5th day of UNGA sessions

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Heads of state and government representatives continued to take the floor on Saturday, the fifth day of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Our special envoy Jorge Gestoso with the details.

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00:00Heads of States and Governments, Representatives continue to take the floor on Saturday, the

00:05fifth day of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

00:09Our special envoy, Jorge Gestoso, with the details.

00:14Fifth day of the general debate here at the United Nations.

00:19We heard this morning four countries that are pretty relevant for our audience in Latin

00:25America, standing for China.

00:28The foreign minister mentioned that there is a crossroads in the world in the moment

00:35that we are seeing, in which is absolutely a tendency, an equivocal, that it has no return,

00:44that is a multilateralism, and the growth of the South countries.

00:50We're talking about the global South.

00:53It says that most definitely there is no room for countries like one or two that have

01:00tried to impose, dictate the agenda in the world, and they use the force as their politics.

01:08After that, we heard the foreign minister of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, that he mentioned

01:17in relation with the assassination of the leader of Hezbollah, Rahamallah, and he mentions

01:27that he definitely is the victim of a political assassination and what, according to his word,

01:35what Israel is trying to do is trying to drag the U.S. into a war.

01:42I did have the opportunity to talk to him, to interview him after a press conference,

01:48making a couple of questions.

01:50One of the questions was how Russia was seeing the political situation in Latin America.

01:55He mentions that he praises the efforts of countries like, organizations like CELAC,

02:04mentioned Lula.

02:05He says that the Monroe Doctrine is still alive in the region.

02:10And then I asked him, what about the next summit of BRICS in Kazan in Russia about three

02:17weeks ago, three weeks from now, and he says that, because my question was if we could

02:22expect another Latin American country to become, to be admitted, and he said that he is hopeful

02:29that there's a lot of bureaucracy in terms of steps that has to be taken.

02:35Also we heard Mexico talking through her foreign minister, Alicia Bárcena.

02:42She got a standing ovation when she mentioned that in a few days, the first of October,

02:48the first female, Claudia Sheinbaum, is taking over the presidency of Mexico.

02:54She denounces the assault of the embassy of Mexico in Quito that has been done by the

03:02policemen of the neoliberal Daniel Novoa to kidnap from the interior, from the inside

03:09of the embassy, a political asylee, someone who has received political asylum, that is

03:17a former ex-vice president of Ecuador, Jorge Glass, and then send him to prison.

03:29One of the last participants in this morning was Cuba, who again denounced the situation

03:36in Palestine, something that has been denounced throughout all the week, mentioned that it's

03:43absolutely a genocide, and reinforced, denounced the double standards of the U.S., that they

03:52are preaching certain values, but, for example, through the sanctions applied to Cuba throughout

03:58the decades, it has created not only incredible economic damages, but here added for the

04:04first time also in terms of technologically, science, and other aspects of the life, all

04:13the life of Cuba has been really damaged by those sanctions.

04:18We get back to you now.

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