00:00 And we will now listen to the summary of the group of the 77 in China held in Havana.
00:07 Let's listen where the President of Brazil is in Nacio Lula da Silva.
00:20 [VIDEO PLAYBACK]
00:48 I would like to greet President Miguel Diaz-Canel and the Cuban people for their hospitality.
00:58 It is of special meaning for me that in this moment of great geopolitical transformations,
01:05 this summit meeting is being held here in Havana.
01:09 Cuba has been an advocate for a more fair global governance system.
01:15 Brazil today is the victim of an illegal economic embargo.
01:21 Brazil is against any kind of coercive measure of unilateral nature.
01:28 We reject the inclusion of Cuba in the list of the states that sponsor terrorism.
01:36 My dear friends, since I took office in my new term, I have been in different fora with
01:44 the presence of developing countries like SILAC, the BRICS, and the G20.
01:51 But none of these spaces has the same diversity and scope of the G77.
02:00 Our group corresponds to 79 percent of the world population and 49 percent of the global
02:07 GDP in terms of purchasing power parity.
02:11 Just 60 years ago when it was created, it has been the G77, a vector of important changes
02:18 in the multilateral institutions.
02:19 The G77 was fundamental to expose the anomalies of the global trade system and defend the
02:29 construction of a new international economic order.
02:33 Unfortunately, many of our demands were never met.
02:38 The world governance continues to be asymmetric.
02:41 The UN, the Bretton Woods system, and the WTO are losing credibility.
02:51 We cannot split ourselves.
02:53 We should forge a common vision that will take into consideration the concerns of those
03:00 countries that have medium and low income and other groups that are more vulnerable.
03:06 The strategy is that the G77 for the first time has been dedicating â it is â that
03:12 the summit G77 is dedicating a summit meeting dedicated to the theme science, technology,
03:17 innovation.
03:18 In the last few years, we had an increase in terms of our share of the world GDP invested
03:24 in research and development, but this increase did not happen in a uniform way.
03:30 Latin America and the Caribbean region and the sub-Saharan Africa go against this tendency.
03:37 Other inequalities pervade.
03:39 It's very disappointing that the women that make up 31 percent of the total of researchers
03:48 â only 31 percent are women.
03:50 We have to reinforce our demands in the light of the fourth industrial revolution.
03:56 There are two major transformations that are underway.
04:00 They cannot be shaped by a bunch of rich economies.
04:05 We've published once again the dependency between center and periphery.
04:13 The first one is the digital revolution.
04:16 Advances with network computing, artificial intelligence, biotechnology â cutting-edge
04:22 biotechnology â and the digitization bring new possibilities that some decades ago we
04:28 could never imagine.
04:30 But these innovations have threatening collateral effects.
04:36 The big multinationals of the technology industry have a business model that increases the wealth
04:45 concentration, does not respect labor laws, and many times they feed the violation of
04:50 human rights and foster extremism.
04:54 We undertake the risk that go from losing privacy to the use of autonomous weapons and
05:01 going through the racist bias of many algorithms.
05:06 The Digital Global Pact of the UN offers us an opportunity to mitigate these challenges
05:12 and allow that the benefits of new technologies could be benefited by all.
05:18 The idea to establish a scientific panel for artificial intelligence is â we welcome
05:23 this idea, but it's necessary to guarantee the participation of experts from the developing
05:31 world.
05:32 The Project of Global Guidelines for the Regulation of Digital Platforms from UNESCO balances
05:40 freedom of speech and access to information with the need to prohibit the dissemination
05:46 of content that go against international law or threaten democracy and human rights.
05:52 The second major change that is underway in the world is the energy transition.
05:58 The climate emergency imposes new imperatives, but a fair transition brings also opportunities.
06:06 With that, we can have an air that is cleaner, rivers without contamination, cities that
06:12 welcome us in a better way, food of quality at the table, decent jobs, and children more
06:20 healthy.
06:21 It was with this firm conviction that last month we held the Amazon Summit meeting in
06:27 the state of Parå in Brazil in the city of Belém.
