G77 Summit in Cuba aims to strengthen unity in the face of contemporary challenges

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On the occasion of the G77 Summit plus China to be held on September 15 and 16 in Havana, Cuba, our correspondent Fabiola Lopez brings us more details about the importance of this event. teleSUR

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00:00 The Summit of Heads of State and Government of the G77+ China will take place in Havana

00:05 on September 15th and 16th with the purpose of reinforcing unity and deciding on collective

00:11 and practical actions to face contemporary challenges.

00:15 Our correspondent in Havana, Fabiola López, tells us more about it.

00:21 This September 2023, Havana will become the capital of the Global South when the leaders

00:26 of the Group of 77 and China will meet in this city to discuss current development challenges

00:32 as well as the role of science, technology and innovation.

00:37 This is an indispensable summit in the midst of the economic and multidimensional crisis

00:43 that is occurring on a planetary scale.

00:46 At a time when the countries of the South are seeking a solution to these problems within

00:54 the scopes of independence, sovereignty and a greater degree.

01:00 I would say of awareness of where the roads that will take us toward development must

01:07 lead.

01:08 Twenty-three years ago, when inaugurating the first South Summit, the supreme decision-making

01:13 body of the G77 and China, precisely in Havana, Fidel Castro said that in the globalized world,

01:20 where knowledge is the key to development, the technological gap between the North and

01:24 the South was widening in the conditions of increasing privatization of scientific research

01:29 and its results.

01:34 Never before has humanity had such a formidable scientific and technical potential, such an

01:40 extraordinary capacity to generate wealth and well-being.

01:44 And never before has the world been so unequal and inequality so profound.

01:51 The special representative of the Group of 77 and China, Ambassador Pedro Luis Pedroso,

01:57 explains to TeleSUR that today more than ever, developing countries and the world as a whole

02:02 need to move towards a new philosophy and paradigm of development, because the resource

02:06 base on which humankind sustains is increasingly depleted.

02:14 Capitalism does not sacrifice consumption for man, which is proven and demonstrated.

02:24 Then the only way to advance towards a new paradigm is not only with a political orientation

02:30 that leads to that, but it has to be on a technological and innovative basis.

02:40 With Cuba in the midst of the most complex and difficult situation it has gone through,

02:47 which was not only a blockade intensified to unprecedented levels, but also the consequences

02:56 of the Cuban Covid period, and Cuba in the midst of that was able to produce five vaccines,

03:03 three of them already in the market in use.

03:06 So what we, 134 countries, can do if we decide to unite our individual potentials?

03:20 In calling the meeting in Havana, President Miguel Díaz-Canel considered that the scientific

03:25 technical progress that is key to achieving development is inaccessible to a large part

03:30 of humanity and has its roots in the unfair international economic order.

03:37 We can do many things if we decide to unite our potentialities, our capacities, our resources,

03:44 and we will not necessarily have to depend on the North, as it will be a new source of

03:51 liberation of the South.

03:53 And therefore what we intend with this summit is that, to say that we have potentialities

03:59 among us, we can do many things.

04:03 Cuba's commitment is to promote international solidarity and cooperation among the countries

04:08 of the South by advocating the use of science, technology and innovation as engines of sustainable

04:15 development.

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