00:00Hello, welcome to Telesur in English. We have live to Venezuela listening to
00:06statements of President of the National Assembly Jorge Rodriguez as the
00:10legislative body is holding a public consultation on the Venezuelan Red Cross
00:15bill. All of its efforts to attend them and to mitigate the suffering and she
00:26was there as a pillar teaching us, teaching us how to, not only how to be
00:35better doctors but mainly how to be better people, human people. Dr. Luis
00:44Faria, President of the Venezuelan Red Cross, member of the government board, it
00:54sounds like a complicated position. Dr. Mario Santimone, Vice President of the
01:02Venezuelan Red Cross, who is also a doctor and colleague, Dr. Nelson Ali, who
01:08accompanied us in the National Assembly a little bit less than a year ago when we
01:13started speaking on the subject of the necessity of a law of the Red Cross.
01:18Dr. Caron Pitel, thank you for always being with us.
01:22Dr. Rafael Chacon, Representative of the German Red Cross here in Venezuela, how are you?
01:31Dr. Juan Carlos Odi, Vice Minister for the Management of Risk and Civilian Protection of Venezuela and to the people
01:39of my home,
01:41Dr. Pedro Infante, First Vice President of the National Assembly, Deputy Grecia Colmenares, Second Vice President of the National Assembly.
01:51Special greetings to the President and the Vice President of the Permanent Commission of Education, Health Science, Technology and Innovation
02:00of the National Assembly, Jason Guzman, and the Deputy Antonio Ecarri.
02:06If you see the channel of the National Assembly, you would see me and Ecarri fighting on every session, but
02:13you don't watch it.
02:15But it is a clear example of how in these very complex moments that are lived by the country, it
02:24is a necessity to have unity to build peace.
02:28Here we have Jason, that is part of my block of political action, and there is also Antonio, who is
02:36part of the Venezuelan opposition, and both have worked together to receive the over 300 proposals that have been done
02:45for the creation of the law of the Venezuelan Red Cross.
02:49The other proposals that include the 8 to 10 proposals that you carried, and all were included in the bill
02:57proposal, that for us not to be too mysterious, that the law is going to leave the premises of the
03:09National Assembly until the law is approved the next Tuesday, February 24th.
03:14What is the law of the Venezuelan opposition?
03:24Because there are laws and laws. There are laws that feed the soul, and there are laws that are necessary,
03:31but can be painful if you are going to do a law of dread.
03:36So the laws of the budget are very tedious, but they are necessary. The country lives and develops around those
03:44administrative laws.
03:46But doing a law to protect those who protect cannot be anything but a food for the soul, and a
03:57way to thanking all of you that are giving so much in silence, and many times with no recognition,
04:04to help those who suffer. I believe this is the first time that the National Assembly comes here to tell
04:12all of you thank you, and the expression of our thanks will be a law to protect you who protect
04:19all.
04:23Also, it is a law that is a law that is very concise and very important that it is guided
04:34by the International Treaties of Humanitarian Rights, and respects the independence that the Red Cross have in the world, and
04:42preserves the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity, and respects the international treaties,
04:48and that mainly establishes the framework for you to be able, with a bigger independence and autonomy, develop your work
05:01for the support in disasters and to the vulnerable people.
05:07It is something that is simple, but since we started receiving compatriots that do not know how many situations and
05:19pains and problems they passed in the countries that did not know how to welcome them,
05:25in the way that we Venezuelans know how to welcome the millions of people that have come to live here
05:32from the same continent, from Europe, from the Middle East, from the East as well.
05:40Well, we Venezuelan men and women will teach, I don't know where, in the United Nations on how to receive
05:47the people that come from other countries to live in our country.
05:55And from that moment, 23,000 people have come in the airplanes of the plan, welcome to the homeland. Each
06:05one of those 23,000 people have been attended by the Venezuelan Red Cross.
06:11Each one of them have received the hug of the volunteers of the Venezuelan Red Cross.
06:19Each one of them have received their personal hygiene kit and health kit, and they have received the psychological and
06:27medical attention.
06:28And all of those who have come and received the Red Cross hug understand that they return to their country
06:37and that their country receives them with the open arms in the way of the Bolivarian government and also the
06:43Venezuelan Red Cross.
06:45For it to be a law, for the relationship with the state, for it to be clear, not only the
06:50national state, not only the national government, but also the regional government and the municipal government, for it to be
06:58respected for an institution that has earned that respect through its work, through its values and through its integrity.
07:09I know it, and since we are in a festive moment, there were days very difficult for the Venezuelan Red
07:17Cross.
07:17And I know that there was a moment in which perhaps the initial objective that institutions such as this one
07:27have were vended, but let's not look back, not with the Red Cross or with the country.
07:33Sometimes when one looks too much towards the back, one might not see what we have in front of us,
07:41let's look at what we have in front of us.
07:44We have the possibility of building together a country of peace, a country of inclusion and a country of prosperity
07:58where all of us can feel that we are living better and that we're giving a country to our children
08:06where the political situations don't have the necessity of becoming
08:15in situations of number zero or where the hate is the exchange currency.
08:21I believe that it is a moment where we all must give and put a grain of sand, not precisely
08:30in front of the cameras or the studios, but through the words, words heal.
08:35I live from that important time in the psychotherapy, and it was said by Freud several times, and it is
08:46part of many of the treaties after Freud, the healing through words, but words can also do damage.
08:56Let's look at it.
08:57Let's look for the way in which language is our giving, our first giving in the building of peace.
09:08On Tuesday, February 24th, you will have your law, and I want to say goodbye to you, thanking you all
09:19of what you do, for you to continue and grow, and for you to be able to use that law
09:25so it can serve for the growth of an institution of such importance as the Venezuelan Red Cross.
09:36I am not the one saying it.
09:38I am not the one saying it.
09:38It is said by the author of the book of all of our childhoods.
09:44And if you didn't read it during your childhood, there's never a bad time to read The Little Prince of
09:52Antoine Saint-Exupéry.
09:54If you didn't read it in your childhood, in the dedication of that book, The Little Prince gives it to
10:01his best friend.
10:05The author dedicated the book to his best friend, and he says sorry to the children that read the book
10:13because he is dedicating it to an adult person.
10:16And he asks for the forgiveness of the children because he is dedicating the book to an adult, and he
10:24says, but it perhaps serves to dedicate it in this way to Leon Ware when he was a child.
10:35And it was said by Antoine Saint-Exupéry, if we want a world of peace and of justice, we must
10:47put the intelligence at the service of love, which is what you do.
11:06Well, we have heard Mr. President of the General Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodriguez, about the law.
11:16It is focused on regulating, protecting, and defining the legal status and functions in the Cruz Roja Venezolana.
11:25It seeks to prevent an issue of the Red Cross symbol, the Red Cross on a white background, using it
11:34without authorization,
11:36whether by private individuals, businesses, political groups, or other, would be treated as a serious violation, including under international law.
11:48The bill aims to stop unauthorized use of Red Cross symbols, people, or rules falsely claiming to act as the
11:59Red Cross.
12:00Illegal use of privilege or legal protections granted exclusively to the Venezuelan Red Cross.
12:08We are affirming humanitarian neutrality.
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