Climate change, the removal of Cuba from the list of countries supporting terrorism and the war in Ukraine were some of the points referred to by the Colombian president in the UN General Assembly.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro intervened in his speech to the 78th General Assembly of the United Nations with a message calling for concrete action to address migration and the climate crisis.
“The war continues, the hunger continues and the climate crisis has shown its teeth like never before,” said the Colombian president.
He added: “As has been the case since the millennia-old beginnings of humanity, people will go where there is still liquid water, towards the north.” The exodus of people to the north accurately measures the extent of the failure of governments; “Last year was a time of defeat for governments, defeat for humanity.”
“According to science, tomorrow there will be tens of millions, in 2070 there will be 3 billion, who will leave their beloved places because they will be uninhabitable,” he explained.
Petro said that “the bulk of the investment to decarbonize the global economy will come from public resources, from the efforts of societies, from the bringing together of states to bring humanity together, what they now call multilateralism, and from the governance of the Earth in mind “of democracy” and not with the “eye of empire”.
In his speech, the Colombian president expressed that Cuba was being “unjustly blocked” and mentioned that a former president of his country only contributed to the Caribbean island being placed on the list of terrorist countries “because he contributed to it “I have to create peace in Colombia.”
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Peace conferences to end the war in Ukraine and Palestine
Petro also referred to the war in Ukraine, saying that they had “forgotten that the same reasons that were expressed in defense of Zelensky were the same reasons that should be given in defense of Palestine,” and suggested that to end “all wars”.
“I propose that the United Nations sponsor two peace conferences as soon as possible, one on Ukraine and one on Palestine, not because there are no other wars in the world like in my country, but because they will teach how to make peace creates “all regions of the planet”.
For Petro, “both, and only both, would put an end to hypocrisy as a political practice.”
“I propose to you, as president of the Land of Beauty, to make up for lost time, two simple things: end the war and reform the world financial system of the Ukrainian peace conferences,” he said.
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Drug war
The Colombian president did not forget to mention the “failed” war on drugs and the penetration of fentanyl into illegal markets, ensuring that “the countries with the greatest economic and military power in human history have turned to drugs.” . of death: to fentanyl.”
“They sowed injustice, and in order to stop farmers from growing cannabis and coca leaves, instead of facing the loneliness of the youth of their own countries, they wanted a war on the drugs of the rebellious youth who opposed the war of “Vietnam”. Marijuana and LSD of the hippies, and in the end they led their society to the drug of neoliberalism and competition, the drug of the Manhattan yuppie,” he said.
Petro concluded by saying that the coca leaf and “marijuana should be exempt from prohibitionism” and that “fentanyl is displacing cocaine in terms of consumption.”
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