On the occasion of the G77 Summit plus China to be held on September 15 and 16 in Havana, Cuba, our correspondent Fabiola Lopez brings us more details about the importance of this event. teleSUR
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00:00 The Summit of Heads of State and Government of the G77+ China will take place in Havana
00:05 on September 15th and 16th with the purpose of reinforcing unity and deciding on collective
00:11 and practical actions to face contemporary challenges.
00:15 Our correspondent in Havana, Fabiola López, tells us more about it.
00:21 This September 2023, Havana will become the capital of the Global South when the leaders
00:26 of the Group of 77 and China will meet in this city to discuss current development challenges
00:32 as well as the role of science, technology and innovation.
00:37 This is an indispensable summit in the midst of the economic and multidimensional crisis
00:43 that is occurring on a planetary scale.
00:46 At a time when the countries of the South are seeking a solution to these problems within
00:54 the scopes of independence, sovereignty and a greater degree.
01:00 I would say of awareness of where the roads that will take us toward development must
01:07 lead.
01:08 Twenty-three years ago, when inaugurating the first South Summit, the supreme decision-making
01:13 body of the G77 and China, precisely in Havana, Fidel Castro said that in the globalized world,
01:20 where knowledge is the key to development, the technological gap between the North and
01:24 the South was widening in the conditions of increasing privatization of scientific research
01:29 and its results.
01:34 Never before has humanity had such a formidable scientific and technical potential, such an
01:40 extraordinary capacity to generate wealth and well-being.
01:44 And never before has the world been so unequal and inequality so profound.
01:51 The special representative of the Group of 77 and China, Ambassador Pedro Luis Pedroso,
01:57 explains to TeleSUR that today more than ever, developing countries and the world as a whole
02:02 need to move towards a new philosophy and paradigm of development, because the resource
02:06 base on which humankind sustains is increasingly depleted.
02:14 Capitalism does not sacrifice consumption for man, which is proven and demonstrated.
02:24 Then the only way to advance towards a new paradigm is not only with a political orientation
02:30 that leads to that, but it has to be on a technological and innovative basis.
02:40 With Cuba in the midst of the most complex and difficult situation it has gone through,
02:47 which was not only a blockade intensified to unprecedented levels, but also the consequences
02:56 of the Cuban Covid period, and Cuba in the midst of that was able to produce five vaccines,
03:03 three of them already in the market in use.
03:06 So what we, 134 countries, can do if we decide to unite our individual potentials?
03:20 In calling the meeting in Havana, President Miguel DÃaz-Canel considered that the scientific
03:25 technical progress that is key to achieving development is inaccessible to a large part
03:30 of humanity and has its roots in the unfair international economic order.
03:37 We can do many things if we decide to unite our potentialities, our capacities, our resources,
03:44 and we will not necessarily have to depend on the North, as it will be a new source of
03:51 liberation of the South.
03:53 And therefore what we intend with this summit is that, to say that we have potentialities
03:59 among us, we can do many things.
04:03 Cuba's commitment is to promote international solidarity and cooperation among the countries
04:08 of the South by advocating the use of science, technology and innovation as engines of sustainable
04:15 development.