Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla mentioned the Israeli military has “massacred” over 40,000 civilians in Gaza over the previous 11 months. He additionally paid tribute to the greater than 220 UN employees killed within the battle.
“The genocide in opposition to the Palestinian folks should finish unconditionally and with out additional delay,” he mentioned.
Addressing the chance of escalation, he mentioned that “Israel, with the complicity of america, has introduced the world to the brink of a serious world battle”, including that “the irresponsible aggression in opposition to Lebanon, Syria, Iran and the folks of the Center East could have penalties which might be onerous to foretell.”
Mr. Rodríguez Parrilla acknowledged that almost 80 years after the UN’s institution, “the continued violations of the United Nations Constitution and worldwide legislation, aggressions, interference within the inside affairs of States, and the imposition of unilateral coercive measures for political functions, have grow to be info of life.”
World peace and safety are being undermined by “aggressive expansionist and supremacist navy doctrines of domination”.
He mentioned world navy expenditure continued to extend for a ninth consecutive 12 months, reaching $2.44 trillion in 2023 – a determine that additionally contains the event of recent nuclear weapons.
He warned that there shall be no peace with out growth, but “developed international locations, which inhabit the exact same planet, blindly refuse to take a position even minimally in its prosperity and safety.”
Moreover, “the aspiration of attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has vanished”, he continued, noting that the collective wealth of the world’s 5 richest folks has elevated whereas 5 billion globally proceed to dwell in poverty.
“With a tax on the wealth of billionaires, two billion folks may very well be introduced out of poverty,” Mr. Rodríguez Parrilla mentioned.
Turning to the local weather emergency, he recalled that scientists reported in July that the planet had skilled 13 consecutive months of report excessive temperatures.
“If irrational and unsustainable manufacturing and consumption patterns of capitalism are usually not modified in an pressing and important approach, it is going to be unattainable to restrict the worldwide common temperature enhance by 1.5 levels Celsius as compared with pre-industrial ranges,” he mentioned.
He expressed hope that governments assembly on the UN COP29 local weather convention in Azerbaijan this November will undertake a brand new local weather financing purpose.
Richer international locations “could have a brand new risk to start closing the local weather finance hole and pay their financing money owed”, whereas creating nations “must design a enough purpose that responds to our personal wants, with ensures for growth and social justice.”
He mentioned the answer will inevitably have to incorporate the write-off of international debt, “which has already been paid a number of occasions over”.
Mr. Rodríguez Parrilla referred to as for a “honest, democratic worldwide order” which, amongst different factors, “ensures the final good and prosperity of all peoples in concord with nature, and the sustainable administration of pure sources to make sure the train of all human rights for all folks”.
The Overseas Minister additionally addressed america’s almost 65-year commerce and financial embargo in opposition to Cuba, which has induced “seen and plain” injury and impacted the day by day lifetime of the inhabitants.
In the meantime, the inclusion of the Caribbean Island in a US State Division checklist of nations that allegedly sponsor terrorism is “a fraudulent designation, void of any worldwide authority or mandate”.
