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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