2023-09-16 00:45:27
President Alberto Fernandez participated this Friday, in Cuba, in the first day of debate of the Summit of Heads of State of the Group of 77+Chinaan occasion on which he insisted on highlighting “the need to change the international financial system”, questioning that “it continues to operate with the same logic as always.”
In addition, Fernández called to “join the effort to stop depending on the science and technology of others,” recalling that the pandemic “exposed the inequality that prevails in the worldwhen we saw that 90% of the vaccines that were produced remained in the hands of the ten most powerful countries.”
“Such inequality forces us to rethink and there the G77+China has a lot to say”stated the president at the Havana Convention Palace, where the opening ceremony was held and the general debate took place.
Likewise, Fernández recalled that at the G20 Summit – in which he participated last week in India – it was approved “some strict justice: let the African Union be part of the group.”
“Africa has been a continent plundered of its riches by the powers of the world, and this is an act of reparation that guarantees that this looting does not continue. I also proposed that next year, with the presidency of Brazil, CELAC be incorporated, because it is not possible that the voice of the Caribbean is not represented when it is the one that suffers the most from the climate change“he added.
The head of state maintained that for the situation of inequality to be altered “the first thing we have to do is change the international financial system,” and added that “The World Bank and the IMF apply the same orthodox logic that led us to this state of crisisof concentration of income in a few and a distribution of poverty in millions of human beings”.
“The world continues to have a dominant world and a dominated world and that must end once and for all. We, actors in the global south, have what the central world needs: food and energy. We have a huge opportunity to demand equality“he remarked.
Finally, Fernández expressed his gratitude to all the countries that make up the G77 bloc and have accompanied Argentina in its sovereignty claim over the Malvinas Islands.
“We have been demanding for many years that the United Kingdom sit down once more at a negotiating table that allows us to resolve, within the logic of multilateralism, the problems we have, which are none other than seeing our territorial sovereignty broken by the improper occupation of lands. Argentina”, he concluded.
New York, next stage on your international agenda
The G77+China is a bloc made up of 134 nations from Asia, Africa and Latin America and at this year’s meeting the need to promote a new, less “unjust” international order will be addressed.
More than thirty heads of state and government attended the high-level meeting in the Cuban capital, including Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; Gustavo Petro, from Colombia; the South African Cyril Ramaphosa and the UN Secretary General, the Portuguese Antonio Guterres.
The event will conclude on Saturday with a new debate session and the presentation of the final declaration. After thatFernández will travel to New York on Sunday to give his last message to the United Nations General Assembly.
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