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*Over 10,000 U.S. automotive workers strike demanding better conditions
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*Over 10,000 U.S. automotive workers strike demanding better conditions
*Brazil: bushfires in the Amazonia continue to burn
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00:00 The fifth day of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly is underway in New
00:14 York.
00:15 13,000 workers of the U.S. Auto Union demonstrated at 38 work sites of General Motors and salons
00:25 in the United States.
00:31 Unfortunate fires are raging in the Brazilian Amazon, many caused by deforestation and worsened
00:36 by an intense heat wave affecting the country.
00:45 Hello and welcome to From the South.
00:47 I'm Ana R. Sabal from the Daily News in Havana, Cuba, where we begin with the news.
01:06 The fifth day of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly is underway in New
01:11 York.
01:12 The new day of debate opened at 9 a.m. as world leaders continue to debate world issues
01:17 at the UN's General Assembly.
01:19 Representatives from the UN member nations focused on the challenges regarding global
01:24 peace, sustainable development and climate change, with global South leaders uniting
01:29 the demands for a more equal world society.
01:32 Prime Minister Fernández de Granada and César González, Russian Foreign Minister
01:36 Sergei Lavrov and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ivan Hill are among the speakers addressing
01:41 the United Nations General Assembly on its fifth day of ongoing debate.
01:46 During the fifth day of debates, the United Nations General Assembly, the Prime Minister
01:54 of the Soviet Union, António Granados, and Rafael González stressed that the structure
01:58 of the international economy needs to be fixed for the benefit of all humanity.
02:03 In this sense, González also emphasized that the world economy is worthy of major adjustments.
02:10 It is widely acknowledged that the global political economy is broken and needs fixing,
02:18 not by tinkering here and there, but through fundamental restructuring of a kind that endures
02:25 for the benefit of all humanity, especially those who are disadvantaged, dispossessed
02:32 or marginalized.
02:34 It is widely accepted, too, that the vital sustainable development goals will not be
02:40 attained by 2030.
02:43 Indeed, there will be a significant deficit for practically every developing country.
02:50 Similarly, it is widely recognized that the climate change agenda is stalling, in some
02:57 respects reversing, with dire consequences for humanity, practically in most of the vulnerable
03:06 countries.
03:07 During his speech at the fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, Raúl
03:12 González, Prime Minister of the United States of America, and the Grenadines urged the lifting
03:16 of sanctions against Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.
03:20 We urge the United States of America, our friend, the most powerful and economically
03:25 dominant country since the dawn of human civilization, a nation which espouses humane values, to
03:32 end its unilateral and oppressive sanctions and impositions that are contrary to international
03:39 law, which have been ruled out against Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
03:45 It is also plain silly and factually incorrect to label Cuba a sponsor of state terrorism,
03:54 a label prompted by partisan domestic politics in South Florida.
04:00 But it hurts the Cuban people massively and unnecessarily.
04:07 The sanctions and coercive measures against Venezuela, including the weaponizing of the
04:13 U.S. dollar, have caused the collapse of the Petro-Caribbean agreement, which delivered
04:19 substantial benefits to over a dozen Caribbean countries, including St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
04:26 We in the Caribbean have thus become collateral damage.
04:30 Meanwhile, Terence Michael Drew, Prime Minister of Finance, Homeland Security and Immigration
04:36 Health and Social Security of St. Kitts and Evans, in his speech at the United Nations
04:40 General Assembly, referred to the need to continue the challenges against climate change.
04:47 As continue to be highlighted, the industrial behemoth countries and companies push SIDS
04:55 and others to the front lines of climate change.
04:58 They accept little responsibility for financing the adaptation and mitigation measures necessary
05:05 for the survival of developing countries, which suffer the consequences of the lifestyles
05:12 and industries of others.
05:15 Consequently, countries like mine, which are unable to access concessionary funding, are
05:22 forced to fix the climate crisis by obtaining loans at exorbitant rates from the very countries
05:30 where the problem originated.
05:33 Our carbon footprint as a country is very small, yet we face the existential threat
05:41 of climate change.
05:43 This is unjust.
05:45 Terence Michael Drew, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Evans, may also refer to the situation
05:50 in Venezuela as a result of unilateral sanctions.
05:54 Venezuela has been placed in a precarious situation as a result of the application of
05:59 sanctions and its people continue to bear the brunt of these unilateral measures.
