Mr. Parilla started by expressing solidarity with Palestine and condemning what he described because the “genocidal extermination and ethnic cleaning” of Palestinians by Israel.
He mentioned that, at a time when “a handful of nations and people have amassed extra wealth than the overwhelming majority of all different nations mixed,” the United Nations continues to be probably the most consultant physique of the worldwide group and have to be protected and strengthened.
Mr. Parilla referred to as for a brand new worldwide order that ensures “the correct to growth, sovereign equality, participation and illustration of creating nations in international coverage determination.”
He referred to the Secretary-Normal’s UN80 reform initiatives which, he mentioned, must strengthen the United Nations’ intergovernmental nature, and enhance its capability to higher confront the pressing challenges of right now.
Reject ‘peace by power’
The worldwide group, he argued, should reject the doctrine of “peace by power” which is “equal to imposing the arbitrary will of US imperialism on everybody,” and would come at the price of the values upon which the UN was based.
The international minister additionally demanded an finish to the financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the USA for greater than six a long time, which he described as “an financial battle” geared toward depriving Cubans of their livelihoods and sustainability.
“Cuba faces a grave state of affairs of extended and day by day blackouts, difficulties in affording meals, inadequate availability of medicines, diminished public transport, restricted group companies and pronounced inflation, which is eroding actual incomes.”
Mr. Parilla additionally warned of a looming risk of battle within the Caribbean and mentioned that the deployment of US navy forces within the area to struggle crime and drug trafficking was a pretext and “a harmful state of affairs that violates worldwide legislation.”
Concerning local weather change, the minister mentioned that, from the rostrum of the Normal Meeting, science and “a long time of collective work” to guard the planet are being questioned.
“If the unsustainable patterns of manufacturing and consumption of capitalism should not essentially modified, we’ll exceed the fateful threshold of 1.5 levels Celsius earlier than 2030,” he declared.
Referring to new applied sciences, Mr. Parilla mentioned that, with a small variety of transnational companies imposing their operation methods and controlling what content material is seen, learn and heard, “we endure from the dictatorship of the algorithm.”
He referred to as on the UN to create widespread requirements, in an effort to be certain that expertise, particularly synthetic intelligence, profit all.