06:31 The declaration that we have adopted foresees a broad agenda of scientific cooperation and
06:38 values the knowledge of the Amazon institutions and communities.
06:43 The Amazon Regional Observatory will systematize and monitor data to guide public policies
06:51 and make them more efficient.
06:53 We would like to take advantage of the genetic assets that we have in our biodiversity with
06:59 a fair share of our benefits, but keeping our intellectual property on resources and
07:04 traditional knowledge.
07:06 We will promote a sustainable industrialization, investing in renewable sources of energy,
07:12 with social, bioeconomy, and agriculture that will have low carbon.
07:17 We will do all that without forgetting that we do not have the same historical debt that
07:22 the rich countries carry for causing the global warming.
07:27 The principle of common responsibility but differentiated continues valid.
07:33 And so that's why the climate funding has to be assured to all the developing countries
07:40 according to their needs and their priorities.
07:44 On the way to COPE 28 in Dubai and COPE 30 that will be held in the city of Belém, the
07:50 state of ParĂĄ in Brazil, it will be necessary to insist in the implementations of the commitments
07:56 that were never followed by the rich countries, developed countries.
08:03 Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, during the '80s, Brazil was a pioneer in the South-South
08:14 cooperation in terms of science, technology, and innovation.
08:20 When we established partnership in the nuclear field with Argentina and in the spatial area
08:25 with China, these two initiatives of cooperation have brought benefits still today.
08:33 In re-reclaiming the protagonism of Brazil in the world, we confer special attention
08:40 to scientific cooperation and technological cooperation between the developing countries
08:44 in our foreign policy.
08:46 We will give a new trigger to programs and regional programs through the SILAC, BRICS,
08:53 and the Portuguese-speaking language countries.
08:57 The collaboration with Angola and Mozambique and many other countries in Africa demonstrate
09:02 that the sharing of knowledge, policies, and Brazilian technologies can help us to give
09:09 a quality leap forward in terms of the agriculture output and in the production of drugs and
09:17 medication.
09:18 Under the chair â Brazilian chair of the G20, we will propose the creation of a working
09:22 group in science, technology, innovation to leverage the interests of the developing countries
09:27 in this field.
09:28 In New Delhi, we participate in the launch of the Global Alliance for Biofuels.
09:35 Our objective is to show the potential of bioenergy in the context of the energy transition.
09:42 Dear friends, at the end of the Cold War, the South Commission, leaded by Julius Nyeri,
09:52 gathered dozens of intellectuals, diplomats, and leadership from Africa, Asia, and Latin
09:56 America.
09:57 I thank them, my dear friend Marolon Singh and the Brazilians, Celso Furtado and Paulo
10:03 Anz, so that we can build a common vision for development.
10:09 A second edition of the South Commission will allow us to update our vision on sustainable
10:15 development on the basis of our own realities and priorities in the light of the digital
10:22 revolution and in the light of a fair transition.
10:25 I will leave this suggestion to Uganda, for which I wish success in the chair of the G77
10:31 from next year.
10:33 The countries from the Global South have all the conditions to occupy the vanguard of science,
10:39 technology, and innovation.
10:43 For that, we have to go back and act together, because together we'll be stronger, as we
10:50 did already in the past.
10:52 Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
10:53 (Applause.)
10:54 FOREIGN MINISTER NYERI (through translator): We are grateful for the intervention of His
11:08 Excellency Luiz NĂĄcsio Lula da Silva, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil.
11:17 I am pleased to give the floor to the Prince Faisal bin Fahd Al Saud, Minister of Foreign
11:24 Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
11:28 (Applause.)
11:29 MS.
11:30 GONZĂLEZ: We were listening to the statements of Luiz NĂĄcsio Lula da Silva, President of
11:38 Brazil, who is present at the summit of the Group 77 held in Havana on September 15th
11:43 and 16th.
11:44 Lula thanked Cuba for the invitation and for his hospitality.
11:48 He highlighted the need of building a new world order and the importance of energy transition
11:53 in order to fight the environmental effects damaging the world.
11:57 More breaking news coming up.
11:58 Stay tuned.
11:58 stay tuned.
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