06:06 We therefore strongly urge constructive dialogue between the governments of the Republic of
06:12 Venezuela and the United States to relieve the hardships these impositions have caused
06:18 the Venezuelan people.
06:21 In the meantime, the Resignation Assembly's appearance Hamza Aribar, Prime Minister of
06:25 Somalia, said the time has come to restructure existing institutions.
06:31 Differences and inequalities in the ability to access resources during the COVID showed
06:40 the urgent need to restructure the global financial order and it has become more urgent
06:46 than ever before.
06:47 We live in one world, an interconnected world, whose peoples have the same aspirations and
06:56 challenges.
06:57 Therefore, we are in urgent need to adopt a financial system that is able to change
07:03 these tangible and painful realities.
07:05 The time has come to leave behind obsolete structures and to remedy historic ills and
07:18 to build a financial order that is in line with the values of joint prosperity and collective
07:27 progress.
07:28 And we will lie to the 78th General Assembly of the United Nations on the fifth day.
07:33 Please listen to the statement of Alicia Garcia Aybarra, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico.
07:38 Mr. President, Dennis Francis, friend, please receive from Mexico our brotherly congratulations
07:55 on your election to the presidency.
07:57 Latin America and the Caribbean feel fully respected, represented rather, under your
08:01 presidency.
08:02 This is a demonstration of our commitment to the purposes of this wonderful organization.
08:08 Mr. President, heads of state and government, colleagues, ministers, excellencies, ladies
08:13 and gentlemen, today the United Nations has before it a challenge of colossal proportions
08:18 to discharge the very essence of its mandate, sparing humankind from the scourge of war,
08:23 promoting and protecting all human rights, ensuring adherence to international law and
08:28 promoting the well-being of people underpinned by environmental sustainability.
08:34 I am deeply moved to return to the headquarters of this United Nations organization.
08:41 I served this organization with pride for decades, and I am moved to return now, representing
08:46 the government of my country, Mexico, a country that is a deep honor.
08:51 Mexico is a country which today is in the midst of wholesale and progressive transformations.
08:55 I am delighted to represent Mexico before the world and let its voice ring out before
09:01 you.
09:02 Please receive the warm greetings of our President, Andres Manuel López Obrador.
09:07 Our people are facing grave threats to international peace and security.
09:10 We have more than 50 armed conflicts raging, and we're seeing the proliferation of nuclear
09:16 weapons, the worsening of myriad crises ranging from humanitarian to climate crises.
09:21 There is the forced migration of millions of people.
09:24 We're seeing the highest spike ever in inequality and poverty, with 165 million new people falling
09:32 into poverty in three years.
09:34 There is the health posed by and the risk of new pandemics.
09:37 Against this backdrop, incidentally, growing numbers of people are calling into question
09:41 the relevance of multilateralism and its institutions.
09:45 However, there is no doubt whatsoever that our international action loses legitimacy
09:50 when our resolutions do not translate into concrete benefits for people, for the planet,
09:58 for prosperity.
09:59 Agenda 2030 requires urgent action to "rescue it", to use the words of the Secretary General
10:07 Antonio Guterres himself.
10:09 The pandemic hampered our progress towards fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals.
10:15 However, our trajectory before the pandemic was not an encouraging one, and the current
10:21 context of macroeconomic and political uncertainty requires ambitious and immediate measures.
10:28 Stagnating progress towards the fulfillment of the SDGs is not a mere figure of speech.
10:33 We're talking about hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and food insecurity
10:38 for boys and girls, as well as an environment in crisis.
10:42 The future of people and the planet is not in the hands of fate.
10:46 Rather, it depends on the political decisions and actions that we take, guided by Agenda
10:51 2030.
10:52 And here, inequality is the major challenge, because it's not sufficient to reduce poverty.
10:58 We need a shift in our development paradigm towards one which redistributes power and
11:04 wealth and one which narrows the unacceptable gaps and asymmetries between the rich and
11:09 the poor and between countries.
11:12 Equality is not simply a matter of being the subject of rights.
11:16 Inequality is inefficient from an economic perspective.
11:18 And therefore, we need to become equal to grow, and we need to grow to become equal,
11:23 because we're no longer in a time of change.
11:26 We're witnessing our time changing itself.
11:29 Our epoch is changing.
11:31 And that means we need to rethink development and place equality at the heart of our work,
11:36 both at a national and international level.
