“It reminds me of Copenhagen when we drove with Commander Hugo Chavez, here is the ghost of Chavez,” said the President.
This Monday saw the official opening and until November 18th the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) will be held, bringing together 110 heads of state and more than 40,000 delegates.
Upon arriving in Egypt last Saturday, the Venezuelan leader commented that he had accompanied Commander Hugo Chavez at that summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, which he said was seen as a failure in trying to impose a false vision that the have paid dearly for mankind.
He also recalled the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, at the 1992 Earth Summit in Brazil when the first multilateral agreement to combat climate change was signed, warning that even then the situation seemed irreversible.
Yesterday, Maduro declared on his Twitter account that we will hold a long working day here to “uncover Venezuela’s firm position” against the capitalist system’s destructive and polluting attacks on our planet Earth.
The President, in another tweet, expressed his commitment to bringing to COP27 the noise of peoples “suffering the hard blows” inflicted by a destructive system that threatens the very existence of humanity. “We expect concrete results at this world meeting,” he stressed.
According to the South American dignitary, COP27 should focus on finding answers about what humanity can do to make a qualitative leap and reverse the effects of the climate emergency.
It is about accelerating steps to comply with the climate change agreements signed at previous meetings, he stressed.
He announced that Venezuela would intervene in several working groups and in the central plenary and that we would bring the voice of our peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean as well as the Bolivarian Alliance for the peoples of our America – Trade of Cities.
We will join the voice of the Caribbean community and make proposals that will accelerate change as it appears we are entering an irreversible stage of climate change damage, he said.
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