Delegation from National Law University, Jodhpur

The Republic of Venezuela Tishampati Sen

Policy Statement for the Economic and Social Council

The issues before the Economic and Social Council are: Global warming and the World economy; the Labour Migration.
1. Global Warming and the World Economy
The Republic of Venezuela has always supported all initiatives to fight global warming. Or nation has actively sought to develop better and renewable sources of energy. Venezuela and the other Latin American countries are the largest supplier of projects under the clean development mechanism (CDM).
Carbon credits are an important incentive for developing nations; however this mechanism is being misused by the industrialized nations. Countries like the USA are regularly buying large amounts of oil from Venezuela and giving out carbon credits for various projects. This defeats the basic purpose of the mechanism.
The system of Carbon credits was meant to be an instrument to convince the world to use non – polluting measures, however now it is simply a tool used by the Developed nations to shift the onus. The developed nations cannot be allowed to buy their way out of their commitment to reduce carbon emissions.
2. Labour Migration
The republic of Venezuela has always supported regulation of labour migration at a world wide level. The frontier region between Colombia and Venezuela has experienced labour migration flows since the turn of the century. Thus the problem of labour migration is very familiar for the Republic of Venezuela. Employers often prefer hiring foreign workers because of their availability, low cost and keen desire to work and also the reluctance of Venezuelans to remain in a frontier area.
However, there are many problems faced with labour migration. To name some of them, hate crimes, non – access to public welfare, lack of training etc.
The Republic of Venezuela strongly recommends the setting up of an International Labour Monitor, which would set regulations and conventions to help determine the actual and potential labour force demand of the industrial production units in the nations; determine the training needs related to the industrial sector needs; project the migration patterns and occupational structure of the industrial sector at the short-term; and elaborate policy recommendations related to frontier migration, industrial employment and training.
This body could have representation of all nations and would also be one of conflict resolution between two member nations. Where nations could revise their positions and requirements on an annual basis and also voice their grievances against another nation for unwanted labour issues which could then be sorted out by a joint task force.