11:38 Re-establishing the SDGs depends on having a vision underpinned by social justice and
11:42 solidarity, and that includes the commensurate mobilization of necessary financial resources
11:48 and the relevant necessary reform of IFIs.
11:51 In the face of this complex backdrop, Mexico will continue to draw strength and inspiration
11:57 for its international action from the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, because
12:03 the institutional architecture which we built almost 80 years ago now to channel international
12:10 cooperation is there.
12:11 And Mexico has led and will continue to propose any and all initiatives which seek to improve
12:17 the lives of current and present generations.
12:19 We will champion lasting, genuine peace and security.
12:24 We will champion egalitarian sustainable development, resilient and inclusive development, and the
12:30 unconditional full respect for all human rights.
12:33 The desire for transformation and the action of our government has now turned precisely
12:38 towards transforming our development model to create more and better public goods, to
12:44 guarantee rights accompanied by fiscal responsibilities, and all of this on the basis of one core premise,
12:50 for the good of all, first and foremost for the poor.
12:54 Our government has demonstrated the urgent need to restore the role of the state to regulate
12:58 relations between the market, the state, and society, and to implement transformative structural
13:03 policies.
13:06 We need to return hope to our people, the hope of a country which is more just and egalitarian,
13:11 to leave no one behind, nor anyone on the margins.
13:16 And in the last few years, we've managed to lift some 5 million people out of poverty.
13:21 We have witnessed the greatest rise in the minimum wage in our policy, in our history,
13:26 and we have a dense network of social programmes that extend to all sectors of society.
13:31 But we're inspiring to usher in a vision of equality between all nations, where we
13:36 see gaps and asymmetries between countries narrow.
13:40 We are prioritising the elimination of the culture of privilege, privilege which denies
13:44 rights.
13:45 Mexico reiterates the importance of environmental solidarity.
13:48 That should be a strategic part of development and not as an isolated phenomenon.
13:53 It is important to move towards industrial and productive policies which are green and
13:59 blue, which create jobs and which decrease poverty, which decrease our environmental
14:05 footprint, but also which take into account contributions to the environment and the complexity
14:10 of ecosystems and the wellbeing economy.
14:12 We signed the ECA-ESCASU agreement and others which protect life and the environment.
14:19 We are proud to have signed the BBNJ agreement and we hope to see its timely entry into force.
14:28 Dear friends, climate change is the greatest market failure of all time.
14:33 That was said by Nicola Stern.
14:35 Today it is one of the greatest global risks.
14:39 Estimates of the costs of the effects of climate change demonstrate that it will not only affect
14:43 economic growth, but it will also affect the most vulnerable sectors of our societies.
14:47 We reiterate our commitment to make progress with the Paris agreement, but we emphasize
14:51 the importance of having financing in place to tackle climate change and of giving priority
14:56 to adaptation, in particular and especially to support the most vulnerable nations in
15:02 our region, the Caribbean first and foremost.
15:05 On the margins of this General Assembly, Mexico participated in the SDG summit, the financing
15:12 for development dialogue, the climate action summit and the preparatory meeting for the
15:16 summit of the future.
15:18 We are championing wholesale reform of the international financial architecture.
15:23 This reform must address the deeply rooted asymmetries between countries.
15:27 It must prioritize heavily indebted countries with new instruments, with the redistribution
15:33 of special drawing rights to widen the fiscal space of developing nations.
15:37 It should also prioritize debt relief in exchange for environmental services, debt for climate
15:43 swaps.
15:44 We endorse the Bridgetown 2.0 initiative proposed by Barbados.
15:48 Latin America and the Caribbean learned a very tough lesson during the pandemic because
15:53 there was a lack of global solidarity.
15:55 We saw the prevailing urgent need that we have today to, from within CELAC, champion
16:03 initiatives such as the plan for health self-sufficiency, the regional medicines agency and the climate
16:10 adaptation fund.
16:12 In this regard, we support our dear Ralph González as president of CELAC.
16:18 Mexico seeks agreements on all issues on the multilateral agenda because we are interested
16:24 in reconciling positions without leaving anyone on the margins.
16:27 But we are living in unprecedented times, which require greater will to come to the
16:31 fore to give voices to all in the global south.
16:35 Mexico belongs to the global south, indeed, through history and conviction.
