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 essentially the most consultant physique of the worldwide group and have to be protected and strengthened.
Mr. Parilla known as for a brand new worldwide order that ensures “the correct to improvement, sovereign equality, participation and illustration of growing nations in world coverage choice.”
He referred to the Secretary-Basic’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 in the present day.
Reject ‘peace by means of energy’
The worldwide group, he argued, should reject the doctrine of “peace by means of energy” 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 america for greater than six a long time, which he described as “an financial battle” aimed 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, decreased public transport, restricted group providers and pronounced inflation, which is eroding actual incomes.”
Mr. Parilla additionally warned of a looming menace of battle within the Caribbean and mentioned that the deployment of US navy forces within the area to battle crime and drug trafficking was a pretext and “a harmful state of affairs that violates worldwide regulation.”
Concerning local weather change, the minister mentioned that, from the rostrum of the Basic 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 usually are 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 programs and controlling what content material is seen, learn and heard, “we endure from the dictatorship of the algorithm.”
He known as on the UN to create frequent requirements, with the intention to make sure that expertise, particularly synthetic intelligence, profit all.
