00:00Now in the context of the United Nations' 81st General Assembly, we go live with our special envoy Jorge Gestoso.
00:06Welcome, Mr. Gestoso.
00:09Sophie, there are still resounding the speeches of some of the speakers yesterday at the UN General Assembly,
00:18and we are talking China, we're talking Russia, we're talking Cuba, we're talking Nicaragua.
00:24The common denominator among all of these four was the denunciation of unilateralism and the reinforcement of the importance of
00:36sovereignty.
00:37In the case of China, it established itself as the country that could promote and defend multilateralism.
00:46And also they mentioned that they want to put the issue of development, solidarity, prosperity in the global south as
00:57one of the key issues.
00:58They absolutely condemn the blockade against Cuba.
01:03And also regarding Palestine, they mentioned that Palestinians are going to be the ones who need to govern Palestine, no
01:13one else.
01:14In the case of Russia, Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister, was very hard.
01:21Again, also regarding Israel and Gaza, saying that the efforts that they tried to make, an agreement, didn't work,
01:30and there is a genocide going on.
01:33Defend again Cuba and denounce a blockade against the island.
01:38We're having very tough words against the Western Europe regarding Ukraine, an issue that he defended strongly.
01:47Then Cuba was participating and was the foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez,
01:54the one who was denouncing once more the economic efforts of the United States,
02:00the pressure that they put in the U.S. in the economic island and the possibility that they could be
02:06taking an invasion.
02:07They said regarding Palestine that what is going on is a genocide that is being done by the Zionistic Jewish
02:18in their terms and needs to be finished.
02:21They also support other countries and multilateralism.
02:25And at the very end we heard Nicaragua through the vice foreign minister that he put emphasis on supporting Cuba,
02:36supporting China, supporting the BRICS, very important for them, pushing for multilateralism.
02:44And all of the four were, especially China, putting emphasis on all the conflicts should be resolved by dialogue and
02:53not unilateral military efforts.
02:56So those basically key issues were coming yesterday on the Saturday session.
03:03Today the UN is closed and tomorrow is going to be taking place the last session of this general debate
03:12that is going on here in New York City, Sophie.