16:39 Consequently, Mexico is considering participating in the debates and work of G77+China on those
16:45 issues and in those fora in which we could contribute to strengthening the negotiating
16:49 position of the global south.
16:51 Soon, we will submit a proposal to G77+China for its consideration.
16:57 Mexico, and here before you, I want to reaffirm Mexico's historical commitment to promoting
17:06 dialogue and understanding in favour of peace and in favour of the peaceful resolution of
17:10 disputes.
17:11 That is a vocation which has inspired and fuelled our deepest convictions to decisively
17:18 defend the very causes of humankind.
17:21 We have participated as a guarantor country for the peace dialogue tables between the
17:26 Government of the Republic of Colombia and the National Liberation Army.
17:29 Moreover, we participated in the search for solutions to foster political dialogue in
17:35 Venezuela.
17:36 We did this always in strict adherence to our constitutional principles of the respect
17:40 for the self-determination of peoples and the peaceful resolution of disputes and non-intervention.
17:46 Mexico is the host of negotiations between the Venezuelan Government and the unitary
17:52 platform of Venezuela that is facilitated by Norway.
17:56 We supported the implementation of agreements signed in November 2022 in Mexico City, and
18:01 we are keeping the doors open for the resumption of this process and for the achievement of
18:07 a solution for the benefit of all Venezuelan people.
18:10 Turning now to the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, our stance is entirely devoid
18:15 of ambiguity.
18:16 We condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine because it violates the United Nations Charter
18:21 and international law.
18:23 And because of the unspeakable suffering it has wrought on millions of people, especially
18:28 girls and boys, we recognize that all sovereign states have the right to have the adequate
18:34 means to reclaim territorial integrity.
18:37 But it's also equally true that the arms race takes us ever further from a peaceful
18:43 solution.
18:44 We have to cease talking of war and instead start talking about peace.
18:49 Mexico will continue its fight for disarmament and the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.
18:54 Testament to that commitment is the Tlatelolco Treaty and the Treaty on the Prohibition of
18:57 Nuclear Weapons.
18:59 These are essential for the prevention and eradication of catastrophic humanitarian consequences.
19:05 We have declared, and the General Assembly has done so too, we've declared that these
19:11 consequences are counter to international law themselves.
19:16 We reject the illicit trafficking of firearms.
19:19 And I would simply give you a figure here.
19:22 We receive 200,000 firearms.
19:25 These are trafficked every year to Mexico from our neighbor in the north.
19:29 These firearms, of course, fall into the hands of criminals in organized networks and claim
19:34 countless lives.
19:35 That is the other side of the drug coin.
19:39 Mexico, in good faith, shoulders its commitments when it comes to combating drug trafficking.
19:45 But all efforts will be limited in their impact if countries which manufacture and act as
19:50 the source for trafficked weapons do not shoulder their responsibilities for the scourge.
19:55 We need decisive measures to reduce the vast availability of firearms.
20:01 Those manufacturing and distributing firearms must also shoulder their responsibilities
20:05 and adopt stringent measures to avoid these weapons being diverted towards the illicit
20:10 market.
20:11 In our region, in Latin America and the Caribbean, we are devastated by the situation in Haiti.
20:19 This country is in a chokehold of gang violence, violence which grows largely due to the illicit
20:26 trafficking of weapons, despite the sanctions regime established by the Security Council
20:31 in a resolution facilitated by Mexico.
20:34 We hope that that resolution will be soon adopted by the Security Council so that the
20:39 international community can take decisive action and support that country in restoring
20:44 stability.
20:45 Consequently, we avail ourselves of this rostrum to also reiterate Mexico's commitment
20:52 to the two-state solutions.
20:55 There should be an Israel and a Palestine living side by side in peace and within secure
20:59 borders.
21:00 We wish to recognize the rights of the people of Israel, but not to the detriment of those
21:05 of Palestine.
21:07 We need to put an end to abhorrent situations such as the continued economic embargo suffered
21:12 by Cuba.
21:13 This is a highly unjustified, once counter to international law, and is alien to values
21:18 and the peaceful coexistence which prevail among the peoples of Latin America and the
21:22 Caribbean.
21:23 We call for Cuba to be removed from consideration as a country which promotes and fuels or sponsors
21:30 terrorism.
21:31 Sixty-four years ago, this General Assembly was presided over by one of the best Mexican
21:36 diplomats, Luis Padilla Nervo.
