]

Latin American countries join reserves to create vast marine protected area | Ecuador | The Guardian https://t.co/yN3gwCtliA