21:39 He said, and I quote, "Victory will not be decided on the battlefields, rather in
21:45 the consciences of men and women."
21:48 Given the nature of this fight, the best weapons that democracies have are moral principles,
21:54 the scrupulous respect for treaties, and the principle that difficulties and controversies
22:00 between people must not be resolved by weapons, but rather through negotiations.
22:06 Mexico wishes to be an actor that promotes peace through law.
22:11 We will do everything in our power to support genuine efforts for dialogue between parties
22:15 to conflicts, and we will do everything to bring about peaceful solutions to conflicts,
22:21 because Mexico's foreign policy is based on renouncing war as an instrument of international
22:27 policy.
22:29 As was quite rightly stated by our renowned diplomat, Genaro Estrada, foreign policy involves
22:38 renouncing war.
22:39 Consequently, in the entryway to this General Assembly, the one you walk through, you find
22:45 a block of obsidian.
22:46 That is a sacred stone that the Aztecs called itzli.
22:50 They were convinced that that rock was created by the sun rays which struck volcanic rock.
22:58 It was created by a synthesis between what was on land and in space, celestial and earthly
23:03 realms.
23:04 That stone includes an engraved plaque which establishes the very foundations of our diplomacy.
23:09 One hundred and fifty-six years ago, the first indigenous president in Latin America said
23:14 the following, "Between individuals, as with between nations, respecting the rights
23:19 of others is peace."
23:21 With this humanist vision, Mexico is addressing the major challenge of human mobility.
23:29 Geography has placed us squarely, and through no fault of our own, at a very complicated
23:35 juncture.
23:36 But Mexico has a very clear guiding principle, that is humanizing migration, because migration
23:42 must be an option and not an obligation.
23:44 Because when a person migrates, she must do so safely, orderly, and in a regular fashion.
23:51 Because the unprecedented migratory phenomenon that we are seeing concerns everyone in the
23:57 international community.
23:58 As such, Mexico insists that there is an urgent need to invest in addressing the structural,
24:03 deep causes of migration.
24:04 We reaffirm the importance of supporting communities of origin, and for there to be more will and
24:10 resources to do that.
24:14 All countries need to support this endeavor and contribute, especially those that receive
24:18 migrants and benefit from the work and contributions of migrants.
24:22 In the United States, for example, our migrants contribute more than $500 billion in tax.
24:28 Consequently, it is vital to move towards models to manage migration, which offer spaces
24:34 for integration into labor and financial markets, which are safe and formal.
24:39 Models which facilitate integration into host societies.
24:43 Models that protect the human rights of those who migrate across and throughout the migration
24:48 cycle.
24:49 Because, as the Secretary General clearly indicated, 75 years after the adoption of
24:54 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the time has come to put an end to the persecution
24:59 and demonization of migrants.
25:01 We reject, incidentally, and in that connection, any attempt to question the progressive nature
25:09 of international standards on gender equality.
25:13 Sexual diversity should not be questioned either.
25:16 Standards on both of these have been very hard won.
25:19 It is important that there is progress in gender equality, and we need to avoid backsliding
25:24 through decisive, innovative actions.
25:27 Nothing about us, without us.
25:29 Mexico was the first country in the South to proclaim a feminist foreign policy, because
25:33 we are striving to ensure that structures change.
25:36 Structures that hamper the advancement of women and the full enjoyment of their rights
25:41 and autonomy.
25:43 Doing that involves promoting the substantive participation of women in decision-making
25:47 processes.
25:48 It also involves streamlining a gender perspective into all spaces, fora, and organizations,
25:55 and international agreements.
25:56 Because every time we break the glass roof, civilization makes progress.
26:04 The topic of this 78th General Assembly is relevant and clear.
26:09 Rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity.
26:13 This must be the very thrust of our collective endeavors.
26:16 The majestic arena in which we are meeting today must not allow us to forget the crisis
26:22 of trust being faced by international institutions, and particularly by the United Nations.
26:28 Our discussions must translate into tangible results, and that is crucially important,
26:33 because we must involve citizens that we represent as active subjects.
26:39 We must be very careful, indeed, because multilateralism cannot be lost, and it cannot lose course
26:46 in polarization and geopolitical rivalry.
26:50 If the United Nations does not discharge its mandate for peace and development, we will
26:54 be fueling dissatisfaction and disarray.
26:59 International institutions that we have built will suffer.
27:01 We are championing multilateralism that is close to people, timely and effective, and
27:07 committed to providing global public goods.
27:10 We are championing collective good, the good and well-being of all.
27:15 Multilateralism is a tool for development, and the work of the United Nations must create
27:20 a just peace.
27:21 It must broaden freedoms, build equality, and deepen democracy.
27:27 It must ultimately create hope.
27:30 Global commitment is key to moving towards a new form of multilateralism that will allow
27:35 us to restructure the relations of social and economic power on an international level.
27:42 Development issues are gaining ground in the face of exclusive and excessive market liberalization.
27:49 We hope that this same vision of equality will prevail among nations, so that we can
27:53 achieve a fairer world where we reduce the asymmetries to which I referred.
27:57 We propose a multilateralism that is closer to the needs of our people, in sync with the
28:02 purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter.
28:05 Unequivocal, timely, decisive, and effective.
28:08 Because friends, the challenges we are facing are vast.
28:11 On the table, there is no more, no less than uncertainty about our very survival.
28:17 There is no time for gradual token change, changes which are sometimes truncated to maintain
28:23 the status quo.
28:24 The current model of global development is an unsustainable one.
28:27 The promise of unlimited progress has come up against nature's immovable wall.
28:36 2030 is around the corner, and the essential minima that we agreed upon in 2015, our achievement
28:43 of them is being thwarted.
28:45 Therefore, we must allow a spirit of rebellion and a sense of urgency to infect us.
28:51 It is up to this generation and our leaders to shoulder the responsibility to thwart the
28:57 disaster that science has written.
28:59 We cannot do this with small steps.
29:02 We cannot do this timidly in a discreet fashion or without plunging power into difficulty.
29:09 Because power and the status quo has brought us to this point.
29:12 We need to be brave, audacious, courageous.
29:16 We need to be egalitarian, and just rights cannot be tradable commodities.
29:22 We need to challenge our patterns of production and consumption.
29:25 The obscene concentration of wealth and the corrosive influence of the distribution of
29:30 power are not compatible with our human project.
29:34 Because 78 years ago, we created this institution.
29:37 We were on the brink of an abyss when we contemplated the possibility of falling into that abyss.
29:42 Today, the abyss is growing ever nearer.
29:45 It is intimidating and real, and it is terrifying.
29:48 Our efforts must meet that challenge and avoid that fall.
29:52 Friends, in the midst of the 20th century, this organization took its first teetering
29:56 steps.
29:57 At that time, the devastating wounds of the last world war were still fresh.
30:01 A young Mexican diplomat was penning the paragraphs of his fundamental essays on the roots of
30:06 identity of my homeland.
30:08 These pages would ultimately come to be called the Labyrinth of Solitude.
30:13 This author would later come to win the Nobel Prize in recognition for his universal work.
30:18 That man was Octavio Paz.
30:19 I wish to conclude my address by citing the lines he wrote at that time.
30:25 He said, "Everything has come to pass as it shouldn't have come to pass.
30:30 We said that to console ourselves, but we were the ones who got things wrong, not history.
30:35 We have to learn to look at reality head on.
30:39 We have to invent, if necessary, new words and new ideas for these new and strange realities
30:45 that have emerged before us.
30:47 We are, like the rest of the planet, at a decisive and deadly juncture.
30:52 We are orphans of the past, and we have a future before us yet to be invented.
30:56 Universal history is a task of us all.
30:59 It is our labyrinth, a labyrinth of all men and women.
31:02 And for this task, guaranteeing new generations a world of possibilities, we need to do the
31:09 best we can to do that and emerge together from this labyrinth.
31:11 And to do that, you will always be able to count upon the commitment of Mexico."
31:16 Thank you.
31:22 We were listening to the statements of Alicia Barcena Ibarra, the Minister of Foreign Affairs
31:26 of Mexico.
31:27 She stated that major efforts must be done in order to attain the 2030 Agenda and ambition
31:34 measures are needed to reduce poverty, hunger and inequality in the world and redistribute
31:39 power.
31:40 She also stressed the need on taking international action based on the principles of the UN Charter
31:46 and pointed out the commitment that should be made toward facing climate change.
31:50 And we have come to the end of this brief.
31:52 You can find this and many other stories on our website, www.telsurenglish.net.
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32:02 For TELUSUR English, I'm Ana Rosabal.
32:06 Thank you for watching.
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